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Dec 2, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
It only took two and a half negronis and now I can lay before you to behold: the new simonsarris.com

How did I do #designtwitter?
its a 1550's painting by Sebastian Münster of Speyer, Germany that I split apart in photoshop to animate different bits. Everything runs on CSS with no JavaScript involved, even the buttons!

oof if you open the site in a new tab and later tab to it, you don't see the intro animations. I might have to add JavaScript just to fix this
GUYS IF YOU RELOAD THERE ARE NOW BIRDS

still in pure CSS. Just crazy how much there is in CSS3.
bird update: they fly bird-sanely now.

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Jul 2
There are a lot of things that just don't compute with respect to relationships. Beyond dating too, like male loneliness crisis. Everyone has more avenues than ever before to resolve loneliness, they don't seem to want to. Or are unwilling to lift a finger.
People have more windows to peek into societies than ever before.

One explanation for large scale dating or friendship woes is that people are just not very good at rating their own place in that larger system that they now have a view into.
If people self identify with the best of what they see, but do not put in any work to be "better" themselves, then simply adding the ability to see very far mostly results in mass delusion
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May 20
one long thought that's difficult to justify concisely is that almost all housing cost issues are downstream of crime and social disorder
people claim things like "house prices are high because owners vote and they want to keep their property values high" but this is glib and partly begs the question. They don't want to all price their own kids out. But maybe they feel they have to.
Maybe they feel they have to because what really bothers them is that (for instance) there's too much traffic and noise, much more than 20-30-40-50 years ago. They would be correct of course, with larger roads and cars than ever, that go faster than ever (around here, anyway)
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Apr 9
I'm honestly shocked how many people still think this tariff plan is a good idea. Not the utility of tariffs in general, but this specific plan.
Any company that has complex inputs to make an even more complex outputs, which is most of the high value manufacturing, is going to be in the gutter.

Almost zero American companies have had time to prepare, zero allies have any time to negotiate, and the goals are so vague that the best case scenarios are basically wish casting that all other 100+ parties in this will decide what to do for us, for each of them
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Mar 10
why did so much of the best food in the world come from this circle Image
a lot of the best food in the world comes from this circle but that has more explanations (silk road + hellespont) Image
just imagine being a traveler in 1200 and learning how to say "I'd like the local bread stuffed with meat please" in 25 languages as you go. top tier experience Image
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Feb 10
Wealth is good. Prosperity is wholesome. If you are privileged what you should feel is gratitude, not shame, and you should be thinking of how you can employ and pass on this prosperity.

& I think one should feel a duty to build wealth for their family.
It is very sad that a lot of the people who talk about intergenerational poverty also try to slam wealth.
I believe that's extremely fake untested nonsense to be honest. I know its repeated endlessly but it doesn't even pass the sniff test. Is Haiti more stable than Switzerland? Spectrum of wealth isn't even close to the leaderboard of considerations.

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Jan 17
pretty much all the arguing about careers and making a living is really due to cost of living which is due to this graph, and almost nothing else.

The red area is housing that doesn't exist. It's what 2008 caused us not to build. Solve this and you solve everything. Image
From 1960 to 2005 we built 2x the number of houses per person that we build today. It's still cratered.

That's why the 2008 crisis failed to crash housing prices for more than a couple years. The "bubble" was over, but we stopped building houses, so they got scarce instead.
Almost nothing else really matters. 200k panda express jobs won't help. Everyone yeeting off to Des Moines won't help. Deporting people won't really help, the number of missing houses is simply too large. Prices will stay high or get higher in any area remotely desirable.
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