Sitting in the dark, searching for @dvassallo's spoon among this cherry
There it rests, in plain sight
Then comes the time, if you'll pardon my lighting, when the thing's at it's strangest. It's clear what it is, but so ugly with jowls and unrefined fraying that for a moment you want to throw it into the fire.
You need faith!
Closer
Full view. The tree waited until I was tired and took revenge with a slip of my chisel. That's all for tonight.
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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
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)
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
why did so much of the best food in the world come from this circle
a lot of the best food in the world comes from this circle but that has more explanations (silk road + hellespont)
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
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.
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.
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.