JambalayaJim

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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
>Ehh. I was in high school and college throughout the '90s and still think pop music quality peaked sometime between 1966 and 1986 How much of that was influence from baby-boomer controlled music media?
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
I'm sure this depends on your specialization; but much of the legal industry has become remote heavy as well. My partner is a lawyer in commercial litigation; the vast majority of her client meetings and court hearings are done remotel
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
Co-working spaces are useful when an extra bedroom would cost you $500/mo (or much more) anyway. Libraries where I live have limited seating. Cafes can be really hit or miss in terms of power outlets, large enough desk space, and noise
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
It's really frustrating that the discussion is often "just shut yourself in your home office", as if an extra room doesn't rent out for $1000/month in many cities.
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
>(One of the most frustrating things in all the WFH vs RTO discourse is that there is this false dichotomy being presented. It's either extroverted people who are energized by others, or introverts who'd rather be in the dark c
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the return-to-office crowd, like myself, wants. Work relationships and personal relationships serve entirely different purposes for me. I don't want to be working longer hours, or make wor
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
Regardless of your personal definition, suburbs and urban areas are a very meaningful distinction. With regards to both human migration due to covid, and waste/consumption patterns.
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
This is the case in poor countries where rural populations have a minuscule carbon footprint, and city dwellers have a greater one. It is absolutely not the case here in developed countries. A city dweller who bikes to work is not equivalen
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
People are not moving to the countryside to be subsistence farmers, they are moving to the suburbs and exurbs where they are living in massive houses, making far trips to get groceries, etc.
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
So it’s perhaps true that AI will substantially decrease the cost of certain goods and services; how then does the author argue that most people will be using virtual headsets to go to work? Wouldn’t the vast majority of jobs that could be
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
The fact that people are moving out of cities says otherwise
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
While I totally understand why you'd find community there, I am surprised that you'd consider Church to be a place to find people of diverse backgrounds. That hasn't at all been my experience
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
I really dislike flipped classrooms. I've found as a student that it forces you to come to grips with the most difficult parts of the material yourself, rather than letting the professor help you get there. Then when you actually get t
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
Urbanists don't view the fact that more people are choosing to travel as good, because of the destructive effects of that travel (noise, pollution, parking, etc.)
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
The IKEA products are recognizable and easy to measurements for online. It's likely people have tried them out before because they're so common as well (or they've walked through the store a few times).
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by JambalayaJim 3y ago
The fact that IKEA furniture is self-assembled is a big factor here. Lots of room for human error that has nothing to do with the design or materials.
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by JambalayaJim 4y ago
In my city they are massively increasing the bike lane network, along with the city run bike service. The result is that bike ridership has been increasing steadily with each passing year. I absolutely expect more people to be riding bicycl
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by JambalayaJim 4y ago
>Cars may be environmentally awful, but they’re great in basically every other way They're not - they take up an inordinate amount of space.
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by JambalayaJim 4y ago
Are you a systems engineer?
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by JambalayaJim 4y ago
The main problem with cars isn't the environmental damage from tires / fossil fuels; it's the space they take up in our cities. The amount of parking alone that is required at virtually every destination (and generally far in