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by trgn 4y ago
> Still, are you suggesting that clothes should be kept forever? Fair point! > Because whether you're talking about someone who discards entire wardrobes at the end of every season I would assume these people buy high-end garment
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by trgn 4y ago
> There is simply no easy, universal guidance for the most Earth-friendly or hassle-free or socially good way for you to dispose of your old clothes But there is. In fact, the answer is right in the setup of the article. > For much of
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by trgn 4y ago
> Qualifying art as "good" or "bad" is a subjective measure you probably should've left in middle school Judging good from bad requires hubris, and a strong internalized belief in some kind of inalienable order.
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by trgn 4y ago
Added to that, I also think it's because a car just holds less headspace than it used to. Stick shifting fits in car culture, when a car is more than just a tool. People have emotional attachment to a manual transmission, not rational.
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by trgn 4y ago
> And are you sure all the ideals in your set can be considered objective, naturally sharable, as opposed to ideological and partial? Agreed, they are not objective. If you wish, you can change my first phrase to "a more dystopian f
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by trgn 4y ago
I'll propose a more utopian future. The end of modernism and a return to humanism. A realization in the West that fetishizing technology has turned people into widgets. A genuine bottom-up counter movement that already exists today, bu
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by trgn 4y ago
You don't have to. If the local environment becomes nicer (for americans, not a soul crushing schmear of strip malls and parking lots), people will do more things closer to home. The driving aspiration of the future will be that you li
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by trgn 4y ago
ICE cars pollute the local environment, which is worse imho than their contribution to global warming. ICE cars are noisy, stink, and have unhealthy exhaust. For those reasons alone, an electric car is better.
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by trgn 4y ago
I think it's less about population growth and more about habitat destruction. One does not imply the other. Town living instead of suburbs, more pollinator gardens. That already will make a huge difference.
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by trgn 4y ago
Plant milkweed. They may take a few years to establish, but it's effective. We get monarchs every year now. This is in an urban area. Small conservation efforts really do make a difference. Don't be discouraged that you're no
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by trgn 4y ago
Taxing improvements is a proxy for progressive taxation. ie. rich should pay more. LVT is effectively a flat tax on acreage normalized by community wealth. To the broad middle class, taxing improvements "feels" more fair.
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by trgn 4y ago
Piggy backing on the Wolfe link: The criticisms of modernism in the 70s were already very precise and perceptive. See also for example Jane Jacobs or Christopher Alexander. However, instead, it pushed us into the pageantry of post-modernism
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by trgn 4y ago
The FAANG example was exaggerated, but the core point still stands. Across the board, labor in US has seen sharp income increases the last couple years, and families have had elevated savings rate for a lot longer. Plus, nobody was spending
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by trgn 4y ago
It's because the commenter's solution to the problems of waste, noise, pollution, obesity, and people dying and getting maimed through traffic violence, is, essentially, the removal of a technological layer. Driverless cars, in op
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by trgn 4y ago
> new aesthetic and maybe its apex I watched it again yesterday. I'd forgotten how amazingly real and fully realized that world was. I don't think that movie will ever age. Love your points, agreed on all of them.
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by trgn 4y ago
Great point, thanks for the links. I can certainly see that, nimbyism as some sort of compensation for impotence.
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by trgn 4y ago
The distinction between rural and city life is absolutely fundamental, since the dawn of civilization that's been the case. For a relatively recent acknowledgement of this; the Kentucky flag is a frontiersman shaking hands with a city
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by trgn 4y ago
> to hate everything that is new because they don't believe that anything is possible don't exist Painting these people as cynics is not the entirely right characterization imho. I think parent describes a certain class of peop
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by trgn 4y ago
Maybe you're just a contrarian. Anything that's fashionable, especially when it's corpo-speak, rubs you the wrong way. I'll hazard another guess why you may feel this way. The current discourse around stoicism is essenti
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by trgn 4y ago
+1 A harmonious civic life requires virtues like chivalry, propriety, patience, tolerance, and courage. These must be practiced in a social setting, whether one wants to or not. The deterioration of public life, like in an office setting, w
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by trgn 4y ago
Mapbox has had an incredible influence on geo software development for the web. Hats off to everybody who made it happen.
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by trgn 4y ago
It does, and it has: - reduce speed limits, like in the 70s. Actually enforce with speed cameras everywhere (bonus, fewer people will die). - mpg mandates for new vehicles, like Obama, but now also include light trucks. (bonus, fewer people
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by trgn 4y ago
Yup. The last few years have also seen some of the highest wage growth in decades, and highest saving rates across the board. All that pent up demand and broadly distributed spending power is fueling inflation now. But, in the balance of th
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by trgn 4y ago
That's part of the fun of reading the older classics. Some of it is wild. That struck me in Dracula too, how easily people and information traveled. Like their voyage to Transylvania, and how news travelled ahead of them by telegraph.
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by trgn 4y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you. I only added that, from a tax collector perspective, tax deference and tax avoidance are on the same spectrum, and they will seek out mechanisms to make deference impossible. I gave an example of one of t
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by trgn 4y ago
That's the key one. The tax code, today, in practice, already frowns very much on tax deference, and tries to inhibit it when possible. The AMT-schedule is purposely designed to pull tax forward, and precisely discourage strategies for
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by trgn 4y ago
There's a great thought proposal on how to tax assets fairly. In this system, you are taxed at the self-assessed worth of an asset. However, if somebody bids over that price, you are obliged either to sell it to them, or raise your sel
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by trgn 4y ago
Partly, but it doesn't explain people's obsession with large, heavy, low MPG vehicles and the entitlement people have when it comes to fueling these cheaply. The chicken-egg explanation is a normal consequence of not having antici
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by trgn 4y ago
Great comment, because it hits at something fundamental, and something I also think about a lot when considering the state of crypto today. Point (2) is very axiomatic in its claims: > The fact that I can't park my money without it
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by trgn 4y ago
The model for American walkability and density is not DC or NYC, it's places like Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans, Ashville, the feel of older streetcar suburbs and small college towns, ... None of those have subway systems, all of t

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