Everyone should arbitrarily start boycotting Cheesecake Factory based on this. Eat less cake? OK. Let businesses start complaining. Every service cut should be met with additional consumer strikes.

Government is the things we choose to do together. If the people choose healthy chocolate, then that’s the job.

I don’t know what social media Gunn uses, but someone should get him to recreate this poster with David.

World of Illusion (Genesis)

I’m still not sure if we’re disagreeing even. Yeah, there are lots of issues at play, and I don’t have strong feelings about stairs either way. I just think among all the issues, start with the most egregious, which is the commodification of housing. Beyond that, sure, tackle all the issues of inefficiency including outdated stair laws. The stair issue just feels like a scapegoat to avoid talking about societal issues.

I don’t dispute any of that. More housing, modular construction, all great. It’s just separate from the issue of this staircase requirement. I don’t have any stake in staircases. If building technology makes the requirement obsolete, great. If the fire department is happy with one staircase, great. It just doesn’t sound plausible that 6-15% premium for additional staircases is a root cause of the housing crisis, when developer profit opportunity is clearly the greater constraint.

I wonder if it’s an early response to the talk of breaking up Google and Chrome. MS gets more people onboarded to Edge and Google still gets your browser level metrics.

It’s true, it’s still a bit more expensive to build, but the profit motive is removed. Public housing doesn’t need to recoup its costs. People need housing, you build housing.

Why San Fransisco developers can’t build more housing. They take for granted that new housing needs to be profitable for developers. Public housing should also be in the conversation.

Still stubbornly using Pulsar (fork of Atom)