If you want to learn more about it than is frankly reasonable, Jamie Loftus recorded a detailed history including an interview with Naomi H.

Easier travel is definitely a great reason to increase density. Walking & biking > cars

If the island were 100 times larger, the houses would take 1% of the land area, leaving 99%. The apartment complex would take up .04%, leaving 99.96%, which isn’t much of an improvement. The proportions of our planet are much closer to my scenario than this made up island. That’s a reason why we might not “prefer apartments in our own town.”

There are good reasons you might want density, this just isn’t one of them.

migrants were capturing the geese from the local park pond and eating them

This is totally fine by me, I don’t see the problem

Good question! I have heard that there are people who exchange money for labor, and I require money to purchase basic necessities such as food and shelter

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Remember kids, when brown people do something bad, it’s terrorism. When white people starve an entire population after a failed occupation, that’s just because we are very concerned about misogyny. Now, starving an entire country en masse has (to my knowledge) never caused a government to be overthrown, and in this case has no chance of improving the treatment of women in the country. Nor have women in Afghanistan ever asked for sanctions, nor do they support them now that they are in place. But don’t let that fool you in to thinking we’re doing it for any reason other than to help women in Afghanistan.

Before you respond, please take a look at my post and notice I said _nothing positive about the Taliban _. This is about the disingenuous use of women’s rights to excuse and even celebrate mass starvation.

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Are those graphs accurate? The modern one seems right, but I have no idea about pre-revolution France

Stop trying to make me like Trump, it won’t work

The song goes “Pinky and the Brain, one is a genius, the other’s insane”, which, if it implies anything, implies Pinky is the genius and Brain is the insane one

I spent way too long trying to figure out what “tgis” stood for

Why not? They’ve been boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim Israeli extremist for years

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We downvote conservative propaganda here, enjoy

The idea that “we should take drastic action to stop global warming” is more extreme than “we should do nothing and allow the planet to become incapable of supporting civilization” is a huge problem.

Well, no, but there’s a big gap between “not helping” and “wounding”, and this is much, much closer to the “not helping” end of that gap.

What wound?

I mean the critique behind “why didn’t he do it when he had the majority” still applies: calling for a constitutional amendment is ineffectual. There’s no way a constitutional amendment is going to happen in today’s political environment.

Also the court reform he’s proposing isn’t a constitutional amendment, but since he waited until he didn’t have a majority, that can’t happen either.

It’s almost like he doesn’t want change.

Playing video games isn’t optimal, but it is better than spending two hours teaching yourself that bed isn’t the place you sleep. If you don’t fall asleep in ~30 minutes (or feel like you won’t fall asleep) get up and read something, and try again in an hour or so.