This conversation was a wild ride. There are so many crazy views on housing out there but this is my first 'All housing is should be public' and 'taxation is theft'. I'm still waiting to hear how we will pay for this 100% public housing...vibes?

Just today on 2 of the only 4 streets downtown with class IV bike lanes.

Caught LA's electric fire truck in the wild. They are out testing it around the city. It's gorgeous, smaller than a typical truck, perfect for navigating safer, narrower streets.

'If public space is used to store public bikes, it's a taking but if it's used to store private cars, it's a giving.'

That's right

Close. But in LA you can walk the whole year, whereas here it’s cold and unpleasant half the time.

CA HSR builds a couple simple viaducts and everyone loses their minds

Meanwhile Caltrans every couple miles...

Vacancy theory but for handicap spots is why I can't leave this hellsite. Amazing.

None of these folks showed up when I lived on campus and white supremacists with tikki torches yelling “Jews will not replace us” marched through campus as I hid my three kids.

vaccines also do this.

Also seat belts.

Oncology.

Baby formula.

Modern sewage management.

The number of things that are driving up rents would blow your mind.

LA should be doing this! I'm thinking Melrose, Hollywood, something in Little Tokyo, what streets do you think?

No surprise 'Avid bike rider' has never seen a lock that is omnipresent in the utility cycling world.

Let's Get Neighborhood Approval to Save the Planet Extra funny because we need these insanely strong locks in part because cops will never investigate a bike theft.

Cops don't know this is a bike lock because they have never investigated a bike theft in their lives.

When I ponder whether US police could ever come under civilian control, it's interesting to consider they they won't even obey an order from the commander in chief to stop using steroids.

My bike commute is going to the next level!

Cliche Nimby argument is we don't need to build in X California city because the population is declining. Why is it declining? Oh, because we don't build enough housing.

a really funny phenomenon is that landlords and investors will just straight up write what their risks are in disclosure statements and the financial press and a certain segment of the left will still go 'no, they are wrong, the key to housing affordability is _______'

Oh come on.

In conclusion, doomerism is for dorks. Nothing meaningful and worthwhile is easy. We're trying to rectify 100+ years of American segregationism via one of the worst governing structures in the developed world and that's probably gonna take a sec.