Everyone blames being constantly online on the decline of teen mental health (though the evidence is spurious) and we take the phones away from kids. But we just watched a Facebook "friend of a friend" rumor post go from small town Ohio to upending the presidential campaign and no one it taking phones away from Xers and Boomer.
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Everyone blames being constantly online on the decline of teen mental health (though the evidence is spurious) and we take the phones away from kids. But we just watched a Facebook "friend of a friend" rumor post go from small town Ohio to upending the... -
I feel this piece in my bones.If we have ceded so much of our lives to cars, this is the way out.
Rebuilding our car centric neighborhoods for living. Breaking down single family homes into multifamily, reclaiming lawns withs ADUs.
Breaking down multi lane stroads with bike and pedestrian infrastructure
Building housing on parking lots
Allowing commercial spaces in densifying single family neighborhoods
Is Infill Microhousing the Solution to High Homelessness Rates?
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/9/5/is-infill-microhousing-the-solution-to-high-homelessness-rates -
I feel this piece in my bones.I feel this piece in my bones. We've ceded so much time and space to cars.
Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad
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Oh DangOh Dang
"Cynics suffer at basically every level scientists can measure. They experience more depression, earn less money, and even die younger than non-cynics. Cynical communities also do worse, socially and economically."
Your Cynicism Isn't Helping Anybody
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I wrote a new blog post wrapping together some current policy proposals in the PNW using exile as a public safety tool and our regional history.I wrote a new blog post wrapping together some current policy proposals in the PNW using exile as a public safety tool and our regional history.
The idea of exile, that we can force certain people not to be here, is a common thread in the Pacific Northwest for a long time. Still, it doesn't do what we expect it to do and always signals we're missing the bigger problem.
https://olympiatime.com/2024/09/03/exile-ourselves/
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