Politics

Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, "free" healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.

Suburbia is great for overbearing parents, not kids.

One of the biggest ways Trump changed America is a variety of people now use a presidential nominee as a consequence, a threat, a slur—something to impose on people you'd like to hurt, even if it hurts you too.

It's so sad that this AI movement never even considers solving problems for humans. They solve problems for companies.

In any cause the undecided are who you have to convince. So if you actually care about the cause, you can't afford the luxury of despising them, regardless of how good it might make you feel.

one of the basic challenges of local governance is that it is structurally tilted to the preferences of a small group of busybodies and cranks who will show up to every meeting against the preferences of the vast majority of sane normal people