As such there is exactly one person who is allowed to have grievance here, and that’s the next door neighbor.

And a rural area should have large enough lot sizes that large structures on adjacent properties don’t matter. But this abomination of a neighborhood does exist and the homeowners have an expectation that they won’t end up under the shadow of a tower.

The root issue here is that this type of neighborhood doesn’t exist in the first place. A residential area in a city should have a wide mix of building types built close to each other from the beginning, such that there are expectations for this type of change.

Sumo wrestling seems ripe for disruption.

Based on my observations, the optimal way to distribute wealth to your kids is to pay for their 1) first car 2) college tuition 3) down payment on first home 4) wedding. Then nothing else. Any extra goes to grandkids for the same things.

“Don’t make rules you can’t enforce, otherwise you lose all legitimacy” applies to both parents and kings.

Universal suffrage is the only stable equilibrium for a democracy. Start excluding some people and you devolve into endless battles over who does and doesn’t get the right, ending in either everybody or nobody getting it.

Recorded music is antisocial

If I were president I would simply govern from the center and not have huge midterms losses.

People always talk about billionaires running the country, but the 80-99 percentile actually has 60% more wealth than the top 1%, and of course 19x more people. It the upper middle class that runs the country.

Time to find out who the real YIMBYs are.

Bad urbanism risks killing YIMBYism in the long term.

I learned about affirmative consent in freshman college orientation. I dutifully tried it a few times then stopped as it always made the situation awkward. Why don't they just teach young men implicit nonverbal consent?

The internet would have been fine had it stayed text-only.

Test scores show that the median student learns almost nothing in high school. This is well-known information that somehow hasn't sparked a revolution in education policy.

Horseshoe theory is just confusing the fact that politics is multidimensional, not simply left-right.

Toddlers are the biggest cargo cultists.

Whenever you hear about “the optics” of a situation, it means “this is how dumb people will interpret this event”.

The people who complain the most about drama in their relationships or politics in their workplace are the same people who are creating most of it.

Why do they have competitions for the fastest swimmer, and then also competitions for two slower and sillier types of swimming?