Jason,
@jasonc_nc
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Real estate, urbanism, hospitality & where they collide. Regular fire code argument-starter. Part-time European fire truck propagandist. Sometime restaurateur.
North Carolina, USA
Joined May 2015
Carrying capacity & growth degrading city infrastructure is a made-up argument to sound smarter in saying you hate new people living here. It is fair and right to call out those who parrot false claims to hide xenophobia, classism & a sense of entitlement as their real reasons.
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If you’re struggling financially just remind yourself that we have a very high GDP per capita and therefore you should feel happier about your life.
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Web designers like @reijowrites bring powerful interactions to the web with one platform: Framer
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I’m now comparing what was going to be a late February snowboarding trip to Vail or so on vs going to Europe and I think it’s actually cheaper…
Take your family skiing in the Italian Alps. Go into debt if you have to.
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Once again, per capita GDP is a dumb metric to use as a proxy for quality of life.
Americans get attacked for being provincial, but Europeans really know nothing about this place. Our poorest state, Mississippi, has a higher per capita GDP than Germany. Arkansas, which most Europeans couldn’t find on a map, is home to the biggest retailer in the world.
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Typology Vol 5: The Rowhouse
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A big problem with our economy is lots of work looks productive but is actually rent-seeking. Deferred maintenance, waitlists for health care, skyrocketing costs… the legal equivalent of bureaucrats stripping copper wire out of the streetlights.
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Austin, likely the fastest growing large city in the U.S. from 2014-2024, grew 13% over the past decade. Peak growth 2010-2020 for any large city was <20% - so <2% annualized. Nowhere of size in the country has even seen a 50% increase over a decade. Much less 500%. And to be
@jasonc_nc I am not interested in arguing about what *should* be done, nor have I; I am interested in seeing the barest acknowledgment from people like you that dramatically altering the visual landscape of a neighborhood and increasing its population by 500% has tradeoffs
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Imagine being Europoor AND being obsessed with the lowest tier of American politics. Sad.
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It was irritating when progressives tried to reframe the meaning of words (I.e. everything becoming colonization) and it’s just as irritating from people on the other end now (i.e. immigration being “ethnic cleansing”).
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Tired of that messy car vibe? This is your 1-minute fix. No more lost change or rogue fries. Enjoy a cleaner ride this summer!
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Yeah I’m good with some creative job destruction for safer streets.
“After analyzing the data its vehicles demonstrated a 92% drop in pedestrian injuries, an 82% decline in cyclist injuries. Waymo also logged 96% fewer vehicle-to-vehicle crashes at intersections, which the company notes is the leading cause of road injury for drivers.” From an
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Wanted to highlight this point on travel distances & occupant loads in single stair building proposals. This example has the same travel distance as what is already deemed safe for dead end corridors. Often w/ higher actual occupancy Pushback against these is purely vibes-based
@anthonieisacnt @jasonc_nc @YIMBYLAND @ViraniAlim The safety is the same as any two stair building with a dead end corridor. Fire at the stair in the corridor traps people in the dead end corridor. This is an acceptable risk allowed by current codes. Single stair limits occupancy to no greater than a dead-end corridor.
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Despite the rumors I had nothing to do with this.
🔴Another Northgate adventure… College Station police arrested this 20-year-old from Round Rock after, according to officers, he punched a firefighter in the face. Police say he was intoxicated on University Drive and tried to run when he saw them — but tripped on a curb, then
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Gork doesn’t know that this is entirely because a Glendale Arizona firefighter said “hey guys, this would be cool don’t ya think?”. Don’t trust LLMs to explain why things are the way they are.
@fuzzygreysocks @jasonc_nc The International Building Code requires elevators in buildings with 4+ stories to fit a 24" x 84" ambulance stretcher horizontally. Typical compliant cars are ~5'8" wide x 8' deep, offering about 46 sq ft of floor space for the stretcher and EMS team. Exact sizes vary by
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Cities are unlivable. Full of crime and drugs. But also rents are too high to live there.
@JulieChangRE We have them across the west coast but the cities are unlivable due to crime, drugs, mental illness, rents, etc.
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Wonder what country Stephen Miller will end up spending his exile in
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China reached a new export record, completely replacing lost exports to the U.S. with new partners. If China can do that, any country can. The only thing we are doing is making the U.S. the customer of last resort. We’ve done lots for global cooperation - we just aren’t in the
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Fight with an inconsistent, sometimes downright punitive trade partner or just fill the gap with new, non schizophrenic ones? Unsurprisingly people are going with option B.
Yep. Remember US accounts for only 13% of global imports. The other 87% are seeking to replace US markets and sustain a rules-based trade with each other.
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When they say the sizes are for safety, explain to them they aren’t and it’s just another variation of some guy named Bob making up a new rule for no clear reason at all, which has resulted in us having NO elevators in many buildings that otherwise would. If they are a Dem tell
Case in point: our elevator industry is based on the desire of a Glendale AZ firefighter. The net outcome is elevators that cost 3x those in the EU. Rent-seeking & added cost, less ~real~ accessibility for those who need it. But hey you can spin a stretcher around fully flat
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