has anyone tracked the disappearance of bowling alleys, skate rinks, arcades (*not* barcades), shopping malls, and generally low-cost+safe places for teenagers to hang out in american cities/suburbs?
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- flashy neon lights on buildings aren’t infrastructureI don't think Americans understand how far ahead Chinas infrastructure is
00:00 - my favorite new york social code is when a lone person needs to get a stroller up the subway stairs. nearly instantly, a stranger picks up the other end of the stroller, helps carry it up, then departs as quickly as they appeared. no words are exchanged. eye contact is minimal.
- it's incredible that we don't have a single memorial, or a day of remembrance, or really any meaningful attempt to collectively process the scale of loss and trauma we all experienced as a country or as a world5 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
- this got talked about a lot when I worked on google maps. I would personally love this feature, and it’s technically feasible. here’s why I fought it loudly every time it came up 🧵Google maps needs a feature for the nicest way instead of the fastest
- a lot of my politics was formed by flying a lot when I was young (my dad was a pilot) and simply looking down
- "NYC is nice to visit but I wouldn't want to live there." The thing about NYC that's unlike any other American city is that visiting here and living here don't have anything in common. They are entirely different things and cannot be equated.
- The degree to which we’ve accepted that housing should be a mechanism for wealth generation is horrifying.
- Is there a major global city with better street trees than CDMX?
- "we're spending $1 million in taxpayer money so professors can mail each other little notes?? we have a post office—these toys for academics are emblems of waste" —DOGE, 1969, killing arpanetI'm not sure why it's so hard for so many smart people to understand what's going on here The crazy science projects are emblems of the waste, they are not the point of the efficiency thrust
