That could work, but government run housing tends to become a ghetto, historically.

Your paradigm is in no way connected to the reality of how people are moving. New home construction is going up like crazy in the small cities and towns people move into. To expect a small area to absorb a 50% population increase with little new construction is just not realistic.

And to expect renting to just…end? That sounds like a crazy level of privileged bubble. A huge fraction of the population is not and never will be able to afford homeownership, and expecting the government to fund their home purchases would bankrupt any nation.

So nothing but a sea of suburban sprawl to every horizon? That sounds like hell.

I like that this idea also punishes single family home owners for hoarding land. You could build a ton of apartments on a single American-sized sfh lot.

That’s great in the short term, but now no one is ever gonna build housing again, so in a generation we’re back to a housing shortage.

If you exclusively try to bring down housing costs by attempting to limit demand, you end up making the problem worse. You need to offer more supply.

Sorry, I’m not into TTRPGs, I just like narrative storybuilding. I can’t speak to any mechanics.

I wish more rural people could see this. Better transit in cities makes life better for you too! If you have to drive, having fewer cars on the road makes your drive better!

I’ve had my disagreements with this community*, but I absolutely agree that cars do not scale in urban areas. We need good enough public transit to make cars unnecessary, and then replace the previous car infrastructure with something better like cycling or housing or parks or small business.

Ideally, I think we should have

• interstates that go through or around cities

• Extensive parking garages on the outskirts of cities

• Fast, reliable, safe public transit within cities

There will always be a need for vehicles in rural areas, and those vehicles will need to come to the city sometimes, and we need ways to get those people to where they need to go. But people should not need to drive in the city itself.

*Most of my disagreements are with the focus on cycling. Cycling should be a secondary, maybe tertiary goal. Public transit is orders of magnitude more important.

Distinction without a difference. It COULD be a good point, if made in good faith, but it’s not.

They’ve never scammed their own users.

trying to sell you on AI hallucinations being the future while wasting heck knows how much electricity

Hello, I see you’ve been living under a rock. Welcome to 2025. This is literally every company. My pdf reader is trying to push an AI assistant on me.

I’m using the article’s definition.

Sorry, I should have said “things exclusive to men”.

Someone desperately trying to blame Democrats for the things Republicans do.

Vestigial mental health issues is an excellent idea. Like in Wheel of Time when having access to saidin made men crazy, and they eventually removed the taint, but you never quite knew how crazy someone had gotten before the taint was removed.

You can basically take partial insanity to any number of directions.

Yeah, gen x is by far and away the best generation (saying this as a millenial).

Sounds like a race ripe for a little exploitation. Reminds me of the “good Indians” of the American West who decided to agree to the white men’s treaties only to then be herded off to a reservation anyway. You could probably throw a lot of tragedies in their past. And they could be a good foil for judging how tolerant other characters are.

I’d specify that the specific type of male rage which the article is talking about is a sign of weakness.

We all make mistakes. We all get angry. Sometimes we get angry at other people when they make mistakes. Sometimes we can carry that anger with us for a long time. I can understand all this. I’ve done all these things.

What I don’t understand is this brand of masculinity that insists on continued anger, and on asserting dominance and control in a way that ultimately draws attention to weakness and fragility. It’s like we’ve empowered a whole slew of men to embrace childish behaviour in the belief that it makes them seem powerful.

That’s a very different thing than just general “rage”. Sometimes rage is an appropriate reaction to a set of circumstances. Personally I don’t think men have many things that are worthy of raging about compared to women, but that number is nonzero.

I like to think that she finally made enough money to retire.

As long as his personal life doesn’t influence the product, I’ll just throw him on the pile with all the other Nazi supporting CEOs. which is most of them.

You can make distinctions based on similar “fuzzy” definitions, as long as you allow room for inevitable exceptions.