i think i should start writing a series of posts about this, but this is the end line:
Conservatives have no real convictions. None.
Does anyone?
The real question is whether every field should have a 50:50 gender ratio, and the implications of achieving that.
In Equitopia, the government selects each person’s field at birth to ensure a balanced gender ratio in all professions.
Speaking of the UN, someone I once knew IRL thought it would be a good idea to use it to enforce womens’ rights, apparently not realizing that Saudi Arabia is on the Human Rights Council. A rather sharp oversight considering the punishment for someone like them somewhere like Saudi Arabia.
Local Blogger Accidentally Reblogs Supervillain, Frantically Deletes Post to Avoid Becoming Reactionary Nationalist & Starting Robot War with UN for Control of Moon
The women entering biology statistics does make me a bit uncomfortable because it seems like it’s the classic jobs process for women where jobs are considered less prestigious as women enter them. I can draw the parallel between the wet lab component and other work that became traditionally female, like cooking or textile work.
That’s going to be a constant danger if the reactionary idea about (cis/het/blah) women wanting men who are higher status than they are is even one quarter true.
can’t understand why people spell unusual names wrong, wouldn’t an unusual name prompt you to slow down and doublecheck it?
all names that get fewer than NAME_HITS hits per NAME_TIMEFRAME get purged from the cache.
this is in the spec, Argumate. you are supposed to know this
just because the software is buggy and produces unexpected behaviors doesn’t mean you can just roll your eyes at the legacy code and ignore the documentation
mitigatedchaos said: local blogger baffled to discover that Chinese leader Xi Jinping secretly took Special Interest: Trains at character creation
I can’t see a river without wanting to dam it, I’d be a great hydraulic despot.
Local blogger secretly responsible for Three Gorges Dam, flees to Australia, adopts owl-based persona to avoid responsibility for subsequent earthquake risks.
Alright, US Republicans, listen up.
You think your goal right now is to “Repeal Obamacare”.
But that has issues. Given your values, your goal should not just be to repeal Obamacare, but to prevent the emergence of a single-payer healthcare system in the United States, in which the US Federal government monopolizes 1/5th of the US economy in a botched attempt at recreating the NHS.
This does not mean trying to pass laws to sabotage the attempt. They’ll just get overturned, and that will be celebrated as a Democratic party victory.
You have to deflate the demand for single-payer healthcare. That is what is necessary for market-based healthcare to continue to exist in the United States. As long as the demand is there - and it is growing, as middle-class families come under increasing pressure - the desire for single-payer will re-emerge.
Yelling at people about how they don’t deserve healthcare because they haven’t worked hard enough will not help. You just picked up a bunch of rural voters that got laid off at the factories and can’t meet their deductibles. You have to focus on preserving the market-based allocation.
There is a simple way to do this.
Now, first objection is probably that this will bid up the price of medical care to the new floor. I believe that is unlikely - because the voucher accumulates and people don’t actually like randomly buying healthcare, it makes much more sense to save it up and spend it later as you normally would, or else just buy insurance.
Second objection is that people might launder the money to get it for themselves. In this case, the person they are screwing over is mostly their future self, so they have incentive not to do this.
Third objection, which I’m likely to get from my left-wing readers, is that this isn’t enough money. That’s probably true, but this is likely of more benefit than whatever the Republicans are currently cooking up. In the current situation we have some poor people buying the mandated insurance, but unable to actually get medical care because they cannot afford the deductible. Under this system, they can go get medical care tomorrow. Likewise, for pre-existing conditions, this ensures that at least the value of the voucher is available each year to pay for it.
Later administrations could raise the amount, but the benefit for the Republicans here is the preservation of the market mechanism. This is likely to be a popular program.
This could be coupled with a variety of other reforms to reduce overall healthcare costs, such as requiring hospitals to post information about their prices, success rates, etc. Don’t just cross your fingers and hope the market works. Education alleviates information asymmetry and lubricates markets. Create the right framework for suitable informed competition to take place in.
“Dude, how many levels of Woke are you on?”
“Earth belongs to the Neanderthals. We homo sapiens have a duty to use our advanced science to resurrect them from trace DNA found in isolated tooth fossils, then voluntarily go extinct as a species, returning the planet to its true, destined inheritors.”
“Haha, nice, bro.”
This is just a quick post, with a quick render.
The blog Urban Kchoze discusses Japanese Zoning practices thanks to this handy English-language brochure from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport. It’s a great article, and you should read it.
The gist is that the Japanese system uses something more like a maximum allowable nuisance/density level rather than North American systems, which tend to limit one zone to one type of activity.
Here’s a preview of the sweet charts featured in the brochure and article, to give you a rough idea of how it works. As you can see, the allowable use increases, but allows the previous uses from before, except in some special cases and in the case of heavy industrial zones.
Japanese zoning has other features, such as standardized zone types set at the national level, and angle-based height regulations.
Mixed-use development is all the rage these days for a variety of reasons, and it is my intent that the OTV Game will embrace it, departing from the previous R-C-I zoning model of previous city-building games.
The exact mechanism is to be decided, but there will definitely be mixed-use zones.
My current plan is to have a palette with a few basic, pre-made zone types, including both the standard RCI and some Japanese-style zone types. The player could then paint individual zoning restrictions/allowances, and sample these to add on to palette slots of their own.
How many restrictions? That’s a function of the development time. It’s important to find a good balance between ease of use, granularity, simulation cost, and development time.
Ideally, the virtual property developers in the OTV Game could build not just single-use zones on mixed-use lots, but mixed-use buildings - something common in traditional cities and some other kinds of cities, where the bottom floors of a multi-story building may be shops or restaurants, while upper floors are offices or residential units.
