@jaybird I'm wondering if this musing on Battletech is not a foreshadowing of you having strong feelings about the forthcoming Pacific Rim 2, which by many accounts looks to have the potential of being a hot mess?
I knew nothing of poet voice, but it sure seemed to have similar issues with "dull preacher voice", "Powerpoint presentation voice", and "staff meeting with no particular purpose" voice.
In seriousness though, I think there is something to the arts, especially something that can be unapproachable to start with like the more academic poetry discussed here, almost making it a criteria to be unrelatable as a point of honor.
Rapid aging is a key problem, which is covered in the linked articles. It also has a multiplying impact; you have an aging population, but also a vast number of those same government workers they are needing to replace, plus they will be drawing their government pensions/retirements, plus not enough workers to replace. It's a common theme in many countries right now.
This has now supplanted "sitting in a public space, and when a stranger sits down beside you looking at them with earnestness and ask "did you bring the money" as my favorite freak out the general population move. Fantastic.
In the case of UPSP vs Amazon the duplicity was so obvious, you have Trump supports recycling the attacks the left used against Wal-Mart verbatim. It wasn't even terribly original. At least be a creative, interesting hypocrite.
The Amazon thing isn't so much a partisian or left vs right things, though it will inevitably veer that way eventually, as much as it was Trump just really has no clue what he is talking about with Amazon and the Post Office. Good on PG Brennan for holding the line here, and there has been credible reporting that even after aides have explained the situation to the president he is just convinced the opposite is true. Small package is the one segment USPS has that actually has some revenue, and a lot of that is attributed to Amazon.
I want to think on this for a bit before responding with you thought of overall vision, which is different than where I was coming from with original comment.
If there was a market for it they would be doing it already. Granted some zoning prohibits as you said, but if you have to engineer moving into the city to that degree what's the point? If your forcing people by regulation into cities you going to end up having to subsidize somebody to do something they aren't willing to do, either in building or living there. So what did you gain by subsidizing the city instead of the suburbs?
Had my plumber out to do a spot fix the other day, here's a guy at 27 making great money on his acquired skills and he just laughs when you discuss it saying "we have two basic rules, show up on time, don't so drugs, and most can't do that" and get this...his company which is fairly large and well respect, is turned away when they try to do job fairs because the schools want to encourage kids to college and is afraid if they see the earning potential they wont pursue school. That's anecdotal not hard data but I bet it isn't the first or last time that's happened.
I'm working up a piece on trades vs college right now and that gets to the heart of that argument; there's a philosophical, almost spiritual really, debate as to what is worth your labour and time. I don't know that the "I work hard to provide" side will ever understand the "I work for me to get mine" or the "My work is more important than just the money" folks. Making things agreeable and attractive and convincing there is something to learn often gets filtered that way.
Depending on which data you use I'm either the youngest Genx or the oldest Millennnial. By the Pew we used here I'm the former. But I was such a non-traditional career path (military, bulk of college done online) and throw in growing up in WV not sure how well I got either.
But as a supervisor and manager, I saw it too. Experience just can't be taught, and really can't be explained. Leadership even more so. I think that speaks as much to current academic environment as the generation.
That individual was also the one who introduced themselves as having "grew up in Europe" so I was prepared for them to have a...lets call it unique, perspective.
Not sure I agree with that. 70s also brought waves of consolidations, especially of rural areas, of schools. The end of the one room and local schools made walking impractical in a lot of those cases and dramatically affected education in everything from transport to funding to identity. Independence of children is it's own argument (see the "free range" debate) but education wise consolidation isn't factored in as much as it should be for both school and societal change.
From my experience on (2) there is something to that. In our village in Germany I had no problem letting my then 10 year old daughter walk a few blocks to the bakery, Wassgau, Shell station, whatever that I would never have done in the states. Kids walk to school, walk home for lunch, return, then home again without any supervision or assistance there so very much a societal norm, for lack of a better word.
Sprawl does not occur in a vacuum, though, subsidized or not. There will always be a significant portion of public that either by choice or circumstantial force work in an urban area but do not want to live there for various reasons. To consolidate a point you were making in an adjacent comment here, I think there is merit in what you say about perceptions of "elite" and the comparison of cost of "cultured art" and fishing boats is a good one. These issues that end up coming down to "quality of life" measurements are not easily rectifiable in data. Some people just cannot envision life outside of a city, while others are horrified by the same prospect. Having to drive two vehicles 100+ miles a day to do jobs/schools/activities in the country seems crazy to someone that has mass transit and city services close at hand.
For my part when I lived in Europe I readily used public transit, in fact paid annually for my EUrail pass to give me freedom in that regard to how and when I traveled. But even that changes from living in Frankfurt, a major transport hub, to living in relatively rural Schonenberg-Kubelberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate some years later that did not have public transit even for Europe.
Tr1 and Tr3 have some things in common. 11% of the US population uses public transportation daily or weekly, which would fit nicely with the 9% of non-car households in the Tr3 story and also explain why public transit is frankly just a foreign language to most of the populace in the Tr1. The other related item is, and Lyman points this out, a household once it has multiple children changes the dynamic massively. Millennials are now into their prime child bearing and rearin' ages, no doubt that change will also affect their opinions on cars vs bicycles and mass transit, as it has for most other generations.
"paralysis by analysis" is definitely a concern. I am guilty of that myself sometimes, as I tend to either be too impulsive or too over thinking without much of a happy medium. In this particular article I think the Author did a nice job of working through his own background to draw a line to how he came to some of his questioning, then moved forward from there. To me the process of such evaluation is important, do you have a purpose and goal in doing it, to stay out of the "paralysis" trap, or worse devolving into self-loathing or self-congratulating. Brings me back to the word I used here, honesty. Being honest with yourself isn't easy, and should be recognized.
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@jaybird I'm wondering if this musing on Battletech is not a foreshadowing of you having strong feelings about the forthcoming Pacific Rim 2, which by many accounts looks to have the potential of being a hot mess?
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I knew nothing of poet voice, but it sure seemed to have similar issues with "dull preacher voice", "Powerpoint presentation voice", and "staff meeting with no particular purpose" voice.
In seriousness though, I think there is something to the arts, especially something that can be unapproachable to start with like the more academic poetry discussed here, almost making it a criteria to be unrelatable as a point of honor.
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Rapid aging is a key problem, which is covered in the linked articles. It also has a multiplying impact; you have an aging population, but also a vast number of those same government workers they are needing to replace, plus they will be drawing their government pensions/retirements, plus not enough workers to replace. It's a common theme in many countries right now.
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This has now supplanted "sitting in a public space, and when a stranger sits down beside you looking at them with earnestness and ask "did you bring the money" as my favorite freak out the general population move. Fantastic.
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Keeping ones self simple enough to still doubt that they are even pronouncing bourgeoisie correctly is a good first step in defending such things.
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In the case of UPSP vs Amazon the duplicity was so obvious, you have Trump supports recycling the attacks the left used against Wal-Mart verbatim. It wasn't even terribly original. At least be a creative, interesting hypocrite.
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That is the experience thing. You cant teach it and there is no substitute for it.
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The Amazon thing isn't so much a partisian or left vs right things, though it will inevitably veer that way eventually, as much as it was Trump just really has no clue what he is talking about with Amazon and the Post Office. Good on PG Brennan for holding the line here, and there has been credible reporting that even after aides have explained the situation to the president he is just convinced the opposite is true. Small package is the one segment USPS has that actually has some revenue, and a lot of that is attributed to Amazon.
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I want to think on this for a bit before responding with you thought of overall vision, which is different than where I was coming from with original comment.
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And more than just those three. I am for as many paths to success as their can possibly be, regardless of motivation.
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If there was a market for it they would be doing it already. Granted some zoning prohibits as you said, but if you have to engineer moving into the city to that degree what's the point? If your forcing people by regulation into cities you going to end up having to subsidize somebody to do something they aren't willing to do, either in building or living there. So what did you gain by subsidizing the city instead of the suburbs?
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Had my plumber out to do a spot fix the other day, here's a guy at 27 making great money on his acquired skills and he just laughs when you discuss it saying "we have two basic rules, show up on time, don't so drugs, and most can't do that" and get this...his company which is fairly large and well respect, is turned away when they try to do job fairs because the schools want to encourage kids to college and is afraid if they see the earning potential they wont pursue school. That's anecdotal not hard data but I bet it isn't the first or last time that's happened.
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I walked to elementary school, but that was probably as much location as anything, and in a very rural community at that.
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I'm working up a piece on trades vs college right now and that gets to the heart of that argument; there's a philosophical, almost spiritual really, debate as to what is worth your labour and time. I don't know that the "I work hard to provide" side will ever understand the "I work for me to get mine" or the "My work is more important than just the money" folks. Making things agreeable and attractive and convincing there is something to learn often gets filtered that way.
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Depending on which data you use I'm either the youngest Genx or the oldest Millennnial. By the Pew we used here I'm the former. But I was such a non-traditional career path (military, bulk of college done online) and throw in growing up in WV not sure how well I got either.
But as a supervisor and manager, I saw it too. Experience just can't be taught, and really can't be explained. Leadership even more so. I think that speaks as much to current academic environment as the generation.
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That individual was also the one who introduced themselves as having "grew up in Europe" so I was prepared for them to have a...lets call it unique, perspective.
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Not sure I agree with that. 70s also brought waves of consolidations, especially of rural areas, of schools. The end of the one room and local schools made walking impractical in a lot of those cases and dramatically affected education in everything from transport to funding to identity. Independence of children is it's own argument (see the "free range" debate) but education wise consolidation isn't factored in as much as it should be for both school and societal change.
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fair enough
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From my experience on (2) there is something to that. In our village in Germany I had no problem letting my then 10 year old daughter walk a few blocks to the bakery, Wassgau, Shell station, whatever that I would never have done in the states. Kids walk to school, walk home for lunch, return, then home again without any supervision or assistance there so very much a societal norm, for lack of a better word.
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...if only they had spelled it out phonetically in the company name...:)
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Sprawl does not occur in a vacuum, though, subsidized or not. There will always be a significant portion of public that either by choice or circumstantial force work in an urban area but do not want to live there for various reasons. To consolidate a point you were making in an adjacent comment here, I think there is merit in what you say about perceptions of "elite" and the comparison of cost of "cultured art" and fishing boats is a good one. These issues that end up coming down to "quality of life" measurements are not easily rectifiable in data. Some people just cannot envision life outside of a city, while others are horrified by the same prospect. Having to drive two vehicles 100+ miles a day to do jobs/schools/activities in the country seems crazy to someone that has mass transit and city services close at hand.
For my part when I lived in Europe I readily used public transit, in fact paid annually for my EUrail pass to give me freedom in that regard to how and when I traveled. But even that changes from living in Frankfurt, a major transport hub, to living in relatively rural Schonenberg-Kubelberg in the Rhineland-Palatinate some years later that did not have public transit even for Europe.
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Tr1 and Tr3 have some things in common. 11% of the US population uses public transportation daily or weekly, which would fit nicely with the 9% of non-car households in the Tr3 story and also explain why public transit is frankly just a foreign language to most of the populace in the Tr1. The other related item is, and Lyman points this out, a household once it has multiple children changes the dynamic massively. Millennials are now into their prime child bearing and rearin' ages, no doubt that change will also affect their opinions on cars vs bicycles and mass transit, as it has for most other generations.
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Humble-brag is probably the best word for it, at least as much as anything can be a general descriptor.
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"paralysis by analysis" is definitely a concern. I am guilty of that myself sometimes, as I tend to either be too impulsive or too over thinking without much of a happy medium. In this particular article I think the Author did a nice job of working through his own background to draw a line to how he came to some of his questioning, then moved forward from there. To me the process of such evaluation is important, do you have a purpose and goal in doing it, to stay out of the "paralysis" trap, or worse devolving into self-loathing or self-congratulating. Brings me back to the word I used here, honesty. Being honest with yourself isn't easy, and should be recognized.
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Mine too but everything else with my health is so shot it hasn't been a real concern ;)