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• Sat, 03 Jun 2023 22:30:21 +0000: Comment on The Debt Limit Deal Has Been Cut by Michael Cain - Comments for Ordinary Times
  In reply to <a href="https://ordinary-times.com/2023/05/29/the-debt-limit-deal-has-been-cut/#comment-3847550">Jesse</a>. We can agree to disagree, then. You think there would be something wonderful about California with Barcelona-like densities. Myself, I don't think California <i>culture</i> would survive; that would be something different.
• Sat, 03 Jun 2023 21:46:19 +0000: Comment on The Debt Limit Deal Has Been Cut by Jesse - Comments for Ordinary Times
  In reply to <a href="https://ordinary-times.com/2023/05/29/the-debt-limit-deal-has-been-cut/#comment-3847541">Michael Cain</a>. There's still plenty of buildable land, that's currently zoned for SFH housing, that currently has SFH housing, that could quickly no longer have SFH zoning. Sorry, this "we don't have any room to build" is true in very small parts of the country, but there is wide swaths of perfectly buildable land that we've been underbuilding for the past 40 years. There's no geographic reason Santa Ana & Anaheim can't be at Barcelonan levels of density.
• Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:50:50 +0000: Comment on The Debt Limit Deal Has Been Cut by Michael Cain - Comments for Ordinary Times
  In reply to <a href="https://ordinary-times.com/2023/05/29/the-debt-limit-deal-has-been-cut/#comment-3847515">Dark Matter</a>. 800 per square mile <i>in1960.</i> Today, almost 4,000 per square mile. A significant chunk of the county is not buildable. Santa Ana's density is 11,000 per square mile, Anaheim's 7,000.
• Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:11:39 +0000: Comment on The Debt Limit Deal Has Been Cut by Dark Matter - Comments for Ordinary Times
  In reply to <a href="https://ordinary-times.com/2023/05/29/the-debt-limit-deal-has-been-cut/#comment-3847499">Michael Cain</a>. That's 800 people per square mile. My very attractive sub-urb has a pop density of 2800 per square mile. If everything it built then it's not being built with an effective use of land. My locality isn't great but we don't insist on single family only.
• Sat, 03 Jun 2023 18:32:01 +0000: Comment on Open Mic for the week of 5/29/2023 by Jaybird - Comments for Ordinary Times
  In reply to <a href="https://ordinary-times.com/2023/05/29/open-mic-for-the-week-of-5-29-2023/#comment-3847498">Pinky</a>. I'm more of the opinion that AI can't help us by writing poetry more than poetry has already helped us. Which isn't to say that poetry *CAN'T* help us, but just that there's only so much it can do. Part of the problem is that we don't know what we want, and so asking AI to "help" us means that we're asking it to do something that we don't know what it is. Help us make money? It can do that. Help us fold proteins? It can do that. Help us write poetry? It can do that. But there is also the worry that it can help us kill ourselves much more quickly than we're already doing so.