A bit of both but the root is that land is comparatively cheap. Building out is economically incentivized over building up. Municipalities can put their thumb on the scale by raising land taxes based on acreage but zoning restrictions are the actual solution (and these tend to be unpopular because the immediate effect is that development costs rise and bring rents with them)

You could be trying a little harder. We need the farmland and you need the port and tax revenue so it would be really nice if we could trust you actually are normal people but you aren’t making it easy.

They asked, on the internet, when using a search engine is the same amount of work with no waiting.

https://ericvery.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/the-texas-doughnut/

Spokane is a very sprawling city. It’s the second most populous in Washington but a third the density of Seattle. Including the “metropolitan area” of both Spokane is a seventh as densely populated.

AT&T used to include Usenet access as part of your Internet connection

And this was commonly seen as a Bad Thing (see the Eternal September) because normies change the culture of specialist spaces when they show up in large numbers.

Erase capitalism from this and it’s still “days I’ve barely been able to get out of bed to hunt/reinforce important relationships/create art”. Inability to focus, relentless forgetfulness, rejection sensitive dysphoria, much of the ADHD experience interferes with non-“productive” life just as much as a job and shit.

I’ll tell my friend that her Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is actually fake and she’s just applying the Corporate America Greed Driven Lifestyle to her close relationships, that’s going to be great news for her.

ADHD is a lot of things.

If you have a culture of understanding and tolerance, it doesn’t feel like a disability

This is you extrapolating your personal experience to dismiss the difficulties many face that have nothing to do with tolerance and understanding and everything to do with their brain chemistry undermining their social life and ability to engage with hobbies.

50? 100% of all wealth, income, property, and capital in excess of $1b combined. Give em a badge that says “Capitalism Winner” and take all their shit.

There was a while when the US was on top, revolutionizing automotive manufacturing. Ford’s Model T and later Model A sold like crazy.

Damn near the entire internet is “social media” but people usually mean “social networking sites”.

Sure, but realistically air isn’t a good enough heat conductor for this to help much. Fixed machine guns used to use water-cooling but that’s been phased out and modern weapons simple replace the barrel when it gets too hot.

does suck for upper middle class kids who’s parents suck

There’s no solution that doesn’t suck for somebody.

“Nature” is every state of being the universe has ever been. There is no before or after Nature. Nature is not Life.

Currently? The “British Invasion” era? “Rock” is an extremely broad genre.

My controversial opinion is that you shouldn’t be able to opt out.

If someone takes hormone blockers for several years before deciding to stop, does puberty proceed the same as in a younger person?

Pretty much, yeah. There’s legitimate concern regarding bone growth (height, density) but it’s usually fine and nothing compared to the known problems with being forced to live in dysphoria.

I was pretty ambivalent about my gender
Gender kind of partly feels like a process you go through vs an identity.

Gender is a lot of things and different for everyone. I remain very ambivalent about my gender as a man in my 30s. It’s probably most accurate to call myself agendered but biologically and socially I’m male so I don’t think it’s worth the fuss. It strains my imagination to contemplate “feeling masculine/feminine”. The point is that you can’t necessarily apply your (perfectly valid) experience to others and making trans people go through natural puberty dooms them to irreversible changes that can cause severe psychological distress.

This isn’t “controversial” this is straight up hatred and bigotry.

Disposable plastic. It should never have been a thing, but by now it really shouldn’t be a thing. No plastic food containers, no plastic textiles, damn near everything should be in cotton bags or paper boxes or glass jars or unlined metal cans but we’re so damn accustomed to convenience that the permanent externality is seen as necessary. I’m willing to make allowances for safety and medicine but even there the focus should be developing good biodegradable plastic.

The essence is that one entity is dealing with payments for hospitals, doctors, specialists, etc. The “single payer” would be an organ of the federal government that collects a portion of tax revenue and is billed for services. The term implies that the government is not itself providing any services.