I’m not sure things would work out that way, since the status quo is that people feel that they have an ownership right over the street parking in front of their homes. I’d guess “this is public space to be allocated justly” is an easier sell than “someone owns this and it’s not you”

deeply disappointed that I had already seen what this was about and was deprived of the opportunity to speculate about what “the egg boy thing” could be

another victim of Beverly Hills’s fanatical devotion to low-density, car-oriented development!

composite numbers are definitely better; 96 is an underrated one

Definitely! I guess I think some of the soup-throwers might sincerely believe the climate crisis is so obviously the thing to protest that the act of protest itself has an obvious meaning. But I don’t think they’re right - they haven’t read the political landscape well at all

there’s a story from the late USSR where a woman was detained for passing out leaflets that turned out to be blank, and said “why bother writing? Everyone knows!” your view on which acts of protest are useful may depend on if you think an abstract act of protest may be legible as about something

men will literally construct a pseudoscientific historiography where having a six-pack is the most important thing in the world rather than go to therapy

I have mixed feelings about the essay as a whole, but that particular thing has always bothered me - Thompson minimizes how fundamental antisemitism was to the Nazi project. It was not just incidental; it could not just as easily have been targeted at any group!

NUZZI RAZZES LIZZA; BUZZ OF ASSIZES AS PIZZAZZ ABLAZE FOR JOURNALIST WHO RIZZED UP Z-LIST RFK

I pretty much agree even as a fairly neoliberal YIMBY - rent control does seem to limit displacement and helping people age in place is good, and a thoughtful rent control ordinance isn’t the worst anti-eviction strategy you could come up with. But it does impose costs by reducing supply!