@BenRossTransit but it will only work out over decades if we actually start working it out. (and then we can enjoy at least pieces of the worked-out future now!)

@BenRossTransit i agree with all of this.

(i don't think eliminating single family zoning would go too far in getting a lot of multifamily built in affluent SFH neighborhoods. but the fact that we continue to build out and zone new SFH neighborhoods is SAF (stupid as fuck). and our collective habit of building this way drains the potential market for better ways of living in all the ways you describe.)

if we're going to get trigonometric, i feel like cosplay sounds less fun that sinplay.

i think housing policy should put its thumb on the scale for dense, multifamily, LARGE apartments.

great buildings are where families are raised, not post-college dorms for singles and young couples.

perhaps it’s constructive if Donald Trump is dickish in a way that captures the attention of Catholic bishops, just before the conclave.

( interfluidity office hours in a couple of minutes, on the half hour, if you want to chat. https://www.interfluidity.com/office-hours/ )

One way to think about it all is through the lens of the EU's three freedoms:

1. free movement of people
2. free movement of goods and services
3. free movement of capital

Right populist movements have demonized the first and second, but been entirely mum about the third. I wonder why that is.

@Arianity yes. balance only addresses balance! diversity/resilience of supply of key goods requires distinct policy.

however, balance helps with that, because you don’t have to do endless rounds of trade arguments about “nontariff barriers” or whatever for your industrial policy. you export as much value as you import. your policy can affect what you import + export, but not mercantilistically “cheat” to win net exports. so that buys countries freedom for their industrial policy

@mhjohnson thanks for taking the time to look this up! it doesn’t look like precisely the same crash, but i might experiment with the display settings anyway.

no wonder Musk turned against climate research. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellites-pollution/

@ike Ricardo’s the (formal) originator of the idea. There’ve been successors and elaborations, but he’s the guy it’s attributed to.

@ike yes! Ricardo’s comparative advantage presumes balanced trade, but not necessarily bilaterally balanced. ( i’m explicit about that in this one https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/27/how-can-taxing-foreign-investors-balance-trade/index.html )

i think they’ve decided, the way you deal with annoying “follow the science” people is ensure that there is no science to follow.

@mhjohnson Thanks! I did do that. It looks like WindowServer that is crashing. Next I have to figure out what to do about that.

[new draft post] Overall but not bilateral balance https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/30/overall-but-not-bilateral-balance/index.html

i bought a new mac laptop, my first apple silicon computer.

i'm finding when it sleeps, or when i've just left it overnight, i login and all my apps restart (and struggle to restore state), as though it's crashed or kernel panicked.

but there's no message like "Your Mac restarted due to a problem" or request to send a report to Apple or anything. like it's all fine, except it demands a password (no touch id) and i have to start stuff over.

anyone experienced anything like this?

@Harald_Korneliussen citation needed. citation hallucinated!

@admitsWrongIfProven @light right. but also the recasting of the outgroup into an enemy or burden, a threat whose defeat or elimination would finally make the ingroup great again.