In re "All public universities in Georgia recently canned their DEI departments," you need to check whether the departments were actually canned or just renamed. In Utah some if not all universities simply changed the name from DEI to something else and continued merrily on their way
Depends on the University. Georgia Tech fired all the uppers, carved off a few programs worth keeping and rehomed them. Nuked the whole budget. KSU appears to have just renamed the department and kept everyone in place. I'm not sure about UGA or GSU.
"For what it’s worth, if I were an illegal immigrant I’d be extra careful not to break any laws since I wouldn’t want to be deported."
It's sound behavior. Similar to "If I had drugs and guns in my car, I wouldn't speed down the highway blaring music since I wouldn't want to be arrested."
“Given this constant, if city planners want their cities to build up instead of out, then the most important thing they can do is to make traffic worse instead of better…”
Which as far as I can tell is EXACTLY what they are doing. Traffic “Calming”, absurdly lowered speed limits, reducing the number of lanes for the sake of “safety”, “Goal Zero” policies ( as in the impossible goal of zero fatalities, etc. 🤨 Gotta keep the rabble in their pens. 🤬
Also the "google and glue on pizza" story is just another example of why I consider LLM AI to be very dangerous - https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/llm-considered-harmful
In re "All public universities in Georgia recently canned their DEI departments," you need to check whether the departments were actually canned or just renamed. In Utah some if not all universities simply changed the name from DEI to something else and continued merrily on their way
Depends on the University. Georgia Tech fired all the uppers, carved off a few programs worth keeping and rehomed them. Nuked the whole budget. KSU appears to have just renamed the department and kept everyone in place. I'm not sure about UGA or GSU.
I'd never heard of Marchetti's Constant before, but it's not surprising at all. It just seems like yet another corollary of Parkinson's Law.
By the time you need mass transit, it's too expensive to build eminent domain.
If you build it in advance, you'll shoot low and the serviced area will outgrow you, or you'll be buried in maintenance for an underutilized system.
Meanwhile roads can just sit there. Menacingly.
"For what it’s worth, if I were an illegal immigrant I’d be extra careful not to break any laws since I wouldn’t want to be deported."
It's sound behavior. Similar to "If I had drugs and guns in my car, I wouldn't speed down the highway blaring music since I wouldn't want to be arrested."
“Given this constant, if city planners want their cities to build up instead of out, then the most important thing they can do is to make traffic worse instead of better…”
Which as far as I can tell is EXACTLY what they are doing. Traffic “Calming”, absurdly lowered speed limits, reducing the number of lanes for the sake of “safety”, “Goal Zero” policies ( as in the impossible goal of zero fatalities, etc. 🤨 Gotta keep the rabble in their pens. 🤬