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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 29m

Look I've literally never understood any of the cursory reading about soccreds I've done. You can tell me anything you like about them and I'll believe you.

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 51m

Specialists in one field who decide they can do it all are an ancient source of cranks

There's a great book by Ginz urg about a 1500s Miller who decides he can figure out the real unbiblical truth of the origin of the world. The inquisition eventually kills him

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Che...

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting Q. Hard to pull apart planes from big advances in material science.

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah. You need a big mass of people who are
Walking on smooth surfaces
Are carrying their own bags

If you were rich enough to fly in 1950, you could hire people to carry stuff

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1h

Part of my evidence for this is that shopping carts took off in the 50s, 20 years before wheeled luggage. In NYC people had personal shopping carts. Why did these take off earlier? Cities had paved streets and lots of the world didn't.

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NYC NOSTALGIA | Mother and Son going Shopping | Facebook

Mother and Son going Shopping Downtown Brooklyn, 1956 PHOTO: Mario De Biasi

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sure that's part of it, but have you ever tried dragging wheeled luggage along a dirt or badly paved road? It's quite unpleasant. Also the assumption in the past it would be easy for someone rich enough to travel to hire porters.

What gets me is the backpack, why did the bindle last so long?

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 2h

It has a sequel with Denis Hopper, which is ok, but ends on a bizarre bit where McCarthy is leading a literal witch trial but then a witch's spell is cast on him and he gives birth to an avatar of the 60s. The meaning of this is ???

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 3h

The coastal commission is good for undeveloped land but it's baffling how many people think the best use of waterfront in a huge city are small wooden homes

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 3h

If you actually want tall towers + beach in the US, what are your options? Miami Beach, Chicago, Honolulu, ???

Very random list

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 3h

This is what LA should look like....

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 6h

Forty Kay is more common then forty thousand

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 7h

I'm pretty sure the digital version appears in Vinge, MAROONED IN REAL TIME (1985). Seems like a natural thought after coming up with brain uploading as software. NEUROMANCER gets close I think in 84?

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 7h

This is sort of my feelings about being a child? Like, sometimes someone tells you about an awful accident as a kid that's sounds very funny and later on you talk to them as an adult and it really is pretty horrifying

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 7h

Very classic children's lit thing. Tolkien at least made LotR a distant sequel and went back in to edit the Hobbit

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 10h

OMG how is it's average speed 14km/h? I guess it's top speed is 50km/h so maybe it could make it across MacArthur in 8 minutes?

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Metromover - Wikipedia

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know much about metromover. Is it slower than other people movers?

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 11h

Uh many problems. Costs are out of control, no one is willing to make any decisions. I think the most likely outcome now is some sort of bad line combining tunnels (other urbanists like this but I think it's bad) with bad stations

seattletransitblog.com/2025/10/04/w...

We Are Here Because No One Will Make A Decision

In the latest installment of uneasiness around ST3, Bruce Harrell rejected the idea ($) of jettisoning West Seattle or Ballard from the plan to balance the books. I would expect nothing less from t…

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 12h

Being a Seattle area transit fan is weird right now.
On the one hand I'm very excited for the opening of the Federal Way extension and even more excited for ! In 2026!
On the other hand all planning for ST3 projects is a disaster with no clear way out

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 12h

There's some plan to extend metromover to Miami Beach in real life, no?

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 13h

That's right, they should be replacing SFH zones with 10 story apartments near a new transit facility.

The real villains should be using Pokemon to push for free parking.

#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 13h

America needs an August holiday. Borrow Italian Ferrogosto, let's all have a 3 day weekend then.

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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 16h

It’s funny how well pasokification stuck as a term even though PASOK lived to outgrow Syriza again

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 17h

right wing pasokification is real...

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 17h

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1d

It would be embarrassingly short

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1d

They can probably win 50%+1 votes in the Senate and House on a platform of blowing up healthcare so I see why a lot of the biggest libertarians in the party i happy to roll the dice.

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#1 Shoup Fan @oneshoup.bsky.social · 1d

It is kind of remarkable how much worse his post hiatus stuff has been. He was just a normal extreme libertarian pre-2010. Maybe being locked away was bad for him?

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