There's a housing crisis! There are people who want to live here and can't, there are people living on the street! Who cares about flat bloody roofs and whether you think they're pretty! Everyone else at the workshop, apparently.

I still can't wrap my head around this worldview.

I was at an open house in Kirkland, WA to get resident feedback on some planning thing. All anyone wanted to do was complain about how all the new buildings going up have flat roofs, and flat roofs are ugly, and how can we stop this.

There's a housing crisis! Who cares! It still flabbergasts me.

Me when they add Duolingo-style nudges to engage with the app:

And they'd like it back.

ALSO LOOK AT THIS BIRD

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WAIT NO LOOK AT THIS BIRD

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"Oh wow she's a radical leftist? What positions of hers are too far left, gender stuff?"

"lol no not those positions"

"So... redistribution of wealth?"

"Haha no not those positions either"

"Which positions, exactly?"

"Oh, you know the ones"