meteorswarm @ meteorswarm @beehaw.org

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I'm a confident cook making food for two people in a small kitchen.

I wing it, but I'm making choices so that everything fits together and I have some recipe patterns that work well. I don't do meal prep. Most dinners double as a lunch.

A lot of what makes my cooking efficient only comes with practice. I know the timing of different things and cook accordingly to line stuff up. Rice in the pressure cooker takes 30 minutes. That kind of thing. Make choices so that stuff goes in parallel, or make one pot dishes.

I generally try to have a main dish, potentially a starch side if the main isn't, and a vegetable.

Some example meals:

• Mashed potatoes (steam in instant pot, mash with olive oil salt and water when ready), kjøttkaker (meatballs) which finish in a brown gravy, and some seasonal vegetable, maybe sauteed.
• Pasta, red sauce with vegetables in it (always an onion, maybe some other stuff), maybe ground meat or sardines. Sauce cooks in pan and then mixes with pasta
• Vaguely Thai curry (sauteed veggies, chicken, garlic ginger onions, curry paste, coconut milk), rice in the instant pot

You're in for a treat!

I'm playing a bit of totk, and building out a version of https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/06/18/assume-normal-costs-an-update/ in Nimby Rails!

You're gonna have to explain a little more about this because on its face I don't see why I should read what a specialist in the philosophy of science has to say about an ideology based on a historical and sociological analysis of the world. They're totally different spheres.

Plus, Marxism is not the entire left, and there's a whole world of thought out there that very likely covers whatever issues you're thinking of.

What's the cross posting implementation? I'm not sure I'm getting what it is.

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I'd rather learn from Angela Davis, Marsha P Johnson, Judith Butler, and their peers than from whatever "radical centrism" is.

It's important to not only engage with theoretical economics but also look at studies in practice.

https://journalistsresource.org/economics/rent-control-regulation-studies-to-know/ is a good overview with four papers on the effects of rent control in different locations in the US. They don't always find that it harms construction! That means something else is going on. We should figure that out and fix that problem while at the same time having rent control to keep people housed.

I live in NYC and looking around me it's clear that sky-high rents that have doubled in a few years are not meaningfully driving new construction. With one exception that is: nearby New Jersey. Jersey City has one of the strongest rent control laws around and is booming.

Why is that? I can't say for sure but I think the biggest one is zoning. NYC almost doesn't allow new construction, so builders don't do much of it, especially if you look at it proportionately to the current population. NYC suburbs in directions other than New Jersey nearly don't build at all because they're controlled by single family homeowners who refuse to allow densification.

So in this context, we can impose rent control and not harm housing because we're already not building in NYC. We should also figure out how to build the housing we need! Maybe once we do that we can reexamine rent control, and maybe it will be needed less. Maybe by then the revolution will be here and we won't need landlords at all...