2023-02-27
Horseshit
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Specifically, what’s frustrating me is America’s seeming inability to build the things it needs to build in order to prosper and flourish in the 21st century. From housing to transit to solar power to transmission lines to semiconductor fabs, the U.S. has little trouble marshalling the financial and physical capital to create what it needs, but ends up stymied by entrenched local interests who exploit a thicket of veto points to preserve the built environment of the 1970s.
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The sex lives of medieval women
Whereas once the 12th-century cleric Andreas Capellanus was writing in his pick-up artist guide The Art of Courtly Love that “every woman in the world is… wanton, because no woman, no matter how famous or honoured she is, will refuse her embraces to any man” (as long as he can seduce her properly), now evolutionary psychologists debate whether women can enjoy casual sex at all and dismiss female sexual pleasure as a biological by-product. When sex was bad and dangerous, women were considered raging nymphomaniacs. As it has come to be destigmatised and embraced as a positive, healthy aspect of being human, modern society has assumed that women can’t possibly want it – at least not nearly as much as men do.
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Tackling the 15-minute cities conspiracy means fixing inequality
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Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America