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It's safety theatre. Signs don't work, properly-designed roads work. But signs are cheaper and make it possible to continue to live a sprawling life in suburbia, so.

Signs are cheaper than properly-designed roads. They're safety theatre, designed to make people feel better without actually doing anything.

"Law" can also be used for pithy statements that don't have to be particularly rigorous. C.f. Murphy's Law.

I realize this was flippant, but truly, as has been pointed out before, central banking can't help much if factories aren't operating.

Be well, friends.

Will it bring back toilet paper at Costco?

1. Be famous. 2. Tweet at Google. 3. Hope it winds up on Hacker News. 4. Issue resolution.

"Fake news" is awkward because it's what you say to discount things you don't like that are actually true. My friends and I all use "fake news" when we're criticizing someone or something, but not to describe actual misleading information. When used earnestly, then, it looks like you're either joking or denying reality.

It's left as an exercise to the reader to figure out why this is.

Ann Arbor is a bit of an outlier in that as far as Michigan cities go, it's relatively bike-friendly. It's still remarkably suburban in most areas, though; good luck biking to a grocery store that isn't out in Pittsfield Township.

Not starving or being homeless are great motivators. But yeah, why didn't they just get $250k FAANG jobs like the other 300 million Americans?