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macarthur_park , 3 months ago to news in America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing

As the article notes this actually does surprise a large number of people. Researchers did a study with thousands of Americans where they found that people generally understood supply and demand for goods like cars or produce.

Then the economists asked the participants about housing. They said: If a new law makes it easier to build dwellings near train stops, what happens to housing prices? Well, all of a sudden, the laws of supply and demand no longer applied. More than a third of participants said that “a large, exogenous increase in their region’s housing stock” would cause rents and home prices to rise.

macarthur_park , 3 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Peak technology

I’m guessing they signed up for HP Instant Ink, a monthly subscription service that monitors the ink levels in the printer and automatically mails you refills.

If you buy an HP printer, they HEAVILY promote this and offer discounts/free trials. I declined, because fuck that, but I could see someone agreeing and forgetting about it.

macarthur_park OP , 3 months ago to videos in Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment

A new kiln design and the first attempts at forging - Primitive Technology is making progress towards achieving the Iron Age from scratch!

As always, turn on closed captions for the complete experience. This video in particular had a lot of info in the captions.

macarthur_park , 4 months ago to news in West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools

It’s wild that Republicans simultaneously believe that:

1. teachers cannot be trusted to teach about race, gender, and certain parts of history (aka mentioning these things at all) and need to have all books in their classrooms reviewed by an external party for inappropriate content, and
2. teachers can totally be trusted with guns in the classroom.

macarthur_park , 4 months ago to news in Jerry Lewis' Most Controversial Film May Finally See the Light of Day This Year

Even more recently, there’s Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman

macarthur_park , 4 months ago to technology in ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24

Settle down, Jayden

macarthur_park , 5 months ago to news in DOJ report on Uvalde shooting cites 'cascading failures'

Idk, it takes some real courage to stand between a parent and their dying kid.

macarthur_park , 5 months ago to news in Ralph Yarl, Black Missouri teen shot in head by white man after ringing wrong doorbell, earns spot on all-state band

The whole story is wild, and terrible.

He rang the doorbell shortly before 10 p.m. and waited for someone to respond, Merritt said.

“Whoever was inside took a little longer than he anticipated to respond, and so he just waited at the door,” Merritt said, citing a statement Yarl gave to law enforcement investigators from his hospital bed Friday.

“He heard rustling around going on in the house and then finally the door was open,” the attorney said. “And he was confronted by a man who told him, ‘Don’t come back around here,’ and then he immediately fired his weapon.”

Yarl was shot in the head, which cracked his skull and left him with a critical, traumatic brain injury, the attorney said. While the teenager was still on the ground, the homeowner opened fire a second time, striking Yarl in the upper right arm, Merritt said.

And then

Merritt said the teenager saved his own life by fleeing and banging on at least three neighbors’ doors for help.

At the third home, Merritt said, the neighbor told Yarl to lie on the ground and put his hands in the air. He complied and then passed out, the attorney said.

macarthur_park OP , 5 months ago to news in Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Shortest Tenure in University History

The posted article is from Harvard’s student-run news organization, since it isn’t paywalled and it seems like an appropriate source. Some alternate (paywalled) sources:

NYTimes

WaPo

macarthur_park , 6 months ago to technology in U.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like material — controllable variation breaks temperature records

It’s already been published. But it’s superconducting at 10 K. This is a new high temperature record, but pretty far from room temperature.

macarthur_park , 6 months ago to technology in Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times

They’ve been doing studies of what would be required for ignition for a while, but have never demonstrated ignition using the Z machine.

If they did have ignition, there’s no way they would’ve let LLNL claim to be first and enjoy all the media attention.

macarthur_park , 6 months ago to technology in Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times

Nah, the Z machine never achieved ignition. That doesn’t mean it’s not a really cool facility though!

macarthur_park OP , 6 months ago to videos in You'll never guess the most popular internet country code

The latest Map Men video is a bit light on the maps (there’s basically only one) but is still a fascinating look at how top level domains came to exist and not match the physical world.

Their previous video, Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about, is a good companion piece that describes the network of undersea cables that carry the internet across oceans.

macarthur_park OP , 6 months ago to news in Texas Supreme Court pauses lower court's order allowing pregnant woman to have an abortion

Hey now.

He’s a pompous, self-righteous https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/30/ken-paxton-securities-fraud-charges-trial/#:~:text=Paxton%20faces%20two%20counts%20of,of%2010%20years%20in%20prison. piece of shit.

macarthur_park , 7 months ago to news in Rosalynn Carter, 96-year-old former first lady, is in hospice care at home

Seriously, he’s done so much good. There’s a nonzero chance that the only thing keeping him alive is his desire to do more to help. For example, Carter has said that he wants to witness the eradication of the Guinea worm,a parasite that he’s been working on stopping for decades.

“I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” Carter said at a press conference in 2015. “I’d like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. I think right now we have 11 cases. We started out with 3.6 million cases.”