suburbs become drains on cities because miles upon miles of infrastructure slowly rots until the maintenance costs overwhelm any positive economic activity. how do you pay for the rot? by developing more sprawl. eventually the scam runs out and instead of developing more, you just let it decay.
this is just a gut feeling but it seems like all these huge sites that rely on algorithmic moderation to handle the glut of user-generated content have a similar problem
question: what will change that?
is it going back to sharing everything as text files so they can be hosted all over the place?
we need walkable, mixed-used information built at a human scale
Fun aspect of ancient history is when you look for political or cultural accounts the historians all say "no one can really say if this took place, or if this guy really existed, but we know that around this time a person may have instituted a policy of some sort that might have ..." and then when they're talking about a battle suddenly the detail level skyrockets and its like "thirteen guys moved in on the left, it was drizzly out, this spearman was left-handed, he ordered them to flank on the right and then changed his mind a few seconds later..." etc. Its the historical version of intuiting an artists fetish by how hyper-detailed the feet are in an otherwise totally normal drawing
the fact that the romans were so fucking horny for battle details is so existentially hilarious. entire decades of roman history are unknown but these dudes would move heaven and earth to make sure that future generations knew the exact details of a battle
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