War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Scrum is Agile • GOTO 2020 from @allenholub

Awesome talk, and even its title makes total sense actually. Watch it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFbvJ0dVlHk

This quote:

“We’re not going to deal with the housing crisis in NSW unless we get more construction going, more completions done,” Minns said.

“And part of that means that you have to have at times difficult conversations with communities about more density.”

Has me wondering: what evidence do we have that conversations about density will be difficult? Is the angst grounded in fact or is it built on a wobbly pile of assumptions?

#AusPol #NSWPol #Housing #HousingCrisis #Planning

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/04/nsw-premier-open-to-pattern-book-housing-across-sydney-as-solution-for-crisis

The English language is a wonderful thing, and we know some rules without knowing we know them.

‘Have you ever heard that patter-pitter of tiny feet? Or the dong-ding of a bell? Or hop-hip music? That’s because, when you repeat a word with a different vowel, the order is always I A O. Bish bash bosh. So politicians may flip-flop, but they can never flop-flip. It’s tit-for-tat, never tat-for-tit. This is called ablaut reduplication, and if you do things any other way, they sound very, very odd indeed.’ From ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ by Mark Forsyth.

#English #language