That’d probably mean leaving family behind, which not everyone is willing to do.

If the fire department is happy with one staircase, great.

Fire departments make for very poor authorities on these matters, unfortunately. See the issue of them mandating completely oversized roads, since they can’t imagine smaller fire engines that have precedent around the world.

It just doesn’t sound plausible that 6-15% premium for additional staircases is a root cause of the housing crisis, when developer profit opportunity is clearly the greater constraint.

That’s the thing though - there is no single root cause for the housing crisis. It’s just a bunch of small issues stacked on top of each other, and each has to be addressed individually.

It’s important for public projects to manage their costs as well, as it affects how much can be built using the limited public funds available. I think we can all agree that we need large amounts of public housing in constrained places like San Francisco, to alleviate the current situation.

It is in fact one of the major advantages of building public housing - you unlock the lower costs of building at scale, which reduces costs in several ways:

• Building the same type of units makes workers familiar with the product and allows them to complete them faster
• Pre-fabricated modular units can be constructed off-site and shipped in, and making them at scale drives costs down
• Large contracts are more lucrative and can hence be negotiated to better rates with contractors

For a wildly successful example, look to Miljonprogrammet that took place in Sweden during the 60s and 70s. Following that project, a vast supply of housing was available for the population, with housing costs below 1% of income being common.

Public housing follows the same rules. This makes any multi-story building more expensive for everyone, and the rules need to be reformed regardless of who builds the building and regardless of their motivations.

As the other comment mentions, Japan is listed as not having a maximum, making this more or less lose relevance.

On top of that, the stated motivation for the two stairwell rule is fire safety, which is only really adjacent to earthquake safety. Other locations have figured out that two stairwells are very much not necessary to achieve appropriate levels of fire safety, and San Francisco would do very well to learn from them.

I think it’s high time Finland retakes Karelia, on account of how thinly stretched Russia must be at this point.

I’d definitely come to Canada over the U.S as it stands today.

In another time, if the U.S manages to beat their fascism-issue, I’d like to go there as well.

Oi! You got a license for that bike theft?

Keep your living space cooler by blocking out sunlight from coming through the windows, preferably using shading on the outside.

Make liberal use of fans, they lower perceived temperature by several °C.

Wear loose-fitting linen clothing.

Use hats that provide shade, like a cap or something with a larger brim.

Go for a swim.

Take a warm shower before bed (counterintuitive but helps in my experience).

Try to create a breeze through your home by opening windows on opposite sides of the home, when the temperature is higher inside than outside.

Use sunscreen.

There’s some cool nature there I’d like to see, so that’s one reason

I’d be ok with roads being fully user-funded and having the additional cost be added to the things I buy instead of them being tax subsidized.

It was a not-insignificant part of why I chose to move here, that’s for sure.

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Local roaster here in the Stockholm area. Excellent quality

Starkt medhåll.

It’s a small gym in my co-op.

I’m usually even alone there when working out in the morning, it’s magical. Basically a private gym for my purposes. It has everything I need with a barbell, rack, benches, dumbbells, exercise bikes etc

I went to the gym for a couple years and managed to increase my PR’s consistently and doubled my bodyweight at the same bf %.

What weight did you start at? Doubling your weight in 2 years maintaining the same bf% is a very hard equation to solve, without the use of steroids, which I assume you didn’t use since you didn’t mention it.

What do you even do at a gym?

Use training equipment that you don’t have access to otherwise, to perform exercises aligned with your fitness goals. Some people do classes with trainers at gyms.

I feel like I could do all of that at home.

If you have the space and the money to invest in a home gym, that will be more than sufficient. Not everyone does, hence gym memberships. Classes with trainers are also not available at home, so that could be a reason to get a gym membership.

Gym memberships are insanely expensive.

It depends on the gym. I pay approximately $40 per year for access to my gym, and that covers everyone in my household.

The investment in fitness can also pay dividends that outweigh the costs - strength and cardiovascular fitness will let you live longer without being sick. If you have to pay for your healthcare, this may also manifest as a concrete money saving.

Are home workouts actually effective?

They can be. It’s not going to be as effective as working out with full equipment, but you also may not need the full effectiveness. And if the choice is between home workouts and no workouts, the home workouts are far better.

Does one even enjoy gym time?

I enjoy going to the gym. I like the progression in becoming stronger.

What a fucking loser

Systemic issues are not appropriately solved at an individual level.

Make that a mantra and repeat it continuously

It predates ChatGPT so I doubt it. This is organic incompetence