They instead start it at "we're removing the parking spots, what would you like to see the space filled with?" There's a deeper thing here too where winning an election is actually viewed as permission to govern. We instead insist on asking the losers' permission to govern every step of the way.

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I always think back to something I saw about how public input is done in France. The starting point isn't, for instance, "should we do remove these parking spots?", because they know that'll inevitably draw out the perpetual malcontents who'll reflexively say no to everything.

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Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

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A Kenyan pastor has been convicted on 191 murder charges after forcing his followers to starve their children and themselves to death.

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For me it's "in the final battle most of the Rohan warriors are women with fake beards, because that's who you get when you ask people to show up with their own horses"

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