[FRIAM] genai and critical thinking

[glen]

What you mention below is the fulcrum for a larger argument against (most) modern cities. We had a kind of speakeasy pub in the basement of this guy's house in Portland. No business license or nothing. If you drank there, you had to donate something ... sugar, eggs, homebrewing supplies, whatever. It reminded me of the alewife tradition. If it weren't for the (ultimately gentrification based) zoning laws, there would be more walkable pubs. And even though there's a subsistence economy around such things, it wouldn't be so stupidly commercial as it is now.

Sure. We don't want shanty towns. But zoning can be done well or poorly. If you can't walk to the pub, maybe it's your duty to have the pub at your house? And a tea house is just as much of a pub as the rec center at the Lutheran church, especially now that the kids are turning away from etoh toward thc. We even have a kava pub here in Oly. My libertarian homunculus asks why we don't have more opium dens and rave spaces. Stupid puritans, at home making friends with LLMs: https://jaredhenderson.substack.com/p/replacing-our-relationships-with

On 2/12/25 11:24 AM, steve smith wrote:
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> Damn! I wish I was close enough to walk to the Pub!
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> I *AM* close enough to walk to Edith Warner's tea house, but that hasn't operated for 80 years and the little store "run by a Mexican" in San I where Julian (Maria the Potter's husband) used to get his whiskey (famous for going on benders) has been shuttered since the 20s or 30s?   There are still the husks of about 5 "tienditas" between me and Pojoaque... each within walking distance of virtually everyone in the vally.  Also those probably closed after the era of the automobile (20s, 30s, 40s, 50s). Some still maintain their paintjobs, some are flaked off but still show some lettering.
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