Sunak is so weird, it's like he's trying to do Trumpism from a catalog. It doesn't work, to pull it off you need to be the kind of person who would call up a child at Christmas time and tell them the… (View Post)

The delay for the Japanese maglev is that they wanted to build it without putting a station in one of the prefectures it will pass through, and that prefecture has developed a totally scientific and … (View Post)

This. I'd add that even in Japan, where they do still have planning-related stuff under the control of local officials, they still manage to fuck it up. One example is that there's some post-war ordi… (View Post)

You're mixing it up with a different story. The Tupak suspect was Dianne Feinstein, she died this morning in police custody. (View Post)

IIUC Tokyo does a thing where the (already pretty lenient) height restrictions are eased if you set the building back from the road and put some garden space in front. I'm not saying I like this: Lik… (View Post)