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And @doctorquant says I'm not good at math.

You coming at me about my education is like Dick coming at me about my career. But if you would like a real answer, while I have not used my graduate degree directly, my entire university education taught me how to gather and process information and how to write with clarity, which is what I've done for a very good living my entire adult life. It also made me some of my best friends. It made me care about the world around me. And my planning degree specifically gave me a deep appreciation for long-term thinking and the fact that city building, unfortunately, is nothing like playing with big Legos, which is kind of what I was hoping. I did, however, become very good at colouring and I can do that cool block printing that architects make.

 

Link?

 

Cool architect block printing: HOF?

 

I have a mansion und a yacht.

 

Okay, because I'm in a goofy mood and waiting for some guys to deliver a bed:

This is a small fragment of a massive plan my friend Dylan and I made. (If I might say so, Dylan and I were the stars of the design program. We did every project together for two years and we crushed.) It was for the redevelopment of an entire city block. We did it on a scroll that was maybe eight or ten feet long and probably three feet high. We were getting a little punchy pulling an all-nighter working on it, and, in a park we were proposing, we might have drawn a tiny flasher opening his coat in the direction of a mother and child.

Now, for perspective, the flasher is much smaller than a dime. In a massive scroll filled with detail. And our professor, a British man with a very deep voice, stood back and surveyed it for about three seconds before he took off his glasses, walked toward the scroll, leaned his face toward the paper over which we had sweated for weeks, and intoned in a very serious and British manner: "Gentlemen. Is that a flasher?"



Indeed it was. Dylan later cut out that section of the scroll and put it behind glass for me. We made it in 1998. It's still hanging in my office. He's still one of my favourite people on Earth.

That's what getting a masters in urban planning did for me, @YankeeFan, you hopeless fucking nit.

 

Well, I sure think so.

 

Stuck in traffic. On mobile. Blew up the picture to see The Flasher.

Day has been made.

 

God help us if @MisterCreosote sees this post.

 

Flasher? I thought it was a tiny library.

 

The partisan, no name tweets are the frigging worst thing this board offers.

Except tweets from @GunsBeerMerica.

 

This is spot on. It was a huge mistake during the Yeltsin era to try to make the transition from communism to capitalism in one huge leap. The sudden privatization of everything enabled a few oligarchs to buy up the whole country while leaving nearly everyone else with nothing, and it created a lawless environment that enabled the current "mafiocracy" to form. As you said, they'd have have been better off making the transition in a more gradual step by step approach the way China's doing it.

And, yeah, to some extent that can be pinned on the United States. Yeltsin was our puppet. We thought they should do it that way, and they did so largely under our guidance.