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For a supposedly "socialist" government, they sure are doing quite a lot regulating food, by "a lot" I mean jack shit.

I'm reading "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future", which I think is a great book, and one of its themes, that probably seems strange to Americans, is that China is more capitalist than the United States right now.

For instance, from what I read, the CCP is extremely reluctant to provide any kind of social welfare, in the belief welfare will make its citizens lazy, and the little that exists is not only incredibly corrupt but requires a degrading means testing process that even the worst American conservative would think goes too far.

But I've never lived in China so you may know better about that.

Food safety is another one of the big issues.

They cracked down on people cleaning cooking oil and reselling it as food oil again, they executed the people responsible for poisonous baby formula, they seem to do something when it becomes noisy.

I got mild food poisoning in China less frequently than in Korea or Vietnam.

I can't compare to Japan, because while the food safety seems very good, its not because of regulation, restaurants there don't even have regular inspections.

Problem is that mailrooms are useless for food delivery drivers.

I remember watching some stuff about cities where it feels like you went out on street level but really you're still XX floors up.

You can do exactly the same in Wellington, New Zealand. There's a bunch of buildings with street frontage on the Terrace and Lambton Quay, with something like ten floors of difference.

I long for mixed used housing without an automobile parking requirement in an area with ubiquitous mass transit.

The building would probably extend like eight football fields underground

probably half of Texas

Awesome OST intensifies

I want to see dead malls turned into mini cities.

You can also just build trains

Sewage? ...pipe?

Bugs and smells too

They probably don't know the actual occupancy. Some apartments might be empty. Some might be designed for 3 people but only 1 lives there. 30k is probably the design capacity

We just need to wipe out all the animals and forests first, but we're on track for everyone to have their own real soon tho.

You can have 1.5 acres of Sahara desert. I'll pass...

If you want your 1.5 acres, you better not complain that the bus comes twice a day and the only doctor in the area retired 3 years ago.

They are not going anywhere. It's self-contained.