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Jeremy Driver
Personal blog · normielisation.substack.compoliticsculture
Jeremy Driver writes Normielisation, a personal blog at normielisation.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Substack posts on transport and infrastructure policy, including California high-speed rail delays and car-versus-bike politics. Commenters cite them, but none judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Reflections on progress, politics and society, written from a British perspective.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/cheems-mindset2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-23
What Hacker News says?
California contracting in particular is built not of penurious individual corruption, but of systemic corruption. The lowest bid must win, and nobody has the political capital to establish a bidding system that works, so dramatic systematic underbidding + cost overruns is the rule, and is expected by all parties except the naive public. Couple that with the kind of "Build nothing if any single problem can be detacte…
Comment linking /p/cheems-mindset
on “Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated”Submitted We should pay politicians more as a story · 34 points
HN discussion> We've tried nothing, and we're out of ideas. I'm gonna use this line whenever my pro-car cheems mindset [0] family complain about new bike lanes getting installed :D [0] https://normielisation.substack.com/p/cheems-mindset
Comment linking /p/cheems-mindset
on “The rush to mine lithium could dry up the high Andes”