thinking of starting a list of all the prominent Canadians who are saying things like "there's no way of knowing whether it's good for the US to bomb Iran" and "maybe we can avoid some tariffs by saying it's actually good"
Sometimes I use AI to help write prefab housing jokes
this is an effective way forward to rectify hyper motonormativity imo
people will really say things to the effect of "you're simplifying this issue too much" and then go on to assert that any change at all will totally stop all use of cars in the universe in the past, present and future, even causing some of us to never have been born
Circling back to this, my main take-away was:
If we were able to get solar PV off the ground with a feed in tariff, why don't we advocate for juicing the alternative meats market with a meat-in-tariff?
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
Chart from FRED on WTI oil price since 1986 with shaded areas indicating recessions
look, oil price spikes don't cause recessions per se but they do like each others posts fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgr...
breaking bad is a cautionary tale of globalization leading to personal ruin
Waymo is now blocking the only eastbound through lane on Townsend, a key SF arterial. AVs have a scaling problem in cities. This isn't just inconvenience but a loss of network capacity. Waymo cuts SF's ability to move people and goods in its streets. User convenience ≠ system efficiency
Every couple of months or so, someone puts out a piece of bad social science meant to undermine the case for more housing. For Roosevelt Institute, I wrote a blog post responding to the two most recent specimens. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...
New piece in the Toronto Star from Cara and me, on research showing how the middle-class housing crisis negatively impacts all of us, not just those priced out of homes.
Read here:
The Middle East conflict is stress testing global energy. Bloomberg sees oil at $108 in a severe escalation.
We have seen this before. The difference now is that solar and batteries are more cost competitive. Every fossil fuel spike strengthens the case for renewables on energy security alone.
maybe you are describing this in bsky.app/profile/step... but it seems like this misses the whole point of single stair, which is that you eliminate the corridors and have like 1/3 the number of people who eventually need to walk down each of the 1st/2nd floor stairs
Zone 2 cardio. Mobility maxxing. There will be no further discussion.
San Jose FD, for the CAL FIRE single-stair report, did a simulation of evacuation from a building, both in a stairway segregated from firefighters going up and then shared. It was an interesting Rohrschach test for the group – the FDs thought it looked really bad, the others thought it was fine.
Got my driver's license renewed in Minnesota this week. Did an online application that took less than 10 minutes, walked into the government center at 10:15 AM, left at 10:30 AM. The public DMV certainly kicks ass compared to dealing with my private health insurer.
Here is my latest -- probably only of a few (fewer probably than 5!) news pieces that is critical of the federal government's military spending bonanza.
truthout.org/articles/cri...
perfect example of motonormativity: "should you go out in your car/bike after an ice storm?" gets a completely different answer depending on which vehicle, literally *for the same reason* that it's worse for someone to do so with a car
at least they have the Canadian PM this time tho
every development needs a drive thru scapegoat like this so we don't have to talk about how it's "too tall" or "nobody will buy those homes"
#IdeasAtWork
A month in hospital costs: $30,100
Month in prison: $9,400
Month in shelter: $6,800
Supportive housing per month: $3,800
@uhn.ca's Dr. Andrew Boozary
h/t @urbantruth.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Realizing almost every single complaint they are making about solar could be made about corn ethanol and be
1. Actually true
2. In many cases an order of magnitude worse
3. Not offset by 10x the county tax revenue per accre
must-read thread. yes, the world may be falling apart but solar energy go brrrrr
1. To opinions! Solar is the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it being built if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places are grid access, permitting, and sometimes installation labour.
Gas prices up by around 50% today.
A painful reminder that relying on imported fossil fuels is a risky strategy.
A zonking great cry-for-help pickup truck labelled "Mobility" and a person on a little escooter labelled "micromobility"
A conversation earlier today reminded me of this slide I put into a recent talk. How did we decide the tiny human-sized machine is the special case, and the massive overpowered machine full of empty furniture is the norm?
Unlike Iran, India has assassinated a Canadian citizen in Canada.
"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt."
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Anakin and Padme meme: Safety is our first priority Higher than LOS, right? ... Higher than LOS, right?
Me talking to the city engineer about the new Vision Zero plan.
I think this every time I visit one of my relatives who live "in the country". literally everything you ever would want to do requires driving!
of course, David answered his own question: living amongst people, including people who are different in any way big or small, can be hard for some people
