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🇺🇸 CNN poll shows just 8% of Americans view Russia positively—on par with those who think the moon landing was fake. 61% see Russia as an enemy, and only 4% as a partner. Only 9% like Putin, with the same percentage believing the Earth is flat. 52% support Ukraine using U.S. weapons in Russia.

submitted 7 days ago • 83 comments

At the heart of many of the U.S.’s problems is lack of mobility: In the 19th century 1 in 3 people moved each year. Today 1 in 13 do so. Our reduced mobility flows from our profound failure over the past 50 years to build new homes in areas of economic opportunity. It’s strangling us as a nation.🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

HEY @washingtonpost.com AND @nytimes.com, DO YOU THINK IT'S NEWSWORTHY THAT THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD IS WALKING AROUND THE GOVERNMENT "DELETING" CHUNKS OF IT AT HIS WHIM? DO YOU THINK THIS MIGHT DESERVE A LITTLE BIT OF ALARM

submitted 22 days ago • 30 comments

I don’t like the “people are voting with their feet” line about California and NYC’s population loss/decline. People aren’t voting with their feet, they’re losing the game of musical chairs. To the extent population is falling, it’s due to shrinking household sizes, not vacancy. Demand remains high.

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments

If the owner of a single-family home rented to an immigrant family of six kicks them all out to put the house on the market for sale, and then a rich family of two empty-nesters buys it, the population of that lot has dropped by two-thirds. So clearly it doesn’t need any more housing.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 67 days ago • 380 comments

Inclusionary zoning is bad policy that creates bad outcomes.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Tsunami evacuation zones in SF

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

a thought on what SF Muni could look like after planned extensions and two new lines to cover the densest parts lacking rail

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

designed and ordered a custom aluminum part so that I can open and close my window with an old standing desk motor. next I'll need a proper windowsill mount

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

For all those who think our cities have no more room for housing, an abandoned Burger King in Jersey City will become 607 housing units…

submitted 98 days ago • 30 comments