David's Favorites April 17 2021
I’m sticking with italics to represent my comments for now, hope that’s clear enough.
Somehow I hadn’t considered that there might be polling data on this kind of thing, although if the elections there aren’t legitimate anyway, I’m not sure that it matters a ton…
Aaron’s a friend of ours from housing advocacy, and I tend to agree that zoning in suburban areas could probably include corner stores with minimal disruption. (It’d certainly be less annoying than the auto repair place we used to live near). The data I’ve seen on retail space to housing ratios seem to imply something like 1 to 60 though, which seems like it might end up a bit sparse in my neighborhood.
On my first try I was probably way too cautious, and didn’t answer ‘yes’ to any fake words. I think I’m gonna give it another shot tomorrow and be more reckless in my guesses.
Wikipedia has information about studies showing the improved safety impact of equivalent laws elsewhere. The Equity, Uniformity, and Respect angles that are cited here feel like they’d be enough even if the safety aspect was not as significant.
I think bioethicists have been too cautious during this pandemic, so this opinion piece from two such experts (and others) saying that continuing the J&J pause is *too cautious*, it feels that much more impactful.
I’m just surprised to hear that traffic jams are back, and technically they probably are a vaccine side effect.
It continues to be a bit crazy that the state pushes for everyone to put so much of their wealth into a single highly leveraged investment.
I don’t mean to brag too much, but my toddler has been training the majority of her life to avoid this mistake. It’s covered on page 4 (of 26) in one of her favorite books