Favorite Rejects 2021-10-12
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MoCo doesn't just have a housing shortage, we have a housing mismatch (source ⬇️)
1) lots of big houses with 1-2 people in them
2) most future demand (80%!) is for multi-family homes (apartments, townhomes, etc)
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I read 36 books about immigration, and people on Twitter still just yell at me that immigration kills jobs and drains our finances and destroys our culture and replaces White people
I read 36 books
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford
Dunno how it would poll, but personally I would enjoy it if a American politician were this overtly pro-progress.
Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron
“will we run out of parking spaces for Nobel Laureates” is the most Berkeley article of all time
Berkeleyside @berkeleyside
Wait, what?!
Tom Andersen @TAndersen_nSCIr
The media is attracted to controversy. Controversy requires large or powerful groups to be both opposed ands interested.
Most of the time, that requires some degree of unpopularity in your ideas.
This is a point @davidshor makes, too. It’s behind his consistent admiration for Bernie Sanders.
Sanders adopts all kinds of unpopular policy ideas and labels, but it’s in service of keeping controversy focused on his broad issues of strength.
Ezra Klein @ezraklein
This is also relevant to Trump: He said lots of very unpopular things on immigration, but the benefit of that, to him, is it kept the media focused on immigration, which was a better cut for him than economics.
The Discourse has taken a lot of twists and turn.
But to me, these eleven points are the core of the Shor Pill and a lot of the other stuff people are arguing about I don't have strong opinions about.
@Noahpinion @henryfarrell I think economics is mostly dumb, but I also feel like college professors don’t seem to realize that even though economists are conservative relative to professors they are well to the left of the general public. It’s like coal executives thinking oil executives are the left.
I just don't understand this. How is wanting to make electric cars a "colonizer mentality"? Electric cars are definitely going to have to be a big part of the solution to decarbonization.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙 @ayanaeliza
Even in countries where transit systems are top-notch and hyper-dense cities are built around train stations, car ownership and car use are both very substantial.
There's just no way to decarbonize without electric cars.
I love that there was a period of time when it was like 'grrr someone should fix these robocalls' and then they never really did and now we just don't answer phones anymore
