
Lol.
Supervisor Dean Preston is right that the hotels --> housing program was very successful.
He also blocked the one proposed his district!
SF had free money to buy a luxury Kimpton hotel & convert into homeless housing. But Dean Preston didn't want it there.
Never forget.

Dean Preston @DeanPreston

Follow up question: at what age does it become enjoyable again?

Olga Khazan @olgakhazan

Don't know how long it's been since the one and only time I saw the show, but I still hear only Paul Giamatti when I read this:


South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Germany, and Sweden all use more robots than we do.
And guess what? More of their workers are employed in manufacturing than in the U.S.
This is not a coincidence.



This is why the threat that raising fast food workers pay will lead to automating the jobs away is empty. We currently have 3 job openings for every person working. Restaurants canβt find the workers so automating would allow them to operate with the workers they have & pay more. https://t.co/5HgnrFqAPA

Noah Smith ππΊπ¦ @Noahpinion

@Noahpinion Visited a company in Sweden which manufactures all of the Billy-bookshelfs (IKEA, yes very πΈπͺ).
Fully integrated automated production with 75 robots and not a single lay-off. Production staff worked instead with service, logistics and maintenance of the robots.

Four years ago @AndrewYang said that we could be facing millions of unemployed truckers in 5-10 years due to automation.
We're nearly there. And rather than truckers facing unemployment, we're facing the largest shortage of truckers ever.


Lots of attention (rightly) on projections that Chinaβs population might fall by β οΈ roughly half β οΈ by end of this century, but not sure people appreciate quite how widespread this dynamic is.
More than a dozen countries (most of them in Europe) are set to shrink even faster π


A lot of people are saying that China will end Zero Covid after Xi Jinping is confirmed as Dictator-for-Life in a month or two. But that might be wishful thinking.

The New York Times @nytimes

Four years of BCGβs US electric vehicle sales forecasts, compiled by @RecurrentAuto.
2018: 21% of sales in 2030
2020: 26%
2021: 42%
2022: 53%
recurrentauto.com/research/ev-adβ¦


Good excuse to re-up our recent symposium on whether school meals are worth the cost:
cgdev.org/blog/are-schoo⦠https://t.co/L3qQGHJ46r

The Economist @TheEconomist