Favorite Rejects 2023-03-07

David Zipper @DavidZipper

Those claiming only rich people bike are very, very wrong: "We find that individuals in low-income, car-owning [US] households are associated with up to 14% more walking trips and 33% more cycling trips in a week compared to higher-income households." doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.…

Market Urbanism @stephenjacobsmith@mastodon.social @MarketUrbanism

The rats are beatable, but not if the law requires us to store trash in building basements and courtyards, and then dump it on sidewalks in plastic bags to be manually picked through by hand and then tossed around by workers – eventually, mostly, making it into a truck

Dana Rubinstein @danarubinstein

"To reduce the population enough that it wouldn't just bounce back, he said, we'd have to eradicate 96% of all rats in the city...Corrigan thinks it's probably too late." https://t.co/BLCt69Zdhi

William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver

just had one of the more awkward conversations of my life. "no, officers actually this beer is non-alcoholic, I went for a run earlier this is actually a good recovery drink, it's a whole thing I promise, I'm not breaking open container laws walking down the street with it"

Stephen Hoskins 🔰🏗️🧦🪩 @GeorgistSteve

Poll after poll after poll shows that renters & POC strongly support adding more housing in their neighborhoods. This is largely despite the objections of white, conservative, homeowners. 1/2

YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND

As a Californian, how do you look at a chart like this and not question every land-use policy made over the last 60 years?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

We don’t do a centralized assessment of each household’s “refrigerator needs” and then mandate a specific minimum fridge size based on what planners think is needed — people buy bigger or smaller fridges based on preference/space/budget tradeoffs they make on their own.

Wally Nowinski @Nowooski

It just keeps going. Another massive YIMBY win in WA last night. This is more or less the WA equivalent of SB 50, but it passed with a supermajority.

Robert Cruickshank @cruickshank

HB 1110 passes the WA State House by a 75-21 vote! Massive support for missing middle housing!! Thank you @jessdbateman for making this happen, you are a rock star!! #Homes4WA https://t.co/Ky4HFPP6zg

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Pro-Ukrainian people joke about Russia blowing up their own pipeline, and pro-Russia people have their wild conspiracy theories about America blowing it up, but really everyone knows that Ukraine blew it up.

nytimes.comIntelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials SayNew intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.

Jordan B MacLeod @newcurrency

Great interview and KK has this critical insight:

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This interview with @kevin2kelly was like mainlining the optimism of the 1990s. This is a perspective our nation needs to recover. https://t.co/lLxCUzd01q

Paul Collyer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇪 @dobssi

A lot of debate right now about this @SvD chart showing #Sweden with the lowest excess mortality in Europe for 2020-22. Obviously this is causing something of a stir. So is it a plausible claim? TLDR - yes, maybe....but it's not quite so simple.... 1/ europaportalen.se/2023/03/sverig…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

tfw you’ve consulted with your attorneys

Elon Musk @elonmusk

@danielhoughton @anothercohen @iamharaldur I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful. He is considering remaining at Twitter.