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The tell is that baseless "we don't have enough water" claims are only ever used to justify blocking newcomers. If it's such a precarious situation, shouldn't incumbents also be leaving? https://t.co/KyIJXRMjMH — src

If we have a serious water shortage problem, we should find ways to limit the use of water for the most wasteful kinds of agriculture before we start focusing on residential usage.

The Fed having 12 regional banks based on boundaries set in 1913 results in the hilarious fact that the Philly Fed has a special survey of South Jersey businesses, meanwhile the SF Fed (which covers the entire West Coast, 1/5 of Americans!) doesn't do a single regional survey — src

This is why we have precise surveys of employment data for southern New Jersey, but nothing comparable for the entire state of California.

Shit blew up—In the sky, on the ground, and on the internet. Some thoughts: https://t.co/Cc33G4ejYS — src

TL;DR: NASA can't afford to fail, but SpaceX really is setup to just keep building more rockets and iterating on whichever part failed.

I did a quick Google search: 71% of americans believe the moon landing was real.

"Lake Tulare in California continues to grow rapidly and is now over 100 square miles in size. That's just over half the size of Lake Tahoe, and the big snowmelt hasn't even started yet in the Sierra Nevada. https://t.co/C9Mxf14B7m" — src

In a follow-up, he points out Tahoe is a lot deeper, but still, that's a big lake.

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