Another scary tidbit from that article: A Republican president could order the FDA to make abortion pills unavailable at a much earlier stage in the pregnancy than the current 10 week cutoff.
There is no chicken-and-the-egg problem with transit. One great reply "Like, if you build dense mixed-use spaces you don't need to build transit immediately because of feet"
He follows up, "One of my most controversial political opinions is that Donald Trump was President of the United States in 2020." (This is a joke about how Trump campaigned in 2020 on an argument that there was too much crime, which doesn't normally look good for an incumbent)
Once the you realize that the Executive branch is politely waiting for someone involved to die, the situation gets sorta boring.
Threads
• Randall Munroe got an answer to one of his open questions from What If: is there any orbital reentry path that could cook a steak medium rare?.
• Wonky thread about summarizing a paper about how to improve US energy commodity production. TL;DR: we need systems similar to the Strategic Petroleum reserve, but for renewable energy production precursors. (In Factorio, you’re gonna need copper, steel and green chips for solar panels)
• Great thread by Alfred Twu discussing the significant variation in building form to fit 60 apartments on the same piece of land. I'm a fan of the 6 5-story buildings. And of course, there's a section on single-staircase advantages. Yglesias comments that they're all beautiful