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Mountain View, December 2022

SDL @SocDoneLeft

@sunraysunray an even more compelling graph (one that needs to be updated) the US is not uniquely violent, it's just uniquely deadly:

There was yet another shooting today, this time in Half Moon Bay.

John Scalzi @scalzi

I got my last COVID shot and my last flu shot on the same day, one in each arm. Poke, poke, done. I don't have any objection to doing that in perpetuity.

washingtonpost.comFDA proposes switching to annual coronavirus vaccine, mimicking flu modelThe proposed change is designed to reduce the complexity of the vaccine regimen for the public, doctors and manufacturers.

Hey, I'd be willing to go as high as two per year if they can get new formulations out that fast.

Randall Munroe @xkcd

Lane Change Highway xkcd.com/2728

101 gets a little bit like this near San Mateo when you're traveling South.

YIMBY Law @Yimby_Law

On Friday HCD determined that San Francisco’s current housing element draft meets state requirements. If they pass it by the end of the month, SF is good to go! Congratulations 🍾 @sfplanning, thank you to all of our @SFyimby watchdogs! Next stop: enacting the zoning!

This is actually good! San Francisco went ahead and proposed a realistic and aggressive set of changes to build more homes.

Karen González @_karenjgonzalez

It finally happened. My neighbor approached me in the hall because she’s concerned my boyfriend is abusive. I let her know that when she hears me say, “Stop it, Oscar! That hurts!” I’m actually talking to my cat. I have an abusive cat.

Threads

• Thread discussing the differences between the standard measure of inflation or the instantaneous measure. TL;DR: instantaneous is noisier but seems to indicate that inflation is way down in the US and Europe.

• Thread detailing the very strange way in which urban planners estimate future growth of a city. TL;DR: they assume household size is fixed for a given region, which means overcrowding indicates less need for new homes, rather than more.

• Details about how new legislation means that classroom libraries are essentially all closing in Florida. TL;DR: Books now have to be individually approved by a librarian, violations will lead to felony prosecution.