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See new Tweets Conversation M. Nolan Gray @mnolangray For your low-productivity Friday afternoon pleasure: we've put together a map of the most and least exclusionary jurisdictions, based on the ratio of local median home prices to metropolitan household incomes. Enjoy! https://cayimby.org/price-income-ratio-map/ Quote Tweet California YIMBY @cayimby · Jun 23 New from our research bounty program: a statewide map of the relationship between home prices and incomes! https://cayimby.org/price-income-ratio-map/ — src

Here's the tool, surprisingly, Mountain View is only in the second-worst category, with a median home to metro area income ratio of 13. Palo Alto: 20, Los Altos: 23, Cupertino 16, and Sunnyvale is at 12. Sunnyvale also builds the most, who would'a thought. Also in data visualization news: here's a tool for visualizing the extra capacity upzoning along transit in Seattle could unlock. Also, I think it’s really cool that California YIMBY has a research bounty program.

See new Tweets Conversation Astrid Wilde ☼ @astridwilde1 just a casual reminder that the reason North Atlantic temperatures are going up is because shipping emissions have been keeping the North Atlantic artificially cool for decades and mandating their reduction was predicted to have this exact effect. don't buy the scaremongering Quote Tweet Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance · Jun 25 How can you just sit here and smile? How can you go about your day with your brunches and birthday parties and bridal showers? Whole countries could disappear. Billions could die from flood and fire and famine. We have reached the precipice. Don’t you see? — src

I had seen this graph a few times and thought to myself "yikes, that looks crazy bad". Good to know that there's actually something going on here. This is also a reminder that we only allow accidental geoengineering. We could simply do this on purpose and buy ourselves a bit of extra time to transition off fossil fuels.

See new Tweets Conversation shikha sood dalmia @shikhadalmia Very interesting post by @ATabarrok : Why do we feel worse off even though we are materially better off? It's not because we have to work harder to get same things as before. It's because time has become more precious so we feel like we have to work harder marginalrevolution.com The Harried Leisure Class - Marginal REVOLUTION How easy is it for a male breadwinner to raise a family? Oren Cass argues that the cost of “thriving,” is increasing. That’s false. When you do the numbers correctly, Winship and Horpedahl show that... — src

The underlying article is also arguing that time being more precious means we'll naturally need to devote more energy to organizing how we spend our time, which makes us feel stressed.

See new Tweets Conversation Anna Tong @annatonger New letter from CA state accuses SF officials of data manipulation: In the 4 @Waymo traffic collisions SF cited to prove driverless cars are less safe, 3 were the Waymos being rear-ended and 1 didn't even involve any cars touching, CA says. https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M512/K192/512192053.PDF — src

As Darrell Owens adds: "AVs (that arent Teslas) are a distraction from SF's deadly traffic engineering and car centrism". Here’s the doc from the state

See new Tweets Conversation Alec Stapp @AlecStapp Absolutely insane: A major bottleneck to developing next-generation coronavirus vaccines is that researchers are ***legally prohibited*** from acquiring the old vaccines from Pfizer & Moderna that they need for their studies.

I had been wondering why we had not seen faster development of nasal vaccines despite how useful they could be. And there you have it, we're throwing them away instead of allowing them to be used as the control group for the new vaccine.

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• Short thread about Scott Weiner's SB 532, which "creates a 5-year emergency $1.50 bridge toll, to fund transit operations"

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