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He also made the hover bikes from the Simpsons
Look, this all sounds good, but while they're waiving CEQA, they're also not allowing more density (cached). I guess Newsom wouldn't want to accidentally allieviate (cached) the housing shortage. We should rezone for denser, but more fire-resistant, homes. The ideal would be to simply repeal CEQA (cached) for infill housing.
Interesting to see all historic fires overlayed on a California map. You can check out the interactive map yourself if you want, it goes back to around 1930.
Muwahaha, yes, taxing land instead of income is good, actually. Accidentally taxing the home on top of the land as well is not ideal, but much better than the alternative.
Cool to see more specific groupings overlaid on a political compass, I really want to get around to building a political compass quiz that requires you to rank order your priorities, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– 8 years before shovels can be in the ground to build a bike path in LA (src)(cached)
– If TikTok is gonna shut down in the US, now is the time to download the best videos, starting with “your friend shai-halud ” (src)(cached)
– Best moment to upzone is after a fire burns the neighborhood down (src)(cached)
– roll back prop 13 by including an income tax cut (src)(cached)
– In 1980, biologist Paul Ehrlich bet economist Julian Simon that a basket of metals would go up in price over time, instead all 5 went down in price over the next decade. This analysis looks at a longer time series and finds that actually, these metal prices mostly bounce around at the same price, but that Simon was right that human inginuity would find ways to increase production, we are able to mine 250x the amount of Nickel today as in 1900. (src)(cached)
– Tax audits cause rich people to actually follow the law after they’re caught, making them even more effective in the long term (src)(cached)
– did you know consuming teflon as a food filler was considered as a way to reduce calorie counts? (src)(cached)
– Home fires by year (src)(cached)
– California has denied permission to underground electrical lines in recent years because it raises electrical rates (src)(cached)
– "The biggest tell that ByteDance has given us on TikTok (and something that gives the game away) is that they’re refusing to divest TikTok and are instead choosing to take a multi-billion dollar bath. This did not happen when the USG pushed a forced divesture on Grindr" (src)(cached)