Favorites May 31st 2022: Traffic enforcement and invading Canada

Using every part of the Palate, May 2022

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

So, is the UK now a high-immigration, pro-immigration country, with attitudes trending inevitably more positive? Well, for that we must revisit the chart that began this thread: Immigration has kept rising but concerns have evaporated. What *else* could explain the divergence?

If you think that graph is surprising, you might be even more surprised to know what secondary measure *does* correlate with public sentiment: Tabloid coverage, and it continued to track after Brexit.

Jason Fagone @jfagone

This country is so dysfunctional that other countries will look at our massacres and pass new gun laws out of horror, but we will not.

Wow, Canada is #7 in gun ownership per capita in the world, and countries 2 through 6 are much smaller and much poorer.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Straightforward from here: 1. America invades and annexes a now-disarmed Canada 2. Incorporation of new provinces as states rectifies senate imbalance https://t.co/2X5boP8rBo

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @RepMTG

2. Trudeau foolishly completely ignores how taking guns away from his people makes his country weak and vulnerable to being invaded and easily taken over by another stronger country. Like, perhaps Russia, who is very angry at America right now.

I'm sure there's a flaw in this plan somewhere...

Micah Rosenbloom @micahjay1

Feels like NYC is increasingly a beneficiary of the remote revolution. Our newly graduated NYU MBA associated shared that she speculated 90%+ of her class is staying in NYC. Unusually high.

It's wild how WFH has helped clarify why cities can be great, many people really want to live near other people.

aquaculture warrior @bikepedantic

Oh btw: Because automated traffic enforcement is proven to improve safety, it is now eligible for Federal HSIP funding for data-driven safety countermeasures, at as little as a 10% local match. Sorry, Ms. Goldfield. safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/rulemakin…

Depressingly, California cities are ineligible, as automated enforcement is illegal here.