Favorites May 8th 2023

David Watson

May 9, 2023

Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie Electric cars are the new solar. People will continually underestimate how quickly they will take off. Sales shares today are already beating projections for 2030. And these are projections made only a year or two ago. My latest post: https://rb.gy/0jtrq — src

If you haven't seen the solar graphs, the difference between analyst estimates and reality has been equally ridiculous.

Aperiodic Tile @BarneyFlames Apparently Chinese Nationalist tiktokers have been making propaganda videos mocking India where the men wear brownface and women dress like this while parody bollywood music plays ? No one is sure what the propaganda value is, but Indian twitter is very thirsty over the girls — src

Chinese propaganda is extremely confusing to its target audience. Their Anti-US propaganda continues to perplex

See new Tweets Conversation Marian L Tupy @Marian_L_Tupy The U.S. welfare in perspective: "Quality improvements equate to a 35 to 44 % increase in housing consumption and suggest that a typical safety net recipient in 2021 experiences housing consumption equivalent to the average national household in 1985." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4424681 — src

It's somewhat heartening to know that increased housing costs have come with increased quality, but this is also a clear rebuttal to folks who oppose 'luxury housing'. Today's luxury housing becomes tomorrow's affordable housing.

Streetsblog USA @StreetsblogUSA In Quebec, engineers have installed a new light that stays red by default, but turns green when an attached speed camera detects an approaching motor vehicle that’s driving under the speed limit. @streetsblogmass explores. mass.streetsblog.org Steal This Idea: In Québec, A New Traffic Light Only Turns Green for Safe Drivers The light is red by default, but turns green when an attached speed camera detects an approaching motor vehicle that’s driving under the speed limit. — src

This is such an interesting idea! And then add a red light camera, maybe you can make automatic ticketing legal in CA with this?

Threads

• Derek Guy argues that great looking menswear isn't necessarily expensive, he also doesn't mock non-public figures.

• Thread describing how Russia's ballistic missile early warning system may not currently function correctly.