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Nathanael Aff@nateaff
Reminds me of these charts I came across recently. The lowest income quintile in the US spends ~30% of it's income on transportation compared to the EU where the lowest income quintile spends ~8%. Car dependency is an enormous cost for the poorest people in the US
Warren J. Wells 🚴🏙️ @WarrenJWells
You know that cars benefit the rich more than the poor, because if it were the reverse, we would have banned cars from cities decades ago.
4:23 AM · Sep 17, 2021
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This graph is just mind-boggling to me. I guess I can imagine how it happens, but i'm surprised it's so stark.
New Yorker Cartoons@nycartoons
Cartoon by Meredith Southard
“I’m going to leave you alone with this avocado, and you can either eat it right away and have an underripe avocado or wait a little while and have a completely rotten avocado.”
newyorker.com/cartoon/a25307
1:00 PM · Sep 15, 2021
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A play on the marshmallow experiment, a test of delayed gratification.
Randall Munroe@xkcd
Scientists are the best
(From doi.org/10.1038/ngeo18…)
12:48 PM · Sep 18, 2021
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Important to call out these caveats
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Petition to rename the YIMBY movement "The Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things"
Alec Stapp @AlecStapp
If only we had the technology to stack houses vertically, we could make high-demand areas so much more affordable to live in
6:15 PM · Sep 18, 2021
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David Roberts@drvolts
Imagine have this choice and opting to stick with coal.
6:57 PM · Sep 18, 2021
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I really hope China does the obvious thing here. (and stops building new coal plants)
“A play on the marshmallow experiment, a test of delayed gratification.”
The value of the marshmallow test has more recently been called into question: https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmallow-tests-predictive-powers/