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@DanielleFong You’re in luck telotrucks.com @TELOtrucks

i am still like a cyber kei truck would be bitchin’

problem 1: the US doesn't have the shipbuilding capacity it needs to support a modern navy problem 2: the US is too dependent on fossil fuels and incapable of building civilian nuclear reactors point 3: the navy is allowed to build reactors on ships see where I'm going?

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Happy Saturday, folks! 10 days ago California Governor Gavin Newsom signed major new housing streamlining legislation, #SB423, & many other new housing laws. Today, statewide NIMBY group Livable California meets to discuss their legislative losses. Grab some 🍿, 🧵starts here!

“Homelessness” is the most serious problem and “too much construction” is the least Does that give anybody any ideas

The idea that any ethnic group has exclusive right to reside in a given plot of land is not a leftwing one. It's blood and soil nationalism. And in a contest between competing projects of ethnonationalist domination, the Palestinians cannot win. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

This will obviously stir up Twitter to no end but if you want people to experience and enjoy transit you need to make riders feel like they will safely get to their destination quickly instead of just letting people smoke on the train and excusing waves of antisocial behavior.

Elon Musk endorses Joe Biden for re-election fortune.com/2023/08/21/elo…

Urban Planning Opinion Progression xkcd.com/2832

at last i am free . Thank you Maria of X

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@Jim1967Roth @Positively18st @PegThink @NateSilver538 Inflation is measured by the CPI which does include fuel and food, as well as housing and just about all regular expenditures

@Positively18st @PegThink @NateSilver538 Inflation doesn't take into account Fuel & food. the two commodities that have increased the most.

The way American consumers are spending it's not clear they actually think the economy is bad as opposed to using that question to signal a social or political attitude or acquiesce to what they think they're supposed to say.

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If you'd like a fresh example of how zoning (a simple & fine idea) has become a micromanaging busybody that's accidentally tearing gashes in our civilization, here's one (thread)

This study found that traffic fatalities fell by 25%

Actual material living standards in “the good old days” were really low; you could easily support a family in these conditions on today’s wages — you’d just be poor. slowboring.com/p/nostalgia-ec…

From @RickKahlenberg's new book Excluded: "In Lawrence, Massachusetts, where the population is 75 percent Hispanic, over a three year period only one resident with a Hispanic surname spoke at a planning or zoning meeting." 'Community input' is not democracy.

I know there isn’t any recourse here but it feels like there should be some recourse here. This is beyond fucked up. Via u/albanska

this is the greatest time to be alive in the last 13.7 billion years

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics. (arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892) Here's the plain-english explanation: - The simulations modeled what the original Korean authors proposed was happening to their material - where copper atoms were percolating into a crystal structure and replacing lead atoms, causing the crystal to strain slightly and contract by 0.5%. This unique structure was proposed to allow this amazing property. - @sineatrix from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulated this using heavy-duty compute power from the Department of Energy, and looked to see what would happen to the 'electronic structure' of this material, meaning, what are the available conduction pathways in the material. - It turns out that there are conduction pathways for electrons that are in just the right conditions and places that would enable them to 'superconduct'. More specifically, they were close to the 'Fermi Surface' which is like the sea-level of electrical energy, as in '0 ft above sea-level.' It's believed currently that the more conduction pathways close to the Fermi surface, the higher the temperature you can superconduct at (An analogy might be how its easier for planes to fly close to the surface of the ocean due to the 'ground effect' that gives them more lift.) This plot in particular shows the 'bands', or electron pathways, crossing above and below the Fermi surface. - Lastly, these interesting conduction pathways only form when the copper atom percolates into the less likely location in the crystal lattice, or the 'higher energy' binding site. This means the material would be difficult to synthesize since only a small fraction of crystal gets its copper in just the right location. This is insanely bullish for humanity.