YimbyAndy

so how do we save our farm land and stop all these dumb data centers?

If you’ve gotta write offers and do quarterly review, might as well do it from here.

Democrats want cleaner, more reliable, and cheaper energy. But to deliver renewables and transmission, we need permitting reform to modernize our ancient environmental laws to strip out needless process impediments. Renewable developers tell us that speed and certainty are more important to them than subsidies. And 90% of gigawatts waiting to be approved and connected are non-emitting. We should get out of our own way. Too many Democrats see permit reform as a negotiating *give* rather than a *get.* That’s backwards. It’s impossible to meet our energy goals without fixing the law.

HOCHUL ENACTS NATION’S FIRST STATEWIDE DATA CENTER MORATORIUM

being a cyclist kinda sucks politically because your options are always Candidate A: loves bike infrastructure, but refuses to jail bike thieves Candidate B: wants to send bike thieves to the gulag, but hates cyclists anyway my bike was stolen last week, RIP

“The US has an estimated 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sun, generating nothing, absorbing heat, and contributing to the urban heat island effect in every city they're in. A 2023 analysis estimated that covering existing US parking infrastructure with solar canopies could generate enough electricity to power roughly half the country.”

Ana Kasparian believes that if your country is small, the World Cup lets you team up with another country for games, which is why they US played Bosnia and Herzegovina together. These influencers are incredible.

WA state now leads GDP growth nationally, with GDP growth of 4.5% compared to 2.1% nationally. Combined with national and international fawning praise from the World Cup, Seattle/WA Doomers are having their worst week ever.

a 20% IZ mandate is a tax on new apartments, and a tax on new apartments is paid by renters the way a tax on bread is paid by people who eat. the developer was never going to pay it. developers don’t pay taxes, tenants do. capital teaches this on day one and we refuse to learn it

Abdul: "we need to freeze property taxes on seniors"