Getting the sharp end of the market will do that to a person

Things are good investment vehicles when their underlying price is expected to increase. When housing supply increases more slowly than household formation, prices go up. Ending the shortage ends the speculation.

Right, but an increase in efficiency isn't a massive payout. It's a marginal improvement on a baseline realized over decades.

That isn't going to generate much investment.

We got really lucky that low-carbon energy production is just a more efficient way of making electricity (only need to mine inputs once).

Otherwise, we would be mega-boned without a tax on carbon emission.

Again, not really. Unless there's a market for carbon mitigation, all the benefits flow to the public instead of investors.

People definitely made the softer case that railroads weren't a good use of capital vs continuing manual or river transport and they had a point.

The US has a lot of room for catch-up growth from low-productivity regions. An Arkansas with a better electrical grid would be able to see pretty significant growth.

This is a morally and legally correct outcome, but it is politically bad.

Children cheering and scrambling when my earbuds case hits the ground and the buds fly everywhere like someone busted a piñata.

The American empire may be collapsing but that doesn’t mean your sales goals have to. Make sure to hit those growth KPIs. #GrowthMindset

An image of early Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli followed by an iMessage that reads, “Hi Jack, it’s Ulrich. I’m reaching out to real reformed Patriots. We’ve done a lot to remove corruption and preach the gospel clearly, But we can’t stop now. We need YOU to stand with us against superstition. Can I count on you to eat a sausage this Friday?”

Imagine a world where Obama-style libs regulated Facebook just a little bit before it was the critical mass for Trump 2016

I don't think it had to be this way. It was a jump ball and the sweatiest right wingers were able to get a first mover advantage working the refs on platforms.

Kashmiri stag

New political party animal mascot just dropped

Also, it's fine if the broader labor movement continues to stand with the teamsters. But the Democrats shouldn't until they see a change in behavior. Important not conflate Democrats and Labor as so many do.

Read Gary Rivlin's Fire on the Prairie. The parallels between Mamdani's election and Harold Washington are pretty stunning.

*Harold Washington panic

Yeah, it's pretty much the worst of all possible worlds here. I just use a low-traffic side street when I'm on a bike.

You are guaranteed to have a dickhead driving in the lane. Why not just make it official and give the lane back to car traffic?

@councilmemberjg.bsky.social Please, stop the bike lane from being a passing lane for the biggest jerks around.

Protected spring garden bike lane when??

True. Hybrids are also more likely to be replaced by EVs bc of their overlapping consumer bases (has money to spend, seeks efficiency rather than personal expression)

Yes, but the EV is displacing carbon no matter what. ICE cars max out at 30%ish efficiency. Better to burn the same gasoline in a power plant, eat transmission losses, and propel the vehicle that way. You'll get more MPGs.

Only seeing your doctor for 3 minutes a visit? That's what productivity-maxxing is.

They are quite productive, unfortunately. To the point of doctoring being a job that isn't very enjoyable for many anymore. The AMA and related professional orgs have always chosen the "more money" option when confronted with money/lifestyle trade-offs.

NY has among the most sophisticated fire fighting in the world. Given that there aren't privacy concerns like in a residential complex, people can monitor the hell of out of the battery packs and respond to fires quickly with appropriate tools. These are controllable risks.

Yes, obviously?

This is not how making demands works.

The Nazi tattoo story had time to permeate and now the polling is showing no viability.

God is American and he is doing his best to prevent us from experiencing any consequences from our actions.