Roby Greenwald

It’s like giving out 19 MoH for participating in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

The U.S. nuking itself seems plausible though.

I agree, but I should mention that the opposition here isn’t an organic movement that accurately reflects community sentiment. It was a successful vote-turnout operation that overwhelmed the unorganized people in support.

Exactly! The property owner isn’t some shady grifter; it’s a church that’s been a pillar of the community since before most people in the neighborhood were born.

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Kinda funny that I wasn't aware of this proposal when I wrote this How I'd Fix Atlanta piece, but it hits on every single point.

This now goes to city Zoning Review Board. I hope they consider the fact that the city's future growth and prosperity depends on there being more housing in walkable places that doesn't exacerbate auto-dependency.

The most vocal opposition hits all the usual talking points: it's out of character for the neighborhood, it's too much density, where's everyone gonna park? I live 3 blocks away, and I assure you the answer to all those questions is <massive eye roll>.

It is in a walkable neighborhood with most necessities within a 5-10 minute stroll. Two MARTA stations are a 20 minute walk. Downtown Atlanta is a 25 minute bicycle ride. I know all these statements to be true because I frequently make all of these trips on foot, by bike, or on MARTA.

A site plan for 47 micro units on two parcels currently zoned single family.

Who wants affordable housing in a post-gentrification neighborhood? I do. Here's a proposal to build 47 units of supportive housing on land currently zoned single-family. This would increase the housing supply by a factor of 6 compared to the current zoning. The neighborhood voted 2 to 1 AGAINST it.

A mockingbird chasing away a hawk.

Mockingbirds chasing the hawks off. I love it.

So the transportation plan for future Atlanta is everyone drive everywhere all the time. That'll work great. 10/10. No notes.

Interesting that the actor who played Jaime Lannister is Danish and his wife is Greenlandic.

Where is our Jaime Lannister?

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Hell yeah!

It’s either incompetence or negligence, pick one. Or pick both I guess.

A mockingbird chasing a hawk

I’m afraid we’re still a long ways from the bottom.

Deaths per 100M miles is not a useful public health metric; deaths per 100K population is. A system with low deaths per mile but still forces everyone to have huge numbers of miles is still less safe than one that doesn’t force everyone into cars. You can see that in the death per 100K data.

Very Gen X of me to assume others would immediately recognize lyrics from a Nirvana deep-cut track.

“It’s ok to eat fish cause they don’t have any feelings.”

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A GMC Hummer EV that weighs 9063 ln Bs according to the manufacturer.

This vehicle weighs 9063 lbs.

A sign indicating that vehicles over 6000 lbs are not allowed.

A common sign on residential streets in the U.S.

Posting this for no other reason than to get some Looney Tunes media floating around Bluesky.

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Sad that even many of the regional cities are in an affordability crisis now too. I recently wrote about this for Atlanta:

Because there are many southerners (myself included) who want to be near their families and where their roots are but also in a big city where the jobs are and the horizons are broader. True in other regions too. Maybe that’s the point Will was trying to make?

I’m so old-school, I’m like, just write it down so I can read it quietly twice as fast as you can talk.

Accomplishing IRL change is less about good design and more about dealing with the political ramifications of loss aversion.