Tl, dr: City of Mountain View charges developers $360k/unit for the privilege of building townhomes.

Our country’s infrastructure is just so behind, man.

Incredible One of the reasons California has failed to conduct adequate wildfire mitigation is b/c of NEPA-weaponizing lawfare from misguided environmental extremists who don't understand forest management 37% of lawsuits are from a single nonprofit ... which is just one woman

The tl;dr of this report is not that these administration officials are upset about ICE having murdered Renee Good (one still says, on background, that she was a "domestic terrorist"); it's that even these goons realize Noem's lies about the murder were so poorly crafted that

Imagine meeting someone who’s child is going blind and telling them they’re not allowed to grow the rice what will restore their child’s vision. Greenpeace is the belief system you have when driving your SUV to the supermarket to buy out-of-season produce for more money than a

There is a ragtag group of public-spirited tinkerers dropping benches into the urban fabric of the bay area where they make sense. They've now built and installed hundreds of benches without any permission. You can just do things! sfbabc.org

Great post on Waymos from Kelsey Piper today. I've been kind of overwhelmed by how bad the state of tech journalism is right now. There's a lot of this weird learned helplessness where authors at major publications don't bother to check incredibly simple numbers

75% of the budget for fire mitigation in Mt. Diablo State Park has gone to compliance costs, not actual mitigation

Most California thing ever: spending 3/4 of your fire prevention budget complying with regulations to ensure you are not damaging endangered plants etc only for them all to be obliterated in the wildfire you failed to prevent

Turn every military base — nation wide — into a power plant with tens or even hundreds of SMR’s lashed right into the local grid. Bring the cost of power down to 5¢/KwH. Would be the greatest tax cut in history.

California is going to lose 4 members of Congress and Texas is going to gain 4 members of Congress because California blocks housing and Texas builds housing

How dumb do these politicians think we are? Of course Waymo has a human support center that’s used in rare cases. The safety data is clear at this point. If you’re against self-driving cars, you want to sacrifice 40,000 lives every year (in the U.S. alone) to protect unions.

The Constitution isn’t optional. The point of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement is to hassle the government. It’s supposed to be difficult to search or arrest people. That’s not a bug; that’s a feature of our American republic.

Wow, this is incredible data. I'm all for programs like clipper start which give access to transportation for less for people who need it, but fare-free is clearly not the way to go.

In California if you want to murder an entire family just use a car, you don’t even get jail time.

Just to be clear here, NASA declared its recent test a "successful wet dress rehearsal" despite missing its T-30s target by almost five minutes, botching the dreaded Orion hatch close out procedure, and managing to achieve up to 16% H2 due to copious leakage at the fueling

The path of least resistance wrt SF's teacher strike was always gonna be agreeing to unsustainable terms by tapping funds that will run dry within a few years Just about everything the city of San Francisco does reflects a "that sounds like a problem for the next guy" ethos

France just went from “shut down 14 reactors” to “keep them all and build 6 more.” A 20-reactor swing in policy. The math behind this reversal tells you everything. France gets 67% of its electricity from nuclear. Its CO2 intensity is 56g/kWh. Germany, which shut down its last

Just one more meeting ought to make it right says the NIMBY. JFC

awesome video of Alysa Liu celebrating the reopening of a light rail line in SF champions take public transit