Elon Musk Libertarian Party of Minnesota

Germany can't reverse shutdown of nuclear power plants because of a complex regulatory process. That's like an airline captain refusing to make an emergency landing at an airport because of night time noise regulations.

Shame on you, @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz.

Cc @Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz

The Aztec Pantheon is incredibly rich and complex. It was really great to work with these beautiful illustrations in this project with The Pudding!

A lot of people are mad at Macron but he did keep his promise to introduce proportional representation tonight.

A huge turnaround after thousands of years of decline. Many mammal populations increased strongly in Europe recently. → ourworldindata.org/europe-mammal-…

WTF happened in 1971 (or basically the 70s)? We made it hard to build homes in cities, so that costs from arbitrary scarcity became the driving force of our economy. I argued this in Shut Out, but I think I underestimated the importance of it.

My take on rent control is simple: The Best rent control is landlords desperately trying to fill their vacant units because we have abundant housing and they have to compete on price or amenities or both. Build housing.

The toughest & most important public transit conversation most cities need to have is about RIDERSHIP VS COVERAGE. My friend Jarrett Walker explains this well. Too many cities are using insufficient transit funding to spread poor service transit everywhere. humantransit.org/2018/02/basics…

More and more countries achieve to decouple economic growth from CO₂ emissions. Just made this new chart that shows the evidence for 25 countries. Growth is up, emissions down.

Important subtext of yesterday's 🇫🇷🇩🇪 statement by Lindner & Le-Maire: DE now officially accepts the Commission's communication for the reform of the fiscal rules as basis for negotiations. Given the mood in Berlin, this was all but clear. So, good news for reform prospects.

The 2nd Edition of my book Human Transit is planned for late '23. Do you have ideas for what should be in it? See here to share them: humantransit.org/2022/12/welcom…

If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local. The chart shows why: transport tends to account for only a small share of greenhouse gas emissions — the differences between different food choices are much larger.

New paper from UC Berkeley scholar Kate Pennington finds that new housing made rents within 100m fall by 2% and displacement risk fall by 17%

...Lagarde literally told us she is committed to cool down inflation. And that she will send Europe through a serious recession because of that. This kind of non-nuanced stance in Europe has last been seen with Draghi, but obviously... 13/

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I'm not really active here anymore. Find me on mastodon as @[email protected] Also a good idea to put your mastodon handle in your name or your profile so automated tools like movetodon.org can easily find you. See you on the other side!