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David Kissling@xtdave.bsky.social |
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Profit Greenly
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Yesterday's BNEF report on LFP batteries costing just $59/kWh got me thinking about pumped hydro. I remember an NYT story years ago about a pumped hydro project in the Grand canyon that tribes opposed. The details I noted were that it was going to take over a decade to build and cost over $100/kWh.
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David Kissling
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hey look more centrist elites thinking they get to pick a President without caring about what any voters want
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David Kissling
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We only get out of this through building lots of high quality, aspirational multi-family homes. The fight is about cultural desires and preferences as much as it's around density limits and building code. This piece from yesterday shows us how we need regulation to work in service of that outcome
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David Kissling
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Can't stop thinking about this. LA really is where the failure of our suburban housing system is evident. There's no widespread conservation of land preventing more homes from being built, we've literally built houses everywhere that the mountains would allow. And it's not enough...
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David Kissling
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I will harp on the housing crisis over and over again, but if Biden loses it's going to be because he got caught holding the bag when our national commitment to low density housing failed to work for an entire generation
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David Kissling
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Now that they rebuilt La Guardia and Newark Terminal A, I cannot even think of the answer I'd give to the worst airport
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David Kissling
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yes but i also think we shouldn't assume this sentiment solely belongs to gentrifying children of the suburbs! our cities are full of a lot of people who want suburban "drive everywhere for free" lifestyles for themselves
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David Kissling
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So great that our papers of record have been writing puff pieces on random right wing activists
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David Kissling
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can't imagine why the Saudis and Wall Street jumped at the chance to finance this!
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David Kissling
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"I should be able to park my car for free wherever i want with no consequences" is how the suburbs are structured, and there's a lot of urban leftists who think the cities they live in should be suburbs but leftish
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David Kissling
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"the only thing government can do for me is pay my bills" leftism
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David Kissling
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So negatively polarized against the online libs they’re becoming pro-Trump
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Rachel Burdin
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This chapter of The Power Broker is describing a neighborhood in the Bronx full of working class leftist Jews who are embracing integration as Black and Latino residents are moving in! I'm sure nothing bad will happen to them! Let me pull up Google Maps and see where the Cross Bronx Expressway is!
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David Kissling
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Caltrain is definitely constant-tension catenary
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David Weiskopf
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California will fail to reach its legally-required GHG reduction targets unless we reduce traffic by about a third. Fortunately, that is very, very possible to do: we just have to make our government actually want to do it.
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Yonah Freemark
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Something big has happened over the past few decades in Paris & its suburbs: Car use has declined dramatically.
Some key explanations:
—Large reductions in car-centric street space
—Vast investments in noncar transport modes
I investigate @urbaninstitute.bsky.social www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...
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David Kissling
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yes it's that rising incomes weren't enough to overcome a housing crisis, higher good costs and all the trauma from 2020
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Ned Resnikoff
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Great piece about elevator codes as a microcosm for why the United States has such high construction costs when it comes to multifamily housing www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...
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David Kissling
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Biden should drop the Fed independence charade and make some public comments pointing out that inflation is back to normal and American families need more affordable mortgages now. The next FOMC meeting on Sept 17-18 is too late for the cuts to happen
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David Kissling
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They'll get a lot of mileage explaining how Trump will make life worse for Americans, but the DNC is where the second term agenda can be presented to a watching audience. And if the Fed can deliver a much needed rate interest rate cut this summer it will really improve how people view this economy
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David Kissling
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There's only 2 things that matter for Biden for the next 2 months: 1. DNC 2. Federal Reserve FOMC meetings on July 30-31
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David Kissling
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It's a very bad idea to start a Presidential campaign with a debate, and it's an even worse idea to do that if you're going to have an awful performance to start the debate. But it's very clear that Biden is doing the work to get reelected now and I do expect things will start looking up for him
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David Kissling
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i guess, but to me the 2017/2019 elections there were way more about "do you want Jeremy Corbyn to be PM" rather than "should we still do Brexit". Corbyn himself was never really pro-Remain
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David Kissling
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I actually believe that Brexit and Trump 2016 wouldn't have happened if this was the case
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man it's a hot zone,
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just going to start reposting "abolish ice" about this until i can get a good job gambling
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Justin Mikulka
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This will be an interesting day to reflect on in the future. "Battery cells at $50/kWh means the technology to decarbonize most of road transport globally is already here, as opposed to in some future scenario." EVs are cheaper than ICE now. Today.
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David Kissling
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Like he wanted for the rest of us, may Inhofe spend eternity in a place that constantly gets hotter and hotter
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David Kissling
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They're going to love melting away in that AAA ballpark. Triple digits for night games
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David Kissling
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Many? Biden will put up Assad like numbers against Trump with the Times readership and Sulzberger hates it
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David Kissling
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Harris is the only option as a Biden replacement at this time, but nowhere near a lock against Trump and has not even been subject to actual negative campaigning from the right. This election is going to be close, we have accept it
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David Kissling
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to his detriment, I believe Biden has viewed his job until 1.5 weeks ago as being President, with unpopular "tough decisions" rather than campaigning for President. I still have faith that the convention will feature a bold agenda for the second term and the polling looks better in 2 months
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David Kissling
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you think anyone's opinion matters besides elite donors and newspaper publishers?
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David Kissling
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i actually heard someone say it at a 4th of july party and it made me want to tear my hair out
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David Kissling
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there's not going to be a resistance if Trump gets elected again. they'll find an opportunity to shoot protesters early on and nobody will decide it's worth risking death to do it anymore. the media orgs already are on board. real American dark ages stuff here, no idea how long it lasts
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David Kissling
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Sure looks like a party that's going to do a lot for people who aren't Christians
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David Kissling
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the polls for the election tomorrow or the one 4 months from now after all the campaigning will happen?
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David Kissling
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If we want to constitutionally amend the role of the Presidency so we can just nominate celebrities (or a certain former first lady) to the role of Head of State, then let's do that. Otherwise we have to be realistic with what we're demanding
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David Kissling
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We're not going to defeat rising fascism in this country if the electing a Democrat to the combined Head of State/Head of Government President role requires S-tier charismatic politicians (like Obama and Bill Clinton)
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David Kissling
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We're letting entire media cycles be driven by an effort to run a last-second elite-only primary campaign against an incumbent President who had a bad debate, is just starting to campaign for reelection, and is clearly still in a close race.
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Ned Resnikoff
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"The growth of these little private governments has helped entrench segregation along racial and class lines, fueled the atomization of American public life, and worsened the material quality of life for millions of Americans." www.businessinsider.com/abolish-hoas...
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David Kissling
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Also this tech requires actual material inputs, which are getting cheaper but will never scale like software
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David Kissling
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This really comes down to the revolution happening outside of a lot of consumer tech (excluding EVs), and there's replies here lamenting the inability of IRA funds to actually make consumer cleantech accessible
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Cooper Lund
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Regular people are going to remember how Trump emboldened the worst people in their families and communities by the time the election rolls around and it's going to be bad for Trump. Four years is just long enough for them to forget, but they'll remember quickly. I've been saying this for years.
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David Kissling
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Media found something hit Biden on (he’s old), they don’t have to keep pretending the economy is shit
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper
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Ian Boudreau
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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society
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David Kissling
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Noted DEI President Lyndon Johnson
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David Kissling
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My greatest fear is that having this be the motivation of the centrist elite rather than preventing a fascist takeover does not bode well for us
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David Kissling
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IMO this is probably the best way to view the New York Times in the Biden era
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Huichilobos
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UNCAP THE HOUSE
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