Tweets for the Week of 2019-12-01 to 2019-12-07

RT @awalkerinLA: In honor of #COP25Madrid, here are nine major highway-widening projects with costs totaling $26 billion proposed for U.S.… 17:44:39, 2019-12-07
@dmtrubman That does generally seem to be the trend. in reply to dmtrubman 13:50:10, 2019-12-07
And speaking of fluid boundaries — it's also interesting to (over)hear the way people talk about where the narcos… https://t.co/L4rwluioiO in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:07:25, 2019-12-07
My co-working space here turns into a bar / experimental music venue in the evening and a whole different crowd of… https://t.co/NJKrv5bhPG 11:45:00, 2019-12-07
"Don't worry: after the climate apocalypse, all the parking will be free." https://t.co/0EZfPgEXfn 11:36:59, 2019-12-07
Some time series of various metrics of economic inequality in the US here: https://t.co/t5lWDjkv8a in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:35:49, 2019-12-07
Though, the US Gini index was ~37 in 1976, and it's risen pretty steadily since then (to ~43) while in Mexico it lo… https://t.co/4ymxgp4Bzs in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:17:47, 2019-12-07
Yesterday I overheard someone (a local) calling Oaxaca "The San Francisco of Mexico". Artists, leftists, etc. They… https://t.co/5jYA12VVpt 09:57:28, 2019-12-07
@ericmbudd Hmm. Hot potato. in reply to ericmbudd 15:25:43, 2019-12-06
@ericmbudd Like a year ago? Or maybe 2? in reply to ericmbudd 15:23:02, 2019-12-06
@ericmbudd Wait, I thought y'all just got a new RTD director? in reply to ericmbudd 15:21:16, 2019-12-06
After years of skimping, I feel *so lucky* to finally have decent health insurance. It costs $180/mo with a $5,000… https://t.co/tg7TsUxS2P in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:20:29, 2019-12-06
My god healthcare in the US is a nightmare. That the country somehow keeps choosing to endure! https://t.co/4N2RzXRYD1 12:19:22, 2019-12-06
And then look at the elevations of Mumbai. Ho Chi Minh City. Bangkok. https://t.co/JssjSvxuZc in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:24:01, 2019-12-05
Expectations that will not survive.
“What’s government for? They’re supposed to protect your property,”

"The law… https://t.co/6iB3wYuGA3 23:15:53, 2019-12-05
@CostaSamaras A very, very, very long zombie movie. in reply to CostaSamaras 23:11:52, 2019-12-05
@MarkyV @ericmbudd Apparently the law enabling this moratorium passed in 2018, and the (current) moratorium on drop… https://t.co/Kf7x3H4YVi in reply to MarkyV 21:53:51, 2019-12-05
@Terence_Hughes It totally makes sense when the past is the best guide you have to estimating future risk exposure,… https://t.co/awnbFRrh85 in reply to Terence_Hughes 21:52:14, 2019-12-05
@AaronBrockett12 Vale, hubo cinco tipos de tamales. ¡No tuve ningun opción! Mole amarillo, frijol, chile verde, ros… https://t.co/vexI5GRSiC in reply to AaronBrockett12 21:50:04, 2019-12-05
This methodology is now utterly incompatible with the world we have made for ourselves:
"[California] forbids insu… https://t.co/WF2BUXFAgg 20:12:51, 2019-12-05
Quizás cinco tamales eran demasiados tamales. 19:36:16, 2019-12-05
As with "free" parking, socializing the costs doesn't make them go away. And if it's done poorly socializing them c… https://t.co/lRTCmyQD2v in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:51:18, 2019-12-05
More gory details on this dynamic from the Insurance Information Institute, from 2016 (PDF): https://t.co/qPsb4LJm64 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:37:11, 2019-12-05
@nils_gilman It's the American Way! in reply to nils_gilman 14:35:15, 2019-12-05
@lw208xx It looks like they updated it for 2016: https://t.co/qPsb4LJm64 in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:34:56, 2019-12-05
@lw208xx Here's the Insurance Information Institute paper I linked to that looked at Florida and other similar "res… https://t.co/FSM3gr14gA in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:34:28, 2019-12-05
@lw208xx I wrote this post about it a while ago, with a bunch of links to resources. Some of them have gone dead th… https://t.co/vZEymlYrUW in reply to lw208xx 14:33:20, 2019-12-05
IIRC Florida did something similar with hurricane insurance, blocking rate hikes. Insurers stopped selling polices… https://t.co/DAHBQy1EZ3 14:11:53, 2019-12-05
@TheCharlier Now with *extra* carbon. in reply to TheCharlier 14:04:17, 2019-12-05
RT @michaelharriot: Thread: 50 years ago, on Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago cops killed 21-year-old Black Panther, Fred Hampton
Hampton's death was… 20:53:41, 2019-12-04
It would be neat if the Dems would get into winning, and unilaterally implementing policies that are not completely… https://t.co/XvxnQlvy4D 17:31:52, 2019-12-04
@bradplumer For whatever reason, I believe we are morally obliged to curate and act as stewards of the biosphere. I… https://t.co/6cT70KWLmr in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:45:10, 2019-12-04
@bradplumer The (very) long term persistence of the terrestrial biosphere — on Earth or elsewhere — likely depend… https://t.co/MHuKXg5FJc in reply to bradplumer 13:43:54, 2019-12-04
Shared meals in shared space are a huge part of what makes housing co-ops and co-housing communities feel communal.… https://t.co/10LW3hUTik 19:28:09, 2019-12-03
@erinoverturf @joshdr83 At first I thought this might be your autobiography. in reply to erinoverturf 19:14:50, 2019-12-03
@veltman Do you have any sense of how much of the disparity in the paths is due to the same range of years showing… https://t.co/ASJfWlolnJ in reply to veltman 23:17:49, 2019-12-02
@leahstokes I super love this plot (and parametric plots generally!) but I think it might be a *little* bit mislead… https://t.co/HKvX2g5hZx in reply to leahstokes 23:11:41, 2019-12-02
@StdBikeRepair I can work from anywhere. So I decided to. in reply to StdBikeRepair 23:00:59, 2019-12-02
@StdBikeRepair ¡Oaxaca de Juárez, México! in reply to StdBikeRepair 22:56:21, 2019-12-02
Deleting Facebook and then trying to get settled in a new city makes it obvious how much of a stranglehold they have on the internet. 22:18:11, 2019-12-02
I am so happy we have @jbouie on team shoupista. https://t.co/ZnzDr48mCb 21:08:59, 2019-12-02
So the (multiple!) billionaire vanity campaigns are outspending everyone else combined by like 10 to 1? Just in ord… https://t.co/03jl7kjAdT 20:59:25, 2019-12-02
@ericmbudd It would be helpful to see a full lifecycle though — this is showing different parts of the lives of th… https://t.co/TJ94D4f1hW in reply to ericmbudd 15:55:27, 2019-12-02
@MarkyV @ericmbudd Isn't the silent generation just shrinking in population fraction, and proportionately shrinking… https://t.co/mPfDQ7nAqf in reply to MarkyV 15:50:51, 2019-12-02
A cool collaboration and revenue sharing arrangement between a non-profit journalism org and software developers cr… https://t.co/OAArrmMDaX 15:42:58, 2019-12-02
Cities built for cars are sad, and so are cities built for humans and filled with cars. But they feel different. In… https://t.co/tB4qnmfX3r 12:17:43, 2019-12-02
@radioambulante @LupaApp And I guess I'm just generally suspicious of most apps and their business models — so kno… https://t.co/uFxHz6frRT in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:21:51, 2019-12-02
@radioambulante @LupaApp No sé como los demás pensarían sobre este, pero a mi me pareció que talvez el app fue hecho por Jiveworld. in reply to radioambulante 09:20:40, 2019-12-02
@radioambulante @LupaApp Just out of curiosity, does paying for the app help support Radio Ambulante? I would be mo… https://t.co/FYNoaK8wUU in reply to radioambulante 16:08:45, 2019-12-01
RT @radioambulante: #SpanishLearners: Do you use Radio Ambulante to improve your Spanish? We’ve developed an app just for you. @LupaApp tra… 16:06:47, 2019-12-01

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