Upzone the coastal elites
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Best fire risk map is FAIR plan concentration. Where insurers don’t want to write is where the risk is greatest.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Best fire risk map is FAIR plan concentration. Where insurers don’t want to write is where the risk is greatest.
The tolerances are not large....
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The tolerances are not large....
Theory versus practice as well.
Getting the different speed explosives properly shaped and triggered to get an actually spherical compression for example.
Getting the different speed explosives properly shaped and triggered to get an actually spherical compression for example.
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Theory versus practice as well.
Getting the different speed explosives properly shaped and triggered to get an actually spherical compression for example.
Getting the different speed explosives properly shaped and triggered to get an actually spherical compression for example.
owner-occupancy only applies if splitting the lot.
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
owner-occupancy only applies if splitting the lot.
Because speed limits vary by location. Should allow no higher than local speed limit.
November 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Because speed limits vary by location. Should allow no higher than local speed limit.
Gallup and Hatch both have chargers.
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Gallup and Hatch both have chargers.
Road trips are not the specialty of EVs, but they're also very doable. Many people don't mind a bit of a charging break in a long drive. Bladder limits for example.
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Road trips are not the specialty of EVs, but they're also very doable. Many people don't mind a bit of a charging break in a long drive. Bladder limits for example.
And because they're often protected from competition via single family zoning.
Also, yeah, architecturally they're often absurd. But frankly I don't think that's something we can regulate without even worse outcomes.
Also, yeah, architecturally they're often absurd. But frankly I don't think that's something we can regulate without even worse outcomes.
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
And because they're often protected from competition via single family zoning.
Also, yeah, architecturally they're often absurd. But frankly I don't think that's something we can regulate without even worse outcomes.
Also, yeah, architecturally they're often absurd. But frankly I don't think that's something we can regulate without even worse outcomes.
McMansions are disgusting because they often aren't subject to enough taxation to fund their infrastructure, not because large homes exist.
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
McMansions are disgusting because they often aren't subject to enough taxation to fund their infrastructure, not because large homes exist.
Throwing visitors under the bus for a likely insignificant change in supply isn't the way.
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Throwing visitors under the bus for a likely insignificant change in supply isn't the way.
They should tax empty bedrooms period. Including owner occupancy primary homes.
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
They should tax empty bedrooms period. Including owner occupancy primary homes.
Sb79 does not prevent cities from allowing things other than housing near transit.
Stop lying.
Stop lying.
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sb79 does not prevent cities from allowing things other than housing near transit.
Stop lying.
Stop lying.
Oh no! You.... might have more neighbors. The horror!
a man wearing a white sweater with the words `` oh no '' on it is standing in a room .
ALT: a man wearing a white sweater with the words `` oh no '' on it is standing in a room .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Oh no! You.... might have more neighbors. The horror!
The executive membership hours did not help me.
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The executive membership hours did not help me.
Nobody is saying free markets will solve housing, but we're so far from free markets that there's a lot of room for improvement from them.
Also, profits by builders are good, it is profits by landlords that are bad.
Also, profits by builders are good, it is profits by landlords that are bad.
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nobody is saying free markets will solve housing, but we're so far from free markets that there's a lot of room for improvement from them.
Also, profits by builders are good, it is profits by landlords that are bad.
Also, profits by builders are good, it is profits by landlords that are bad.
Congratulations on being probably technically correct, "most", while completely missing the point.
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Congratulations on being probably technically correct, "most", while completely missing the point.
The point that not literally everyone would move to CA and NY is so blindly obvious and irrelevant that I just don't care.
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The point that not literally everyone would move to CA and NY is so blindly obvious and irrelevant that I just don't care.