This is hysterical

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Does anyone know of any cases in which fire departments intervened in the design of a subdivision to insist on a more efficient road layout (that is: network topology, not street width)? This has always seemed a strange blind spot, given how much disconnected streets inflate emergency response times

If any followers have contacts at Arnold Ventures, please DM

@alonlevy.bsky.social could I get a link to your Discord?

Occasional reminder never to trust the Google AI summaries (left is the summary from a search about fire deaths, right is a graph from the first cited source)

I don't have much clever to add about the election, except to say that I think the mismanagement of blue cities and states is a big problem for national Democrats. It's a problem even the faintest association with California and/or San Francisco was accepted by many as a self-contained critique.

... did someone slip LSD into my coffee this morning?

This is not good but comparing controls on the on-the-job speech of government employees (or quasi-employees in the case of universities that get money from federal grants) with state-directed social media censorship of private citizens is a category error IMO

Interesting detail from the first plan of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (California agency set up to manage SF Bay in 1964), encouraging higher-density housing along already built-up portions of the bay shore. Quite a change from the Coastal Commission's more recent policies!

Are we ever going to find out what dealings Adams had with the government of Uzbekistan? Not sure if it would be usual to save that for a follow-up indictment

TIL there’s a Washington state environmental law from 1971 that explicitly discourages multi-unit development on state shorelines.