Great news everybody! My friend Ann (from the book) has officially become a licensed psychotherapist and wants to help out people from our community. All of this thread are my words and not hers.
Most data centers use the same amount of water—or less—than an average large office building. Meanwhile, they're helping lower electricity costs by financing new power generation. The hysteria over AI data centers is going to age very, very poorly.
Happy Psychopathy Awareness Month from a discord server friend, to their favorite historical psychopath — Olga of Kyiv!
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Data centers haven’t been raising residential bills.
The sharpest increases are found in states that have pursued the country’s most aggressive climate policies, not those with the most data centers.
California, with some of the nation’s fastest-rising electricity rates, has seen relatively modest data-center growth. Virginia, where data centers consume more than a fifth of the state’s electricity, has experienced price increases near the national average.
@Shawn_Regan in the City Journal Substack: https://t.co/454zAKubNC
Happy Psychopathy Awareness Month to my favorite fictional, low masking, unintentionally hilarious psychopath, Helena from Orphan Black!!!
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Texas' growth regime + high property taxes have done more for middle-class families than every progressive taxation system in California.
People want cheap rents as a share of income, and structurally cheaper services are downstream of structurally cheaper rents.
The rise and fall of wokeness: DEI commitments in corporate securities disclosures filed with the SEC. To me this seems a trailing indicator; most other measures of wokeness take off well before 2019 and peak in 2020 or 2021. But the shape! That's what a moral fashion looks like.
The first major federal housing package in 30 years is now law. It combines over 50 bills, and puts the federal government on the side of legalizing housing:
1. Cuts some federal funding from expensive places that don't allow housing and gives it to places that do. The first federal carrots and sticks tied to housing results!
2. Removes the requirement for a metal chassis from manufactured housing, saving ~$5-10K per home and making multifamily manufactured housing possible
3. Rewards zoning reform with grants to support schools, sewers, and other needs
4. Rewards cities that create preapproved building plans so builders can build without delay
5. Federal guidelines for single-stair buildings (!)
6. Federal guidelines for zoning reform
7. Exempts infill and other low-impact housing from environmental review
8. Makes it easier for HUD to get money out the door after disasters without months of rulemaking
9. Ends duplicate inspections for housing funded by multiple federal programs
10. Updates the HOME program to remove blockers for federally-funded affordable housing
11. Creates grants to repair old housing stock
12. Allows banks to invest in more affordable housing
13. Streamlines rehab of old public housing buildings and adding mixed-income homes
14. Encourages financing changes to enable modular housing that lowers construction costs
15. Requires databases of local publicly-owned land that could be used for housing
16. Preserves build-to-rent homebuilding
...plus 42 other sections, most a labor of love from a staffer and their boss trying to tackle the largest cost Americans face each month
Everyone: To celebrate Psychopathy Awareness Month I am doing an AMA on r/personalitydisorders this Sunday from 10-1. If the spirit moves you, can you participate and/or share to help get the word out about our month?
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