This is the last year my solar panels are worth anything. Rates are published for next year and they are completely worthless lol. €00.0025 kW payback. Not like they generate anything in the winter. Just gonna have to run the air conditioning all day next summer.

Why is this overtime? Why isn't this just... part of the job?

Netherlands I am inside you.

I am now officially in possession of the best bread on the entire continent of Europe. Bringing civilization to these savages.

The Netherlands remains ungovernable. Basically Dutch people want Muslims to be deported, cheap housing without construction or lowering of home prices, and cheap energy while not drilling in Groningen. Pretty boy got elected on slopopulism, can't deliver. eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/opiniepanel/...

Ooph...

My hot Dutch urbanist take of the day. Brooklyn is drastically short on highway capacity and significantly worse for it. Especially if it wants to have safe roads like NL.

Damn, JetBlue's mint lounge in JFK is actually very nice. But I am here during a low traffic period, not yet soiled by credit card holders.

The world's dumbest commute has its benefits. Jetlag bagels at the greatest bakery in the world.

Must be using American drivers for the training data.

Ahh back in Queens. ... Everyone is so short!

What a failure by Amtrak. But damn this is my first time in a A220. Great plane.

God Dunkin sucks. You just stare at it knowing the coffee tastes burnt but you need caffeine and can't even get that because it is just gonna burn you. Perfect match for Bostonians.

America I am inside you!

Nothing better than being able to say seltzer again. None of this yellow-bellied, spineless, European sparkling water malarkey. "Ahhhh I want my water to sparkle ahhhhh."

One of these is a shitbox airline that deserves to go bankrupt and wraps itself in blue branding. The other one is JetBlue.

Find yourself someone who has such an inflated title as a NYC Commercial Real Estate Agent.

After a few conversations with different buildings I am genuinely starting to believe local law 97 is going to be a net increase in GHG emissions. Seems that a lot of power intensive activities that would be in NYC are simply moving to new build, in high sprawl regions.

My unsolicited commentary about the ballroom. "Who cares?" I personally think the elected government should be able to build and modify it's facilities as needed as it sees fit for administrative needs. But by any metric it doesn't matter.

The Netherlands is grinding to a halt because of increased electrification (good), but not increasing grid distribution or reliable generation (NIMBY country). Peak energy consumption is 18:30 in the winter. Not a time of the year solar can fix. nos.nl/artikel/2611...

Had a few ponds behind my house filled with about a dozen ducklings. The next morning they are all gone. Cats suck.

I am once again calling on all Americans to lose their driving licenses. Everyone of you suck at driving. It needs to cost thousands of dollars to get the training to get a license. It needs to be easy to lose. It works.

The thing is this kind of development is suburban, it only works or has ever worked, on greenfield sprawl. Tearing down industrial estates in Holland or single family homes in Toronto to build rowhomes, even multi-unit... Is a stupid waste of a brownfield.

The Netherlands is basically entering a period of degrowth due to institutionalized and cultural BANANAism. Utrecht's regional grid is sold out and not accepting anymore connections.

It's weird that the Dutch tax system is designed to prevent the middle class from becoming rich, but also protects the rich from becoming middle class.

Bike front brake cables last 17 years. Sample size: 1

Said it before, saying it again. There are three inevitabilities in life, Death, Taxes, and the NYC mayor will be violently hated by the end of their administration.

Laughs in Dutch at $10.30 per gallon. You fools think we ride bikes because of culture and infrastructure?

Updated statistics about safety of Dutch cycling. 1. 81k cyclists needed the emergency room last year (not walk in like USA need referral). 2. 16k of which had brain injuries. 3. 23% increase over the past 10 years despite better infra. Basically every org you can imagine recommend helmets.

I once again find myself asking for quotes from local 3.

The mysteries of airline pricing.

The economy of the North Eastern Blue States and the West Coast blue states are larger than any European nation. They can institute the labor price controls and admin layoffs that would bring one of the versions of European healthcare and costs. They won't because those jobs are voting blocks.

The shortest way to become worth 10s of millions is to open a regulated building service company in NYC. This is the only financial advice you need.

I might just be a queens boy, butI can't be the only one thinking both layouts are idiotic? Just make one roundabout on the edge and unify the park. What am I missing? Besides the fact that all American drivers suck.

The problem with food in the Netherlands is not who is cooking the food, nor the ingredients, it is who they are making the food for. The despicably calvanist Dutch.

It is insane that I need to connect via an app to a (not yet stolen) bikes gear shifter to apply firmware update so it shifts. ESP32s are responsible for so much enshitification.

No point in learning Dutch, all you will ever talking about is the weather.

@stephenjacobsmith.com any idea or hint where I can find a list of NYC commercial buildings with high vacancy rates?

I feel bad for everyone who did not grow up with the opportunity to drag a 32" CRT TV and Xbox on a subway. To play 4x4 split screen halo at a friend's house. And experience the physical violence of winning or losing a video game. Your life will always be incomplete.

I should read American media more. Here all I see is EU paralysis and passivity in the face of Putin and Putin-backed extreme right parties. In American media I read about how the EU is pushing back against Trump and is acting autonomously.

Never bet on cross fitters cleaning up after themselves.

Interesting overview about how 7 unremarkable trees were used as the excuse to prevent a couple of hundred homes on a major train station for seven years. Typical Dutch NIMBYism. www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/21760...

When you find 1200 forgotten about amps at one of your Manhattan locations.

Lawyers are why American kids don't have cheap, sketchy, fun things.

Further evidence that American* transit** unions are in fact stronger than European transit unions. *Where they actually exist in America. **Honestly it is municipal and state civil servant unions in general.

6 month of actual use $7000 Bakfiets Review: I like it for leisure. Total pain in the ass for day-to-day. Really need to make a choice to not get in the car, which is much more convienent. And it 100% does not save me any time compared to walking for local trips. Fixed time on either end is high.

Ethno-states are universally stupid. Germans, mud Germans, and Europeans in general: "shame what happened to them, but kind of glad they don't live here anymore." Remember when Otto Frank came back to Amsterdam he was hit with a past due real estate tax bill.

Came downstairs to my wife calling my son a idiot and laughing. Tells me he took a swig of this. Gotta be honest, I thought about it also.

Predicting that within 10 years the only freedom of navigation protection the U.S. navy will provide is to U.S. flagged vessels.

Missing middle advocates are 2 NIMBYs in a trench coat.