Favorite Rejects 2021-07-30

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I once asked an Amtrak executive about something and his reply was "to be honest, I don't know that much about trains."

YimbyAlexandria @YimbyA

@mattyglesias Those countries use the same international engineering firms, consulting firms, etc as we do, right? Do we really think pros here don't know what to do and the problems are not more deeply institutional, political, and cultural?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

So, yes, I think there is a fairly deep culture of ignorance about passenger railroad operations and best practices at work at Amtrak. For example when the inspector-general asked Amtrak to explain their boarding rules they simply couldn't offer one.

vox.comDespite congressional pressure, Amtrak can’t get its story straight on train-boarding rulesWhy you can’t go directly to the platform, not explained.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

American rightists attack American athletes. Chinese rightists attack Japanese athletes.

CNN @CNN

Some of Japan's victorious Olympic athletes have been subjected to a storm of online abuse from Chinese nationalists following the defeat of their Team China opponents in Tokyo. https://t.co/dgsXwUNEmI

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

9/10 base rate fallacies are committed by right-handed people.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

Vaccinated people made up three-quarters of those infected in a massive Massachusetts covid-19 outbreak, pivotal CDC study finds https://t.co/nQbAIctsos

Neoliberal 🌐 @ne0liberal

Fox News out here doing better than the New York Times and WaPo today on this issue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

just seen on Fox News https://t.co/H535sC76wk