Favorite Rejects 2021-08-06

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

And I have no beef with Hungarian people; many Hungarians have done extraordinary things and made incredible contributions to humanity — typically by moving to the United States. slowboring.com/p/hungarian-na…

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

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amp.cnn.comChina doubles down on baseless ‘US origins’ Covid conspiracy as Delta outbreak worsensAs Beijing grapples with a worsening outbreak of the Delta variant, an outlandish conspiracy theory linking the origin of the coronavirus to the United States military has gained renewed traction in China.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I know people are tired of “Hungary Discourse” but there are these huge brigades of rightists who love ethnic homogeneity so much that they are really insisting Hungarian living standards are higher — bragging about how they don’t have medicine and so forth https://t.co/ut39i9l32g

Διάδοχοι @A_bridge2_far

@mattyglesias "Hungary is a worse place to live than the United States of America" Alexa, please bring up the chart showing use of SSRIs in America and Hungary.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This really shows the weakness of pure gap-ism as a mode of analysis — the burden of pedestrian deaths falls very heavily on Black neighborhoods and so do the benefits of enforcing safe driving.

Markus Batchelor @MarkusforDC

“62 percent of all the fines from automated systems and D.C. police — $467 million — were issued in neighborhoods where Black residents make up at least 70 percent of the population and where the average median household income is below $50,000.” https://t.co/H0pn28sKoB

Cosmic Perspective @considercosmos

Cheers rang out at Starbase! The first fully stacked starship is on the orbital pad. Congratulations @SpaceX teams!! 👏 We are all celebrating with you! #starship #starbase #scifi

Scott Manley @DJSnM

For comparison when the first full Saturn V was stacked and rolled out to the pad for checks in May 1966, it was still missing engines and never intended to fly.

Cosmic Perspective @considercosmos

Cheers rang out at Starbase! The first fully stacked starship is on the orbital pad. Congratulations @SpaceX teams!! 👏 We are all celebrating with you! #starship #starbase #scifi https://t.co/IPj167UZQD

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum

GOP Congressman, Ralph Norman of SC who’s suing Speaker Pelosi over his $500 fine for not wearing a mask has tested positive for COVID.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Again, lest you think I'm joking this is seriously what the most influential conservative thinker in America is saying — that he'd rather live in Hungry. I say go for it and leave America to those of us who appreciate it.

Jake M. Grumbach @JakeMGrumbach

This is a main democratic deficit in the US. Americans vote for mayors and governors, who have constitutional authority over police forces. But police departments just do whatever they want. They're more like Latin American drug cartels than other US bureaucracies like teachers.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Like a lot of government jobs, FDA gig seems like it involves a lot of hard work over and above constantly taking shit from everyone and it's not particularly well-compensated. It's a bad way to run the country and I'm always surprised you don't see this problem more often.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Conservatives naturally tend to think in terms of top-down hierarchies, so they have difficulty understanding that professors don't indoctrinate students; students indoctrinate each other.

Wesley Chu @wes_chu

This is a really good take. https://t.co/97o7BoSWvp

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Anyway, everyone who thinks professors indoctrinate students should try working as a professor for a semester and trying to indoctrinate their class with even the simplest of basic facts. 😂