Favorite Rejects 2021-08-30

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Watching James Medlock make fun of China for the timid incrementalism of its "war on poverty", and watching the tankies try to attack him and get beaten down, has been the highlight of my week on Twitter

James Medlock @jdcmedlock

Chinese policymakers are reassuring rich people that their push for greater equality will in large part be through voluntary charity encouraged with tax incentives, not government handouts https://t.co/KIxQ4dvMzu

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Worthwhile Canadian initiative wsj.com/articles/soari…

Monica Mallon 😷🚌 @monicamallon

So proud ❤️ Such a historic day ❤️ https://t.co/0UeeScTU9y

Caltrain @Caltrain

Don’t forget, New Schedule in effect today: Weekday: https://t.co/amKO309rtu https://t.co/fFVLQdIo7u

𝐮𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 @yhdistyminen

Dan Hon @hondanhon

Can’t remember where I read it, but apparently the reason the Enterprise D needs *three* computer cores with superluminal processors is because the entire LCARS interface runs on a platform-independent Javascript framework.

Jedi Cinememer @Cinememer

Spaceballs hiring. It's not working. 🚀

Vanessa @technologypoet

Hiring at Microsoft: We'll let you know in a day or two if you're getting an offer. Hiring at Google: In a month or two we may have passed through all the hiring committees, but timing depends on the high chancellor seeing their shadow when the eastern star rises over Jupiter.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The important thing is they hurt Biden’s approval rating and sent a message that defying the hawks is going to be politically painful even when the hawkish position is unpopular.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

The punditocracy appears to have gotten bored of Afghanistan once it became apparent that we were handling the evacuation competently and cooperating with the Taliban.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

No force on earth will possibly induce me to tone down dismissive sneering directed at BritHawks whining that the United States did not choose to wage perpetual war in Afghanistan. It is one of the most absurd & contemptible phenomena in world politics today. Fuck off. https://t.co/XjsjPai6NA

Ben 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐲 @BenjaminoKnobi

We were there in the first place because America asked for assistance, and then proceeded unilaterally withdrew without consulting its allies, creating mass confusion and scrambling in the process. So maybe tone down the dismissive sneering a bit there bud. https://t.co/xFFFPoqj0a

Ro Khanna @RoKhanna

I am leading 108 members of Congress with ⁦@katieporteroc⁩ to ask the FDA for a clear timeline for vaccinating America’s kids. Parents are frustrated and anxious. We need answers.

thehill.comFDA sees growing pressure to authorize vaccines for children under 12Pressure on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is shifting to vaccine authorization for child...