Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
While the idea to battle China with an army of genetically selected supermen does have definite sci-fi appeal, we could also just...keep taking in immigrants 🥰
delian 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @zebulgar
My latest thinking
1 - China is the greatest threat to liberal democracies
2 - The best way to beat China is to simply make Better Americans
3 - IVF + Embryo genetic sequencing has gotten MUCH cheaper so...
4 - We are scoring embryos & selecting the best to turn into our kids https://t.co/UwXrQl2nW6
7:18 AM · Sep 24, 2021
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Alan Cole@AlanMCole
One part that's particularly fun in @binarybits' piece is clicking through for all the NIMBY tears that they have to allow new people into their neighborhoods.
Like these people who are 15 minutes from downtown LA but want to ban multifamily anyway. Too bad, NIMBYs! 😂
12:01 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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We have a cup for those tears
Ezra Klein@ezraklein
My son made me read him "The Giving Tree" this morning.
Rough way to start the day.
2:44 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Ezra Klein@ezraklein
That book is such a trap. You end it nearly in tears, contemplating how you, too, will be left to die alone someday.
Your son happily looks up: "Truck book now!?"
2:44 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat
I know people are gonna push back on the idea we can send people to Mars in the next 8-10 years, but we are VASTLY better prepared to start prepping for sending people to Mars now than we were to send people to the Moon 60 years ago in 1961.
5:11 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Yes
vincent kang @vincentkangnow
@Noahpinion If Israel had implemented some sort of propoganda reeducation in the 1960's and 1970's, would it have had to suffer through the second and third intifada, with the likelihood of perpetual strife, stabbing attacks, rocket attacks, suicide bombings of buses and pizzarias, etc?
6:46 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Today's Tankie Tea 🍵
Dan Kervick 🇵🇸 @DanMKervick
@sketch_god @Noahpinion Because all this WSJ and capitalist press Uighur hysteria is a scam. The inflated number are bollocks and have been discredited. The Chinese just go after gangsters and terrorists like any country does.
11:54 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Matt Gemmell@mattgemmell
Every year or two I remember what’s probably the most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen. Every time, I think I must be mistaken, then I read the thing, and I just shake my head in disbelief. It’s been twenty years. Let me tell you about it.
8:19 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Matt Gemmell@mattgemmell
I’ll link to it now. You can have a look. But come back to this tweet thread so I can explain. Here it is: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-su…
8:19 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Are they really going to let Chinese audiences watch a movie about a successful Uyghur uprising?
Caleb Watney @calebwatney
Dune trailer in China has some new footage 👀
https://t.co/ESqjUWKRnd
8:39 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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Jordan Grimes 🚰@cafedujord
Final update: ABAG has officially denied the appeals of every single Bay Area suburb that fought their regional housing allocations today.
There are many more appeals to come, but this bodes extremely well.
Housing advocates: rejoice!
9:10 PM · Sep 24, 2021
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