Favorite Rejects 2021-09-24
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
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! 😂
We have a cup for those tears
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!?"
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.
Yes
vincent kang @vincentkangnow
Today's Tankie Tea 🍵
Dan Kervick 🇵🇸 @DanMKervick
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.
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…
