Favorite Rejects 2021-10-04
The decision to let foreigners get DUNE first should have prompted congressional hearings. What are we doing here? https://t.co/lpsekiLWAb
ethan winter @EthanBWinter
The 1980s obsession with making welfare conditional on work turned out to be counterproductive. Let's leave this fossil in the past where it belongs.
Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE
I feel like people forget that the top 1% of income earners are, by definition, just 1% of the population. If we're worried about millionaires getting free college or whatever, universal programs have over a 99% success rate.
Melissa Hillman @bittergertrude
US commuter rail’s problem has always been catering solely to existing riders, rather than considering the much larger pool of people who aren’t riders but could be https://t.co/8vcm7FekKb
Union Tpke @Union_Tpke
Kishida's economic plan sounds a lot like Bidenomics. Innovation + redistribution. Seems like a model that a lot of people are converging on, around the world. I feel like we need an "-ism" to describe this combo.
Gearoid Reidy @GearoidReidy
In all seriousness, the broken state of Facebook's DNS has cascading ramifications upstream. Your ISP is probably suffering too.
lol
awlnx @awlnx
This is a stance I often see people take up, but honestly I don't think anyone truly means it.
As a citizen you need to decide which candidates to support, which marches to join, which causes to urge politicians to prioritize, and the politics is relevant to all of that.
Liam Bright @lastpositivist
For example, I have controversial and extreme views on zoning and land use. I spend a lot of time trying to convince people that those views are correct.
But I also try *not* to inject these ideas into high-profile partisan conflict, which I think would be unproductive.
I feel like America-China conflict has been put on a brief hold, as America focuses on finding reasons to keep its people in economic hardship and China focuses on finding ways to prevent its people from having any fun
