Favorite Rejects 2021-10-11

Jordan Grimes 🚰 @cafedujord

Some understated absurdity here: Palo Alto Mayor DuBois claims the city is "trying their best" to produce housing, blames lack of it on high building costs. DuBois was elected after leading the charge to kill an affordable housing project for seniors.

sfchronicle.comElon Musk says Tesla will move headquarters from Palo Alto to Austin, TexasIn a move that will heighten the cities’ tech rivalry, the CEO announced to...

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Me: Here's a graph of real median income Twitter people: Yeah but did you adjust for inflation Me: Here's a graph of trade-adjusted carbon emissions Twitter people: Yeah but did you take outsourcing into account Me:

🐀NotSoChattyCathyPRGuysGrandma🤖 💧 @ChattyCathyAU

To the #DoNotComply numpties. If you can answer these questions, I am more than happy to listen to your opinions otherwise STFU. #IStandWithDan #auspol

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This would be a great opportunity to invite some skilled, hard-working, freedom-loving people to come live and work in the United States.

nytimes.com‘This Drop Came So Quickly’: Shrinking Schools Add to Hong Kong ExodusThe Chinese territory is experiencing its biggest population drop in decades as residents flee political repression and a new “patriotic” curriculum.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’ll tell them, “I tweeted about how Republicans are bad.”

Marc E. Elias @marceelias

Years from now your children and grandchildren will ask you: What did you do when democracy was at stake? What will you say?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

True on both points, but note that just because we’re irritating doesn’t mean we’re wrong. The guy who comes to deliver bad news is irritating.

John Ganz @lionel_trolling

i find shor, yglesias etc. to be pretty irritating but this whole thing of them being secret fascists is just absurd. in the first place, i dont think they are that imaginative

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Believe it or not, it would sincerely make me very happy if the social norms and political views of under-40 college graduates living in big cities was a viable basis for an electoral majority.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

When you're used to your own propaganda, empirical evidence feels like propaganda from the other side

Peter St Onge, Ph.D.🇸🇻 @profstonge

This year’s Nobel prize goes to three labor economists including David Card, whose flagship paper claiming minimum wages don’t hurt jobs has been my favorite in-class illustration how economics has degenerated into socialist propaganda. https://t.co/KVXplMk8Ec

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

This is the "housing is a human right" front group btw paying homeowner associations to block state housing laws.

big burgers, all-day breakfast and pies @TribTowerViews

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has given $50k to the Livable California and United Neighbors-backed PAC gathering signatures for an initiative to roll back state housing law in favor of "local control." https://t.co/DGVrFQF1Ii

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

How much?

phlopped @phloppsytales

i will pay an obscene amount of money to the first person to smack this stupid toad https://t.co/r1ayqrNUvl

Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior

Lots and lots of cheap clean energy is great

hk @hassankhan

A steel-mill is expanding in Colorado thanks to cheap solar power https://t.co/RM1irIQT73

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

No, come ON! Does the phrase per capita mean nothing to you. There are 40 million people in California.

The Associated Press @AP

California’s coronavirus death toll has reached 70,000, the most in the nation, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. The state is currently experiencing the lowest rate of new infection cases among all states. https://t.co/wWMHSi0802

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

He should get a bike lane built and dedicated for him

Jeanna Smialek @jeannasmialek

Berkeley usually gives Nobel winners a coveted parking spot near their office, but David Card rides his bike, so they have to come up with an alternative for him. Card news conference streaming here: https://t.co/N87VjIu8ux Our story here: https://t.co/aJEiXOEwlh