Favorite Rejects 2021-10-15

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Bioethicists are so insane. Imagine speaking this sentence out loud. nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opi…

NotIntoGoldenPopehat @Popehat

It’s good for dads to be closely involved in their kids’ lives, so they won’t grow up to be like Tucker. https://t.co/6gjqob3GjH

nikki mccann screamírez 👻 @NikkiMcR

Tucker Carlson mocks Pete Buttigieg for taking paternity leave: "Paternity leave, they call it, trying to figure out how to breastfeed, no word on how that went." https://t.co/zFnp6uSser

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

Come here, blob, blobby blobby blob....

Jason Meshekow, AMS @realwxforecast

Correction - Blob needs to propagate westward between 160W and 180W, to get an an active winter into the West Coast, especially drought stricken #California https://t.co/uB66v8W5Hd

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

It's very weird that the group that funds much of the NIMBY politics in California is called "AIDS Healthcare Foundation". That's like having a terrorist group called "March for Thyroid Cancer Awareness" or something.

CNET @CNET

Like a Furby, but cuter.

evelyn! @chigbarg

this is hilarious but also really awesome ux

Eric Rescorla @ekr____

A big fraction of the exploited vulnerabilities in browsers are due to problems in JS code (the graph below is from to a nice analysis by @TomRittervg).

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This thread explains why we need to develop and deploy carbon capture technology -- not just to help the climate, but so rich countries can make up for their historical emissions.

Glen Peters @Peters_Glen

If global CO₂ emissions stay at net zero, either: * All countries need to be net zero ~2050, or * Rich countries have net negative emissions post-2050, allowing developing countries to emit longer post-2050. 3/ https://t.co/AX5jmUDipa

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I keep reading these "David Shor wants Democrats to abandon Black people" takes, but I'm pretty sure what he really wants them to abandon are immigration and climate activists.

Noah Witherspoon 🎃 @mahalis

this is why I can’t imagine this movie will be any good: cast is huge, nobody knows who they are, there’s barely time to even introduce them

Nicky Flowers @yiffpolice

The Eternals... the classic franchise that everyone knows about. the gang's all here in their new film; we got Kingo, Druig, Sporbu, Gorpgorp, Meechee,

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

Thinking about this more, I think lower wages should allow employers to shift training costs onto workers, eliminating the theoretical inefficiency.

Jeet Heer @HeerJeet

Minting the $1 trillion coin is a great idea because it's a made-up solution to a made-up problem. I mean, the debt ceiling is a created fiction so why not solve it with more fiction?

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

Nice piece from @NathanTankus on the coin. The platinum one. https://t.co/C51Uab3Lts

Tucker Samuelsen @TuckerSamuelsen

@mattyglesias In meme form (h/t @besttrousers)

Matthew Downhour @MatthewDownhour

@Noahpinion @fedtanyl "We were promised flying cars and all we got were mRNA vaccines. So basically the future massively overdelivered for us"