Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Giving people a choice doesn't preclude that they'll make the same choice most of the time. The LDP plays the game fairly and usually wins, because it's generally pretty good at giving Japanese people what they want -- or at least, less bad than the opposition.
9:10 AM · Nov 1, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I kinda think we in fact *should* use facial recognition technology to catch minor offenders, and perhaps make the punishments less severe if we feel iffy about doling them out.
slowboring.com/p/val-demings-…
11:39 AM · Nov 1, 2021
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it seems that the US was suffering from a big glut of homes in 2008. Housing shortages have one of the defining economic challenges for Millennials over the last decade.
1:21 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
So do prestigious directors just not want to make movies set in the present anymore?
Last Night in Soho, Dune, Paris Dispatch, and The Last Duel are all super different but it's all "anything but a character who checks Instagram."
2:21 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
@mattyglesias i believe quentin tarantino and wes anderson both made their last contemporary films in literally 2007, the year the iphone was released
2:27 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
The end of colonialism in one pretty graph
Dina D. Pomeranz @DinaPomeranz
It used to make sense to think of two global groups of income in the 1970s. Not today (as Hans Rosling tirelessly pointed out): https://t.co/qxdMeW03Q2
Figure from https://t.co/SLUuVo1SMv https://t.co/LrpmfR36pQ
6:23 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I want a TV show about a conservative guy who gets transported back to the 1950s. Episode titles will include:
* "Wait, factory work is awful"
* "Where's the rest of my house?"
* "Why is everyone still picking on me, we're all white"
* "Ugh, bowling is boring"
TheValuesVoter @TheValuesVoter
The PRRI survey is fascinating, as their surveys always are.
The survey asked what percentage of each group thought the way of life has changed mostly for the better since the 1950’s. Results:
Democrats - 63%
Independents - 48%
Republicans - 29%
https://t.co/h1zKVgMTnX
6:40 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
* "Why don't I get awarded a hot wife? What am I doing wrong"
* "Where's my SUV, this tiny car is for commies"
* "I'd totally get rich, but the tax rate is 70%"
* "Hell no I'm not joining your union, are you some kinda commie?"
* "What do you mean, 'What's oxycontin'?!"
6:47 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Amazing
7:33 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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The Spookier Side of the Street@coolgrey
Recology: How San Francisco’s garbage giant built its monopoly and could possibly lose it sfexaminer.com/news/recology-… via @mdbarba
sfexaminer.com
Recology: How San Francisco’s garbage giant built its monopoly and could possibly lose it - The San Francisco Examiner
8:46 PM · Nov 1, 2021
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