Favorite Rejects 2021-11-15
Imagine any modern Republican presidential contender saying the following:
Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT
Another one of those weeks, I’m afraid.
Kool-Aid Man to Invisible Walls @EmoJeb
Another aspect of the immigration crunch.
Petra Moser @PMoserEcon
i feel like i've not seen many people talking about the *second* royal couple to fuck off to the US instead of putting up with their family's bullshit
There’s this weird phenomena happening right now in the streets of San Francisco. There are cars on the road very close to other cars. And they’re not moving. In the olden days I believe the elders would call this “traffic”, but it hasn’t been seen in many moons. 🚗🚙🚌🚎🚚🚛
Many academics say "we don't have a housing shortage", and then transition to "well we do have one but even at zero profitability construction costs make new homes expensive." And it just never seems to click that we should reduce the construction costs
Fun fact of the day: any car that can haul 6,000 pounds is ineligible for a residential parking permit in San Francisco.
This means most large vehicles can’t park for >2hrs in residential neighborhoods. Further proof F150s, Suburbans, and Cayennes don’t belong on city streets.
Examples from @danluu where the psychology research doesn't say what people think it says, such as:
- Dunning Kruger
- "Money doesn't make you happy, above X amount"
- "People's happiness bounces back to a set point after positive and negative events"
I’m told Sec Buttigieg is obsessively gevitalout on why France + other EU countries can built infrastructure at a much lower cost than we can here in the flawless US of A. A very good sign; solving that dilemma is vital; he’s found exactly the right thing to zero in on. #Smart
This Week @ThisWeekABC
The people who say that without Elon Musk, NASA would have done all the suff that SpaceX is doing, have no idea how much it costs NASA to do stuff.
Michael Sheetz @thesheetztweetz
Remember, we will NOT ban cars (except in a few small areas of downtowns).
Electric cars are our only hope for decarbonization of transportation, and that is just a fact.
Beth Osborne @BethOsborneT4A
ISS astronauts forced to take shelter because of space debris produced by a Russian anti-satellite weapons test.
Phil Plait @BadAstronomer
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of thousands of vehicles that are boot-eligible due to unpaid tickets:
DC = 43,868
VA = 167,937
MD = 335,908
It would take over *25 years* for @DCDPW crews to boot all of these vehicles at this current rate w/their current resources.
Our construction wages are lower than many other rich countries, and our unions weaker than most. So this can't explain our excess costs.
Sorry, Mish, you blew it
Mike "Mish" Shedlock @MishGEA
Thread. Someone went to visit the Xinjiang camps using publicly available geolocation data.
Alison Killing @alisonkilling
😱😱
Also, this is precisely why describing green card reform as "just for businesses" is so counterproductive.
For workers on a temporary visa it fundamentally shifts bargaining power and prevents bullshit like this.
Paul Novosad @paulnovosad
When the man is right, he's right
Elon Musk @elonmusk