Favorite Rejects 2021-11-17

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Yep, and there is also lots of robust historical precedent for voters caring about inflation. You can't wish everything away by blaming the media for covering the news.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

I doubt this is true. Real wages have been falling, even though nominal wages have been rising, simply because it's very hard for people to get raises that keep up with inflation. People are upset about falling wages. https://t.co/Hr0hHioo2c

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Wish we had done the TPP

Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ

Top U.S. trade and commerce officials are meeting this week with their counterparts in Japan, S. Korea and India—but not China—as the Biden administration seeks to build stronger economic ties with friendly nations in Asia. @TokyoWoods https://t.co/nM7WdFtKoy

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Ladies and gentlemen, Twitter product development in action

The Verge @verge

Twitter stops auto-refreshing timelines so tweets won’t disappear while you’re still reading them https://t.co/aQl8Lwpqkl https://t.co/np31eKTfWk

Darrell 🌐 @BlackMadness317

@mattyglesias Kamala should go to a black church and say that and get a bad Twitter but good everywhere else news cycle.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

Fun fact: average milk prices today are about the same as they were in 2008.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Scratch a NIMBY, a xenophobe appears

Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv

This clapback to The NY Times hit piece on Palo Alto!! “New York (most notably Queens) has become a network of impoverished third world communities and it is safe to assume that most Palo Altans do not want something like this” THIRD WORLD COMMUNITIES!!! https://t.co/dfcc077Z9s

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If the AMA wants to promote “health equity” maybe they should stop lobbying to make medical care scarce and unaffordable rather than trying to change how doctors talk? slowboring.com/p/the-amas-adv…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

As an intern I tried to get a line about crucifying mankind upon a cross of corn into a Chuck Schumer floor speech about ethanol blending rules, but the staff wouldn’t go for it. https://t.co/O8xaZtnDdV

Eric Levitz @EricLevitz

4 things that Biden can do to reduce prices *without* passing any new laws or slowing economic growth: 1) Repeal Trump's tariffs. 2) Let refiners put less corn in gasoline. 3) Let Medicare reimbursement rates fall. 4) Let more immigrants work here. https://t.co/3Ne7Inz8gA

John Scalzi @scalzi

Oh shit I totally do the "talk at your spouse for 25 minutes without taking a breath the moment she walks through the door" thing I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE

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Amanda Askell @AmandaAskell

Doctor: Avoid a diet containing X and see if your symptoms improve. Me: Wouldn’t it be better if I spent 2 weeks avoiding X and 2 weeks consuming lots of X and monitored my symptoms? Doctor:… Me: Actually, let me see if I can get a friend to spike my food with X.

Jordan Weissmann 🗽 @JHWeissmann

I feel like this will eventually be considered a major screwup on par with the early mask messaging. https://t.co/JQGfSOf5vw

Leana Wen, M.D. @DrLeanaWen

It was a major mistake for the FDA and CDC to limit booster availability. The messaging has become muddled. It needs to be clear: Immunity wanes over time. A third dose restores very strong protection. All American adults should get boosters before the holidays. @JohnKingCNN https://t.co/nJ9RKxJ9tm

Jason Kilar @jasonkilar

I like this key art

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

It’s very “Veep” that Harris has been tasked with solving a bunch of unsolvable problems (and given no power to actually solve them) while Buttigieg gets to play Santa Claus with billions in infrastructure cash

Michael Wara @MichaelWWara

This is a big deal for building decarbonization in California. https://t.co/IohWT0z3Na

Cliff Rechtschaffen @CliffCPUC

Today, we issued a staff proposal recommending elimination of subsidies for new gas hook-ups consistent with our clean energy goals. https://t.co/MENWu6NQHe. We invite feedback from all stakeholders. You can follow our building decarb proceeding at https://t.co/7JhUr4wnkD

Paul Kedrosky @pkedrosky

"50 or 60 years from now, EVs may actually have less range. Psychologically, there won't be this sort of paranoia and dependence on a public supercharging network." Behind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV

spectrum.ieee.orgBehind the Wheel, Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EVSo what does it take to squeeze 520 miles of range from a roomy, 2.5-ton luxury sedan? A factory tour underlines the company’s relentless focus on miniaturization and in-house tech.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This would, of course, kill Twitter's business model.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Why has Wikipedia achieved a moderate consensus on topics while all other internet platforms polarize? 🕶Wikipedia doesn’t filter what users see, so each article is exposed to different views 🙅Rules & norms subtly encourage extremists to leave, retaining moderate content & users https://t.co/6S8hTLNf8q

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

YES. THIS. This is SUCH a more positive, effective approach to workplace diversity than the DiAngelo/Okun insanity.

Jay Van Bavel @jayvanbavel

While many pro-diversity initiatives focus on raising awareness about the fact that implicit bias & subtle discrimination are widespread, it is far more effective to draw people’s attention to their peers’ pro-diversity values and attitudes (via @SMurrar) https://t.co/4Z538Q1Jxo https://t.co/sIwXZpZTUa

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The future of the world hinges on leftists continuing to tweet about how they hate Elon Musk so that conservatives can buy EVs to own the libs. https://t.co/hlrpUFwz1Q

James Pethokoukis @JimPethokoukis

Elon Musk is a green billionaire, someone innovating in atoms as well as bits, and an entrepreneur who also benefits from government. The prefect billionaire for lefties unless you simply hate billionaires.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

What the f***

foreignpolicy.comMao offered Kissinger 10 million Chinese womenUSAToday‘s “OnDeadline” blog finds some choice morsels from newly released transcripts of Henry Kissinger’s 1973 meeting with Mao: You know, China is a very poor country,” Mao is quoted as saying during the exchange. “We don’t have much. What we have in excess is women. So if you want them we can gi…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I will spoil the twist: Ivermectin appears to have real benefits to Covid patients … when given out in places where parasitic worms are very widespread (because worms are bad and Ivermectin is a good treatment for worms).

Patrick Collison @patrickc

Excellent post regarding ivermectin: https://t.co/STtos3s272.