Favorite Rejects 2021-12-03
Why is the FDA/Pfizer/etc. taking so long for vaccines for kids under 5?
Jorge A. Caballero, MD @DataDrivenMD
Project Hail Mary is excellent. Weir does a good job of transitioning to interstellar sci-fi by adding only a couple small bits of unobtanium. This is how hard sci-fi ought to be -- almost entirely real science, but still a great story with fun characters.
I'm not really enjoying the Wheel of Time TV series, but maybe that's just because I don't really like the Wheel of Time books.
This was not my preferred course of action, but one highly effective response to the GOP threat to steal elections that Democrats have hit on is becoming unpopular so they'll likely lose fair and square.
Part of what makes online so tedious is the idea that "not literally a fascist takeover of the country" gets coded as identity to "things aren't that bad."
It's actually quite bad to have the worse party win elections and implement their bad ideas.
Centrist 🤝Madness @CentristMadness
My basic view is that in a proper system of government courts should have almost no power, but in the United States the elected branches *also* have very little democratic legitimacy so it's extremely hard to have a coherent view about how branches should relate.
Like on the Obergerfell case, the Court swept aside the legislative process but actually landed on the outcome that was supported by the electorate (and tellingly, Republicans don't bother complaining about it anymore).
In Baker v Carr the Court refused to defer to undemocratically constituted state legislatures and forced them to be more democratic.
But then in the more recent partisan gerrymandering case, they chose to defer rather impose.
Covid alarmism is uncool but it seems like there’s a very good chance of this omicron situation being genuinely disastrous, prompting many re-infections and breakthrough.
If you understand the South African data correctly, I don’t think there’s any basis for the view that omicron outcomes are less severe.
What’s true is that SA is much younger than the United States, so our outcomes will be worse than theirs.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch
Today's employment numbers seem a bit contradictory. Payrolls grew a disappointing 210,000. But the prime-age employment/population ratio jumped from 78.3 percent to 78.8 percent—a big improvement for one month. I asked @JosephPolitano for his insights and here's what he said.
After I characterized conservatives as "not the most thoughtful" on the abortion issue, this guy kept haranguing me to post my GRE scores. Then National Review wrote an article about it, claiming that 474 is half of 1474.
Actually this is a complete myth. The study found that policy is closely aligned with the preferences of both the middle class and the upper middle class, but *slightly* more with the upper middle class.
vox.com/2016/5/9/11502…
Cory Doctorow PO-BOY MENTALITY @doctorow
Politics in the U.S. is bad now
BUT
It's only 10 more years til @IDoTheThinking can run for President.
We just have to hold the line until then.
In fact we got rapid growth and a surge of inflation.
And here you thought Summers covered all his bases!
Steve Matthews @SteveMatthews12
