Favorite Rejects 2021-12-26
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Why is Jacobin calling threats of sanctions and military aid "saber-rattling" on the part of the U.S.?
Wouldn't "saber-rattling" be...threatening actual military action?
Jacobin @jacobin
Sorry for bad news, economists: “our results suggest that LaTeX reduces the user’s productivity and results in more orthographical, grammatical, and formatting errors, more typos, and less written text than Microsoft Word over the same duration of time.” journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
#ICYMI this is where the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope is in space now. Just click on the link to see its distance and speed along the timeline of events that will #UnfoldTheUniverse: buff.ly/3HbFDsJ
I am for comfortable mediocrity in both fields
Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill
@mattyglesias Yeah, because you noticed how exhausting it was for me to pull off being great at both.
The govt is mass sending 'GET BOOSTED' text messages. Instead of linking, they tell you to 'See NHS website'.
Google searches for 'NHS website' have rocketed.
The top Google result (an ad) *looks* like the main NHS site, but is actually a GP trying to sign up online patients.
Helping readers understand the views of people who think differently than them is absolutely worthwhile journalism, even if those views are stupid! You can’t understand public policy if you don’t understand the views of the public.
Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein
Last I do think it’s worth saying that pre-2020 there was no partisan polarization of flu vaccines but uptake of them was unreasonably low anyway.
There’s no guarantee that non-polarization will lead to a good result — most people are selfish and many people are dumb.
"this gigantic loophole has made modern American libertarianism the favorite philosophy of a vast array of local bullies, who want to keep the big bully (government) off their backs so they can bully to their hearts' content"
Insightful post by @Noahpinion
Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion