Favorite Rejects 2022-02-12

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

I believe this is called the Secret Congress theory

Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann

Congress is on track to pass up to 8 modestly significant bipartisan bills: sex assault arbitration, violence against women, omnibus spending, USICA, congressional stock ban, electoral count act, online abuse, & posts reform https://t.co/dKutrOD5Sl

Sam Freedman @Samfr

Great piece by @duncanrobinson on "Unpopulism" - the belief amongst politicians, particularly on the right, that their causes are populist when they are not. economist.com/britain/2022/0…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Ukraine situation has unfortunately broken the brains of some restrainers (a group I normally identify with). Yes, the US shouldn’t go to war with Russia — but we’re not going to! The big point is that Russia shouldn’t further attack Ukraine!!!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Remote work is going to pull people away from some of the priciest metros, but I’m skeptical that it’s the most-depressed areas that will benefit — it’s going to be the most amenity-rich ones.

nytimes.comFar From the Big City, New Economic LifeIncomes are low in small-town Tennessee, but so is the cost of living. That attraction could be a key to reviving many rural areas.

im on here @swamp_land

Out: Jet fuel can't melt steel beams In: Jet fuel doesnt exist

Alexander Berger @albrgr

Always crazy realizing how big NASA was during the Apollo era: hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Unfortunately as America has shown over the past twenty years sometimes counties launch wars that don’t make sense.

Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll

An invasion into Ukraine still doesn’t make sense. If it happens, we’ve underestimated Russia’s current problems.

Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai

woooooooooosh

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

Yes, this -->

Zefram Marks @ZeframM

@Hyper_lexic I honestly do think a cause of the recent increase in crime is a deliberate, decentralized, crypto-strike of police because they want to collectively punish the public for 2020. Especially in cities.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock

Libertarians are right about some things sometimes, and it’s important to co-opt those positions so as to not give an otherwise unserious ideology ammunition

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It does seem pretty bad that internet companies have created this accountability-free bazaar of stolen goods.

axios.comShoplifting reaches crisis proportionsThe uptick is tied to the ease of reselling stolen goods online.

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

Note that they did not exempt single-family homes, @DeanPreston

tylercowen @tylercowen

"Kyoto will be the first local government to penalise people who leave houses empty for an extended period." https://t.co/Ir5n5r6TBa