Favorite Rejects 2022-03-11

Kwasi Mensah @KwasiAMensah

Every git pro tip is “here’s how to not lose a day of work because git makes that surprisingly easy to do”

Joel Lord @joel__lord

TIL about `git switch`.🤯 Ever did a bunch of changes in a codebase, only to realize that you're working on `master`? `git switch -c <new_branch>` Creates a new branch and brings you local changes over.

John Aziz 🚀🎸🌍🌱🇺🇦 @aziz0nomics

The more I look into what went wrong in Russia to lead to the rise of Putin, the more annoyed I become with the West, America, and Bush Sr’s failure to assist Gorbachev in making Glasnost and Perestroika into a success. There should have been a Soviet Marshall plan 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Exited to see a grant here to launch YIMBY Dublin — my favorite movement coming to one of the best cities I’ve visited.

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Well, good. People forget what a complete and total shitshow the Iowa caucuses were in 2020, and also how weird it is to have two states as white as Iowa and New Hampshire lead off the nomination process for a party built around a racially-diverse coalition.

Brianne Pfannenstiel @brianneDMR

SCOOP: National Democratic leaders have drafted a proposal that could significantly reshape the party’s presidential nominating process and put an end to Iowa’s prized first-in-the-nation caucuses. https://t.co/TzuYDj9mbR

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

And the world’s most heavily telegraphed trap is sprung

Kevin McCarthy @GOPLeader

These are not Putin gas prices. They are President Biden gas prices.

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien

We also have to understand that Russia, with a much smaller population than the USA in the 1960s, has suffered 10% of the deaths that the USA suffered in the Vietnam War in .002 percent of the same amount of time as the USA fought the Vietnam War. https://t.co/NLy2SezVqD

Eliot A Cohen @EliotACohen

If so, and if the usual ratios of wounded/MIA/EPW to KIA apply, then conservatively estimated the Russians have lost ten percent of their initial force. That’s considered heavy casualties, particularly if it falls disproportionately on some specialties (e.g. dismounted infantry) https://t.co/7uW1PyBiol

Jimmy @JimmySecUK

I really don't like Erdogan, but he's not wrong here.

The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent

⚡️ Erdogan: West could have stopped Russia in 2014. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the insufficient response from the West to the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 led to Russia’s current full-scale war.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

In which the FCC claims jurisdiction over DST

Jessica Rosenworcel @JRosenworcel

Are we gaining or losing an hour this weekend? Or better yet, how about not having to ask this question ever again? On team Make #DaylightSavingsTime Permanent.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

POV you’re so suspicious of the official government narrative that you love the official narrative of the Russian government.

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

It's interesting seeing this take from Heather Adkins, a Senior Director at Google responsible for many teams — including Insider Risk, which in the last couple years has done things such as "dig through the access logs of labor organizers to provide a pretext for firing them".

Heather Adkins - Ꜻ - r00t folding team #258829 @argvee

If true, then appears we're on the "Become paranoid about internal enemies and eliminate them using loyal independent security forces" stage of the Dictator's Playbook. https://t.co/nPDJXdOU68