Favorite Rejects 2022-03-13

Russian Warship, Go Fuck Yourself 🇺🇦 @spooknine

This is the correct take and one that at one point I would have expected conservatives to have

Matthew C. Klein @M_C_Klein

Worth reading this interview with Steve Kotkin: https://t.co/ZjeSzYxcZQ

urbanmountain @urbanmountainv

Bad setback and FAR rules lead to ambiguous open space.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I don’t think this is right — even as remote work continues, vehicle miles traveled have fully recovered from the pandemic. People who don’t need to commute daily to work still drive places. https://t.co/dTEnk9sZE6

Mahmood Hikmet @MoodyHikmet

Ridiculous but true fact: Zoom, the teleconferencing app, has done more to reduce emissions than electric vehicles.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Twitter is amazing because you can make up any guy you like, and that guy will immediately manifest in your replies.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I don't like America's culture of overwork, but requiring people to work at the office isn't gonna solve it. It certainly didn't solve it in 2019.

Matt Warner @sakhalinsk_matt

@Noahpinion I lived in Russia’s Sakhalin province, c. 25 miles north of Hokkaido In Japan. Every Thursday the air raid siren would go off and the population would rush into shelters or defensive positions to practice for the *inevitable* Japanese invasion. Complete paranoia. This was 2005.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Turning Russia into a vassal of China seems much worse than just being chill, not doing invasions, and selling commodities to everyone. https://t.co/zDJnvl09kz

Financial Times @FinancialTimes

Russia asks China for military assistance in its invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/NwAe7UtEIi

The Interpreter @Interpreter_Mag

1) Russians find ways to put up anti-war posters. Here's a seeming lost dog notice that reads: "Lost Dog Named Peace - 24 Feb a mean man with Botox marks on his face stole our Peace. Without Peace, prices go up, bank cards are shut down, even vital medicines are hard to get."

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This antitank weapon was designed and manufactured in Ukraine. I'm pretty optimistic for the future of Ukraine's economy, if it can survive Putin's attack.

Jimmy @JimmySecUK

Ukrainian soldiers destroy a Russian armoured vehicle with a Stugna-P ATGM.🔥🇺🇦 Note how the operators are able to remain in cover/concealment whilst operating the launcher remotely. This makes the crew totally safe from return fire and reduces their IR signature to zero.👇 https://t.co/WjHkloKgTt

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

This is great. The complete idiot's guide to military logistics

timothynoah.substack.comThe complete idiot’s guide to military logisticsIt’s the boring stuff, the Russians are learning, that kills you in the end.

Brandon Friedman @BFriedmanDC

She is also inexplicably still serving in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel with a top secret security clearance. This needs to change as soon as possible.

Mitt Romney @MittRomney

Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.

Samir @obretix

Moschun (Мощун) village NW of Kyiv, before and after "denazification" by the Russian military google.com/maps?ll=50.614… almost every single house damaged or destroyed, inhabitants evicted

Isobel Koshiw @IKoshiw

I'm only just starting to understand the scale and extent of Russian atrocities in Kyiv region over the past 2 weeks. It's unbelievable. It's not just Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel, Borodyanka etc. Dozens of smaller villages were completely terrorized, cut off, people were executed.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Today in "useful idiots"

J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller

French report: Russia/Gazprom funded Western environmental NGOs to agitate to shut down European nuclear power plants. https://t.co/PRVpllC8Bs

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

As I've said many times, I think the evidence is clear that more cops —> less crime. But an equally important point is that pretextual police stops seem basically useless. The activity that most annoys people is not what's preventing crime.

gojiberries.ioData PoliceIn a new paper, Chohlas-Wood et al. present three interesting points: Some of the major policing strategies have scant empirical support:The impact of “pulling over drivers for minor traffic …