Favorite Rejects 2022-03-28

Andrew Bates @AndrewJBates46

.@axios: "First look: Biden to ask Congress to fund the police" "President Biden will propose more than $32 billion in new spending to fight crime...putting a price tag on his State of the Union call to fund — not defund — the police"

axios.comBiden to ask Congress to fund the police with $32 billion in new spendingThe president wants to show Americans he is addressing rising crime.

Alan Cole @AlanMCole

Sorry, Ron Johnson! Sorry, /r/childfree! Other people's kids pay for you!

fullstackeconomics.comPlanning on retiring? Thank a parentSorry, /r/childfree. Other people’s kids pay for you.

Stephen Hoskins (formerly Georgist Simp) 🔰🧦🌐🌽 @GeorgistSimp

Seems to be about where people are coming down

Eric Topol @EricTopol

The march of mutations of #SARSCoV2 as it progressively evades our immune response, gets more contagious nytimes.com/interactive/20…

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion

And the virus can mutate much further: https://t.co/0DzVGiMRjS

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I am normally anti-violence, but in utilitarian terms surely the joy Will Smith has brought to us by giving us all something to chew over has far exceeded any possible harm to Chris Rock.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The YIMBY movement developed in very blue parts of the country, so current rhetorical strategies are optimized for winning arguments in places like San Francisco and I think @PatrickRuffini's poll suggests that it works. But as a national message you need a different approach.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

We've now lived through 2 of the 3 great pandemics of the modern age (HIV/AIDS being the third).

anthropocene-ster 👁👅👁 @T7Xcdz4G__4478m

@Noahpinion @JonathanConning Ladejinsky’s work (and how state department policy undermined his later work) is covered in a chapter in the excellent “Owning the Earth”, a history of different forms of land ownership

bloomsbury.comOwning the EarthFrom the author of the acclaimed Measuring America, a dazzling chronicle, through history and across cultures, about how the ability to own the land we inhabit…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Putting milk in your coffee and then acting macho about what kind of milk … https://t.co/Lusx1bEpZH

Buck Sexton @BuckSexton

In northern Florida, when you ask for “milk” in your coffee, they just put milk in. There’s no long discussion about “do you mean oat milk?” or “soy” (come on) or even almond (chalk water) Milk means milk. It’s civilized down here.