Favorite Rejects 2022-06-29

Whole Mars Catalog @WholeMarsBlog

Tesla Q2 US Automotive Market Share (includes all cars, not just electric) 2021 — 1.8% 2022 — 4.0%

delaniac 🌹🌱🏗️ @ChadNotChud

Capitalism is bad, but it's better than feudalism folks.

Current Affairs @curaffairs

PSA https://t.co/09CCTo84iz

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Trucks are tanks

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

One implication here is the government could be pushing way harder for fuel efficiency gains. The auto industry has made cars that are a lot more powerful and a little more efficient. It could do a little more powerful and a lot more efficient instead. https://t.co/L3CeWxdX83 https://t.co/9ChEQeJ1Dj

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Abortion bans are utterly dystopian

Max Kennerly @MaxKennerly

Women are going to hospitals with a life-threatening nonviable ectopic pregnancy but the doctors can't do anything about it until her vitals start crashing, which the doctors hope is enough of a "medical emergency" to satisfy Missouri's Republican AG. https://t.co/KYTvdZcG5O https://t.co/PCwqr6WAsb https://t.co/uUJOYxG9SQ

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Oh yes, Sweden and Finland, those famous warmongers 🙄🙄🙄

Daniel L. Davis @DanielLDavis1

While adding Finland/Sweden to NATO is supported in Helsinki/Stockholm, its far from good for the US. It adds considerable risk for our country - increasing potential of getting dragged into war - while providing few benefits.https://t.co/O2E1j2ZI3M @defpriorities @NBCNewsTHINK

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Fix this, and I bet crime will go away down.

Chris Hacker @chrishnews

Some details from my first investigation with @CBSNews: Cops in the US only solve about HALF of murders in the US. It's the lowest rate ever recorded. https://t.co/Y5LAyAdFGJ https://t.co/NNBdB0uxUf

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

This chart says a lot about the state of the housing market over the last 40 years. Prior to 2007, multi-family homes were getting better in a bunch of ways—bigger, with more bathrooms and more air conditioning. After 2007 this went in reverse. fullstackeconomics.com/24-charts-that…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This, but unironically. Abortion rights would be more secure, and we could enhance ACA subsidies, reduce prescription drug costs, tax the rich, etc

Tom Scocca @tomscocca

Add five or 10 more Democratic senators who love guns and are corruptly making millions of dollars in personal income off fossil-fuel pollution and you could really move the needle in Washington and nationwide

Donald Shoup @DonaldShoup

Modern parking "meters" give cities the power to reduce congestion

marketplace.orgModern parking “meters” give cities the power to reduce congestionParking charges based on timing or vehicle type, for example, can encourage drivers to consider alternative forms of transit.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I sort of took it to be that living standards are high and rising on the Off-World Colonies but that what we are seeing in Los Angeles is those left behind in the economic-technological transition. https://t.co/ixxF4rv2OE

James Pethokoukis @JimPethokoukis

My latest (free, no paywall): 🤖 40 years later, 'Blade Runner's' dystopian economics still make zero sense The film and its sequel depict incredible technological progress. So why is life shown as so implausibly awful?https://t.co/2OSXwVnJjH