Favorite Rejects 2022-07-05
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Safety is important, obviously.
But holding nuclear power to a safety standard that’s 40x stricter than what’s applied to natural gas makes the energy system *less* safe while raising greenhouse gas emissions.
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The second sentence is not true.
The reason most households are dual income right now is largely because of *increasing wages*.
(Honorable mention to "automation of domestic tasks"!)
Thom Hartmann @Thom_Hartmann
This was a good article. I think what stood out to me was that the wave of innovation enabled by the smartphone, though real, feels much more modest than the wave of innovation triggered by the internet itself.
Jon Evans @rezendi
This is such a fantastic opportunity for American technologists! Factories are just physical pieces of software. And like all legacy software, they become hard to update over time. Inefficient. But this…is an opportunity to build from scratch!
DeSantis' go-to move is inspiring twitter progressives to massively overreact to relatively small culture war provocations, helping him build up a big reputation on the right without really committing to all that much.
Alice @AliceFromQueens
An important part of baseball is knowing which pitches not to swing at — you should try to set a reasonably high outrage bar for "state policy in a state I don't live in."
Good deep dive on the Russian mil industry and its ability recover losses suffered so far.
PGMs: 10 years
Armored vehicles: 4 years right now. 7-10 if the war continues to December
Aircraft: 3 years minimum but likely much longer due to sanctions
Shades of Sandy Hook.
Monica Eng @monicaeng
This is a fun thread but the reason we have employer-paid insurance is during WWII the federal government froze private industry wages, so companies started offering amenities (like insurance) to woo workers.
No one wanted this. It was an unintended consequence of war policy.
Sonny in Vermont @SonnyVermont
