Favorite Rejects 2022-07-19
Womp wommmmmp
Bloomberg Economics @economics
This is a smart rather than a dumb question — the Fed is change-averse and following a well-established pattern both at home and abroad but I don’t think “slow and steady” has real support in the literature over “move quickly to the endpoint and adjust from there.”
Cobie @cobie
@mattyglesias "Overhead wires would require removing a significant number of heritage trees, and city representatives asserted that 'newer, cleaner, more efficient diesel trains' should supplant plans for 'century-old catenary electrical line technology'."
Typical.
This also explains the sharp rise in NIMBY politics starting in the 70s
Sam Bowman 🇺🇦 @s8mb
Little known benefit of the MagSafe cable: infinite power 😅
(Thank you for the idea @GregoryMcFadden)
A worldview originated by Subaru-driving composters who like to hike is not fit to purpose for meeting the global challenge of climate change.
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Me: hey I think multifamily housing should be allowed in single-family zones and that it shouldn't take two years and $1 million to build a single-unit of housing. No such thing exists in places with housing affordability
Critical Academic: shut up you de-regulatory libertarian.
Climate activist messaging over the last 5 years has been 9 parts DOOM DOOM DOOM and 1 part END CAPITALISM, and no, telling fairytales about how awesome it would be to end capitalism does not mean climate activists were offering material abundance to American consumers.
"Well, the short answer is that we won because they worshipped Ares and we worshipped Athena"
ChrisO @ChrisO_wiki
@IDoTheThinking still working on my article but in the meanwhile, here's this thread on some of that backstory/coverage from the last decade:
sahra @sahrasulaiman