Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
Womp wommmmmp
Bloomberg Economics @economics
Top European leaders have left President Xi Jinping hanging over an invitation to meet him in Beijing later this year, according to the SCMP https://t.co/RiVQ2fN0Kt
4:38 AM · Jul 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
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
Question (I am dumb), why does the fed 'smooth' interest rate increases steadily over a year or more rather than just go "ah fuck it lets hike 900 bps to get to target rate"?
5:08 AM · Jul 19, 2022
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IntrepidCitizen 🇺🇦🌐🏙️@CitizenIntrepid
@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.
8:15 AM · Jul 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
8:31 AM · Jul 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This also explains the sharp rise in NIMBY politics starting in the 70s
Sam Bowman 🇺🇦 @s8mb
Recently learned that in Minions canon the Minions are biologically hardwired to serve whoever the most evil person on earth is, so the plot has them locked in a cave between 1812 and 1968 to avoid the issue of them serving Hitler.
10:34 AM · Jul 19, 2022
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Marques Brownlee@MKBHD
Little known benefit of the MagSafe cable: infinite power 😅
(Thank you for the idea @GregoryMcFadden)
3:32 PM · Jul 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
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
@JakeAnbinder The underlying issue is that the environmental movement was created by outdoorsy weirdos and not, like, scientists.
4:45 PM · Jul 19, 2022
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Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
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.
5:12 PM · Jul 19, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
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.
6:09 PM · Jul 19, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
"Well, the short answer is that we won because they worshipped Ares and we worshipped Athena"
ChrisO @ChrisO_wiki
Compare to this thread I posted earlier about Ukrainian software developers coming up with AI-based machine learning solutions to defeat camouflage and identify targets for drones. That kind of agile innovation likely wouldn't happen in Russia. /end https://t.co/jO2QrkQIld
10:43 PM · Jul 19, 2022
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sahra@sahrasulaiman
@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
I believe this caption is incorrect. Cyclists will be protected only by a striped lane/plastic bollards on the *other* side of that barrier (though most will likely opt to ride on the pedestrian walkway). Which is why the claim that cyclists were not an afterthought rings untrue. https://t.co/azfdC1a9oA https://t.co/D5xVOpdYQ9
2:43 AM · Jul 20, 2022
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