Favorite Rejects 2022-07-31

vaheder 🍞 @vaheder

How to piss off a Quebecois in seven words: “The lingua franca of Canada is English.”

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Hitting a moving train with artillery is pretty impressive.

Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en

⚡️ High-precision HIMARS strike destroyed a train of more than 40 cars that arrived from Crimea carrying troops, equipment and ammunition to Kherson region. The train's cargo will never kill anyone. Glory to Ukraine!🇺🇦

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Fire Depts do this all over US with crosswalks, bike lanes, lane reductions etc. Its not a demonstrable risk thats why these are advisories, not orders. If it was a risk the marshall would order you to take it down. They ask you cause the chief just wants to drive everywhere

Page Slow Street @PageSlowStreet

SFFD emailed us last Thursday, via the SFMTA, and asked us to move all community signs and plants from #PageSlowStreet. While we know this will be a detriment to the safety of those who use #PSS, we're complying, and looking for folks to adopt/reuse current signs. We hope to 1/4

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

LOL at your percentage changes. Here's a graph of the absolute numbers. (source: mercatus.org/system/files/h…) Call me "dishonest", will you?

Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett

That's EXTREMLY dishonest @Noahpinion ...and ur smart enough to know it. The # of teachers and their salaries are...fairly flat while the number of students is slowly rising. The spending increase is almost entirely due ADDING NEW ADMINSTRATIVE STAFF, not salary increases. https://t.co/OykLheGY9o https://t.co/7J1M0lR30B

Julian Sanchez @normative

You might call them, oh I don’t know, “death panels.” https://t.co/4DRUpqw2Ti

Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC

In red states, hospital ethics committees now decide when pregnant patients are close enough to death to justify an abortion. Here's how these panels make life-or-death judgments where abortion is illegal under all but the most dire circumstances. https://t.co/jzcNOPv03Y @Slate

Mattias Lehman @MattiasLehman

This is fascism, and it's important you be able to recognize the imagery. Nostalgia for a simple past - with a focus on religion and family and children - brought back by genocide. That's fascism

Nina Strohminger @NinaStrohminger

Political scientists: What political orientation is this? https://t.co/pD49oFpOE5

chateau bunny @cocainecross

Johnny Depp fans paid $3k to unseal the court documents just to get dirt on Amber, but ended up unintentionally exposing Depp and information he tried to keep private instead. A thread 🧵🪡