Favorite Rejects 2022-08-03

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The increase in real median family income from 2013-2019 was faster than in the 1990s.

pete dailey for los altos city council @s_damerdji

still thinking about that part of SF's housing element that mentions their development standards violate the HAA

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The permitting reform in the Inflation Reduction Act is a good start, but it still allows NEPA reviews to hold up strategically important projects for TWO YEARS before construction even starts. We need major NEPA overhaul.

TomCat @ThomasMCat

@Noahpinion @EpirusInc putting microwave weapons on 'em. epirusinc.com/news-item/dron…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Same.

Arindrajit Dube @arindube

I spent most of my adult life worrying about US interventions and war making. Today, I worry mostly about aggression from Russia and China. And that's why I have changed my foreign policy preferences.

Euan Graham @graham_euan

Indeed. A large scale PLA rehearsal for blockade *in situ* may be part of 🇨🇳’s political warfare strategy against Taiwan, but it’s also likely to be a handy intelligence gift in operational terms. Quite baffling at one level. https://t.co/So0uavT2jK

Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture

2/ First, the coming days will permit us to observe how China and the PLA might think about conducting a naval blockade of Taiwan. In essence, they are telegraphing their operational approach so we can war game ways to subvert it in future.