Favorite Rejects 2022-08-10

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

A sober editorial throwing cold water on the idea that war between the U.S. and China over Taiwan is imminent. I find this pretty persuasive. But of course, nothing is certain...

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think some of the coverage of this has been a little confused — Manchin was concerned too much EV tax credit money has flowed to high-income individuals buying cars with too much foreign content and *deliberately* restructured it in a way the automakers don’t like.

Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar

Law of unintended consequences: Manchin provision in spending bill likely to slow adoption of electric vehicles (via @Axios) https://t.co/g6XN0ADC2Q

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But that’s not an “unintended consequence,” that’s the IRA trying to take some criticisms of the EV tax credit architecture seriously and address them — the market for high-end electric cars is very strong and doesn’t need subsidy.

Dan Federman @TheFederman

When will we start seeing e-bikes sitting next to cars in car dealerships? I’m imagining a glorious future where car dealerships are asking for protected bike infrastructure put in near them. https://t.co/f6mt3FptIZ

David Zipper @DavidZipper

BMW, Hyundai, Jeep, Rivian, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz are all developing their own e-bike models. Carmakers seem to take e-bikes more seriously than the US Senate. https://t.co/phW5QXwLSh https://t.co/jUxfRu6DYc

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But after California politicians blew him off and appropriated the money anyway they build a great SF-LA high-speed train and totally owned him, right?

Alexander Demling @alexdemling

Musk admitted Hyperloop was about getting legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California. He had no plans to build it Musk said public transit was “a pain in the ass” where you’re surrounded by strangers, including possible serial killers https://t.co/4oFHohXs4E

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The decline in the percentage of young people who use Twitter gives me hope for this nation. But we need to force TikTok to sell to an American company.

Pew Research Center @pewresearch

YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among platforms covered in our new survey, with 95% of teens saying they ever use the platform. TikTok is next on the list (67%), followed by Instagram and Snapchat (62% and 59%, respectively). https://t.co/gy2QbL4qtl https://t.co/WkSbGdyXX5

John Scalzi @scalzi

This may violate the Geneva Conventions

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

An point I’m stealing from my wife is that lots of people dedicate their lives to nonprofits that *nobody* believes are working on the world’s most important problems and nobody gets mad at them over it. The boldness of the claim “X really matters a lot” triggers people. https://t.co/cAChn7ZE2V

Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc

(164) There's criticism of effective altruism that's kind of 'you think you're better than us?' and... I genuinely try not to form opinions of other peoples' choices, I have no idea of their constraints, but I do think making the world better is better than not doing that.

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

yeah, I think the zoning code is a problem

Market Urbanism @MarketUrbanism

I would rather she walk free and California legalizes speed cameras than what I think is likely to happen, which is that she spends years in prison and LA does nothing to get people like her out of their cars https://t.co/uIhdxv5nzi

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

District attorney says there is no evidence of any alcohol use by the driver who killed a pregnant woman, a baby & 3 others in a fiery crash in Windsor Hills Investigators found she has a history of dangerous crashes, was involved in 13 prior crashes https://t.co/qq22V1l47E

Promo Code: Rudy @canderaid

Boomer institution well past its prime desperately attempting to be edgy, reports Rolling Stone Magazine https://t.co/ze2qvIh05K

Rolling Stone @RollingStone

“Dark Brandon," President Joe Biden’s alpha-male bizarro, is the latest star of the White House’s ham-fisted effort to convince people that the septuagenarian commander-in-chief is actually a Super Cool Badass Dude™. https://t.co/4OU1ZgL1X2