Favorite Rejects 2022-08-17

Stefan Lasiewski @stefanlasiewski

During California's heat wave peak usage ended up being 2.5GW less than what was forecasted yesterday. How much did #FlexAlert & cooler weather along the coast help? Grid-scale renewables provided a solid > 14GW of electricity during the daytime. Graphs from @California_ISO

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@negrosubversive *taps the sign*

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

This is what happens when blind gross receipt tax fetishism goes too far.

Anna Tong @annatonger

Backers of an SF 'Amazon Tax' have abruptly withdrawn support and are now trying to remove it from November's ballot, after hearing that Amazon might not even be affected: https://t.co/BVgulHY8ir

Daniel Trubman, MPP @dmtrubman

Traffic engineers love to make appeals to authority for why we should listen to them, but they really discredit their cause when they spout lies like arguing more highway infrastructure will be good for the environment.

Casey Newton @CaseyNewton

I wrote about the strangeness of TikTok trying to build trust by letting Oracle, of all companies, audit its algorithms platformer.news/p/tiktok-works…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Remember, fast Chinese growth didn't actually end due to Zero Covid, or the real estate crash, or Xi's regulatory crackdowns. Growth was slowing continuously since 2010.

Stephen Hoskins 🔰🧦🪩🌽 @GeorgistSteve

@dmtrubman @tiredgenerally They've recently pivoted smoothly from "YIMBYs think upzoning will solve everything" to "YIMBYs suck because only 60% of them support public housing". No matter how much we try to build left-unity, they'll just keep dunking on us. It's super toxic, and a sign of bad faith.

Akiva Cohen @AkivaMCohen

This is such a painfully bad take. Do I have "unquestioning trust in law enforcement and the FBI"? No. TRUMP HAS NEVER DENIED HAVING THE DOCUMENTS IN QUESTION. His only excuses have been variations on "law, schmaw, I do what I fucking want, and that's allowed"

Shadi Hamid @shadihamid

The most bizarre development of the past week is Democrats and liberals' sudden, unquestioning trust in law enforcement and the FBI. This is the FBI we're talking about, an agency that spent years targeting American Muslims post-9/11. And did people forget about the Comey letter?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Police and prisons. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Politics & Education @PoliticsAndEd

In Bowling Alone (2000), Putnam critiqued NIMBYism for exploiting 'social capital' to achieve 'antisocial' ends.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

3. A team of Stanford economists recently estimated that nearly three quarters of all U.S. innovation since 1976 can be attributed to high-skilled immigration.