Favorite Rejects 2022-08-18
NYT restaurant review the year I was born has to start by just broadly explaining what Thai food is.
We choose to make usable biodegradeable straws and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept.
Emma Ashford @EmmaMAshford
YEAH SO THE DEATH OF AMERICA’S URBAN STREETCARS WASN’T ACTUALLY A CAR COMPANY CONSPIRACY, PEOPLE JUST HATED THE STREETCAR COMPANIES IN THE SAME WAY THEY HATE AIRLINES TODAY SO THEY WERE HAPPY TO DRIVE AND IT TURNS OUT BUSES WERE A LOT CHEAPER TO MAINTAIN THAN RAIL NETWORKS
Republicans talked themselves into the corner where there’s a zero-sum choice between choosing sane, competent leaders who back insanely unpopular entitlement cuts (Romney, Ryan) and choosing clowns (Trump) because their personal belief is that only a clown wouldn’t cut Medicare.
Indian Americans have got to be the most successful minority in our country's history. It's as if Jewish people came over from Russia a century ago and instantly took the helm of Standard Oil and U.S. Steel.
Absolutely amazing. ❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
nihal @nihalmehta
Also, I don't deny that America has a ton of structural racism, but I do think it says something that the British spent centuries trying to label Indians as untermenschen, and then America just said "Hey folks, how'd you like to come be in charge of capitalism?"
