Favorite Rejects 2022-08-19

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Tiniest violin for the CCP leaders who realized Xi is a screw-up a year too late to put together an effective opposition to his bid to become dictator-for-life 🎻

Bloomberg Economics @economics

Xi has just a few months to make sure that mounting problems at home and abroad don’t overshadow his greatest achievement yet: securing a precedent-breaking third term as China's leader https://t.co/I0WmOBijx8

Brian Potter @_brianpotter

This week on Construction Physics I try to understand how NEPA works

constructionphysics.substack.comHow NEPA worksThe National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a piece of federal environmental legislation that was passed in 1969 towards the beginning of an “eternal September” of environmental laws, and is often called the “magna carta” of environmental laws because of how influential it has been in shaping en…

Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2

Find the duck 🦆

Ryan Moulton @moultano

This from @ZLabe has got to be one of the most powerful pieces of data visualization ever made. I can't tell you how many climate change skeptics I've shown it to who have been immediately taken aback and had to rethink things.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

One exciting option that might be technologically/economically feasible (but needs to be explored more): Extracting lithium from geothermal brine in the Salton Sea:

cnbc.comThe Salton Sea could produce the world’s greenest lithium, if new extraction technologies workAmid the shrinking, toxic Salton Sea, there’s enough lithium to meet the United States’ entire projected demand and fuel the electric-vehicle revolution.

Heather Hoff @Heather_mom4nuk

Sign this to support diablo canyon: Anti-nuclear groups are worried. We are undoing their years of hard work. They’re coming out in force against Diablo Canyon. Let’s show the world what we’ve built the last six years! We are huge and powerful too. And right. 🤪💪🏼⚛️♥️

isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke

Want to fight climate change right now? Sign the petition to join 79 leading scientists who are calling on CA officials to keep the Diablo Canyon power plant open. Fight climate change, keep the lights on, and save consumers billions of dollars! ✊🏼 https://t.co/ET9fp6bVVG https://t.co/zcJz5ijJdt

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The USSR spent decades building up millions of artillery shells, and now Russia is running down those stocks of artillery shells just to level a bunch of suburbs in the former USSR.

Emma Burrows @EJ_Burrows

NEW: Western intelligence official says Russians are starting to 'run out of ammunition.' 'We have a large range of evidence to suggest munitions are being depleted...inc munitions coming out of deep storage.'

Daniel Hemel @DanielJHemel

@binarybits @arbakr

Noah Mullins @NoahMullins

@IDoTheThinking I present to you the Toronto labor market: betterdwelling.com/the-toronto-re…