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Favorite Rejects 2022-08-30

David Watson
Aug 31, 2022
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Nat Bullard @NatBullard
@Noahpinion I added in wind power as well, on request
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10:28 PM ∙ Aug 29, 2022
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Jake Gotta @jake_gotta
AB257 would create the Fast Food Council and introduce sectoral bargaining in California - for @LongBeachPost #ab257
9:22 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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G. Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris
Some important polling simulations here: If you believe Senate polls today have no national bias toward the Democrats, then they are ~80% to hold the majority (based only on polls, not fundamentals) If you think polls will be as biased as in 2020, they are slight underdogs 1/2
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3:56 AM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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Steven Pinker @sapinker
I'm often asked, "If we've made progress, why are suicide rates spiking?" The answer is they're not: Worldwide, the death rate from suicides fell almost 40% in 3 decades. In the US, it's drifted up & down & at last count was a bit lower than in 1990. ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicid…
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8:36 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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The Wokest Numbersmuncher @NumbersMuncher
This Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial is what historians will someday say marked the real end of the cold war and is a masterpiece.
8:59 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart
RBOB (gasoline) futures now lower than they were pre-invasion
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8:57 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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Shashank Joshi @shashj
Gorbachev “was neither a dissident nor a revolutionary. He intended to reform the Soviet Union, not destroy it. But his aversion to violence and his belief in the Enlightenment were enough to finish a system held together by repression and lies.”
economist.comMikhail Gorbachev has diedThe last leader of the Soviet Union was also the architect of its dissolution
10:15 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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The Spectator World @TheSpectator
"Gorbachev’s greatest virtue was arguably his capacity to fail productively, to fail yet to learn. Unlike so many leaders, he evolved," writes @MarkGaleotti
trib.alGorbachev was no saint. But he was a kind of heroThe last and best encomium to Mikhail Gorbachev is perhaps precisely that Vladimir Putin seems to have loathed him
10:44 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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max seddon @maxseddon
"Lauded in the west as a hero, he was condemned by many in Russia for wrecking its economy and putting paid to its superpower status. In reality, he attempted to reform a system in terminal decline, and thereby triggered a revolution he could not control"
ft.comSubscribe to read | Financial TimesNews, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
11:09 PM ∙ Aug 30, 2022
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Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan
Forgotten in the West, ignored in the East, reviled in Russia. And yet he was too good a man to be a politician.
branko2f7.substack.comA politician who did not want to ruleAn assessment of Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)
2:41 AM ∙ Aug 31, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
Was this an accurate translation? Because this is one of the Trumpiest things I've ever heard Xi say.
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn
Xi Jinping in 2012 : "Finally, Gorbachev announced the disbandment of the Soviet Communist Party in a blithe statement. A big Party was gone just like that. Proportionally, the Soviet Communist Party had more members than we do, but nobody was man enough to stand up and resist.”
12:23 AM ∙ Aug 31, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
What has Xi done that could be considered "great"?
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TOI World News @TOIWorld
China set to crown President Xi Xinping as 'Great Leader', 1st since Mao https://t.co/8lqElS5olS
3:56 AM ∙ Aug 31, 2022
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