Favorite Rejects 2022-09-09

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

Wild chart—per-capita CO2 emissions in China have exceeded per-capita CO2 emissions in France

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Annual CO2 emissions by country

Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate

TERRIFYING ATMOSPHERIC METHANE Atmospheric Methane concentration,nearly triple pre-industrial methane, is increasing at record rate, . Atmospheric methane concentration from 1750, updated to 2022. nature.com/articles/d4158… #climatechange #methane #globalwarming #carbonfeedback

Michael Schuman @MichaelSchuman

Why is China still locking down cities over COVID outbreaks? It's all about the Communist Party. My latest in @TheAtlantic

theatlantic.comZero COVID Has Outlived Its Usefulness. Here’s Why China Is Still Enforcing It.The Communist Party’s real priority is protecting itself, not the public.

Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar

I do think STEM folks should dabble in liberal arts, fine arts, social sciences, etc., but on the flip side of having a well-balanced education, I am pretty sure none of the liberals arts people are solving PDEs or coding up Python scripts in their spare time.

David Bowman @dlbowman76

I'm pondering the problem that our relentless "STEM, STEM, STEM!!!" educational drumbeat has created a new class of engineers who can solve any technical problem but also can't explain why Naziism is bad.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Not being able to explain why Nazism is bad is a failure of K-12 education. It shouldn't require higher education degrees.

David Bowman @dlbowman76

I'm pondering the problem that our relentless "STEM, STEM, STEM!!!" educational drumbeat has created a new class of engineers who can solve any technical problem but also can't explain why Naziism is bad.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Our first step is to switch to EVs as rapidly as possible. Right now, China is zooming ahead of everyone else in EV adoption. We need to catch up!!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Sex clubs seem like a pretty good place to do HIV screenings.

Dylan Housman @Dylan_Housman

Meet Joe Biden's monkeypox czar: a "progressive, radical gay" doctor who performs HIV screenings in sex clubs and gives meningitis shots in drag. Now he's in the White House https://t.co/sfQjvA8JQ9

jaja @JajaLiao

I hate it when Asians/Europeans say that the US has "no culture." I'm like bruh where do you think the TV and movies you're watching are from? Or your Nike's? Your iPhone? Even Domino's? American culture is so pervasive you don't even realize it!!

The Onion @TheOnion

“But milord, you must sire an heir, lest your hated cousin the duke inherit your land!”

bit.lyThings To Never Say To Someone Who Just Came OutComing out as LGBTQIA+ is a pivotal moment in someone’s life, so it’s always best to not fuck that up. If you want to be a good ally, never say the following things.

Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13

To give an idea of how strong an incentive it is to avoid US sanctions, Chinese firms have been relocating much of their Russian-based operations to Central Asia & have at least outwardly been following US export/sanctions regimes. And that’s from a RU “ally”

Ramez Naam @ramez

The IRA in action. Incentives for US manufacturing and US and allied battery minerals processing and production going to work.

Sawyer Merritt 📈🚀 @SawyerMerritt

BREAKING: @Tesla exploring to build a lithium refinery facility on gulf of Texas - Bloomberg Tesla says this facility would be the first of its kind in North America, as well as facilities to support other types of battery materials processing, refining & manufacturing.... 1/3 https://t.co/fF540i132o