Favorite Rejects 2022-10-04

mariana meireles ♡ @mari_meir

the reason why we write SQL commands all in caps is bc it stands for screaming query language

Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb

It's worth tearing one's eyes from UK the financial fiasco to know more about this story - could be massive in the years ahead. China’s property crash: ‘a slow-motion financial crisis’ - on.ft.com/3ycTSeN via @FT

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Egypt is just one river surrounded by nothingness.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

New poll from Bay Area News Group surveys SF Bay residents' opinions on building more housing with results effectively identical to every other California poll on the subject. mercurynews.com/2022/10/03/bui…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Dang. That's one out of every 200 Russians. In just 2 weeks.

Max Fras @maxfras

*700 000* people left Russia since September 21, Forbes Russia reports https://t.co/6dhdAIvvpp

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Now he just needs to sweeten the offer a little and broker that Russia/Ukraine peace deal.

Bloomberg Technology @technology

BREAKING: Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, according to people familiar with the matter https://t.co/tiiWy2jveO https://t.co/TV94Gx33JP

Neil Hauer @NeilPHauer

Another sign of eroding Russian influence in the South Caucasus. From Nov 2020 until recently, Moscow was almost always the mediator for POW returns between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Now, it's Washington.

Nikol Pashinyan @NikolPashinyan

I highly appreciate the efforts of the United States for assisting to return our 17 POW’s. I hope with joint efforts together with our international partners we will further register progress in resolving both humanitarian issues and establishing peace in the region.

FLASH @Flash_news_ua

⚡️ Iran has declared that it does not recognize the so-called "referendums" organized by Russia in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, reports the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanaani — IRNA. 👉 Follow @Flash_news_ua

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

This is a common experience for anyone saying yes to housing and i think much of the blame goes on the city officials and councilmembers/mayors who sit there and let the audience heckle rather than shutting them down and maintain decorum.

Michael Kaess @WaluigiSoap

This isn’t how I wanted to deliver my remarks, but I wasn’t going to allow my neighbors to interrupt me. The truth is our community builds very little new housing - affordable or otherwise. It’s time my neighborhood did its part to solve the housing crisis. @NYCMayor https://t.co/GNWOy0qASG

non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima

It’s sort of notable that the two great powers that have had contiguous authoritarian backsliding for 1-2 decades, Russia and China, seem to be making worse decisions and are worse off than prior to that pivot point. Maybe a lesson to be learned here.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Vladimir Putin has done more to improve my opinion of the USSR than a million tankie shitposts ever could have done.

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

I think it’s easy to underrate just how weird everybody was in the past. Like, Abraham Lincoln would literally invite a young woman to the WH to summon Aztec and Native American ghosts to give him and his wife emotional support and political advice.