Favorite Rejects 2022-11-27

SDL @SocDoneLeft

this is actually cool as hell

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Move it to America

Bloomberg CityLab @CityLab

ASML, a critical player in the global chip industry, turned a sleepy Dutch suburb into a boomtown. But locals have had enough https://t.co/J10FS0nXZ8

Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps

Sweden's porn preferences vs radiation received from Chernobyl

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

There are no protests in China, and they're all America's fault!

Jamil Anderlini @JamilAnderlini

Now CCP propaganda is obliquely blaming “western media” - which is almost entirely blocked in China - for widespread protests that it can’t refer to directly!!! https://t.co/e8Vx13muuK

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Protests have reached the capital...

Vivian Wu @vivianwubeijing

Beijingers marched to the mid third ring road Liang Ma Qiao Bridge. Google the location so you understand what it means. Unprecedented! History is made already. https://t.co/8fEkR5i5hQ https://t.co/IDoiBZl0ce

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Religion is often an identity more than a doctrine https://t.co/vesB5FNkBx

Harper's Magazine @Harpers

Percentage of American evangelicals who deny original sin : 65 Who deny the divinity of Jesus Christ : 43 https://t.co/MRcdwszbEC https://t.co/NlwDkvMyJ3

non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima

4 for 4 😈

non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima

Understated stuff happening now to track: - once Ukraine gets M270 MRLS, Russia likely won’t be able to capture any additional cities and may get pushed back - inflation may have peaked - xi may be on shaky ground - culture war veering far into GOP overreach territory

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Isn’t the actual answer that the show was structured as a kind of satire of 1950s sitcoms that was not meant to be a true-to-life depiction of society in 1990? https://t.co/LKQEoDdXtE

KW. @KevinInChains

Every now and then a tweet like this goes around and the answer is always a union job he got in the late 80s/early 90s. https://t.co/Jn9AsgjzMX

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I guess people in 2047 are going to be aching like The Office was a documentary about management practices in late-aughts America rather than a satire of them.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

What people don't realize, I think, is that density doesn't encourage community because people in dense places know their neighbors. It encourages community because it takes less time to get to where your friends are, and because there are more people around to make friends with.

Caleb Heeringa @CalebHeeringa

@annehelen Almost across the board, our zoning laws discourage human interaction and promote loneliness. @drvolts https://t.co/z69Yy0hfvn

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Oh gawd. China cracked down on the real estate industry to reduce debt in the system, but this deprived local governments of revenue from land sales, so local governments are having their own shadow banks buy the land to fund basic services!! ARGGHHHH

bloomberg.comHas China’s Deleveraging Campaign Achieved Anything?After four years, efforts to curb excessive borrowing have had some success, but work still needs to be done.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

ABSOLUTELY CURSED