Favorite Rejects 2023-01-17

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

Depressing that the decline in nuclear power is offsetting like 1/3 of the EU's green energy buildout over the last decade.

Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE

The Biden administration’s plans to support a lithium mine in Nevada are running into environmentalists concerned about an “endangered flower.” And of course, NEPA. #permitting

Carl @HistoryBoomer

I'm not sure how to reconcile MLK's firm belief in nonviolence with his belief in proper policing. I'm not saying one *can't* reconcile those things, I'm just not sure how exactly *King* would do so. His views were nuanced and can't be reduced to slogans. kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/do…

Alex Cohen @anothercohen

Product managers jumping into the Figma file to add comments for the designers

Giles Wilkes @Gilesyb

Unbelievably interesting story about how Apple built supply chain excellence in China. I've never been so in awe of engineering- on.ft.com/3WhMCqY via @FT

Nat Bullard @NatBullard

China passenger vehicle exports.

lulag tankie @revhowardarson

total energy emissions associated with washers and dryers is about 6% of the 10% of energy associated with residential usage, or 0.55% of all energy total. if we eliminate dryers entirely we're at about 0.05%. this is not actually improved by doing it at laundromats!

The Last Farm @TheLastFarm

@PEWilliams_ ~5 billion people around the world do not have washing machines & many more do not have dryers. There is no way to deliver Western middle class lifestyles to everyone w/o killing us all

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

Things that make you go 🤔 COVID coincided with what appears to be a sustainable boom in US entrepreneurship. Anyone have any good theories about this? @Noahpinion @AlecStapp @paulg @DKThomp bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Daniel @growing_daniel

oh cool, all's forgiven then

afr.comChina tells the world the Maoist madness is overBeijing’s conciliatory pitch is a signal that Xi Jinping’s third term will be a giant pivot back to global harmony.

Jesse Singal @jessesingal

At this point it's quite hard to tell whether Michael Hobbes is dumb or lying, but nothing in my NYT piece came from The College Fix. The reason I used "America is a melting pot" as an example of a microaggression is because the godfather of microaggressions said it is one.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Buahahahahahaha

Russian Embassy, SWE @RusEmbSwe

Gasoline prices per liter, 9 January 2023 https://t.co/cUbJjhuVQx

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

It’s true, Texas is becoming the solar king of the US https://t.co/c6fRIR6OS4

Pradyumna @PradyuPrasad

According to a study commissioned by Mr Welch’s organisation, in the second quarter of 2022 his home state [Texas] had three times more wind, solar and battery storage under construction than California