Favorite Rejects 2023-02-28

TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗 @TheOmniZaddy

@_jasminwats @vivrantny This is literally exactly the exact same thing people said about Brooklyn brownstones back in the 1800s. People who see housing as an artistic commodity, rather than a place for people to live…man. (“Architect and Builder’s Guide” by John W. Kennon, published in 1868)

Scott Littlehale @FactChecker23

there was something else that changed between the lowest of the low employment years after the Great Recession, besides one law that affected a relatively narrow slice of the construction sector: the economy recovered. that is what led Carpenters' apprenticeship numbers to ⤴️

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Conspiracy theories have replaced Christianity as the animating cosmology and purpose-giving belief system of a whole segment of American society.

rawstory.comFox’s new Jan. 6 documentary implies 9/11 was a false flagFox News will air a selectively edited “documentary” about the Jan. 6 attacks based on the 44,000 hours of footage delivered to the network’s prime-time personality, Tucker Carlson. Carlson will not post all 44,000 hours for the public to view. Instead, he will make his own edits. The move comes aft…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

"If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right." - @DouthatNYT

Anti-Coastal Elite Coastal Elite🌐🔰🈷🇺🇳🇺🇸🇹🇼 @SipOfKoKo

Omg. My heart. AOC is talking FDA reform with an emphasis on finally getting us Americans some good friggin’ sunscreen.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Great piece here about how pharmaceutical marketing incentives, resource scarcity, and the perennial search for shortcuts can undermine sound clinical practice.

Damon Darlin✒️ @darlin

How depression test became crutch for failing mental health system https://t.co/iergghJto9

Quantian @quantian1

Solar panels are non-coercive and anarcho-localist (manufactured by Uyghur slaves in China and shipped around the world by fossil fuels), while nuclear power is capitalist extraction (built domestically by highly paid union labor and financed and regulated by the government)

Fred Stafford @fredstaffordcs

This claptrap is what passes for serious analysis of power sector on degrowth left. Nuclear requires monopoly and domination while solar panels are democratic and can be run by coops. So what localist entity is balancing the grid? How is 24/7 industrial baseload supplied? 1/ https://t.co/KV6PYYCocg

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

I think the contour is probably best described as low decoupling vs high decoupling.

lesswrong.comDecoupling vs Contextualising Norms - LessWrongOne of the most common difficulties faced in discussions is when the parties involved have different beliefs as to what the scope of the discussion should be. In particular, John Nerst identifies two…

ira @irapolis

This is what design review does in San Francisco. If you don’t like it when new buildings look like this, maybe we should reform the government committee that’s charged with doing design-by-committee.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A movie that rewards a cycle where you rewatch it after reading about it, because few people are going to get all the little bits like this. Another is that one of the composers Adam Gopnik says Tár commissioned works from is the woman who wrote the score to the movie.

Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek

I started choking on my water when I realized what was happening in the last scene of Tár. Un-fucking-believable.