Favorite Rejects 2023-05-07

May 08, 2023

– Airport usage fees are capped.

– Can you hide from him by not wearing a suit?

– debt to GDP is the wrong measure, focus on interest payments as percent of GDP.

– Does the starship troopers film exist within the universe of starship troopers?

– Everyone is afraid of the Menswear Guy

– fallout from Germany's abandonment of nuclear power

– Follow up on seatbelt use stats. Here's some useful government stats

– Help India because it's the right thing to do

– Lying with statistics

– More head injuries in teens come from car crashes than anywhere else.

– More rightist crazies on twitter than pre-musk.

– morons out there really believe the 70s were better than today.

– Murder rates in Texas and Florida noticeably higher than in California and New York

– Russian officials publicly calling for death of Ukrainian civilians on twitter

– String theorists are the worst

– Thread about rust belt cities in response to Yglesias.

– Tragic, McConnell has a good point about something

– US pilot training standards are bogus

– Warren Buffet wants better relations with China, mostly because he's highly invested in china.

– Yglesias argues the west wing was good because politicians really hold differing views.

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