Favorite Rejects 2023-07-12

– "Immigrants had higher incarceration rates than US-born white men before 1870, similar rates between 1880-1950, and lower rates since 1960." (src)

– Americans are more than just 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires", the average american head of household *is* a millionaire by age 55. BTW, that quote is from 2004, because Steinbeck didn't actually say that in 1960. (src)
– Battery may have some big breakthroughs in the near future (src)
– Bush's one positive policy was PEPFAR (src)
– California has 10x the municipal grid battery storage that it had in 2020 (src)
– China is producing a fair amount of oil. (src)

– Extra parking fees in paris for big cars. Good (src)
– Menswear guy is proud that of all Nato leaders, it seems only Biden has pants that fit right. This despite his suit being less custom than others' (src)

– New episodes of bluey, the best kids television series (src)
– Sam Altman funding nuclear power research and development (src)
– Shopify has a tool that shows how much each meeting costs (src)

– The new version of the Claude AI performs quite well (src)