Favorite Rejects 2023-07-21

David Watson

Jul 22, 2023

– Absolutely ridiculous film synopsis. (src)

– Australia must be a huge thorn in China's side. (src)

josephpolitano 12h From China's perspective, Australia must be super annoying. It's this fiercely democratic island with a population smaller than Chongqing that you are dependent on for coal. Then as soon as you make the electric transition guess what? They're the world's largest source of lithium 11 replies · josephpolitano 12h To be clear, this is good, I just think about how annoying it would be for Americans if like Saudia Arabia happened to also have massive deposits of minerals necessary for the green transition

– Authors of article arguing COVID was not a lab leak appear to have privately thought that lab leak was plausible, made plans to deceive the public about this. (src)
– Builder's remedy project proposed in Menlo Park, 300 feet tall. Awesome (src)
– China's gotten pretty good at building cruise ships, which they can use for amphibious assault should the need arise (src)
– Chinese youth unemployment at 46% (src)
– Japan's inflation is now higher than that of the US (src)

– Just realized that RFK running third party would hurt Trump more than Biden (src)
– Lifetime risk of incarceration for black men has fallen significantly. (src)