Favorite Rejects 2023-07-23

– Creating Peacock was a dumb idea because Netflix was willing to pay a ton of money for the rights to those shows. (src)
– Even the British press agrees that they are a poor country now because they refuse to build homes (src)
– I'm beginning to be convinced that humanity probably wouldn't go extinct in any level of nuclear exchange, although it would be horrific and we should be doing everything we can to avoid that outcome. (src)
– Italy's views of europe's food scene (src)

– Reminder: Mental hospitals closing is not actually the cause of prison populations going up (src)

– Russia trying to avoid economists reading their economic numbers by publishing only in russian, as if we don't have Google Translate. (src)
– Seems like the "Proximal Origin" paper authors did not believe their own paper. (src)

– The Game industry is much bigger than the other entertainment industries. (src)