Favorites April 28th 2022: Bruce Willis, Dredging, and Landmarks

April 2020, bread by Vahe

Donald Shoup @DonaldShoup

To combat the ill effects of urban noise pollution, Paris is deploying automated sensors and cracking down on the loudest vehicles. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @CityLab

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If you caught the recent items I included about dangers of noise pollution, this seems like a useful investment cities could make.

Mark Berman @markberman

truly incredible flexes here by Bruce Willis when the fourth Die Hard was being made vulture.com/article/hardes…

Since I know you were wondering, this is the best deepfake I could find for John McClane, it's actually pretty good IMO.

Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway

New Odd Lots! The Ever Forward was freed this week after being stuck in the Chesapeake for more than a month. Why'd it take so long? On this episode, @TheStalwart and I talk about U.S. dredging capacity and the 1906 Foreign Dredging Act.

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Or if you'd prefer it in meme form. I honestly haven't listened to the episode in question yet, but I'm ready to support legislation based on the headline alone. Some hipsters have been complaining about this issue for years.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

82% of Americans (!!!) now have a negative opinion of China. BUT, compared to 2 years ago, fewer Americans see China as an "enemy", and more see it as a "competitor". pewresearch.org/global/2022/04…

It's totally wild, but apparently a huge part of the reason is China's relationship with Russia. I’m kinda surprised the US public is so plugged into world news. This relates back to the idea that 'The West' is now just everyone who's opposed to Russia.

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Shows maturity of Taiwan's democracy. Zero chance within this century to see similar action in China, that Chinese justice system will require CCP to pay for the land it seized illegally since 1949.

Michael Fahey @shu_wang_gong

KMT loses legal battle to avoid having to pay NT$3.2 billion (US$108 million) in restitution for land that it seized in the 1960s for its Institute of Revolutionary Practice. h/t @tuzzi https://t.co/sOhKDoqeem

KMT is one of the main political parties of Taiwan, best I can tell it's the most conservative party, and is the remnants of the group that originally fled China after losing to the Communists.

Jake Anbinder @JakeAnbinder

TIL there is a house in San Francisco that is landmarked in part because it was the site of various antigrowth campaigns, which has a nice recursive quality to it

Really quite fitting for SF to keep a monument to NIMBYism

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• A thread going into detail about what a recent NYT article on the politics of climate change change gets wrong. Mostly ways in which the author's thinking is simply out of date, too pessimistic both about technology and about the public's ability to recognize the impact of climate change on the world around them. A classic fisking.