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Favorites January 14th 2023

David Watson
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Niagara Falls, September 2018
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alex @alex_abads
the United States of America, a country known for restraint and modesty
3:29 AM ∙ Jan 13, 2023
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Has anyone else been to the moon? No. I guess it’s pretty American then.

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Brian Potter @_brianpotter
The reason the US doesn't have abandoned cars littering the sides of roads anymore is because of cheap shredders that made recycling them profitable
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5:13 PM ∙ Jan 13, 2023
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He mentions that in Hawaii it's not worth it to ship these cars to somewhere with a shredder, so there are still abandoned cars sitting around.

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Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin
When you hear people say they should mint the $1 trillion coin to solve the debt ceiling issue, you assume it's a comically large coin, right, this isn't just me
5:59 PM ∙ Jan 13, 2023
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If you're wondering, the folks at mintthecoin.org have an explainer on how the coin would be normal sized.

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Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1
The African century Cc: @hofrench @nfergus @NickKristof @Noahpinion https://t.co/OOVpoIPeYL
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By 2100, it's projected: - Africa will be home to 40% of humanity - half of all people under 18 will be African - the Lagos-Abidjan stretch of West Africa will be the "largest zone of continuous, dense habitation on earth, with something in the order of half a billion people"
6:26 PM ∙ Jan 14, 2023
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• Interesting thread about the epistemilogical difficulty in determining the true cost of CEQA on California. This is a section that was cut from a whole article in the SF Chronicle about how we can reform CEQA in the near-term.

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