Favorites January 14th 2023

Niagara Falls, September 2018

alex @alex_abads

the United States of America, a country known for restraint and modesty

Has anyone else been to the moon? No. I guess it’s pretty American then.

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

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.

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

If you're wondering, the folks at mintthecoin.org have an explainer on how the coin would be normal sized.

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

The African century Cc: @hofrench @nfergus @NickKristof @Noahpinion https://t.co/OOVpoIPeYL

Portia Crowe @PortiaCrowe

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"

Threads

• 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.