Favorites July 10 2021
Scott "Black Lives Matter" Maxwell@marsroverdriver
While airborne for flight #9, #MarsHelicopter took 10 color images -- catching its own shadow a couple of times, and rover tracks, too!
2:32 AM · Jul 10, 2021
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Look, I don’t know about you, but I always expect mars to be redder.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
We’ve tried everything to get people to take the vaccine!
Have you tried certifying it as safe and effective like any other prescription drug?
No, not that.
Have you mandated its use in contexts where you mandate other vaccines?
Well not that either.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
12:37 PM · Jul 10, 2021
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Seriously, we really need to fully authorize the vaccines, this is getting ridiculous.
Josh Barro@jbarro
This understates the rejection of the left in this primary and undersells the politics of "comfortably insulated" NYers. Garcia and Adams are stylistically very different but were essentially in sync on the issues The Economist cares about here. And Garcia won Park Slope, etc.
Michael Hendrix @michael_hendrix
.@TheEconomist not mincing words with urban progressives…
https://t.co/H1lY1RYwM3 https://t.co/IakqiEJ9Bg
6:44 PM · Jul 10, 2021
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I'm sorry to say, trying to run more progressive candidates to get people excited to turn out just doesn't seem to work.
sam deutsch@samdman95
Atlanta and Barcelona have a similar number of people and length of rapid transit, but Barcelona’s carbon emissions are 83% lower and mass transit ridership is 565% higher.
it’s a perfect illustration of how housing policy and transit policy go hand in hand.
8:44 PM · Jul 10, 2021
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There's gotta be some planner from the 60s who looks at that and sees Atlanta as a success. “Look at this! We made it possible for people to spread out and use all the room on the canvas!”
Tom Gara@tomgara
It’s endlessly depressing that the US had a once-in-a-generation $6 trillion moonshot government spending program, and it was spent on occupying Iraq and Afghanistan
Patrick Collison @patrickc
It appears that the war in Afghanistan cost considerably more than all post-1950 NIH and NSF expenditures combined. (After inflation adjustments.)
[According to https://t.co/Kr7y9xxRxD, https://t.co/KtA3EeVZjH, and https://t.co/5aKTL7alWO.]
7:09 PM · Jul 10, 2021
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R&D, which is expensive but has big positive spillovers is a great place for government spending. Wars, on the other hand, have negative spillovers....
