![John Siracusa @siracusa “If I had to describe the Barbie movie in three words, it would be: Men ruin everything.” — My daughter (16) 1+ gummibando Oliver Busch @gummibando@mastodon.social @siracusa Description probably applies to Oppenheimer as well. John Siracusa @siracusa “If I had to describe the Barbie movie in three words, it would be: Men ruin everything.” — My daughter (16) 1+ gummibando Oliver Busch @gummibando@mastodon.social @siracusa Description probably applies to Oppenheimer as well.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F04aef985-f82a-4712-a802-1ad2c6305798_1084x618.png)
Both Barbie and Oppenheimer are over 90% or Rotten Tomatoes, seems pretty good. Tyler Cowen liked Barbie, but I had to look up what "Straussian" means, just like almost every time I read his blog.
![𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann There is much, much more to do, but from what I can tell it is not widely understood that US per-capita CO₂ emissions have fallen below WWI levels: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&country=~USA 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann There is much, much more to do, but from what I can tell it is not widely understood that US per-capita CO₂ emissions have fallen below WWI levels: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&country=~USA](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F644f15f7-2923-40b9-b794-6dcf22bd922f_1154x1198.png)
Ideally we want not just zero emissions, but net negative emissions, but this is still very good progress. Hopefully we can see China do the same.
![Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @perdricof today in fukuyama laser eyes: only forty percent of iranians still identify as muslim theconversation.com Iran's secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs A huge new online survey of Iranians reveals only 40% identify as Muslim. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @perdricof today in fukuyama laser eyes: only forty percent of iranians still identify as muslim theconversation.com Iran's secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs A huge new online survey of Iranians reveals only 40% identify as Muslim.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F273ca538-5f5e-401f-8639-40ec9a5fd0ab_1154x1028.png)
Noah Smith replies: "Unifying church and state eventually destroys church."