Favorites March 20th 2022
Wally Nowinski@Nowooski
New York has a surprisingly good program that pays citizens a bounty for videos of trucks that violate the 3 minute idling law. I would love to see it expanded to cover bike lane violations too.
nytimes.com
$87.50 for 3 Minutes: Inside the Hot Market for Videos of Idling Trucks
9:06 AM · Mar 20, 2022
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The article talks a lot about people being upset about being caught by this program, I'm just surprised that they're aware enough of the program to be upset.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The waning of religiosity is really underrated as a driver of social/cultural change.
4:52 PM · Mar 20, 2022
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Not exactly off a cliff, but definitely a precipitous decline.
Ben Collins@oneunderscore__
Startling data:
26 percent of unvaccinated people in Canada believe Russia invading Ukraine is justified.
2 percent of vaccinated people in Canada believe the same.
More evidence antivaxx communities are evolving into general pro-authoritarian spaces.
thestar.com/news/investiga…
8:29 PM · Mar 20, 2022
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Seems sorta like polarization, which applies in Canada just as much as it does here.
• Thread speculating about what Putin's more scaled-back endgame may look like. Also some explanation of why they're essentially leveling Mariupol. They’d still be looking to take a pretty big chunk of territory.
