Favorites November 25th 2021

A Crime a Day @CrimeADay

Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with federal giblet law.

Are the Giblet components equal parts by weight or volume?

John Scalzi @scalzi

Tag yourself. I'm 100% a crisp and I don't care who knows it. (From here: cooksillustrated.com/articles/1678-…)

Crisp this evening for me as well, but there are a few here I've never even heard of, and I wouldn't want to just write them off.

Star Trek Minus Context @NoContextTrek

#Thanksgiving

I had to check, and yes, that's the real line. I'm not sure I ever saw this episode.

Alexis Gay @yayalexisgay

the unbelievable high of getting a “sorry, I’m running late!” text when you, yourself, are running late

Another reply suggested the joy of arriving late, but still a minute or two before the other person.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My Thanksgiving assignment this year was to make a salad and I feel like I've been set up to fail.

In all the hustle and bustle, the salad I brought was dressed and put on the table!

Eric Topol @EricTopol

Everything we know so far on the new B.1.1.529 variant, for which there is an emergency @WHO meeting to review nature.com/articles/d4158… @Nature by @ewencallaway @Nature ft.com/content/57ccc9… 🧵by @jburnmurdoch @FT

John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

Five quick tweets on the new variant B.1.1.529 Caveat first: data here is *very* preliminary, so everything could change. Nonetheless, better safe than sorry. 1) Based on the data we have, this variant is out-competing others *far* faster than Beta and even Delta did 🚩🚩 https://t.co/R2Ac4e4N6s

Considering this appears to have an aspect of immunity escape, I hope they use this as an opportunity to roll out a variant specific booster. I'm not sure what it takes or who needs to do something to make this happen. Really wish we'd kept $30 Billion for pandemic preperadness in the reconciliation bill.

Aaron Green @AaronGuhreen

NIMBYs in San Diego held a meeting to discuss the Navy’s plan to build 14,000 new homes and the Navy, who was invited but doesn’t need any local approval, didn’t even bother to show 😂 sandiegodowntownnews.com/navwar-redevel…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@MattBruenig American public policy

Adam Kranz @adam_kranz

Certainly supports that @Noahpinion thesis that the military is the only way we can get things done in the US

Aaron Green @AaronGuhreen

NIMBYs in San Diego held a meeting to discuss the Navy’s plan to build 14,000 new homes and the Navy, who was invited but doesn’t need any local approval, didn’t even bother to show 😂 https://t.co/jpFrvwEVMF

Strictly speaking, he said NatSec gets things done.

Jacob T. Levy @jtlevy

Thanksgiving was the holiday of the anti-slavery North. Christmas was the holiday of the South; before the Civil War it was not much observed in the North, though it was growing. Christmas didn't become a federal holiday until 1870, in an attempt at postwar reconciliation.

Adam Gurri @adamgurri

TIL https://t.co/hJQ4NbmCBX https://t.co/tfpkCpuCBv

Postwar Reconciliation? Wild!

San Francisco, July 2021