Favorites September 13th 2022

Atherton, August 2022

FilmFrame @FilmFrameATRM

THE SHINING built in Lego. Posted in our FB group.

That first one is so good that at a quick glance I would believe it was a frame from the movie. (Here's the real frame)

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

DC is the Portland of the East. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

The most recent data I could find, (2015) for Mountain View was 6.5% of residents biking to work, Palo Alto is at 9.1%. Higher than I expected!

Rob Lee @RALee85

"The counteroffensive — revised this summer from its original form after urgent discussions between senior U.S. and Ukrainian officials" "Instead of one large offensive, the Ukrainian military proposed two." nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/…

Luppen states the obvious: "Assisting Ukraine in developing secret military plans against Russia is one of many things that no one with a brain in their head would trust the US government to do if Trump was in office."

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

Big picture on today's inflation numbers: Everyone expected the drop in energy prices, but the increase in core services/core goods prices were unexpectedly high and able to more than offset the big drop in gas prices. We're not out of the woods on inflation yet.

Well that's a real bummer after yesterday's fall in inflation expectations. Here's a thread with more graphs and explanations. I also found this quick summary of the entire US Economy in one graph very helpful.

Freddie Wong @fwong

I only eat at Chinese restaurants with 3.5 stars on Yelp

Threads

• Thread about how various countries have successfully moved towards reducing pedestrian road deaths while the US has done nothing.

• Thread about converting coal plants to nuclear plants, like, the literal buildings.