Favorites September 19th 2022

August 2021, San Martin

Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag

Putin billboards removed, American flags everywhere: sign of the times in Yerevan as Armenia adjusts to the new geopolitical realities amid Russia’s catastrophic Ukraine invasion

Looks like the United States has stepped in to broker peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan, now that Russia is too preoccupied to keep them from fighting. Now we just need to do the same for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. While we're on the subject, the US appears to have stopped Turkish Banks from helping folks evade sanctions on Russia

Halide @halidecamera

Our friends @iFixit have an incredible iPhone 14 (non-Pro!) teardown, showcasing a ground-up redesign of its internals enabling far better repairability. ifixit.com/News/64865/iph… It also showcases just why camera bumps are big. Check out the space the main camera occupies here!

Pleasant surprise that Apple has improved reparability, not sure what to make of the fact that it's only the new base iPhone 14, not the iPhone 14 Pro that has this new more-reparable design.

Lyle Solla-Yates @LyleSollaYates

Virginia is considering adopting this important improvement to our building code on October 3rd at the Virginia Housing Center (4224 Cox Road, Glen Allen, VA 23060). The meeting will begin at 9:00 am.

Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon

“Double-loaded corridor buildings cannot be built on small sites. Single staircase buildings open up opportunities for lower-cost multifamily housing construction and units large enough to accommodate families.” 🏗🏢 @salimfurth @ebwhamilton @mercatus https://t.co/CwadStxscq

Very cool! Hopefully this comes to California soon! I remain very excited about single staircase buildings!

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛 @hamandcheese

Separate from any religious mission, sending young people on multi-year trips to foreign countries with the primary purpose of talking to ordinary people is a remarkable institution for promoting cross-cultural fluency and personal independence. If only every 19 year did this.

Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann

Mormons sent to mission locations where contact with immigrants was more likely became more tolerant toward undocumented immigrants, especially those assigned to speak a language other than English https://t.co/UinYZfVTWT

Maybe it's not that surprising that exposure to other cultures makes you more tolerant of them, but it's good to see that it can work. One person pointed out that the EU has a student exchange program that has helped knit the countries together, especially because a lot of students decide to marry locals. America's Universities sort of function this way internally, Yglesias suggests in jest that we should sponsor more external exchange, so that we can tell foreigners about ice water. (Because they really do seem confused about it)

non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima

The presidio golf course being on federal land presents a compelling opportunity: the feds should just build a crap ton of housing there — enough for 25k people seems possible (it’s about 1/4 sq mi).

His starting offer: "70 salesforce tower sized residential buildings, ~5k residents per tower, 350k people." I'm on board with this, "Presidio Walled City"

Popehat @Popehat

All these meat substitutes just don’t scratch the itch https://t.co/QTIVV4EFzE

KNWA & FOX24 News @KNWAFOX24

Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man's nose near Razorback Stadium https://t.co/zlOVNNdOOX

Other jokes included "not *quite* beyond meat then".