Favorites September 27th 2021
For centuries—literally centuries—the Catholic Church approved of abortion until quickening which is about 18 to 20 weeks... about 4 weeks shy of the fetal viability bright line in Roe.
It's an absolute lie that the Founders believed life began at conception.
I had not considered the possibility of historical precedence for abortion policies, this is interesting.
Thread. Fits my mental model of Xi Jinping's regime as "standard conservatives who happen to have way too much power over their society"...
James Palmer @BeijingPalmer
Speaking of abortion, the thesis of the thread is that China will have abortion restrictions within 5 years.
People will say “stop using slippery slope arguments, a decision allowing this speech to be punished won’t necessarily lead to other speech being punished” and I’m all look, dipshit, we’re still using a stupid rhetorical flourish from a decision in 1919 to justify censorship
He's referring to "fire in a crowded theater" which is, in legal terms, nonsense. He’s got an excellent podcast episode that gets into the precise details.
The Global Supply Chain is a &#$*ing Mess—in 4 JPM graphs
1. Dozens of containerships stacked up outside LA
2. Shipping rates to the moon
3. Global delivery times at 25-yr highs
4. Our surging demand for WFH and home improvements imports —> wild surge in eastbound freight rates
So, we may have good supplies of toilet paper now, but that doesn't mean international shipping is in a good state.
Why is South Korea the only country that seems to be able to keep moving down the learning curve for nuclear power?
In every other country, it's been getting *more* expensive to build nuclear power plants over time.
A few days ago some tweets landed on my reject pile about how we should let the French corner the nuclear power plant market in return for us getting the Nuclear Submarine market... but maybe South Korea should be in charge of this...
