"Something I like to emphasize here on Slow Boring is that people are often unaware of good news about environmental policy success stories. [...] Last July, Matt Walsh mockingly asked us to remember the dire warnings about acid rain and the ozone hole from when we were kids, seemingly unaware that what happened here is policymakers took those warnings seriously, implemented regulatory solutions, and mitigated the problem."

#MattYglesias

https://www.slowboring.com/p/wildfires-have-partially-reversed

#AirQuality #ForestFires

@Jonathanglick @KarlBode
I'm with @wjmaggos ; #MattYglesias has a lot of insights, and I wish he were on the Fediverse.

#MattYglesias on Twitter: "I think what people want to say about Leo is that living a good life involves settling down with someone and raising a family rather than dating a rotating cast of young women but that idea is so badly out of style that people reach for implausible abuse claims instead. https://t.co/AI6cFZRG9n" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1622392495266041856?cxt=HHwWgMC86Z3Y8oMtAAAA

Since I don’t want to actually publicly engage with Matt Yglesias or his fellow subscribers, and I keep talking myself out of my one-to-five rating system, it turns out what I do instead is discuss some of his articles at length with one of my brothers, where one of us takes the pro and the other takes the con on a given issue until we find common ground.

That way you don’t have to read the whole conversations that end with one of us saying things like “I would love to live in a world where housing permits were like gun permits: shall-issue rather than may-issue.”

#blog #politics #SlowBoring #MattYglesias

Every now and again I think that it would be fun to post a semi-regular roundup of ideas proposed by Matt Yglesias, along with my level of agreement or disagreement. Not in terms of arguing the details, just a simple expression of agreement or disagreement. Maybe on a one to five scale.

But then I slap myself in the face and tell myself to do something more useful with my time, like count the bristles on my toothbrush, or polish the fire hydrant in front of my house, or learn how buggy whips were made.

Apropos of nothing, I do tend to think that “American transit agencies should prioritize ridership over other goals.”

#blog #politics #transit #SlowBoring #MattYglesias

#TransHealth #MattYglesias #SamSeder
Centrist Blogger Joins Transphobic ‘Just Asking Questions About Trans Health' Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6TgH7nbfI

Well I did it I deleted the #birdapp from my device a thing I did a while ago with the #faceapp when it became clear to me *that* CEO is evil so well #DejaVuAllOverAgain and like with that one I didn’t delete my account because there are a lot of moments memories history I can’t see just flushing that away.

Anyway, I’ve been liking it well enough here. I like my new little network.

I do miss #MattYglesias ’s takes though. If any of you know him please tell him he needs to come on over.

"At any rate, some of the specific proposals in this piece make sense to me but burying it under obfuscation isn't helping anyone."

#MattYglesias
#sports

Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "It's so weird to me that we are talking in circles around this when everyone knows (I think) about the idea of an average difference between two groups. https://t.co/DbvGatNOfH" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1571923076320841731

#MattYglesias continues:

"I'm six feet tall, so when I meet a woman who's taller than I am it's a rare and somewhat memorable occurrence. There is both a real overlap in heights and also an extremely obvious difference in the averages."

Commenting on #CDC advice regarding #obesity , #MattYglesias writes "None of this is wrong, exactly, but it’s inconceivable that a major public health institution would discuss covid in this way without mentioning vaccines or treatments."

Why aren’t medical breakthroughs in obesity a bigger deal?
https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/09/14/why-arent-medical-breakthroughs-in-obesity-a-bigger-deal/

He doesn't discuss "obesogenic" factors.

Via #MarginalRevolution

@freakazoid #MattYglesias had a good response to that yesterday: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1567930234959466497

My country is far from perfect, but I wouldn't dream of trading the Canadian constitutional system for the American one.

#monarchy

#MattYglesias had a good response to that yesterday: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1567930234959466497

I wouldn't dream of trading the Canadian constitutional system for the American one.

#monarchy

"Blackpill on this is that as dads started doing more child care work, moms responded by doing even more child care."

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1559930566866358276

#marriage #housework #childcare
#MattYglesias

"[M]any people born in the prewar Habsburg realm [...] thought, “this is dumb and everything ought to be reorganized into ethnically homogenous nation-states.” Around the time of World War I, this was seen as very forward-thinking, and the multinational Habsburg polity was seen as a feudal relic. But today, multinational Switzerland is considered a highly functional polity. Canada is a nice place."

#MattYglesias

The case for the Austro-Hungarian Empire
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-the-austro-hungarian

#nationalism

Obama won downscale white people’s votes by pandering to their views
https://www.slowboring.com/p/obama-pander?s=w

A successful politician sees public opinion as it is, and adjusts his rhetoric and immediate goals accordingly. #MattYglesias claims that Mr. Obama doesn't want to admit that he did so.

#BarackObama #uspol

@douginamug @commandlinekid There's a law on the books allowing the US Mint to issue platinum coins, with no restriction on the face value.

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/the-platinum-coin-option-dd1d2fe64fdd/

#uspol #PlatinumCoin
#MattYglesias

Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "Here is Mark Zuckerberg proving he’s not just richer than you, he’s more patriotic. https://t.co/QOdILFXQiK" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1411806975965511691

Happy 4th of July to our neighbours.

#MattYglesias

"As Congress argues over the size of the infrastructure bill and how to pay for it, very little attention is being devoted to one of the most perplexing problems: Why does it cost so much more to build transportation networks in the US than in the rest of the world?"

https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs-america

Via #MattYglesias

#construction #engineering
#uspol
#VoxMedia

Matthew Yglesias on Twitter: "Love this @danagoldstein piece from February 2020 on phonics. Ms Smith from the story was my son’s teacher this year in kindergarten and I’m happy to report that he now reads on his own for fun because her “stultifying” lessons taught him how to read. https://t.co/5dCnXYrjze https://t.co/nU0n0NBrXH" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1405352352245223426

Hard to understand the opposition among teachers to #phonics .
#MattYglesias

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1403348619147845634

#MattYglesias
#architecture #tradition