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There’s a gap between the way that experts talk about mild infection when arguing against boosting (“vaccines aren’t perfect—and, look, you weren’t hospitalized!”) and the huge social burdens that we impose on people who get a mild Covid infection.
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It's kind of upsetting when you realize that basically all of human history was nightmarishly awful.
I guess the upside is it puts a more positive spin on today's problems.
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Genuinely incredible that The Washington Post ran a 10,000-word essay persuasively arguing that a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court dooms us all, and then with no further support dismisses Court expansion as "worse than the disease" in the very last paragraph washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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Immigrants! 💪💪🏿💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏻
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Patrick Collison @patrickc
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I don't think the WH is totally in the clear here—there was clearly some hesitance around October to make too big a deal about universal boosting. But yes this phase of the pandemic response should be understood as the public health establishment kneecapping the political side.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm
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(Reuters) - Walmart has seen a 26% increase in shipping containers going thru clogged United States ports over the past four weeks, chief executive Doug McMillon said at the White House Monday, ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden on supply chain
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Me, @delong, and @Noahpinion podcasted about patriotism and the history of capitalism and decided we basically agreed with the 1619 Project treatment of this despite some quibbles.
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this is standard practice in California as well (and refusal to adopt it is what made SB 827/SB 50 so controversial)
if you allow redevelopment of existing apartments but not owner-occupied houses, you are planning for displacement
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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough
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I see @pareene built a column around
1. saying he wasn’t sure why I tweeted something
2. deciding to make up an erroneous idea and attribute that idea to me as his motive
3. criticize me for believing the thing he made up
Interesting method
theap.substack.com/p/the-mess-age
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I think the Canadian system (mandatory retirement at age 75, parliamentary override power via Section 33 of the Charter, few legislative veto points so it’s easy to react to controversial statutory interpretation issues) is about right.
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Demon Possessed Crack Smoker @neoglobalist
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Early exits look good for Omicron, but that’s not counting those who got sick by mail.
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Andrew Prokop @awprokop