Darrell CHA-ching Owens@IDoTheThinking
Damn is Berkeley better than ever or what? Never thought my whole life our electeds would call this out this strongly and accurately.
East Bay YIMBY @yimbyeastbay
"Denying education to thousands of young people to satisfy a malthusian, suburbanite fantasy is nothing short of inimical to Civil Rights and runs afoul of the progressive values so readily espoused by the Council and City of Berkeley."
- @TaplinTerry
#berkmtg
5:22 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I think the fundamental problem here is the founders' whole concept of having Congress and the president be separate, co-equal branches of government. This only works if members of Congress feel more loyalty to Congress than their party. They no longer do.
4:11 PM · Feb 20, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
What we need is an executive that's subservient to the legislature. E.g. a parliamentary system. Any reform short of that is going to fail. Obviously we are not going to re-write the Constitution any time soon, but it's still important to understand what the problem is.
4:13 PM · Feb 20, 2022
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CZEdwards@CZEdwards
Masking may have put one of the 4 major flu lines into EXTINCTION. That’s how effective masking is. B/Yamagata has not been detected in circulation since May-June of 2020. Almost 2 years now.
nature.com/articles/s4157… https://t.co/jelO2OPJCs
Alyssa Long 🥄 ♿️🥄 @MeasuredAndSlow
I will forever be salty that masking dramatically reduced flu season for two years running and the message is still somehow that saving people from deadly/disabling disease just isn’t worth not seeing people’s mouths.
10:02 PM · Feb 19, 2022
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Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Hidreley Diao uses AI to capture what historical figures would look like if they were modern people.
George Washington:
6:39 PM · Feb 20, 2022
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Kamil Galeev@kamilkazani
The problem was solved in 1932 with the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Dam. Who stands in front of it? Its Chief Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper, a Colonel of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Stalin's industrialisation would be impossible without massive American support
1:56 AM · Feb 20, 2022
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
This is exactly right. Even if someone created an unhackable online voting system (which probably isn’t possible) it would be impossible to convince the public that the system was unhackable.
💸💸💸🇺🇸🌐 @rnoyfb
@binarybits An election where most people can’t understand the means of by which they indicate their vote, deposit it, and by which it will be counted is not transparent. The social implications, especially where distrust of institutions is high, are even worse than the technical reasons
11:35 PM · Feb 20, 2022
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David Sanger@SangerNYT
JUST POSTED: The intelligence is clear, Putin intends to invade. The debate has now shifted to how: in one massive attack; a series of bites that dismantle the country piece by piece; or a cobra-like squeeze. It makes a difference in how world reacts.
nytimes.com
Blitzkrieg or Minor Incursion? Putin’s Choice Could Determine World Reaction.
11:38 PM · Feb 20, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
This sounds like hyperbole, doesn't it? Except it's very hard to disagree.
2% Milk is a fair compromise @2percentisfair
@Noahpinion The 2009 stimulus had 9 billion for high speed rail…..nothing has been built yet.
High speed rail costs infinity dollars in the US.
12:11 AM · Feb 21, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
We could all be living like this if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission applied a normal cost-benefit analysis to nuclear safety.
financial wizard in training ✝️🇺🇸 @wiz_train
The Simpsons own this home on a single salary from a husband who didn't go to college
This was considered normal in the 90s when the show began https://t.co/s6mD94vFAA
12:57 AM · Feb 21, 2022
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Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal
theatlantic.com
The Reason Putin Would Risk War
1:14 AM · Feb 21, 2022
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