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The concerns that kept us from implementing rapid antigen tests in 2020 look absolutely nonsensical in hindsight.
Ah yes, the Gini coefficient of our times: the rich get PCRs and the poor only get antigen tests.
The Washington Post @washingtonpost
School admins spraying chrome spray paint on the kids before they go to recess.
assuming these results hold up, the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory has been disproven: it's not that people are assholes online because they're anonymous, they're assholes online because they're assholes https://t.co/Z6W5Hae3wv
Jennifer Ouellette @JenLucPiquant
Here's the seminal paper regarding 'Internet Fuckwad Theory'.
Yesterday @kimmaicutler asked me what California greenhouse gas emissions would look like if we include wildfires, not just anthropogenic inventories.
An approximation: last year’s 🔥 basically undo the industrial/power/transport progress of last 2 decades
Wow, and that was last year.
Also, we need to be treating 1M acres/year in the off season and we need to be asking why USFS is only spending something around $50M of $250M total nationally on fuel management in CA for the 31M acres the fed govt manages when it costs billions to reactively fight these fires.
Trying to get that ounce of prevention is really hard when people's memories are so short.
I expect this kind of liquidity from cats, but I suppose rabbits are capable as well!
“Can you explain this gap in your resume” yeah I made it in LaTeX and I don’t know how to make the paragraph breaks smaller
Some day I'll learn LaTeX. At least I know how to pronounce it (lah-tek).
What worries me about the discrepancy between Xi's record as a leader and the Great Man image he's cultivating is the question of what kinds of things he might do in order to beef up his legacy.
Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
This really adds a certain ‘yikes’ to the recent saber rattling regarding Taiwan.
