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Aaron W. Gordon@A_W_Gordon
U.S. pickup trucks and large SUVs are now almost as big as World War II tanks.
vice.com
American Cars Are Now Almost As Big As the Tanks That Won WWII
1:43 PM · Jul 23, 2021
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Also, those high grills kill pedestrians, especially kids.
Tom Gara@tomgara
Incredible kicker to this story about vaccine hesitancy in Staten Island nytimes.com/2021/07/23/nyr…
3:37 PM · Jul 23, 2021
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See, it's funny except for how this is endangering others. And while we're on the subject of getting people to take vaccines:
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
It's reflective of certain type of (I would argue somewhat incoherent) liberal ideology that restrictions placed as the unvaccinated are portrayed as "coercive" whereas restrictions placed on *everybody* (e.g. lockdowns) generally were not framed that way.
nytimes.com/2021/07/23/wor…
9:27 AM · Jul 24, 2021
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I had not heard this distinction mentioned before, but yea, pretty weird choice.
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
Mandating would be more easily accepted, and less resented, than nagging. People will grudgingly accept, and many will secretly be pleased not to have the responsibility of deciding, and not to have the burden of then defending their decision to relatives, Facebook friends, etc.
1:47 PM · Jul 24, 2021
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"Mandate" is a better wording that "coerce".
John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch
But back to charts:
All the data we have suggests vaccines are working remarkably well. Far beyond what had been hoped for a year ago.
For example, a fully-vaxxed 80-year-old now has the same risk of dying from Covid as an unvaxxxed 50-year-old. That's an enormous drop in risk!
3:12 PM · Jul 24, 2021
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What a chart. That's a log scale, btw. And there's other interesting ones in the same thread.
Chris Elmendorf@CSElmendorf
It's become an item of faith among significant segments of the Left that new housing is bad for poor people unless it's deed-restricted affordable -- despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. 4/10
4:37 PM · Jul 24, 2021
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From a thread about a recent NYTimes article about housing affordability.
Randall Munroe@xkcd
Linked List Interview Problem xkcd.com/2483
3:31 AM · Jul 1, 2021
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Some interviewer once asked me what situations I’d use a Linked list in and I answered: none. He seemed to disagree with me, and we argued a bit, but somehow I got a second round interview.
