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Why is life expectancy in the United States so bad?
It seems perverse to be richer than these other countries but falling behind in something as basic as “not dying.”
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He notes that this chart ends in 2019, before COVID and the surge in homicides and car crashes which lead to people dying young.
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The New York City Subway has higher ridership than every other metro system in the US, combined
if more cities had NYC-style density and transit, the US would have significantly lower carbon emissions
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
Some folks responded to Noah Smith's tweet about needing a second dense transit rich city by saying that "Chicago is big!" Sorry, it's not. I spent some time researching the equivalent numbers for Toronto's metro, and I think it's 500 million pre-pandemic.
This is good, it's the same way we do the flu shot, and hopefully it makes a difference, but of course I'm really hoping for that pan-coronavirus goodness. And a universal flu shot while we're at it.
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The Russian Air Force is now bombing Snake Island to destroy the tens of millions of dollars in equipment they were forced to leave behind when they evacuated.🙃
@oryxspioenkop responds "You know this is the Russian Air Force because three out of four bombs missed the island"