Favorites September 18th 2022

September 2018, Vaughan Canada

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Nah, most people in America are satisfied with their own life, they're just upset about the news

Teymoor Nabili @teymoornabili

@Noahpinion Substantive difference between the concepts of a cash rich country and an impoverished society. Everywhere cultural alarms are ringing with the news that, whatever way you choose to interpret cherry picked data, the average citizen is feeling like things ain't working for them

This chart is pretty wild. I wonder what it looks like for other countries, and while we don't have that exactly, we do have suicide rates across countries, they're not what I expected at all.

Brent Toderian @BrentToderian

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

scoop.meFinland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the “Housing First” concept agains homelessness.

I try not to repeat myself too often, but this is because homelessness is caused by lack of housing.

Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci

BREAKING: All of Puerto Rico — every town, neighborhood, house — is without power. That’s 1.4 million households. Winds over the southern portion of the island have gusted 80-100 mph, but elsewhere winds have been much lesser. Despite this, the grid is tenuous at best.

Rivers are reporting 20 feet above their level a few days ago.

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

drives home how extremely terrible those drivers who rack up dozens & dozens (& dozens & dozens) of tickets are https://t.co/7PAFEYUX9x

The War on Cars @TheWarOnCars

“In 2020, more than half of all drivers who received a first violation from a speed safety camera never received another and the vast majority never received more than two — helping to change driver behavior.” https://t.co/XlnLofokVZ https://t.co/W6HPk4gDrR

The numbers are from NYC speed cameras. We really need to legalize them in California!

Threads

• Thread about how foolish it is that the FDA is requiring people complete a full course of the original Vaccine before getting the Bivalent Omicron Vaccine. tl;dr: everyone agrees this is the wrong approach, but it's the result of standardized processes. Also it probably doesn't impact *that* many people.