Michael Damon

@Misanfrog This is outstanding

Amusing to see this happen to some YouTuber arsehole.

@ThatOtherJJ And if so, which is the "before" and "after"

@ThatOtherJJ same person?

Look, Gen Z, if you don’t want me to call you the r-word you’re really gonna have to do better. Sort your shit out.

@TrailTimeJessie Meanwhile, I'm not sure we've broken 50 yet. I think the forecast is a high of 47

this hot weather today is reminding me why i'm not retiring in the south. 😅

@TrailTimeJessie It feels like a limitless energy source

seems legit. 😅

@MeganNyvold Probably with fewer extras too. Mid-range hotel inflation + perk deflation has been insane

I’ll never be over the fact a mid to lower tier Marriott in Houston is roughly $300 am I being a boomer. And sometimes they are sold out fully

@loganb Wouldn't the salary incentive just create more travel nurses on the supply side, eventually ending the premium pay?

Related, A friend was making incredible money as a travel nurse. He’d go work at a hospital for 6mo, earn a year’s salary, then travel for a year. Every hospital was massively understaffed. Best hypothesis I could come up with is that if a hospital wanted to raise wages to hire an additional nurse, they’d have to raise wages for all nurses, so the marginal cost of an additional full-time worker was astronomical and hiring travel nurses at 2x the price was basically price discrimination.

Pay transparency reduces wages. lol, accidental side effects are incredible.

@kane @Herewar66545077 It's almost bad enough to be a meme

“The Supreme Court banned race discrimination in college admissions and Asian acceptance rates increased. I have no idea how these two might be related. I am a reporter.”

@MrDanielBuck No objectivity and celebrating open conflict sound like the blueprints for hell

"Getting the right answer" in math is considered "white supremacy culture." I want progressives to look into a mirror, say that slowly, and ponder who the racists are: "Getting the right answer in math is a white person thing"

@loganb @YIMBYLAND @asymmetricinfo The one thing that worries me is that it wouldn't prioritize the occupants in a robbery/angry mob situation. Rare, but a scary scenario

@YIMBYLAND @asymmetricinfo And millions have greater mobility and get hours of their lives back each day to do things other than drive!

If Waymo gets its way, tens of thousands of people will be spared from automotive-related deaths. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, pedestrians, pets, and drivers are all safer. This isn’t inevitable — The pro-auto-fatality lobby is doing everything possible to stop it.

@skaushik100 Maybe? I'm gay, and it happens, but it's still considered weird/obnoxious if it's not a joke

@alpendamon It’s way more common in the gay world, according to my gay friends.

I was curious about Eric Swalwell's alleged seduction technique of sending unsolicited dick pics to women he was trying to hit on. Gay guys send each other dick pics quite often (I am reliably informed). But what are the chances a heterosexual man sending an unsolicited dick pic to a woman is likely to elicit a positive response? Of course, there is a study, from 2020 (link in the next tweet)... h/t to @fakedansavage for sending me this when I asked him if he had any insight on this pressing question.

@skaushik100 It likely happens more frequently (in gay world), but it's still very weird and off-putting for most

The write up of the study, which concludes that "the main takeaway is that consent and communication matter" (duh): psypost.org/new-research-u…

@loganb @d_erasey @Noahpinion Persistence is a surprisingly large variable in weather forecast models

This could be the first time that it’s different! I’m a techno-optimist, but I readily concede new circumstances are different than old ones. But also, technological advancement as a category has been an unmitigated good for the last ~30,000 years, so the techno-pessimists need to at least explain how it’s different this time.

Which AI thing worries you most?

@Misanfrog I know, but I'd rather do the guac. The frozen green pea thing is my veg nemesis

@alpendamon Mushy peas, good stuff.

Anyway, lunch at an Ivy was quite nice.

@rorysutherland Would a typical Londoner ever choose Heathrow over LCY for domestic travel? The hassle factor seems immense

What the hell explains this price discrepancy? It cannot be informed preference alone. What informational asymmetry is causing this?

@_ZachGriff If I'm biting on the premium (in the screenshot example) I'm definitely spending the (apparently) little bit more for the next class jump

@_ZachGriff It makes the premium seem very expensive. The service jump from economy to premium feels much less than premium to biz-first

Yikes: @United's brand-new basic Polaris fares are officially on sale, and there's one big restriction we didn't originally know about. You won't earn miles or PQPs on these tickets (unless you're a Premier or have a cobranded card). But wait, there's more.

@murinomiyu_jp I would have to figure out a different commute sequence

東京に憧れ、東京で就職することを目指しインターンや就職活動に励む大学生が知るべき「東京のリアル」がこちらになります

@GaboAir That's a great approach video

Llegando a Buenos Aires, Aeroparque Jorge Newbery. 📹 el aterrizaje está en velocidad y sonidos reales. Tengan paciencia hasta los 500 pies 🤣🤣