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@besttrousers @texasgermanbre If the tweet said “Americans are surprised by the benefit level Germans receive for up to 12 months” would that be a problem?

@tylerwrites @texasgermanbre Because it's the replacement rate. Benefit level and duration are different things.

It's weird "In Germany, if you lose your job the government replaces 60% of income" is presented as something that break Americans' brains. In America, if you lose your job, the government replaces 47% of income.

@besttrousers @texasgermanbre For two months. Why did you pick the two month unemployment benefit when OP said “up to a year”

@tylerwrites @texasgermanbre > Why did you pick the 47% I didn't pick anything - this is the average UI replacement rate in the US.

@besttrousers @texasgermanbre Okay lol is this a distinction about what counts as brain-breaking? Why did you pick the 47% when the OP said for up to a year?

@tylerwrites @texasgermanbre I do not think anyone's brains would be broken by this.

@besttrousers @texasgermanbre Yes, but the phrase that was presented as breaking American brains was “In Germany, if you lose your job the government replaces 60% of income FOR A YEAR”. You left out the last part, which is the part that breaks Americans brains

@tylerwrites @texasgermanbre As noted in my second tweet, benefits last shorter in the US.

@besttrousers @texasgermanbre Why focus on the 2-month time frame? Going to 6 months it goes down to 9% compared to Germany’s 60%

@texasgermanbre > It’s much less than that. No; it isn't. data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?fs[0]=Topi…

@kmedved @JeremiahDJohns @DKThomp Can you elaborate on what “technocratic” antitrust reform would look like as opposed to hipster version?

It’s absolutely important, and lots was wrong with the prior enforcement regime, but the specific thesis that “actually, what’s wrong was a myopic focus on consumers” was a bizarre one. But there’s no room for technocratic antitrust reform in the discourse right now unfortunately.

This from @DKThomp is an extraordinary takedown of the hipster antitrust approach to housing. It starts with a crazy idea: what if you actually check all the sources they use?

@tracewoodgrains @IleanaAlmog The caption itself is clearly the whistle here, and what has a direct connection to Nazi ‘blood and soil’ arguments. Better put here: epsilontheory.com/the-emperors-n…

@nkulw -“without a hostage there is no ransom. That’s what ransom is. Those are the fucking rules” -“his girlfriend gave up her toe. She thought we’d be getting a million dollars. It’s not fair!” -“fair? who’s the fuckin nihilists around here you bunch of fucking crybabies”

Been chewing on this since reading it yesterday. Turns out that “say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism but at least it's an ethos” was prophecy

@visakanv The smarmy and pushy one is only ‘lousy’ on the axis of “solving customers problems” because it’s easier to pretend to solve fake problems. A lot of them are not lousy at making money, just taking the rent-seeking path

the commonplace caricature of the salesperson as smarmy and pushy mainly describes lousy salespeople. good salespeople tend to be earnestly curious about their customers' problems, and good sales involves describing those problems so well that it's practically a service rendered

@chillextremist I can’t wait to write my life story in the comments of “Airplanes - B.o.B feat. Hayley Williams”

The YouTube comments of every classic rock song are flooded with existential crises and emotional epitaphs that will bring you to tears

@boss_on_here I’m from there too, I wrote a paper on this once, from umich study: “Historic exposures before 1980, including living in the Midland/Saginaw area, hunting and fishing in the contaminated areas, and working at Dow, contributed to serum dioxin levels” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC26…

Fish in the river near where I grew up are so full of polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins that they're no longer safe for human consumption thanks to the DOW/Dupont chemical company

Love seeing my home discussed, it even has its own song (I think from the 80’s) Thanks Dow Chemical youtu.be/UPO1LgbjWYQ?si…

@coolfinish @kitten_beloved @SashaGusevPosts Ahhhhhhhhh it all makes sense now

@kitten_beloved @SashaGusevPosts he got run out of texas tech and now cant get a job thats why hes grifting here glad i could clear that up x.com/coolfinish/sta…

This account is a firehose of quantitative racism but it is worth re-iterating that: if a trait like skin color is caused by genes, and society determines outcomes based on skin color, then -- yes -- those outcomes will also be heritable. This is heritability 101!

@SashaGusevPosts Took me 10 minutes to get blocked, that was fun!

@cremieuxrecueil @unboxpolitics @kareem_carr “We” aren’t talking about anything. refusing to engage with his actual statement makes it seem like you don’t want to. If it helps you block me sooner, I have a statistics degree

@tylerwrites @unboxpolitics @kareem_carr Make another snarky comment that shows you can't think and you'll be blocked. The "logic" obviously doesn't resonate. Try to think about it next time. We are still talking about twin pairs that are racially homogeneous regardless of whether society is multi-racial or not.

This post got 50,000 likes and it never even pointed out the actual issue with the calculations, it just took issue with framing and it expressed that Kareem is too inept to find sources. But what's new? Kareem debunking thread below

@cremieuxrecueil @unboxpolitics @kareem_carr It’s like talking to a wall lmao they asked you if the logic resonates. “NOOOO YOU MUST TAKE THE STATEMENT LITERALLY” is the least rigorous way to refute someone I’ve ever seen

@unboxpolitics @kareem_carr Please read what Kareem literally said. It is about a scenario in which "doing lots of stuff while black is illegal". You will practically never get twins of any sort who are perceived as racially discordant.

@visakanv @sighswoon Good example of critics vs haters. Critics can articulate their disagreement with a statement like “it’s not climate change, it’s tweakers” and advocate for what they actually want without getting distracted

@sighswoon if you’re grounded in a clear sense of what you actually want, haters mostly just do free marketing for you!

The thing about online hate is that it doesn’t really feel like anything when you’ve been tangibly successful in the thing. There’s a viral thread hating on my poetry but someone always cries at my readings, Olivia Rodrigo loves my book and had it on her shelf in her Vogue interview , it still makes great sales every quarter, and my online writing alone changed my life and singlehandedly lifted me out of poverty. Everything great about my life is because of sharing poetry. Even if there was a hate thread of 1 billion randoms online squawking about their precious personal preferences, it still wouldn’t hold a candle to how great that feels. The altar is already long set

@abiylfoyp @visakanv Oh boy I feel dumb for not knowing that, thanks for this!

this tweet increased my use of ‘bamboozled’ permanently by 10x

@waitbutwhy Tim I would love for you to steelman the belief that “this rift over immigration” has been a productive argument

I've seen a bunch of posts by people on the left writing gleefully about this rift over immigration, as if it's a sign things are going badly for the right. But it's specifically the inability to have productive arguments amongst themselves that has stalled progress on the left.