Alex Goodwin

Most Americans are still unaware that the census counts ALL people, including illegal immigrants, for deciding how many House seats each state gets! This results in Dem states getting roughly 20 more House seats, which is another strong incentive for them not to deport illegals.

What I don’t get is people- especially those claiming to be doctors- pretending viruses operate in a vacuum while ignoring every structural difference that actually mattered for public buy in and outcomes. Nine U.S. states have bigger populations than Sweden’s 10.7 million. Most of our states are also far less homogeneous. Size and diversity absolutely matter when you’re trying to ram through difficult public policy at scale. Pretending otherwise is just convenient amnesia. That homogeneity also delivered Sweden something we’ve never had in the same measure: sky-high trust in government recommendations - even early on, when their no-lockdown approach produced higher death rates than their neighbors. As physicians, we both know trust in the system (both healthcare and government) is crucial. Ours was (and remains) drastically different from Sweden’s long before COVID. Your “92% insured” percentages bit is pure “let them eat cake” privilege. The uninsured millions in the U.S. - those who you imply didn’t factor into our different outcomes- are in fact disproportionately the highest-risk groups for bad COVID outcomes. Dismissing them doesn’t make the problem go away - it just exposes your blind spots - or your callousness. And the math you keep dodging: even at “only” 8% uninsured, that’s still 27 million Americans without coverage - as many people as live in the ENTIRE COUNTRY of Sweden. When you have universal access to care, it’s a lot easier to sell the “let ‘em get sick, we’ll treat ‘em on the back end” mindset. (Surely, as a supposed physician, you aren’t suggesting that if ALL of Sweden had no access to healthcare, it would’ve made no difference in their buy in and outcomes? ) Then there’s paid time off and parental leave. Knowing you’re a pregnant woman or new parent who doesn’t have to rush back to work and expose yourself or your infant gives you a heck of a lot more confidence in looser societal policies. The virus may not care about marginal tax rates and the benefits and policies they support - but real families and real compliance do. We can and should compare COVID responses. No one got it perfect (Sweden, like New York, caught plenty of well-deserved heat for failing to protect the elderly early on). But we can’t do it honestly if people like you keep cherry-picking data, stripping context, and making apples-to-oranges arguments. Bottom line: you’re either feigning extreme ignorance here… or you’re actually demonstrating it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

A full-scale US Waymo rollout would cost ~700 full-time jobs in the funeral care industry (by saving around 35 thousand young American lives per year). Will no one think of (some of) the morticians!

Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024. The total number of homicides in the US in 2024 was 20,162. That's 64% of all murders.

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Kevin O'Leary says you can become a millionaire on $69,000 a year by investing 20% weekly. Here's the actual math on why he's right. 20% of $69,000 is $13,800 a year. That's $265 a week into the S&P 500. At the historical average return of ~10% annually, $265/week hits $1M in roughly 22 years. Start at 25, you're a millionaire at 47. Start at 30, you're there by 52. Most people think millionaire by 65 is the best case. This math says you can beat it by nearly two decades. The part most people miss: the first $100K takes about 7 years. The second $100K takes 4. The third takes 3. By year 15, you're adding $100K every 18 months. Compounding doesn't feel like anything for the first decade, then it turns into a machine. $265/week sounds impossible on $69K until you realize the median American spends $3,000/year on takeout and $2,500 on subscriptions they forgot they have. The money exists. The discipline is the hard part. Kevin's actual insight here isn't "invest more." It's that the gap between $0 invested and $265/week is the single largest wealth decision most people will ever make. The first dollar is harder than the millionth.

🚨BREAKING: CANADA WILL NO LONGER USE ITS MILITARY BUDGET ON US DEFENSE COMPANIES

Does NYPD know how to disarm people without going straight to lethal force? Follow-up question: Has anyone else noticed that NYPD consistently reacts to a person with a knife by shooting them??

I recently gave a talk at my college on why I think AI is probably going to soon make everyone obsolete and then kill us. Around fifty students attended. I think the talk went well but the students started pressing me on why don't I engage in violence given my beliefs. The students were absolutely not suggesting that violence was the appropriate action since they didn't accept my beliefs, but they were wondering why given my beliefs I didn't engage in it. I explained that I thought violence would make the situation much worse.

What a strange thing to say—why does skin color matter?

This is blatant racial discrimination against high-achieving white and Asian kids. Seattle Public schools decision to phase out its highly capable cohort gifted program (HCC) because it’s “too white and Asian”—52% white, 16% Asian, just 3.4% Black. They’re ripping away accelerated classes from bright kids and forcing a dumbed-down classroom that holds back high-achievers to drag everyone down. This racist policy breaks the hearts of talented white and Asian children—punishing them for working hard and scoring high on fair tests, all to chase racial quotas. Their potential crushed for “equity.” Cruel and wrong.