@MattZeitlin lagers and vindaloos, lagers and hot pots, you really don't need to be going elsewhere
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James Booth
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James Booth
@JamesFBooth
political analysis + campaign analytics
Washington, DC Katılım Ağustos 2010
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this is a literally lifechanging take. you need to be spicy food and cheap beer maxxing
Josh Barro@jbarro
@Tyler_A_Harper Have you read David Chang on why he loves Bud Light? gq.com/story/david-ch…
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So much of the badness in the world is caused by misgovernment that I sometimes think the most effective form of philanthropy would simply be to donate to political campaigns.
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had a huntsman live out its life on my bedroom wall once. very reassuring for this exact reason
Vayraxa@vayraxa
Australia is wild. This Aussie shows how to catch a common house spider and explains why it’s actually good to keep it around—so it can eat other bugs..
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cmon man, this is not sophisticated stuff from bezos
Elon sent all the 22yo genius into the govt for several months and they only cut federal spending by 0.01%
this idea that it's trivially easy to cut govt spending is one of the oldest tropes in the genre of 'business guy talks about washington without having any knowledge of the budget'
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Jeff Bezos: "Any corporate or Amazon CFO could find 3% (to cut) in Federal budget on a Tuesday afternoon" to fund zero taxes for bottom half/poor. "This is a skills issue" calling out administration and management incompetence in Federal government and local NYC city school system (He is also calling for higher wages for teachers while cutting outlandish admin budget)
tae kim@firstadopter
Holy crap. This interview. Too much logic and common sense. Jeff Bezos talking too much sense about housing supply/demand policy to fix high rents, zero taxes for poor. Bezos for President! Competence Party!
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@Rob_Flaherty sphere was a no brainer, people just find it hard to understand that on a presidential its a win if the final dollar of spend is doing anything at all
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Two more autopsial tidbits that were too small for the piece but people talk about On Here:
-Sphere ads cost less than a million dollars. We got some kind of inventory deal which made the math make sense. The social/earned numbers were nuts. Big, national attention-getting thing in the middle of a swing state. I stand by it, and someone should do it next time.
-The Call Her Daddy set: CHD and co set up for an interview in Vegas and we pulled it last second so Harris could go to FEMA for a flooding briefing. Rescheduled for DC a day or two later. Since they ate it on the cost of travel, production, set up, etc, we covered the costs of a last second, overnight rebuild of the set in DC (including labor, set design, parts, etc) as a make-good. I also think that was the right thing to do.
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extraordinary statement from @joshsimonsmp who understands this is an existential moment for labour, not political cycle business as usual:
Josh Simons MP@joshsimonsmp
For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve. It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership. Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for. This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life. But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice. I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working. That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.
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In my town a new luxury build now means being wedged between *two* two-car garages, rather than one. The gray bedrooms still have gray carpet, however.
Why can't developers think of a single luxurious thing they would add beyond car doors?
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ok but this remains true, constant interruptions is incompatible with deep work
andrew arruda@andrewarruda
“E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot'” - CNN, Friday, April 22, 2005
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[guy standing meme] life is good and there has never been a better time to be born into the world
Leah Libresco Sargeant@LeahLibresco
Unusually explicit connection from the rejection of children to the death drive at the end of this reader roundup in the NYT. Begins with the usual “Who would want to bring children into a world…” and ends, well…
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whenever anyone questions whether diet coke might be bad for you the answer is just "compared to what"
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage
Diet Coke is a great human achievement Delicious 100% of the time in canned/bottled form (but also customizable with fountain machines), produced and distributed at an unimaginable scale, probably OK for you, no animal-derived ingredients, loved across political + other lines
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Diet Coke is a great human achievement
Delicious 100% of the time in canned/bottled form (but also customizable with fountain machines), produced and distributed at an unimaginable scale, probably OK for you, no animal-derived ingredients, loved across political + other lines
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The Star launches in June with dramatically expanded coverage of Washington politics and policy — and new coverage of D.C. itself. The District isn’t just the place where politics happens. It’s home to the people who pull the levers of power. It’s where they live and work and commute and eat and vote and navigate the unique intersection of politics and real life.
The Star will cover all of it, from Donald Trump’s stamp on the District to the ambitions of its first new mayor in more than a decade. Who’s wielding power in D.C.? What’s driving them? What impact are they having on housing, schools, transportation and the District’s neighborhoods? What’s next for Home Rule? For statehood? And will the Nationals ever be good again?
We’ll do it with the same rigor we bring to our coverage of national politics and policy, and we’ll do it with the best local reporting team in D.C. We’re excited to announce the start of that team today — veteran journalists you know and trust, plus newcomers who will bring fresh eyes to the vibrant and sometimes vexing place we all call home.
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@DKThomp going to be hitting never before seen levels of boomer energy one day explaining to my grandkids what we used to do on a [thursday, friday,-] saturday night
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The future of leisure is fitness, running clubs are replacing night clubs for young people, alcohol consumption is falling, and oral GLP1s are going to melt literally billions of pounds of visceral and subcutaneous fat in the next decade in America.
The future is gonna be fit as hell (and a little bit boring)
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
DJ Diplo, speaking at WSJ's Future of Everything, says the future of entertainment is less nightclubs, more healthy experiences.
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@mattyglesias ok but a majority of 17 year olds "unable to leave the neighborhood" is immediately turning me into a boomer
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🚨 NEW paper out in @PSRMJournal with @lockhartm, Huber, and Gerber: Common polling methods can significantly overestimate attitude change. We show a null effect of Trump’s felony conviction on vote choice using eight-wave panel data.
🔗 cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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@wmataGM Improvement in DC metro has been amazing, would be crazy to disinvest rather than invest more, thank you for the leadership Randy
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A 🧵with my thoughts:
- Thx you, agree Metro is high quality & we are proud of our recovery driven by safe frequent reliable service.
- Agree we must never stop trying to be efficient using public money smartly
- This misses context of variable vs fixed costs (ridership\labor)
Dominic Pino@DominicJPino
D.C. transit ridership has recovered from the pandemic better than most U.S. transit systems, after falling further. Yet taxpayers who don’t take the train or bus are increasingly subsidizing those who do, and it’s not sustainable. 🧵
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