Victor Venema

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It is a good idea to give the minority leader more rights. It is absurd how McConnell blocked bills & protected his colleagues from openly voting down popular bills. Or that in 2016-17 there were no investigations of Trump. Let's do this in a bill that goes into effect in 2025.

@jeneps That is big. No more corporations, who are allowed to bribe politicians, that have an interest in locking up as many Americans as possible.

Biden will direct the federal government today not to renew any contract with private prisons bloom.bg/3qRkU5g

@Femi_Sorry I guess this shows how uniquely bad the UK media is. In the German press it was clear that the situation around Northern Ireland was a Gordian Brexit knot. A good excuse would be that at referendum time many talked about a moderate Brexit,not the implemented extreme Tory Brexit.

The fact that I didn't know Brexit would affect Northern Ireland when I voted in 2016 means that despite studying EU law in 2 universities/languages, my vote was ignorant. I just got lucky. That's why I'll always say the blame lies with those who still supported Brexit in 2019.

@DavidPepper Well, in America "moderate" means doing what the donors want. That is what "moderate", i.e. corporate, Dems & Republicans agree on. Portman is leaving because the corporate donors are not willing to finance the too openly Fascist Republican party as much any more. #BadBrand

@joelockhart I am oppressed. I am super muzzled. I do not even have an article in the New York Post. Looking forward to Sen. Hawley' plans to give everyone equal access.

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@wokewaifu @christian_nesf A 1000 people poll does mean something. You should just take the uncertainty into account. No idea how good polling in France is, but likely 3 or 4% uncertainty.

@christian_nesf In France there are 2 rounds of voting. One can call it a "plurality"; I think calling it 26% is the clearest. TIL that in the UK the term relative majority is used, which sometimes is abbreviated to majority. This will be misunderstood internationally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality…

@christian_nesf 26%, that is disgusting, but not a majority.

@kristianpagh @ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz People should get more sun, but that is not the question here. The decrease in vitamin D concentrations is only a few percent per month in autumn. And there is a huge spread from person to person. How does that explain a sudden take off in the number of positive infection cases?

@kristianpagh @ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz The claim is for the starting date of the surge in positive cases in all of Europe, not just for higher latitudes. Is Sweden included in the "higher latitudes"? I would call this modest and gradual changes in Vit. D concentrations: twitter.com/VariabilityBlo…

@kristianpagh @ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz Then you are making the case that vitamin D production, rather than vitamin D levels are what counts for infections. The seasonal cycle is modest; we store a lot in our fat deposits. That we need an explanation could also be jumping to conclusions. tylervigen.com/spurious-corre…

@ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz Although, when I hit reply, and started thinking, as humans often do, I realized that also UV is very gradual. The main problem of the study may be that it is not pre-registered. Did we see the same earlier in the Southern hemisphere? Do we see the same for US states?

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@ruth_mottram @martincollignon @ClnHz I guess we can exclude Vitamin D as a reason. It is a fat soluble vitamin with a massive storage, if that were the reason there would not be a clear jump, but a very smooth change. UV kills viruses. That might be part of it.

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