Derek Mitchell

@EdstrattonIII @midwest_it_girl @vanillavillan93 Should public sector employees be good at their jobs? Bc if the answer is yes then you’re gonna have to pay up for talent.

@midwest_it_girl @vanillavillan93 A public sector job should never be able to buy a house, if you can afford a house in the public sector then I'm paying too much in taxes, government employees should be the lowest paying jobs

pov: your boomer parents bought their house in 1980

@BayouBikeyBoi @evan7257 Houston should have congestion pricing in the arrow.

Has the city of Houston considered threatening to shut down the strait of Galveston as a negotiating tactic to get more funding for the Ike dike?

@CCGordon33 @souljagoyteller Also there are advantages to not drawing an American salary for those with a significant amount of student loan debt. If you’re on an income based plan you don’t pay anything if you don’t have any taxable income, and federal loans fall off after 25 years of being in good standing

@CCGordon33 @souljagoyteller I wouldn’t but she could. She works from home. She’s also eligible for Spanish citizenship so we could be in an interesting position where we’re both migrant workers but in different countries but still live together. Globalized workforce go brrrr I guess

Do you live a happier life in Mississippi or France?

@CCGordon33 @souljagoyteller Nah my wife would kill me. She’s Catalan. My job as an office in Barcelona (also poorer than Mississippi) and as soon as a transfer opportunity becomes available, we’re as good as gone.

@_derekmitchell_ @souljagoyteller Then go live there! Don’t let your dreams be dreams.

@CCGordon33 @souljagoyteller Hi, I’ve lived in Mississippi and am probably better traveled than most due to work. I’d rather live in France, and I hate France

@souljagoyteller Have you ever been to Mississippi? Why can you give the benefit of the doubt to third world countries you've never been to. But when it comes to your copatriots, your national brothers, you can't imagine them happy or successful.

@maskdaddy_ @TakethatCt @Skullym12 @News4SA Yes and no. Is it still killing people? Absolutely. Does my lab receive funding for any research related to Covid? Lmao not for a few years now, it’s mostly pivoted towards weight loss drugs and other mRNA applications.

@_derekmitchell_ @TakethatCt @Skullym12 @News4SA “During Covid” is now, the pandemic never ended.

TSA PAY | Elon Musk offers to pay TSA employees' salaries during partial government shutdown bit.ly/3PQh51S

@WMadoera @LowellFreeman3 @TheDemocrats Sure, I know all the neocon lies, we’ve all heard their propaganda before. They’re against every war but the current one, against surveillance state but the risk is too high to scale down now. You can literally just make peace and stop killing/spying on people

@_derekmitchell_ @LowellFreeman3 @TheDemocrats Not at this time, when Iranian sleeper cells are activated!

Republicans control all 3 branches of government. Democrats introduced 7 bills to fund TSA. Each one was blocked by Republicans.

@News4SA Didn’t he declare victory? I thought we won

Trump threatens strikes on Iranian power plants if Strait of Hormuz not reopened in 48h bit.ly/4sw66t2

@Skullym12 @News4SA You have no idea how funny that is lol I didn’t just wear a mask during Covid, I wore a hazmat suit I work in molecular biology/immunology research and was on the team that sequenced Covid and developed the first PCR tests for it.

@_derekmitchell_ @News4SA Bet you gladly wore your mask.

@SubSatorin @YemeKopter @OliverWDahl I agree, but constructing an economy that’s almost as irrational as it is complex can still be fun. The point of doing this doesn’t have to be to square the circle.

@YemeKopter @OliverWDahl Economists devote their entire lives to trying to understand real-world economies and cannot accurately model them. A novel writer has no chance. Better to abstract everything and do what works for the story you want to tell instead.

The more I think about this the funnier it gets

@DayveezDayO @BrianRoemmele Still probably less power exerted per distance per time than walking

@BrianRoemmele Eventually... you will have to go uphill... where's that footage?

Public Transportation. He ain’t asking permission…

@maxdnyc1234 @Boenau Ah yes, London, a city known for its good weather and young populace lmao

@Boenau When weather is good and you are young and able- bodied. What about the rest of society??

"Gas prices are high? Hadn't noticed."

@ATXVideos @spiredthunder1 @CapMetroATX @Waymo @robotaxi @Android You don’t have to, but most people spend almost all of their time either at work or at home. No one says you can’t go in a road trip. You’d have to road trip pretty often and far for it to be worth having a car just for road trips when cheap rentals exist.

@_derekmitchell_ @spiredthunder1 @CapMetroATX @Waymo @robotaxi @Android Yeah but who wants to live their entire life within one small area? What if you want to go on a road trip once in a while?

The @CapMetroATX bus is soon going to be replaced by autonomous vehicles. Especially Robotaxi. We're riding @Waymo for now, but as soon as @robotaxi produces an @Android app, we'll be riding with them on a regular basis.

@spiredthunder1 @ATXVideos @CapMetroATX @Waymo @robotaxi @Android It’s already mostly pointless if you set up your life up so that you don’t need one. Live close to work or work close to home.

@ATXVideos @CapMetroATX @Waymo @robotaxi @Android Robotaxi will make owning a car pretty much pointless

@SilkyD43256 @MaceAhWindu Looks like it. It’s gonna be a bloodbath and we know it. So why do it? I think they’re trying to use the deaths of hundred and maybe even thousands of American troops to climb the escalation ladder in order to justify a full scale invasion.

@_derekmitchell_ @MaceAhWindu Looks like they're sending in Paratroopers bro

Reminder: Iran is like, all* mountain range lol

@incelsteve @King_Sukunaaa If that funding drops then residency slots drop, which means that medical school class sizes drop, which means that it only becomes more and more competitive. The reasons we aren’t building new medical schools and training more doctors are a result of policy choices.

@incelsteve @King_Sukunaaa If you don’t like that it’s become super competitive, then you’re barking up the wrong tree by blaming the applicants. Almost everything wrong the process in very material terms is downstream of Medicare/Medicaid/VA funding.

y’all better start eating healthy this is our future healthcare workers