Adam Brazier

There's a term for people who arrive at the airport three hours before their flight and it's "people who are an hour late to the airport"

@runaway_vol If you gave me a Mac for free I would try to sell it and get a computer I like Unless it was a work machine, potential future employers!

@runaway_vol I like the Surface Laptop a lot (physically it's great, also battery life is very good), and I'd rather have WSL 2 than trying to get stuff to build on OSX when working on Linux code Also, I do rather find OSX repellent, but that's an aesthetic opinion you probably don't share

why would anyone buy a windows laptop in the year of our lord 2026

@asymmetricinfo Making fun of people for not having a degree is stupid, looks terrible and _is_ terrible

We should have more senators without college degrees.

@arlenparsa Having a degree shouldn't be any sort of litmus test for suitability for elected office. Please stop saying this stuff, it comes across pretty bad (and is it that hard to find other reasons to criticise him?)

AOC graduated with honors from Boston University with double degrees in Economics and International Relations. Markwayne was the only Senator without even a bachelor’s degree. Hope that helps.

@MattZeitlin A more experienced parent told me to give it to my young children just after takeoff, and take some myself in case theirs dosen't work

the amount of times the label tells you not to use child's benadryl as a sleep aid really makes me think lots of people are using it as a sleep aid

@mr_sanford_lyl @ContrarianSaver @HistoryBoomer It's a correlation, but there's causes for lower literacy or poor mathematics performance other than being dumb. They're skills which require/use intelligence and, particularly for literacy, there's something of a stigma associated with lower performance

@adammarkbrazier @ContrarianSaver @HistoryBoomer I’d like to agree with you but in my experience, people who are bad at math are dumber than people who aren’t. And people who can’t read are dumber than people who can.

I have regular political arguments with a buddy, and when he says Americans are racist, etc., because they voted for Trump, I counter that most Americans have only the vaguest clue why they voted. They're ill-informed about everything. He finds it hard to believe they don't know who Trump really is because in his bubble (that I share), we're hyper-informed on these things. Matthew's essay backs me up! This line rang especially hard: "just know for sure that your intuitions are no good." That's why I love data. I want to see numbers, not just vibes from people who live like me. (And my buddy sometimes checks my Twitter feed, so Hi "Bob!")

@magi_jay I have come to feel they aren't really any worse than the original trilogy (which I saw when they came out, as a kid, and adored), but I am older than you. I didn't really find Jar Jar Binks more annoying than C-3PO (and I didn't find C-3PO that much more annoying than Luke)

Asking as an elder millennial: have people re-engineered the Star Wars prequels into being "good" or even "great?"

@David_Charts2 @JessicaBRiedl Seems to me that people do better in those jobs, in terms of health, than previously? People who become disabled through work _are_ entitled to social security, right (I do appreciate this isn't perfect and they can be forced to take other jobs)

@adammarkbrazier @JessicaBRiedl Very unfair to people who work standing up or do physical labor (e.g., manufacturing and construction).

Removing the cap covers about 60% of the shortfall, hits the top 6% only and only on income over $184,500, and reduces the deficit by about 1% GDP.

@Noahpinion You are from Texas, right?

My ranking of seasons: 1. Spring 2. Winter 3. Summer 4. Fall All are good, but Spring is the most good and Fall is the least good.

@murphdogg29 There's so many great guitarists that denying Prince was one seems weird

Whenever I see accounts like this dismissing Prince as a guitarist it's usually from novices who only know P's axe prowess from his 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame solo, have never experienced his music/live shows or white rockists who can't imagine Prince trouncing their fave.

@untimelysalts @nominalthoughts "Incomprehensible. A masterpiece!'

@SoVeryBritish "Don't get your knickers in a twist" is traditional

Favourite British way of telling someone to be calm? Mine is “settle down”

@besttrousers @StefanFSchubert Yeah, it's perfectly functional for most purposes

@StefanFSchubert 7th grade reading level is also very literate?

Actually, normal people learn an enormous amount by reading

@MarkHalperin @TheRickWilson

Of all the people I follow on X, who is in general the most likely to reply to a tweet with “Go fuck yourself”? (There’s only one correct answer.) (And please don’t do the obvious reply-tweet joke here unless you are, in fact, that person.)

@JakeAnbinder I think a lot of people just don't really enjoy getting information from the written word, to be honest, as well

I think the word "reading" gets thrown around on this issue a lot, in that I think most people could read and summarize a New York Times article but many people could not critique it in the sense of discussing context, bias, significance, that sort of thing

@JessicaBRiedl @David_Charts2 Why not raise the elibility age? That deals with a core element of the problem (people live longer, and longer healthily) and also matches the intent (allow people to retire as they become less capable of work)

@David_Charts2 I don't understand why it makes sense - especially for progressives - to use up virtually all space to raise income/payroll taxes on the rich just to (partially) ensure that rich boomers see no benefit changes. I'd use that money for Medicare or other spending priorities.

@daninelkgrove @ingelramdecoucy I really enjoyed the Hawaii Five-O and Magnum PI reboots (having loved the originals) so I am definitely on board for a new Rockford Files. There's also new shows I like!

@adammarkbrazier @ingelramdecoucy It's a classic that doesn't need to be remade, come up with something new

If the twist isn’t that Jessica Fletcher is one of the most prolific serial killers of all time then this whole project will have been worthless

@daninelkgrove @ingelramdecoucy What's wrong with Rockford? The original is the best television in the history of television, but it doesn't have to be as good to be worth watching

@ingelramdecoucy Ugh first Rockford now this drek. Woke Barney Miller next? Lesbian A-Team? Bald Lady Kojak?

@ingelramdecoucy It does look a bit like a 1970s science-fiction idea of a brutal future dictatorship's government building

The Florida Capitol Building wasn’t exactly what I expected. Honestly I prefer the art deco look of the Louisiana Capitol in Baton Rouge as far as tall Capitol buildings go, but there’s a certain functional businesslike vibe here that I do appreciate

@ASFleischman Working so hard he was eating double the normal amount

heartbreaking, this woman found out her husband was pulling all nighters at an apartment planning her birthday