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Adam Brazier

@adammarkbrazier

Not a Canadian actor. Cyberinfrastructure, astrophysics, sarcasm, convincing British accent

Katılım Ocak 2015
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
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"
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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!
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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
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Blair Dulder CPA™ 🧃
Blair Dulder CPA™ 🧃@runaway_vol·
why would anyone buy a windows laptop in the year of our lord 2026
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Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@asymmetricinfo Making fun of people for not having a degree is stupid, looks terrible and _is_ terrible
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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?)
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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
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Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
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
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@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
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Carl@HistoryBoomer·
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!")
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

If you have the basic skills to participate in the discourse at all — like you can read and comprehend a New York Times article in order to complain about it — you’re in a weird, out of touch, elite bubble. slowboring.com/p/in-defense-o…

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Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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)
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Magdi Jacobs
Magdi Jacobs@magi_jay·
Asking as an elder millennial: have people re-engineered the Star Wars prequels into being "good" or even "great?"
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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)
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
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.
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Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@murphdogg29 There's so many great guitarists that denying Prince was one seems weird
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VeryBritishProblems@SoVeryBritish·
Favourite British way of telling someone to be calm? Mine is “settle down”
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Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert·
Actually, normal people learn an enormous amount by reading
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Mark Halperin
Mark Halperin@MarkHalperin·
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.)
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@JakeAnbinder I think a lot of people just don't really enjoy getting information from the written word, to be honest, as well
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Jake Anbinder
Jake Anbinder@JakeAnbinder·
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
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

If you have the basic skills to participate in the discourse at all — like you can read and comprehend a New York Times article in order to complain about it — you’re in a weird, out of touch, elite bubble. slowboring.com/p/in-defense-o…

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Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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)
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Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦
Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦@JessicaBRiedl·
@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.
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Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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!
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@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
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Adam Brazier
Adam Brazier@adammarkbrazier·
@ingelramdecoucy It does look a bit like a 1970s science-fiction idea of a brutal future dictatorship's government building
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Enguerrand VII de Coucy
Enguerrand VII de Coucy@ingelramdecoucy·
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
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Andrew Fleischman
Andrew Fleischman@ASFleischman·
heartbreaking, this woman found out her husband was pulling all nighters at an apartment planning her birthday
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