Dan McDonald

So much of the discourse can be explained by men nearing 50 and feeling like the world has gone to hell when actually what has happened is just they're nearly 50 and in the past they wouldn't have interacted with 22 year olds but now they do.

@ABC7Chicago This is right.

The humble French baguette is being inscribed on the U.N.'s list of intangible heritage as a prized tradition and savoir-faire. abc7chicago.com/french-baguett…

It’s International Men’s Day! One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white. THREAD

A rail strike could paralyze much of the U.S. economy ahead of the holidays by @LaurenKGurley washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

Twitter mood right now: youtu.be/q0OdzvA4j4A It’s been fun.

Founder advice: If the guy who wrote the Big Short, or did the Enron movie, or directed one of the Fyre Fest documentaries, or wrote the Theranos book wants to be your friend because you're super cool and running a great company, maybe decline the invite.

For me, masks are a tool to prevent illness that I use because I understand the science of airborne transmission and my responsibility to others. For others, it seems they have become a scapegoat for the sadness and grief they feel for a world that no longer exists.

I pay tribute to Finland who decided to fight in 1939. Finland lost a lot but you retained something sacred – your statehood. Estonia lost everything. For 50 years we were forced behind the Iron Curtain. We lost a fifth of our population to Soviet terror. 11/12

Inside the Democratic mistakes and miscalculations that led the party to a historically strong midterm showing.

William Goldman said it best: nobody knows anything

A snapshot of 2022-23 influenza testing at the Johns Hopkins Hospitals compared to the previous 5 influenza seasons... #influenza

NASA satellite imagery of Lake Mead from July 6, 2000 - July 3, 2022

If you are out of ideas, go for a walk. This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reasons are not fully clear, but there seem to be direct effects on the brain. apa.org/pubs/journals/…

The eventual movie of this week’s FTX crypto debacle is going to be epic.

The @POTUS kept his promises to younger Americans (with action on climate change, student loans, marijuana reform, etc.), and they responded with energy and enthusiasm.

"If you want people to vote for you, they kinda have to like you...Most people prefer the happy warrior to the 'buzzkill'...candidates and campaigns get more out of their biggest supporters if their engagement is fulfilling and exciting rather than boring and dutiful."

thinking about how 2 Bears coaching staffs did not call designed runs for their 6-4, 230 pound QB who runs a 4.4-second 40-yard dash until 20-ish games into his career, and then a few weeks after they started doing that he set the all-time record for QB rushing yards in a game

"Most of these threats are not made by deranged individuals or habitual criminals. They’re made by ordinary Americans acting in an environment in which the political discourse has been coarsened to the point that threats of violence have become commonplace."

when you read things like this, you really get an understanding of why so many people in crypto lose all their money twitter.com/AltcoinDailyio…