@JW_Elev8Wellnes @agraybee Or you can believe crazy guys on YouTube. Your choice I guess.
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Andrew MacDonald
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Andrew MacDonald
@profandrewm
Assoc Prof at @DukeKunshan. Previously a PhD student @UniofOxford. Completely amateur runner and Trader Joe's aficionado
United States Katılım Haziran 2009
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@JW_Elev8Wellnes @agraybee 5. Paper that showed virus evolution was highly similar to previous cases of zoonotic transmission and not at all similar to lab virus evolution
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@JW_Elev8Wellnes @agraybee Except all the published papers with evidence. If you ignore those, then yes there is no evidence.
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@agraybee Bwahahaha! Raccoon dog pangolin bats obviously, right?
There is a reason why no independent pre-2019 sequenced viruses share any possibility of being analogs or precursors. Only the fcs precursor made by man fits the bill. No evidence of wet market and there never will be.
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@SamsonB @TheStalwart Running shoe geeks subreddit is for peple that run 150-200 miles a month and wear brands that don't even make basketball shoes like Brooks. These are not people getting their shoe advice from LeBron.
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@TheStalwart Chinese brands will start breaking out when more NBA players sign exclusives like Kyrie. Athletic/streetwear adoption > mass market adoption
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On r/runningshoegeeks, 1-out-of-18 posts mention a major Chinese running shoe brand. Just last quarter it was 1/40. Li Ning is the big one
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@socmediafailure @TheStalwart It's French, they've been around a long time. I don't like the style but they are extremely legit.
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@TheStalwart I don’t really know anything about shoes but at some point within the last 2 years I started seeing a lot of people wearing “HOKA” brand shoes and that name sounds like the generic shit you see on Amazon
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@Kazanjy John Mica of FL was also a long time security hawk and chair of the transportation committee, also heavily criticized TSA's plans to relax some elements of the screening process.
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@profandrewm Looks like it's primarily Mississippi congresscritters and New York bipartisan congresscritters.
This is my shocked face. chatgpt.com/s/t_69c37e5702…
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Oh man if this showdown nuked the asinine jobs program that is the TSA, that would be the absolute best.
SFO is the best run airport in the world in large part because they use private security contractors - NOT the TSA.
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas
I think Trump should just unilaterally scrap the TSA to be honest. The White House should announce that given Congress has decided not to fund it, it can't continue to exist. Do a transition period where it gets phased out, and airlines take over airport security once again. The Dems are basically doing a shakedown right now. If Trump doesn't cave on enforcing our immigration laws (which he was elected to do), then they will continue to make Americans suffer at airports, confident that many will ignorantly blame Republicans. All in service of illegal immigrants over American citizens, because they need illegals to shore up the population of failing blue states. Don't play into that nonsense. Call their bluff. Just announce TSA is being scrapped. What are they going to do, argue that scrapping an agency would be unconstitutional when THEY ARE REFUSING TO FUND IT? lol
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@Kazanjy I would guess most of them don't represent inner city black people (who I suppose are the main group you think are given UBI-type jobs here?)
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@Kazanjy You would be out a shiny nickel. It's usually Republican members of Congress.
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@profandrewm I would bet a shiny nickel that congresscritter happens to represent a population of people who happen to be heavily employed by the TSA.
It’s just more shadow UBI with associated theatrics.
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@Kazanjy There is some truth to that, but also every time TSA has tried to relax screening rules members of Congress start screaming bloody murder about terrorists taking down airplanes with shaving blades.
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@profandrewm Oh, I'm pretty sure the regulation-required screening protocols are in service of the staffing levels. The tail is wagging the dog.
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@Kazanjy I would support separating the actual screening process from the regulatory role of the TSA but the regulation-required screening security protocols is the main reason security is so unfun. The quality of the staffing has not really been the reason people hate it.
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Atlanta and Oakland are chronic disaster zones.
But the privatization of TSA and breaking the back of its role as a jobs program for high school dropouts would of course lead to all manner of other lovely things - like removal of "TSA Policies" that emphasize human headcount over throughput.
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@Kazanjy I mean, maybe? At most airports, the airport authority builds the space and provides the hardware and TSA simply staffs the checkpoints.
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@profandrewm Oh, I'd be completely unsurprised if it was the result of collaboration with a private entity that is employed at the pleasure of the airport versus a monopolist the airport is stuck with.
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@Kazanjy This is all paid for by the airport. Doesn't have anything to do with TSA/non-TSA screeners
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@Kazanjy I guess. Last year I flew about 150k miles and I never have much of a problem with TSA at other airports though I have PreCheck.
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@profandrewm The quality is WAYYYYY different. It's night and day.
I would imagine that they're measured on outcomes.
The staff composition of course is substantially different because they can hire for merit instead of for politically desirable population quotas.
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Zoom in on this Shanghai solarpunk building. Even standing up close I felt like I was looking at some AI artwork.
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@Kazanjy @humantransit True. Though I understand you are against WFH? I don't really have a dog in that fight but maybe you could help solve their budget deficit by driving some of the WFH companies out of business.
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@profandrewm @humantransit The claim from the agency is that WFH patterns have permanently changed the demand for the service. Seems like that would call for meaningful refactoring.
Why would one lose 50% of your business and have 0 budgetary reduction. That's bananas.
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I'm sick of public transit opponents arguing that because we don't have the money to fix the service, we shouldn't have the money to fix the service.
Laura Powell@LauraPowellEsq
I am sick of public-transit enthusiasts trying to force people to use a dangerous, dirty, unreliable, and inadequate system. Fix it first, and then we can talk about your ideas to make it infeasible to drive. Price isn’t the top reason people choose to drive.
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@Kazanjy @humantransit Not sure networked effect products have revenue and costs that work linearly like that. If the service is once every 40 min instead of every 20 min the ridership losses would be higher than 50%
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@profandrewm @humantransit Totally. If a business loses 50% of its business, it should lose 50% of its cost.
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@Kazanjy @humantransit The labor cost line looks like it is growing in line with inflation? No doubt they have a cost issue on the labor side but ridership is the major problem.
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@humantransit Fire 50% of the administrators making more than $200k a year and redirect the salary expense to station and coach police.
There’s plenty of payroll expense.
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