Christopher Stone

Newsom is not directly to blame for all of California’s problems. But if you’re explaining, you’re not selling. The gas prices, and the lack of housing, and the HSR problems, and the urban policy failures (no algebra for you!) do not create a springboard for success. A California politician who seeks the presidency needs to be a reformer in the vein of Matt Mahan or Daniel Lurie. Midwestern leaders like Josh Shapiro and Gretchen Whitmer actually built the damn roads.

@TrueStoneCold @ZaidJilani Maybe we can agree on that being on a slightly different level from losing an election already and being a pretty bad public speaker like Harris or being too far left like AOC. Not to mention gas prices in California have been above national average in California before Newsom

Democrats weakest 2028 candidates: Harris: Repeated loser, just bad at politics Newsom: Carries all the California baggage AOC: Too many extreme views from prison abolition to quasi open borders

@JackWrites99 @ZaidJilani Yeah, just one as with gas prices at California gas stations and a voiceover saying “he’ll do for the nation what he did for California,” and Newsom is cooked.

@ZaidJilani I'm not sure "California baggage" is as serious as you are making it seem. Newsom is very good at articulating his success and making California look good on paper. Plus he will have two years to lock in for the presidential election once he is no longer a governor.

@VictriaCal97 @dilanesper ICE does not approve or deny visas; the State Department does that.

@dilanesper I am a lawyer in Brazil, recently I’ve listened about a rich client of a friend who was investing in the US for the chance to come there. He was going to put 5 million dollars on the country and create multiple jobs, but the ICE denied his visa. Now he will likely go to +

whenever i do a pro-immigration thread someone chimes in that "people voted for this". no. People voted for border control. They didn't vote to exclude skilled workers.

@WDE2011 @dilanesper You could also stop shopping at Costco and grace the rest of us normal people with your absence.

@dilanesper I did, and I welcome it. I would love to be able to walk through Costco without entering a miasma of body odor wafting behind a certain ethnicity.

@dilanesper @Noahpinion Shocking how when you impose tariffs and crack down on unskilled immigration, the price of food skyrockets.

@MattPrinciple @Noahpinion @IMAO_ So the European view is that we should never stage public health interventions that would save elderly lives (and make other demographics better off) because elderly lives are expendable?

@Noahpinion @IMAO_ More likely: “100,000 people who are already at the end of their lives would live slightly longer.”

Economists estimate that if Europeans used AC as much as Americans do, it would save up to 100,000 European lives EVERY YEAR. But I guess saving face on Elon Musk's social media app is more important than 100,000 lives.

@Quasilocal @Noahpinion Fine, but then those European jurisdictions that impose permitting requirements to install AC, such as Geneva, should abolish them and let consumers decided what’s best for their own lives.

@Noahpinion Do you really think people don't know about it, or have it available to just go out and buy it they wanted it though? Sure probably more old people should actually buy it, but it's around. Many people just don't seem to want it 🤷‍♂️

@4ri4n85 @Noahpinion “Most Italians believe that [AC] makes them sick with sore throat or flu” <- then most Italians are scientifically illiterate, right up there with antivaxers.

The problem with lacking of AC in europe is mostly cultural. At home in Rome I have 3 AC but most Italians believe that it makes them sick with sore throat or the flu. In the UK where I live the issue is that most of the houses are not strucutred to have AC installed , they are mostly meant to absorb heat... the only issue is that today is 30 digrees and tomorow is going to be 33...

This is why it pays to be skeptical of demands to admit Ukraine to NATO, no matter how sympathetic the country may appear today. At least in the views of Ukrainian nationalists, we’re signing up for a permanent, or at least centuries-long, nationalist conflict. Even NSC-68 envisioned that the Cold War would not be forever and that the endgame was to provide a way of life superior to communism.

This is Ukraine's UN rep wanting "no reconciliation with Russia for centuries". In other words, future generations ought to be constrained by the (admittedly terrible) events of the present, and Russia should be encouraged to feel at permanent war with Ukraine. Appalling.

@steveschale @brianschatz @_rotimia You seriously think that the problem with Latin America /Caribbean policy js that we are not listening to exiles ENOUGH?

@brianschatz @_rotimia Would be nice to have some who understand the Caribbean and Latin America from the exile perspective, instead of just the Ivy League diplomacy schools

I’m not into black listing anyone from future work in their area of expertise but I do think it’s fair to want a whole new crop of foreign policy staffers in the next democratic administration. It’s not like the same 120 people are the only people who know anything.

@NihiloX This is a highly misleading graphic, because it shows neither the Israeli occupation of Sinai in 1967 nor its withdrawal from Sinai a decade later.

Israel's war in Gaza is absolutely a genocide. Israelis have been the aggressor for nearly a century.

@tobiaschneider That makes the show realistic, not the incompetent.

Whenever we do West Wing discourse, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Sure, they were all clever and idealistic, as most political professionals indeed are, but the Bartlett administration overall is treated as middling, falling short, with its rare wins bipartisan compromises

@NcBoycott @mcuban We have a severe doctor shortage here in New Mexico (more so than in most states, although it’s a nationwide issue), such that it takes MONTHS to get an appointment with a specialist, and you’re concerned that a furriner might become a doctor? Check out the brain in Angela!

@mcuban You could talk me into this if you limited it to American citizens only and tied it to years of service a not for profit medical care centers and hospitals or military service and NOT ngos.

If you want more doctors doing house calls, not selling their practices and going to work for the big HC conglomerates, make public med school free. A little gov intervention, so that rather than having 100s of thousands in debt guiding their decisions , they can do primary care or be a family physician and spend as much time with patients as they want. They can take cash. They can take chickens. If you had 250k after almost a decade of school, do you think that would impact your decisions ? And if you own a big HC conglomerate, does knowing they are drowning in debt impact your decision and how you compete and contract with them ? Fuck yeah it does. You pressure them till they have to sell out to you in an acquihire. They can’t afford to survive on their own and every huge HC company takes advantage of them About 32k students enter med school and DO school a year. 75k for a grant each. Thats 2.4b annually for each class. That’s it. You want better healthcare for everyone. That’s the place to start.

@hoorad_biz @mcuban What are the capital costs of establishing a medical practice, particularly one that requires a lot of sophisticated imaging equipment? Can, say, give doctors who band together to form an independent practice really finance all that themselves?

@mcuban As you’ve said yourself, doctors are completely hamstrung by byzantine Stark laws, vertically integrated monopolies and regulatory capture. The solution is to break up the insurance monopolies, make hospital corps divest doc practices/imaging centers/labs and let docs own them!

It’s worth asking how many medical students are opting out of primary care/family practice because of educational debt versus how many are doing so because of lack of interest in those practice areas. Specialization is almost always going to be both more intellectually challenging and more lucrative than general practice.

@ReptileRaised @mcuban You seriously want to train DOCTORS by remote learning?

@mcuban Not enough, undergrad has to be free too. And, all who have the grades and mcat scores should be able to enroll. There should be no limits on how many can enter the program each year. And most of it should be available for distance learning and learn at your own pace online.

1. You might equally well argue it’s coming out of the federal government’s pocket, or that if grant making institutions, or even out of technology license royalties, all of which are important revenue streams for universities, probably more so than tuition. Are you turning down your salary because it’s “coming out of students’ pockets”? 2. If you really have such a beef with regalia duopolies, sure you could have a doctoral gown custom-made by a tailor in India or Thailand. It’s not as if there are fashion police checking the label as you enter commencement ceremonies. 3. This leads me to the broader point. Do you really think that academia is the only institution with vendor qualification schemes? They are very common in large Fortune 500-ish companies. Many times this practice exists for sound reasons (do you really want an unvetted vendor selling Boeing 787 parts?) To be sure, vendor qualification may be less stringent or non-existent at startups, particularly where the stakes are low, more haute coiture than 787s. That’s part of the value proposition for startups; they’re nimble. But let’s not pretend that vendor qualification is unique to academia or that it’s some deep dark secret.

@TrueStoneCold Because it's coming out of the students' pockets.

Every May, the same thing happens: commencement is next week and I don't have a gown. Doctoral regalia costs $1,500. So I check whatever rentals the bookstore has left in my size and cosplay a different discipline. Commencement is basically my Halloween. What will I go as this year — a business professor? Law? History?

The most prominent celebrities elected to public office were Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump (all GOP) and Jesse Ventura (independent). Clint Eastwood and Sonny Bono were also Republican officeholders. The only really prominent celebrity who held elected office as. Democrat that I can think of is Al Franken, who got chased from office by other Democrats.

Californians are for a large part Democrats. Democrats are stupid F-ing people. They think they are progressive but in fact just stupid. Most just follow the crowd with no independent thought. They believe CNN and the VIEW are News Stations. If a movie or musician celebrity says something they believe it must be true. That’s why their gas is so expensive and people of wealth are leaving. People. Get a clue.

Gavin Newsom is telling Californians to boycott Chevron because they're "ripping you off." Today: - Chevron, L.A. County CA: $6.39 - Chevron, Jackson County MS: $3.99 It's not the oil companies ripping us off in California, it's Gavin Newsom and the Democrats. Vote for change!

@FacultyLeaks “My university offered to cover it as part of the hire package. I didn’t bother taking them up on it because it felt like a waste of student money for something I might not use enough to justify the cost.” <- so why are you complaining?

My full dispatch looking inside higher ed's parasitic vendor economy. facultyleaks.com/p/the-graduati…

@KyleMau @ConnorAllenEU That’s not true: London-Paris London-Amsterdam Paris-Cologne All HSR services to Amsterdam and Brussels and Zürich Vienna-Budapest

Let me give you the honest assessment on European rail: If you are going country hub to country hub on a high-speed line, great. Madrid to Barcelona or Valencia, super. Milan to Rome or Venice, super. Paris to Amsterdam, great (or at least used to be). All can be done in a few hours and you have your choice of time with many departures a day. Then try to go say... Krakow to Berlin. Second biggest city in Poland, biggest city in Germany, neighbors. Over 7 hours. That's the reality. Unless you're going to two major places within one country (and the whole point of the EU/Schengen is access) — it's actual brutal. Still better than Amtrak though.