Dan Scherlis 🌻

PSA: Prices and delivery terms for LG appliances are great, if you buy from @LGUS. But every post-sale communication from them will be wrong or incompetent. Website is confused. Emails give bad links. Just wait to hear from the delivery co.

The largest COVID study to date — covering nearly four years of data and 29 million people — delivers a clear result. Out of the sample, 23 million were vaccinated and 6 million were not. Among the vaccinated, the risk of dying from COVID was 74% lower, with ZERO increase in deaths from any other cause. Of course, none of this will change the minds of anti-vaxxers. They will blame the researchers, politics, or even Ukraine. And that’s not a joke — people with anti-vaccine attitudes are significantly more likely to believe that “NATO provoked” the russian war against Ukraine.

Wasted an hour because lazy programmers at @CapitalOne use the "we need more info; call us" message for every error, instead of (say) "you can't have more than 3 checking accounts". Two @AskCapitalOne reps were clueless about this limit. #UXFail #ShittyUI

Bravo, @textfiles, for your role in this: theverge.com/news/824881/zo…

Idiotically, @Quicken pops an ad for some add-on service onto the Windows desktop, with the "close" button off-screen and unreachable. (1) What do people do who don't use task/process managers? (2) Do NONE of these companies test their shitty software? #UXFail #ShittyUI

Disinformation and the destruction of public health & America’s trust in doctors will kill more people than cigarettes. Neither I nor the other five living Surgeons General wanted to call for this unprecedented warning- but all felt compelled by duty to do so. wapo.st/3VTALll

@carinemhajjar You don't have to oppose free and open debate to acknowledge this: Kirk was a hateful white supremacist whose legacy is being buffed up by servile pundits who reduce hate speech to "brash comments", as you did on Saturday.

You didn’t have to agree with Charlie Kirk to respect this: he showed up for tough conversations in hostile spaces—at the height of campus cancel culture.

@Costco: "You can create a 20-character password!" Also Costco: "You can enter only 16 characters of password on mobile browsers." #UXFail #UIFail

@CapeAir your KAP1010 just buzzed my house. Local pilots are impressed by how low some of your pilots fly. Would you maybe think about noise abatement, or at least being responsible citizens?

No, @USPS, you do NOT want to assert that US phone numbers "Must be less than 10 characters long". (This bug appears when setting up MFA via SMS) CC: @USPSHelp

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

@midwestneil Thanks for confirming this. And thanks for all your work!

@Scherlis I thought it was a weirdly misleading statement by Chris Butera given that their own CISA advisory on this literally says "low attack complexity"

A lot of words to say - "low attack complexity"

@midwestneil And: congrats on finally getting traction with this one. Bravo!

@midwestneil Wow. Because it's usually reassuring to read "would require physical access" But not when that's followed by "[to railroad tracks, anywhere]"!

@EdKrassen I guess I'm obligated to also insist: 86 47 !! (Which should, obviously, be understood to mean "impeach, else disempower". Calls for political violence are unacceptable.) #8647

I literally just had the Secret Service at my house. More details in a minute.

@RepThompson In fact, once you incorporate the effects of the estate tax - a tax that will cost $212 BILLION and literally only benefits a small number of estates worth a minimum of $14 million - the benefits are massively skewed towards the wealthy in tax year 2027: x.com/Brendan_Duke/s…

@BriannaWu The way you exist has always been pretty damn impressive.

These comments about me are absolutely disgusting and hateful. I didn’t ask to be born this way. If any of you knew me as a friend, you would understand very intimately and there’s no other way I could exist.

@osteodoc01 @stopvaccinating Horseshit. How about a source or citation? Larry Cook is an ignorant and dangerous ass who will cost lives.

"Not like Dachau, is it, herr mufti?" This 1948 New York Times cartoon is more relevant then ever today. Notice that "Palestine" represents a Zionist resisting the Nazi Islamist. After the war, when people said "free Palestine" they meant "establish a Jewish state."