Brian Chang

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Brian Chang

@eric_xin9

เข้าร่วม Ocak 2012

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·11 Kas

@BretDevereaux Hi, random unrelated question: I'm working on Senate simulator. Right now with 10 Quaestors elected every year, and using Bruce Frier's mortality rate estimates, it stabilizes at ~200 Senators. are my mortality assumptions too high? Or were there other ways to become a senator?

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@BretDevereaux·11 Kas

Further DA: Veilguard thoughts: I've heard folks rip on the writing. I think it's not *bad* but it also isn't strong. Part of the problem for me is not enough thought was put in to how individuals embedded in this world might talk about things. 1/

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·6 Kas

@bigchedda_7 @Retronomix1 @skins4seven @PardonMyTake @BarstoolBigCat The stone obviously isn’t that big. I have no idea what he’s holding

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Pate State Bagman 🦅@bigchedda_7·6 Kas

@Retronomix1 @skins4seven @PardonMyTake @BarstoolBigCat I get that but how tf do you even do that? Is the urethra that flexible??

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Pardon My Take@PardonMyTake·6 Kas

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·6 Kas

@asymmetricinfo Brb. Buying a goat

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Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·6 Kas

As my late father, a lobbyist, advised when I started talking about early exit polls in 2004: "Megan, stick to haruspicy. It has a longer pedigree and a better track record."

Eric Nelson@literaryeric

Teach your kids young.

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·5 Kas

@CartoonsHateHer Cheating is bad, but honestly I’m not sure there’s *that* big a difference, if someone met someone new and connected emotionally, whether they waited until officially breaking things off with the first person before sleeping with the new person or not

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Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer·5 Kas

I was actually working on a piece about this but I think because being against “adultery” is seen as a right wing regressive thing lots of people on the left were negatively polarized into saying it’s super chill

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·5 Kas

@ArmandDoma @DeepakInsights Do something about it. I’m about to buy a goat so I can conduct a haruspicy

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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma·5 Kas

@DeepakInsights who the fuck knows

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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma·5 Kas

today really feels like the day that we could put a stake into the heart of Trumpism

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·5 Kas

@CartoonsHateHer I have a take: the roots of cottagecore fantasy is Tolkien and the way he depicts the Shire with traditional farming techniques and aesthetics but with modern agricultural yields and abundance

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Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer·5 Kas

Many Such Takes is in today, always for FREE! Lots going on this week, total bonkers crap on both the left and the right, which is perfect going into Election Day. Link in replies!

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·5 Kas

@CartoonsHateHer I have to carry out five-month old on my shoulder and walk in circles doing tiny little bounces to keep him calm. My wife can just sit down holding him on the crook of her arm while watching Netflix

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Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer·5 Kas

Here’s the thing, I love being a mom but I feel like the “snuggling cute babies all day” part of being a SAHM is lowkey fake…for me it’s more like “chasing a baby who repeatedly tries to climb up the stairs and swallow older sibling’s small hazardous toys”

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@AmericanMartel @asymmetricinfo Dunno if it was still true by the mid-20th century, but butter was a prestige food in medieval Ireland.

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Artyom 🇺🇸 🇺🇦@AmericanMartel·4 Kas

@asymmetricinfo I'm thinking of things like Adobo (Philippines) which is highly salted, and keeps better without refrigeration than regular meat. Butter and cheese would be an example too, because it keeps. Also bread.

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Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·4 Kas

If you are making fun of how terrible all the food was in the 1950s, some things to keep in mind 🧵: 1) Many of the worst recipes are from cookbooks created to promote various foodstuffs, and probably no one except the poor domestic scientist who created them ever made them.

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@OAlexanderDK @morninggloria I like that the Trump camp isn’t confident of a win but they weren’t confident of a win in 2016 either. I’m fact, they were pretty sure they would lose.

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Oliver Alexander@OAlexanderDK·4 Kas

Not exactly what one would call a full or crowded venue. Since the Trump camp firmly believe that NC is a solid win, you have to ask why he is spending his last day holding a rally in Raleigh.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar

RSB pans out as Trump walks off the stage in Raleigh and reveals how many empty seats there are

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@mattyglesias Magnet- how the fuck do they work?

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@Robotbeat @mattyglesias @whstancil @JohnJHarwood Musk is already actively helping Russia.

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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat·4 Kas

@mattyglesias @whstancil @JohnJHarwood I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not. The idea we should kill Tesla and SpaceX because we hate Musk is stupid; it’d be a huge win for Russia and China.

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Will Stancil@whstancil·4 Kas

If Harris wins, Musk will have lost a foolish, existential gamble, and the natural consequence of that should be the end of his chapter of history

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@MattZeitlin @jbarro Also, nobody should gloat until the election is over

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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·4 Kas

ann selzer is literally nate silver's higest rated pollster

Amy Hoggart@amy_hoggart

Everyone in America has an aunt like Ann Selzer and an uncle like Nate Silver. Nate talks loudly all night long until Ann chimes in with a totally brilliant point to undermine him. (Also, Nate talks with his mouth full and Ann made all the desserts)

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@JesseMatchey @SuperMensch @asymmetricinfo I’m agains the slimy neoreactionary, no matter how good he is as dressing up his message.

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Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·4 Kas

Whatever you think of JD Vance--and I am not a fan of a lot of the things he says these days--it's hard to imagine Harris, Walz, or Trump having this kind of mastery of wonky detail

Liron Shapira@liron

The #1 most important minute of J.D. Vance on Joe Rogan was actually this:

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@JesseMatchey @asymmetricinfo I don’t like Trump or Omar, but there’s a different kind of risk when the guy is both smart and evil.

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@dilanesper @Knicks4lyfe1 @asymmetricinfo I can talk a lot about all the ways in which the leaders of the Palestinian national movements have repeatedly made things worse for Palestinian people in their pursuit of maximalist goals. But that doesn’t make what Israel is doing in the West Bank on.

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Dilan Esper@dilanesper·4 Kas

@Knicks4lyfe1 @eric_xin9 @asymmetricinfo the settlements are indeed illegal. and they are obstacles to peace. the problem is the Palestinian movement doesn't focus on them. they focus on the Naqba and Gaza and defending Hamas. So there is no pressure on Israel to stop settlements.

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Dilan Esper@dilanesper·4 Kas

This story has been haunting me a few days. And I think there's something here about our own discourse that is worth talking about. It has to do with how people say very dumb things about levels of freedom in countries. 1/

Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن@elicalebon

In Iran, a woman who was accosted by the “morality police” for not wearing hijab removes her clothing & roams the streets in defiance. She has since been arrested by IRGC forces and forcibly disappeared. This is the brave face of true resistance.

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@dilanesper @asymmetricinfo Yes again, not exactly apartheid, but similar in effect. How is eventually forcing all the Palestinians in the West Bank into Ramallah and Hebron better than forcing all the Africans into Lesotho and Swaziland?

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@dilanesper @asymmetricinfo The internal sovereign homelands thing seems like a red herring. They’re kicking Palestinians out of their homes into smaller and smaller areas controlled by the PA. How is that substantively better? And Likud’s long term goal is for the Palestinians to not be there anymore.

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@janecoaston I don’t think it’s a mashup. It’s just a Xinjiang staple that’s become popular throughout China.

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Jane Coaston 🏔️@janecoaston·4 Kas

Vigorously saluting this mash up

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Brian Chang@eric_xin9·4 Kas

@dilanesper @asymmetricinfo I said comparable, not exactly the same. I’d argue the separate legal systems, restrictions on movement, and unfair land allocation are more important than the fact it’s based on citizenship rather than explicit racial classification. As for deportation, Bibi et al are trying

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Dilan Esper@dilanesper·4 Kas

@eric_xin9 @asymmetricinfo not honestly, no. at best you can say it has some apartheid like barriers and checkpoints. But actual Apartheid was A LOT more than that.

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