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18 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
SLATE: Naloxone should simply be where you are, already. It should be a standard in all first-aid and rescue kits sold on Amazon; you should be able to throw it in your shopping basket while restocking Band-Aids and cold medicine.
slate.com/technology/202…
Public health departments should distribute it to bars, restaurants, grocery stores, public transit kiosks, places of employment and worship, and homeless shelters.
It should be found near every fire extinguisher and paired with the placement of automated external defibrillators—portable electronic devices tucked away in most public places that can help with life-threatening sudden cardiac arrests.
It should be everywhere, just like medicine for headaches or bandages for minor scrapes and bumps.
If you happen to be away from your own naloxone device, you should be able to shout “Hey, does anyone have some naloxone?” and have the answer reasonably be “Yes, of course.”

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21 Nov
This is why I remain skeptical of admonitions of "People just need to be educated" to counter the interlocking onslaught of disinformation and self-gaslighting. 1/19

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I absolutely believe that junior high and high school health courses should cover social media hygiene, that civics education needs to return and cover media literacy, that social studies and science classes need to explicitly teach skepticism and critical thinking. 3/19
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This is so important. Overselling comes with a price.

1/14
#fafdlstorm
Overselling leads to debunking which leads to defensive defending which leads to unnecessarily rancorous debates.

2/14
This puts the whole thing into the framework of a culture war instead of a collegial search for truth and tools & solutions, all the while alienating potential allies.

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24 Sep
I think Cuban gets a few things wrong here.
1. He's thinking of cash infusions as mostly stimulus when it should be mostly relief. The stimulus will come when people start spending their savings because the pandemic is under control.
1/4
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Obviously, there is a stimulative function to sending out money now, but it should largely be seen as tiding people over until the service economy can open up more.

And telling people they have to spend it on your schedule is too paternalistic and a bureaucratic nightmare.
2/4
2. It shouldn't be bounded for a two month period. It should go away when the economy recovers according to a set of metrics, and it should phase out rather than fall off a cliff.
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24 Sep
@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock I'm not loathe to admit that at all. I'm frustrated that it takes so much prodding to my fellow reformers to stop yammering on about proximate bullshit that is easily falsified and move upstream the center of the system where the levers actually are.
@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock And it gets tiresome to have the fact that I don't agree with the standard-issue critique of the status quo means that people project onto me that I'm defending the status.
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24 Sep
DESIGNBOOM: G(u)arden is a pilot project with the long-term goal to identify all possible risk factors associated with the impact of the urban environment on edible plants that have been cultivated within it. 1/3 Image
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Related issue: Many farmers downplay the value of subsidies for risk management products except in years where they pay out.

But the value of the subsidy is in having risk management in the first place.
That's either a function of the constant need to downplay the crony capitalism that props up status quo ag or underscores that they don't really value the risk products and wouldn't bother to purchase them in the first place.
Because, if somebody was helping pay for your car insurance, you wouldn't say that that help had no value unless you got in an accident and the insurance paid out. But I hear essentially the same thing from farmers all the time.
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