In a perfect world both Taylor and I could think and write whatever dumb thing we want and people could decide on their own who they want to read/subscribe to. In Taylor's, everyone who disagrees with her should be fired or kicked off platforms they need for their livelihood.
Also in Taylor's world, she is the victim when people object to living by the rules she wants to impose on others.
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Top 4 states by population (CA, TX, FL, NY) offer an interesting contrast in how their governments have responded to the pandemic. From an outcomes perspective, there's not a lot to recommend the extra measures imposed on residents of CA and NY. 1/
By deaths per 100K residents: heritage.org/data-visualiza… 1. New York (222.9) 2. Texas (125.8) 3. Florida (123.3) 4. California (103) 2/
I understand the argument that NY deaths should be graded on a curve because more of their cases occurred earlier in the pandemic and before better treatment protocols were developed. 3/
The minimum wage for robots will always be 0 dollars an hour
Your job exists until either 1) your wages, inclusive of benefits, exceed the value you produce, or 2) the technology exists to produce and maintain a robot that could perform it for cheaper than your wages
Governmental efforts to avoid this reality inevitably end with people stuck in poverty producing goods in horribly inefficient ways and yet being terrified of any release from their condition (see, e.g., the farmers in India)
My Octopus Teacher is possibly the worst project ever recorded on video. Everyone involved in making it, funding it, and green lighting it should be fired into the sun.
Most especially this applies to the human protagonist, who somehow expects to be praised for abandoning his entire life, including kids, because he saw a fucking octopus.
The entire conceit of the film is also a transparent lie: it was obviously made with a large film crew and (sadly) was not the project of one weirdo loser. I’m angry that my love of nature documentaries suckered me into watching it.
Boy, am I seeing a lot of overheated and misguided commentary about the Liz Cheney vote. Here's what the vote does and does not mean. 1/
The vote was not at all a referendum on Trump or Trumpism within the House GOP. Trump already won those votes overwhelmingly when only 10 House members voted to impeach him. 2/
It was won before that when virtually all House Republicans, including Cheney, endorsed and voted for Trump in 2020. The overwhelming majority of the House caucus voted both a) not to impeach Trump and b) not to remove Cheney from leadership for disagreeing, 3/
I gotta say: when the Jacob Blake story broke, I did not believe there might be a possible circumstance where a person being shot in the back seven times would be justified. After a full recounting of the facts in the case, it seems Blake worked really hard at it. 1/
By his own admission, he was armed with a knife. He struggled with a police officer while holding that same knife, and refused orders to drop the knife even while being held at gunpoint. 2/
But it doesn't even stop there. Police were summoned into contact with Blake by an ex who had an order of protection against him due to a sexual assault and had reported to police that he was back (obviously in violation of that order) and had stolen her rental car & keys. 3/