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1 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Among the things you should listen to it to learn: What's the best canal palindrome? (Hint: It's not what you think.) What's the fastest way to get goods to Europe if the Suez Canal is blocked? (Hint: It's not what you think.)
What should you do if you're attacked by Somali pirates? (Truth: We don't know, actually.) In what way have EU relations with China in the past week resembled progressive FM rock in the late 1960s? What's the future of the China-EU trade deal? (Hint: No f-- way it gets ratified.)
Are we moving into a world beyond geography, or one in which geography returns with a vengeance? For that, no hints: you have to listen.

We are not all of the same mind.
Nor were we of the same mind about whether this was a good podcast, so hearing whether you liked or hated it--be honest--would be truly useful to us.

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1 Apr
Yes, my God, yes. I wander through the world now in a cloud of puzzlement: What did I get up to do? Why is my wallet in the fridge? What on earth did I order on Amazon this time? These nice people calling me to tell me I'm about to host a conference--who *are* they?
Why must I preface every communication with, "Siri, find my phone?" How many loads of laundry have I run twice because I forgot to take it out before it started to rot? How many times have I stood up firmly to find item X only to find myself somehow losing the next four hours--
either searching for item X, in a blind fury, or forgetting to search for item X because suddenly I remember with horror there's something even more important I've forgotten to do? Something for which item *Y* is required--
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28 Mar
On the @cosmo_globalist Cosmopolicast we recorded yesterday, we did a go-round where everyone tried to figure out how to solve the #Suez problem. Hosted by @MoniqueCamarra, with @VivekYKelkar, @NighswanderJon, @akshaya_jose, @IlvesToomas, @RachelMotte, and @is_OwenLewis.
I, of course, said, "Why can't we just blow it up?"
But it turned out really interesting, when @IlvesToomas got us to look at a map and showed us that for pretty much every country but India--for which this is a disaster--it's a non-problem.
Yes, it's a traffic jam and a hassle for vessels that are stuck; but look at the map. Bienvenue, climate change! It's April. We don't really need the Suez Canal until next winter. So we can all stop worrying about it.
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27 Mar
This article is bad. cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…

It conflates "created in a lab" with "escaped from a lab." Those are very different things.

This comment is idiotic: Image
The problem is with Anderson's reading comprehension skills, not Redfield's grasp of evolutionary virology. Lipkin's defensiveness, and Anderson's, are dismaying. Image
The lab-leak hypothesis is supported by roughly the same evidence as the no-lab-leak hypothesis, which is to say, almost none, and certainly not enough to be this confident. And this quote? Just kill me now. Image
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27 Mar
"Je peux vous affirmer que je n'ai aucun mea culpa à faire, aucun remords, aucun constat d'échec," cette manière de se vanter, mon Dieu, ça le fait paraître aussi éhonté que Trump.

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C'est juste * bizarre * de dire ça. On est censé dire: "En tant que président de la République j'assume pleinement la responsabilité de cet échec," ou si on ne peut pas se résoudre à dire le mot "échec", au moins "j'assume pleinement la responsabilité."
Si même ces mots restent coincés dans la gorge, la toujours-serviable voix passive reste toujours à la disposition des politiciens. "Des erreurs ont été commises."
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24 Mar
If you're telling me you want to put me in a reeducation camp and you tell me you want me to disarm, I'm not apt to do so. To get rid of the weapons, we have to rebuild social trust. People are armed because they don't trust us not to put them in reeducation camps.
No, I don't know how to rebuild social trust, either. But fundamentally, the reason people have guns is because they don't trust the people around them. Rational or irrational, that's why.
I actually suspect even the most ardent 2A enthusiasts are sick to death of this and realize there's a connection between "number of guns" and "number of mass shootings." Deep down, they probably share the desire for "a lot fewer guns."
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24 Mar
I pray for them all to be cancelled. Only way anyone's going to read them these days.

True story: How to get your kids to read. Parents, are you anxious because your kids don't like reading? Follow these steps:
1. Do not view books are "very important to your child's development and college education." View them as "something that might shut them up for a while so you can be in peace." Buy every book marketed "for children" on the market.
2. Key: Provide *no* other sources of entertainment--certainly not you. They'll start reading. Worried this will screw them up, emotionally? Probably will, yes.

But they will read. (And they won't lose their minds in a pandemic lockdown, either.)
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