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5 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Yes, this drives me absolutely crazy. "The civil engineers think we should do more projects that employ civil engineers" is treated as a meaningful piece of information for reasons that escape me.
Imagine if the civil engineers lobby group put out a report card saying infrastructure somewhere gets an A+ and no further civil engineering is needed.
It's like asking a life insurance salesman whether you have enough life insurance.

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I think Ron DeSantis is likely to be the 2024 GOP nominee, and if he is, the ludicrous caricature of him that has become nationally known is going to create a really low bar for him to cross with general election voters. hotair.com/archives/allah…
See also this. Unlike the other MAGA goons, DeSantis has a finely-tuned sense of how to triangulate to appeal simultaneously to GOP base voters and moderate voters. Beware.
Also, I think people don't get what a positive image Publix has with Florida consumers. The idea that distributing vaccine at Publix conjures up "sinister corporate coziness" won't survive contact with a Florida voter.
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Even if this is true, the key thing is that tomatoes should be eaten at room temperature, and if you refrigerate them you’re likely to eat them too cold. How long does it really take you to consume your tomatoes?
Tomatoes are like cheese or chocolate or wine: If they’re too cold, you won’t get the flavors properly.
Also: If you put tomato on a sandwich or whatever, you need to put salt on the tomato!
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I don’t understand why this would need to wait for fall. It’s not even April yet. Shouldn’t we be vaccinating 12-15 year olds before this school year is over?
The elapsed time between the similar Pfizer announcement of adult data and the adult EUA was only about a month.
Some extremely misguided responses to this suggesting we lack either manufacturing or distribution capacity to start vaccinating kids in May (wrong wrong wrong)
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29 Mar
It's not off limits. Some very loud reporters (often self-appointed "disinformation" czars) have just led a fairly successful campaign to convince people within the industry that criticizing their work is morally wrong.
This beat has been like a brain poison inside newsrooms, making reporters arrogant about criticism at a time when the industry can least afford it.
And the arrogance is structural. If the whole premise of your beat is "people believe wrong things, this is turning our society into a dystopia, I will make people believe the right things" then of course you will end up with an authoritarian attitude when people object.
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21 Mar
Contra the video narration, were there really any *good-faith* complaints that she was engaged in cultural appropriation? Sounds like some people wanted to use her dancing as a hook to complain that people complain too much about appropriation in other contexts.
See for example this WaPo story. Someone who says “If white people can’t have corn rows you can’t do this kind of dance" is not actually mad about cultural appropriation, they're mad about complaints about cultural appropriation. washingtonpost.com/local/is-it-cu…
And I broadly agree with the view that cultural appropriation complaints have gone overboard (depending on the specifics). But don't take your annoyance about that out on this young woman, she didn't do anything to you.
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20 Mar
If this wasn't principally about the tweets, then it was very unethical for the Teen Vogue staffers to issue a public statement making it all about the tweets.
If your real view is "I don't think this person is qualified" but you instead say "I am very upset about this person's racist tweets from a decade ago when they were a teenager" because you think (correctly) that will get more traction, you are being dishonest.
Also, McCammond would hardly be the first person to be made EIC of a publication with no prior editing experience -- especially a publication like Teen Vogue that is small and could just as well be organized as a vertical of a larger outlet.
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