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13 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A nonsense position.
This account is of course full of retweets of the most annoying #resistance personalities.
Even people who don’t like when police abolition is called nonsense don’t actually support police abolition. They just like the aesthetics of police abolition.
“ooh, look at me, I’m so left-wing” why can’t these people just be insufferable about bands?

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12 Apr
You know what's grim? Cauliflower "rice."
Tastes gross, makes your house smell absolutely foul if you heat it at home, not filling, a declaration that low-carb diets are pain and suffering.
It annoys me when the dairy lobby tries to stop people from using terms like "almond milk" but I would absolutely get behind an effort from the rice lobby to stop people from selling cauliflower products as "rice."
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12 Apr
YES. If the Feds are going to throw tens of billions of dollars at New York-area commuter railroads, they should condition that funding on NJT and the MTA integrating their operations to through-run trains and better use existing capacity at Penn Station. city-journal.org/penn-station-e…
The money that’s supposed to be used for Penn Station South could pay for a whole lot of rolling stock and electrification upgrades that would enable the railroads to share more operations and spend less time clogging the existing 21(!) tracks at Penn Station.
Penn Station has a tremendous amount of capacity for a through station — it isn’t a terminal, it just gets used like one — but there has been a complete unwillingness to think about how to use that capacity more efficiently.
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12 Apr
The idea that the Wall Street Journal should try to be more like The New York Times — or that it should publish more of the same “social justice” framed content that is everywhere for free — seem like terrible business ideas. nytimes.com/2021/04/10/bus…
If the WSJ is having trouble attracting more young subscribers, even if they are left leaning, it’s not going to draw them by running the same stuff that they can already get elsewhere on the internet.
For the sake of the WSJ — an indispensable publication I pay for because it contains things I can’t find elsewhere — I hope this is true.
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11 Apr
Yet another normie behavior from Yang here — taking steps to avoid exposing his child to known allergens — that has made some people on twitter Very Upset.
I guess the progressive position is that downplaying allergies is ableist, unless they’re dog allergies, which people should just suck it up and deal with?
What a monster
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11 Apr
The private schools provide a real market test for this stuff. If parents hate it, why keep paying $33,000 a year for it? Public schools generally don’t appear to have gone quite so nuts as some of the private ones.
I guess I’m biased here though by my view that parents’ spending on things like private school impacts their kids’ academic attainment way less than they think it does, so I already thought they were overpaying.
People see high Ivy League admit rates from private high schools and are incorrectly inferring the causation.
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9 Apr
This from @mattyglesias is astute on the hazards of believing progressive "community" activist groups actually speak for many people. Though there is one specific oddity about the NYC mayor race... slowboring.com/p/yang-gang
@mattyglesias Besides Yang, there is also a well-established city politician running the sort of normie-focused strategy Matt encourages: Eric Adams. That the polls tend to have Yang-Adams one-two further supports Matt's point. But it doesn't explain why Yang has more support than Adams.
I have half-seriously remarked that Yang is the Biden of this race, but Adams actually has more of the relevant Biden-like characteristics, such as a long political career, deep base of support in the black middle class, and tendency to speak a little too candidly.
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