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4 May, 3 tweets, 1 min read
For crying out loud, leave people alone. I don't know what's driving this extremely weird "you're being too cautious!" lecture circuit, but if people want to ease themselves into things slowly, leave them alone.
I have seen absolutely no evidence that "my vaccinated neighbor still wears a mask!" is what's driving hesitancy about vaccines. Until you can show that evidence, leave people alone.
I want to make clear: If you want to talk about mandates and what should still be mandated, then absolutely, yes, agreed. But this individual-level "you're irrational!" finger-wagging is the worst.

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A bunch of seasons later, just after I left Television Without Pity, I had some kind of contact with them, I think -- I forget why. But she got me into a Survivor finale party at a bar in New York. It was great fun, and by the the time I looked for her, she'd left.
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Not glad to see some of the people who should be encouraging people to be patient trying to draw conclusions about how the election is going by speculating about early votes that haven't even been opened or counted yet.
This is the thing everybody said it was dangerous to do; they're all doing it anyway.
"Based on where the people live who submitted these sealed envelopes, who's winning?" Seriously, shut up.
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28 Oct 20
There are a *lot* of things that are good to keep in mind right now, but one is that the confidence with which people announce what's going to happen over the next, say, two weeks is unrelated (or possibly inversely related) to how much they know what they're talking about.
There's a lot of predicting as anxiety management, either "everything will be fine" anxiety management or doomsaying "I'm preparing myself for my dreaded outcome by predicting it" anxiety management.
There are a lot of people trying to get out ahead of any chance they'll look silly later by predicting things that don't actually seem likely.
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I've decided this dog walks around the daycare all day saying WASSUUUUUP and then laughing.
WASSUUUUUUUUP
COULD THAT DOG BE QUIET PLEASE HE KEEPS ASKING WASSUP
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It's very nice -- very enjoyable, very lucky -- to be able to make something that feels like it needs you to survive. But it's way better to feel like you've made something that *doesn't* need you to survive.
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