This is the adorable thing about Europe, all these little countries that are like “look at me, I have pretty high GDP per capita,” and then nobody actually owns a machine that makes clothing dry. It’s so cute!
And then Europeans are like, “well if you only put four pounds of clothes in the machine, and run it on ‘extra dry,’ they’ll only need a little time on the clothesline.”
By the way it also rains a lot in Europe, quite rainy
Addendum: Lots of replies about my lack of a “kettle.” Right, I have a coffee maker. Tea is for losers, it goes in Boston Harbor.
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Of course also the ceilings in Europe are low, so you’re going to keep hitting your face with the clothes.
And some Europeans want to change the subject, “but single payer.” Okay, then why aren’t you like Canada, which has single payer and modern household appliances?
Masks hide expressions and inhibit interaction. They make exercise hard. Enforcing mandates is a burden on govt and business. And mandates embolden busybodies. Mask mandates were a bridge to much more effective vaccines we now have. Don't bring them back. businessinsider.com/vaccines-work-…
Where people should have to wear masks is not a matter for the "experts." Experts can provide an input -- estimates of how policy affects illness and death. (Alas they've often gotten this wrong.) It's up to us to decide what indefinite rules are worth it. businessinsider.com/vaccines-work-…
And rules that get imposed now *are* indefinite. We awaited vaccines; now, we have them. So what are mask rules supposed to hold over to? Living in an indefinite posture of COVID restriction is not worth it. So we must vaccinate and get back to normal. businessinsider.com/vaccines-work-…
Anyway, what Muriel Bowser did reflects the facts on the ground: A mask mandate is not warranted by current conditions, because we have the vaccine, and if people want to have a wedding they should proceed as normal with it. Now she should just make that public policy!
The CDC also says to use dental dams for oral sex. I hope everybody has their dental dams!
The article says the Fed should *raise* interest rates to encourage business investment (what?) and to address the fact that households are too burdened with debt (what??)
Like, did @nytopinion have anyone with a passing knowledge of monetary policy read this piece? Where is @BCAppelbaum?
This understates the rejection of the left in this primary and undersells the politics of "comfortably insulated" NYers. Garcia and Adams are stylistically very different but were essentially in sync on the issues The Economist cares about here. And Garcia won Park Slope, etc.
While I was for Garcia, and I worry about Adams' commitment to his stated agenda, the best argument for him is that his blue-collar reformer-cop background and his base give him more room to push politically hard ideas than Garcia would have had. businessinsider.com/why-im-optimis…
I'm not sure Garcia will want the job but I hope Adams makes good on what she says were his private comments that he'd like to make her a deputy mayor.