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Jan 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BTW don't listen to the catastrophists on here who say we 'have to' mint the Coin or whatever. There's a completely standard process which is to just Raise The F**king Debt Ceiling (#RTFDC). People who doubt this are bonkers, it's been done dozens of times without fail.
'But but this time it's different' yeah yeah how many times have we heard this in the last decade. Do these Coin-fanciers ever feel like Charlie Brown with the football?
I don't know what the Coin-fanciers think is so great about the Coin, way more based just to #RTFDC. Literally just print a new number on paper & vote yes on it

number go up lol Debt Ceiling printer go brrr
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Jan 10
My old friend Jonathan Reiner MD is still whining that CDC publishes what he calls a 'greenwashed' map, based on some more holistic community-risk metric (not just transmission).

Reminder that if they hadn't made this switch, many/most schools might still be closed. Image
I guess people forget now, but a while back there were still many parts of the country fighting with their own school boards to open schools. They insisted on 'following CDC guidance', which 'guidance' was based on (made-up) thresholds for community transmission rates and so on.
The way those thresholds were set, and because of endemic conditions, there was a very real chance that the (what CDC made-up and called the) 'safe' level *would never* and *could never* be reached. Ever. At no time in the future. At least, not for any significant period.
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Jan 10
Because of the way Google News works, serving you what you're 'interested in', I get little widgets showing me Movie News. And it's making me aware of the seams of what must be an absolutely sleazy movie 'review'/promotional campaign cottage industry
just day after day of clickbaity headlines from websites you've never heard of with 'reviews' or something of whatever is the latest movie/TV show being pushed. and you just know some poor twentysomething got an assignment to write this dumb thing
sometimes there's a sudden spate of 'reviews' or 'here's a hidden gem of movie/show you may have missed the first time', all about the same one, and i'm guessing what actually happened is the streaming rights changed hands & the new owner is trying to goose views
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Nov 23, 2022
Pretty ironic how we tend to have this view of Mexico & perhaps some South American countries as being totally corrupt narcostates, and meanwhile, BIg Pharma apparently owns our entire government/establishment now & makes the cartels look like lemonade-stands
i don't think there are any narcostates that have their government bureaucracies mandate the product for 3-year-olds
to make an apples-to-apples comparison we'd have to imagine the cartels owning entire health/safety regulator agencies, to say their product is 'safe', 'recommend' it for toddlers based on bullshit, pressuring mandates at all levels, & overpaying for it out of government coffers.
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Nov 11, 2022
Helpful guide to understanding US elections, for foreign onlookers:

-If it’s close but the count is taking a long time, the D will eventually win.
-Any legal challenges automatically remain open, unless/until the D wins.
-Any race that goes to a ‘runoff’ means the D will win.
There’s no such thing as an extended counting process in which the reported R percentage of the vote increases over time rather than decreases. This is physically impossible for some reason. That’s just part of our system.
All races in which the R is reported as ‘currently’ leading are considered provisional unless/until the bureaucracy (and media, which is involved for some reason) has decided it’s run out of optically viable ways to delay/increase the time by which it stops ‘counting’ or whatever
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Nov 11, 2022
teacher 30y ago: you did poorly on this test, get your mom or dad to sign it & bring it back

kid: aw man

parents: hey do better

teacher now, to parents: you didn’t know about that low test score 3 months ago? but it was posted on the EduGreat app
you should’ve gotten a PIN in the welcome 1st day email near the bottom. then just download the app, create an account with a password, enter then PIN. then check it every day, just suddenly make checking this one specialized app/website nonstop an integral part of your life
parent: I just think it would’ve been good to let us kn—

teacher: the app. everything’s on the app
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Mar 21, 2022
Here is what someone needs to explain: how, and why, this sort of advice isn’t a recipe for universal mask-wearing forever.

The virus is endemic. It’s everywhere. It’s in animals. Your Blue community/state/region ‘wears masks’ for N months and then…what, exactly?
Let’s grant for sake of argument that community mask-wearing actually meaningfully suppresses the virus. (I don’t buy this, but pretend)

There are two possibilities from there:

1) the virus is gone

2) the virus is not gone

If not gone, you can’t take off the masks. Right?
Even if the masks (under our pretense that they work) succeeded at suppressing the virus to zero ‘locally’, the moment you take off the masks, you’re all vulnerable, and the virus is still out there. What now? It comes back. Inevitably.

So you can’t take them off. Ever.
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