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Marc Brazeau
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If you are looking for me, I can be found here https://t.co/OF2qyJzpSG and Facebook.
Aug 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A (not so) quick personal note on what it means to be pushing back 'elective procedures' to work around COVID outbreaks.

I needed 'elective' surgery last summer which was put off for months as hospitals were taken over by COVID.

I was not going in for a tummy tuck. I needed open-heart surgery to replace a congenitally defective heart valve that was failing. The only thing 'elective' about it was choosing the date.
Jul 31, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
This is something I haven't seen adequately discussed for the vaccine-hesitant who are waiting for more info about long-term effects.

The problem is that they are in the wrong paradigm. They are thinking about vaccines like drugs we take on a long-term basis, where negative effects might take years to manifest. This is why those drug trials go through long-term testing on animals and then long-term human trials.
Jul 30, 2021 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Krystall Ball is playing three-card monte here and Bernie was too polite to call her out on it. It's her fans who aren't following the cards. Ball first frames Biden's problem as being willing to let some of his agenda be killed by the filibuster. Bernie says that Biden can't snap his fingers and end the filibuster.
Jul 29, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
It's hard to believe how thirsty my tomatillos and chiles are. I started a kitchen garden in 2018 which helped me understand farming a bit better in little ways. #fafdlstorm 1/8 But nothing compares to the way I've completely internalized the revolutionary nature of the invention of irrigation 600 years or so. 2/8
Jul 29, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
"The saying, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it,” suggests that materialism drives us. It’s even harder to get a man to understand something when his community and identity depend on his not understanding it" --- Matt Lewis ( @mattklewis )
thedailybeast.com/how-trumpists-…
Jul 28, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm not a fan of Sinema, but people are dragging her on this when it looks like she might get the $1.2 trillion bipartisan plan into the endzone while asking for some cuts to the $3.5 trillion plan (not torpedoing it). Most people aren't old enough to remember, but there was a time two or three years ago when big spending bills were denominated in $100s of billions while $trillion infrastructure plans were the stuff of mirages and messaging bills.
Jul 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@TwitterSupport please, please, please make the Twitter feed stable and stop updating when I'm halfway through reading a tweet and then have to leave the new tweets you just put in my field of vision and start scrolling for the tweet I was trying to read.

This is dumb. Stop. It happens CONSTANTLY. I never read the new tweets. I hunt for the tweet I was trying to read. If I want new tweets, I can hit refresh. Why would you do this? Especially when I have only been looking at my Twitter feed for 45 seconds. Don't need it to refresh when I just got here
Jul 27, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This is a point I made back in 2014:
When we label people as anti-science, we are usually talking about someone who considers themselves pro-science but is just particularly bad at it. 1/10
fafdl.org/blog/2017/04/2… We've all had countless encounters with people who believe obviously erroneous things who then turn out to have a bottomless library of bookmarks for study after study after study to support their view. 2/10
Jul 26, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Dunno. Seems problematic to me that it is the (proto)CRT that's tearing the town apart rather than the mock slave trade of their Black neighbors. But your mileage may vary. Image As rule, I try never to bother picking fights with headlines rather than the substance of the article. But that was ridiculous.

wapo.st/37h0J9j
Jul 1, 2021 • 30 tweets • 6 min read
I highly recommend this discussion between @timhammerich and @waiterich of @WRIFood on measuring and building sustainability into agriculture.
bit.ly/3qDpAwA One comment by Richard at the end really got me thinking about a pet peeve of mine. 1/25
#fafdlstorm
Jun 30, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I put laundry in the building's laundry room this morning wearing a mask and just took it out maskless as I saw that the mandate had been lifted in Oregon.

I was unprepared for the jolt of normalcy as one of my neighbors came out of the laundry room maskless as I was going in. Context is everything. We all stopped wearing masks outside in the neighborhood a month ago, but inside the building, it's still been taboo.
Jun 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
In this podcast, @atrembath's mom talks about the unscientific way that environmentalists wield science --- as an endpoint, a revealed truth that can be cudgelized, rather than a process that uncovers truth in ways that improve over time and self-correct. It got me thinking about ways that try to replace common unscientific phrasing with more scientific formulations (hopefully without being too awkward).
Jun 29, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. People would do well to integrate convenience foods with a bit of scratch cooking embellishment and fortification.

2. I've been saying a for a few years now, the world-beater will be the app that maps and combines convenience and scratch ingredients into DIY meal kits. Here's an example of what I mean by integrating convenience foods with scratch cooking.
fafdl.org/blog/2015/05/0…
Jun 29, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
And what happens when thousands of massive solar farms have to be scrapped and replaced? What's the plan? What about the impacts of mining the massive amount of inputs needed? Image I'm for solar, but we can't pretend that nuclear is the only source of energy with environmental downside and risk. By all accounts, it has among the smallest footprint and risk. I don't get all the pretzel logic to act as it was the highest.
Dec 22, 2020 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
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I think this reveals an all too common misunderstanding about what that particular group of working people wants help with.

They are a lot less confused than a lot of people think.
1/22 For starters, we generally talking about blue collar royalty. These aren't so much the front line factory workers, they are the supervisors. The guys taking bets on who many poultry workers were going to get sick at the Tyson plant. 2/22
Nov 22, 2020 • 31 tweets • 4 min read
Looking for examples of sustainable agricultural systems at scale. That is, they were able to feed a civilization in a steady-state for centuries.

I can think of two. Can you point me to others? The two I'm thinking of were highly context-dependent ecologically and required very tight governance.
Nov 21, 2020 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
This is why I remain skeptical of admonitions of "People just need to be educated" to counter the interlocking onslaught of disinformation and self-gaslighting. 1/19

reuters.com/article/us-usa… I don't know if Janet Hedrick was a rigorous teacher or a competent librarian, what we do know is that she made a living at two professions dedicated to the sharing of authoritative knowledge. When even the librarians are self-gaslighting you're in deep trouble. 2/19
Nov 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
SLATE: Naloxone should simply be where you are, already. It should be a standard in all first-aid and rescue kits sold on Amazon; you should be able to throw it in your shopping basket while restocking Band-Aids and cold medicine.
slate.com/technology/202… Public health departments should distribute it to bars, restaurants, grocery stores, public transit kiosks, places of employment and worship, and homeless shelters.
Oct 1, 2020 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
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This is so important. Overselling comes with a price.

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#fafdlstorm Overselling leads to debunking which leads to defensive defending which leads to unnecessarily rancorous debates.

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Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I think Cuban gets a few things wrong here.
1. He's thinking of cash infusions as mostly stimulus when it should be mostly relief. The stimulus will come when people start spending their savings because the pandemic is under control.
1/4
 cnbc.com/2020/09/23/mar… Obviously, there is a stimulative function to sending out money now, but it should largely be seen as tiding people over until the service economy can open up more.

And telling people they have to spend it on your schedule is too paternalistic and a bureaucratic nightmare.
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Sep 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
@SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock I'm not loathe to admit that at all. I'm frustrated that it takes so much prodding to my fellow reformers to stop yammering on about proximate bullshit that is easily falsified and move upstream the center of the system where the levers actually are. @SylvanaquaFarms @songberryfarm @SarahTaber_bww @4mcc @sarah_k_mock And it gets tiresome to have the fact that I don't agree with the standard-issue critique of the status quo means that people project onto me that I'm defending the status.