People complain about the subway in New York, and certainly it's experienced a decline in public order, but it's still basically a normal place. Whereas the last few times I've taken the subway in LA, it's been horrifyingly gross. latimes.com/california/sto… This, of course, is a policy choice. Do we want people who can afford to be in a car to be willing to get on transit? Then you have to arrest people who commit crimes on the system.

“There are whole TikTok trends dedicated to discussing this!” Honestly if there was anyone to serve as an object lesson for the claim that phones and social media platforms are causing mental illness…

People who haven't updated their takes on Medicare since ~2007/8 really need to. Health care cost growth has come in way below forecast & reforms have cut some costs. As of '07, Medicare was forecast to be 8% of GDP by 2035. Current forecast is under 5%. joshbarro.com/p/nineties-2-e… Basically the cost trajectory of the Medicare program looks way less dire than it did, and the choices we need to make to make the program long-run sustainable -- on either the tax or spending side -- have gotten way more modest.

People are making fun of this, but a built in smart scale sounds useful (just add ingredients directly to the bowl and read the weight), and if it works correctly, the feature that automatically adjusts speed as the viscosity of the contents changes would be convenient, too.

https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1611596757204619267

Plus, KitchenAid is far and away the brand leader here. A KitchenAid stand mixer is a status symbol of a "serious" home cook. If you want to convince people your machine is differentiated, it might even make sense to take this gimmicky high-tech branding tack.

@mattyglesias I’m still betting on gay @mattyglesias Although it would help to know what kind of shoes

We have some guest columnists coming in next week while I'm on vacation (and I think they're going to be really good!) but I suspect within a couple of years it'll just be possible to automate the newsletter when I'm away. I think the chatbot is European

If you ever do this as a guest at my house, I will throw you out of my house nytimes.com/wirecutter/blo… There are no scarier words in the English language than “I brought my own apron and stain remover and I’m here to help”

This piece is completely bizarre. Makes it sound like the collapse was Changpeng Zhao’s fault. You’d have no idea that FTX was insolvent and had a balance sheet full of magic beans (even by crypto standards). nytimes.com/2022/11/14/tec… Like, what?

For obvious reasons I have not wanted to research this — is the thing about SBF and his business associates being a “polycule” a joke or not? My feeling is, if I have to read about your strange sex life in the newspaper, you had better be hot

I appreciate Chris putting this in a way that makes clear why it falls so flat. In which future election do voters get to make a choice? When do they get to express views on substantive issues rather than procedural ones? Why should they think there's a point in voting at all?

https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1588326089813786633

Because you have to sell people not only that this is a top issue, but that by voting on it, they will get it addressed. But an elected official cannot fix the out party. If you're asking people to wait for the GOP to be "fixed," you're effectively asking them to wait forever.

It's not "misinformation" when someone has different values from you. This stuff is so arrogant -- if you think this thing is bad that I think is good, you must be suffering from "misinformation"

https://twitter.com/bebeasley/status/1580029763170672640

The news outlet being accused of being a purveyor of "misinformation" here, by the way, is the Associated Press

I have made a rule that I will not buy anything that a drugstore puts in a locked case on the retail floor, an insane and annoying practice for both customers and employees. If you're going to put shampoo under lock and key, I'll just order it on Amazon. Stores are facing an increasing shoplifting problem and their strategy to address it involves degrading the customer experience. That's their prerogative, but I owe them no loyalty and don't have to participate.

https://twitter.com/zbirdnjman/status/1569706624918462466

Not only did the FDA's failure to timely inspect Bavarian Nordic's vaccine plant strand about 800,000 vaccine doses in Europe. It also caused us to release 200,000 doses bc HHS officials figured it would be months to get the paperwork in order anyway. nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/… This report really makes Xavier Becerra sound incompetent and out to lunch. How did he get the HHS Secretary job anyway? He doesn't have relevant qualifications. nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/…

Seems to me the main equity concern here is that the digital nomads ought to pay income tax to Mexico but surely few of them do, since most don't even have visas. If they paid tax it'd be a big net fiscal boon and the fairness question would be way easier. latimes.com/world-nation/s… That seems like something Mexico ought to be able to achieve -- make it easy for Americans to regularize a remote worker visa, with a requirement to report and pay tax on income. The IRS could even do information sharing on US-citizen Mexico visa holder income, as part of...

These numbers are ludicrously inaccurate and news outlets should know better than to run any data some website hands them

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1520417111591464960

People, I promise you, rents are high, but the average rent for a 1BR in Chelsea is not anywhere close to $6600.

This is true but I don't think it's the CPC that made the party fall in love with unpopular and extreme abortion messaging. It's not like Pelosi is out there with "safe, legal and rare."

https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/1512405668132794378

since a lot of people intentionally avoid understanding this: the median voter has a conflicted view on abortion. wants it to be legal, is vaguely disapproving, favors certain restrictions. favors significant restrictions or bans later in pregnancy, opposes federal funding.

The last people whose interests this serves are gays and lesbians. A new nonsense identity invented every week, demanding a share of our political capital. It makes a mockery of sexual orientation.

Yeah because the Bay Area isn't adding enough housing because politicians like YOU oppose policies to add enough housing. Remember that chickenshit nonsense you pulled, opposing SB 827 because "many in the community have concerns"? You are a poser.

https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1509640581135454217

This man is so full of crap.

Democrats' messaging apparatus is designed to influence blue-state institutions (like Burbank-based Disney), not the leaders or even the voters of swing states. And that's a problem for fighting laws like Florida's new one on sexual orientation in schools. joshbarro.com/p/democrats-ha… Why so much fixation on Disney? Because Disney is what liberals can move. But this is a weak as a strategy to influence policy in Florida, a state where national Democratic messaging has become increasingly a lead weight on the party. joshbarro.com/p/democrats-ha…

You know, I’d think the last two years would have made people more modest about trying to move public health outcomes through broad policy changes, but people still think they can move all-cause mortality by changing time policy.

https://twitter.com/HongPong/status/1503839373485301765

Ban travel across time zones to prevent deadly circadian rhythm changes, it’s science

this is idiotic

https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/status/1503797632745025542

Marco Rubio wants to make your children walk to school in the dark. We tried this in 1974, people hated it, the experiment lasted less than a year because people hated it so much. businessinsider.com/us-tried-year-…