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Elitist scold. Comfortably smug.
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2021
@GeraTapie @cremieuxrecueil It erodes the dignity of 99% of us to extend dignity to the 1% who are violent.
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@anitaleirfall @asymmetricinfo 1st grade, my son was assigned to write poem about his favorite color:. "Black. Black is the color of midnight. Black is a color that's all right. Black is the color of the deep dark sea. Black is the color that's inside me.". That generated a call from the teacher!.
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@anitaleirfall @asymmetricinfo He explained to us that no light can get inside you, so everything looks dark inside!.
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@cremieuxrecueil Not making this up: There is a certain *type* of moaning you occasionally hear from sick patients in the hospital, which when I hear it, tells me, "This patient is going to have a cardiac arrest soon.".
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@Noahpinion Like tomato sauce in Italian food - but tomato wasn't found until discovery of Americas. Same with peanuts in Thai food, potatoes in German food.
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@RadioFreeTom Like Musk, I too was a bullied nerd in school and had a domineering father. Unlike Musk, I got over it.
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@R_H_Ebright I'm a biomedical scientist, had 10 years as a PI of an NIH funded lab. These guys should have their careers ended.
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@kittypurrzog Not infrequently, I have patients who lose their insurance because they simply ignore repeated letters/calls/email from their insurance company and fail to file paperwork.
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@asymmetricinfo Call me crazy, I would not want to be born to a mother that, but for the law, would have aborted me. That life would have a high risk of being miserable. Thus I would want to be conceived in a pro choice world.
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@adamdavidson It's not the privilege of light skin though. As millions of poor whites know. Would be helpful if social class was discussed more clearly.
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@clhubes Don't take this the wrong way, but there was another kid I went to kindergarten with who was super clingy and cried for 3 solid days at beginning of the school year and he actually turned into a murderer as an adult.
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@hholdenthorp @Magda_Skipper I'm a former NIH-funded scientist, and I strongly disagree. Translating science into policy requires weighing value judgments, something that the scientific process simply can't answer. This weakens the credibility of science in the public eye.
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@whstancil But you're implying here that smart people are indeed superior to less smart people.
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@kitten_beloved HW Bush was an amazing human, seriously. WW2 hero (completed bombing mission after he was shot down), congressman, moved to Texas and made $$$ in oil, China embassador, CIA head. .
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@RadioFreeTom A neighbor, who I don't really know, got in my car, mistakenly thinking I was the Uber he had called. I freaked the eff out - it escalated to screaming in seconds - both of us were very confused. I feel bad and stupid. Thank God I am not a gun owner.
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@feraljokes Horseshoe theory explains almost everything. Resentful losers bitter about their miserable lives want to tear the system down from either the right or left.
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@JStein_WaPo @andrewvandam "The worst cuisine"???. Food has never been better than it is now. I will die on this hill.
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@paularambles The founder of this company was an idiot in many ways. He complained during the 2020 election, "Who the hell is Joe Biden? I have literally never heard of this guy." (Vice president of the US).
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@eyeslasho I'm a doctor with most of my patients on the left side of the bell curve. They really struggle to remember when their appointments are, what pills they are supposed to be taking, what the name of their pills even are, what disease they have, or the names of any of their doctors.
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@rcbregman Empathy directed at antivaxxers accomplishes nothing. They should be mocked and ridiculed.
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@JonathanLigmas @cremieuxrecueil The regularity and relentlessness of the moaning pattern stands out. It's as if a certain neurologic emergency circuit has been triggered, where 98% of their brain has switched over to just staying alive, with 2% left over to moan and communicate distress.
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@mattyglesias Many upper-class white people only interact with similarly well-educated upper-class black people, and therefore have a VERY skewed view of black America as a whole.
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@JonathanLigmas @cremieuxrecueil Hard to put in words, but I'll try: Repeated, regular moans lasting several seconds, punctuated by short breaks, going on uninterupted at this cadence for minutes on end. Fairly low pitched. Patient not really answering questions at this point, staring straight ahead.
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@kane Seriously, Pharma has studied "promising" traditional medicines, and if they really worked, they would patent it and manufacture it as a drug and make money. But every time they've tried that, the herbal remedy is useless, or at best, underwhelming.
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@bruce_ratcliffe @MaxAbrahms Funny how Ukrainians have continued to vote in every election for parties favoring pro-Western ties, consistent with the outcome of this "coup" that exists in your imagination.
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@Oberon_MTG @cremieuxrecueil Usually there is a growing cluster of doctors and nurses in the room trying to help at that point. Transferred to ICU, tupically put on a ventilator.
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@RiverTamYDN If a biblically accurate Jesus came back to Earth today, these people would absolutely despise him.
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@mattyglesias The pensions are very much NOT evaporating in Chicago. Those pensions are killing the state budget.
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@Rainmaker1973 For some reason, the videos you post seem to freeze up when I play them, often. Does anyone else notice that?. (Sorry to complain, your content is amazing!).
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@LittleMammith My excruciatingly well-educated wife couldn't wait to take my name, because she was that into me. She practiced her new signature dozens of times like a schoolgirl. Deal with it.
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@eyeslasho Libertarianism would work great if every single person was healthy and talented and of at least average intelligence and conscientiousness.
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@eyeslasho @cureeus1 @FeeleyHocke @Kowloonboy8888 @trustythreadman @tariqnasheed This is too much math for most people. Literally.
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@wanyeburkett This. A lot of adults who did not get phonics instruction as kids just kinda *guess* how a word is spelled. Because they were never taught to sound it out.
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@Blueelectron4 Mom said, "There's someone out there for everyone.". If you're attractive, there are many people out there for you. If you're unattractive, there is almost no one out there for you, and you and your DNA will die alone.
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@wanyeburkett There were a lot of smokers in my older relatives, and it was cancer, emphezema, and heart disease as far as the eye could see.
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@Noahpinion White upper class parents want to get rid of standardized tests because they're tired of seeing their kids get bested by Asian kids.
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@JonathanLigmas @cremieuxrecueil I am guessing this occurs when the patient's sympathetic nervous system is at maximum level, just trying to keep their blood pressure up.
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@RichardHanania Until I started wearing a wedding ring at age 30, I felt invisible to women. So there, we're even.
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@RadioFreeTom I try to be a relaxed dude most of the time, but it made me realize how the lack of social trust has infected me.
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@waitbutwhy Please stop with the Rogan adjacent stuff. Please. Everything else you write is clever and interesting. Except for this stuff.
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@matthewstoller We are not in a flu pandemic because the flu is far, far milder than covid. That's why.
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@NateSilver538 I can understand that real-world fact-checking gets easily corrupted by agendas and bias, and is therefore bad. But what I don't understand is the level of hatred that even the Platonic ideal of fact-checking gets. Don't we want debate that is free of blatant lies?.
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@eyeslasho I heard so much about anorexia in the 1990s and 2000s. But by the time my daughter was in high school in the late 2010s, I'm not sure I saw or heard of a single classmate of hers with this problem.
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@eyeslasho It does make sense to me why banks would consider you a risk. You have a similar financial profile to an illegal immigrant. Minus the school loan.
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@Xarenoss1 @SwannMarcus89 Or the parent is a drama queen. Medically, this makes no sense. "My 5 year old had to go to the ER for a fast heart rate after being scared by a jack in the box.".
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@eyeslasho When I channel flip, the women on Mexican soap operas are all absolutely stunning.
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@ScottHech Yes they do. Data is robust. By thexway, Europe has more police per capita than US.
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@cremieuxrecueil I'm also weary of how people who are only mildly eccentric now claim to be "autistic." The original definition if of autism described people who were essentially unable to function in society.
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@eyeslasho I post a lot of pro-immigrant replies based on my genuine respect for most Hispanic immigrants and how well they fit in. But if I lived in Europe with their non-assimilating Muslims, I would be singing a different tune.
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@Noahpinion Odd how the Jews supposedly want to take over the world, but unlike Muslims or Christians, they make no effort to convert people to Judaism.
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@MilesMolasses @mattyglesias I'm far from a billionaire and have grandparents with an 8th grade education and yet my life is pretty nice. So capitalism gets my vote.
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@humanbeingawk The 2020 election was actually extremely important, looking back 4 years later.
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@cutmannamtuc1 @NormanDodd_knew @JeremyLNeufeld @garrytan Sorry, no. Not enough of my fellow white (gentile) Americans are smart enough. We need to import some smart foreigners to correct for the masses.
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@russellcarrmd @JoyceCarolOates I'm a doctor and med school professor, and while yes, there are some genuinely qualified minority students, this story sounds believable and accurate. UCLA is naively setting up their students to fail the STEP exams. That is why the sources in the article are speaking out.
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@mattyglesias @DataProgress @BharatRamamurti @ezraklein I was very pro Biden, but the student loan forgiveness annoyed me a lot. My respect for Biden has continued to deteriorate since then.
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@JamesSurowiecki Lex Fridman is working for Russia.
Who is “Lex Fridman?” I mean, Alexei Fedotov. In January 2022, prior to full invasion, on his Wikipedia page: born Alexei Fedotov in Moscow, Russian-American. By 2023, page was edited. Gone were “Fedotov” and Moscow. He was now “born in Kyiv” and was “Ukrainian-American.”
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@yashkaf Also, a big problem is that a lot of men just don't *like* women as people, even if they are sexually attracted to them, and vice versa.
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@RadioFreeTom Misunderstandings are more common when people who live 3 houses away don't even recognize each other.
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@cremieuxrecueil This is my line of work, and many of these kidneys are thrown in the trash because they are garbage kidneys. Do you want a kidney from a 68 year old with diabetes who died of a stroke? Didn't think so.
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@mattyglesias It is hard for Americans, a nation of immigrants whose ancestors fled their countries of origin, to understand the obsession Palestinians have with a scrap of dessert land. My desire to return to Ireland is pretty meh.
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@RichardHanania Kids in Europe actually have lower test scores than US, surprisingly. I think @cremieuxrecueil has posted some stuff on twitter about this.
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@eyeslasho America already has a surplus of "coolness." If we were to become a little less cool, that's absolutely ok.
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@tracewoodgrains My dental life: . Age 0 -19, dentist #1: 1 cavity. Age 19-21, dentist #2: 8 cavities. Age 21-56, various dentists: 1 cavity . I think dentist #2 had child support he was behind on. Seriously.
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@Noahpinion I was assured that crime was caused by poverty - so surely this means that Japan has tons of crime, correct?.
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