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Not to make everything about Trump, but on his watch the federal government has moved very aggressively from day one to roll back any kind of progress and establish police

So many smart people I know are convinced that presidential campaign ad spending operates in a terrain of sharply diminishing returns, but I think the best evidence says otherwise. Trump

The death toll being so much worse in rich countries than poor ones is definitely not what I was expecting in late February / early March.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1260515402200649728 I also wouldn’t say

I guess it is offensive to the part of our brains that wants to construct narratives out of things, but it seems pretty clear that there’s a healthy dose of

A genuinely unpopular opinion of mine: Donald Trump is a lot smarter than most of the people working in politics and media. He does a lot of “dumb things” due

Less Than Jake’s “Johnny Quest Thinks We’re Sellouts” may actually be favorite song in this genre, but they don’t have a video. Admittedly some of the critiques of Roman basically

So much of the current discourse is driven by confusion induced by the gap between the rhetoric of “stay home” or “shelter in place” and the reality of the actual

Imagine if after 9/11 we’d had a string of weeks in which 2,000 people per day were killed by terrorists but then it started tapering so maybe 1,700 people died

It’s a bad idea to make generalizations about “cities” in America based on thinking about New York, which is an extreme outlier in almost every dimension. The other big dense

The timeline, as I understand it, is that China covered up the extent of the problem for weeks and the WHO abetted it.Then when the truth came to light, Donald

Why do home cooks use cast iron but restaurant pros use carbon steel? Relevant to my interests!https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/03/what-makes-carbon-steel-pans-great-cast-iron-cookware.html

It’s very upsetting that lots of powerful and influential people with seemingly relevant experience have no idea how this works.https://twitter.com/lloydblankfein/status/1253332694139715586 Blankfein should email Jan Hatzius about this sometime, he c