Very cool science story.
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Very cool science story.
Similar to smoking -- by making the _default_ that you can't have a smoking section in restaurants, we're supporting public health. People still _can_ establish certain types of private membership clubs where smoking is permitted indoors, if they really want that.
Yes I did, you just are being willfully obtuse about it.
As it happens, yes, _I_ can negotiate my schedule. But people shouldn't have to negotiate for what the medical community agrees is best for public health. Some subset who _really_ prefer doing things the other way can ask for that.
It's a question of what the default should be. The natural schedule is what is best suited for public health, according to physicians that study the matter.
If some minority of people want to ignore that, that's up to them, but they shouldn't drag everyone else with them.
And before anyone suggests permanent DST, no, it's not _just_ the abrupt clock change that causes harm, read the WaPo piece.
And we _already tried_ year-round DST, and people hated it so much that they immediately repealed it.
But DST forces people broadly to shift their schedules, which sleep experts broadly agree is terrible for our health. It's _literally killing people_, with excess traffic accidents, heart attacks, and strokes, and probably some additional cancer cases at the margin.
If people want to get up earlier in order to get off work earlier, they can negotiate that privately with their employer. (I used to have an employer that let people choose to do 4/10 schedule during the summer, and just take every Friday off.)
This is your semiannual reminder that changing the clock so that noon isn't noon is dumb, and we should stop doing it. @savestandard.bsky.social
Yeah, smoothing the path of rents to protect tenants from big shocks, without driving landlords to condo-ize and discourage construction of new units, is one of the issues that vexes YIMBYs the most. Possibly the single toughest problem.
How is that moving so much, are vehicles just ramming into it and shoving it over?😬
Quite apart from politics, which is how so many blinkered people see this issue, no reporter at your local school committee board or town council meeting means no one is watching when someone’s brother-in-law gets a no-bid contract. The increase in penny ante corruption must be breathtaking.
Yeah, the org that wrote it up, New Consensus, is headed by Saikat Chakrabarti, who previously worked for AOC, and before that Sanders. Before getting into politics he was one of the first engineers at Stripe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saikat_...
@adamconover.net So with Raman announcing for Mayor, are we going to get “Adam Ruins City Council”? 👀
@ositanwanevu.com @adamconover.net So the idea of a “Project 2029”, which you guys were saying in Adam’s show isn’t something Dems have done? Here’s a decent stab at that kind of comprehensive agenda. There definitely are some think tankers with ideas.
www.newconsensus.com/mfa
I can hear that gif.
Bari Weiss resembles Ezra Klein's old remark about Dick Armey. ( prospect.org/2007/06/04/c... )
She's a stupid person’s idea of what a thoughtful person sounds like.
It would be nice if we lived in a timeline where a silly scifi show from the aughts talking about militarization of domestic law enforcement wasn't so persistently relevant.
This is the set up for Pleistocene Park, right? Scientists try to recreate the wooly rhino from this sample, but the sample is actually contaminated with genes from the wolf, so they get an unholy rhino wolf hybrid, which instead of being an herbivore, thirsts for blood. Action movie ensues.
Ehhh. I mean sure the story has complexities, but also they legit built a lot, and kept building for decades. Alt-Erlaa had nothing to do with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
hiddenarchitecture.net/allt-erlaa/
Library roof deck where you can read a book in the sun and breeze on a nice day? Sounds good to me...
I’m a little worried this shift may come back to bite us, if Dems win back the federal government but states proceed to try to enforce a new kind of Jim Crow regime against various minorities.
JFK would’ve had to find a reason to deploy regular military first, against Bull Connor, before activating the guard, under this standard, no?
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social Apologies if this is answered in the recent Amicus episode and I just haven’t gotten to it yet, but it sounds like the new standard for federalizing the Guard might have blocked uses of the Guard in the Civil Rights era, no?
I thought this Onion article was pretty funny, but personally I'd hold out for Rao's.
theonion.com/ragu-unveils...
Reconstruction failed, “redemption” beat it back… The Confederate system never completely died out, just metamorphosed into something that northern industrial elites were willing to cooperate with.
Modern for-profit prison system can trace its roots back to slave-catchers and plantations, by way of Jim Crow “law enforcement”, which the Nazis write of admiringly. So. 😕
…and they also _just happen_ to have sane views about what news and scientific sources to trust. The right did that over the past decade, the left has not responded in any coherent way, because we just kind of assumed that truth is on our side. The truth needs some help!
Such a good episode! This stuff is why I’ve often said if somehow I ended up with a billion dollars, what I’d invest in is building a media network — Twitch streamers, podcasters, etc — who are mainly NOT political, they appeal across makeup, fashion, gaming, TV, exercise…
I believe it was Ben Wittes who first described the nature of the Trump administration as "malevolence, tempered only by incompetence."
Hatred of the outgroup is a powerful drug. “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”, but once you _are_ taught to think of some group — other races, queer folk, whatever — as dangerous subhumans, it’s REALLY hard to deprogram that belief.