Andy Ross

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@paulg @RoKhanna Refusing to pay tax on it as income, which it obviously is, is pretty arguably "hoarding", yeah. Dude: Pay. Your. Share. The mechanics are a poor fit for the regulatory regime, but the ethics aren't weird here.

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@paulg @dadiomov "Card fees" pay for security though. No one has ever lost their life savings because of a malicious typo in a CVV number. That "visa sucks" doesn't produce "everything other than visa is better", logically. We could do a lot worse.

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@paulg Yikes. The face of unbounded Web 2.0 startup optimism is now "Well, you made something people want and won't get most of the value from it. But that's OK because you probably would have failed anyway."

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@HeerJeet @BriannaWu That's an unfollow. You've been dancing around this for years now, but turning whataboutist at this moment is a tweet too far.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@paulg @MichaelAArouet Because the causality under discussion is mixed up. You're just looking at a chart of per-capita GDP, not governmental system. There's causality inside that relationship too, but imperfect. Bulgaria just drew the short straw, Prague and Warsaw were better positioned vs. west.

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@SpencerGuard @elonmusk John, the democratic vote here was for the status quo as specified in the constitution, republicans put up a clearly unconstitutional bill for clickbait. Please don't engage with partisan nutjobbery.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@michelletandler Were you planning on voting for NPR then? And... you like Newsmax better now?

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@migueldeicaza @David_Cameron That... doesn't read like a condemnation at all to me? You're minimizing it, not even complaining about it! Can you at least do it right now? "This is bad and Iran should not have done it", something like that?

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@migueldeicaza @David_Cameron For exactly the same reason that YOU won't call THIS attack reckless. He picked a side, just like you did. So now you both get to be angry in perpetuity. Nice trick.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@paulg It's a huge billboard, put up by a political activist at a time of significant controversy in the subject. It's a free speech exercise, but NOT just a Potter fan. She deliberately sought the controversy.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@paulg Watching a hero of my subculture descend into shitpost culture war is very upsetting.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@paulg The graph you linked is spun. In fact there is no change at all over the last two decades. The final segment just magically decides that the next data point will show a huge change.

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@VonnegutsCurve @SenTedCruz It was a primary. Musk DID endorse a democrat. Whether that's acceptable or not is fine to debate, but this isn't the circumstance you're imagining.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@paulg @SteveStuWill That alcohol goof was over nine years ago. Almost certainly no one who worked on it is still on the project, or even working for the Post. There's being reasonably skeptical about new data, and then there's holding a senseless grudge...

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@Jason That was one contrarian hit too far. Unfollowing. You used to be a reasonable centrist voice in a world dominated by conspiracy and nonsense. I've never seen someone so captured by his audience as you are by yours. Go chase those likes; I want no part of it.

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@ClareTa26975369 @JennaLuche @nytimes That's not how excess death analysis works. The point is that tracking "excess" AVOIDS the need to count individual cases and simply shows that "something" is causing more deaths than expected. A "normal" number of people are dying relative to baseline.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@Jason Monthly inflation (i.e. not YoY) is back down to ~2%. It WAS transitory!

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@Model3Owners On the one hand I want to agree with you, but on the other it's worth pointing out that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.

[Andy Ross @AndyPlausible]

@brianbeutler @mattyglesias No, that's a rate graph (derailment/miles), not a total count. There is a blip at 2008 (less crowded tracks == safer?) but the trend extends for years in both directions.