NeutralCurrent

Calmly screaming into the void

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

@Michael_Cerami This team is killing me

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

Flagging this for later. Hope it is true

[Ethan C7 @ECaliberSeven]

Periodic reminder that pre-election, the data clearly showed Dems voting VERY disproportionately later, and thus folks warned of a “red mirage”.

Dems are not going to come even CLOSE to being locked out of CA-06. In fact, Pan might even overtake Kiley.

Folks need to chill.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

@JeremiahDJohns Not the same but related: I have heard that doctors treat overweight people very badly in general, seemingly unable to deal with any other health issue without getting hung up on "you need to lose weight". Pre-GLP it made a lot of people doctor phobic.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

I have started actually reading the local news some and I really should have started doing it earlier. Lots of NIMBYs in action here. I don’t really see a compelling argument. We need the clean energy infrastructure

https://t.co/KNVatSfs2v

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

THREE TIMES. We don’t have a free country if this is possible

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

I’m under 50 but old enough to know that to make me want to live to some extreme age, we need to reverse aging in all sorts of other ways beyond “prevent us from dying”

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I think we're on the verge of a golden age in cardio-metabolic health (thanks GLP1s!) and oncology (CAR-T, daraxonrasib, checkpoint inhibitors).

But let's be real about what average lifespans in the 100s would require.

The oldest documented person died 29 years ago. Jeanne Calment at 122yo. In 30 years, with all of the advances in medicine, NOBODY ELSE has even gotten to 120.

A life expectancy at birth of 110 years would require about 25% of women to live longer than Calment and about 6% of women to live past 150—three decades older than the record. (source: Olshansky et al).

This isn't even close to happening yet.

The good news is that we're getting better and better at eliminating death before 80. We're not (yet) getting any better at extending life beyond 110. Doing so will probably require advances that have nothing to do with GLP1s and cancer therapies. You basically need to build new bodies for humans.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

Coming back to this -- Cornyn as well. He didn't get any additional time in the Senate out of his craven cowardice.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

He had his chance in January of 2021. He didn't take his shot. And history will remember it.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

I need to remember to screenshot Yglesias tweets in the future. I understand why he autodeletes but it's also annoying.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

I feel this way about environmental regs. People feel safe voting R because nobody is going to roll back the 70s environmental laws. They roll back expansions that are less visible but we’re not going back to “rivers catch fire” territory.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

I should note that I defend CA against critics whenever I can but the slow vote counting really irks me.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

This is just an outlier I assume.

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

CALIFORNIA POLL - Governor (top two advance)

🟦 Tom Steyer: 25%
🟥 Steve Hilton: 25%
🟦 Xavier Becerra: 19%
🟥 Chad Bianco: 10%
🟦 Katie Porter: 7%
🟦 Matt Mahan: 6%

• McLaughlin (R) for California Post
• 5/26-28 | 800 LV | ±3.5%
https://t.co/gEjiMYXkfh

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

I hope this is true

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I’ve never seen a housing boom like what’s going on there right now.

California basically forced cities to get their acts together and approve new housing, Builders Remedy was a huge boost, lobby groups joined in, cities began to get sued for not complying - and it’s working.

For 2023–2031, Bay Area cities have to plan for over 440k new housing units, which is almost 2.5x the previous circle.

If you haven’t been to the Bay Area in a few years and take a drive around now, it’s pretty remarkable to see all the new apartment buildings in a region that’s been so anti-housing for so long.

Mountain View, Cupertino, San Jose, Fremont, etc - it’s happening all over the place, lots more is close to breaking ground, and there is no end in sight!

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

Well I went ahead and voted for Mahan
https://t.co/22czjtRyJ1

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

Interesting

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Most people don’t understand that the Indian bigco CEO phenomenon is mostly an immigration story. Indians are FAR more likely to be tied to employment visas than other nationalities, so they couldn’t easily start companies.

The 1990 Immigration Act created the modern H-1B/EB green card system. As Indian demand exploded, the 7% per-country cap turned into decades-long backlogs for Indians. Indian tech workers stayed tethered to sponsoring employers in a way Europeans, Russians, Taiwanese never had to. Founding a company means risking your status, resetting a green card path, or finding another workaround (now usually O-1 or EB-1).

European/ Russian /Taiwanese immigrants don’t face the same trap. Their countries don’t hit the 7% per-country cap, so demand stays under the limit. A German or Russian engineer on H-1B can get a green card in 1-2 years and leave to found a company. An Indian engineer doing the same job has to wait 20+ years.

The 1965-1989 Indian cohort was much smaller but not yet trapped by today’s H-1B lottery and India backlog machine. That’s why you see so many Indian founders from that era: Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), Sanjay Mehrotra (SanDisk, before becoming CEO of Micron), Kanwal Rekhi (Excelan), Suhas Patil (Cirrus Logic), Desh Deshpande (Sycamore Networks), Pradeep Sindhu (Juniper Networks), etc.

My dad is a 1972 IIT grad who came to America for a PhD. Most of his IIT friends are successful entrepreneurs. My cousin took the same exact path (IIT>CMU) in the 1990s and most of his friends worked their way up corporate jobs because they needed employment sponsorship.

IMO this is bad for America. We took the highest-conviction risk-takers on earth, people who crossed an ocean and left their families behind, and forced them into the lowest-risk career path.

Fortunately this has been loosened in the 2010s with O-1 and EB-1A workarounds but it’s still much more challenging for Indian or Chinese founders.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

Wow

[MLB @MLB]

One of the wildest stories you may read today ⬇️

A couple accidentally showed up to a game with tickets to the next night's game

So they bought 2 more tickets and ended up catching Willy Adames' home run ball

Then they came back the next night with their original tickets, sitting nearly in the exact same spot as the night before ...

Then Adames hit another home run and they caught it AGAIN 🤯

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

So does this work? I don't know if I buy this theory, but this would be my one reason to vote for Steyer.

[Jordan Grimes (on Bluesky @cafedujord) @cafedujord]

Californians: it is your patriotic duty to vote for Steyer to give us a Becerra/Steyer matchup so we can depress Republican turnout across the state for every congressional and down ballot race. Go forth!

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

The https://t.co/fDQHweOZ9Z is very addictive. I am embarrassed because I missed one state capital and one city >500k in the US.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

@JesseRogersESPN Brutal

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

@AdmiralBear01 @calburnerphone I was about to say… Davis? Just LOL

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

The idea that Trump wanted to target only illegal immigration was farcical.

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).

This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

[NeutralCurrent @NeutralCurrent]

One of my favorite lines about the First Amendment

[Matt Rice @matt____rice]

Barney Frank was an historic figure in a lot of ways, but I will primarily remember him for this very funny string of insults he lobbed at one of his own constituents