RayPrisament

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[RayPrisament @RayPrisament]

Correlation is not always causation but wow are statewide covid death rates plainly correlated with a few objective, exogenous factors: elderly, obesity, poverty and density (urban).

Hard to see any sizeable & reliable effect vs. the trendline from any interventions.

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Is the prototypical New Yorker reader really, in their heart of hearts, comfortable with a paragraph like this? Tasteless and ungrateful, especially in an issue so close to America's 250th.

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Full disclosure: literally my mom's idea and design.

But a good one! Start using this symbol to mark non-AI content.

https://t.co/JdomGLzL6D

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@DouthatNYT I agree, it's consistent (note there has been no fuss raised by anyone) and also implemented by people with actual credibility from that prior aberration.

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@pmarca Kind of, but isn't it college kids booing AI at graduation?

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"Covid really screwed her up. That was the catalyst."

"Covid screwed a lot of people up."

Amazing that when you overhear a snippet like this (as I just did waiting in line) you can be 99% sure they are referring to the lockdown era and not, like, the respiratory illness.

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@AlexBerenson @WSJ @HolmanJenkins @WSJopinion Jenkins has probably the best column in the legacy media.

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@charlescwcooke Also it drives me crazy when they keep saying "the will of 3 million voters." Half that group voted against it!

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@GovernorVA I was glad to see the Lobster Map defeated on procedural grounds but I was really hoping for a more hilarious (and plausible) outcome where they might have ruled the referendum was legit and now you had to draw new "fair" districts exactly as promised.

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@JacobAShell You chose a nice day!

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Wait how did Nelly write this lyric 26 years ago? 😳

[RayPrisament @RayPrisament]

Fair, Boston suburban schools are definitely top rate and there are several nice villages. FWIW (not much) train options are much worse, but also much less needed. From my limited exposure there I just find it more boring, the niceness is more of "quaint" variety. Definitely subjective. Not sure I realized prices were really half of Westchesters!

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@DrewHolden360 @annbauerwriter Not even close

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

I really don't think we've reckoned with the Orwellian nightmare of COVID lockdowns, or the long-term harm they inflicted on our social fabric.

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@feelsdesperate Yeah I was telling my kids the other day how leftists were always insufferable politically but the difference is they used to be good at their day jobs.

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I simultaneously agree with @christopherrufo that his abrasive/provocative style does seem to often be the only way to move the needle, and he deserves "thanks" for achieving what a LOT of people quietly wanted done... while also really, really hating that fact about the world.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

"Chris Rufo solved this social problem, but he did it by generating political action rather than asking the libs nicely" is the perfect summation of why much of the conservative movement—and almost all conservative academics—has been utterly ineffective for many decades.

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@Aragona18276 @aaron_renn Deservedly unpopular! The Hudson Valley is a gem and would be one of the most desirable spots in the US were it not politically inside NYS

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

My theory has long been that they told him he would save the people with a summer shot and then he would be reelected as a hero. He went for it like a fish to bait. Can't prove it because he has never explained what precisely happened.

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@xav_moss @mattyglesias Interesting, I could see that being a problem in an extremely bad or dangerous situation but I think for most quotidian unpleasantness just having more room to walk away would suffice.