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[Vasco @vasc]

@redouad @paulg @MaxCRoser Portugal was tracking EU average until June due to lack of vaccines in the EU. All countries gave out very similar amounts and the limit was the number of vaccines available. Most of the difference until then has to do with saving vaccines for 2d dose and strict age limitations

[Whiskey Pete's Слава Україні! Героям слава!! @__WhiPP__]

Thank goodness, hopefully this will prevent people learning that Sci-Hub which hosts 85 million scientific research papers. Absolutely do not search Google for sci-hub to gain access to 85 million scientific research papers for free. Don't retweet this. Piracy is wrong.

[neural oscillator of uncertain significance @mycoliza]

scenario: an extinction level asteroid is detected on a collision course with the earth. here is an exact timeline of what would happen:

[Vasco @vasc]

@chartersazevedo @pgte Someone should use this for the Wikipedia entry of cherry picking

[Vasco @vasc]

@mattyglesias The large majority of alleged MPDGs are shallow and unrealistic because that's what the main character needs to advance the story, movies that focus on the experience of the main character are good *actually*, we should have more manic pixie dream boys.

[Vasco @vasc]

@mattyglesias The fixation on the manic pixie dream girl trope seems to stem from a need to view film as a perfect depiction of reality rather than a biased interpretation with a pov, even Dunst's MPDG in Elizabethtown only shows a lack of depth because that is how Bloom's character sees her

[Vasco @vasc]

@mattyglesias This critique seems disingenuous to me, good old boys’ clubs don’t respond to market incentives, that’s their entire reason for existing. High prestige expensive private schools are the easiest path to get into high prestige expensive colleges

[Vasco @vasc]

@IsabellaFelipeO @mattyglesias I’m not an expert, my comment was based more on intuition than knowledge, so I’m happy to admit that I’m wrong, but I do think Stephen King’s work is not a very good counter example, someone who sold over 350 million books should fit squarely into the “few”

[Stevie Martin @5tevieM]

when you're trying to print something

[Vasco @vasc]

@mattyglesias I don’t get why this is stressing so many people out, very few properties are commercially viable after 30 years. Having them locked away in a (virtual) cabinet is useless and bad for humanity. The argument seems similar to “I don’t want to tax the rich in case I ever become one”

[Vasco @vasc]

@NateSilver538 This is demonstrably wrong for a data person. Vaccine rollout isn’t equivalent to deaths, one is the outcome you want to avoid the other is a tool. This could work as a prediction, but not where we are now.

[Vasco @vasc]

@SenSanders Having lived in the Netherlands, not sure where this list came from but whoever made it is confused. The Netherlands has passable healthcare, terrible vacation policies and terrible retirement benefits. Family leave is okish. Not as bad as the US but nowhere near number 2

[Vasco @vasc]

@film_girl The price is kind of irrelevant because there is no competition, everything else is either an advertisement hub, a social media app or has the same design XBMP had back in the day. If you can't afford it, you can do well for much less, but it's a worse experience

[Vasco @vasc]

After reporting a scam account @Twitter places the undo button on top of the back button, ace ux there

[Vasco @vasc]

People who still subscribe to the @nytimes, after all these years of seeing them try to appease the right, try to appease the left and generally be terrible at their jobs of reporting the news, why do you still do it?!? The daily is good sure, but not that good...

[Vasco @vasc]

@mattyglesias Curiously, a lot of the same things the US can fear from the Conservative party today

[Vasco @vasc]

@mattyglesias Yes but.. Portugal was already poor and underdeveloped for many generations before that, Salazar’s dictatorship is relatively neutral on the economic development, with bad stints and good ones. The small mindedness, fear of education and state sponsored oligarchs was his legacy

[Vasco @vasc]

@rafahari @guttmnn In Amsterdam we found we could order from Carter’s, M&S and Next for a new born and when they are a little older primark is a great choice for basics

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

It's Europe's moment.

On 27, 28 and 29 December vaccination will start across the EU.

We protect our citizens together. We are #StrongerTogether

#EUvaccinationdays

[Lucio Franco @lucio_d_franco]

This is something that I have been realizing lately. Rust really does let you focus on the core aspect of what you're building and not just the implementation details.