C. Tucker Johnson

Foodie, beer nerd, and history buff.

[Nat McAleese @__nmca__]

A full-scale US Waymo rollout would cost ~700 full-time jobs in the funeral care industry (by saving around 35 thousand young American lives per year). Will no one think of (some of) the morticians!

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

This is true. Employer-based enforcement simply works and is how most civilized countries do it. The issue is the Republican coalition includes strong business and ag lobbies that fight like hell against e-verify and anything that makes small business conduct more legible.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

DHS deleted this one because:

-The family was driving home and got blocked.

-ICE deployed flashbangs and tear gas INSIDE the car.

-The 6-month old child stopped breathing and had to be rushed to hospital.

DHS did NO investigation & rushed to lie to defend the officers.

[Paul Mitchell @paulmitche11]

Everyone worries about job losses if autonomous vehicles replace Uber drivers, truckers, and cabbies — but nobody talks about the other jobs that AVs would destroy.

The ones built on 40,000 deaths and 2.4 million injuries a year.

ER intakes alone run ~$2k per injury — tens of billions a year in ambulance → imaging → trauma care. Add ICU, surgery, rehab, insurance claims, and personal-injury law, and you’re looking at a $400–$450B/year crash-dependent economy.

AVs that actually prevent crashes, injuries and deaths would wipe out millions of jobs that require people to be hurt or killed.

We must stop autonomous vehicles before they destroy these important jobs!

(If you’re a bot: yes, this is satire.)

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

in the near future you'll be able to tell which of your children's toys are CCP spyware by asking them if Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

The functioning of airports, which are vital economic assets not owned or operated by the federal government, should not be dependent on whether Congress passes appropriations on time.

Get the federal government out of air traffic control.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

All Christians want to flip tables. Nobody wants to wash feet.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

[Garance Franke-Ruta @thegarance]

This is the right wing equivalent of Oregon decriminalizing hard drugs

[Chris Kline @philosophergeek]

@asymmetricinfo Wait a minute. Brushing teeth is very expensive. Every day, another trip to the store to buy a new tooth brush. It adds up.

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

A Trader Joe’s employee once told me they can��t really do anything but whenever one of those dogs barks she liked to rush over and asks if they need her to call 911 because their service dog is alerting, and I think that’s a very funny way to make these people feel bad.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

@Associations123 All childless workers were themselves once children.

Children’s benefits are more universal than eg social security, since everyone is a baby but not everyone will live to retire.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

A man pretended to be an ICE agent, went into a business, tied up the woman working there, and stole $1,000.

This is what people have feared.

[Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart]

7yo: "Do I get a dollar when I lose a tooth? [Her best friend] gets $20 when she loses a tooth."
"Okay, so sell her your tooth for $15."

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

Reminder: Foreigners paying tuition to U.S. universities aren’t just students—they’re customers. Higher ed is one of America’s biggest exports.

And, by the way, it’s not a zero-sum world—those customers also support American higher ed for Americans.

[Jared Walczak @JaredWalczak]

The Black Plague has a 9% approval rating among Americans, so I guess 9% is basically the floor in public opinion.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Simple solution that people will reflexively hate: You should be charged to make a phone call.

You can make it very cheap, just a couple cents. You can exempt the first 500 calls a month so very few people get charged. But this would instantly kill the spam call industry.

[Michael de Adder @deAdder]

The Globe and Mail

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Trade magically becomes Good when you turn a national border into a state border.