Brian Chang

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@BretDevereaux Hi, random unrelated question: I'm working on Senate simulator. Right now with 10 Quaestors elected every year, and using Bruce Frier's mortality rate estimates, it stabilizes at ~200 Senators. are my mortality assumptions too high? Or were there other ways to become a senator?

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@bigchedda_7 @Retronomix1 @skins4seven @PardonMyTake @BarstoolBigCat The stone obviously isn’t that big. I have no idea what he’s holding

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@asymmetricinfo Brb. Buying a goat

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@CartoonsHateHer Cheating is bad, but honestly I’m not sure there’s *that* big a difference, if someone met someone new and connected emotionally, whether they waited until officially breaking things off with the first person before sleeping with the new person or not

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@ArmandDoma @DeepakInsights Do something about it. I’m about to buy a goat so I can conduct a haruspicy

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@CartoonsHateHer I have a take: the roots of cottagecore fantasy is Tolkien and the way he depicts the Shire with traditional farming techniques and aesthetics but with modern agricultural yields and abundance

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@CartoonsHateHer I have to carry out five-month old on my shoulder and walk in circles doing tiny little bounces to keep him calm. My wife can just sit down holding him on the crook of her arm while watching Netflix

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@AmericanMartel @asymmetricinfo Dunno if it was still true by the mid-20th century, but butter was a prestige food in medieval Ireland.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@OAlexanderDK @morninggloria I like that the Trump camp isn’t confident of a win but they weren’t confident of a win in 2016 either. I’m fact, they were pretty sure they would lose.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@mattyglesias Magnet- how the fuck do they work?

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@Robotbeat @mattyglesias @whstancil @JohnJHarwood Musk is already actively helping Russia.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@MattZeitlin @jbarro Also, nobody should gloat until the election is over

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@JesseMatchey @SuperMensch @asymmetricinfo I’m agains the slimy neoreactionary, no matter how good he is as dressing up his message.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@JesseMatchey @asymmetricinfo I don’t like Trump or Omar, but there’s a different kind of risk when the guy is both smart and evil.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@dilanesper @Knicks4lyfe1 @asymmetricinfo I can talk a lot about all the ways in which the leaders of the Palestinian national movements have repeatedly made things worse for Palestinian people in their pursuit of maximalist goals. But that doesn’t make what Israel is doing in the West Bank on.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@dilanesper @asymmetricinfo Yes again, not exactly apartheid, but similar in effect. How is eventually forcing all the Palestinians in the West Bank into Ramallah and Hebron better than forcing all the Africans into Lesotho and Swaziland?

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@dilanesper @asymmetricinfo The internal sovereign homelands thing seems like a red herring. They’re kicking Palestinians out of their homes into smaller and smaller areas controlled by the PA. How is that substantively better? And Likud’s long term goal is for the Palestinians to not be there anymore.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@janecoaston I don’t think it’s a mashup. It’s just a Xinjiang staple that’s become popular throughout China.

[Brian Chang @eric_xin9]

@dilanesper @asymmetricinfo I said comparable, not exactly the same. I’d argue the separate legal systems, restrictions on movement, and unfair land allocation are more important than the fact it’s based on citizenship rather than explicit racial classification. As for deportation, Bibi et al are trying