Dan Mair

Good-faith arguments don't belong on Twitter.

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@s8mb The Nordic model works fine.

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@vkhosla Same with the arts. We won't collect AI-generated art, & it won't appreciate in value. As soon as we realize a piece of music or a work of writing is AI-generated, we lose interest. We value & admire human achievement. Or at least I do.

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@araseb_ @DeepLearn007 No idea, but adults can read paragraphs.

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@mattyglesias Newsom blows. He blows whichever way the wind blows.

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@jacksdiningroom @HistoryBoomer My Czech-American 10-y-o was disappointed with the *burgers* in the US.

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@Noahpinion What "crusade"? I wish someone like @antoniogm could help you work through this. You're one of my favorite follows, albeit a bit obsessed with European temperatures (I write while sweltering over beef panang curry in an un-air-conditioned Prague restaurant -- yikes!).

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@endofmarx @clairlemon Bullshit. American expat in Prague here. Most Europeans have wonderful lifestyles -- without fear of financial catastrophe. So glad I've raised my kids here.

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@archonthfc @paulg https://t.co/rFb547AKeZ

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@paulg Use it or lose it.

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@Liv_Boeree I've lost 30% of my income to AI this year.

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@s8mb

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@seanlinehan @antoniogm I mean, just imagine: We *walked* the half mile from our Airbnb to the port *in the winter*. We were utterly deprived of our affluent American comforts.

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@seanlinehan @antoniogm I doubt most Americans do. Expat here. Czech wife. Dual-national kids. Spent the end of December in Venice -- & then Trieste for New Year's Eve fireworks over the Adriatic. It was horrible. I felt like such a pauper.

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@skdh https://t.co/wTrcKqDxNo

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

If Americans were actually as indifferent to Europe as they claim, then Europoor discourse wouldn't exist, nor would the biggest thing on Twitter be self-regarding Americans being unknowingly glazed by clout-chasing Europeans pretending to be amazed at Walmart and slushies.

The struttingly triumphant post-Cold War America of the 90s really, truly didn't care or know about Europe at all.

The America of 2026 is wracked by doomer narratives: on the left, Trump/fascism/apocalyptic decline/etc; on the right, institutional and demographic decay/great replacement/etc.

The Don Draper elevator meme ("I don't think about you at all") was real then; now, everyone is actually a neurotic Ginsberg going on whiningly about the Other (while, in the American case, claiming not to be).

Europoor is largely Americope, because the same guy going on about European AC or some nut-picked scene of European dysfunction is the same guy going on about the locked-up shampoo in an urban Walgreens, or the purportedly catastrophic effect of our immigration policy, or whatever else. It's very much a 'things suck here, but look at these poor Euros, amirite?'

It's anything but smug indifference, and completely obvious if you take off the star-spangled goggles for a second.

To be clear, the Ameripoor discourse exists in self-regarding Europe too, which is why some Europeans are having their bubbles burst with the stadium scenes in the World Cup. Turns out everyone writes themselves into the same role if they're the script's author.

Neither side is ignoring the other, and both societies are mired in a dispiriting societal malaise which projects their neuroses on the Other as a form of emotional cope.

(Thought while staring at the Cantabrian mountains of Spain this morning, from inside a rural cabin with AC, lol.)

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@thomaschattwill I'm an expat too, but in Prague. I travel to Europe's major cities regularly for work & leisure. I'm out & about wherever I go. I never have any problems. Then I take my family to my hometown, Seattle, & they're shocked by the homeless encampments.

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@thomaschattwill @HistoryBoomer https://t.co/wTrcKqDxNo

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

If Americans were actually as indifferent to Europe as they claim, then Europoor discourse wouldn't exist, nor would the biggest thing on Twitter be self-regarding Americans being unknowingly glazed by clout-chasing Europeans pretending to be amazed at Walmart and slushies.

The struttingly triumphant post-Cold War America of the 90s really, truly didn't care or know about Europe at all.

The America of 2026 is wracked by doomer narratives: on the left, Trump/fascism/apocalyptic decline/etc; on the right, institutional and demographic decay/great replacement/etc.

The Don Draper elevator meme ("I don't think about you at all") was real then; now, everyone is actually a neurotic Ginsberg going on whiningly about the Other (while, in the American case, claiming not to be).

Europoor is largely Americope, because the same guy going on about European AC or some nut-picked scene of European dysfunction is the same guy going on about the locked-up shampoo in an urban Walgreens, or the purportedly catastrophic effect of our immigration policy, or whatever else. It's very much a 'things suck here, but look at these poor Euros, amirite?'

It's anything but smug indifference, and completely obvious if you take off the star-spangled goggles for a second.

To be clear, the Ameripoor discourse exists in self-regarding Europe too, which is why some Europeans are having their bubbles burst with the stadium scenes in the World Cup. Turns out everyone writes themselves into the same role if they're the script's author.

Neither side is ignoring the other, and both societies are mired in a dispiriting societal malaise which projects their neuroses on the Other as a form of emotional cope.

(Thought while staring at the Cantabrian mountains of Spain this morning, from inside a rural cabin with AC, lol.)

[Dan Mair @maircomm]

@bridgemindai @DeepLearn007 AI is destroying writing.

Posts are written as a series of single sentences.

Like this.

One thought.

One line.

Another thought.

Another line.

It's okay.

You can write paragraphs.

We can still focus long enough to read them.

Barely.

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@patrickc @Noahpinion Greetings from Prague

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@patrickc @Noahpinion https://t.co/wTrcKqDxNo

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

If Americans were actually as indifferent to Europe as they claim, then Europoor discourse wouldn't exist, nor would the biggest thing on Twitter be self-regarding Americans being unknowingly glazed by clout-chasing Europeans pretending to be amazed at Walmart and slushies.

The struttingly triumphant post-Cold War America of the 90s really, truly didn't care or know about Europe at all.

The America of 2026 is wracked by doomer narratives: on the left, Trump/fascism/apocalyptic decline/etc; on the right, institutional and demographic decay/great replacement/etc.

The Don Draper elevator meme ("I don't think about you at all") was real then; now, everyone is actually a neurotic Ginsberg going on whiningly about the Other (while, in the American case, claiming not to be).

Europoor is largely Americope, because the same guy going on about European AC or some nut-picked scene of European dysfunction is the same guy going on about the locked-up shampoo in an urban Walgreens, or the purportedly catastrophic effect of our immigration policy, or whatever else. It's very much a 'things suck here, but look at these poor Euros, amirite?'

It's anything but smug indifference, and completely obvious if you take off the star-spangled goggles for a second.

To be clear, the Ameripoor discourse exists in self-regarding Europe too, which is why some Europeans are having their bubbles burst with the stadium scenes in the World Cup. Turns out everyone writes themselves into the same role if they're the script's author.

Neither side is ignoring the other, and both societies are mired in a dispiriting societal malaise which projects their neuroses on the Other as a form of emotional cope.

(Thought while staring at the Cantabrian mountains of Spain this morning, from inside a rural cabin with AC, lol.)

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@vonderburchard Contract ItaliaRail to take over.