Matt Lorig

Enjoying my visit to Twitterland. A strange place filled with journalists and oddly enraged partisans....some views are my own others are misappropriated

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

So it turns out that the soiled diarrhea-lettuce that sickened thousands of innocent souls has been traced back to @tacobell? That is just a little too on point for my tastes…

https://t.co/BhGuhnoJuZ

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@jbarro Wasn’t that because, in part, because of kids waiting for busses in the dark? Isn’t street lighting more prevalent today?

I really wonder the extent to which the world has changed since then

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@bendreyfuss Also pretty sure that both world wars started in Europe and were exported to the peace loving folks in the United States

We didn’t start them, but we quite definitively ended them

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@bendreyfuss Don’t forget airplanes, telephones, and chicken

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@TerribleMaps Apparently, San Juan has been demoted to second tier status by terrible maps.

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@asymmetricinfo This goes under the “Seat Belts cause cancer” headline….

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

One day America will win the World Cup. The rest of the world is fighting a holding action. It is inevitable that we eventually win. And when we do our domination will be complete. They will have nothing to lord over us other than school shootings.

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@bendreyfuss I have long been convinced that the most pernicious form of media bias is the practice of filtering out inconvenient stories/details that make your people look bad and…..BOTH SIDES are SUPER guilty of it.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@kreichard @conorsen That’s the point though, isn’t it? There is such a bountiful array of stadiums that they can ignore the largest subset and still have a wide selection of spectacular choices…

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

Hahahahahaha!!!!!

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

As a European, I am taking the climate pledge to NOT use air conditioning or other climate-destroying cooling devices

Americans hate how strong we are (they are coddled and rely on artificial cool air)

Who else is taking the pledge with me?

Let's save the planet!

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@WokeYe_ @TerribleMaps Yes. Yes it was

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

Europeans sure do love their class systems!

[Pieter Cleppe @pietercleppe]

The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off airco, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work:

“It’s like feudalism,” a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told POLITICO on Friday, referring to the fact that upper floors housing commissioners got to keep their AC on. A second official agreed it was a “disgrace.” https://t.co/DWUnu3Wz3C

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

This is the worst kind of poison for our great country. It’s ok to disagree with somebody! It’s ok to shout loudly that one of our leaders is incompetent or a bad guy! Words can hurt politicians enough - no need for sticks and stones!

Don’t become the problem!

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@swinshi @BrookingsInst Basically, they wanted to make a strong statement but the data wasn’t there without a few linguistic yoga poses

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@bendreyfuss The argument for Noah’s point over yours is we should expect more from the UK and Canada. Yeah, they are better than France, but are they as much better as they should be?

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@jekavanagh @ColinPClarke The ability of Iran to shut down globally important commodity flows with nothing but a radio message is massively destabilizing. Redundant infrastructure mitigates that risk and massively reduces their ability to impact the global economy…

[Matt Lorig @matthewlorig]

@jekavanagh @ColinPClarke But it also quickly becomes less consequential! Once a new pipeline and rail line are in place (which are pricey but not THAT hard to build) it’s more of a nuisance double handling cost then a major impact. The value of the straight is going to drop very significantly