Monica Snyder

Editor, scientist, wife, mother. I try to inventory my joys.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

If we can't describe our opposition's perspective in a way that they would say "Yes, that's what I think," then we don't understand what they think.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

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[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

You can be a conservative and oppose the death penalty in modern America.

If conservatism includes skepticism of bloated, fallible, and sometimes corrupt government power, there is a strong conservative case for refusing to give the state its most ultimate and irreversible power: executing a human life.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

It seems like pro-death penalty folks think the only reason people oppose the death penalty is some rose-tinted belief that no one is truly guilty or that no crimes are truly heinous.

Check the comments. That's generally not why people oppose the death penalty.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Since anti-death penalty advocates won’t tell you what Christa Pike did to get put on death row…

Here’s what Christa Pike did to get put on death row

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

@SouthwestAir why would you play music during boarding and deboarding? We're trapped on this plane, we can't leave if the music is very annoying (it is). Are customers mad about silence? C'mon

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

FWIW I didn't take his last name, our kids did, our oldest is 11, and I have experienced zero administrative hurdles due to this difference.

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

I think what this position misses is:
1) Kids are gonna have a surname
2) Having the whole household share a surname really is useful for a whole lot of purposes and parents who don't share surnames with their kids often face administrative challenges
3) Making up a new surname for the whole household breaks ties with *both* sides of the family and also most people see it as kinda cringe
4) So it's either his or hers or hyphens
5) Hyphens are fine, many countries do that, but they do make it literally impossible to write your full surname on many documents for many name combos, so you're back at having a name that creates recurrent administrative problems
6) So the lowest-friction solution really is his or hers
7) There's no fundamental reason it has to be his, but either way somebody is gonna give. You can argue it should be the man, but the only argument for that is matriarchy, which is no more compelling than patriarchy.
8) On the other hand the argument for "this is just the convention, don't sweat it too much" is fairly strong

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

@ryanburge Interesting stuff. Btw I didn't find it hard to read the graphic, and people on X need to chill out.

[More Births @MoreBirths]

A new study finds that work-from-home raises fertility more than any conventional family policy.

"Estimated lifetime fertility is greater by 0.32 children per woman when both partners WFH one or more days per week as compared to the case where neither does." 🧵.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

"controversial opinion:" [complains about something]

"unpopular opinion but" [complains about something]

"I'll probably get hate for this but" [complains about something]

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

I’m interested in what would cause ICE to say “wait, we actually killed an American citizen by mistake.” The immediate reflexive “s/he deserved it” regardless of the evidence or video is disgusting.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

So I wanted to say, as a pro free speech, pro-2A conservative who has spent a lot of time in my job debunking media BS: I disagree too.

People can have a range of thoughts on immigration enforcement, and still oppose this kind of untrained brutality. They're separate questions.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

My feed has quite a few posts defending ICE in the context of the Pretti shooting. Many of them seem to assume that the only people who disagree are far leftists duped by mainstream media propaganda.

This is just tribalism, you guys. Tribalism is thought-ending.

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

In 1976, 92% of high school seniors said that they had consumed alcohol in their lives.

In 2022, that was 53%.

Smoking cigarettes went from 76% to 17% during the same time period.

Marijuana use is down by 26 pts.

Oh, and teen pregnancy is down 75% since the early 1990s.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

@juliadyost And Ross was even further from your description. He responded to Leah to say he thought he did get a sense of female virtue from Helen's piece, and then he asked Helen how she saw such virtues fitting into a workplace.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

@juliadyost It was more specific question than "say something nice about women," but your description seems to mirror Andrews dodge.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

Stressed to wake up this morning not sure if my differential equations exam is today or tomorrow. Relieved to realize it's neither, because I'm not taking a differential equations class, because I have been out of school for many years. Lol.

[Liz Wolfe @LizWolfeReason]

Your 20s are a very, very good time to get married and have babies, and it's quite odd that our cultural script for the UMC/striver types no longer acknowledges this fact. (Since moving back to Brooklyn, I've gotten quite a few "you're the nanny, right?" comments, which is bizarre because I am CURRENTLY PREGNANT and also because my child and I look EXACTLY alike; apparently impossible to fathom that someone could live in Brooklyn and have multiple kids before age 30.)

If you would like to have three kids, or four kids, getting started at 25 or 26 will make that easier to achieve than if you get started a decade later. But there are many benefits beyond that. More time on Earth with your children, for starters! More generational overlap in which both your children and your parents are alive and active and able to remember, able to have relationships with one another. Relatedly: Less time that you will spend as a sandwich-generation dual caregiver. Less social isolation: friendships really do disintegrate a bit as time passes and people enter and exit different life stages, your 20s can be much more social than your 30s for many people, and having less social isolation during young-parenthood stage is really nice. And, hate to say it, but way more energy. It's just true! I also think that in some ways, going through leaner financial times while raising children can be clarifying in terms of figuring out priorities and how you want to allocate money. When money is abundant, it is easy to waste. When it is more scarce (good to a degree), you must be more selective about whether the expensive extracurricular is actually worth it.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

Pet peeve: the very cheerful narrator in drug/medication commercials speaking over images of inspiration and hope as they rapid-fire explains all the ways this drug could hurt or kill you

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

Sometimes people are against the death penalty because they think it's *too lenient* compared to having to live with what you've done.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

@Prolife_Sam Pretty sure a lot of that wasn't evidence-based to begin with, more like CYA.

[Monica Snyder @moni_python]

The second sentence is why the first sentence has to happen!

[Rachel, Maker of Wild Sparrow Naturals @SpiritedSparr0w]

Me purposefully not buying snack food at the store but also me opening and closing the cabinets hoping snack food will appear.

[Rachel, Maker of Wild Sparrow Naturals @SpiritedSparr0w]

Me purposefully not buying snack food at the store but also me opening and closing the cabinets hoping snack food will appear.