Ulrich Wiedmann

Pragmatic Idealist. Centrist. Humanist. Technophile. Believer in Global Markets and Free Trade.

[🍁☘️Canadian Fletchy 🇨🇦 @Darth_Pingu]

BREAKING: They've changed the name

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@HistoryBoomer Maybe we need to start a conversation about men's suffrage.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

Tattooed numbers were used only in one German Nazi camp: Auschwitz. These tattoos were assigned exclusively to prisoners who were registered in the camp. Out of approximately 1.3 million people deported to Auschwitz, only about 400,000 were registered as prisoners and given numbers.

The vast majority of Jews murdered in Auschwitz, around one million people, were never registered; they were murdered in gas chambers right upon arrival and received no tattooed number.

Moreover, tattoos were not exclusive to Jewish prisoners. Others, including Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs, and others, were also registered and tattooed at Auschwitz. Other concentration camps had entirely different systems for identifying prisoners and did not use tattoos at all.

To suggest that every Jewish victim of the Holocaust received a tattooed number, and to use the limited length of those numbers to cast doubt on the scale of the genocide, is not only factually false. This kind of distortion is a deliberate tactic used by Holocaust deniers to insult the memory of victims.

In the world of deniers, the suffering of real human beings is reduced to cynical wordplay and harassment. Denying is an assault on memory, truth, and human dignity.

Check https://t.co/KH7B2X2Twh

Learn about strategies employed by Holocaust deniers to spread misinformation and falsehoods.

Online lesson: https://t.co/Gp1iuaHSSW

Podcast: https://t.co/cLqHGwActN

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@Alex_Panetta Fair, my issue is more with the chart. IMO, it's quite likely that AI hype alone will drive the 2.7x increase over the next 5 years, irrespective of whether use of AI causes a productivity boom outside of the AI sector.

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@dilanesper My personal theory on this subject is that so many of people's "life experiences" these days come from fictional sources (i.e., entertainment) that they shape people's world view. In a TV show, a novel or a movie, the conspiracy theory is the most likely one.

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

I thought this was common knowledge

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It wasn't a secret, even then, who he was

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@dmg1848 @AmbBridgetBrink Brink was also appointed Ambassador to Slovakia by Trump in 2019. She is running as a Democrat now, but she was a career diplomat prior to that.

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@talhagin Also, the "footface":

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

The only reason I do not allow my children to play in the middle of the highway is the cars speeding at 70 MPH. Otherwise, the highway is open as a playground.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Yes it does.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

"Immigrants are going to replace our culture!"

What culture is that, exactly?

Is it the Iowa State Fair? Seeing the Hawkeyes play the Cyclones on Saturday night? Eating pork chops on a stick? Church choirs volunteering to help rebuild homes after a tornado?
Is it barbacoa on Sunday morning before mass and your little girl's quinceañera? Or accordion-driven Tejano music playing from a pickup truck?
Is it moms dropping their kids off for Calabasas ballet in Range Rovers and Teslas? Lululemon and Vuori? Angry meetings about fence heights at the HOA?
Is it salsa coming through open windows on hot days? Folding chairs gathered around a domino game? Puerto Rican and American flags everywhere to honor Marines coming home?
Is it Southern comfort food at Mary Mac's Tea Room? Morehouse and Spelman grads meeting to network? Southern rap blasting at Magic City?

People afraid of being "replaced" have too narrow a view of what America is about. And yes, America can include a statue of the Hindu god Hanuman in Houston. (Because, c'mon, what is more over-the-top Texan than a 90-foot golden statue of a dude wielding a huge bad-ass club?)

My American culture doesn't discriminate based on ethnic background. My American culture is one that can deal with immigrants because it embraces their myriad varieties. My American culture holds dear democracy, freedom, and independence.

My America believes in self-governance, from jury rooms, where 12 strangers gather to decide a fellow citizen's fate, to town halls, to local elections, to national campaigns. It's watching locals grill an annoyed city council about a new park or too much crime downtown.

My America believes in free speech so much that we put it at the top of the Bill of Rights. I get to call my leaders idiots and feel no fear of prison or punishment. I believe in allowing marches and protests, from the good ones (Selma and Stonewall) to the ones I dislike (Proud Boys or Antifa).

My America is proud to see rows of new citizens lined up at city hall, with many different skin tones but the same expression of hope and anticipation. Because my America is Ronald Reagan's America, "still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."

So it's ok if some people march in a St Patrick's Day parade while others celebrate the Vietnamese (Tet) New Year, as long as they are all committed to freedom, democracy, the Constitution, and this amazing thing called "America."

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[AT @primediscussion]

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[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"If meat-packers were really 'criminally profiting at the expense of the American People,' as Trump alleges, the price at which packers sell beef... would increase by a greater amount than the price at which they buy beef.... That's not what's happened" https://t.co/eod4G4XdGo

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@ulrichspeck "Piling into" is a little misleading: Most of this is accounted for by the rise in the value of the stock market. The S&P 500 nearly doubled in this time period.

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

Penguins successfully educated

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@pinkcels It appears the study this article is based on was retracted. https://t.co/NnnHuF1DB9

[Aleksandar Djokic (Александар Джокич) @polidemitolog]

Big revelation for me this week was the sheer number of people, not only from the US, who thought that Greenland was an old-style Danish colony. It's not surprising that people who aren't political scientists don't know much about Denmark's political system; what's amazing is that they don't understand the nature of the crucial change which followed WWII. The might-makes-right crowd will always be around, but European democracies are not the predators they once were. Russia is, and a part of the US is. That's what we're fighting against - not for pacifism, not for bending the knee to aggressors, but for just and fair democracies.

[Ulrich Wiedmann @ulrichwi]

@Normsword @scottlincicome Here's a long-term chart from FRED (same underlying dataset from the BEA).