Vadim Graboys

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@deepthoughts was not taken
Bluesky is going to take off and mastodon is going to be relegated to the Tumblr tier of social media sites past because people here keep coming up with excuses not to implement basic usability features like quote toots
@markwyner this is a really good thing to do (not only for people using screen readers), but hopefully soon screen readers will be able to read lowercase hashtags properly. We have the technology:
Seen in Chiang Mai
@MylesRyden @nntaleb transporting yourself in a way that requires strength and stamina should definitely be considered more masculine than simply pressing a pedal. I'm guessing the car lobby convinced us otherwise, even though it makes absolutely no sense
@joelvanderwerf not just the hobbit, but also poems and essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's not surprising that Democrats would appeal to someone who reads great works of literature. The problem is that most Americans don't.
Life expectancy fell in the U.S. again last year. That's in part because more younger people are dying. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/22/life-expectancy-deaths-younger-americans/
America’s life expectancy is dropping because younger people are dying

The pandemic and drug overdoses (among other things) are affecting the country's overall life expectancy.

The Washington Post
Many elite liberals’ mental model of environmentalism is driving an old Prius, reusing grocery bags, and feeling guilty about consumption when it should be supporting rule changes to facilitate construction of apartments and bus lanes they don’t like but would never need to use.

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RT @scottsantens
78. New research shows that Alaska's annually distributed universal basic income has had a significant positive effect on voter turnout. With each additional $1k of UBI, voting increased by 7.6 percentage points in the short-term and 4.3 in the long-term.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-science-research-and-methods/article/does-a-universal-basic-income-affect-voter-turnout-evidence-from-alas…
https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/1604889764066467842

@marcello3d they're challenging him to ban them. Because they know he can't. It's a power move
@noahpinion I've seen enough, Twitter is over