Just terrifying. Flew plenty there before that time period, but imagine it wasn’t a-ok then either

💯 I will always mute and just read the transcript on annual compliance training if that’s an option

But when you have reasonably (or even just 50%) effective treatment against diseases that 95% of people recover from, or for diseases with huge variation in progression and outcomes, people with no understanding of that (or just the placebo effect) can attribute a lot to quack cures

Oh absolutely. And I think it combines with a terrible understanding of statistics and evidence based medicine vs personal experience.

Like outside of the few crazies, there’s no doubt about rabies vaccines (100% effective against 100% fatal disease ).

And…Philip Bump doesn’t currently have a job? I understand that one might have expectations for a public intellectual, but Philip is doing this for the love of data analysis/graph journalism, and maybe to help stay in the habit of his work. So essentially copy editing for a personal (free!) project

Though sure I probably know some of their buildings (a quick search for Pei shows yes I do).

Seconding this; I’m not “normal” (I have a postgrad degree and I did go an extremely brief phase in mid school where I liked drawing buildings out of a architecture book)

And now I can only recall FLW and Gehry for the Guggenheim Bilboa. I did not know anyone else listed in these comments

But his weird taxonomy aside, at large these categorizations are fluid just to give outrage, and he’s clearly just feeding on that.

I think this is a more consistent for RG3 specifically; I have a vague memory of him insisting to online pushback Mormons are Christian in re: the Baylor BYU game last year (calling it the Battle of the Christians). But that makes excluding ND even more bizarre…just post Reformation?

Oh goodness; my in laws have the decency/conflict avoidance to not watch it when we’re at their house or vice versa

Instead they’ll sit there reading Fox News articles on their phone, and you can tell because they’ll suddenly pipe up about how much they dislike Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

Same goes for general laser/optics in aerospace/defense, but there he hype at least stays somewhat grounded

I have had academic or professional work either closely or lightly related to machine learning/neural networks, quantum optics/computing, and laser fusion, and I have to emphasize how amazing all of them are, AND how wildly overhyped they can be, both in media and everyday convos

My impression too

Congress continuing the work* of DOGE

*eviscerating American science

My graduate lab had several students from or related to “countries of concern”…and they all desperately wanted to stay here, get green cards, and become citizens. That is the American scientific superpower right there!

Facepalm

Especially when you compare with the SLS. Having NASA work on the payloads and not the launch makes a lot of sense

Yeah if you’ve ever had a kid get a dangerously high fever, you know how idiotic this is. Of course it’s useful!!

Ultimately, I agree that PR removes the local representation while being fair, but think that greatly expanding the number of house seats and some sort of compact seat rule would solve a lot of these trade offs (never all). There’s only so many ways to split a state with a handful of seats