Michael Hobbes

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Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

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the thing you really can't over-emphasize about reactionary centrists is how *dumb* they are www.persuasion.community/p/a-guide-fo...

immediate ctrl+w www.persuasion.community/p/ending-our...

Nailed it www.persuasion.community/p/how-wester...

I like the coconut tree memes as much as everyone else but I do think we should all be on the same page about Harris's quote actually making sense when you realize she was telling a story about her mom and illustrating a point about education. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

Am I going to an Independence Day party? Brother, I bring the party wherever I go.

Another asinine 'solution' to the Biden Problem, this time from Yascha Mounk. Again, these people think their *entire job* is political strategy and predicting poll numbers. Yet they somehow think that spending months drawing attention to their own party's weaknesses is a good strategy!

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Michael Hobbes

I agree that Harris has significant weaknesses as a politician but this is an incredibly ugly way to put it. Also: A centrist candidate choosing another centrist as his running mate — still not the left's fault! Leftists hate Harris, that's actually one of her weaknesses.

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Michael Hobbes

The thread she's responding to isn't particularly helpful either. I think the reason some men are criticizing TERFs is because trans people can already access bathrooms and women's shelters and we don't see them committing sexual assault! TERFs are lying; that's why they're being criticized.

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Look I think Bernie would have won in 2016 (I think Biden would have too) but I just haven't seen evidence that he lost the primary due to some kind of nefarious rigging. Dem primary voters preferred Hillary!

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Just took a selfie!

Came across a questionnaire explicitly designed *not* to foster intimacy between two people and it is a flashback of all the worst first dates I've ever had www.stafforini.com/docs/Aron%20...

colorful language from a video game

On one hand it's nice that Michael Powell is no longer hiding the fact that he's a tedious reactionary. On the other, it's not ideal that one of the nation's most prestigious 'liberal' magazines now almost exclusively employs tedious reactionaries. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Ending my article about how leftists are brainwashed by saying it's bad to call people brainwashed.

I mean, the graph allows you to adjust for timescale. It's true that wastewater levels are way below their Omicron Winter peak. But we can also look at the deaths and hospitalizations that resulted from previous waves. Plus, relative rises matter! We want to intervene early to cut them short.

This graph is kinda meaningless? The Y-axis is just numbers and not actually quantifiable in any way. And having the X-axis be just a year you mess up the scale. We are going from “lowest covid since March 2020” to “slightly above that” but the graph makes it look like there’s a huge spike?

Each winter and summer wave seems to result in fewer deaths than the previous year's but we're still losing more people to COVID than the flu. And personally I'd love more interventions for the flu too!

Absolutely infuriating that we have no infrastructure to notify the population of these trends. City public health departments should be monitoring local wastewater and sending alerts to the entire population when it crosses a specific threshold.

Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trendswww.cdc.gov CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

the rare Two Irish Exit evening

The homophobia

If you see me at Seattle Pride today say hi! Here’s a pic so you can find me

In plain language, can anyone articulate what the actual scandal here amounts to? WPATH paid for a bunch of reviews that were never published?

The Anti-Trans Braintrust still has no evidence that kids are getting gender-affirming care without assessment so every week they gin up some bizarre procedural complaint. www.economist.com/united-state...

Research into trans medicine has been manipulatedwww.economist.com Court documents offer a window into how this happens

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Michael Hobbes

As we see in other conspiracy movements, they never clearly articulate what the outcome or stakes of this 'scandal' even are. Apparently Johns Hopkins was commissioned to produce six systematic reviews, they quibbled with WPATH and only ended up producing one. That's it.

The bad news is that we seem to be entering the summer COVID wave. The good news is that hospitalizations and deaths remain lower than they were last year.

Excess deaths were still 4% above the 2015-2019 baseline in April. Bad! But an improvement over the 14% excess during the winter COVID wave. ourworldindata.org/grapher/exce...

You cannot tell me that these men would not glide if you dropped them out of an airplane

oh my god shut the fuck up www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

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Michael Hobbes

lmao “thinkpiece millennials” is absolutely brutal and 100% what we deserve

Many things to lament in this moment but one thing worth celebrating is that the kids in the Kids These Days whining of older people can respond directly