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In middle age I've come to believe that a lot of libertarian & civil libertarian stances are essentially a dodge -- a strategic deferment of some fundamental fights for a

I deleted from the original thread he's replying to, because that's a separate battle. But yes. I roll my eyes at "science is real!" from anyone who's trying to tell

Ok I'm going to go ahead & step right on this landmine b/c it truly irritates me when reporters don't do their jobs. Here are two stories pushing back on

You: Abolish grocery stores.Me: Maybe we could just reform them? Make them more sustainable & healthy?You: No , get rid of them & let other institutions, like CSA, Farmers Markets,

Actually I kinda non ironically feel this way. My kids go to church and Sunday School for this kind of moral formation.https://twitter.com/andlikelaura/status/1304099480438857729 I think if your kids don’t go to

I think I'm seeing the emergency of a brand new threat to social cohesion as the pandemic grows. It's a pretty bad one, too. A thread:In an area that has

There are two really important, globe-spanning, real-estate-occupying, tax-break-soaking-up reasons why these things are not like now: datacenter & (related) warehouse/delivery infrastructure.https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1288524

I just thought of a good analogy for what's bothering me about some of the #COVID19 analysis. A while back we ran a blog post about how modern house fires

Having had the experience a few times now of trying to type something (e.g. the domain name of a 3D printed gun files host) into various boxes on the internet

As a followup to the polling I did earlier on odd stock shortages, I did a piece getting to the bottom of it (with valuable input from @man_integrated!).https://theprepared.com/blog/product-shortages-and-shipping-explainer/?utm_campaign=blo

The present spike we're seeing in Texas isn't a blow-off top. It's just the first of many oscillations in case counts, & the oscillations won't stop until either a vaccine

Having the "which gun do I, a guy who doesn't care about guns but is scared, buy right now?" convo w/ two different friends. Might as well make a short

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