Alex Tabarrok 🛡️ @ATabarrok Twitter profile

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@ATabarrok

8 months

The DOJ is suing @elonmusk and @SpaceX for focusing their hiring on US citizens and permanent residents. Do you know who else advertises that only US citizens can apply for a job? The DOJ.

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2 years

Putin is fulfilling his promise to restore the Soviet Union.

The Intel Crab

@IntelCrab

2 years

The bank runs begin. Long lines in #Moscow for ATM withdrawals.

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Hilarious. Climate activists glue themselves to conductor’s stand but don’t realize it’s removable so security lifts it up and puts them in back room.

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3 years

Diwali fireworks at Costco. The world is changing.

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1 year

Progressivism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be making a profit.

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3 years

Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech and then finished the speech.

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@eliza_relman

3 years

Hogan Gidley: Trump is "the most masculine person to ever hold the White House as the president of the United States"

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3 years

My takeaway is that a large number of people HATE the cultural left (not the econ left) and are willing to put up with almost anything, including incompetence, chaos, corruption and bad policy, to signal their views loud and clear.

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1 year

How it Started / How it's Going

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@ATabarrok

1 year

Law appears to be the field most threatened by GPTs.

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4 years

Insanity. Fracking has made the US the world leader in oil and natural gas production. Created trillions in wealth for producers and consumers. Made us less dependent on the Middle East. *Reduced* our carbon emissions. Fracking is American ingenuity at it's very best. 🇺🇸

The Hill

@thehill

4 years

Bernie Sanders introduces bill to ban fracking

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11 months

If this is true it's the most important event in the history of the world.

Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief

In a Debrief exclusive, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean report that a former official says the U.S. has retrieved craft of non-human origin.

thedebrief.org

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3 years

You would have done much better investing in Dogecoin this year than in Pfizer. I can't tell you how depressing this is.

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@ATabarrok

5 years

Robert Smith the billionaire who paid off the debt of Morehouse College’s graduating class? Three to seven times a year he is stopped by police as he drives himself to his private jet at the airport in Texas.

‘Who is this Robert Smith?’: A quiet billionaire makes some noise with $20 million gift to the...

With a mind for math and music, Smith has built a fortune. Now he hopes to see African American stories and culture shared in a digital age.

www.washingtonpost.com

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3 years

Not everyday an economist makes the cover of Vogue. Congratulations to @GitaGopinath , chief economist of the IMF.

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3 years

In China 51% of college students are STEM majors; in the United States 18%.

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2 years

WTF? Someone launched a rocket and hit the moon and NASA has no idea who.

NASA 360

@NASA360

2 years

After a rocket body impacted the Moon last year, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to snap a surprising view of the impact site. Unexpectedly, the crater is actually two craters and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end:

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2 years

STFU NYTimes.

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3 years

The AstraZeneca vaccine looks excellent in real world trials. Single dose is as good as Pfizer.

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2 months

Google once had the goal to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Now they have become a woke censor that hides, denies, and refuses to provide information.

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@TheStalwart

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3 years

What makes the FDAs failure to approve more rapid antigen tests even more galling is that the test being sold cheaply in the Amsterdam supermarket is the Flowflex, an American test made by Acon Labs in San Diego.

Mark Dexter

@PedsDocDex

3 years

Home, self-administered, ~15 minute wait COVID tests available in an Amsterdam supermarket for about $3.50 each. I don’t understand why we *still* don’t have these in the US!

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The Key bridge was built in 1977 at a cost of $61 million which is about $343m in $2024. Seems cheap. How much will it cost to replace it today?

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3 years

The US is still requiring a virus test to enter the US but not proof of vaccination. We have testing passports but not vaccine passports. Ridiculous. Vaccination is cheaper, more convenient and more effective. Vaccination should supersede any test requirement.

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In Germany you can get rapid COVID tests for less than a dollar each at the supermarket. Britain hands out 14-packs for free. Canada is giving them to small employers. In the US we have approved only a handful of rapid tests and they are expensive.

Why Doesn't the United States Have Test Abundance?! - Marginal REVOLUTION

We have vaccine abundance in the United States but not test abundance. Germany has test abundance. Tests are easily available at the supermarket or the corner store and they are cheap, five tests for...

marginalrevolution.com

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4 months

Wow. When you have lost Washington Post and New York Times.

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3 years

Get vaccinated. This can be us.

BNO News

@BNOFeed

3 years

BREAKING: Israel reports no new coronavirus deaths for second day in a row

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2 years

It's over.

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

2 years

At interim analysis, overwhelming efficacy necessitated stopping the trial for ethical considerations: 389 people who got Paxlovid: 3 hospitalizations, 0 deaths 385 people who got placebo: 27 hospitalizations, 7 deaths @Carolynyjohnson

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Pfizer, All UK spontaneous reports received between 9/12/20 and 28/02/21 Deep vein thrombosis 8 Pulmonary embolism 15 Thrombocytopenia 13 AZ, All UK spontaneous reports received between 4/01/21and 28/02/21 Deep vein thrombosis 14 Pulmonary embolism 13 Thrombocytopenia 12

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3 years

Wait till Dr. Drew hears about public schools.

Dr. Drew

@drdrew

3 years

These vaccine passports segregate people and strip them of their freedom to travel internationally. Vaccinations are important, and I encourage everyone to get the Covid vaccine, but how would you feel if international travel also required other vaccinations?

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Broken clock and all that but Sinema is correct. The US 1500 hour rule is too long. Europe and the UK start to permit (co)-pilots with 250 hours and it's fine. US rule before 2009 was 250 hours.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

10 months

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is holding up a major bill unless it includes her proposal to require less training for airline pilots. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an ex-pilot, says Sinema will have 'blood on her hands' if it passes. Why would anyone argue for less training for pilots? Thread.

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2 years

Hmmm. I wonder what will happen when we increase demand for a fixed supply of houses? Is there a word for this?

Christine Mai-Duc

@cmaiduc

2 years

As home prices continue to soar in California, @toniatkins and Senate Democrats want to try a new approach: spending $10 billion to help families buy homes. Details on the new proposal here -

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@ATabarrok

2 years

The United Kingdom has dropped ALL COVID entry requirements as has Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and many others. The US test requirement is an expensive waste of time and effort. Time to end it. Now.

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

2 years

A positive Covid test while out of the country could add days and thousands of dollars to your trip. Here’s how to prepare before you fly.

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GPT4 gets a 0 on Steven Landsbrug's undergrad econ exam. But damn, Steven's questions are tricky. Not hard computationally but you really have to think like an economist!

GPT-4 Fails Economics

Edit: Here is a new and improved version of the post below. I am leaving the original up for historical reasons, but I recommend following the link instead of reading this post. ***************** Y…

www.thebigquestions.com

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3 years

Emotions sell. “To monetise the insight, the Data Science Group created an AI machine-learning algorithm to predict which emotions articles would evoke and sells this insight to advertisers, who can choose from 18 emotions…” Facebook? No. The NYTimes.

What broke the New York Times?

The New York Times entered the digital era under duress. In 2011, the Times erected a paywall in what it called a ‘subscription-first business model’. The gamble was that readers would want to pay...

www.spectator.co.uk

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3 years

The FDA has failed.

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@jillagoldstein

3 years

@michaelmina_lab @nytopinion @nytimes @TheCOVIDCollab My sister lives in London. This is her stockpile of FREE tests. Her son’s school tried to give her more today. She declined. Each box has 7 tests. She has 16 boxes. 112 tests. The US has failed.

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2 years

Wow this would be like a great leap forward!

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@ploughmansfolly

2 years

REMINDER: if one in ten American households raised a 1/2 acre garden and kept 35 laying hens, there would be no industrial egg or vegetable production (level one)

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We truly live in the dumbest timeline. A French restaurant says it received insults and threats from customers who thought its signature Quebecois dish poutine was named after Putin

A French restaurant says it received insults and threats from customers who thought its signature...

La Maison de la Poutine said it "seems necessary" to remind diners its name and signature dish are "unrelated to the Russian regime and its leader."

news.yahoo.com

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Fake libertarians whine about masks. Real libertarians assert the right to medical self-defense and demand access to vaccines on a right to try basis.

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23 days

Brilliant! Not since Human Action has the case against socialism been made so well.

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@DylanMAllman

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Socialist professor explains how to get a PS5 under socialism. Yeah, no thanks.

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1 year

Baby skydiving looks like fun.

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3 years

On a panel I said we need to vaccinate the world for humanitarian, foreign policy and self-interested reasons. @ASlavitt quipped. "The world needs to vaccinate the United States." Sadly, he is not wrong. We have fallen from #2 most vaccinated country to now #38 and falling.

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Freakishly good. Better than many humans.

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Go to lunch with @tylercowen . He says Putin will invade Ukraine today. Much disagreement and push back around the table. Come back from lunch. Putin has invaded Ukraine.

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2 years

Tough but fair grader gets fired. Decline of meritocracy.

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4 years

CEO pay has risen because firms are much larger now so CEO decisions matter more and there is greater competition for talent. Similarly, actors are paid more now not because they are “better” actors but because they reach more people.

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Consider just one piece of data: CEO pay. Do we really thing CEOs have gotten hugely better since the 1960s, while workers haven't? 2/

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4 years

The tragedy is that we are all locked in that car with Trump.

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What a jerk. No homeowner complained. These were "sting" operations that encouraged a house painter to also lay some tile and then arrested the handyperson for not having a tile laying occ. license.

HCSO

@HCSOSheriff

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Sheriff: “We have arrested 118 people in an investigation we called, ‘Operation House Hunters.’ These 118 con men & women were posing as contractors & preying on innocent homeowners in Hillsborough County, who were just looking to repair or improve their home.”

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In 1961, thousands of students rioted at Harvard and had to be dispersed by police using tear gas. The cause of the riot: the students wanted their diplomas printed in Latin not English. The riots went on for days.

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Robot dog wanders the wreckage of a crashed spaceship. Not sci-fi.

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@Rainmaker1973 These types of motorcycles are called choppers.

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NYTimes--Shall we write about how Bayes rule helped rationalists to conclude early that SARS-COV-II was going to be very serious? Nah.....let's insinuate it has something to do with white supremacy instead.

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2 years

I am very confused.

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

2 years

A gas station owner in Massachusetts has stopped selling in protest over the surging price of gasoline for his customers

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I have been shouting this from the rooftops for months. We have more than 30 million doses of AZ vaccine stockpiled. The world needs it. We have yet to approve it and don’t need it any longer. Let it go! Vaccinate the world. Good to see msm get this story.

The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs (Published 2021)

Those tens of millions of doses from AstraZeneca are waiting for trial results, while countries that authorized the vaccine beg to have them.

www.nytimes.com

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The counter-intuitive nature of this explains why we need the price system.

The Redheaded libertarian

@TRHLofficial

8 months

Checks out.

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Taxi drivers attack Uber drivers and Uber is the bad guy? Ridiculous. Travis Kalanick is one of the most important entrepreneurs of the era because he fought the rent-seekers and won.

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@ATabarrok

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. @elonmusk really, don’t do this. X users have developed a language, a protocol, for referencing article headers and this breaks the language and makes communication more difficult

Pop Base

@PopBase

7 months

Twitter/X has officially removed article headlines on links shared to the platform, now just displaying the image and website.

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In the face of nearly 800k deaths. Complacency and lack of vision. It’s no surprise that people think the moon landing was fake. Who could believe a country that can’t do simple rapid tests could have gone to the moon 50 years ago?

@mkarolian on Threads

@mkarolian

2 years

Jen Psaki somewhat mockingly asks reporter at the White House Daily Press Briefing if the US should be sending out rapid #COVID19 tests to every household. In the UK you can order 1 pack (containing 7 tests) everyday.

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Michael Lewis says everyone thought the CDC were the special forces of epidemiology but they turned out to be a university department and as this thread indicates, a second-rate one at that.

[email protected]

@JoannaMasel

2 years

Many are torn between frustration and sympathy for @CDCgov . Given all the things CDC are failing to get done (eg rapid data dissemination and analysis), I am shocked by what they DO they spend time on. 🧵sharing observations from my interactions with CDC staff. 1/14

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Decades of anti-landlord legislation has created a moocher-class of squatters who steal homes and then call the police on the owners.

Finance Guy

@GuyTalksFinance

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Imagine being arrested for taking your home back from squatters. NY is run by a bunch of 🤡

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@ATabarrok

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Remember the nurse in Israel that grabbed a pizza delivery guy and vaccinated him before the vaccine expired? Illegal and dangerous in New York.

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@webdevMason

3 years

If you wanted to make sure that rapidly expiring vaccines distributed in 10-dose vials end up in the trash, this is how you'd do it

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In World War II it took 45,000 bullets on average to kill one soldier or a bfr of 0.00002222222. Yet, somehow WWII was still a big deal.

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This is what happens when you don’t allow prices to rise.

Bryan 🇺🇸for🇺🇦

@swimmerbr78

3 years

The stupidity has begun

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Are the aliens giving us superconductivity, cancer killing drugs and AI and the government is just leaking it slowly so we don’t freak out? Only explanation that makes sense.

𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓁𝑒 ⚡

@gigaj0ule

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Small molecule oral cancer drug kills 100% of solid tumors across 70 evaluated cancer types in vitro and in animal models with a therapeutic index of 6 and no discernible side effects Phase 1 trials now underway

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Progressivism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be making a profit.

Opinion | Big Pharma Is Fooling Us (Published 2020)

Heroic work went into the development of the coronavirus vaccines. But that doesn’t mean this industry deserves your affection.

www.nytimes.com

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In other words, thousands of people died because we didn’t approve AstraZeneca in December along with the British.

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

3 years

🚨 US trials of AZ vaccine are out: - 32,000 people took part - no drop in protection for over-65s - 100% effective at preventing people from falling seriously ill - 79% effective vs symptomatic covid-19 - no safety issues regarding blood clots

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X should make a deal with @MultiversX ! @elonmusk @beniaminmincu

unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

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BREAKING: X, formerly known as Twitter, has obtained a license required for crypto payments and trading in the US, per CryptoTimes.

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Berkeley is a dump. Nothing has changed in decades. House rich, cash poor. Development forbidden. Henry George needed.

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The twin pillars of collectivism. You are guilty of things you didn’t do and can’t take credit (you didn’t build that) for things you did do.

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State polcy matters less than we think.

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Word is that MIT alumni are incensed about the cancellation of Dorian Abbot. MIT leadership is under pressure. Pubic apology from MIT is possible and would be welcome.

MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me.

Let’s make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob.

www.thefp.com

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@ATabarrok

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The travel bans have no rational basis whatsoever. Throw them out immediately and start with a simple policy. Anyone vaccinated is allowed to travel to the US.

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The gas fees will far exceed any tip--this doesn't make any sense. Need to use a cryptocurrency with low fees like Elrond's $egld.

Coin Buzz News

@CoinBuzz_News

2 years

🚨 Twitter now accepts $ETH for tipping! #Ethereum

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Street hawker selling to car passengers while they wait at an intersection. How could I resist?

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I would give 540b the right to vote.

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@GarettJones Hinton has second thoughts.

'Godfather of AI' leaves Google, warns of tech's dangers

Geoffrey Hinton, the man widely considered as the “godfather” of artificial intelligence, has left Google — with a message sharing his concerns about potential dangers stemming from the same techno...

apnews.com

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3 years

Online aerobic class proceeds as military coup takes place in the background. Very cyberpunk. Sound on.

Àngel Marrades

@VonKoutli

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Una mujer hizo su clase de aerobic sin darse cuenta de que estaban dando el golpe de Estado en Myanmar. Y pues puede verse como el convoy de militares llega al parlamento.

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Albert Bourla is a hero. He marshaled Pfizer resources & inspired employees to produce a life-saving vaccine in record time. A great scientific, technological and organizational feat. He deserves, with Sliaou and Perna, a Nobel peace prize. To see him treated like this is obscene

Avi Yemini

@OzraeliAvi

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This video has now been BANNED on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The WEF wants it scrubbed, and their lackeys are happy to oblige. Thank you @elonmusk for not caving. 7.3M views and counting. The public want answers. MORE:

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What people will brave to escape from socialism to capitalism.

Jorge Ventura Media

@VenturaReport

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On the U.S./Mexico border in Juarez we witnessed a Venezuelan family with a toddler going under the concerta wire to enter the El Paso illegally by placing cardboard on their backs to avoid being cut , the little girl can be heard crying as she goes under @NewsNation

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@paulg Tesla produces about 1 million cars per year, quadrupling goes to 4 or 3 extra. Average miles driven per year say 12,000, avg mpg 30 so fuel savings 3 mil*12000/30=1.2 billion gallons saved. Americans use about 120 billion gallons of gasoline per year so a 1% saving.

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@ATabarrok

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I have over 300 students and judging by that sample many people are reaching the breaking point. It's worse now than last semester. The pandemic is amplifying all the other problems students may have--family, work, health. We cannot end this thing soon enough.

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@ATabarrok

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Some of the biolabs in the Ukraine are experimenting with Dihydrogen monoxide which kills thousands of people a year when inhaled.

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@ATabarrok

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This piece by @lydiadepillis is the best piece ever written on the FDA in a mainstream news publication. It gets everything right. Sea change in attitude.

This Scientist Created a Rapid Test Just Weeks Into the Pandemic. Here’s Why You Still Can’t Get It.

Irene Bosch developed a quick, inexpensive COVID-19 test in early 2020. The Harvard-trained scientist already had a factory set up. But she was stymied by an FDA process experts say made no sense.

www.propublica.org

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QR restaurant menus are a curse. I am less likely to return to any restaurant that uses them.

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@ATabarrok

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Tried to explain to my law and Econ students that In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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@ATabarrok

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Bravo and thank you to Mitch Daniels.

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@ATabarrok

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No matter how many times it is killed, the labor theory of value rises from the dead.

Pop Tingz

@ThePopTingz

1 year

There is reportedly a huge pay gap between the actors in HBO’ “The Last of Us”. According to Variety, Pedro Pascal received $600,000 per episode, while Bella Ramsey received $70,000, despite both being the protagonists of the series.

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@ATabarrok

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Who could have predicted exactly what happened last year?

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

The coronavirus testing capacity in the U.S. is facing enormous new pressure, with holiday travelers waiting in long lines to be tested, overworked laboratories struggling to keep up and rapid at-home diagnostics flying off pharmacy shelves.

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@ATabarrok

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Bonkers! First Minister of Wales says they are slowing down delivery of Pfizer vaccine so they can space it out evenly over 6 weeks. Does he not understand what a pandemic is?!!

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@ATabarrok

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Good. A move in the right direction. But this should have been done on Jan. 20. An eight month delay and for what? No excuses.

President Biden

@POTUS

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In order to better detect and control the Delta variant, I am taking steps to make testing more available, affordable, and convenient. I will use the Defense Production Act to increase production of rapid tests — including those you can use at home.

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3 years

Clip a Powerball ticket to every vaccination card.

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@ATabarrok

2 years

Excellent thread. And the people making this point today are being attacked for "blaming the victim". Moralizing is the mind killer.

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@ATabarrok

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If you want to see a real conspiracy in action look at how the media treat Tulsi Gabbard. Good analysis of how things work here

Tulsi Gabbard Has Enemies In High Places

How doing the right thing could be costing her everything

medium.com

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@ATabarrok

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Most economists are middle of the road Democrats. They are attacked as laissez-faire because economics is the one social science where some diversity of opinion, including conservative and libertarian opinion, is still respected and some people find that intolerable.

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Our leaders in a nutshell.

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