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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

6 months

Living his best life #Mongolia

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

8 months

It’s 100 degrees in my room, but 68 outside, but I can’t change that because England has dumb rules

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@Chris_arnade

9 months

I’m begging Americans when they leave the country to spend more than five minutes with someone who isn’t in academics, non profits, or an NGO. Then you’ll realize “fuck Americans” is a status game played by very over educated elite hypocrites

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The Panera bread thing is so cartoonishly corrupt and so relatively small stakes. Could only be done by a political class who doesn't feel the least bit threatened and so can do whatever they want.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

8 months

@InezFeltscher Window lock. Because open second floor windows are dangerous. And they’ve not discovered child protection bars.

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@Chris_arnade

8 months

America! America! Home of the free!

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

3 months

This is nothing. I remember being on trading floor in 08, at the absolute worst of the crisis, and hearing people making 2 mill a year saying, "It's all over. I'm toast." and realizing even though they'd been making that for a few years, they'd leveraged up into fixed costs that…

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@Chris_arnade

10 months

Six year olds walking home from school, on their own, is one of those things the rest of the world understands as normal but the US sees as criminal

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

8 months

Can’t believe I just spent 45 minutes unscrewing a window lock with travel finger nail clippers. To be rewarded by curry and flat beer

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

4 months

I mean, is the claim that Harvard is running a scam? That their extension school -- which on it's website says "We are Harvard", is not in fact Harvard?

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@Chris_arnade

4 months

Because of a 2+ hour passport line at JFK, I missed my bus home. So I crashed at a friends house in Rockaways & got up to take 4:30 am subway to Port authority. It was filthy and mostly empty, except for about three/four homeless guys per car sleeping/passed-out. At each stop…

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@Chris_arnade

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Yes it is, and it’s also making them very unsafe. Putting drugged out people into small confined spaces with strangers is almost guaranteeing bad stuff happens, from them and to them. It’s adding volatility to spaces specifically designed for placidity

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@Chris_arnade

3 months

“He spent first 30 minutes bitching over 800 years of historical grievances..” Have you ever been to an Eastern European bar? You lucky it only lasted 30 minutes and only covered 800 years!

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@Chris_arnade

8 months

Funny people suggesting I go out and buy wire-cutters in a small English city on a Sunday night. Only thing open is pubs and, well, more pubs. And they close at 10 just because

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@Chris_arnade

8 months

Only in England. Which is both Neo Lib enough to have a safety litigation driven society, so window locks, but backwards enough to be scared of AC. Then there is the manager who has no tools and no creativity. I just want to not be hot.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

1 year

This is one of those things that is obvious to 98% of the world, but somehow it’s a third rail on Twitter.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

4 months

If you are going to expand educational opportunities, for non-traditional students in the name of equity and equality, that’s great. But don’t then shame them for being proud about it. It’s such a shitty pedantic game to play. You can’t have it both ways. But that’s what a lot…

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

2 years

Man US likes big cars. The shock of returning from overseas. Pick up hour at local elementary school looks like an army resupply effort, but driven by Middle Aged moms in yoga pants.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

5 months

This has it all. The punching down (5 yr old rando). The laziness (sit in room, watch tv, write article about what you see with zero due diligence). The identity stereotyping (white looking kid can’t possibly be Native American) The faux outrage for clicks It’s the apogee of…

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

5 months

Probably the biggest political gap between the highly educated policy class & the less educated public, is on immigration, and it’s not about if you should have it or not, but on the pace. That’s because the public has to deal with the consequences, in a visceral and daily way,…

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@Chris_arnade

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There is literally about 1,000 people, very well known to the police & other agencies, that are the cause of the majority of the problems on subways. Maybe deal with those people, directly, rather than try this stuff

Bahar Ostadan

@BaharOstadan

1 month

NEW: The NYPD is gearing up to pilot metal detectors with artificial intelligence in the subways to keep guns out. “This is our Sputnik moment. Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon,” Mayor Adams said just now.

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@Chris_arnade

5 months

Update on this: I went to eye-doctor, & no I don't have cataracts. The doctor did mention, almost all her customers now complain about same thing, to extent some have completely stopped driving at night. The primary offender is newer cars with very bright headlights -- Tesla's…

Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

6 months

I don't know if it's the new ultra-bright headlights, or idiots who don't know difference between high/low beam, or both, but driving at night now means being continually blasted & blinded with spotlights

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@Chris_arnade

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Isaac Newton, a few weeks after sending two close colleagues & supporters bizarre letters accusing them off all sorts of nasty plans (“endeavored to embroil me with women”) and breaking off their friendship (“twere better if you were dead”), then followed up with this letter.…

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@Chris_arnade

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Don’t necessarily disagree with this framing (would say it differently), but I believe a large percentage of Europeans would swap their tiny apartment three miles from downtown Brussels, or Marseille, their tiny car, for a ranch house in Jacksonville beach with three cars & a…

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@Chris_arnade

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This is rightfully getting dunked on, but the inclusion of Vanguard, a company that's probably done more to democratize investing than any other company, and consequently move it from an exclusive insiders game, towards a way for working families to earn more than 1% (with fees)…

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

4 months

This is what oligarchy is about. Today just 3 Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard & State Street manage $20.7 trillion in assets. These 3 firms are major shareholders in 95% of S&P 500 companies. Democracy will not survive with this concentration of economic & political power.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

8 months

Just had the most ugly (but right) American vs European manager discussion ever.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

4 months

@ChewyYorkie @andreavhowe "No one forced you to take the subway at 430am" -- tell that to everyone else on the subway, the ones coming and going from work...

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

7 months

As a Salomon Brothers bond trading alum, it warms my heart to see Michael Lewis finally living up to his full potential as the midwit salesman that couldn’t cut it as a trader & ends up ruined & fooled by a fast sweet talking customer

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

1 year

Bathroom code at this Starbucks is 8675309 and it’s funny watching everyone over 30 immediately get it and those younger walking away desperately trying to commit it to memory

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

3 months

Best time to be up and out is 5 am to 7 am — most relaxing and interesting part of day. Far fewer cars, people, etc, so it’s more subdued, easier to interact, and those out are generally functional, hardworking, and have their life together. It’s like a mini replica of…

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

3 months

lol. From listening to Billie Elish in a Dunkin’ Donuts in Jakarta, to watching kids in Ulaanbaatar debate Friends (in English) while playing League of legends, I cans tell you, this is absurd, at the trivial level, to the deeper level.

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

3 months

American culture and ideas have almost no reach in Dubai, Istabul, Shanghai, Jakarta, Nairobi, Singapore, Lisbon, Stockholm or Mumbai. You can’t run an empire with London, Toronto and Melbourne

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

3 years

Don’t think media realizes how much damage they have done to their rep in last decade. Perhaps they don’t care But the view of the “normie” (low information, to use a nasty framing media likes), has flipped from assuming media is right to assuming media is wrong. That is huge

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@Chris_arnade

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Human rights, a noble goal in theory, is now a thing elites use to maintain policies that work for them, safely ensconced in gated communities, while the working class and middle class are terrorized by a tiny number of jerks & assholes. Then, when the majority say via…

Foreign Affairs

@ForeignAffairs

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on street gangs has facilitated a dramatic drop in crime—but it has also come at a serious cost to democracy and human rights, writes @Gustavo_F_M .

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@Chris_arnade

6 months

I don't know if it's the new ultra-bright headlights, or idiots who don't know difference between high/low beam, or both, but driving at night now means being continually blasted & blinded with spotlights

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

Anyone surprised by Mexican-Americans shift towards the right hasn't spent anytime in working class Mexican American neighborhoods. A long period of increased wealth (generally associated with entrepreneurial non-academic type work) built on a foundation of "old school values"

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

@LHSummers There is a lot of social science that explains it, but economist don't like the answers, because it undercuts the spreadsheet brain that now dominates the field. Social scientist understand people need community, not just higher GDP, more stuff, and bigger profits.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

2 years

There are soft experts, in fields like, oh foreign policy, that deal with the intractability of the problems by bluffing confidence & certainty Then there are hard experts, in fields like, oh meteorology, who try to be honest about the uncertainty inherent in their subject

David Frum

@davidfrum

2 years

1-6 inches of snow predicted tomorrow? Can you imagine if any other profession allowed itself a similar range? "Your plane will depart tomorrow between 1 and 6." "We've bought you a dress between size 1 and 6." "Best to limit your daily wine intake to between 1 glass and 6."

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

10 months

The key thing about US is how we can have so much and yet be so miserable. Like the last 8 years the US has grown and grown and grown. Especially compared to rest of the world. And yet, everyone is an angry, bitter, yell-y, depressed, mess. Especially on here...

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

1 month

Finally watched Oppenheimer (on small airplane screen, as intended) and ok, it's got the absurdly loud ponderous background music that tells me deep stuff is supposed to be going on, but otherwise, it's a long bore. Imagine making a movie about the most profound science project…

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

2 years

One of the harder lesson from my last ten years driving & walking all over country listening to people rarely listened to is, “the working-class doesn’t want the politics I wanted them to want.”

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

1 year

Look. I love NYC. Lived there 20 yrs, but anyone who tells you it hasn't changed in last three years, largely for the worse, is crazy. My morning going from Rockaways to Port authority was filled with navigating filth and broken, dysfunctional, & disruptive people.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

1 year

Talking to this homeless guy here in Grand Rapids and he had a mobile wifi that he gets from the library. It’s good for a month. Really cool program. Never seen it anywhere else. Is this common?

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

24 days

Funny seeing people jumping on this (partly for phrasing), but Japan is very different when you get outside of central Tokyo. It’s not exactly dystopian, but it’s not the quaint idyllic world lots of Japan-bros like to paint. It can be very ugly, with lots of prefab strip…

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@aukemajk

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The image of a giant Aeon Mall in the middle of impoverished Japanese countryside fittingly describes the country’s whole economy and capitalist existence. Giant corporations literally sucking the country dry, leaching off the work of an underpaid populace. 1/

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@Chris_arnade

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There is only so much police can do in a shame-free society Sucker punching an elderly woman on church grounds breaks so many wrongs that every culture respects that it requires a deep deviance

New York Post

@nypost

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Purse-snatching bully punches woman, 68, in face and down NYC church stairs — then takes her car while as she lies in agony

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

3 months

My daughter --- Where you going again? Me --- Brunei. Tiny odd place, I'm sure you never heard of it My daughter -- Brunei? Oh. I've got a friend there. Me --- What? You have a friend in Brunei? My daughter -- Yes. Fatini. She's on our League of Legends team.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

4 months

Someone should file class action law suit against Harvard, and their president, for fraud and false advertising. Hopefully a lawyer who graduated from Ohio state. lol. Just for the F-ing laughs.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

2 years

Found this humble building in Bucharest

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

4 months

One solution to the Ivy gatekeeping monopoly is for them to expand! Let in more students, open branches. But you see, even if that happens, there will always be elite gate-keeping. You went to the "wrong" Harvard

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@Chris_arnade

6 months

Me: Wow, your English is perfect Young Mongolian woman: Thanks! Me: How did you learn it? Her: Friends! Me: American or English friends? Her: No. The show Friends! I watched all ten seasons five times!

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

5 months

LOL. A Libertarian celebrating Breezewood, which is entirely the result of federal regulation Breezewood only exists because of stupid 1950s federal law that prohibited connecting drivers directly from a free road (I-70} to a toll road (Penn Turnpike). So you get this four…

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽

@JoshEakle

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Sorry Tucker, This photo is exponentially more beautiful than anything created by central planners. The chaos of markets will always be preferable to the human suffering caused by centralization. Cope and seeth.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

3 months

@FistedFoucault That's a sweet house. 85% of the world trade up for that and a green card.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

1 year

What so fascinating about SBF's effective altruism is how it's an attempt to hack the utter meaninglessness of finance & careerism A lazy attempt to make careerism transcendent I can do this vapid immoral thing because i'm gonna be really really moral in the end. I promise

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

8 months

@ZengdaWei I’ve got no tools. I’m literally walking across England with only a small backpack! But yeah. I would if I could.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

2 years

Hello, from Kyiv

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

1 year

The contrast between what you see in NYC, a very wealthy town in a very wealthy country, versus what you see in Taipei, or Hanoi, or Istanbul, is damning to the US. We are doing something very wrong.

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@Chris_arnade

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@NateSilver538 Naaah. This isn’t hard. Don’t try to be first on stuff that’s unfolding in real time, beyond giving the briefest of details. Bloomberg news, at least the news scroll, used to be good at this.

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

3 months

I generally stay out of politics, because that's what any sane person does, but my God -- The US is just stumbling drunk into the mother of all dumb elections Strength of US is politicians don't really matter (compared to rest of world), because we are too big, deep, diverse,…

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

Taking Adam to Catfish Lounge in Milwaukee's Northside and letting him explain why the loss of jobs was good for the neighborhood. (PS. He co-wrote a book with Bernanke & worked for Bank of England. He's not just some minor libertarian hack)

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

2 years

Another astonishing clip from the Cato Institute event today, this one from the influential Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute. He says a focus on domestic manufacturing is simply a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.”

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@Chris_arnade

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American lifestyle is remarkably appealing to a lot of people who are not involved in policy. Revealed preferences is a thing & should be taken into account!

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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌

@Chris_arnade

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Limiting beam intensity, is an example of what competent Government regulation is supposed to be about -- curtailing selfish individual behavior, with limited benefit, that's directly dangerous and harmful, in a clear physical way, to the larger community. Even hard core…

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

@ggreenwald One of the insights of experience is realizing prizes like the Pulitzer are often awards to the most un-original, least dangerous, & most suck-up-y Makes me wonder about the highly decorated works of the past & what actually thoughtful stuff has been lost to time.

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@Chris_arnade

5 months

@robkhenderson Yeah. Elites will never admit they largely live conservative personal lives while advocating for erosion of those norms. Which has crushed many working class communities

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

One the worst things about inflation is it punishes the part of the working class that bought into the American myth of hard work, living within your means, & building a future without rolling the dice

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@Chris_arnade

6 months

This is the definition of ugly tourism — abusing a high trust society for laughs & I guess attention. It’s disgusting & gross. I don’t even cross empty streets here in Japan, unless there is a walk sign, because absolutely nobody else does You don’t want to be that guy. Really

Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸

@mrjeffu

6 months

Popular YouTuber Fidias (2.37 million subscribers) has uploaded a "I Travelled Across Japan For Free" video. How'd he do it? Simple: by illegally boarding trains without a ticket, hiding in the train toilet, and running when conductors tried to detain him.

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@Chris_arnade

2 months

Why does so much of Europe look like this?

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

This guy ran George "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." W Bush's re election campaign. Now he is a Dem who tweets this. Nothing changed, but who he collects checks from Props to his game.

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

Afghan war been disaster from beginning to end; created, extended, & executed by a class of soulless technocrats with degrees from Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, & Harvard, all paying a game of Sim Nation The US costs, in deaths, has fell on kids from the Bronx, Kentucky, & Georgia

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@Chris_arnade

5 months

Also. The policy class has a hard time understanding the core importance of local culture to their voters, and the meaning it gives them. The sense of place. They themselves have moved “beyond” such provincialism. They might have been born German, or Italian, or French, or…

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

Next installment of Walking America? Breezewood Pa! Fifteen miles, two days, in the most mem-ed small city in America. Coming tomorrow (assuming I am not rained out)

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

Absolute failure in Afghanistan to build anything but disdain — despite 20 yrs, tens of thousands of deaths, 89 gazzilion $s, 1000s of boring conferences filled with academics, pompous journalist, government blowhards, UN bigwigs — should fill global elite with shame. It won’t

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

Biden’s popularity dropped because he was elected to return things to normal & things haven’t returned to normal Almost everyone I spoke to thinks things are “off”, or “weird”, or “broken”. Drill down more it is almost always about Covid If he is to blame or not isn’t the point

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@Chris_arnade

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You got to travel more man. Everywhere I’ve been, being from US gets a positive reaction, except a few elite pockets in Europe Including Vietnam, Indonesia, Ecuador, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, turkey, Peru, Senegal, and Romania.

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

@antoniogm

10 months

Israel is the only place I’ve traveled where revealing you’re from the US results in a positive reaction instead of a lecture. Anywhere else, from Spain to Venezuela, resulted in a debate (I mostly never reveal a U.S. connection if I can ‘pass’ as something else; too annoying).

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@Chris_arnade

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I've lost up to 40 lbs in two month periods. Walking certainly helps, but for me the key to dieting is recognizing being slightly hungry is a better, more natural feeling, than being stuffed. Or under eating is more natural than over eating.

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@Chris_arnade

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I spent 8 yrs on this, before giving it up 5 yrs ago, because it felt like yelling into a void & was just too depressing. Educational polarization in US is so deep, at not just a political level but also a meaning & epistemological level, that I’m not sure anything can be done

David Brooks

@nytdavidbrooks

9 months

We in the educated class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves.

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@Chris_arnade

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Rich knowledge workers can keep doing this all they want. They can mask up their tiny tots, co-ordinate physical meetings with their other super cautious friends so everyone is masked, vacced, boosted, & properly vetted. But telling everyone else they gotta do that is over.

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

Frustrating things about school opening/closing debated is it's entirely dominated by people who 1) have resources for & access to child care 2) have flexibility to work from home Missing (certainly from twitter) is perspective of lower income who don't necessarily have either

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

Pivoting to being a guy who compares everything to the obscure period of history I just read a book about

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@Chris_arnade

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American elites are now cosplaying foreign wars. They want all the emotional thrill & life purpose that can come from conflict, but without the slightest bit of discomfort, much less, you know, the real risk of being killed. It’s a moral simulacrum as rendered by failed…

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@Chris_arnade

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Removing mirrors alone is not a huge thing, but the locking down of public and semi-public spaces do to deviant behavior of a few is such a nasty trajectory

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@Chris_arnade

4 months

I generally don't care about all this Harvard stuff. Tempest in an elite tea-pot. But come on man. Elites gonna elite.

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

Funny thing, and rarely mentioned, is how damn white NPR listener base is. White, educated, and completely out of touch with normie minorities who they treat like weird distant things to worry over.

NPR

@NPR

2 years

Some white people may choose 👍 because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of 👍🏻 signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.

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@Chris_arnade

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Man. Downtown San Antonio on a Sunday night is dystopian. Everything closed, clusters of mentally ill, addicted, and desperate wandering empty streets. It’s made worse by being ringed by an elevated expressway, which makes it feel like an empty concrete battlefield

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@Chris_arnade

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It's weird how young people outside of the fancier neighborhoods in the US, including in some pretty desperate parts of the world, are pretty well adjusted, social, and able to do normal human things like make small talk, despite being far closer to tragic and violent stuff.

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

My rules of travel 1) pack absurdly light 2) never change money at airport beyond bus fare 3) no hotels. Rent cheap apartment near transport hub 4) walk across town 1st day to learn 5) ride busses often, take cabs rarely 6) become regular at a few places 7) watch & follow

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

Faith (or mysticism, myth, religion) is like a bump in a rug too big for a room You push it down, it just pops up in another form/place.

The New Yorker

@NewYorker

3 years

A number of philosophers, futurists, science-fiction writers, and technologists have come to believe that the simulation argument is not just plausible, but inescapable.

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

@ebruenig The idea intimate male friendship is dead is one of those things twitter might think but nobody else does

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

Lol. I think the only group that really truly hates Americans is very well educated Americans.

Aaron Hanlon

@AaronRHanlon

2 years

I think Americans significantly underestimate how much the ordinary British person hates Americans.

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2 years

Bills new stadium, largely paid by taxpayers, is depressing as hell. NFL & owners, awash in cash, use an intentional scarcity (only 32 teams!) to squeeze cities. I will take away one of the things that makes this town proud, unless you pay up. It is a classic monopoly & sucks

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@Chris_arnade

3 years

One thing painfully clear from my last few months of walking, talking, & then hanging with people in bars/restaurants/churches/etc is how hard the ban on social gatherings has been on people. Most people deeply need physical & organic community.

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

Good morning Istanbul

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@Chris_arnade

10 months

This is so wrong it’s hilarious. The only groups who reliably hate Americans are sociology profs (of any country) and other Americans.

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

I want to think Putin has miscalculated so badly he will be deposed in a coup, or power struggle, or palace revolt. In a month, year, or two There is something so ruthlessly off about this whole thing, if that doesn’t happen, then I have misjudged our capacity for selfish evil

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@Chris_arnade

5 months

@Halalcoholism They pesky Koreans and their desire to run a profitable biz.

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@Chris_arnade

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I’ve spent a lot of time around hard drug users, helping them. You don’t want to do anything to increase their paranoia, which can tip into mania in a second. Public transport requires everyone be on their best behavior to work, and shooting up isn’t anyone’s best behavior.

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

Retuning to US from a county of half to a quarter of its wealth, to see far far more mentally ill people wandering streets, left to cope for themselves.

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@Chris_arnade

2 years

@esaagar I spent 7 years documenting homelessness and poverty, all over the country, and that didn't prepare me for LA. It shocked me. The most depressing image I saw was an expensive gated adult club (with BMW's in the parking lot), with tents along one side of its walls.

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@Chris_arnade

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When people find out I’ve got a PhD in theoretical physics, and then gush, often incoherently, about some discovery channel show they saw, or some pop sci book they read in prison, or whatever, I get really happy. In might try to suggest some other stuff they can watch or read,…