Not true, restrictive states had significantly lower mortality. Mask mandates being the most significant factor. The largest gaps in mortality occur in the latter half of 2020 and the latter half of 2021, during Delta.
The sea surface temperature data is from NOAA and the sea ice extent data is from JAXA. His claims are not difficult to verify, if you follow the citations.
The opposition pointed out his shady personal finances and ponzi stuff publicly, months before the election. Press apparently weren't interested at the time.
The reason it doesn't make sense is that I think everyone (even his defenders) are misreading the offending sentence.
"If I were a Jew" is meant to inform his "concern" not his "appetite".
The insatiable appetite for violent self-defense is obviously universal (he mentions Palestinian animus). What is unique to Jewish identity are the lessons of the Holocaust, which he thinks would make him more afraid of allowing instincts of self-defense to overwhelm sensitivity to the suffering of others. It's perfectly consonant with his previous paragraphs.
Right-wing media isolated the sentence from context and framed it as saying Jewish people have an insatiable appetite for violence. The phrasing was ambiguous enough to plausibly support that interpretation, and people saw what they were primed to detect. Helps that he chose not to publicly defend himself, and media generally don't like to scrutinize claims of bigotry/racism. Reminds me a bit of the Shirley Sherrod firing.
You must walk before you can run. An Oregon carbon tax could serve as a model to others, and help inch us toward international consensus. It's a coordination problem; signalling serves an important role.
Indeed. I love the symmetry of state/national legislation skepticism (pointless, all large jurisdictions need to coordinate) and consumer behavior skepticism (pointless, need to vote for legislators who will pass laws impacting all consumers). It's a dynamic problem; most likely any one individual jurisdiction's or person's particular decision isn't going to change global outcomes, but it's hard to see how to get on a better global path without lots of decisions aiming for that at every level.
A carbon tax would indeed have been great, but unfortunately what was proposed was cap-and-trade and a bunch of "green jobs" pork. Better than nothing, possibly, but even so as likely to affect the international consensus as a zero-emission Oregon to affect the global temperature.
It astounds me that an article about government officials going on an unwarranted fishing expedition through a journalist's entire digital life would be flagged on HN.
Particularly when previous stories of CBP demanding access to tech workers' devices have been heavily upvoted in the past.
My guess is that the flaggers reacted purely to the headline, and never read the story. The headline pattern matches to "culture war", so they flagged it and moved on.
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