'Weird Alex' Pareene

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The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter Contributing editor, The New Republic

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  1. for 6 timer siden

    the first convincing argument I've seen for the recall election

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  2. for 7 timer siden
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  3. for 7 timer siden

    Our new episode of The Politics of Everything is about the fact that there used to be a Lyme disease vaccine, and now there isn't. What I propose is, maybe if GlaxoSmithKline isn't using it, we could have it.

    Angre
  4. for 11 timer siden

    As a smug European, I definitely used to think that Celsius is just a superior scale for measuring temperature. After 21 years in North America, though, I definitely concede that Fahrenheit is simply better and more intuitive for temperature.

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  5. for 8 timer siden

    NYC tradition, apparently...

    Angre
  6. last night I got embarrassed about having sent this out, but I have had some very nice messages (that I will reply to when I can steel myself). I hope it was helpful to anyone, which makes what i’m going through at least more valuable than just being Shit

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  7. for 15 timer siden

    The video showing Tesla's horribly unsafe autonomous driver program (which can be enabled by the user in cars right now) failing to slowly drive down a city street and almost hit someone has been removed due to "copyright"

    Angre
  8. for 13 timer siden

    a city could buy a bunch of electric conversion kits and teach teenagers an incredibly marketable skill or it could do this

    Angre
  9. for 13 timer siden

    The WorldBank doctored their rankings in their Doing Business report 2018 & 2020, to move China & Saudi Arabia higher. China because they were hoping for $$$, Saudi Arabia because they were afraid of the wrath of Saudi government.

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  10. How does a vaccine get developed, studied, approved, distributed, and administered, and then just … disappear? On Episode 34 of The Politics of Everything, hosts and explore what happened to LYMErix.

    Angre
  11. 16. sep.

    "self-driving cars will have to answer split-second ethical decisions, instantly calculating the worth of the lives of the people around them. can AI solve the trolley problem?" self-driving cars in reality: i swerved onto the sidewalk because i thought the moon was a stop sign

    Angre
  12. 15. sep.

    James Allen was convicted of the 1984 murder of Robert Ciralsky. In 2009, Robert Langford confessed to the killing. Allen waited almost *13 years* for a hearing. Today, that hearing was *4 minutes* & resulted in his exoneration at age 71:

    Angre
  13. for 17 timer siden

    and to who wrote a piece for Outside that is the "good news" of the episode--a preventative non-vaccine Lyme treatment is in development

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  14. for 17 timer siden

    we talked to who wrote a great piece about the old Lyme vaccine for Slate

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  15. for 17 timer siden

    it's also a regulatory failure or more accurately a failure of "our whole deal"--the FDA declined to make the Lyme vaccine immune from lawsuits as others are because back then it was seen as a yuppie hiker disease. is this system really the best way to like... cure diseases?

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  16. for 18 timer siden

    It's a really interesting history with a ton of parallels to current debates, not just about vaccine hesitancy but about pharmaceutical R&D in general. The vaccine was voluntarily withdrawn by the private company that developed (and patented) it.

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  17. for 18 timer siden

    Until we started working on this episode I--a person who contracted Lyme disease in the 90s--did not know or remember that there was an effective Lyme vaccine in the 90s

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  19. 16. sep.

    for vehicles operating along a fixed route with dedicated infrastructure batteries *do not even make sense* and yet every transit agency in America fucking loves the shit

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  20. How does a vaccine disappear? and I spoke with and about the demise of the Lyme disease vaccine:

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