This life cycle analysis by Denmark's Environment Ministry compares plastic bags with alternatives. [www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publicat…] It finds that you must reuse a shopping bag from Organic cotton 20,000 times if you want the environmental damage to be lower than that of 1 plastic bag.

Just had a call with someone on Forbes 30 under 30 list and came away really impressed. He shared with me how he made VP at a top tech company before age 30: 1. 4:30 AM wakeup 2. Cold showers 3. Gratitude journal 4. Meditate 5. Dad owns tech company

Philosophy Twitter, Would our current system of categorizing rights and wrongs as Fard, Wajib, Haram, Nafl etc be categorized as Deontology?

The SB is the most sacked QB vs. most intercepted QB this season. You don't already see the post-game headlines? "Burrow shows it's better to take sacks than throw picks like Stafford" Rams SHOULD win but the SB goes the way I want it to 40.7% of the time.

I think the failures of the pandemic have exposed some cognitive biases in the science community. We overestimate how much people care about avoiding death We overestimate how much people care about other people We overestimate how much people trust scientists

Elie Mystal This country will forgive people for a lot of things. They'll forgive you for being a bigot. They'll forgive you for being a liar. They'll forgive you for being a thief. But they will never forgive you for being right too early.

I tend to think all the Facebook market cap schadenfreude is jut wishful thinking and it will go back to being wildly profitable or continue to be. But having been in this space for a long time I'm starting to wonder whether it cld be another version of what happened ...

For years, I have stumbled on this question a lot: why I insist on using these spellings: Soeharto (not Suharto), Sukarno (not Soekarno), and Megawati Soekarnoputri (not Megawati Sukarnoputri). Not easy to explain, sigh.

Manchester City = Kansas City Chiefs

* Python vs R in one tweet * graphics: R ease of use: R speed: Python diversity & inclusiveness: R machine learning: Python statistics: R unstructured data: Python structured data: R big data: Python app development: Python software engineering: Python employability: Python

🧵 Literally or Literately? Some Thoughts on the Six Fasts of Shawwal

literally the meatloaf song

I am more certain of this than I have ever been. Stop lockdown drills in all schools, immediately. It does nothing to protect kids. All it does is traumatize them, and in the worst case, plant the idea for some of them.

It’s me without the exclamation mark