Emma Vitz (@emmavitz) 's Twitter Profile
Emma Vitz

@emmavitz

Actuary, especially interested in natural perils, climate risk, #rspatial, data science & feminism.

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Derek Thompson (@dkthomp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ADHD is real … but these sort of descriptions pathologize normal behavior and persuade healthy ppl they have disorders that they don’t. “If your brain chases interesting non-important things [like entertainment] rather than important boring things [like doing your taxes] you

Allie (@cluffalo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Women were made to work. Everyone was made to work. Whether that’s outside the home or in an office setting, sure, happy to debate! But the idea that women’s natural state is lounging in flowerbeds is setting us up for disappointment whether we’re at home or in the office

divya venn (@divya_venn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shane Parrish I’m noticing there’s two broad categories of hardship - hardship that suppresses/takes away your agency and hardship that gives you opportunities to exercise it I think the first kind make you worse as a person and the second kind better

divya venn (@divya_venn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shane Parrish There’s a huge difference between “life is painful and it’s hopeless” and “life is painful but you can make it less painful” I’d want my kids to live and breathe the second

ACT New Zealand (@actparty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We need to face facts on superannuation. People are living over ten years longer than they were two generations ago, and they are having fewer children to pay taxes for superannuation. That means we need to consider whether our current approach is fair or sustainable. This could

Stu Donovan (@stuartbdonovan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ok, serious talk: I really am concerned New Zealand's demographic imbalance ("baby boomers") is leading to policies being evermore tilted against young people. And this tilt is collectively causing young people to have higher rates of despair and emigration. I get ...

Emma Vitz (@emmavitz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is actually a very good summary of how 90% of New Zealanders feel about superannuation (I disagree with all of them but I don't think they're unusually selfish)

The New Statesman (@newstatesman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones, by Hannah Barnes "Seemingly most relevant to Wes Streeting’s decision-making, is the outlined additional danger of starting hormone treatments while still in childhood." newstatesman.com/politics/healt…