JD Carpentieri

One thing I would like more people, and I mostly mean my fellow men, to understand is that no matter how smart you are, other people are also smart and some of them have tried to work on the same problems you’re working on. If a simple solution hasn’t been found yet, there probably isn’t one.

this is not true. many, many people are good thinkers without being good writers. people who *are* good writers tend to vastly overestimate what a component of intelligence it is. but I have edited many intelligent and thoughtful people who were at best average-to-mediocre writers ...

On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.

this really does feel like an existential problem for democracies across the world actually - how do you tell people "no actually you do just have to trust us on basically most things, please stop googling stuff and thinking you know better than us, you dingbats" and get them to actually listen?

Yeh the irony of the overarching exchange is that W was himself doing 2 things that ensuckify social media: 1 misrepresenting others’ arguments and 2 responding more aggressively than he’d presumably do in a face to face discussion

Fair enough, but I think he’s mischaracterising the majority of the replies to his posts. The comments I saw mostly weren’t “I don’t cook so no one needs a kitchen“, they were more measured

I agree with your general position but if you read the quoted dude’s posts he’s misrepresenting/caricaturing the arguments being made against him. His own argument is a very strident & I think incorrect one that it should be illegal to provide ANY housing units without their own individual kitchens

Hey bluesky last week a waitress looked at my daughter, looked at me, asked if I was her grandfather. so I guess I’m autoverified right

So sad for Anisimova but man, Iga is playing I Would Trust Her To Perform Open-Heart Surgery-level tennis

Can I get a "what what”!?

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens

What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

Really is how it feels

I love these threads, possibly the best thing on social media

Bonding with the teenager over the insane plotlines of midsomer murders, it's the best

I used to be an anti-TV snob, but now one of my top parenting tips is to eat dinner as a family while watching trash telly

Do you know something I don’t? I teach at UCL and am moving to in-person exams but no one has told me I have to, and plenty of my colleagues aren’t planning to (yet)

Would happily listen to an eight part podcast on the world of Middlemarch

“He’s got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise.”

IIRC Ken Kesey said that attention was the most addictive thing he ever encountered

My wife and I would love to eventually downsize from our London house to a London flat. We'd in theory be very happy to live in a large shiny block but we fear getting caught by spiralling service charges and/or the other absurdities of UK flat ownership

Fascinating thread

Weird example. Do you think it would be more progressive to not have/enforce parking regulations?

Inexplicable tactics by UAE

“working people”

Former fisherman, current academic, AMA (please don’t ask me anything)

The damage I have done to this county is incalculable

Correct opinion. If you destroy university provision in the English NE and NW, you will just turbocharge Reform. But is it already too late?

I’ll be really surprised if it doesn’t play out like this

This is hilarious

The noahopinion handbook, sigh