I said nearly this exact sentence to my partner a few weeks ago.

In the last election, it was such political genius for Trump to say: “I love the poorly educated.” Had Hillary Clinton or even Bernie Sanders been capable of saying that, they’d be on their way now to a second term.

That was the phrase that won Trump the 2016 election just as Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” is what lost it for her. Words do matter sometimes!

Also this is an excellent point.

Yes, there’s race, and immigration, and globalization, but there’s something even scarier, and hard to address directly: this Knowledge Economy, which belongs to us in the postgraduate elite, who cannot imagine the working class ever being part of it. In that sense, the vote for Trump in 2016 was the Luddite equivalent of taking a hammer to all that human capital belonging to us.

And the sad thing is the “educated” have gotten yet more haughty and convinced of their vast superiority since 2016 while their obvious cluelessness has only accelerated.

One of the assumptions you generally make when you wax politics with regular people is they're going to say something that rubs you the wrong way.

The lib tendency to escalate language transgressions into crimes against humanity was never justice, it's situational fascism

— Andray #GeneralStrike2020 (@andraydomise) April 9, 2020

Agreed. I think a great deal of this occurs because liberals are acculturated in a habitat where words are the animus of the world — at least from their perspective. They are wrong, of course, but the typical education certainly gives you this impression.

Words and language are not unimportant, of course, but in the hierarchy of actual power as realized and exercised in the world they are quite far down the ladder. Glad I joined the army and had some of the other experiences I did because that jarred me out of my belief in the infinite power of words.

But I think the woke types will keep worshipping this golden calf until they die of lack of health care.

This guy understands the scope and scale of the current crisis. He’s one of the few. Unfortunately he seems to want to use it to achieve some sort of technocrat putsch.

But much credit for grasping what’s happening and what’s likely to occur. That’s about 1 out of 10,000 people or fewer right now.

Wimbledon reportedly paid $2 million a year for pandemic insurance for the last 17 years

(Total: $34 Million)

For this year's cancellation as a result of the Coronavirus, Wimbledon will reportedly receive $141 million from the policy.

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 8, 2020

So? This is how insurance works. Anyway, if they’ve paid that much, it’s not unlikely that in the previously-good times the insurance company made nearly that much in the 17 years on the money paid in, with good investments and leverage.

It’s weird when people have these oddball criticisms for how things work and have for hundreds of years. I mean that’s literally what insurance is for.

The microservices-honeymoon period is over. Uber are refactoring thousands of microservices into a more manageable solution, according to Kelsey Hightower monoliths are the future, and even Sam Newman says that microservices should never be the default choice, but rather a last resort.

If your answer is always “microservices,” you’re probably asking the wrong question. Just as in clothes, in the IT world technologies come in and out of fashion. This is the story, largely, of microservices.

This is something we kind of knew already but now we can put a number on it: the actual Covid-19 death toll in NYC is currently about 75% higher than reported. That ratio will go up as time goes on. https://t.co/JKX0q8WQqW

— Clifton (@clifton_r) April 7, 2020

I’m guessing the eventual Covid-19 death toll from the beginning and up to the next eight months will be 300,000 in the US. The real one, figured out with statistics, not the fake reported one.