Based on the letter requests i'm receiving, Florida is about to experience a massive faculty brain drain the likes of which I'm not sure we've ever seen before

— Jason Rasgon (@vectorgen) April 15, 2023

All the smart people are leaving Florida because it is the smart thing to do. If you don’t, unless you’re a full-on MAGA clown, you’ll probably regret it. This will be true for all red states.

“America is too big for rail” and yet we literally had it. Almost everything we advocate for is a restoration. pic.twitter.com/zSLxKPaUE1

— Hayden Clarkin (@the_transit_guy) April 16, 2023

The same for many things. “Public transit will never work in the US!” We already had it — it was taken away.

“Small regional airports will never work!” Already had those too, and airline consolidation and high profits prioritized over all else killed those too.

“Free college will never work!” Already had that too, when we were collectively much poorer.

So many things that people claim are impossible we once had in living memory and yet people often cannot even accurately recall their own lives and experiences. Both aspects of this greatly puzzle me and I need to think more about them.

I bought a 2022 MacBook Pro (without the fucking notch) and it’s an amazing machine. I used it fairly heavily for nearly three full days and it still had more than 60% of battery left. Try that with any other laptop. My also-expensive work laptop is lucky if it gets four full hours before crapping out, and it weighs 40% more than my MacBook.

The MB is also faster than any other computer I’ve ever used. In fact, it’s not even close. It makes my 2020 iMac feel putt-putt. And it’s dead silent and cool too. The engineering that went into this machine and its chip is unfathomable.

People say that Apple is more expensive — and that is true. But this laptop does things you cannot buy anywhere else, for any price.