Gabe Lipof
@gabelipof.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood life science automator. 🍺🧬🎮🤖🎥
Opinions are my own
Opinions are my own
He was brought on to ACIP because he was critical of lockdowns and covid vaccines, claiming they were more dangerous than getting COVID. Same reason another economist is the current head of the NIH. They were brought on because of their views on COVID not despite them.
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
He was brought on to ACIP because he was critical of lockdowns and covid vaccines, claiming they were more dangerous than getting COVID. Same reason another economist is the current head of the NIH. They were brought on because of their views on COVID not despite them.
I don’t agree with the actual numbers in the post (a better analysis I would guess would put it in the 70-100k range) but the idea that we shouldn’t be only looking at food prices to determine where the poverty line is. Housing and ed costs omission obscures the urban working low earners.
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I don’t agree with the actual numbers in the post (a better analysis I would guess would put it in the 70-100k range) but the idea that we shouldn’t be only looking at food prices to determine where the poverty line is. Housing and ed costs omission obscures the urban working low earners.
Yeah if this had came out to 100k for a family of 4 it would be much more believable as an exercise.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Yeah if this had came out to 100k for a family of 4 it would be much more believable as an exercise.
That’s fair but equally the focus on the cost of living in “Real AmericaTM” helps people ignore the the drops in relative wages and ability to participate in society of the formerly industrial urban working class in and around cities.
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
That’s fair but equally the focus on the cost of living in “Real AmericaTM” helps people ignore the the drops in relative wages and ability to participate in society of the formerly industrial urban working class in and around cities.
If you look at the greater DC Baltimore area it’s 2.7% of the population. 80% of Americans live in urban areas vs rural ones. It’s time to stop thinking the we can ignore the cost of city living because most people live in and around cities.
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If you look at the greater DC Baltimore area it’s 2.7% of the population. 80% of Americans live in urban areas vs rural ones. It’s time to stop thinking the we can ignore the cost of city living because most people live in and around cities.
People (and women more than men) feel safer in a SUV than a minivan, in a crossover than a sedan. I’m not saying they are right to (I’ve only ever owned compact sedans) but that’s what is driving the growth in size. I agree that this poses hazards to peds but that has nothing to do safety features.
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
People (and women more than men) feel safer in a SUV than a minivan, in a crossover than a sedan. I’m not saying they are right to (I’ve only ever owned compact sedans) but that’s what is driving the growth in size. I agree that this poses hazards to peds but that has nothing to do safety features.
As an excuse to whom? Do you think car companies have to justify the size of their cars to someone based on safety features? CAFEs has incentivized larger footprints but the driver of growing SUV and truck sales has been consumer sentiment and increasing disposable income.
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
As an excuse to whom? Do you think car companies have to justify the size of their cars to someone based on safety features? CAFEs has incentivized larger footprints but the driver of growing SUV and truck sales has been consumer sentiment and increasing disposable income.
All cars have blind spots! And the NHTSA disagrees with you as does their EU, Austrailian, Canadian and Japanese counterparts about back up cameras. Back up cameras save lives!
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
All cars have blind spots! And the NHTSA disagrees with you as does their EU, Austrailian, Canadian and Japanese counterparts about back up cameras. Back up cameras save lives!
In that time rear view cameras, lane assist, automatic braking, drowsy driver detection, blind spot detection and side, center, and seatbelt airbags went from luxury features to standard. If safer is your metric for better, cars today are unquestionably safer than the cars of 20 years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In that time rear view cameras, lane assist, automatic braking, drowsy driver detection, blind spot detection and side, center, and seatbelt airbags went from luxury features to standard. If safer is your metric for better, cars today are unquestionably safer than the cars of 20 years ago.
No? I’m just saying it’s an indicator of prosperity as are cheap luxury goods.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
No? I’m just saying it’s an indicator of prosperity as are cheap luxury goods.
That people’s spending habits have changed to include more luxury services is an indicator that they have more disposable income.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That people’s spending habits have changed to include more luxury services is an indicator that they have more disposable income.
Except it does matter whether you are talking about a good (food) or a service (a restaurant). Commodity rice was 50c a lb in the 80s now it is is a little over a dollar a lb (non inflation adjusted). If spending habits were the same people would be spending a smaller part of their income on food.
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Except it does matter whether you are talking about a good (food) or a service (a restaurant). Commodity rice was 50c a lb in the 80s now it is is a little over a dollar a lb (non inflation adjusted). If spending habits were the same people would be spending a smaller part of their income on food.
Waiting for someone to share the data showing we "AktUAlly spend MOrE on foOod!!" that includes dining out which is entirely the extra spending and shows that we have way more disposable income
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It’s also the first song mentioned by the ai google search summary for “antifa songs”
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It’s also the first song mentioned by the ai google search summary for “antifa songs”
How are we still here? You’re making the points Bakunin made back in the 1870s. Anarchism is moral but it isn’t viable. Coordination is necessary for survival. A classless society might be possible, a powerless one is no society at all.
August 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
How are we still here? You’re making the points Bakunin made back in the 1870s. Anarchism is moral but it isn’t viable. Coordination is necessary for survival. A classless society might be possible, a powerless one is no society at all.
It’s because people who weren’t planning on voting for a democrat anyway say it as justification. The party has been mistaking their older relatives excuses as their actual justifications. The truth is that they like how Trump’s destruction of norms and institutions pisses off liberals and leftists.
August 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It’s because people who weren’t planning on voting for a democrat anyway say it as justification. The party has been mistaking their older relatives excuses as their actual justifications. The truth is that they like how Trump’s destruction of norms and institutions pisses off liberals and leftists.
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One of my faves from 2022
August 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One of my faves from 2022
One of my faves from 2022
August 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
One of my faves from 2022
Honestly yeah. It may sound trivial but there are vast patches of cultural illiteracy and it’s nice seeing a 12 year old peek out of it. We can either encourage them to dig deeper into media or we can do what is happening here and mock them for sticking their neck out and they go back to schlock.
August 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Honestly yeah. It may sound trivial but there are vast patches of cultural illiteracy and it’s nice seeing a 12 year old peek out of it. We can either encourage them to dig deeper into media or we can do what is happening here and mock them for sticking their neck out and they go back to schlock.
It’s all Great Fire of Rome this, Great Fire of London that, Great Fire of Meireki this and Great Fire of Chicago that, not great 100,000 years of keeping us warm in the winter this or great enabling of agriculture or food safety that.
July 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It’s all Great Fire of Rome this, Great Fire of London that, Great Fire of Meireki this and Great Fire of Chicago that, not great 100,000 years of keeping us warm in the winter this or great enabling of agriculture or food safety that.
It’s the same story with any new technology, we are biased to focus on the downside. Same reason you never hear a story if someone’s life being saved by autocomplete but there is whole genre of memes where lives were upended by mis-corrected texts.
July 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It’s the same story with any new technology, we are biased to focus on the downside. Same reason you never hear a story if someone’s life being saved by autocomplete but there is whole genre of memes where lives were upended by mis-corrected texts.
Yeah the “hot” algorithm is now personalized. It promotes content it thinks you will engage with (positively or negatively, doesn’t matter) so your feed becomes filled with incorrect garbage you hate.
May 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Yeah the “hot” algorithm is now personalized. It promotes content it thinks you will engage with (positively or negatively, doesn’t matter) so your feed becomes filled with incorrect garbage you hate.