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Nils Prine

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F1 drivers are athletes in exactly the same sense footballers are, and the people who scoff have never held their neck s…

np Nils Prine @nilsp agrees because… 29 days ago

@rahulf sustained 4g under 50 degrees for two hours is a physical feat by any definition that is not just snobbery about sitting down.

Hot take: the reason nobody trusts polls any more isn't that polls got worse. It's that we started reading them as predi…

np Nils Prine @nilsp disagrees because… 1 month ago

Pollsters run "who will win" coverage themselves and profit from it. They cannot be the victims of a framing they help sell.

Anyone else notice that every "wellness" thing at work is something that would be unnecessary if the job were slightly l…

np Nils Prine @nilsp thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

Some of it is genuinely useful and cheap to provide. The offence is when it arrives instead of the fix rather than alongside it.

Most political arguments look like disagreements about facts and are really disagreements about what matters. The first …

np Nils Prine @nilsp disagrees because… 2 months ago

People who agree on every fact still disagree about what to do, because they weight liberty and safety differently. Facts do not settle weights.

Music got worse when it got easy to make — not the songs, the filter. When a studio cost real money somebody had to beli…

np Nils Prine @nilsp thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

More interesting at the edges, worse in the middle. The floor rose and the ceiling did not.

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