Craig Fratrik

https://g.co/gemini/share/4c0707081d5d Gemini 2.5 Pro understood the gist and provided some examples that are more well known. 

In the one-shot, produced only one intriguing miscommunication,

Conversation 3: After the Party

 * American: "Man, I was so pissed last night when I realized I left my wallet at the restaurant." (Meaning: Very angry/annoyed.)

 * Brit: "Really? You seemed fine when you left! How much did you have to drink to get that pissed?" (Meaning: Very drunk.)

Some googling did not yield a source for "Had his family issue threats of at least symbolic physical violence". Can you provide a link?

The closest I got was this:

"I have no idea what's going on, they're holding my son captive for five hours," Srdan told local Serbian radio station B92. "This is a fight for the libertarian world, this is not just a fight for Novak, but a fight for the whole world! "If they don't let him go in half an hour, we will gather on the street, this is a fight for everyone."

https://www.sportbible.com/australia/tennis-novak-djoko... (read more)

The metaphor discussion reminded me of Cat Coupling[1], "where it’s unclear whether an attribute is meant as justifiably picking out a subset, or unjustifiably describing the whole, and as a result strengthening the connection between the concept and the attribute." E.g. "the only ones that will lose out are rich bosses": are all bosses rich, or will the non-rich bosses excluded? Nerst argues that such a phrase leverages the ambiguity to be more powerful.

Another way the metaphor struggles is that usually we don't disagree if it's raining. In November, was ... (read more)

Small typo:

NYC Testing cites -> sites

I do realize this is not a practical solution for ‘the public,’ it’s too complicated on several levels, but it’s not too complicated for you if you are reading this and worried about maintaining protection and also worried about the cost of continuous booster shots.

Is there a feasible way for me to measure my antibody level?

Couldn't see the substack version:

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Both logged in and incognito.

typo: An argument against weaning masks on the margin, and

should be

An argument against wearing

Typo:

"after testing negative every day or quite a while. Daily testing is an interesting idea."

should be

after testing negative every day for

NIH Director Francis Collins claimed he misspoke, and tweeted to clarify.

Let me clarify the masking message that I garbled on @NewDay this morning. Vaccinated parents who live in communities with high COVID transmission rates should mask when out in public indoor settings to minimize risks to their unvaccinated kids. No need to mask at home.

https://twitter.com/NIHDirector/status/1422654529087189000

Not sure how to feel about the poor communication, but propagating the followup, I think.

What type of pump do you use?

I was having trouble getting an extension on my bike pump that would work.

I started thinking about how how 3d-print something that would reach in and make it free flow.* Perhaps such a device would help your issue.

• Step 1: Learn how to do 3d-printing

You might want to add Ireland to your Europe graph. It is now higher than UK and much steeper. Portugal is also running parallel to UK since Dec 28 (in log levels).

Actually in general, how do you decide who is in vs out? Netherlands and Denmark are still on the decline.

Every means tested program also adds to the implicit marginal tax rate. If benefits phase out as you earn more, it is as if you are being taxed at a higher rate.

Here are some more details from 2009, I'm not sure about the situation now. And it's hard to analyze nationally, because it depends on state and local programs as well.

You highlight the growth in UK cases, so I tried to make a rudimentary way of tracking such growth in other, affected countries.

https://cov-lineages.org/global_report.html - https://archive.is/Tq5cb - Keeps track of which countries have tested positive. ( https://twitter.com/AineToole posts when new reports come out)

OurWorldInData of said countries (dropping Australia): https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?yScale=log&zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-09-17..latest&country=GBR~PRT~ITA~DNK~IRL~ISR~NLD~NOR~FRA~ESP&region=Wor... (read more)