Scott Alexander (Astral Codex Ten)

But he won't even authorize medical care for his own kids, so I guess you wouldn't care.

Scott writes, PEPFAR impact counter tries to estimate the number of people affected and says that 13,854 adults and 1,474 infants have already died from this policy.

By the way, during our previous debate about this, many people said they were sympathetic, but that cutting the deficit was such a pressing issue that we would have to let go of good programs like this.

I hope these people are paying attention to Trump's new budget, which will increase deficits by $5 trillion over the next 10 years.

That's about 100 times the cost of PEPFAR over that period.

Pope Francis says J.D.

Vance is misusing the Catholic idea of Ordo Amoris.

Part of me feels bad for Vance because the Pope is in many ways a typical boomer liberal and Vance has optimised his entire life around not having to listen to typical boomer liberals and it seems harsh to nab him at the last second on a technicality like you're Catholic and he's the Pope.

But another part of me thinks this is only fair.

You get credibility by citing Latin terms from the venerable Western tradition instead of normal English sentences like I am a psychopath who doesn't care whether people outside my immediate family live or die.

so the guardians of that tradition should have the right to police how you use the credibility you borrow from them.

Still, it seems harsh.

I recommend he try Anglicanism, almost as venerable, but strongly pro-heads of state doing psychopathic things without the Pope interfering.

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Henania.

It's a tweet.

Doge claims to have saved $55 billion.

Wall Street Journal is able to find $2.6 billion over a multi-year period.

Only 2% of savings are related to DEI.

The rest is stuff like a clinical test for a drug to help with Alzheimer's.