the dose is the poison.

yes, but the way the piece describes what that means, they would be. that is why the piece is weak.

but the children of diplomats are not born on embassy soil, typically. they are born over American soil, under the American flag, and still are not citizens. i deeply favor of birthright citizenship, am very glad most legal scholars think arguments for loopholes weak. but this piece is not strong.

the zoomer analogue of fintwitter should be “top-tick TikTok”.

yes. i think insight about relative desirability of the dollar subsists in price, not quantity. the trade deficit / cap surplus are affected by dollar desirability, but by many other things too.

it might be taken an argument for free, integrated transit rather than against free buses per se, though.

what if claude just automated the financial sector?

i worry, since they would lose any election in a wave, and they face significant criminal and business risks from a transfer of power, that they won’t see as their best bet manufacturing crises that they can argue foreclose the possibility of immediate term democratic transition.

raising money is not a legitimate function of political leaders.

why might we be going to war with Iran this weekend?

“Moreover, the Biden administration had sent very clear signals that it wouldn’t tolerate a coup. Given the Brazilian military’s heavy dependence on the United States for training + advanced weapon systems, the specter of an aid cutoff from Washington was a powerful deterrent.” youtu.be/Jne9t8sHpUc

i think Dan Wang has a similar view. (it seems intuitively right to me, both are cultures that valorize hustle, both are technophilic, for better and worse both have a kind of manifest-destiny conceit.)

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plenty, but not so significant as a share of population. the vast majority of us are going to try to meet our society’s norms and projected aspirations, and will feel we are living lived less than normal if we fail.

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