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🎂🥳

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sometimes i'm not quite sure whether it is a grift or a scam.

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we’re all going through some things.

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You blame the government for making it more expensive while you raise your price in the name of compliance. Such a shame they are making it so expensive.

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“I don't mean to be alarmist, but I do think it's time to start assuming everything you see online is fake.”

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dictator.

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it’s homeopathic math.

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the Republicans will remind us that it’s much less racist to point out that children have small fingers when they bring iPhone assembly back to our shores.

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except running for president, unfortunately.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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One thing Biden and Trump have in common is a BBB as their early signature legislative initiative, although they are very different BBBs.

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(listening to the latest @ezraklein.bsky.social podcast; he starts with this observation!)

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“I ain’t quiet. Everybody else is too loud.” youtu.be/tBE5hmRfHd4

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"A much more promising path to abundance than the one this book offers is to embrace a twenty-first-century New Deal. That is the tried-and-true model for a “liberalism that builds” in the United States" ~Sandeep Vaheesan // this really is an excellent piece.

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(ha! great! now i have a way to actually remember the word "autological". quite the built-in mnemonic.)

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From a fantastic piece by @deanbaker13.bsky.social. (Thanks to David Brooks for provoking it!) A thing I'd add is that the welfare costs of people not getting treated because prices are too high may rival or even dwarf the financial cost of the patent monopoly. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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We will spend over $700 billion this year on prescription drugs and other pharmaceutical products. If these items were sold in a free market, without patent monopolies and other protections, we would likely pay close to $100 billion. The savings of $600 billion would be close to $5,000 for every household. But they won’t let you talk about this fact in the New York Times either. Text: We will spend over $700 billion this year on prescription drugs and other pharmaceutical products. If these items were sold in a free market, without patent monopolies and other protections, we would likely pay close to $100 billion. The savings of $600 billion would be close to $5,000 for every household. But they won’t let you talk about this fact in the New York Times either.
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mock the administration all you want, it is rather a remarkable achievement to render Harvard sympathetic. www.wonkette.com/p/kristi-noe...

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compare 1984 to 2024.

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a bit unfair to central planning. this administration does not plan.

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[tech notebook] Scala 3 inline vs implicit ordering https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/05/22/scala-3-inline-vs-implicit-ordering/index.html

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don’t the other agencies’ legislative charters explicitly specify limitations on firing as well? why is the Fed’s enabling legislation somehow superior?

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