(especially since by that time we'll have reverted to the abacus for computation.)

Ha! Check the replies to this post. I just added a post from @triforcecap.bsky.social showing the collapse has already begun.

basically everything's gonna become like prescription drugs, if you live near the Canadian border you do your shopping there, right? or are they gonna impose duties on the Walmart haul in the back of your SUV?

it’s important to have a safeword for freedom fries. you want the sizzle but not the burn.

i like strange bedfellows. that way what’s disagreeable you can pawn off as a kind of kink.

no news is good news!

do outcomes from the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” constitute precedent binding upon lower courts?

if you don’t challenge the executive because you think “you’ll lose”, then you’ve already lost. if you want any hope of winning, you have to act.

are any legislators proposing to amend the Alien Enemies Act to define less precarious review and relief, and place limits on to where “enemy aliens” can be removed? i know nothing will pass unless and until the orange wall breaks. but you make change by pushing and failing before you push through.

(yes. that’s what makes the suggestion so very brilliant.)

via @scaggs.bsky.social, watch techbros cure the trade deficit by insisting surplus countries use the trade proceeds to… buy US debt. “So basically… buy our stuff, or buy our debt. Either way, you're paying up.” xcancel.com/seanheilweil... brilliant disruptive novel ideas from our tech sector.

The Silicon Valley arc of history, from the Apple’s 1984 commercial and “think different” to automating a domestic Stasi. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

don’t think it will be easy. it isn’t black and white.

“A trillion comments have been wasted accusing the wrong people of Trump derangement syndrome. The real TDS afflicts those who keep seeing a rational actor, or an economic chess game, where none exists.” @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9f51... ht @antoniofatas.bsky.social

yesterday: “i read the news today, oh boy.” today: “i read the news today, oh boy.” tomorrow: “i read the news today, oh boy.”

“When he makes sales, whether of Trump University courses or Trump-branded cryptocurrency, he is usually taking advantage of the buyer, and he views global trade through the same zero-sum lens.”

“Kennedy and his nonprofit sued to prevent the Covid vaccines from ever coming to market. Those vaccines saved 3 million lives…the additional death toll from Covid wld have been larger than the population of Chicago.” @radleybalko.bsky.social radleybalko.substack.com/p/profiles-i... ht Brian Marick

they like outcomes that give advantages to the wealthy but lets the state do what it will to the poor. it’s a kind of meritocracy to them. drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/19/p...