if Republicans have any sense, they’ll concede quickly and make a big show about how they, unlike “far-left radical democrats”, value compromise and order and making things work even while they make the budget deficit an albatross around Democrats’ neck. but no one very often accuses them of sense.
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adulthood is diaspora.
Text: To face this successfully may take a fundamental rethinking of the American-style political party, and a move away from a model of political consumerism - in which parties attract voters with minor message tweaks and appeals to identity and self-expression — and toward one of association, where the party is a participatory organization with purpose and structure beyond electing a handful of ambitious people to office.
i wonder if this is the end of history because from now on historians won’t be able to distinguish real from fake sources.
AGI: println(“Cleared of all charges. Have fun out there!”)
wait, so is this the purge?
“Remember, you’re not just performing an idea, it’s your life. It’s who you are.”
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Was Trump I a RINO?
not about this, as far as i can recall.
i still lurk there, and my twitter "For You" feed is now full of stuff related to a thing i've never discussed publicly, but have Googled, Clauded, and ChatGPTed about. so fucking creepy.
(i've perpexitied too, just to be fair.)
violence perpetrated by the state is not “political violence” bc the state has a monopoly on legitimate violence, violence of the state is presumptively legitimate. when it no longer is presumptively legitimate, one no longer has a state, just multiple deployers of violence contending for legitimacy
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kind of the flip side of “every accusation is a confession”, often virtues they attribute to themselves are unpersuasive appropriations of the work of others.
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“Both the attention theory and moderation theory share the same fundamental flaw: they accept the existing conflict terrain as given and static. The moderation data nerds and shutdown commentators are bringing the same one-dimensional view.” @leedrutman.bsky.social
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“The vision of politics—technocratic experts pulling just the right levers to secure just enough votes—is not just sterile + unappealing. It…has…consequences…contributing to the…sense…strategists + politicians don’t really care abt what they are saying… The poll-tested candidate looks like a phony…”
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radical centrists are utopian in the sense that they’re always nowhere at all.
hospitals. famously cyclical.
a minimal prerequisite of sovereignty. it’s shocking how many states just bleed data and fees to US companies.
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kind of wanna get my account suspended now.
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right. and some of those people do list at the prices they’d like but won’t very quickly receive, generating inventory. i think that my intuition is closer to yours than the original poster, that this is more a demand than a supply story. but it’s fun because you can tell both!
the intention of the post you quote is to use inventory to explain price. inventory is a function of a rate of supply in addition to price. at any given price, there’s a rate of sale, and inventory will grow at production or new offer rate minus that rate of sale. 1/
so it’s a dirty measure of something that can, potentially, non-tautologically, explain price, but that dirtiness makes it delightfully difficult to interpret! /fin