yes but it was prescribed by a doctor (whom i pay very well).

“the sellers of addictive products that skirt regulations and ruin lives should be summarily executed.” ~social media ceos and investors

i mean, what did you think icicles turn into after metamorphosis?

the dose is the poison.

my dear friend. i said that the increase in value to bondholders has nothing to do with the Treasury paying more interest, not one thing or another about the volume of Treasuries or aggregate interest paid.

that might be right, but it’s not why investors’ returns on bonds have been high.

if so, then what is the opiate of the lasses?

this is horrifying.

(by conventional economic wisdom, quotas are much inferior to tariffs because the price increment goes to the foreign seller rather than enacting government or enacting state’s firms. so maybe a committed declining tariff schedule?)

the state is dominated by a politics whose impulse is “god’s infinite and unconditional love? let’s weaponize it.”

this is an important insight, given efforts by a Republican Congressman to ban dual citizenship. they can make you abjure whatever they want. other countries can still choose to grant you the rights and immunities of citizenship.

not just EV makers but also Apple are gonna really need to step up.

omfg.

“America’s utility vehicles—firetrucks, garbage trucks, dump trucks, etc., (along with most of our consumer vehicles)—are basically suburban-scaled vehicles. We’re missing the bottom half of the ‘scale ladder’ that corresponds to traditional urban spaces.” @ad-mastro.bsky.social

trying to look up some CDC data and sources. it's remarkable how much is 404-ed. sometimes the Wayback Machine will find it for you. sometimes alas not.

AI “alignment is not about imposing universal norms; it is about translation, pluralism, and respect for epistemic diversity. Machines must become fluent in multiple moral languages…to serve more than a single civilization’s idea of what it means to be human.”~Pranati Modumudi ^@glenweyl.bsky.social

cuddleball!

(what is the average prior 12m return?)

ouch, man.