kind of like heroin? i mean that next fix feels good, but not as good as you remember those early hits feeling, you want more but you are never satisfied.

winning is like heroin. just because you want more and it feels good doesn’t mean that more is good for you. it’s terrible for a human to always lose. but we’re learning how terrible it also is to win too much. these people are enviably comfortable, but they are not enviable people.

one question is whether regulating or even banning certain kinds of internet platforms would be legal under the Constitution and current Supreme Court precedent. a quite distinct question is when and if various forms of regulations or bans would be a good idea.

Only Trump could go to Hamas.

The United States is such a broken place.

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the way you bend the curve is make people to frightened and bitter to ever have any contact whatsoever with the health care system under any circumstances at all. great job, technocrats!

yes, but appropriate!

dear interweb, a month ago i went to an ER. recognizably the hospital chain billed abt $8000, which after insurance adjustments became $1100. i paid. more than a month later, a random provider i’ve never heard of bills ~$1500, adjusted to ~$600 for the same ER visit. do i really have to pay this?

eventually he failed to prevent financing constraints from binding. it worked until it didn’t! there are others still upright on their surfboards.

if you can circumvent all margin limits and financing constraints, investing at very high beta despite negative alpha will eventually make you very rich. just don’t confuse a talent for generating hype to raise money and keep creditors at bay for industrial genius.

i confused it with this bicycle.

Jack Welch Thought is back! Looking forward to Meta becoming the new Boeing! ht @mariabustillos.bsky.social

i feel like there should be shuffleboard then. is there shuffleboard?

is this a lifestyle community?

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Musk bought votes, or pretended to by misleading people that he was conducting a “lottery” only likely swing state Republican leaning voters could participate in. His behavior this election makes it clear he has no respect for electoral democracy. It’s a game he can pay to win.

for me the sine qua non of fascism is gaining support for potentially disagreeable actions by creating a sense of emergency about a class of people promoted as insidious enemy who must be confronted with determination and unity. drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/05/w...