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Basically, Tesla will print money because it will be the only untariffed supplier of Chinese EVs. Great industrial policy there.
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Text: The U.S. government has never entered the World Series of Poker. Nor has it gone to Vegas to bet billions to tax payer funds on roulette or built a strategic Powerball ticket reserve, but it appears to be genuinely entertaining the idea of rolling the dice on Bitcoin.
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tech titans are like that joke about self-styled "non-conformists" ostentatiously converging on the same set of "eccentricities". LLMs everywhere! nuclear announcements within days of one another! must contribute to inaugural fund of bold new administration! truly these are independent minds.
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“Either democracy was on the ballot in November, or it wasn’t, and if it was, it makes no political, ethical or strategic sense to act as if we live in normal times.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
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or maybe not, linkedin.
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we talk about “white collar crime” but perhaps we need to talk more about “white collar murder”.
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weird how the we-have-to-introduce-incentives ed reform crowd has so little to say about a democratic party that hews strictly to seniority despite failure after failure by incumbent leadership.
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such a civilized state.
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do your kids get COVID vaccinations at their pediatricians, along with flu + other childhood vaccinations? both here in Florida (stereotypically) but also in California, pediatricians who had every other vaccination did not have COVID, and we had to use Walgreens or CVS to get the kid a COVID shot.
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weird social media person: hey, watch this. pennies fall upward! professor of something: pennies fall downward MAGA house member: the government is knows all about the antigravity devices and is hiding the truth people on X: antigravity is real people on BlueSky: i’ll never speak to those morons
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Text: It is a sign of how corrupt political debate has become that these patent monopolies, which are equivalent to tariffs of many thousand percent, are referred to as the “free market” in most discussions. Patent monopolies have a clear public purpose, to promote innovation, but they are nonetheless a major form of government intervention in the market. These government-granted monopolies cost us around $500 billion a year in the case of prescription drugs ($4,000 per family). They are not the free market.
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i mean, it's only rational to vote for him. he has so much seniority! think about the good he can do for our state with all that influence.
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Bye!
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Yes. That's precisely a fair account of the view I've expressed. You are a very constructive interlocutor. Have an amazing day!
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Please enjoy your fairy tales. It has been a pleasure.
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we live in a world of imperfect perceptions, observations, "data". of course to live and govern we need to refer to these things. there's nothing wrong with discussing, referring to, observations and data. 1/
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but there's much wrong with pulling rank, collecting authority, demanding deference, insisting the observations to which you point, your aggregations and interpretations thereof, are reliable, the one true way of seeing and understanding the world, those who disagree are cretins to be suppressed. /f
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Oh god. Yes, the poor dears, tens of thousands of dollars in debt for what two generations prior was almost free. It's all the feelz. You my friend are a prime illustration of what I take to be the problem. I am certain the, well, feeling is mutual.
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Larry Summers can talk about whatever the fuck, he's been a brutal obstacle to any kind of positive change. You have a very nice day.
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lots was wrong with that era. if you rotten cherry pick the worst, of course it sounds awful. i'd not trade a return of Jim Crow for anything. nobody wants to go back to what was awful about that era.
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but important things were good about that era. it was a time when we could make progress on civil rights, because the "white" public felt affluent. a generous spirit was not a kiss of death for politicians, as it is now.
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the kids who rebelled perceived themselves as affluent! they resented inauthenticity, being cogs in a machine, militarism, in the richest society the world had ever known. today's kids don't feel rich. they feel insecure, indebted.
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the goal is not to go back to any era. the goal is to understand what's good in a society, and income and wealth compression — we're all in the same boat, we have similar interests, we can govern coherently together — are things that are good in a society, which we once had much more than we do now.
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yes. and wealth inequality is also brings income equality we pretend not to see bc it takes the form of asset revaluation. talk to @steveroth.bsky.social for a while. while center-leftists crowed abt wages growing a few percent from tiny baselines at the bottom, assets appreciated at breakneck pace.