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“after so much spin, i find the outright lies to be kind of refreshing.”
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q: can you impersonate a horse? a: nay
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Text: When thinking about constitutional law topics, it is important not to lose track of the fact that it is all nonsense. The phrase “take care” in the constitution does not actually imply anything one way or another about for-cause removal protections for the NLRB ALJs. In a well-functioning system, judges would recognize this fact and leave lawmaking to the legislature, but we have a system where judicial supremacy combines with constitutional vagueness to effectively give judges discretionary and perpetual veto rights over all legislative and executive actions. Judges naturally use these discretionary veto rights in a way that generally aligns with their political preferences and thus the three Republican judges read the phrase “take care” to generate their preferred outcome — hindering the administrative state and labor law — while the one Democratic judge reads the phrase “take care” to generate their preferred, opposite outcome.
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I think I'd disagree as much as I'd agree with @rajakorman.bsky.social's hard-to-summarize views on globalism, but unsurprisingly he is full of insight and wit. sankaran.substack.com/p/restoring-...
Restoring balance (or maybe not) to discussions of imbalances
Link Preview: Restoring balance (or maybe not) to discussions of imbalances: This is another piece I did for my friend Sam Lowe, trade expert and all-around good person, whose stack Most Favoured Nation you should definitely check out.
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i'd think it likely, though perhaps less likely the party doing it will be inclined to make the results public.
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driving should be a vacation activity, like water-skiing.
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if this is doable without leakage, doesn’t bode well for the effectiveness of all that swabbin’. maybe only state-level attackers can do this so hermetically? one can hope, i guess.
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i don’t disagree, but a bit scary as a test of security practices. i mean, yeah—lebanon, an unusual population, may not generalize. still, with thousands of devices, many i think in the hands of quasi-civil-servant professionals, you’d hope this point of routine surveillance would have noticed.
Steve Randy Waldman
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how long were they deployed? kind of amazing no one took a commercial flight carrying their pager, then got randomly swabbed for explosives and like, wtf? (very lucky no one was on a commercial flight but still in radio range.)
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not quite yet, but soon: if you don’t know the author, there is no author.
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the shirts, i was thinking. but we don’t have to choose!
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call it the brown new deal. cf @jeffstein.bsky.social x.com/jstein_wapo/...
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Cave painting of hands from Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina. via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_las_Manos
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raise the SALT cap. don’t eliminate it.
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This post fails to replicate.
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"The public sector can stop private risk aversion from disciplining necessary investments if it tries… a more democratic…state-directed fin system wld channel investment…based on…risks *not investing* poses to ppl's material security." @advaitarun.bsky.social advaitarun.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/t...
The short end of the liquidity stick
Link Preview: The short end of the liquidity stick: Just as policymakers use countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies to cushion everyone from economic shocks, vulnerable communities deserve countercyclical liquidity policy.
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my use-case is 99% thesaurus. it's not bad at that. it's helpful to be able to specify the sense you want, rather than just throwing out a related word.
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[new draft post] Abundance is overcapacity drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/17/a...
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"The Ohio Supreme Court Just Greenlit an Egregious “Fraud Upon the Voters" @mjsdc.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Ohio Supreme Court Just Greenlit an Egregious “Fraud Upon the Voters”
Link Preview: The Ohio Supreme Court Just Greenlit an Egregious “Fraud Upon the Voters”: The justices are upholding an Orwellian lie that accuses an amendment to end gerrymandering of doing the exact opposite of what it actually does.
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Pagers aren't usually bombs. So was this a supply chain attack? Were small bomb embedded in the pagers Hezbollah purchased, at the manufacturer or en route to end customers?