A tale of two polls.
First, on Mastodon. Second, on xitter. My idiosyncratic catchments in both applications.
Same question:
Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021.
On Mastodon, 2% choose "overreacted", 81% choose "underreacted", 17% choose "responded about right"
On xitter, 22.5% choose "overreacted", 40.6% choose "underreacted", 36.9% choose "responded about right"
Screenshot of completed Mastodon poll: Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021. 2% choose "overreacted", 81% choose "underreacted", 17% choose "responded about right"
Screenshot of completed Xitter poll: Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021. 22.5% choose "overreacted", 40.6% choose "underreacted", 36.9% choose "responded about right"
in my timeline the search engines are called “bong” and “giggle”.
"Capitalism exacerbates 'greed' via assembling increasing marginal utility agents from decreasing ones" #Metaphysiocrat https://concretepossibleworld.substack.com/p/capitalism-and-convexity
so after i post some stuff, i sometimes ego search a bit, put my name in various search engines restricting to the past week in desperate hunger for feedback.
i have to admit my search of kagi.com tonight was a bit depressing!
screenshot of kagi.com search box showing suggested completions for "steve randy waldman" (my pen name). the first suggestion is "steve randy waldma obituary"
“The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder ht @andrewducker
"if you feel like you write free software for others but nobody joins your community, you are not alone. We are all together in this, alone. 😥" @alex https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-06-06-programming via @akkartik @TodePond @llimllib
Exterminationist AGI was invented in the 1970s as the "shareholder value revolution" and the "foom" has already happened.
fzf.
i've never heard of it, but it's so cool.
like so often i'm indebted to @llimllib https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/cli_tips_and_tools/fzf.html
People whose electoral politics is the same as mine seem very excited to share Figure 7, but they seem less often to share Figure 5.
Both from the same source, the Fed's Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2023 - May 2024 https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2024-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2023-overall-financial-well-being.htm
#economics #finance
"Figure 7. Assessment of own financial well-being, local economy, and national economy (by year)" showing a steady 75%-ish describe themselves as "doing at least okay" financially, even while they perceive their local and the national economy declining.
"Figure 5. Financial situation compared with 12 months prior (by year)" showing that of that "doing okay" in Figure 7, only about a third ever felt better off year-over-year, and since 2022, substantially more perceive themselves to be worse off than better off, year over year.
"Unless the government steps in to build when new home sales demand gets soft, we will not add homes to the builders’ demand algorithm. Builders have learned to tightly control inventory… We won’t see the construction boom that people want because the builders are here to make money; they’re not here to fix the low inventory issues of the existing home sales market, which is their main rival for demand." #LoganMohtashami https://www.housingwire.com/articles/why-we-cant-build-our-way-out-of-this-hot-housing-market/
#economics #finance
sometimes the arc of history… just breaks.
katrina was a warning that we mistook for a fluke.
there's not a lot of money in not being evil.
Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021.
2.1%
overreacted
(1 votes)
80.9%
underreacted
(38 votes)
17.0%
responded about right
(8 votes)
CONFIRMED: The falsehood is true.
