the only qualification is the favor of the king.
as long as there still is a Department of Education, shouldn't it be a creationist?
plutocrats are only wealthy because we collectively enforce the existence of their wealth. they should think about that more. so should we.
“Il Douche” is kind of an amazing nickname, from @charvaka
second time as farce, but it isn’t funny. https://hivemind.plus/@charvaka/113482843333712282
a talent of the worst people is to shitpost until even angels look like the worst people.
Eastern European income-tax rates tend to be "flat", but layered onto high, capped, payroll taxes that render them very regressive. Kind of an artifact of governments set up at the peak of neoliberalism / post-Cold-War triumphalism.
@chrisp offers a deep dive, comparing Ukraine's to US Federal taxes. https://chrispeel.net/2024/11/10/ukrainian-income-taxes/
Very useful, concise tips on working with #postgres #postgresql, by @hibachrach ht @gvwilson @mhoye https://challahscript.com/what_i_wish_someone_told_me_about_postgres
Democrats mocked how at the Republican Convention, past President George W Bush didn't show. But maybe Presidents Clinton and Obama and even Biden ought not to have been invited to the Democratic convention.
Change means change, man. (It sure doesn't mean giving Rahm Emmanuel a new role.)
Institutional continuity is no virtue when it's institutions you feel have screwed you.
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“And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.” https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ ht @andrewducker
my gee-i’m-clever word coinage of the day: “sclerocracy”.
pretty self-explanatory i think. in conversation with / inspired by @kentwillard and @phillmv
@kentwillard @phillmv (it’s worth pointing out that other rivals — notably plutocrat pissing match Blue Origin — haven’t had the same success, despite not being part of the ossified sclerocracy.)
when politics is good television, it’s bad real life.
it's really gratifying to see meritocracy restored to the United States.
[new draft post] What does it mean to have no kings? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/13/what-does-it-mean-to-have-no-kings/index.html
without comment.
from #LukeLattanzi https://americanmind.org/salvo/post-liberalism-is-here-to-stay/
Text: In other words, a second Trump administration will have the opportunity to embrace noblesse oblige, helping to foster a nobility that is obliged to take seriously the economic, cultural, and political well-being of the American public. Trump’s appointments so far have been promising, but only time will tell whether he can sustain four years of follow-through on this definitive populist mandate.
Like water.
"We can call the depression void-gazing. Everyone does it sometimes, but step two has to be wrenching your gaze away from the void and doing something. There's nothing in the void but more void" @ludicity https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/
has anyone else noticed the irony, that people devoted to a man who slathers orange make-up all over his face every single day calls everybody else clown world? 🤡
( inspired by @darwinwoodka )
you can make facile analogies with the Roman Empire and pretend there's fundamentally been no progress, but we really have advanced. they had to go through like two emperors before they got themselves a caligula.