@_dm or a pessimist! for everyone to see that, things would have to go badly askew!
@_dm yeah. i agree it’s an interesting perspective, worth considering, though one would have to have priors quite different from mine to give it credence.
and again, even with priors very flattering of Trump, Elon would become the source of a lot of cognitive dissonance.
@_dm i don’t know. they are occupying positions traditionally help by people like former Presidents. it’d be interesting if they were placed in some manner suggesting subservience, but i don’t think that’s the plan. i don’t think many observers could conclude he’s brought Musk to heel or kowtow.
the forgotten men and women of our country. https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113838755463069652
there is no such thing as a mediocre human.
the most useless form of take is our politics are bad because our people are bad.
it’s not a constructive or actionable kind of take.
it also gets causality wrong. the character of a community, the character of its members, is downstream from its politics much more than the other way around.
gonna start a trend of close in foot fetish videos under the hashtag #TikTokToe
in theory, our credit ratings are now impervious to medical debt / disputes over medical billing, right? how real do we think this is, as a practical matter, given the change in administration? https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-finalizes-rule-to-remove-medical-bills-from-credit-reports/
hot sauce at neighborhood lunch spot.
Bottle of hot sauce, branded Florida Concealed Carry Masterclass Garlic Hot Sauce
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.
@louis @MisuseCase they have put it through my insurance. the insurance, of course, doesn't pay anything, just adjusts the price from a notional inflated price to a still exorbitant price, but they did go through the process.
the way you bend the curve is make people too frightened and bitter to ever have any contact whatsoever with the health care system under any circumstances at all.
great job, technocrats!
dear interweb,
a month ago i went to an ER. recognizably the hospital chain billed about $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?
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.
@noodlemaz words have many meanings, many connotations and denotations in actual usage. “woke[ness]” is an aggressively politicized term. yes it has its historical initial meaning, and other meanings, and proponents of various meanings are politically opposed to one another, rendering use in any sense inherently controversial, inherently offensive to one community or another. 1/
@noodlemaz but also, perhaps paradoxically, in some contexts the very controversy contributes to the clarity of what one is communicating. to refer, as i did, to “excess” wokeness as censorious invites the kind of controversy reflected in this exchange. i think that’s a feature, not a bug, because it communicates precisely what i am commenting on, a censoriousness both claimed and contested. 2/
@noodlemaz i myself am sympathetic to both the claim and the contestation. i identify more closely, politically and otherwise, with the community that would contest, but i view the claim has having a degree (an often exaggerated degree to be sure) of useful descriptiveness. i do think i’ve considered, no doubt imperfectly, the issues around my word choices. of course one can still take issue with them! /fin
@noodlemaz ( some meditation on this stuff — that one might definitely take issue with of course — here. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/04/10/systemic-means-its-not-your-fault/index.html )
is this a lifestyle community?
for now we have achieved Artificial Colonel Intelligence.