the least informative word in political discourse is “organize”.
what exactly do you mean? start a nonprofit? have your neighbors to lunch? join somebody’s thing? find some friends and picket your representative?
you’ll cherry pick some thing and say that, *that*, was organizing.
okay. what now?
“It’s also important to remember that CPI and PCE, by their very nature, are weighted to the consumption expenditures of higher income households. That’s because they spend more.” #NathanTankus https://www.crisesnotes.com/one-election-takeaway-voters-hate-temporary-safety-nets/
okay. so maybe it wasn’t a landslide victory. but it was for sure a mudslide victory.
there should be a river in Crimea called Crimea River. (sorry.)
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@econproph ice cream is a superfood. at least it's a supplement i'd feel good about peddling.
i really wish Big HVAC were a more powerful lobby. https://zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikonen/113529561457207168
i'munna pin to my tie an "As Seen On TV!" button and get myself a cabinet position.
"our failure to remember that the mega-platforms are just intentionally extractive constructs run by brainmelted but very human weirdos is a failure of accountability, but our failure to remember that it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagination, but of nerve." @kissane https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/
i used to be fond of Marc Andreeson. we'd chat very reasonably on Twitter sometimes, and i was a fanboy of Netscape back in the day.
he's one of those "what happened?" people to me.
cf @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/you-dont-believe-in-free-markets-and-free-speech-if-youre-demanding-criminal-charges-against-people-for-their-free-market-free-speech-decisions/
( interfluidity "office hours" begins now if you'd like to chat https://www.interfluidity.com/office-hours/ )
if as a pastor you know you’ve done terrible harm to your flock, wouldn’t there be something psychologically compelling in believing you’d found a way to lead them to the rapture?
“gambling for redemption” isn’t just for bankers. 1/
longtime tech founders, VCs, and executives are sure AI can solve all the problems they’ve aggravated. /fin
The standard deduction should be 150K individual / 300K married.
we tend to obsess about Trump, but he’s already done his work. for now his chaos is a saving grace. if he were sidelined, more capable elements of the movement he brought to power might find a firmer footing.
Do you feel welcome in the United States?
q: how often do you see a ghost's butt?
a: once in a boo moon
from #HamiltonNolan https://inthesetimes.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-election-2024-dumb ht @ryanlcooper
Text: The question of how our nation became so disgusted by the myth of politics- as-public-service that it happily embraced the apocalyptic politics-as-Squid Game we now face is one that can actually do us some good. That question, you see, is not about the dumb man himself, or his retinue of cretins, or the wearisome parade of sociopathic looting that our government is about to endure. It is instead about all the nice, respected, smart people who came before him, and how their justifications for the sociopathic looting of the past grew so transparent that they disappeared. Run a system without humane values long enough and people will crave for nothing more than to laugh while it burns. The only thing left now is to rebuild it better when the smoke clears.
you do suicide by police on the streets. you do suicide by secret police on social media.
the oath you took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States was not an oath to protect and defend John Roberts' interpretation of it.
the oath you took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States was not an oath to protect and defend John Roberts' interpretation of it.
