“we’ve taken on a model of argument in which data, regressions and modelling…are the standard of proof. And because of this, we’ve closed off all possible explanations…except those for which usable datasets can be found.” #DanDavies https://open.substack.com/pub/backofmind/p/me-versus-the-scatterplots
"I swear that all my lying was the bravest form of truth"
Rose Polenzani voicing the character of a trans man deceiving his lover captures J.D. Vance's ethos beautifully.
I mean, he's not the first politician to try to flatter his audience. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/trump-blames-jews-election-loss/
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org omg he basically named the site “nonbinary.com” just more concise he’s so progressive!
can’t wait until elon gets excited about personalization and rebrands to my-x.com
“after so much spin, i find the outright lies to be kind of refreshing.”
q: can you impersonate a horse?
a: nay
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.
@pja@octodon.social (they swab my bags, sometimes inside them, not just my hands. so i imagine they are looking for residue on a variety of surfaces.)
@pja@octodon.social (i have no idea how sensitive it is supposed to be. and of course, an adversary with sufficient care could avoid any residue. this all strikes me as evidence that’s very doable!)
I think I'd disagree as much as I'd agree with #KarthikSankaran's hard-to-summarize views on globalism, but unsurprisingly he is full of insight and wit. https://sankaran.substack.com/p/restoring-balance-or-maybe-not-to
driving should be a vacation activity, like water-skiing.
@LesterB99 hezbollah is kind of a fusion of a militia/terrorist organization and a civilian government or NGO. so it’s hard to generalize about the kinds of folks, i think, unless pager use was restricted to the military side.
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.)
not quite yet, but soon:
if you don’t know the author, there is no author.
@kentwillard for the reasons you suggest (subsidizing speculation, blowing bubbles) i think we want to be careful not to imagine a lending subsidy is a fixed capital subsidy. people do all kinds of stuff with loans, much of which we’d be better off taxing than subsidizing. however we do it, what we want to subsidize is deployment of fixed capital, the fixed cost portion of actual, direct production.
@kentwillard yes. i generally like the idea of taxing to shape market structure. https://www.interfluidity.com/posts/1258156478.shtml
call it the brown new deal. https://x.com/jstein_wapo/status/1836115725276283077
raise the SALT cap. don’t eliminate it.
winning isn’t everything. it’s nothing at all.
This post fails to replicate.