beastcoaster.bsky.social
Health economist by training, HRQOL researcher by profession. Developer of discrete choice experiments. Lifelong resident of the Atlantic side of the map.
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Meanwhile IRL: what an actual killer looks like
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Can we get a link? I'd be interested to read that
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Weird, its like a modern take on 18th century dragoons.
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Go ahead and take that break, the collapse will probably be here when you get back
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I'm glad you pointed out that Kilmar is possibly facing a de facto death sentence. That needs to be said out loud. There are already efforts to white wash life at CECOT but we need to push back on that by making it clear that a human being cannot live for long under those conditions.
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I wonder what's up with that weird little Republican spot in Spanish Harlem in Manhattan?
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Huge props to you Senator, thank you for going out of your way. I was seriously concerned that he was dead.
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Generalplan Ost:
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ok, lets help him by giving him the personal free time he needs to get better by NOT electing him. empathy achieved.
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Would add that the most popular topics with low quality info I've seen on there relate to monetary econ, inflation, stocks/bonds/derivatives, central banking, and employment. My impression is that ppl are pipelined in from personal finance topics to wider macroecon discussion through those topics
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Econ tiktok is heavily saturated with cranks who think knowing about crypto/derivatives qualifies them to speak about all econ topics. Lots of gold standard anti-fiat people as well. I'm sure you've considered this, but you'd be fighting to both convey quality info but also undo that type of misinfo
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Its true bro, my cousins uncle tried to smuggle some endogenous money theory in from the UK and he got 2 years for it
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why does this make sense
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I had a similar thought yesterday - I'm 28 and every single presidential election I've ever gotten to vote in has involved this decrepit ballbag. Every civic activity I've ever engaged in as an adult American has had him in the background, I have never been free of him since coming of age.
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Does this type of thinking come from a deep well of fear that sometimes one can be affected by forces beyond control? If you get sick or injured it always has to be your fault somehow? That everyone starts on the same page and wherever they end up is purely a function of their own decisions?
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I mean the poor guy has to spend all day around Marquito, I'd be upset if I couldn't drink too
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hey look it's Silicon Valley i wonder what's going on over the- aaaaaand its a cult
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you're right on the money. her retort to every criticism of collaborationist democrats is "yeah well i won". someone needs to tell her it isn't that impressive to win as a democrat if you forfeit all meaningful opposition to the GOP.
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Terrible muzzle awareness. Why bother posing with a weapon if you're going to look that uncomfortable/untrained with it? They can't even do inauthentic theatrics right.
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Xenos fascism: where we are hurtling infinitesimally closer and closer to the point where we definitely would totally join the resistance, and yet we never actually reach that point
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I remain somewhat pessimistic about the prospect of a split unless we see any indications of conflict between Musk and Trump himself. A lot of oligarchies feature the top guy encouraging conflict among the underlings to keep the heat off himself. This may stay between Musk and Navarro.
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I genuinely wish I could find reading that funny instead of enraging but it just causes me too much psychic damage
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I can't remember where I read it but there's a school of thought that it started out more as like "these discs with the kings face on it are proof that you've paid tribute to him, so if you can show us you have them after harvest season, the kings men won't stomp you out for skipping taxes"
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bsky.app/profile/beas...
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Another benefit they provide is that they let people who are not used to physically showing up get accustomed to being in the street. I can't speak for everyone but in my own case, showing up to protests because my friends did snowballed into getting involved in a variety of ways.
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*me tightening the same 5 bolts for ten hours a day until my lower back is permanently in pain*
I am God.
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I don't fault Schake or Golby for the caution they express in that article, but I will point out that the context in which they write was that of Trump refusing to leave office rather than the damage he currently threatens to the constitutional order in his second term. What I would ask without...
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but the fact that elected politicians can in fact be domestic enemies to the constitution kind of prompts that as an open question. And if the answer is that it effectively is never permissible, then I would ask what value that oath has if it can never be carried out in practice.
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seeking to make an argument one way or the other is: under what conditions is it permissible for the military to carry out its oath to defend the constitution from domestic enemies? There's no law that I know of that permits the military to overthrow a president under certain conditions...
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I don't fault Schake or Golby for the caution they express in that article, but I will point out that the context in which they write was that of Trump refusing to leave office rather than the damage he currently threatens to the constitutional order in his second term. What I would ask without...
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men who claimed to be leaders, to be defenders of liberty, to be dynamos of business, cowering at the thought that they might have to stand up for something, while ordinary people with a fraction of their money and power speak out.
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yes
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Genuinely I don't understand what allure he ever had. When you strip away the techno aesthetic of his ideology it just seems to be feudalism all over again. Like "hey guys crazy idea, what if me and people like me were in charge and no one else had a say in the matter". Not groundbreaking stuff.
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A lot of Trumps orbiters tend to slowly adopt his mannerisms, speech and look over time in an attempt to enchant the base the same way Trump has, but they never have the sauce. During the 2020 repub primary, DeSantis got oranger and oranger and started using Trumps hand gestures, it was weird.