josephraff.bsky.social
I'm a Hanlon's Razor guy, but man y'all are really making me reconsider
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Well said - sounds like a great reason to cohabitate in dense communities!
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Part of the complexity though is that while the dollar store is just worse than a local grocery, Walmart is often a better grocery option than the local store.
Status quo leaves room for both bad and good free market outcomes which IMO adds to the case for govt intervention
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We're seeing a heavily increased pace of sign-ups in CA post-national guard news.
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I (raised Catholic) went to a Baptist camp one Summer, and a counselor very earnestly tried convincing me that this was intended as two completely independent thoughts:
"Your name is Peter. Separately, over there is a rock that I want you to use to build a physical church"
Hilarious.
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Google translate app does this
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This is actually a great Rosetta stone for all of his policies - nothing is more thought through or considered than this. It's all exactly this dumb and stupid.
All the justifications from Lutnick, Bessent, etc are post hoc.
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That's great! What options did you discuss? Any exciting ideas?
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And this was a very highly choreographed and publicly planned action day! Tons of opportunity for the right to plan counter-events or for the admin to crack down, but there was nothing. They absolutely do not have the juice.
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Congresswoman, do you have a particular way you'd like to hold the administration accountable?
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Barbara Lee and Lateefah Simon
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Do you think this is because firms believe that the educational value of the CS degree itself is higher than they thought or because a degree is a good signal of the type of background/personality/skillset of a better hire?
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The US press is broadly speaking completely ignorant of the workings of the economy and therefore they rely on repeating the ridiculous statements of whatever huckster they are ideologically aligned with
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It's also all so plain dumb. I'll eat my words if I'm wrong, but I'd be astonished if US based multinationals returned to Russia in real force. No financial model in the world that allows for moving in and out of a market every four years!
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This whole dynamic is driving me NUTS! Chain restaurants are not your friend! Their continued existence does not contain moral or cultural value
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Harry Potter books were banned from my Baptist summer camp in Texas and of course I was there the week of a release. Meanwhile, my counselor tried to teach us some truly insane biblical literalism.
We weren't even Baptist!! Wtf mom & dad??
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They're less so strategic games, than fun little clicker diversions. I like 5 & 6, but they aren't actually deep imo
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He did, but at the end of the day no one in the govt can control actual day-to-day lending rates. Those are executed by the banks and not necessarily linked to the fed funds rate.
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@daveweigel.bsky.social I'm generally a fan of your work, but I wish you brought more skepticism here. Anson clearly has an agenda and his is a very one-sided/selective narrative.
I know others from within AB who aren't hawking books or pushing political goals with a very different POV.
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C'mon Congressman, you can do better.
Extraordinary moments like this demand extraordinary performance from leaders - if you aren't up to the task, make space for someone who is.
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Fwiw, this shows the donations of employees of BF, not the firm. Their corporate PAC has donated even smaller, infrequent sums (mostly to Dems). There's not really a story here regarding their political giving as I see it
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Did you get the hash brown in the sandwich?
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It seems to me that a lot of the liberal/left anger at traditional print media is best directed at headline writers and editors, not the actual journos.
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Feeling more comfortable with my recall vote splitting now
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*defund
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If House Rs try to pull this crap, Newsom and CA dems should do everything they can to defend the R held house districts in CA.
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Thank you for the thorough answer!
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Christ. Is this something the state could use eminent domain (or similar) for? Pay out the affected but take the land to avoid the risk of rebuild?
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Even the well above averagely informed American has no idea how much regulation there is on insurance companies (and that it's there for a good reason!).
These are highly technical businesses that are motivated by (rather slim) profits to price things accurately, not random cackling evil doers
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Her 1999 piece "What is the point of Equality?" Is the foundation & I would highly recommend!
I'm reading her more recent work Private Government right now and also think it's great if you find the original piece interesting. Big unlock to me as to why folks feel so constrained in the US.
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Totally agreed! This is a big part of why I find Elizabeth Anderson's work so compelling - understanding economic factors as only one key input to status concerns among many others is very helpful in designing a liberal, egalitarian politics for the current moment.
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I don't have time to watch new stuff as much any more (and a lot of it isn't for me even if I did), but I have the budget to throw a few more bucks around and would love to help friends to do the same.
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I think a lot about how lucky I am that as a young man I followed a set of non-political creators who gradually grew into expressing progressive values (lgbtq+ acceptance, feminism, pro-science).
I worry that the next generation of creators like that struggle as algorithms have evolved.
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Resonates a lot with my experience - I've noticed it slipping into real life too among more normie friends.
If you come across successful content, influencers, sites, etc. that do this kind of political bleed but good, it'd be great to highlight them. I'd love to give them money.
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There is so much to do for workers in arenas that aren't and almost definitely won't be unionized. Should be a area Dem pols can lead in, but no one is stepping up.
This is also the part of the workforce economy that is growing the most! Losing tomorrow's battle before it even begins. ðŸ«
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"Now the immigrants are taking all the best paying jobs!! Why are these foreigners making more money than ME" -some asshole
Imo the crux of people's issue isn't material, it's racial. Good policy but I bet it'd make existing animus worse, not better.