nbeaudrot.bsky.social
Math Dad.
Aspiring-to-comeback Triathlete.
Fall Out Boy apologist.
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I spend all day, every day meeting with people and explaining. They don’t understand, they don’t show up, they don’t believe in it, they don’t ask for clarification or meetings.
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but would that be RICO
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After January 6th I have basically no faith, people have been saying "the wheels will come off and everyone will jump on him" for a while now.
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nobody in Congress wants to cross Trump on anything
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"Musk is bad but the Tesla is a decent car" is the centrist position.
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I've wondered about this but wouldn't other investors notice? Would they notice you if you bought short term out of the money call options?
(what I mean here is I think you can make yourself hundreds of thousands maybe millions but not billions this way. Still good money.)
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TBC I would count "going to a spin class" as "economically valuable" but if pricing the roads means they go to the one close to their home that seems good.
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At least now they can stay at home and be on their phones.
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is the implication of "a bunch of car trips disappear and nobody notices economic impact" that a lot of SAHMs and underemployed 20somethings take a fair number of trips with little to no economic value? And of course bill de Blasio.
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is the implication of "a bunch of car trips disappear and nobody notices economic impact" that a lot of SAHMs and underemployed 20somethings take a fair number of trips with little to no economic value? And of course bill de Blasio.
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I've had congestion pricing boosters argue a fair number of car trips were errands that could have been accomplished in the neighborhood just at a different store, seems okay?
When the Seattle viaduct disappeared a bunch of car trip disappeared and nobody noticed economic decline.
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Realistically "Trump or Elon" voters will mostly pick Trump right.
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I have spent my entire teen and adult life hearing that The Youth Will Save The Democrats Because They Care About The Environment and after 30 years I think it's time to say this isn't going to work.
You can solve specific problems, ppl like green space, "environmentalism" isn't a thing at scale.
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IDK I think The Climate Movement spent decades trying to shake people into doing *anything*, they have finally succeeded, and I think at this point they should declare victory, depart the battlefield, and turn Climate Advocacy into mundane problem management.
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I always thought it was talking mostly about Sunrise Movement and the Hewlett foundation and the like, which really do seem to be pushing Democrats into less favorable political territory on climate and in some cases economics.
(Revolving Door Project is ... something else? Maybe?)
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But replacing them with foundations that seem to be funded disproportionately by rich people isn't helping either b/c the rich people (a) are more liberal than the overall population, and (b) care more about issues that are harder sells politically (environment and, sadly, guns)
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This is an old @mschmitt9.bsky.social take -- the heyday of mail-based dues-paying single-issue interest groups was the 1970s and those should probably be de-emphasized at this point.
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In fairness NARAL/Sierra Club/MoveOn at least have reasonably large membership bases, it's stuff like Sunrise Movement, some other family foundations (Hewlett?) that barely speak for anybody.
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Basically if you told me Hardwick/Comedy Central had more upside with comics than Tomlinson/CBS I'd believe you.
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yeah, I'd have to go back through the old at midnight to see, but I felt like I saw more repeat players.
(It's possible that there was social pressure to hire/not hire certain brands of comics. Like, Bill Burr doesn't need the exposure, TJ Miller was cancelled, but fewer of those guys)
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Yes, -1 NGDP just as prices for goods increase will sting.
And like honestly if we can't win an election where you can run "so and so let Trump raise taxes on bananas/cars/cans of beer/whatever" ads, what are we even doing.
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I do wish they would capture things like changes in inputs (how much ammonia etc.) though I'm still unclear on the health/resource risks there.
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"if you do full employment hard enough to compress wages a lot even big chunks of the left will complain about the resulting price increases for fast food, so keep the job market slack" is a frankly pretty plausible lesson to learn from ARP
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we've known how to build cost-effective 2 & 3-story rowhouses for generations
in a manner that not only reduces costs, but reduces risks and increases resiliency.
simple forms. simple roof w/ no/few plane changes. no need for tiny gutters or a ridiculous number of downspouts.
monopoly house FTW!
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The working families party found Adrienne Adams might win head to head against Cuomo but Zohran would lose and they…endorsed Zohran first. It’s all crazy. bsky.app/profile/wert...