praxisprocess.bsky.social
Actual Union Boss. Also Actual Doctor of Philosophy. Speculator in Stonks. Big fan of Nuclear Power and Industrial Policy. #LGM
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i'm a national political commentator with a prominent platform and a large audience, someone send a couple mil my way where i will hold a conference and recommend that democrats demand to know why so many conservatives find themselves accused of sexual abuse
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I can tell you that he interviewed very well when we did candidate screenings. He knows ball and he has some charisma too. He's grown out a large graying beard and it really gives him gravitas.
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Also Ramos has been *baaaaad* at this campaign and made it a bizarre point of pride to yammer on about "the need to fight the extreme right and the extreme left"
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I would like it be fully electrified and faster, but it is sort of insane to take a train from Suffolk to EWR when United flights are absurdly cheap
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cool! Got distracted, but about to send you something now!
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Got it!
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My local (we rep about 8000 people) would likely be interested in partnering with common wealth on some projects. Mind if I shoot you a DM?
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I think the money got too good. She went from someone with rational assessments that were bullish to "Oh wow, I'm getting all this money and adulation now"
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soviet states that have done the best economically (Poland, the Baltics, maybe Kazakhstan) either integrated late into the USSR (post WWII) leading to less entrenched systems of governance that weakened post collapse, or they hit the resources jackpot and its didn't matter.
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this shows how Soviet bureaucratic authoritarianism was somewhat agnostic as to economic system. Also shows how much of the collapse was a "run on the bank" where local party elites grabbed control of the state and state assets and ran the ex-republics in much the same way, just worse. The ex...
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Regularly. Though the largest part of the aridizaton came from post Soviet times. Uzbek government was addicted to the revenues and pushed production hard. All gov workers, including like doctors, had to go out for harvest time.
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Yep and it gets worse the more homogeneous the group is. The "union" takes on some real herrenvolk or herren-gender characteristics fast. The union as a political subject is just "the in group" so solidarity is defined as defending that group from the gross interlopers.
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Yep.
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If she really hates it maybe? Mine sometimes goes after my face when hes mad about going in the car, but not sure if rotation solves it? My issue was the seats that expanded didnt tend to rotate. That and the best rotator everyone swore by (evenflo) got mega recalled and spooked me on the style
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Largely a question of child size. Also a question of seat location (middle or on one of the sides). Middle seat placement, with a larger kid? A lot easier to load em. Side seat or smaller kid? Eh, not the most important thing. My large toddler could be loaded in a middle seat. Side seat is fine
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Infant= The Clek Liing. Above Infant= Graco 3in1.
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Xitter has truly cooked his brain
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Ok, thats impressive
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Those are the unsung heros of salads
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Yep. Kants third critique posits aesthetic judgment as a subjectice universal, which encapsulates David's work well.
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this merit a book? No def not. But it's not wrong either. This is the Graeber paradox in a nutshell. Interesting ideas, oversold and covered with bad footnotes
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you're doing what you're doing. No essays needed, just something brief. If not, then something has gone wrong. The other insight is that many BS jobs are highly remunerated despite being both cushy and not all that useful. Management consultants and Big Law types being good examples. Does...
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The best insight from BS jobs is the definition itself wherein the person doing job can't explain what they do and what value it generates to society. Folks argue that people arent supposed to know the purpose of their job all the time, but this rings false to me. You should be able to explain why
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true to create these all encompassing social theories despite the existence of other facts that strongly disagree. This means that you need to read his work with a strong eye of skepticism, but the "creative non fiction" insights derived are often interesting and of great use.
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are many BS jobs that primarily serve as lackeys for a manager's particular fiefdom. This is common in any large organization, but especially in Unis, where there are Deans who do nothing and sport entire staffs to that end. That's always the issue with Graeber. He uses things that are sometimes
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complex organizations and how people have trouble seeing their role within said bodies. It also assumes certain things about middle management in the US that arent always true. That said, its detractors often forget that in certain areas, like Universities, Graeber was correct. There...
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I think Henry Farrel put it once that Graeber is best thought of as "creative non-fiction " because he is so rarely factually correct, but that looseness leads to some interesting ideas. Such readings were difficult while he was alive, but are much more doable now that he cant troll you.
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Thought you'd appreciate that tidbit!
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Would you be shocked to learn that his writer's room was full of Bread and Roses caucus members?
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Yes and the logical conclusion of Rabbinic Judaism (in my crank view) is Spinozist Pantheism. Thus all land is the holy land.
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I'm sure he lost too much on this and the OZ election.
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Oh its not even a Boomer view. Thats the American Academy of Pediatrics view now. Its crazy how one sided the studies are. Screentime is basically brain poison for young kids.
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Did I ever tell you about the linux bug that wouldn't allow emails to be sent on Wednesday?
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Like the Kiwi poster who has cooked his brain on Kalshi bettings
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I don't see how "Follow the Leahy Act and withhold weapons, which polls exceptionally well" is somehow a bad idea. It was silly that Harris didn't even gesture towards it in backchannels
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Plato was def involved, but Socrates' involvement with the Thirty Tyrants isn't well supported afaik. The execution was principally because he proposed non punishment after the verdict, and he was brought up on charges cuz he was annoying and tied to Plato and Alcibiades
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This isn't from Fain but from two regions, one of whom (9a) is like 60% higher ed workers and legal services/legal aid/public defenders.