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Pursuing PhD in Economics at CU Boulder. Formerly pursuing job in comedy. Lover of trains, bikes, efficiency, Pigouvian taxes. Hater of PM2.5, Single Family Zoning, unnecessarily large vehicles.
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Did you hear about the Italian chef? He pasta away. Get it? I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.

submitted 2 days ago • 1741 comments

I really like when the robot bus lady says "stinky gulch" Anyone else have any favorites?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is less of a reduction than I thought, but it would be nice if they compared this tax to an increase in income tax that would raise the same amount of money.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Zoinks!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent preview of who will running our national defense. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Featured in the latest Digest: "Tariffs and US Labor Productivity: Evidence from the Gilded Age" https://www.nber.org/202502/digest/tariffs-and-us-labor-productivity-evidence-gilded-age

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Every piece of research i see reiterates that air pollution is really bad.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“We have this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of government, which is the bureaucracy, which has, in a lot of ways currently, more power than any elected representative,” Mr. Musk said. “And this is not something that people want, and it does not match the will of the people.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

"Yeah-ah"

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I would unironically love this! (Maybe without the poisonous grains)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Trump bans the Associated Press (AP) from White House event for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” at his command.

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Getting rid of words like bias and confirmation bias seem like it would only make quantitative analysis and decision making worse.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

It's like they're obsessed with bad policy

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Making of Civic Virtues: A School-Based Experiment in Three Countries" by Simon Briole, Marc Gurgand, Éric Maurin, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, and Daniel Santín. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 1165 comments

Harrison Ford ... More like Harrison Jeep!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 18 days ago • 1105 comments

The forced relocation of Soviet intellectuals during Stalin's reign demonstrates how human capital can shape economic geography for generations, say researchers at New Economic School and King's College London. #econsky #ResearchHighlight www.aeaweb.org/research/hum...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

More Mall More Better!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

TurboTax wants money for a service the government can and will do for free! apnews.com/article/irs-...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Do the Canadian tariffs apply to the carbon credits traded between CA and QC program linkage?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's funny when Trump says things like Canada can "become a state." Like in any realistic scenario where Canada and the US merge politically, Canada becomes 13 states. Maybe like 10 if you combine the islands and some northern territories.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A chemical is not the sum of its parts. Sodium is a metal at room temperature that explodes in water. Chlorine is gas at room temperature, toxic if inhaled at 400 ppm for 30 min. Together? They make sodium chloride, a chemical that dissolves in water & is essential for biological processes. 1/

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

I live for this shit! #GrainGuy

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is like a scoolbus driver who says he's going to drive the bus off a cliff, and everyone laughs because that would be soooo stupid. But the bus inches forward! And by the time he's actually driving the bus off the cliff, people are like "I guess it's fine because he's driving slow"

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Does anybody know if these DOGE folks have done their Personal Identifiable Information training? Are they accessing it from secure facilities?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

There were actually a lot more accidents when all the pilots and ATC people were white men. ... Just saying

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Very interesting paper in an interesting and ongoing literature. A few take-aways🧵:

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Before you file your taxes using TurboTax, check to see if you are in a DirectFile eligible state! It's the same service, but free from the government!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like society needs another 10 WWII movies showing that fascism is bad pronto.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I was in a group of seats occupied by 4 consecutive men at a Justin Timberlake concert. This feels anomalous.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Nazis are bad. I think we should make that clear.

submitted 31 days ago • 222 comments

Good thing I got a sturdy table!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I remember learning about dramatic irony (the reader knowing more than the characters) in elementary school and not really understanding it. I am 100 pages into Dune, and like holy crap, Frank Herbert gets it.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments