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Guy in GB, previously mke, interested in politics, economics, Wisconsin, urban planning, environmentalism, Brewers, Packers, Bucks, etc.
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Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Can you imagine if a Joe Biden or Barack Obama set off a flash grenade on the US economy then just hopped on a plane to Miami to play golf? What the fuck is our media even doing?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

the fact that our president is clearly insane and destroying the economy makes it even more pathetic for major law firms and universities to bend the knee to him

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

This is going to be a fascinating experiment in policy feedback - it’s very clear that the link between real world material policy and political views has been greatly weakened. But to what extent, and how bad do things need to get to break through the media environments? We’ll see…

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

To put it in real terms: This press conference cost the U.S. stock market somewhere in the realm of $1-2 trillion dollars.

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

Bucks win Brewers win Crawford wins

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

wisconsin kicking the shit out of musk's candidate is very very cool

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Notable 2024 county margins as Wisconsin results start to come in: Dane +52 Harris Milwaukee +39 Harris Eau Claire +10 Harris La Crosse +10 Harris Rock +7 Harris Walworth +22 Trump Waukesha +20 Trump Washington +36 Trump Ozaukee +10 Trump Brown +8 Trump Racine +6 Trump Kenosha +6 Trump

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Waiting for a county to finish up in WI before I have a take, but Democrats feel good right now. Counties where 80%+ of vote is in: Fond du Lac: Schimel +18 (was Trump +29) La Crosse: Crawford +26 (was Harris +9)

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Man does not renounce freedom voluntarily. This conclusion holds out hope for our time, hope for the future. - Vasily Grossman

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

RIP to the greatest lead-off hitter of all time

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Second baseman Caleb Durbin is also headed to the Milwaukee Brewers along with Nestor Cortes in the Devin Williams deal, sources tell ESPN.

submitted 113 days ago • 8 comments

Left-handed starter Nestor Cortes is among the players headed to the Milwaukee Brewers in the trade that sent Devin Williams to the New York Yankees, sources tell ESPN.

submitted 113 days ago • 17 comments

BREAKING: The New York Yankees are finalizing a trade to acquire closer Devin Williams from the Milwaukee Brewers, sources tell ESPN.

submitted 113 days ago • 14 comments

Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years, faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world. Left: in 1994 Right: after 2007 Cost per mile: £64–91 million (around 7x cheaper than London's Jubilee & Northern line expansions & 14x cheaper than Toronto's Ontario line)

submitted 120 days ago • 16 comments

Between the over-lawyering, fake out of bounds stuff, dives, etc the NFL is becoming such a bad product

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

It really can't be stated enough how the AI craze is rooted deeply in utter vitriolic disrespect for the working class. Like I've seen multiple cases of this tech being marketed directly on sticking it to us filthy poors who want things like "benefits" and "fair pay for our labor"

submitted 122 days ago • 110 comments

Why did I buy 3 lbs of M&Ms at Costco

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

submitted 124 days ago • 2292 comments

It’s scoops like these that make me want to switch from the NYT to the WSJ. Both have their faults, but I feel like the WSJ’s journalism is more fact-based and higher quality than what the NYT has been putting out.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Surprisingly Knocked Loose was a big topic at family thanksgiving this year

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 129 days ago • 1280 comments

A Chinese ship is suspected of deliberately severing two critical data cables in the Baltic by dragging its anchor along the seabed for over 100 miles

submitted 129 days ago • 21 comments

Psyched all my favorite WI transit/urbanist folks migrated to Bluesky. Was the hardest part of leaving X initially 🥲

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments