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Shot, chaser. What a bunch of clowns. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 126 days ago • 25 comments

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 139 days ago • 377 comments

Paul Fletcher re teals: "If Australia had a first-past-the-post system, none of the six teals who entered the parliament in 2022 would have been elected" Overconfident clueless claim. If we had FPTP, voters would have voted differently and some teals would probably have won.

submitted 152 days ago • 11 comments

One problem for those who deny philosophic fraud is this: they must depict a large number of philosophers as not smart enough to write well – a commonplace skill – but still smart enough to consistently spot fraud, a much rarer skill. clubtroppo.com.au/2024/11/07/s...

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

"Working class material self-interest includes cheap energy" is perhaps the biggest thing contemporary progressives miss about economic policy.

submitted 161 days ago • 39 comments

Now, this isn’t a peer-reviewed economics paper, but nevertheless is one of the more interesting examinations of “why is the US economy outperforming the rest of the developed world”. It’s worth reading the lot, but one observation from the Australian context (🧵) www.apricitas.io/p/americas-p...

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

Part Two of the Common Sense Democrat manifesto — it’s not progressive or humane to become so leery of punishment that you let public spaces and public services become disorderly, dysfunctional, and unpleasant. www.slowboring.com/p/liberalism...

submitted 164 days ago • 33 comments

I thought "Trump picks officials like he's casting a television show" was overdone as a take about his first term staffing, but Trump 2.0 really is a ton of guys he's seen on TV.

submitted 170 days ago • 16 comments

Good @MattYglesias.bsky.social piece on the unpredictability of politicians and Trump’s successes when he falls into moderation. “That’s the successful model for Trump: own the hell out of the libs, but to the greatest extent possible, try not to do too much.”

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

The moon with Saturn tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

submitted 179 days ago • 31 comments

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-... The Pressure Valve: Does The Defeat Of Same-Party State Governments Help Federal Governments?

submitted 180 days ago • 2 comments

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results." - Milton Friedman Even economists sympathetic to certain types of #industrypolicy now believe that their effectiveness should be thoroughly tested. publicaccountant.com.au/features/fut...

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

We've now detected a lot of fraud in science – which is good. It's clear there's fraud in #philosophy too. But detecting it is harder. Our best hope is to use (fairly) reliable fraud indicators. Here are six candidates. All suggest #JacquesLacan as one suspect ... clubtroppo.com.au/2024/11/07/s...

submitted 180 days ago • 1 comment