Matt Darling
@besttrousers.bsky.social
While we are Illiad posting, a few weeks ago I read "The Song of Achilles" and was a bit confused - it's just a prose version of the Illiad?
Then I realized that it was published in 2005 and the Achilles/Patroclus relationship was at the time Controversial.
Then I realized that it was published in 2005 and the Achilles/Patroclus relationship was at the time Controversial.
an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
While we are Illiad posting, a few weeks ago I read "The Song of Achilles" and was a bit confused - it's just a prose version of the Illiad?
Then I realized that it was published in 2005 and the Achilles/Patroclus relationship was at the time Controversial.
Then I realized that it was published in 2005 and the Achilles/Patroclus relationship was at the time Controversial.
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Diomedes is the greatest Greek hero, and Ares is a whiny little bitch (as proven by Diomedes).
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Diomedes is the greatest Greek hero, and Ares is a whiny little bitch (as proven by Diomedes).
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we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct
"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance""
How exciting!
How exciting!
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance""
How exciting!
How exciting!
Citation standards should no longer ask that you say the date a website was accessed - primarily because it's kind of embarrassing to have to say you looked at a website 3 days before a proposal was due.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Citation standards should no longer ask that you say the date a website was accessed - primarily because it's kind of embarrassing to have to say you looked at a website 3 days before a proposal was due.
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i advise everyone to consider that it is possible to be wrong about things
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
i advise everyone to consider that it is possible to be wrong about things
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
i increasingly get the impression that a substantial amount of posters here sincerely do not ever expect to possibly be wrong
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🚨 New research 🚨 "Interventions To Automate Medicaid Renewals Reduce Procedural Denials And Increase Coverage," published in Health Affairs from authors @pamherd.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social, me, @lukef.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social
Full paper: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
Full paper: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
Interventions To Automate Medicaid Renewals Reduce Procedural Denials And Increase Coverage | Health Affairs Journal
Burdensome Medicaid renewal processes are a known source of coverage loss among eligible people. In spring 2023, the pause in Medicaid disenrollment resulting from the COVID-19 public health emergency...
www.healthaffairs.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🚨 New research 🚨 "Interventions To Automate Medicaid Renewals Reduce Procedural Denials And Increase Coverage," published in Health Affairs from authors @pamherd.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social, me, @lukef.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social
Full paper: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
Full paper: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
Economic-Data-Analysis-Blue-Sky being awful quiet rn.
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Economic-Data-Analysis-Blue-Sky being awful quiet rn.
...and That's Good.
It’s also funny because the prequels are actually about trade deficits? Like there’s obviously the top line plot but the secondary plot is about trade
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
...and That's Good.
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@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki.
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@jwmason.bsky.social as Green New Kalecki.
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
(i think he’s right. @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions” applies to particular capitalists and the economy at large. they’d accept economic collapse and catastrophe if that’s what preserves their own capacity to control.)
Witness the birth of Meta-Stancil.
Apparently my claim that the economy is definitely getting worse is overstated! Because of my reliance on popular social media narratives I was unduly certain when the signals are more mixed
> very definitely getting worse
I don't think this is obviously true, fwiw.
Like there are lots of bad headwinds right now, but I don't know how you assess that in aggregate relative to other recent years.
I don't think this is obviously true, fwiw.
Like there are lots of bad headwinds right now, but I don't know how you assess that in aggregate relative to other recent years.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Witness the birth of Meta-Stancil.
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
The song is anti Matt violence.
somebody referenced that "Don't Speak" song which reminds me of one of the earliest moments where I clocked myself as weird. "don't speak I know just what you're saying, so please stop explaining" is essentially a horror film to me
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The song is anti Matt violence.
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SO MANY examples. Folks today basically have no conception of being lost in urban areas. If you don't know how the directions to an event or establishment, it's likely the *organizers* messed up. Not you.
Would've been laughable 20 years ago.
Would've been laughable 20 years ago.
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
SO MANY examples. Folks today basically have no conception of being lost in urban areas. If you don't know how the directions to an event or establishment, it's likely the *organizers* messed up. Not you.
Would've been laughable 20 years ago.
Would've been laughable 20 years ago.
I am a big fan of qualitative work.
But there is not some sort of rigorous qualitative work that contradicts the basic economic metrics and people should not pretend that there is.
Or if they are aware of it, maybe drop a link?
But there is not some sort of rigorous qualitative work that contradicts the basic economic metrics and people should not pretend that there is.
Or if they are aware of it, maybe drop a link?
Barring a handful of real clunkers, I do respect Stancil as a smart guy, but—and for reasons that make sense—his inability to acknowledge the mere existence of qualitative analysis and recognition of only the most narrow quant does prevent him from being a good analyst.
people can buy more stuff today than ever before, more or less. compared to more than 3-4 years ago and it’s not even close. we are vastly wealthier on average now than even within near living memory
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I am a big fan of qualitative work.
But there is not some sort of rigorous qualitative work that contradicts the basic economic metrics and people should not pretend that there is.
Or if they are aware of it, maybe drop a link?
But there is not some sort of rigorous qualitative work that contradicts the basic economic metrics and people should not pretend that there is.
Or if they are aware of it, maybe drop a link?
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this is what I want people to assert:
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
this is what I want people to assert:
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SNAP is not included in the federal poverty rate, which only considers pre-tax cash income. SNAP is included in the supplemental poverty measure.
Health insurance is not included in either. But out of pocket medical expenses are in SPM. So eventually poor/no insurance shows up in SPM indirectly.
Health insurance is not included in either. But out of pocket medical expenses are in SPM. So eventually poor/no insurance shows up in SPM indirectly.
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
SNAP is not included in the federal poverty rate, which only considers pre-tax cash income. SNAP is included in the supplemental poverty measure.
Health insurance is not included in either. But out of pocket medical expenses are in SPM. So eventually poor/no insurance shows up in SPM indirectly.
Health insurance is not included in either. But out of pocket medical expenses are in SPM. So eventually poor/no insurance shows up in SPM indirectly.
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mamdani is going to implement the law of surprise and you will pay your bus fare with that which you find at home and don’t expect
mamdani is gonna implement shandalar law. if you want to add new cards to your deck, you have to wander the map and look for random wizard duels
Mamdani gonna implement Shaaloani law. All disputes settled via shootout duels using non-lethal rounds with all the authenticity of a spaghetti western directed by Japanese anime enthusiasts.
(This is a timely Final Fantasy XIV reference)
(This is a timely Final Fantasy XIV reference)
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
mamdani is going to implement the law of surprise and you will pay your bus fare with that which you find at home and don’t expect
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What drives me absolutely insane about this debate is how claims like “there has been a generational stagnation of purchasing power” have taken on the tenor of religious faith among progressives, and seemingly cannot be disproven with any evidence, no matter how overwhelming. It simply isn’t true!
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
What drives me absolutely insane about this debate is how claims like “there has been a generational stagnation of purchasing power” have taken on the tenor of religious faith among progressives, and seemingly cannot be disproven with any evidence, no matter how overwhelming. It simply isn’t true!
All I know is that Trump never referred to the Katz Krueger replication of the Contingent Workers Survey without first checking whether the BLS had issued a new Contingent Workers Survey. #NeverForgiveNeverForget
Thinking about the many times I've seen "Obama is ignorant" or "AOC doesn't understand economics" or the like while Trump belches out a half-baked insincere proposal for a two-step version of the same ACA subsidy he's trying to eliminate.
Hey kids the Trump Healthcare
Plan just dropped!
Plan just dropped!
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
All I know is that Trump never referred to the Katz Krueger replication of the Contingent Workers Survey without first checking whether the BLS had issued a new Contingent Workers Survey. #NeverForgiveNeverForget
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The idea that having cheap, delicious Italian pasta ‘dumped’ into the country is somehow something to be avoided cuts to the root of how absurd tariffs are
The U.S. is threatening to hit Italian pasta with a punitive antidumping tariff — and one company said it would have to double its pasta prices to keep up.
Tariffs on pasta from Italy could soon soar to more than 100%
A routine Commerce Department probe into alleged “dumping” resulted in crushing 100% tariffs on Italian pasta that leave exporters shouting “Basta!”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The idea that having cheap, delicious Italian pasta ‘dumped’ into the country is somehow something to be avoided cuts to the root of how absurd tariffs are
A good way to not get people upset about the economy is not suggesting that they are going to get $5000 from dumb nonsense.
Here’s an oldie but a goodie: “DOGE rebates” 🤡
“..the proposal would distribute .. $5,000 per household for the 78 million households that pay federal income tax.”
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
“..the proposal would distribute .. $5,000 per household for the 78 million households that pay federal income tax.”
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A good way to not get people upset about the economy is not suggesting that they are going to get $5000 from dumb nonsense.
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I am *really* struggling to see how this isn't bog-standard neoclassical pricing. even in perfect competition, the firm sets prices as a markup over marginal cost. the difference is just that the markup gets driven to zero by competition.
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I am *really* struggling to see how this isn't bog-standard neoclassical pricing. even in perfect competition, the firm sets prices as a markup over marginal cost. the difference is just that the markup gets driven to zero by competition.
I don't understand the timeline. If Pan's Labyrinth came out 20 years ago, was Doug Jones a baby? A horrifying 7 foot tall baby?
Cineverse has acquired Guillermo del Toro’s ‘PAN’S LABYRINTH’ for a 20th anniversary theatrical re-release in 2026.
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I don't understand the timeline. If Pan's Labyrinth came out 20 years ago, was Doug Jones a baby? A horrifying 7 foot tall baby?
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*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people