Riggs
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Bad at video games, but I play too many of them anyway (I do not play league! the banner is a lie!)
occasionally work on stuff on riggsmarkham.com
occasionally work on stuff on riggsmarkham.com
Making some wikipedia edits
October 28, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Making some wikipedia edits
Wages have kept up with inflation (in fact, they've significantly outpaced inflation). And the non-mobile game market has been growing pretty slowly in recent years.
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wages have kept up with inflation (in fact, they've significantly outpaced inflation). And the non-mobile game market has been growing pretty slowly in recent years.
This is real wage growth (aka, inflation-adjusted) from 2019-2023. The income of the lowest-wage workers grew significantly faster than inflation.
August 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is real wage growth (aka, inflation-adjusted) from 2019-2023. The income of the lowest-wage workers grew significantly faster than inflation.
Wage growth during the recovery was fastest for the poorest workers (far outpacing inflation on average). Now, this is an average, so some people's wages fell behind inflation, but most Americans' wages did not.
August 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Wage growth during the recovery was fastest for the poorest workers (far outpacing inflation on average). Now, this is an average, so some people's wages fell behind inflation, but most Americans' wages did not.
Ok, but I’m only really concerned about the comparison to violence levels in the modern day … and the linked paper just directly says that their estimates are significantly higher than violent death rates in the 21st century (even with all our war and genocide).
May 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Ok, but I’m only really concerned about the comparison to violence levels in the modern day … and the linked paper just directly says that their estimates are significantly higher than violent death rates in the 21st century (even with all our war and genocide).
Seems like literally the opposite of a trend towards protectionism.
What are we doing here? “No, no, no. This was all perfectly in line with every trend in the Republican Party. We just that we need to find a way to disprove all the very obvious ways in which it’s not.”
What are we doing here? “No, no, no. This was all perfectly in line with every trend in the Republican Party. We just that we need to find a way to disprove all the very obvious ways in which it’s not.”
April 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Seems like literally the opposite of a trend towards protectionism.
What are we doing here? “No, no, no. This was all perfectly in line with every trend in the Republican Party. We just that we need to find a way to disprove all the very obvious ways in which it’s not.”
What are we doing here? “No, no, no. This was all perfectly in line with every trend in the Republican Party. We just that we need to find a way to disprove all the very obvious ways in which it’s not.”
What? No, he’s clearly say that it’s a discontinuity *because* you couldn’t have seen it coming from previous events.
April 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
What? No, he’s clearly say that it’s a discontinuity *because* you couldn’t have seen it coming from previous events.
Didn’t know a candle could explode like that
January 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Didn’t know a candle could explode like that