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My landlord: "hey, here's a 50% reduction in your rent."
Me, a very smart person: "no thanks, I want a 99% reduction or else I pay full rent."
Me, a very smart person: "no thanks, I want a 99% reduction or else I pay full rent."
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My landlord: "hey, here's a 50% reduction in your rent."
Me, a very smart person: "no thanks, I want a 99% reduction or else I pay full rent."
Me, a very smart person: "no thanks, I want a 99% reduction or else I pay full rent."
Yes, it's especially true if by "GOP base" you mean capitalist oligarchs.
The people spoke in an election, but then the capitalists pulled their strings and their puppets danced.
The people spoke in an election, but then the capitalists pulled their strings and their puppets danced.
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Yes, it's especially true if by "GOP base" you mean capitalist oligarchs.
The people spoke in an election, but then the capitalists pulled their strings and their puppets danced.
The people spoke in an election, but then the capitalists pulled their strings and their puppets danced.
Just checking in --- are electricity prices really what people are worried about re: inflation? These numbers would suggest not. Perhaps what's really needed in order to gauge people's concerns is asking people?
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Just checking in --- are electricity prices really what people are worried about re: inflation? These numbers would suggest not. Perhaps what's really needed in order to gauge people's concerns is asking people?
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Exactly. One representative per 100,000 persons, decreased by one representative for every 20,000 citizens over 18 disenfranchised, say (giving force to the 14th Amendment).
(And disenfranchisement should be determined entirely by votes counted in an election versus citizens residing in the State.)
(And disenfranchisement should be determined entirely by votes counted in an election versus citizens residing in the State.)
October 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Exactly. One representative per 100,000 persons, decreased by one representative for every 20,000 citizens over 18 disenfranchised, say (giving force to the 14th Amendment).
(And disenfranchisement should be determined entirely by votes counted in an election versus citizens residing in the State.)
(And disenfranchisement should be determined entirely by votes counted in an election versus citizens residing in the State.)
Okay, then focus on both.
Masks provide (weaker) protection against a wide range of illnesses, while vaccination provides (stronger) protection against particular diseases.
They achieve different goals, and one shouldn't be viewed as a replacement for the other.
Masks provide (weaker) protection against a wide range of illnesses, while vaccination provides (stronger) protection against particular diseases.
They achieve different goals, and one shouldn't be viewed as a replacement for the other.
October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Okay, then focus on both.
Masks provide (weaker) protection against a wide range of illnesses, while vaccination provides (stronger) protection against particular diseases.
They achieve different goals, and one shouldn't be viewed as a replacement for the other.
Masks provide (weaker) protection against a wide range of illnesses, while vaccination provides (stronger) protection against particular diseases.
They achieve different goals, and one shouldn't be viewed as a replacement for the other.
Except it's not just a rational assessment of the threat environment (which, for many healthy people in many social situations is small), it's also a rational assessment of the costs of mitigation (which, for mask-wearing, are orders of magnitude less than the risks).
But maybe I'm missing a cost?
But maybe I'm missing a cost?
October 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Except it's not just a rational assessment of the threat environment (which, for many healthy people in many social situations is small), it's also a rational assessment of the costs of mitigation (which, for mask-wearing, are orders of magnitude less than the risks).
But maybe I'm missing a cost?
But maybe I'm missing a cost?
Well then I'll invoke eugenics instead.
As in, your ideal of a society with little to no place in public life for the infirm is a eugenicists view.
As in, your ideal of a society with little to no place in public life for the infirm is a eugenicists view.
October 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Well then I'll invoke eugenics instead.
As in, your ideal of a society with little to no place in public life for the infirm is a eugenicists view.
As in, your ideal of a society with little to no place in public life for the infirm is a eugenicists view.
(*over, not instead of)
October 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
(*over, not instead of)
"Access journalism" strikes again. The administration gifted them something to cover instead of the protests. They obliged.
October 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Access journalism" strikes again. The administration gifted them something to cover instead of the protests. They obliged.
Except that's not how bureaucratic inertia works.
A little leaven leavens the whole lot. One bad apple spoils the barrel.
A little leaven leavens the whole lot. One bad apple spoils the barrel.
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Except that's not how bureaucratic inertia works.
A little leaven leavens the whole lot. One bad apple spoils the barrel.
A little leaven leavens the whole lot. One bad apple spoils the barrel.
And I don't argue with anyone who *will.*
One bad apple spoils the whole lot, and if you can't see it, then the spoilage has begun to set in for you, and it's already too late.
One bad apple spoils the whole lot, and if you can't see it, then the spoilage has begun to set in for you, and it's already too late.
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
And I don't argue with anyone who *will.*
One bad apple spoils the whole lot, and if you can't see it, then the spoilage has begun to set in for you, and it's already too late.
One bad apple spoils the whole lot, and if you can't see it, then the spoilage has begun to set in for you, and it's already too late.
Wow, you lost an argument to somebody who doesn't understand either graph. Embarrassing for you.
October 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Wow, you lost an argument to somebody who doesn't understand either graph. Embarrassing for you.
And if that's your best critique of my point, then I thank you for conceding the argument.
October 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
And if that's your best critique of my point, then I thank you for conceding the argument.
So, what, the Federalist Society only became an organized concerted effort at domestic fascism on January 20, 2017, and not a moment before?
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
So, what, the Federalist Society only became an organized concerted effort at domestic fascism on January 20, 2017, and not a moment before?
Or are you making assumptions (vibing) as to how people will position this one piece of data (electricity costs rising 2 years ago during a global pandemic) within the full array of economic and policy information?
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Or are you making assumptions (vibing) as to how people will position this one piece of data (electricity costs rising 2 years ago during a global pandemic) within the full array of economic and policy information?
Then please, make the connection for me.
You've got data on electricity prices (as presented by a right-wing propaganda outlet), and you are *claiming* that people have a specific reaction to electricity prices which impacts their views on the electrification project.
So post the polls.
You've got data on electricity prices (as presented by a right-wing propaganda outlet), and you are *claiming* that people have a specific reaction to electricity prices which impacts their views on the electrification project.
So post the polls.
September 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Then please, make the connection for me.
You've got data on electricity prices (as presented by a right-wing propaganda outlet), and you are *claiming* that people have a specific reaction to electricity prices which impacts their views on the electrification project.
So post the polls.
You've got data on electricity prices (as presented by a right-wing propaganda outlet), and you are *claiming* that people have a specific reaction to electricity prices which impacts their views on the electrification project.
So post the polls.
You can also see the rapid increase abated, and the normal rate of increase has resumed, all while barely shifting the long-term trend.
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
You can also see the rapid increase abated, and the normal rate of increase has resumed, all while barely shifting the long-term trend.
There is no point on the graph where prices are stable for as long as the period immediately preceding the 2020 price increase, which the FP graph not only fails to point out, but FP is intentionally trying to trick people into believing flat prices are normal.
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There is no point on the graph where prices are stable for as long as the period immediately preceding the 2020 price increase, which the FP graph not only fails to point out, but FP is intentionally trying to trick people into believing flat prices are normal.
As long as we're going off of vibes, though, hgow often do you hear somebody complain about electricity prices versus gas prices? I live on the opposite side of the country and I hear about heating oil prices in the Northeast almost every winter.
Surely we need to get rid of fossil fuels.
Surely we need to get rid of fossil fuels.
September 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
As long as we're going off of vibes, though, hgow often do you hear somebody complain about electricity prices versus gas prices? I live on the opposite side of the country and I hear about heating oil prices in the Northeast almost every winter.
Surely we need to get rid of fossil fuels.
Surely we need to get rid of fossil fuels.
If your concern is public sentiment, then the data yout want is public polling, not economic data.
And you certainly shouldn't be going around uncritically reposting deceptive graphs.
And you certainly shouldn't be going around uncritically reposting deceptive graphs.
September 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If your concern is public sentiment, then the data yout want is public polling, not economic data.
And you certainly shouldn't be going around uncritically reposting deceptive graphs.
And you certainly shouldn't be going around uncritically reposting deceptive graphs.
Moreover, electricity prices are *not* rising particularly fast, when you don't cherry pick the data.
I only see evidence for one criticism of the electrification message in your thread, and it's that bad actors will weaponize the facts of the situation to their own ends.
I only see evidence for one criticism of the electrification message in your thread, and it's that bad actors will weaponize the facts of the situation to their own ends.
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Moreover, electricity prices are *not* rising particularly fast, when you don't cherry pick the data.
I only see evidence for one criticism of the electrification message in your thread, and it's that bad actors will weaponize the facts of the situation to their own ends.
I only see evidence for one criticism of the electrification message in your thread, and it's that bad actors will weaponize the facts of the situation to their own ends.
The so what: so it's intentionally deceptive information being provided by the FP. In other words, your point 1 overlaps significantly with your point 2 (weaponized information).
Also all prices rose quickly during that 2 year period, not just electricity prices. Here's non-energy and food spiking:
Also all prices rose quickly during that 2 year period, not just electricity prices. Here's non-energy and food spiking:
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The so what: so it's intentionally deceptive information being provided by the FP. In other words, your point 1 overlaps significantly with your point 2 (weaponized information).
Also all prices rose quickly during that 2 year period, not just electricity prices. Here's non-energy and food spiking:
Also all prices rose quickly during that 2 year period, not just electricity prices. Here's non-energy and food spiking: