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Is this thing on?
The idea that “if you don’t invest or spend you are losing spending power” would still exist; but it makes it so that the default is that wages stay constant wrt purchasing power instead of the default being that they decrease.
February 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The idea that “if you don’t invest or spend you are losing spending power” would still exist; but it makes it so that the default is that wages stay constant wrt purchasing power instead of the default being that they decrease.
I think this is like a pretty big thing, and I don’t know if this would help but if you had by law that employers had to increase salaries by inflation each year by default, i.e. stuck wages to inflation that this would help wage workers but idk if this is actually how you make inflation way worse.
February 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I think this is like a pretty big thing, and I don’t know if this would help but if you had by law that employers had to increase salaries by inflation each year by default, i.e. stuck wages to inflation that this would help wage workers but idk if this is actually how you make inflation way worse.
Worshipping the tech and finance industries is seen as purely pragmatic and questioning these industries is seen as quixotically leftist.
February 10, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Worshipping the tech and finance industries is seen as purely pragmatic and questioning these industries is seen as quixotically leftist.
Antreefa has finally come to Minneapolis’ aid
January 22, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Antreefa has finally come to Minneapolis’ aid
Florida is actually quite dense (measured by living density) has great weather and is very flat. Would be a transit and bike paradise but is just a collection of stroads.
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Florida is actually quite dense (measured by living density) has great weather and is very flat. Would be a transit and bike paradise but is just a collection of stroads.
Jeez this headline sucks, the amount of PR work the NYT does for Trump is disgusting. This isn’t a high school personality clash, it’s an authoritarian power grab.
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Jeez this headline sucks, the amount of PR work the NYT does for Trump is disgusting. This isn’t a high school personality clash, it’s an authoritarian power grab.
I feel this so much oof
January 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I feel this so much oof
I was on a train that went through DC mid morning. I still have a “2020” Trump bill that one of the J6ers have me while waiting for the train that morning.
January 6, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I was on a train that went through DC mid morning. I still have a “2020” Trump bill that one of the J6ers have me while waiting for the train that morning.
I think being sweaty and damp in the winter is just so awful that I’d rather wear shorts and be a bit too cold than a sweater or heavy pants and be too sweaty.
January 4, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I think being sweaty and damp in the winter is just so awful that I’d rather wear shorts and be a bit too cold than a sweater or heavy pants and be too sweaty.
the venn diagram of “people who care about rule of law” and “people who supported Trump up to Jan 2, 2026” is just two separate circles
January 4, 2026 at 7:22 PM
the venn diagram of “people who care about rule of law” and “people who supported Trump up to Jan 2, 2026” is just two separate circles
When you actually poll people on how many kids they would have if money/job was not an issue they often say significantly more than they plan to or than the population avg. I feel like any welfare scheme employed by countries is both inadequate and doesn’t address the stigma of parental leave.
December 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When you actually poll people on how many kids they would have if money/job was not an issue they often say significantly more than they plan to or than the population avg. I feel like any welfare scheme employed by countries is both inadequate and doesn’t address the stigma of parental leave.
As a dumb American afraid to pronounce Laugengebäck I’m resigning to welcome all of these under the pretzel tent
December 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
As a dumb American afraid to pronounce Laugengebäck I’m resigning to welcome all of these under the pretzel tent
But if it’s a pretzel shape is it always a pretzel? Or is the shape and the Lye important?
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
But if it’s a pretzel shape is it always a pretzel? Or is the shape and the Lye important?
I feel like this is just the full jubilee-ification of mainstream media. The actual truth value doesn’t matter, it’s just about publishing a spectacle of debate to move the Overton window and generate clicks.
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I feel like this is just the full jubilee-ification of mainstream media. The actual truth value doesn’t matter, it’s just about publishing a spectacle of debate to move the Overton window and generate clicks.
Apparently blink is now 24/7 so maybe nature is healing slowly.
December 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Apparently blink is now 24/7 so maybe nature is healing slowly.
The idea that because Shapiro is popular in PA, he would somehow magically also help Harris in states where he isn’t governor is so obviously flawed. Like this is not just confusing correlation with causation, it’s confusing obviously idiosyncratic causation with correlation.
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The idea that because Shapiro is popular in PA, he would somehow magically also help Harris in states where he isn’t governor is so obviously flawed. Like this is not just confusing correlation with causation, it’s confusing obviously idiosyncratic causation with correlation.
In 2008, 20% of all senate seats up for election went to Democrats in states that voted AGAINST Obama. Rural voters became more conservative, but conservative voters also stopped voting for Democrats which seems pretty unrelated to the recent fecklessness of D senators.
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In 2008, 20% of all senate seats up for election went to Democrats in states that voted AGAINST Obama. Rural voters became more conservative, but conservative voters also stopped voting for Democrats which seems pretty unrelated to the recent fecklessness of D senators.
Iiuc the polarization was just a very slow to realize effect of the southern strategy and ideological party sorting and started well before Obama. It would have been nice to have a new political realignment post 2008 to undo and prevent this trend but Obama didn’t cause this, just failed to stop it
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Iiuc the polarization was just a very slow to realize effect of the southern strategy and ideological party sorting and started well before Obama. It would have been nice to have a new political realignment post 2008 to undo and prevent this trend but Obama didn’t cause this, just failed to stop it
Well also just the senate became way more ideologically polarized. Like democrats/the left lost ground in rural America for sure but a lot of this was just that rural conservative voters stopped voting for (conservative) democrats for the senate as politics became more national.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Well also just the senate became way more ideologically polarized. Like democrats/the left lost ground in rural America for sure but a lot of this was just that rural conservative voters stopped voting for (conservative) democrats for the senate as politics became more national.
Looking district by district this gerrymander looks fairly defensive imo. I think the districts that are most likely to move a lot are also the districts with the smallest margins (mainly in the RGV). I think it’s fairly likely it won’t fully work, but I don’t see it backfiring totally.
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Looking district by district this gerrymander looks fairly defensive imo. I think the districts that are most likely to move a lot are also the districts with the smallest margins (mainly in the RGV). I think it’s fairly likely it won’t fully work, but I don’t see it backfiring totally.
It’s telling that there’s been no discussion of kids who can’t get disability accomodations or those that are shamed into not using them by this idea that it’s “cheating” (as I was). The only reasonable explanation for this bias in coverage is if you don’t believe in disability accomodations period.
December 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It’s telling that there’s been no discussion of kids who can’t get disability accomodations or those that are shamed into not using them by this idea that it’s “cheating” (as I was). The only reasonable explanation for this bias in coverage is if you don’t believe in disability accomodations period.
Even if this doesn’t happen, it seems crazy to say that Osse leaving city council is worse than Jeffries staying in house leadership.
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Even if this doesn’t happen, it seems crazy to say that Osse leaving city council is worse than Jeffries staying in house leadership.