Still A Disaster
@peanut-disaster.bsky.social
Walking caricature of a millennial in Bushwick; boundless font of wrong opinions
The actual problems this city has are almost never what people waste oxygen talking about on TV and YouTube.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The actual problems this city has are almost never what people waste oxygen talking about on TV and YouTube.
... Whereas if you distill things down to a far simpler, far more grizzly, and infinitely less flattering set of basic, cynical emotional units it all easily slots into place. It all makes perfect sense in moments.
The picture painted is also one which implies a fairly bleak future.
The picture painted is also one which implies a fairly bleak future.
October 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
... Whereas if you distill things down to a far simpler, far more grizzly, and infinitely less flattering set of basic, cynical emotional units it all easily slots into place. It all makes perfect sense in moments.
The picture painted is also one which implies a fairly bleak future.
The picture painted is also one which implies a fairly bleak future.
If you try and square what's happened the last several years with the story we tell about ourselves, it doesn't take long to realize that that is basically impossible. You end up in this insane, infinitely complex equation of arguments balanced like a 50-dimensional jenga tower...
October 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
If you try and square what's happened the last several years with the story we tell about ourselves, it doesn't take long to realize that that is basically impossible. You end up in this insane, infinitely complex equation of arguments balanced like a 50-dimensional jenga tower...
It's almost like we're circling around a grim truth that principles/ethics/convictions do not matter at all in our society - if they ever did to start with.
October 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's almost like we're circling around a grim truth that principles/ethics/convictions do not matter at all in our society - if they ever did to start with.
American culture is foundationally at odds with reality and we're just stuck in the shitmire until that changes.
And that's before we factor in how irreparably fucked the worldview of some 70m of us is at this point.
And that's before we factor in how irreparably fucked the worldview of some 70m of us is at this point.
June 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
American culture is foundationally at odds with reality and we're just stuck in the shitmire until that changes.
And that's before we factor in how irreparably fucked the worldview of some 70m of us is at this point.
And that's before we factor in how irreparably fucked the worldview of some 70m of us is at this point.
And even then, that's a pretty gross oversimplification of what happened in those episodes. The OPEC one in particular feels almost disingenuous to describe in those terms when the price side of things is being driven up almost regardless of what the wages are doing.
May 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
And even then, that's a pretty gross oversimplification of what happened in those episodes. The OPEC one in particular feels almost disingenuous to describe in those terms when the price side of things is being driven up almost regardless of what the wages are doing.
Actual wage-price spirals are pretty rare, and almost never driven by increases in minimum wage (as in, I struggle to think of one). Its usually some other factor driving it, like the OPEC shenanigans of the 70s or covid mangling the entire global economy in 2020-2021 for the US.
May 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Actual wage-price spirals are pretty rare, and almost never driven by increases in minimum wage (as in, I struggle to think of one). Its usually some other factor driving it, like the OPEC shenanigans of the 70s or covid mangling the entire global economy in 2020-2021 for the US.
Oh, we're also apparently ignoring savings as a possibility in this hypothetical of yours for some reason.
May 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Oh, we're also apparently ignoring savings as a possibility in this hypothetical of yours for some reason.
Gonna go out on a limb here and assume you took macro or read an econ textbook at some point but: you're implying here that somehow supply-side elasticity is 0, demand-side elasticity is functionally unlimited, and businesses have no margins at all.
Which is a goofy thing to imply.
Which is a goofy thing to imply.
May 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Gonna go out on a limb here and assume you took macro or read an econ textbook at some point but: you're implying here that somehow supply-side elasticity is 0, demand-side elasticity is functionally unlimited, and businesses have no margins at all.
Which is a goofy thing to imply.
Which is a goofy thing to imply.
I think we're about to find out how many friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues want to see us black-bagged by the government.
Here's to praying that's a way smaller number than it looks like right now.
Here's to praying that's a way smaller number than it looks like right now.
April 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I think we're about to find out how many friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues want to see us black-bagged by the government.
Here's to praying that's a way smaller number than it looks like right now.
Here's to praying that's a way smaller number than it looks like right now.
Maybe a hot take but products having sub-subtitles should be considered a marketing disaster.
March 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Maybe a hot take but products having sub-subtitles should be considered a marketing disaster.
The only people who are gonna be blindsided are the talking heads, neoclassical economists, and Wall St. Almost everyone else seems to be well aware and have been for some time.
February 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The only people who are gonna be blindsided are the talking heads, neoclassical economists, and Wall St. Almost everyone else seems to be well aware and have been for some time.