Old Man in the Woods
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Doing my best Dick Proenneke
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Anyway, block, ignore, talk football.
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Anyway, block, ignore, talk football.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social moves to PBS when
September 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social moves to PBS when
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Colbert & Kimmel should do their shows on PBS. They could shore up funding & support for Public Broadcasting in one fell swoop.
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Colbert & Kimmel should do their shows on PBS. They could shore up funding & support for Public Broadcasting in one fell swoop.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social watching you now. Kimmel didn't say the shooter was MAGA, important distinction:
“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"
“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social watching you now. Kimmel didn't say the shooter was MAGA, important distinction:
“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"
“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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I think I miss when antitrust review was used to prevent corporate consolidation instead of herding companies into forming a homogenous reactionary content blob.
September 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I think I miss when antitrust review was used to prevent corporate consolidation instead of herding companies into forming a homogenous reactionary content blob.
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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
September 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
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I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Political violence has no place in our country.
Once again faced with the classic ethical thought experiment: If you could go back and kill MechaHitler as a baby chatbot, would you do it?
July 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Once again faced with the classic ethical thought experiment: If you could go back and kill MechaHitler as a baby chatbot, would you do it?
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SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles?
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
June 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles?
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
RFK JR: No
SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them
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@smith.senate.gov thank you for pushing back against Sen Mike Lee’s ghoulish posts about the assassination of a MN Representative and her husband.
June 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
@smith.senate.gov thank you for pushing back against Sen Mike Lee’s ghoulish posts about the assassination of a MN Representative and her husband.
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The Dems really, really, *really* need to make Miller the face of the administration, the way Musk was until recently. He’s hugely unlikeable and has the potential to create major drag if he is out front and center.
"The [GOP] bill contains the resources [Miller] needs to replay Los Angeles over and over and over again. If it doesn’t pass, he’ll lose his fix, like a junky whose stash gets flushed down a toilet."
@brianbeutler.bsky.social tells Rs who's bidding they're doing
www.offmessage.net/p/the-greedy...
@brianbeutler.bsky.social tells Rs who's bidding they're doing
www.offmessage.net/p/the-greedy...
The Greedy Hubris Of A Repulsive Creep
More Americans—and elected Republicans—should know what’s up with this psycho.
www.offmessage.net
June 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The Dems really, really, *really* need to make Miller the face of the administration, the way Musk was until recently. He’s hugely unlikeable and has the potential to create major drag if he is out front and center.
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A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
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the thing thing about the admonition to “not take the bait” is that while it makes sense in the context of an election — where you are trying to communicate a narrow set of ideas broadly — it does not make sense in the context of “how do we make this president as unpopular as possible”
May 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
the thing thing about the admonition to “not take the bait” is that while it makes sense in the context of an election — where you are trying to communicate a narrow set of ideas broadly — it does not make sense in the context of “how do we make this president as unpopular as possible”
BREAKING: Vatican announces sweeping new tariffs on US goods to offset massive American Pope trade deficit
May 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: Vatican announces sweeping new tariffs on US goods to offset massive American Pope trade deficit
Hassett / Bessent / Lutnick: Feigning competence and gaslighting with a smile
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Hassett / Bessent / Lutnick: Feigning competence and gaslighting with a smile
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Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
April 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.
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The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
everybody's skeeting about futures on a sunday night. hopefully all the negative red numbers mean america is wealthy again
April 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
everybody's skeeting about futures on a sunday night. hopefully all the negative red numbers mean america is wealthy again
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guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
i went to the pit for y'all and brought back the screenshots with alt text
i went to the pit for y'all and brought back the screenshots with alt text
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What would be an easy way to calculate the tariffs that should be imposed on other countries so that the US is on even-playing fields when it comes to trade deficit? Set minimum at 10%.
Reasoned about trade tariffs and deficits for 10 seconds v
A straightforward (if naïve) method is to set the tariff rate for each trading partner equal to the percentage share of the trade deficit relative to that country's total imports-always no less than 10%. In formula form:
Tariff Rate (%) = max(10, (Trade Deficit ÷ Total Imports) *
100)
For example, if the US runs a $20 billion deficit on $100 billion worth of imports from a country, the calculated rate is (20/100)×100 = 20%. If the deficit were only 5%, you'd still impose a 10% floor.
This method ignores the intricate dynamics of international trade-such as elasticities, retaliatory measures, and supply chain nuances-but it provides a blunt, proportional rule to "level the playing field." One might implement it in Python like so:
[code]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyz5zf463ic52vqbonyu2ebu/bafkreigbalqxjorllnpelbwe5kcla5fdedxvgv3cicxdsrbdxarodif5ba@jpeg)
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the deficit. The deficit as a percentage of total trade is
$295B/$582B = 50.69%. Using the formula Tariff% = 10% +
(Deficit% × Scaling Factor), we choose a scaling factor of 50 for illustration:
• Tariff = 10% + (50.69% × 50) = 10% + 25.345% = 35.345%, rounded to 35.3%.
This means a 35.3% tariff on Chinese goods could be proposed to offset the imbalance, aiming to reduce imports and encourage domestic production or exports.
Extending to Other Countries
To provide a broader view, here's a table of top US trading partners with 2024 deficits, using data from The Motley Fool and similar calculations (assuming scaling factor of 50 for consistency):
[data table headings]
Country
Deficit
(USD
Billion)
Total
Trade
(USD
Billion)
Deficit %
Calculate d Tariff %
China
-295
582
50.69%
35.3%
Mexico
-172
840
20.48%
20.2%
Vietnam
-123
(Data incomplet e, estimate)
~30%
25.0%
Ireland
-87
(Data incomplet e, estimate)
~25%
22.5%
Germany
-85
(Data incomplete estimate)
~20%
20.0%](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyz5zf463ic52vqbonyu2ebu/bafkreietqlxsi5akdrvtp2rwqpc6kt6g6bbb2dppqcfn2j4q7xkofn4f4y@jpeg)
April 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?
i went to the pit for y'all and brought back the screenshots with alt text
i went to the pit for y'all and brought back the screenshots with alt text