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Netanyahu isn't a moderate held hostage, he and his party are indifferent to Palestinian suffering, but Ben-Gvir and Smotrich revel in it. In the past, Netanyahu was more moderate without them.
You're right about reform though, FPTP also allows extremists to get power. I'd prefer some other system.
You're right about reform though, FPTP also allows extremists to get power. I'd prefer some other system.
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Netanyahu isn't a moderate held hostage, he and his party are indifferent to Palestinian suffering, but Ben-Gvir and Smotrich revel in it. In the past, Netanyahu was more moderate without them.
You're right about reform though, FPTP also allows extremists to get power. I'd prefer some other system.
You're right about reform though, FPTP also allows extremists to get power. I'd prefer some other system.
PR doesn't necessarily encourage moderation. Look at Israel where Netanyahu's coalition relies on extreme right wingers to hold a majority, and thus gets pushed around by them.
This is my main problem with PR (despite the issues of FPTP). It can lead to unpopular extremists running the country.
This is my main problem with PR (despite the issues of FPTP). It can lead to unpopular extremists running the country.
December 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
PR doesn't necessarily encourage moderation. Look at Israel where Netanyahu's coalition relies on extreme right wingers to hold a majority, and thus gets pushed around by them.
This is my main problem with PR (despite the issues of FPTP). It can lead to unpopular extremists running the country.
This is my main problem with PR (despite the issues of FPTP). It can lead to unpopular extremists running the country.
I empathize 🫂
Still appreciate your content bud
Still appreciate your content bud
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I empathize 🫂
Still appreciate your content bud
Still appreciate your content bud
Right, but private companies with natural monopolies in important sectors can often rely on the government to use back-to-work legislation if the strike becomes disruptive.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Right, but private companies with natural monopolies in important sectors can often rely on the government to use back-to-work legislation if the strike becomes disruptive.
Another vid another banger, keep it up king 👑
September 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Another vid another banger, keep it up king 👑
My favourite variant of this is 80% of "Nils, Discipline Enforcer" decks having "Promise of Loyalty".
It has a 77% synergy score, so people are going out of their way to play an overcosted board clear that does the same thing as their commander!
It has a 77% synergy score, so people are going out of their way to play an overcosted board clear that does the same thing as their commander!
August 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
My favourite variant of this is 80% of "Nils, Discipline Enforcer" decks having "Promise of Loyalty".
It has a 77% synergy score, so people are going out of their way to play an overcosted board clear that does the same thing as their commander!
It has a 77% synergy score, so people are going out of their way to play an overcosted board clear that does the same thing as their commander!
I like how he had to add "consumer-driven" to "we don't have consumer-driven Buy American stop buying Canada", because he realized partway through the sentence that the US president *is* pushing people to buy American and stop buying Canadian (by taxing Canadian goods).
August 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I like how he had to add "consumer-driven" to "we don't have consumer-driven Buy American stop buying Canada", because he realized partway through the sentence that the US president *is* pushing people to buy American and stop buying Canadian (by taxing Canadian goods).
Fortunately Canada's industrial carbon tax is still in place, and if I recall correctly it has a greater impact than the consumer carbon tax.
August 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Fortunately Canada's industrial carbon tax is still in place, and if I recall correctly it has a greater impact than the consumer carbon tax.
Oh, I totally missed that! Thanks for the tip!
July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Oh, I totally missed that! Thanks for the tip!
Or at least it'd be nice to opt out of follow notifications.
July 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Or at least it'd be nice to opt out of follow notifications.
I was skeptical, but you were right about the bonus panel!
July 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I was skeptical, but you were right about the bonus panel!
AI has a lot of problems right now, but it's the worst it'll ever be.
Remember how everyone laughed at AI images for not being able to properly draw hands, and a year later that problem had been 95% solved? I worry that in 10 years, most current AI tells will also be gone.
Remember how everyone laughed at AI images for not being able to properly draw hands, and a year later that problem had been 95% solved? I worry that in 10 years, most current AI tells will also be gone.
June 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
AI has a lot of problems right now, but it's the worst it'll ever be.
Remember how everyone laughed at AI images for not being able to properly draw hands, and a year later that problem had been 95% solved? I worry that in 10 years, most current AI tells will also be gone.
Remember how everyone laughed at AI images for not being able to properly draw hands, and a year later that problem had been 95% solved? I worry that in 10 years, most current AI tells will also be gone.
Why is that? Are they too expensive compared to buying from other countries?
June 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Why is that? Are they too expensive compared to buying from other countries?
This isn't even to say that Israel has been making the right decision, just that the whole "we can't do anything lest we make them want to do the thing they're already doing with 110% conviction and show no signs of stopping" framework isn't helpful.
June 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This isn't even to say that Israel has been making the right decision, just that the whole "we can't do anything lest we make them want to do the thing they're already doing with 110% conviction and show no signs of stopping" framework isn't helpful.
Iran was already pursuing the bomb, openly, for decades, while having virtually every incentive to do so.
At some point the conversation has to move beyond "it'll make them do bad things" and into "they have decided to do bad things, the only question left is whether they'll be able to do so".
At some point the conversation has to move beyond "it'll make them do bad things" and into "they have decided to do bad things, the only question left is whether they'll be able to do so".
June 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Iran was already pursuing the bomb, openly, for decades, while having virtually every incentive to do so.
At some point the conversation has to move beyond "it'll make them do bad things" and into "they have decided to do bad things, the only question left is whether they'll be able to do so".
At some point the conversation has to move beyond "it'll make them do bad things" and into "they have decided to do bad things, the only question left is whether they'll be able to do so".
Interesting idea, but it seems like it'll have the Mastadon problem of "making people put a small amount of thought for something they're used to not taking any thought".
How many people really want to join a payment network where you could accept money that turns out to be worthless?
How many people really want to join a payment network where you could accept money that turns out to be worthless?
June 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Interesting idea, but it seems like it'll have the Mastadon problem of "making people put a small amount of thought for something they're used to not taking any thought".
How many people really want to join a payment network where you could accept money that turns out to be worthless?
How many people really want to join a payment network where you could accept money that turns out to be worthless?
Great vid. People being edgy online by advocating for complete car bans without a model of how that would work are just pushing reasonable people away from better urbanism.
June 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Great vid. People being edgy online by advocating for complete car bans without a model of how that would work are just pushing reasonable people away from better urbanism.
Notice that they talk about it being a gift to the US government... Not mentioning that it'll be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library for his personal use after he leaves office.
It's not a gift to the US, it's a gift to Trump.
It's not a gift to the US, it's a gift to Trump.
May 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Notice that they talk about it being a gift to the US government... Not mentioning that it'll be transferred to the Trump Presidential Library for his personal use after he leaves office.
It's not a gift to the US, it's a gift to Trump.
It's not a gift to the US, it's a gift to Trump.
Nah, lots of normal white people are going to pick up that every race other than white is capitalized.
Going out of your way to do that is weird, and validates Republican talking points that Dems hate white people.
Just because some racists don't like it doesn't mean the normal people will.
Going out of your way to do that is weird, and validates Republican talking points that Dems hate white people.
Just because some racists don't like it doesn't mean the normal people will.
April 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Nah, lots of normal white people are going to pick up that every race other than white is capitalized.
Going out of your way to do that is weird, and validates Republican talking points that Dems hate white people.
Just because some racists don't like it doesn't mean the normal people will.
Going out of your way to do that is weird, and validates Republican talking points that Dems hate white people.
Just because some racists don't like it doesn't mean the normal people will.
There's much more to the loneliness epidemic than men trying to copy Andrew Tate and those kinds of folks.
I'm not saying that behaviour doesn't contribute to it, but there's a lot more structural stuff going on as well (loss of third places, dating app dynamics sucking for everyone, etc).
I'm not saying that behaviour doesn't contribute to it, but there's a lot more structural stuff going on as well (loss of third places, dating app dynamics sucking for everyone, etc).
April 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
There's much more to the loneliness epidemic than men trying to copy Andrew Tate and those kinds of folks.
I'm not saying that behaviour doesn't contribute to it, but there's a lot more structural stuff going on as well (loss of third places, dating app dynamics sucking for everyone, etc).
I'm not saying that behaviour doesn't contribute to it, but there's a lot more structural stuff going on as well (loss of third places, dating app dynamics sucking for everyone, etc).
I agree with the headline, but I think the article should've mentioned social media and dating sites as part of the technology causing the divide.
April 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I agree with the headline, but I think the article should've mentioned social media and dating sites as part of the technology causing the divide.
Yeah, I'd be shocked if removing trade barriers had anything close to the effect of the tariffs.
My evidence is that if it were the other way around, economists wouldn't be projecting a recession when both leading candidates are saying they'd remove the barriers.
My evidence is that if it were the other way around, economists wouldn't be projecting a recession when both leading candidates are saying they'd remove the barriers.
April 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Yeah, I'd be shocked if removing trade barriers had anything close to the effect of the tariffs.
My evidence is that if it were the other way around, economists wouldn't be projecting a recession when both leading candidates are saying they'd remove the barriers.
My evidence is that if it were the other way around, economists wouldn't be projecting a recession when both leading candidates are saying they'd remove the barriers.
For those (like me) who had trouble finding the link this early: www.reuters.com/world/us/ven...
US Supreme Court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan migrants
The U.S. Supreme Court early on Saturday paused the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody after their lawyers claimed they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices.
www.reuters.com
April 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM
For those (like me) who had trouble finding the link this early: www.reuters.com/world/us/ven...
At least they're pivoting to a good position rather than doubling down on a bad one.
April 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
At least they're pivoting to a good position rather than doubling down on a bad one.
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."