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Scott Loring
@sloring.bsky.social
UChicago public policy PhD, experimental economist, empiricist, dad humorist, Chicago supremacist, from Humboldt County foggy mist.
Yeah but Domino's was probably the best pizza you could get delivered in the rich neighborhood too
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being an ultimate crisis,"
"Four, it's a solid four." 😂
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If Tesla octuples in value to become two times more valuable than the world's current largest company, his compensation could fund SNAP for a decade. My point is that *this is not going to happen* so he won't ever get that compensation.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It hurts me to point this out, but the 900 billion number in his pay package is in no way "his salary" and as a writer you should probably know better than to describe it as such.
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is wrong, and the former doesn't put a ceiling on value. Two other simple measures that are usually reflected in the stock price: discounted future cash flows and the value of owned assets (in case of scrapping for parts)
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
October 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I agree that tariffs are similar to a VAT in some ways. One important difference is that they necessarily result in taxes being imposed on American exports, whose proceeds we do not collect for redistribution. This is bad for American companies and bad for workers. If you want a VAT, do a VAT!
September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Mayor in socks, no less!
September 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Brother that's pretty big for a chihuahua
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Banger
September 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Banger
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Typing the question into the ChatGPT prompt window and then closing the tab as I figure out the issue
August 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It wasn't apparent to me in early 2022 quite how much of a right wing nutcase he was!
July 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Hell yeah brother this is what freedom is all about
July 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
You gotta hate harder. Greg Oden's body failed him. You gotta call him White Anthony Bennett
June 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Barrett's Privateers by Stan Rogers is Boat Purist Bad Time (though the song is told from land reflecting on the bad boat times)
June 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Does Deacon Blues by Steely Dan count?
May 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Luck! It feels awesome once you've done it for the first time.
May 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Hypocrisy is the tithe vice pays to virtue!
May 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM