Mike Potter
@wthr-mike.bsky.social
Emmy award-winning Indianapolis journalist. Dad, husband and unrepentant nerd. Opinions are my own, especially the sports ones.
It would help if we acknowledged the structural limitations as they've become more clear. I'm not surprised the people trying to keep the bubble going are doing so, just annoyed they aren't getting called on the merits (just on the debt).
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
It would help if we acknowledged the structural limitations as they've become more clear. I'm not surprised the people trying to keep the bubble going are doing so, just annoyed they aren't getting called on the merits (just on the debt).
They are starting the entire legislative session early, in theory, to force the Senate to deal with this. www.wthr.com/article/news...
Indiana House move legislative session, will meet on redistricting on Dec. 1
The entire 2026 Legislative Session is moving up by a month to start in December instead of January.
www.wthr.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
They are starting the entire legislative session early, in theory, to force the Senate to deal with this. www.wthr.com/article/news...
Bro was wilding out.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Bro was wilding out.
I'm more sympathetic than most to technocratic attempts to develop policy. But when the majority of people say something is broken, pointing at a chart and telling them they are wrong has rarely aged well.
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm more sympathetic than most to technocratic attempts to develop policy. But when the majority of people say something is broken, pointing at a chart and telling them they are wrong has rarely aged well.
That the economy, and housing in particular, is fine actually. This is built on a foundation of "people normally pay 30% of their income towards housing so the fact they are still paying that after housing costs increased twice as fast income is fine."
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
That the economy, and housing in particular, is fine actually. This is built on a foundation of "people normally pay 30% of their income towards housing so the fact they are still paying that after housing costs increased twice as fast income is fine."
Will Stancil has been doing this for like... a week.
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Will Stancil has been doing this for like... a week.
I feel like I'd be a lot more excited about LLMs if they weren't being compared to the invention of "fire" or "the wheel" or even "the computer" in terms of importance.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I feel like I'd be a lot more excited about LLMs if they weren't being compared to the invention of "fire" or "the wheel" or even "the computer" in terms of importance.
I'm trying to agree with your original post, not argue with it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm trying to agree with your original post, not argue with it.
I didn't mention Russia once? The example I used were the Celts. And I didn't say genocide was okay at all, just that it's the foundational crime of every large nation state. That doesn't excuse doing it before or doing it now. It's a statement of fact.
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I didn't mention Russia once? The example I used were the Celts. And I didn't say genocide was okay at all, just that it's the foundational crime of every large nation state. That doesn't excuse doing it before or doing it now. It's a statement of fact.
Who is there to forgive? Every country larger than Luxembourg is a product of genocide. I don't think the fact it was common makes it okay or means we shouldn't grapple with its repercussions or moral stain. It's more that, like in most things, the US isn't as exceptional as people think.
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Who is there to forgive? Every country larger than Luxembourg is a product of genocide. I don't think the fact it was common makes it okay or means we shouldn't grapple with its repercussions or moral stain. It's more that, like in most things, the US isn't as exceptional as people think.
Every large nation-state got large by wiping out/assimilating other nations. This does not excuse the genocide, it's just a fact. Any large map of history that showed a large area as one culture was just racism - ie: "Celts" were not a monolith anymore than "Europeans" are today.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Every large nation-state got large by wiping out/assimilating other nations. This does not excuse the genocide, it's just a fact. Any large map of history that showed a large area as one culture was just racism - ie: "Celts" were not a monolith anymore than "Europeans" are today.
He also deftly avoids TLJ drama. Well played.
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
He also deftly avoids TLJ drama. Well played.
Personally, I would put Solo above Force Awakens.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Personally, I would put Solo above Force Awakens.
At very least, he ranked the worst one appropriately.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
At very least, he ranked the worst one appropriately.
"Jensen Huang is an innovator, in the sense that he is changing the meaning of words in real-time."
Literal lol.
Literal lol.
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Jensen Huang is an innovator, in the sense that he is changing the meaning of words in real-time."
Literal lol.
Literal lol.
It's just like we don't understand how compound interest works. Which is troubling for a company borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to build extremely specialized data centers full of rapidly depreciating chips that use cities' worths of power and water!
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It's just like we don't understand how compound interest works. Which is troubling for a company borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to build extremely specialized data centers full of rapidly depreciating chips that use cities' worths of power and water!
Also different wage classes experience very different wage growth. The top 20% never lost ground. The second quintile had recovered by the mid-nineties. The 3rd and 4th by the late nineties. The bottom quintile didn't make up the lost ground until like 2017.
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Also different wage classes experience very different wage growth. The top 20% never lost ground. The second quintile had recovered by the mid-nineties. The 3rd and 4th by the late nineties. The bottom quintile didn't make up the lost ground until like 2017.
Children are such a blessing. I was getting leaves out of the yard and asked my 8 year old to clear them off of the storm drain in our back yard (it has a big cast iron grate, there was no water, calm down). Anyway he raked the leaves back into the yard then screamed when I asked why.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Children are such a blessing. I was getting leaves out of the yard and asked my 8 year old to clear them off of the storm drain in our back yard (it has a big cast iron grate, there was no water, calm down). Anyway he raked the leaves back into the yard then screamed when I asked why.
Lots of volatility but wages lost a bunch in the Reagan years and didn't fully recover until the 20-teens and then took off like a rocket post COVID. That increase was a big part of what many critics didn't like about the Biden era.
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Lots of volatility but wages lost a bunch in the Reagan years and didn't fully recover until the 20-teens and then took off like a rocket post COVID. That increase was a big part of what many critics didn't like about the Biden era.
I'm planning a jig for my Kia Soul to let me haul plywood.
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I'm planning a jig for my Kia Soul to let me haul plywood.
Does it leverage the power of AI to deliver transformative results?
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Does it leverage the power of AI to deliver transformative results?
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It's very similar! Housing is a homothetic good and people spend a constant share of income on it, across income categories.
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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