Elan Fuld

Data/econ nerd. Snark enthusiast. Cat (and human) Dad. 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦

[Elan Fuld @EconElan]

@Noahpinion Claude This is the Story of a Girl 4 High Effort

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@RadioFreeTom More of a slightly less fire

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@jarvis_best What a Prattfall

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@yhdistyminen They're just pulling UChicago econ lecture notes and find-replacing "market" with "the Jews"

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@ArmandDoma @KAErdmann I seem to remember us trying the "relax mortgage rules" thing in the 2000s. Those rules are there for a reason

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@Microinteracti1 @lannywarwick2 High marginal rates like that are pretty harmful... And unnecessary: it's average rates that pay the bills. Just removing tax loopholes so billionaires actually pay the stated rate would be enough without the downsides

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@keithdorejel @Tyler_A_Harper People are individually responding to the same financial and enrollment pressures. Many land on a similar response. When others see that this strategy seems to be working they adopt it to because they too want to keep enough students to keep having resources. Not complicated

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@wwwojtekk Piketty going after inequality like the joker

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@bankertobuilder @the_transit_guy It's easier to take the subway then drive in Manhattan and large parts of Brooklyn. Most people don't have cars anyway

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USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Elan Fuld @EconElan]

@katienotopoulos @MikeIsaac They'll still be Disney adults. It'll be Disney Offworld.

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@RaminNasibov Was it just like Frodo mercifully sparing gollum but with the opposite result

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@CatoInstitute I must have missed the school house rock about how the postmaster general can unilaterally change election law

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@Ed_of_O @EsotericCD @NateSilver538 When I voted by mail in 2020 I'm pretty sure that mail in ballot was machine readable. If ct can do it so can CA

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@Noahpinion This was inevitable as the female % of college grads rose further and further above 50%

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@RichardHanania Gayer than playing the village people at political rallies?

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@RichardHanania They couldn't stop at woke. They had to make the even more incongruent claim that Harleys are gay

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@EsotericCD @NateSilver538 It's just bizarre. Other mostly vote by mail states that allow some late arriving ballots are so much faster. Like what are they even doing and why can't they simply copy whatever the others are doing

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@Brien_Jackson And all before any GOP oppo research drops. They clearly won't have trouble finding dirt

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@CartoonsHateHer @EmmaVitz They didn't have access to many kinds of food so if they were like I'll only eat these two things that I'm really familiar with... Well that's all that was on offer anyway