Jeff

Catholic Coder. Fin-tech. Plant-based. Urbanist. Distributist. Pro-life. Woodworking. Check my wife’s shop, Pieta Paperie ✉️💒✝️

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I win again!

Newly-released Swedish data shows that the rise in autism between 2001 and 2020 was...

ENTIRELY attributable to an increase in cases WITHOUT intellectual disability—less severe cases than used to be the norm!

The autism epidemic is not real: we just diagnose more.

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No. In fact, it could make things a whole lot worse.

Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Preventing companies from building data centers in America wouldn't slow down the rate of progress in AI. It would merely slow down the rate of progress in AI in America.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The idea that we need absolute deference to mass opinion on technical questions of utility regulation but no compromise with the electorate on “who plays on the girls volleyball team?” is a really perverse way of thinking about politics.

[Jeff @Jefftopia_]

@DKThomp Allbirds became an AI company, Nike did not.
Now everyone is wearing AI shoes.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

Sigh.
1) Higher prices when demand spikes also imply lower prices when demand slows.
2) Preventing price fluctuations guarantees shortages and gluts.
3) Don't like a price spike? Compete and offer the ice cream for $1 less in summer.
4) Markets are smarter than regulators.

[Antoine Levy @LevyAntoine]

Elizabeth Warren comes out strongly against happy hour

[Jeff @Jefftopia_]

@BlakeSNeff Usually debates like this have a cross examination. Not sure why that breaks her mind.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

People when a data center is built miles from their home and reduces their taxes:

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

It’s rich hearing Tucker Carlson call Ben Shapiro a “nepo baby.” Tucker grew up in a family worth hundreds of millions. Ben grew up in a 1,100-square-foot home.

Every accusation is a confession.

[Jeff @Jefftopia_]

@ChrisCuomo I wonder how it got that way? 👀

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

Robespierre looking down at the basket of heads: "the reign of terror was crazzzzzy"

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You can be pro-meritocracy or anti-immigration, but you can't be both.

[Jeff @Jefftopia_]

This is what illiteracy looks like.
Kids, stay in school.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Childhood poverty rates

🇺🇸 21.1%
🇬🇧 15.8%
🇮🇹 14.5%
🇨🇦 14.0%
🇱🇺 13.5%
🇵🇹 12.5%
🇬🇷 12.3%
🇫🇷 12.0%
🇦🇹 9.8%
🇩🇪 9.1%
🇨🇭 9.1%
🇨🇿 8.8%
🇰🇷 8.5%
🇸🇪 8.4%
🇳🇱 8.4%
🇧🇪 7.9%
🇳🇴 6.9%
🇮🇪 6.8%
🇫🇮 4.6%

We must end the outrage that in the richest country in the history of the world, more than 1 in 5 children live in poverty.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Bernie is making a critical error:

He's using the OECD's measure of relative poverty, which is the proportion of children living in households with incomes below 50% of the national median

In other words, an inequality measure, not a poverty measure

Here's a real QoL measure:

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹���� @Noahpinion]

Liberals need to stop saying

"Maybe don't talk about how Thanksgiving is evil until after the election is over"

and start saying

"Thanksgiving does not celebrate genocide, and anyone who says it does is full of crap"

[Jeff @Jefftopia_]

@Cernovich Evidence?

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

–Frugality is a virtue

–It's possible to eat nutritious food on almost any budget

–Price inflation since COVID is a problem, and the Iran War adds pressure

–Inflation is driven by monetary, fiscal, and geopolitical policy

–It's good for voters to demand better policy

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Tucker Carlson preaches that debt is slavery, that lending at interest is the sin of usury, and that a society organized around debt "enslaves people."

He then reads an ad for a mortgage lender and personally endorses it: "We recommend American Financing. They're called America's home for home loans for a reason."

[JimmyB @jimbutlr]

Ross Douthat spends 30 min of his podcast letting his guest build their case, even steel manning them

Then 30 min in, he tries to suppress a gleeful smile and says, "I have so many questions."

And proceeds to ask a flurry of devastating questions that dismantles their world view

This leaves the guest in a state of aporia, stunned, at a loss

And then he swoops in to gently offer the tender bosom of the Catholic Church, whose intellectual tradition is the salve for their wounds

Perfection. A modern day Socrates.