Adam Singer

VP marketing @AdQuick. Philosophy/culture blogger. Music composer

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@amuse Was listening to some oil industry guy talk yesterday and he said this is the sweet spot for oil prices, which kudos to landman they said the same thing

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@TheKennyMiles @stalmico I don't do this but many politicians actively do, in fact it's frequently their primary messaging strategy

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Envy is truly the sin of our time. Instagram makes young people envious of manicured lifestyles that aren't even real. Politicians try to make you envious of successful entrepreneurs to tax them more. It's sad, because it's not even a good sin. You can't even have any fun with it

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@TheKennyMiles @stalmico Yes both are not good but envy is way worse and everywhere and a some controlled desire for personal comfort and nice things (without comparison) could be positive

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@GENIC0N give everyone a/c and peace will happen

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@stalmico

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@BRappy55 @QuanMG hell yeah !

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@Emily_Sundberg @kylascan @CNN Huge and well earned! Kyla rocks they're lucky to have her

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This week's longform idea, we're talking about how tech should live in places that love technology and see builders as partners in prosperity, not simply people to extract money from https://t.co/x1xATPRiAh

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@micsolana 💀

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@NY_LBSS Well those are very separate questions, lots of people don't want to live near large industrial facilities - in good news, most places aren't even zoned for that

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Narrative violation: most Americans have a favorable view of large technology companies. They enjoy ordering things, streaming shows, navigating to places, staying in touch. It all just works. But that isn't a story that gets clicks, so you don't hear it reported very often

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@Hiraweb3 everyone who has ever done IT support for parents or friends knows this is true

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@WillManidis @morganhousel talks about this on @sourceryy https://t.co/5N16ouIbwW

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.@morganhousel says you can't get a crazy genius like @elonmusk without a few extreme personality traits:

"This guy’s trying to go to Mars. Of course he’s not trying to remain within the box of civility. He successfully took on GM and Ford and NASA when he was like in his 30s."

"He does not think like you and I. That’s what we love about him."

"I struggle to think of someone who had ridiculous five-standard-deviation success and was also so polite and so easy to get along with."

"A lot of these people, when you dig into their life, you might really admire them and say, ‘That person is so great. I would love to be that person.’"

"But their success came at the expense of their family life, their marriage, their kids, their own mental health, their own physical health."

"Musk hinted at this a couple months ago. He said something along the lines of, ‘You might think you want to be me, but you don’t. It’s a storm inside my brain. It’s chaos.'"

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@magistercaecus @SocialistMormon Well, commodity prices are just one input. Grocery prices also reflect labor, transport, energy, packaging, retail overhead, shrink, etc. And grocery retail is still one of most competitive, lowest-margin sectors in the economy. We'd much prefer all this over soviet-style policy!

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I find the "socialism vs capitalism" discourse absurd bc 99% of people on the socialism side have not the faintest grasp of economics. They're like little children. This also applies to people in policy who likely do understand things, but pretend not to to score points w/idiots

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@magistercaecus @SocialistMormon Food doesn’t come from grocery stores, it’s a global commodity supply chain with some of the tightest competition and thinnest margins in the economy. And grocery inflation today is low single digits, not anywhere near 20% - you’re referencing the 2022 peak

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@magistercaecus @SocialistMormon And yet Austin prices continue to go down. Meanwhile grocery store margins are razor thin already and food is perfectly competitive in major US markets. Healthcare if we didn't have as many restrictions in supply on the MD and hospital side would be cheaper too. You want markets!

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@magistercaecus @SocialistMormon I have had socialists try to explain that more housing won't fix prices to me the vast majority of the time, clearly there is an education problem here somehow