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changing my password to a nonce and logging off

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Scandinavia's income equality is not driven by redistribution, generous leave policies, or cognitive equality within the country.

It's driven by collective bargaining shrinking the returns to skill and education.

Look at the resulting pre-tax wage variance:

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@levelsio How much is AI and how much was Elon pointing out much of the staff doesn't add value day to day

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@johnarnold So are bailouts good, bad, or is the difference overstated?

Were there contagion effects from Enron we could have avoided, or did Enron illustrate that we have robust bankruptcy systems that can unwind contagion and there is short term pain but it's all fine in 3-5 years?

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@mattyglesias Indomitable meritocratic pragmatism

It's terrifying that this can exist it just proves we aren't trying hard enough

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@stork_sculpture @atlanticesque the post you're replying to said people drinking mocktails should be tried and killed so it is stuff like that mostly

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@atlanticesque peer pressure to make adults take mind numbing substances feels like a sci fi horror trope

I'm ready to join the other side of the civil war over this

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@JustSteebin @atlanticesque some people I know drink, some don't. the ones who need everybody else to drink to make them feel ok are all alcoholics.

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some people communicate expertise through nuance, demonstrating they've considered all the possible counters

others communicate it through hyperbole, emphasizing their certainty

these are mutually unintelligible dialects

most policy SMEs speak the first one, current admin speaks the second

hilarity ensues

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@theramblingfool True story

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@theramblingfool I'm a tariff skeptic but I'm on board if POTUS makes a principled humanitarian stand and says we won't buy any textiles until we can send inspectors to xinjiang

There lots of ways he could have done this

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@RuxandraTeslo There's a good line in there about how furious his wife was

Both perspectives seem reasonable

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@migueldeicaza You're waiting for Godot?

is this a bit

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@AndrewYang As long as people think this does their job they have nothing to worry about

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Paint is easy cutting is hard

the eval is trimming cuticles without blood

[Chris Koerner @mhp_guy]

I'm sorry but this has gotta be a cash cow. What starts in Dubai always finds its way to America.

It's a robot manicure machine. This one is at an airport.

The nail salon in the same airport is $55. This machine? $17.

Gimme 14 of them right now.

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@Devon_Eriksen_ According to books and movies the way this ritual starts is with an argument, usually a lot of sarcasm and signs of disinterest

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@KelseyTuoc have we tried mocking their peers

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

A lot of countries basically are caught in a trap from which there is no escape.

1) They have a lot of old people. They need healthcare, pensions, etc. This is *incredibly* expensive.
2) More old people means less tax money, more tax burden on the increasingly few working people and families.
3) You either a) sacrifice all other public services to keep the old person money pipe flowing, b) cut benefits to old people, or c) increase immigration.
4) You get voted out because all of these are immensely unpopular.

You can try to increase productivity or growth... by this is hard, and many of the ways it can be done (like deregulation, building liberalization, and capital investment) are also expensive and politically unpopular.

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@touchgrass_ron He did someone a dangerous favor and was paid in beef and prefers it is never mentioned again.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Director of the Port of Los Angeles.

Spending 2 minutes listening to what the people on the front lines are screaming.