Jonathan Mehtala

I got the ways and means
To New Orleans
I'm going down by the river
Where it's warm and green
I'm gonna have drink
And walk around
I got a lot to think about

[Jonathan Mehtala @JonMehtala]

@AezzieUwU Getting rid of regulations will quickly lead to: "I'll pay you $2.85 an hour to dump these chemicals in the river"

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@steveonomics Yeah but whats the point if your entire germ line for the next 300 years can't buy hoodies and go on hikes?

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@nickroberts317 Boston to NYC in 36 hours!

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@jackcalifano Wealthy people like to take selfies at cultural events and that drives up prices.

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@memeticsisyphus If the deli line is backing up through the front door and blocking pedestrians at a nearby cross walk that have nothing to do with the store, then yes, people queuing in the line should adopt a more efficient use of space.

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@Grimezsz aaand its gone.

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@UnklExpy @HistoryBoomer If the house was bought in 2000 for $125,000 and sold in 2026 for $500,000, then its value grew at 5.5% a year. Above inflation, but not that much, and also not considering any work or maintenance done on the house.

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@flameosumeet Soccer is the type of thing you win free tickets for, and debate in your head if you really want to go.

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@Adrianmonk49 @PaulSkallas Japan is our future, growing mega cities like Tokyo, while overall population declines and homes in rural areas are abandoned.

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@0xpatterns Surely there is a middle ground. Make sandwiches for lunch M-Th, and go out to lunch on Friday.

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@TheAuthorGuy I've seen two explanations: 1) Tax AI to fund UBI, or 2) Job loss won't matter because AI/robots will be so productive it creates hyper-deflation and the cost of all imaginable goods and services fall to the cost of energy, which is also hyper-abundant.

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@sarcasticmommy4 It means: "I'm calling it, we're done here"

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@CarlsCurls @HistoryBoomer I think Unions happen when the relationship between Labor, Capital, and Consumers becomes out of balance. Artificial labor shortages benefit the workers, but weaken the consumers and capital owners.

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@HistoryBoomer One example, lay off thousands of American workers, and then 2 months later hire thousands of immigrant workers via H1B visas.

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@HistoryBoomer To earnestly answer, I think the wealth becomes "unearned" if they exploit their workers, suppress wages, punish stores that form unions, or bribe politicians via the lobby system. These things happen when their market is saturated, but they still need to grow.

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@MrDanielBuck Seriously... pencil, paper, chalk, blackboards, and dry erase boards for the fancy classes. Instead of giving students Chromebooks open to the internet, they can have large sized kindles that cannot connect to the internet and are preloaded with every textbook & story they need.

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@walterkirn You can literally see the parachute at 1:10.

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@MercuriusFilius You lost $100. Your value add is knowing when to buy and sell. If you held and sold the original $900 purchase at $1600 you'd realize $700 profit, $100 more than buying/selling too early.

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@jimmysoldout Kids. SALT for tax deductions. Paid off mortgage in retirement vs paying market rate rents. Roots in a town with many other home owners is pre-condition for high trust society, vs town of transient students and renters.

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@teodorio Somebody should invent RAM and/or hard drives so that Claude can remember more than 3 days of chat history.