Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited)

But you better remember:
If it's something I want then it's something I need;
I wasn't built for comfort I was built for speed!

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

Thesis Accountability Thread: I'm going to post every time I make significant progress on some portion of the work. Expect near-daily additions so I have a standard to meet.

[Chicago New Liberals @ChicagoNewLibs]

It's very convenient for everyone in the YIMBY-sphere that the candidate that is pro-upholding democracy and freedom across the globe is also pro-cutting red tape for housing development

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

The US numbers for subway construction costs are just out of this world 🤯

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

We should just merge already. Get it over with.

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

@CrimeaArchivist ...recession stretches the term to the point of meaninglessness. Arguing we're in a bubble is more defensible, but keeping rates high has let some problematic sectors correct without forcing the whole economy to contract. Remaining supply-chain issues don't seem recession-worthy.

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

I didn't think there would be a recession. Like all the other times I was right, nobody will update on it.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

I feel like people forgot about how certain everyone was there'd be a major recession in 2022/2023. Like the news and even like banks were talking about WHEN it would happen, not if

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

@CrimeaArchivist ...rates have experienced contraction, but you have to look at the full economy, not just one particular sector. Overall, employment and labor force participation have been very good. Wage growth has been strong in the lower quintiles. Calling the last couple of years a...

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

@CrimeaArchivist That's not what the word recession means.

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

Great, now I need to take the boys to the Menil or something just to spite this person.

[megan @chismosavirus]

u can always tell when a man is dating someone new. why you going to aquarium and griffith observatory

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

@CrimeaArchivist If you're gonna do that then the vector needs a different symbol than the components. $\vec{x} = <x_1, x_2, x_3>$ is fine but $\vec{x} = <x, y, z>$ is just begging to trip up the reader.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Looking forward to seeing the American "I should lead a life of leisure with infinite DoorDash" socialists slug it out with the European "everyone should be a peasant washing clothes by hand all day" socialists

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

@CrimeaArchivist There's a reason I'm so aggressive about defining every single symbol I use.

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

Decolonizing the Levant was a mistake. British rule would almost certainly be better than the status quo.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

My hot take is that Hezbollah, Hamas, and the current Israeli government are all bad and wholeheartedly supporting one of them basically requires you to make excuses for blatantly evil acts

[Tyke @PunishedTyke]

The idea that artists shouldn’t write outside of their own identities leads to fiction that’s insular to the point of worthlessness

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

Having a platform page is a major step up from the 2020 campaign site, which didn't have one!

[Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers]

Weird that the Trump-Vance website doesn't have basic stuff like "candidate biographies".

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

Why would I rage against the machine, a glorious engine of prosperity, innovation, equality, and opportunity that has since its creation improved the lives of billions of people at an ever increasing rate?

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

Legibility was the other thing I meant to mention. When people's boundaries are illegible and only discovered in violation, it's very understandable if the violators become upset. Your intuitions are not universal; they really may not have realized they were doing anything wrong.

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

The generalized way I've been thinking about this sort of thing:

You can choose to enforce whatever personal boundaries or preferences you want for yourself. You can't enforce other people's emotional *reactions* to those boundaries/preferences.

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

This goes double if the boundaries look capricious or hypocritical, and goes triple if they actually are.

[Nathaniel's Thoughts (14/20 chapters edited) @nerdstar42]

Campaigning on this might just help more than it hurts. Normie voters aren't all that enamored with unions and probably think "teamster" is a rapper.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Kamala Harris becomes the first Democratic presidential candidate since Michael Dukakis in 1988 to fail to secure the Teamsters' endorsement.