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@pt @rsg The kind of person who studies liberal arts and then gets a job as a software engineer is very likely to be very bright. Has nothing to do with their major

@paulg “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.”

@vgr Everybody says this and yet everybody chose to use Venmo. Watch what people do and not what they say. We all clearly get some satisfaction out of the Venmo social feed

@waif0000 @baseadaprincesa Wrong answer

@mayaallison They don’t

@webdevMason @ne0liberal Enormous amount of dick measuring going on via suburban horticulture

@ohgoddickie sick

@coherentstates Name the names :)

@AOC You missed the entire point

@ne0liberal @neoliberaI Harberger taxes for twitter handles pogchamp

@JP8andCoke @AOC They’re being coy and sarcastic. There legitimately are armed militias involved and the republicans are downplaying it with a picture of random protesters. AOC has no idea what’s going on, and in classic AOC style, decided to speak up anyway and make the situation worse

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” https://x.com/ABC/status/1142918901895958535

@Noahpinion No but I’m sure you’ve entertained the idea that you’re a superman inconvenienced by your own shortcomings that are somehow both separate from your “true nature” but also consequential enough to keep you down

@Noahpinion How does it feel being well adjusted :)

@ne0liberal Negative alpha, though

@johniadarola Where is the cutoff you idiot

@jenny_schuetz Yes it is

@Astropartigirl Since Hubble constant is increasing, isn’t big rip already confirmed?

@Astropartigirl Here’s an astrophysics professor saying it does change: https://qr.ae/TWt8z5 Other sources agree that the “Hubble Parameter” is a function of time. My point is only that, seeing the universe is expanding at an *increasing* rate, isn’t the Big Rip pretty much confirmed?

@NickMeier21 @jenny_schuetz Zoning is a regulation; in an effort to make towns look exactly the way the landowners want, they’ve added tons of expensive rules regarding how you can build in ways that have nothing to do with affordability or safety

@NickMeier21 @jenny_schuetz Including height limits, maximum floor space to lotsize ratios, minimum backyard and setback sizes, etc etc. I don’t exactly have any hope that the trump admin knows how to solve this, but I like what I’m hearing so far

@NickMeier21 @jenny_schuetz I’d rather be tentatively hopeful than write it off immediately https://www.curbed.com/2019/6/25/18746417/trump-local-zoning-yimby-nimby-council-ben-carson

@Noahpinion @ne0liberal The Snow Crash future is here

@conorduffy_7 Almost 100% sure this chart reflects how commonly each drug is used. Otherwise alcohol would not be the most dangerous. Legalizing any of them will heighten their “harm units”

@MetroNorthRider @Noahpinion Usually, most of them don’t make it past 10

@rebirthdilemma It’s just the Rei Theme yo; nothing new

@NeoLibBen The left YIMBY position is basically untenable — juicing demand with subsidies does nothing except raise the rents in a housing constrained market

@RampCapitalLLC Tfw your global currency swings from being worth $1 of itself to $1 of itself

@trepur349 @RampCapitalLLC Yes and it swings like that because nobody in their right mind uses btc as an actual currency. It’s more like buying an extremely weird volatile asset class. There is no true currency whose real world purchasing power can swing 13% in a day

@trepur349 @RampCapitalLLC Will the price of the groceries in your cart change by the time you get to the register? If, and when, crypto coins are used as actual currency the purchasing power will stabilize the exchange rates

@trepur349 @RampCapitalLLC Those examples of hyperinflation are due to massive increases in money supply, so real world purchasing power tumbles. But the supply of bitcoin is very stable

@trepur349 @RampCapitalLLC Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think traditional crypto is going anywhere fast. I just don’t see this as a good criticism. IMO the chicken and egg problem of needing real world usage to staunch volatility and volatility preventing real world usage is insurmountable

@Noahpinion Chaos is a ladder

@cyantist He’s the only one that’s exciting at all

@tomassidenfaden @anniefryman Insanely high skill Godwins Law usage, I’m in awe

@Iluvatar_9 @ne0liberal Bernie had this messianic fervor. He didn’t get very far. Nearly every candidate has a contingent of diehards somewhere, so it hardly matters

@icsllaf There are no hipster coffee shops in Detroit

@conorduffy_7 He's got a STEM background and a Silicon Valley humanitarian/utilitarian vibe. This makes him immediately more trustworthy to a whole set of people

@Noahpinion @ne0liberal :(

@jessesingal @RespectableLaw @MrAndyNgo That journalists shouldn’t get assaulted is obvious; it’s also clear Ngo was fishing for this outcome.

@aceofclubbs @jessesingal @RespectableLaw @MrAndyNgo I don't think you really even understand why "she was asking for it" is fucked up if you're comparing it to this. The reason that logic is a vile lie is because NO rape survivor has ever "asked for it". Ngo WANTED this outcome. Ideology & sidepicking has warped your reasoning

@jessesingal you failed the ideological Turing test

@AnimeCommulist @AleLau18 @absolute__unit @unibrownies @tsundere_asuka Not attracted to her ... but masturbates over her body? And repeatedly says in EoE that he wanted to be with her? Nah; he's just a coward

@bradfordcross This is what the Bay Area “wants to be”. The free market evolution of this economic zone is into a booming metropolis. The “lowest energy state”. Bay Megacity. And since organic market chaos beats restrictive regulation in the long term, I’m sure it’ll end up there eventually.

@MikeSeldenFF It’s been an a great week to be an Eva fan

@sarthakgh FB marketplace has disrupted Craigslist

@causalinf Evangelion

@mattyglesias @tylercowen Smh Luddite

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@sethdmichaels @Noahpinion I don’t get why library advocates have an instinctual bad reaction to user choice Having a national library of ebooks is not an attack on local libraries

@Noahpinion Every reply is an instinctual negative reaction to expanding user choice. Competition in public services is good, not bad

@ne0liberal Catch me with that FORTY SQFT https://www.visualcapitalist.com/kowloon-walled-city/

@LandUseStan Noam Chomsky

@NickMeier21 Because water is for peasants

@theother_95 I’d wager every single political group has a set of purity tests and “no true Scotsman” type navel gazing Don’t think centrists are special in this, or even that many centrists actually identify as “centrists”

@NeerajKA completely worse than wired charging

@facebook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf2tz7_-2NI

@Noahpinion Why do you feel free-marketers are aligned with regulatory capture? Seems very click baitey

@smotus Incredibles 2, Finding Dory

@jackcurran49 If seasons 5-8 had carried the same narrative punch as 1-4 there would be an actual competition. As it stands breaking bad >>>>>>

@yunggwailou @WhatIf4267 @Noahpinion Say more?

@yunggwailou @WhatIf4267 @Noahpinion There’s a reason why historians might be systematically biased against geologic determinism. It devalues their field

@yunggwailou @WhatIf4267 @Noahpinion Can you link me a good rebuttal of some kind? Genuinely curious

@juliagalef Dont understand the footing of this question. What is the moral difference btween publishing one and making one? It’s inevitable that *everybody* will have the power to make one; so why stress over the difference between everyone making one independently vs one publishing

We out here trying to be patriotic while keeping it ironic

@Aella_Girl They did, it’s called being black or brown

@abhworthington @mirandayaver You say that like this fact alone makes volunteerism unworthy; it doesn’t

@LandUseStan this is very myopic? you have a steady income, a college education, and (probably?) no crazy liabilities in your life. $12,000 a year won't change your life because it's not a lot on the margin, but it can be for many folks

@LandUseStan and the point of handing it out to everybody has always been about eliminating disincentives to work that other welfare schemes suffer from.

@LandUseStan and if your point is only that the NIT is better, NIT and UBI are equivalent redistribution schemes after adjusting the tax brackets/deductions

@s8mb says the fucking Yeats avatar

@ScottKacsmar all of these suck my ass it's The Crown

@clamchowdery @ScottKacsmar It had to be done

@DavidAnalyst @cxcope Physically impossible

@ElliottRHams @ProperOpinion @nytimes @tedcruz Imagine invoking the fucking 1st amendment anytime someone doesn’t like what you’re saying

@webdevMason Pls answer the mystery of the shark

@shane_bauer You are an idiot

@MarginalScribbl “There are so many ways of being violent. Some are more fatal than physical violence” lmaooooo

@Drew_Turner1 Lit

@Trillburne you heard it here first folks. Feeling cold can make you sick, and the germ theory of disease is over

@Scientific_Bird This is just wrong; scientists are very fungible. If there were huge gains to be made by switching to some field, they would do it. This explains the preponderance of physics majors switching to machine learning for example

@Scientific_Bird In some ways sociology is harder than physics

@Noahpinion @BennSteil Are there better, more precise policy levers for solving this issue? For example strengthening collective bargaining? It seems to me minimum wage figures are picked completely arbitrarily (why $15?)

@neogeoist @Noahpinion @BennSteil This is a start, but having a uniform area wide minimum wage seems bad. Shouldn’t the minimum wage in construction be higher than the minimum wage in fast food for example? Countries like Sweden set no minimum wage at all, and allow collective sector wide union bargaining

Average Tulsi Gabbard voter

@Bosefina when a company dies, no one is actually killed. doesn't seem violent to me. destruction is necessary for creation

@micsolana The IPCC report pretty much says any stable future requires massive carbon capture projects. More important to think about carbon “debt” than carbon “deficit”

@LandUseStan People who have enough time to shitpost online constantly for no apparent reward are probably well off enough to not screw you over 😅

@webdevMason Ego maintenance creates value

@paulg @Austen @jaynecn Doesn’t mean much. McDonald’s rejects 95% of applicants https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-12/getting-job-mcdonalds-harder-getting-accepted-ivy-league

@rebirthdilemma There’s blood in nearly every episode ... in ep 1 Shinji gets Rei’s blood on his hands resulting in that iconic shot. Most of the Eva fights are not bloodless

@webdevMason This is something a ten x engineer would do

@goodbyecomputer Kawoshin is not canon

@paulkrugman This is trash

@Noahpinion This is exactly wrong — debates are all style and no substance Not a single person changes their minds bc of them

@JackFIetch Fuck u pal. Here for the ratio

@ne0liberal Unironically this Increases supply whereas the subsidies would only juice demand. If these are the only two options, the car park is better

@Hades2132 @micsolana What do you thing regime change means?

@Noahpinion If college is a signaling good, then increasing the supply ruins its value

Luv 2 take up the ancient art of trepanation to ward off the evil AI spirits, https://x.com/bbgoriginals/status/1151345055870803968

@arikfr @amix3k Paid in equity

@ne0liberal anthropology surprises me

@yunggwailou @ne0liberal True. Tbh I assumed anthro would overlap with evo psych types

@calebwatney Imo San Fran will gobble up the surrounding valley

@webdevMason I don’t understand why the tech giants aren’t better lobbyists

@ChrisW23599296 Go fuck yourself pal. Here for the ratio

@ChrisW23599296 Catch me e-scootering to work w a backpack when I’m 35

@nickarner SpaceX

@ArtirKel Very much needed

@gregeganSF The first C compiler was written in B

@HenryKraemer bill gates has done exactly this

@karlbykarlsmith Tbh that’s a very unforgiving reading of this; the replacement rate problem is faced by all developed countries

Quoting Einstein almost always means quoting some dude on the internet who superimposed some words on an image of Einstein https://x.com/marwilliamson/status/1153666502488469510

I’m here fam where everybody at

@benshapiro Bro u just posted Cringe

@marathiMaharaja What if I’m in the middle of a crowded place and beating people up? Wouldn’t the cops come and violate my bodily autonomy with prejudice — perhaps tackle me, and throw me in jail. How is mandatory vax different? I used to agree with you on this but have recently changed my mind

@marathiMaharaja I don’t think the distinction is so clear. Ex: child services will throw you in jail and take your kid if you let them come to harm by inaction (not feeding them) You could also argue a refusal to get vaccinated is an active decision

@marathiMaharaja It seems like measles is reaching epidemic levels already in some areas

@marathiMaharaja I sympathize with the anarcho-primitivist mindset, but there are many things that were invented in the last few hundred years that we now take to be absolutely necessary for life — even your belief in the value of bodily autonomy. Human rights are a super recent development

@marathiMaharaja Along with public schooling, democracy, belief in common humanity, science etc You say physical violence and child rearing predate this era, but so does the ancient tragedy of half of our children dying for mysterious reasons. Nature dealt us a bad hand

@marathiMaharaja I’m confident that the primitive man, if offered a potion that saves his children from near certain death would covet it — it’s not just the dying that is natural, but our desire for change too

@marathiMaharaja The only reason modern humans become anti vax is because they’ve forgotten what the jaws of death look like — it’s hard to worry about things one has never observed. I see it as the government’s job to remind them be it with financial disincentives, or force

@RKSlaughterFTC What exactly was “the harm that flowed”? Every time someone tries to pin down what exactly CA accomplished it gets more witchcraftey and unscientific. As far as I can tell there is no evidence of damage at all

@AlanMCole Neolib twitter understands 😚

Anybody trying to revolutionize education like @LambdaSchool eventually has to come to terms with the “4 year party” selling point of college and do even better

@taotetek @DuaneOBrien Shit that people who aren’t at all observing tech twitter say

@taotetek @DuaneOBrien Tech Twitter is 99% politics 1% implementation details

@zck @TheReaderapp unroll hehe

😌 https://x.com/CNBC/status/1154410225463676930

@Scientific_Bird Are there size meta variables that perform better in regressions? Like surface area or something

Any ideology that begins and ends with “it is emotional labor to teach you about my ideology” is a dishonest one and designed mainly for clout chasing

@401_k_ If the manager is <30 and in software, chances are near certain

@ne0liberal Facebook Derangement Syndrome out in full force

@Twitter @girlwithatail @Twitter maybe when YOU peak-a-boo

@profunc I don’t get your account dawg. Where the hell is Chemung County

Authoritarian doggo

@sairasameerarao Ratioooooo

@jessesingal Bringing philosophy back to its Greco-Roman roots — owning ur political opponents

@devonzuegel Spotlight

@benshapiro Thirstiest twitter account

dumb (stupid} https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1156588093367083009

@dylanmatt @moskov @juliagalef @TomChivers This argument seems irrelevant and illiberal. Why devote any resources to building yachts or curing epilepsy? Neither are stopping infant mortality. We allocate resources according to revealed preferences

@dylanmatt @TomChivers @juliagalef This argument holds that being incorrect is a fundamental quality that’s unchangeable— why? Famous scientists disprove their own work later in life all the time

@dylanmatt @TomChivers @juliagalef Would also wager that children being quicker to learn and more receptive to new ideas is a biological phenomenon that can be replicated in adults

@dylanmatt @moskov @juliagalef @TomChivers The @paulkrugman “evergarchs” argument also completely misses the point. Whether or not Zuck lives forever doesn’t matter — Facebook will eventually die, and along with it, his power and wealth

@MatthewFacciani @juliagalef @dylanmatt Cell phones were once toys for the rich. Now they’re ubiquitous. Every service and product starts it’s lifecycle as something only available to the Uber rich

@BrentlyLee @juliagalef @dylanmatt You really think you’ll have seen everything interesting there is to see in one human lifetime? That this arbitrary length is the cutoff past which there can be no more novelty?

@BrentlyLee @juliagalef @dylanmatt Let me defer you to Lion King: “From the day we arrive on this planet And blinking, step into the sun There's more to see than can ever be seen More to do than can ever be done”

@BrentlyLee @juliagalef @dylanmatt If you get that bored, you can end it. Not like biological immortality means the laws of physics don’t apply to you. Personally, I’m sure you’d continue to find stuff to be amazed about

@BrentlyLee @juliagalef @dylanmatt This is a fair critique in that it’s unclear what we mean when we say we value “human life”. But through the lens of liberalism: it is better to give people choice than for there to be no choice. And I think most would choose much longer life than 100 years

@BrentlyLee @juliagalef @dylanmatt “Death is so terribly final, whereas life is full of possibilities.”

@MechRabelaisMk2 @rebirthdilemma Was it Shinji ready to go apeshit or unit 01?

@BrentlyLee @juliagalef @dylanmatt Imo — people are very good at figuring out what makes them happy over time. So that’s where my reasoning departs

@BrentlyLee @juliagalef @dylanmatt @ESYudkowsky Familiar with the rationalist community but will look further into the life extension stuff

@hankgreen Very good incentive realignment. As long as you add these stipulations up front (maximum payout, minimum salary for eligibility) the opportunity for taking advantage of students is low

@hankgreen It's even better than a free university IMO - when things are free, they are consumed beyond efficiency. Do we really all need to go to college? After 4 years, I will reap the associated signalling benefits, but I'm not certain at all that it was worth the time

@ForexLive Easiest thing to explain ever — restrictive Zoning regulations have made it near impossible to build on already developed land and we have mostly run out of viable land

@clairlemon You absolutely can lmao. You've clearly never done statistics research

@clairlemon Whatever the opposite of Gell-Mann amnesia is, it's hitting me hard. I hope nobody else at @Quillette has such an absolutely terrible understanding of statistics. Predictive utility of diagnostic tests is ENTIRELY UNDERPINNED by mathematical theory. I need an advil

@clairlemon @Quillette How is this tweet still up?

@Noahpinion Unionize rideshare!

@Noahpinion Can't outsource getting around town to Mexico

@Noahpinion @CathyReisenwitz Human obsolescence is a fallacy. Even in a future where robots are better than humans at everything, there are compute and manufacturing costs. If robots are better than humans at tasks A and B, but vastly better at A, then humans should do B. Ricardo!

@NickPinkston @Noahpinion @CathyReisenwitz Businesses that automate aren't "dying companies". This logic -> PE should recapitalize underefficient nondying companies

@NickPinkston @Noahpinion @CathyReisenwitz Yeah my point is that if you believe the market will successfully reallocate jobs lost from automation (at non dying firms) the same should apply to when PE recapitalizes a non dying company. The same point as yours, unless I missed something

@Noahpinion Respecting expertise is a zero gain enterprise. All profits come from disbelieving experts

@ne0liberal @CharlesFLehman In fact, this is better

@MaxGhenis @Noahpinion More automation doesn’t necessarily mean technological advance, also. It’s just a butter vs guns trade off

@ScronkfinkleAi @MaxGhenis @Noahpinion Noah’s been on some shit lately

@calebwatney This is very wrong — Google pioneered behavioral ad targeting, and no serious argument can be made that the core Facebook product offers no value to society, not to mention the tremendous output in science and software

@calebwatney When google maps “sells” your location data to restaurants absolutely no one complains because it doesn’t compete with traditional media

@HenryKraemer Very bad take. Like leftists who disparage liberals more than they do republicans. Tenants suffer from market intervention — you’re all on the same side

@HenryKraemer It is time to re-evaluate Euclid and make it impossible to do aesthetics (rather than safety/accessibility) focused market intervention via zoning. Insofar I’m for free market housing. Why’s that wrong?

@hiHelloHans How exactly are you gonna blame the gig economy for this and not the criminal governance of San Francisco? This seems almost politically motivated in how poorly you’ve placed the blame. Do you think taxi drivers with medallions would fare any better?

@hiHelloHans The city criminally underproduces housing & therefore bathrooms.

The @MikeGravel teens are the real life Locke and Demosthenes except less successful

@paulkrugman You’re right we say tankie now

@ImHardcory This is an appealing opinion to liberals especially that sounds smart but is pretty flawed. It’s premised on the idea that everyone understands the unassailable truths and has the same moral axioms, and that the rest is a technocratic debate. This is rarely true

@Khalifist I know it’s you @HITmonHusain

@JohnDelaney What makes you think any of these people have a history of hate crimes? These aren’t exactly career criminals — one and done. What makes you think insurance companies can successfully predict who will commit a mass shooting? This would solve absolutely nothing

@ne0liberal This seems very stupid, actually. What makes you think mass shooters would have a criminal history? What makes you think an insurance company can predict who’ll become a mass shooter? Is “subscribed to pewdiepie” gonna feature in their models?

@ne0liberal If you want fewer guns in the world, tax the hell out of all of them so that only well off hobbyists are left — or ban them outright. forget about insurance products

@tehoriman @ne0liberal It helps the disaster victims, sure. But the moral framework is all wrong. If my house burns in a gas fire, it‘s a sad accident and I’ll get an insurance payout. But if many people were willingly starting fires, our policy goal would first and foremost be “stop the arsonists!”

@NicoleBarbaro @Scientific_Bird @R__INDEX Physics is relatively simple. Simple != easy Having more causal chains to deal with makes a subject more complex and more difficult to study mathematically

@Austen Einstein enjoyed the attention but downplayed it 🙂

@itsaphel @Austen No doubt, but there is something to be said about fawning adoration and being viewed by the public as a changeless god. Einstein became the first science communicator celebrity. He was a natural with the crowds. Important to not to forget that side of him

@aldatweets Wrong on all counts

@IBJIYONGI Why does it matter? Why must the moon remain a sterile rock?

@LLW902 Ditto tech people when the company’s handing out hoodies or smthng

shut up NERD https://x.com/scottjshapiro/status/1158589099487453185

@conorduffy_7 When will we realize the Friedman dream of replacing the Fed with a computer program 🤕

@theother_95 Lots of evidence that we evolved intelligence due to needing a better theory of mind to navigate ever larger social networks. If true, most of our “general intelligence” is probably spent doing a very specialized task: guessing other people’s motives (incl. the sky and earth)

@theother_95 Even now I’m anthropomorphizing evolution to reason about it — more accurately, the random walk of natural selection seems to have favored people with better social reasoning

@CathyReisenwitz @BlackCatSociet1 Programmer = factory worker 🙂

delete your account https://x.com/FreeBeacon/status/1158762707501441024

@conorduffy_7 Tfw you hate the global poor

@JohnCarltonKing @conorduffy_7 Honestly there's no evidence that the CCP is a stable regime. The idea is not that trade with the USA has magical liberalizing properties, but that economic freedom leads to political freedom. Limited evidence that China is exploiting trade partners. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-15/africa-s-economic-development-isn-t-a-new-form-of-colonialism

@John_Infante @jbouie instead they'll displace whoever was living there in the current housing stock by bidding up the prices economic_illiteracy.jpg

@JohnCarltonKing @conorduffy_7 The power of autocratic regimes usually comes from control over important resources like oil. My thesis is that countries whose fundamental resource is human capital struggle to maintain authoritarian states. Liberalization leads to better human capital. But overall agree

@JohnCarltonKing @conorduffy_7 I'm not at all qualified to speak on these issues but from what I've read from Kori Schake and others: 1) china lacks allies 2) their political order is not as stable as we think (see: Hong Kong) 3) chinese growth is dramatically slowing

@JohnCarltonKing @conorduffy_7 i don't think hardline china policies are warranted (yet)

@JohnCarltonKing @conorduffy_7 Fair but the project to end human suffering is never over: a billion have left *extreme poverty*. When will they leave poverty?

@JohnCarltonKing @conorduffy_7 Yeah; a balance must be struck. The most important instruments here are deals like the TPP rather than tariffs w China, but I think we agree on that

@JohnCarltonKing @conorduffy_7 Defending the liberal order means having trade primacy anywhere the Chinese want to go, and not the trumpian protectionism

@colinmort Dude you left a water fountain in your wayfair cart smh

@neogaia I’d say liberals have reclaimed the phrase — I don’t think cutting social benefits is emblematic of neoliberalism. It just means a belief in the free international trade order and ideologically bowing to empirical evidence

@neogaia There are many people in the neolib circles that support nationalized healthcare for ex

@neogaia Im not saying ur wrong; I’m saying people can reclaim & modify words. Socialism used to mean state control of production, and now it means something entirely different, and harder to pin down. I think it’s useful to see what the people who actually call themselves neolibs think

@neogaia And I’d say they’ve succeeded in that project

@neogaia @ne0liberal

@Aposter1228 If humans had to live up to the standards you’ve set for orcas, we’d be long gone

@conorduffy_7 @aofarre the take-merchants thrive on chaos and Uncle Joe is ... not chaotic

This is pretty stupid and innumerate. It’s probably the safest time in American history https://x.com/amnestyusa/status/1159183025411899392

@BethanyFromLA And that’s perfectly valid — our morality hates violence against non aggressors much more than other forms of death. Still stupid to claim that people are unsafe coming into the US

@ItsDarryl Most people don’t know what the hell is going on, ever. They assume the show is playing 4d chess when it’s playing 1d chutes and ladders. It only becomes blindingly obvious at the end, when the veil finally has to be lifted.

@ItsDarryl Same shit with Lost — if you couldn’t tell it was bad by like s3 it’s on you

Can’t believe I haven’t yet started an evangelion based cult

@JohnCarltonKing Mandatory vaccination

@ne0liberal Nah dawg you have to realize uber&lyft are still in a cat fight for market penetration in smaller cities. They could, at any time, drop the subsidized and unprofitable cities and be living large

@ne0liberal It would be stupid to not finance growth with cheap capital at a stage like this

@JohnCarltonKing Perhaps, but the squalling baby can’t consent, so if the parents aren’t cooperative then it’s forced injection by the state which seems illiberal. Where I see no recourse is that not vaccinating your kid puts other children at risk

@JohnDelaney @BernieSanders He says, after getting owned

@JohnCarltonKing also, mandatory conscription. when the rich kids are also forced to go to war, we're less likely to go to war

@CipheredYT @JohnCarltonKing There are more wealthy folks now! I’m not just talking Donald trump level wealth. It’s harder for all of them to slip through the cracks. Moreover, if the explicit policy goal was to make rich kids go to war when one is declared, I think we could figure out how to do that

@CipheredYT @JohnCarltonKing A country whose ruling class never loses anything by declaring war is one that’ll declare war too often

@EPoe187 This is dumb. Value is axiomatic. There’s nothing deep about the rest of the world either, only what we choose to think is important

@balajis Amazing that people can believe shit like this. You’ve drank your own koolaid man

@JohnCarltonKing @CipheredYT These are all true, but I earnestly wonder. Would we have gone to Iraq if it was the children or grandchildren of senators coming back in body bags? I also realize these folks can find their way out of combat roles even if they’re conscripted

@paulg It’s kind of incredible that human aesthetic sensibilities gravitate towards truth. “You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.”

@paulg - Richard Feynman But it also seems that different peoples ideas about beauty lead them to better or worse inductive biases. We probably acquire our sense of beauty mostly memetically

@trepur349 @JohnCarltonKing @CipheredYT Yeah I’m not buying it either lmao. Wanted to try this take on for size https://www.econlib.org/archives/2015/09/would_conscript_1.html

@trepur349 @JohnCarltonKing @CipheredYT yeah i mean very clearly illiberal for that reason, but the OP asked for an illiberal opinion

@trepur349 @JohnCarltonKing @CipheredYT Is military discipline really something we want in everybody? Seems to me that if you want it, you'd go seek it. If it really taught you discipline, those skills would easily let you outstrip others who'd went straight to school. The fact that we don't see that makes me skeptical

@HenryKraemer @CathyReisenwitz Cities: Make it impossible to profitably build anything that's not luxury flats due to inefficiency Developers: *build luxury high rises* Cities:

@trepur349 @JohnCarltonKing @CipheredYT I was mostly joking when I first replied. Wanted to see if any good debate came of it. IMO barring some national emergency, unneeded

@HenryKraemer @CathyReisenwitz Are you saying every single developer is monolithically bad at PR? If you map this argument to some other space, it would seem ridiculous. Should the legality of abortion clinics be conditional on their good PR?

@HenryKraemer @CathyReisenwitz It should be completely possible in a free society to perform a transaction without democratic approval. So the villain IMO will always remain NIMBY appeasement governments and never developers

@ne0liberal https://x.com/calebwatney/status/1159822420255092737?s=21

@HenryKraemer What do you mean? People build large houses in suburbs where land is cheap; that’s the optimal outcome. Urban lots with higher land values should have denser housing. The government intervened in the proper functioning of the market. Don’t see that you’ve made any point

@lildepressionx @marklutchman Insane clout

@ESYudkowsky Tfw pizzagate turns out to be correct

@LLW902 The app is just yelling “wrongo” at me

@mattyglesias https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-lifts-minimum-parking-requirements-in-14103862.php

@NicoleBarbaro @Quillette Quillette is garbage, a completely pseudoscientific swindle

@DIorioNathaniel Lmao get a load of this nerd

@isosteph Pls link

@MarginalScribbl @Ornithophobix I mean sure, but you’d be lying to yourself if you don’t realize people of every country are like this

@MarginalScribbl @Ornithophobix A specific kind of highly educated American criticizes American imperialism, and even that is a relatively recent invention. From what I can tell, the Indian left wing is criticizing Kashmir policy, though they may not be the loudest voices

@Ornithophobix @MarginalScribbl When america invaded Iraq, our newscasters, intelligence agencies, elected officials all jingoistically presented it as the obvious choice. The fact remains that a vast tract of Americans saw and see American military force as a panacea, a cure to all evils

@Ornithophobix @MarginalScribbl The approval ratings for war in Iraq were extremely high. Opinion turned at some point, but these overton window shifts are ephemeral and don’t say much about the underlying culture of “American exceptionalism” https://www.pewresearch.org/2008/03/19/public-attitudes-toward-the-war-in-iraq-20032008/

@Ornithophobix @MarginalScribbl That being said, it does look like the voice of the Indian left is marginalized and I hope India will learn to appreciate dissent

@MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @Ornithophobix Just curious, is there reliable public polling on these issues? The infrastructure may not even be there to find out what people are thinking

@ConradkBarwa @MarginalScribbl @Ornithophobix In general, there is freedom of speech for that topic too. There are several prominent Congressmembers and White House officials that have criticized Israel. Public opinion is very strongly aligned with Israel for lots of reasons, which makes them hard to criticize

@MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @Ornithophobix Which is awful, but also the reason I’m wondering whether the support for Kashmir is higher than folks easily let on.

@MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @Ornithophobix aside: India is on average a younger country (avg age 29) and has experienced a period of relatively high growth. Makes sense why ambitions are hot. May cool down in the future?

@cbhas23 @MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @Ornithophobix Chomsky is not reliable on these things

@almostinfamous @cbhas23 @MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @Ornithophobix college towns are extremely notorious for being anti-imperialist and anti-military. Precisely because it's edgy and countercultural. Wouldn't say this is a good litmus test for the entire country. After all, if only college towns mattered, Trump wouldn't have won

@Ornithophobix @almostinfamous @cbhas23 @MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa voting down Trump is a very low bar to pass. just half a generation ago, we went to war in Iraq with the mandate of the people.

@ConradkBarwa @cbhas23 @almostinfamous @MarginalScribbl @Ornithophobix "questioning the nation state" is not always a fundamentally smart or good thing either. As "questioning the state" has become its own aesthetic, many American leftists find themselves falling into pro-Russian conspiracy theories

@MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @cbhas23 @almostinfamous @Ornithophobix Completely agree,but: Independent thinking is a privilege only a rare few can afford, the class of people who can sit and review many viewpoints&sources of information (which may all be systematically wrong anyway), and India has come to dvlped country status v recently

@MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @cbhas23 @almostinfamous @Ornithophobix I don't live in india so I'm no expert on this, but I am hopeful that as economic status improves, so will these issues

@ConradkBarwa @MarginalScribbl @cbhas23 @almostinfamous @Ornithophobix Not surprising that HK rose up in self-defense when their territorial sovereignty is in question. But do you think the Chinese homelanders care? I know some Chinese expats - all cheering for the takeover of HK

@MarginalScribbl @ConradkBarwa @cbhas23 @almostinfamous @Ornithophobix I suppose its hard to say when you hit “developed country”. I only mean that hundreds of millions have been pulled out of poverty via rapid industrialization. Literacy rates shooting up

@RishiAsija There’s a difference dawg, nearly 90% of Kashmiris want an independent country. 70% of northern Irish are happy being part of the UK

@Pure_VEVO @ComfortablySmug

@HenryKraemer @mateosfo @balcom_holly Very silly. A developer is a person who builds. Making a profit is not a prerequisite

@ComfortablySmug https://x.com/pure_vevo/status/1160598522414227456

Sic Semper Tyrannis

@_claycoleman I try my best 🙂

@elonmusk why dont u take a helicopter to work instead of building a tunnel

@kelseyknowsknot @ne0liberal Usually when the twitter algorithm hides replies, it makes no sense — but it was spot on this time

@burisala @WASBAPPIN who on political twitter supports China? I don’t know a single account

@Cigouave @burisala @WASBAPPIN Pls link

@Cigouave @burisala @WASBAPPIN Tbh I kinda forgot I blocked a bunch of tankies a while back

@micsolana Those frescoes are so derivative 😚

@ahardtospell This actually still such a bad thesis. Here is this phenomenon that HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN ON THIS PLANET BEFORE, and some idiot claims after the fact, well actually I knew exactly what global social media would cause, you should’ve put me in charge

@ahardtospell Not only that, there’s still absolutely no causal link or smoking gun showing that social media is bad for democracy. Only that centrist candidates have neglected its power

@ScooterAbrahaam @scottsantens @argumentwinner Do you want $10k in food coupons or $10k in hard cash? Which idiot would prefer the coupons?

@coherentstates even marx knew protectionism is bad https://fee.org/articles/what-marx-could-teach-obama-and-trump-about-trade/

@micsolana @kimmaicutler single use plastic is less resource intensive and better than expensive & quickly deteriorating reusables when the plastic actually finds its way to a landfill (which is 99.99% of the time in developed countries)

@micsolana @kimmaicutler If this was actually about the environment and not virtue signaling, they’d funnel this money into better waste collection infrastructure

@bedwardstiek LVT and otherwise free markets :)

@bedwardstiek all ur rent subsidy ideas are dumb and bad. give UBI

@CascadianSolo honestly, this presidency has created an era of extremely good twitter content I didn't imagine was possible. he's got me thinking about it

@JohnCarltonKing Which kind?

@ne0liberal I don't think this is as bad an idea as you make it seem. People come to rely on certain welfare schemes like social security. Are they really going to forgive the party that takes it away from them?

@ne0liberal the bulk of regulation is "sunsetted" anyway by an administrative change (ex: FCC & net neutrality)

@jdcmedlock @ne0liberal yes, it systematically provides entropy against small ad hoc schemes that might be less than efficient, or designed poorly, and prop up universal schemes like social security / UBI

@jdcmedlock @ne0liberal think about how parliamentary systems are capable of remaking their entire tax code every few years. wouldn't sunset provisions allow us the same kind of flexibility?

@jdcmedlock @ne0liberal at the same time, parliaments seem to tend towards larger role of government than i prefer

👋 out to ideologies that glorify suffering. With strange aeons, even death may die https://x.com/AC360/status/1162183695270387712

@chaosprime Pretty much explains why humans procrastinate and have short attention spans. Evolution could not entrust us with hyper focus — we eventually just ignore some other stimulus and just die.

@jdcmedlock @dmtrubman @Noahpinion All the benefits of private capital and you also get to fund the safety net. Pretty great

@mtracey hmmm Noam seems off lately

@expeedee @robinhanson IQ is mean 100 by construction

@Hal_RTFLC @wvEsquiress Ah the good old Fetus Deletus

@ProperOpinion Did you even read the fucking article? They’re complaining that too many people think satirical news is real

@ProperOpinion Ok, I just got down to the part of the article about “flagging satire”. Never mind, this is stupid. In my defense, you could honestly see the headline and the first parts as a compliment to the Bee: “the best satire is indistinguishable from truth”

@conorduffy_7 I see the unitary executive theory has caught on on the left

Are these people for real

@elonmusk Property taxxxxxx

America, welcome to neoliberalism https://x.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1163074468601896960

@ne0liberal @conorduffy_7 And what about the irreparable harm that comes from systemic inefficiency? When licensing limits the number or doctors in commission?

@ne0liberal @conorduffy_7 This isn’t a sufficient cause for licensing

@miljko @WilliamAEden Kahnemans thinking is exactly this: an extended blog post

@miljko @WilliamAEden found that after reading it I was no more enlightened than before; the idea that human cognition fails systematically and predictably has been told to us in so many digestible sound bites. The various biases and heuristics were also familiar. Each can be explained in a para

@admiralstubing @miljko @WilliamAEden See this is exactly the kind of thing you can’t condense into a blogpost — a long narrative, a set of lengthy anectdotes. Thinking is an extended essay. Surely You’re Joking is a set of stories

@vgr What’s the mechanism behind the phenomenon humans call gravity?

@Narresh @WilliamAEden @miljko With prejudice

@asteroid_saku Instagram is interesting. It’s all increasingly old product people trying to build a product for teenagers. They talk about the things teenagers are doing with their platform like you would a foreign culture

@asteroid_saku I always wonder what kind of satisfaction you can get as a 35 year old spending your working life building increasingly strange modalities of communication for 15 year olds

@Noahpinion This just isn’t true. America is one of the least class regimented societies in the world — we drive because it’s more convenient and offers us more freedom. The problem is the unaccounted externalities, not some moral failure

Everybody says that the future won’t be kind to us for being so slow to solve climate change. I’m skeptical. Just like how I’m amazed people a 100 years ago accomplished anything at all without computers, people a 100 years from now will look upon us with similar pity

@_cingraham How stupid are you. Why does WaPo employ you

@abhiprofen @Noahpinion You have to develop some level of insane detachment to process the reality of being connected to everybody. Huge blessing and huge curse.

@abhiprofen @Noahpinion Back just 25 years ago you could try things with perfect confidence that nobody has ever tried them before. Convincing yourself that you and your ideas are unique was much easier

@_Astro_Nerd_ @GregroxMun Imagine gatekeeping space

@GregroxMun @_Astro_Nerd_ The “REAL reason” to go to space? Literally nauseating

@razibkhan Escaping bias via academic press is a losing game

@ESYudkowsky @glenweyl @ewarren @AndrewYang You could bridge the gap to AGI x risk with some more content regarding the worrying effects of modern narrow AIs on minority banking and criminal justice. Orthogonal risk, but close in concept space

@glenweyl @ESYudkowsky @AndrewYang Not a fair criticism. MIRI doesn’t spend much time worrying about white supremacists who know how to align powerful AIs to their interests . It’s not the operative concern

@glenweyl @ESYudkowsky @AndrewYang My point is that such a scenario seems exceedingly unlikely. When we have no idea how to successfully align, it’s premature to worry about unsavory characters accidentally aligning an AGI to their interests

@glenweyl @ESYudkowsky @AndrewYang We can revisit this when we have some clue what we’re doing. Once we discover nuclear physics, we can start worrying about containing nuclear weapons

@ESYudkowsky @glenweyl @AndrewYang People prefer man vs man narratives to man vs nature

@mattyglesias Illiberal and stupid

@mattyglesias Discourage consumption of valuable resources, not these idiotic ad hoc paternalistic schemes

@dekusmvltiverse >feeling bad for Sony

@jonrosenberg to be honest I think our coordination prowess is a lot more impressive than that of social insects

Twitter profile is a better version of the Wall https://x.com/rsg/status/1164633740015882240

@sbuss @jwmares When will the venturelords of the Valley wake up?

@BenRossTransit This is nonsense. Even if electricity production energy mix was 100% fossil fuels it would be more efficient to drive electric cars than ICE. It turns out if you burn giant amounts of fossil fuels in a power plant instead of a tiny car engine, you get more bang for your buck

@paulg this is embarrassing

@Austen Politics isn't just squabbling for power; it's how decisions get made with limited information. When the future is uncertain, you have to convince people to work with you.

@leashless carbon tax! I can't say it enough times

@DanCrenshawTX @s8mb the anticaps still haven’t figured out capital letters technology

@ByYourLogic Read another book

@MWZH1 @BenRossTransit Care to link the study?

@MWZH1 @BenRossTransit the cleantechnica article notes the importance of the energy mix, but also notes that 100% FF gentech still results in EVs coming out ahead.

@MWZH1 @BenRossTransit some back of the envelope math says that EV running on natural gas powered plants beats ICE cars by at least 50%. With the current US energy grid mix, beats ICE by 40%. It runs about equal when calculating with a energy mix of pure black coal.

@MWZH1 @BenRossTransit So my claim regarding 100% fossil fuels is ambiguous and perhaps wrong if we're considering only black coal, but right in the case of natural gas. End result: moving to an EV on the current energy grid is a net positive.

@MWZH1 @BenRossTransit Nuclear is the only real solution

@anildash markets

@a_taiyib Fuck you

Incredible observation that it’s harder to produce food for 7 billion people than a few million. Y’all ghouls need to stop wishing for most of the population to die https://t.co/PxnzufIxuu

Strange how the neolibs on twitter, supposedly consequentialists, are getting their panties in a twist about people dancing on Koch’s grave. There’s probably no one who’s contributed to climate change denial more than he has. Gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere with his name on it.

If you think it’s ok to cheer when someone like Gadaffi or Saddam Hussein dies Bc they killed a few hundred thousand, what’s it ok to do for someone who put a billion people in existential jeopardy?

There’s few things dumber than this completely fictitious picture of indigenous populations as enlightened friends of nature. The Native Americans are responsible for hunting hundreds of North American megafauna to extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event https://t.co/bn70ukFIoA

@profunc A man’s life doesn’t truly begin until he’s cancelled

By all indications, the lives of the indigenous were violent and short, and if they had “sustainable meat agriculture” (they clearly didn’t) it’s sheerly because of how few of them there were, and how calorie starved they were

Industrialized meat practices are truly heartbreaking, anybody can agree; but they’re not carried out by bogieman corporations for no purpose. This is the real cost of fulfilling the meat appetites of all humanity.

Either stop eating meat or invent some way to manufacture animal protein more sustainably.

@TheAnnaGat Take some old idea, make it more half-baked and then publish on medium

@chaosprime Is this true? High contention commodities like grain, water, steel, etc. have dropped in price (both absolute and relative) over time

@chaosprime Seems to me that contention for commodities stably increases over time with growth in population and qualify of life Paying more always helps with commodities by definition — they’re interchangeable. I’d have a harder time trying to bid for the British crown

@chaosprime Ah I see now This is commonly observed in computer networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_stampede

@chaosprime https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_collapse

@HillaryClinton Unless it’s hurricane Epstein

The worst species of startup is when someone makes an app that’s a subset of some other app “Facebook but only for middle aged leprechauns”

@micsolana Doesn’t this acidify the oceans?

@rsg @sarthakgh Generally grounded in a small selection of other people’s observations that both sound good and satisfy confirmation bias

@ifthedevilisix He’s not mocking Bourdain’s suicide at all. The point of the joke is that it’s strange how unrelated people’s internal and external lives can be

@dylanmatt Has little to do with the Chinese government and everything to do with american free trade policy

@MenshevikM Only toxic to her staffers

@profunc @MenshevikM U right

@AlanMCole The Winds of Winter is only good if you put no thought into it at all and watch only for the spectacle Perfect episode: Blackwater

Pickle Rick😈 https://x.com/PopX/status/1166435334323703808

@webdevMason Strange to hear wealthy and connected people complain about a lack of imagination Go build these things if you want to see them

@cyantist belief that people should be able to do whatever is fundamentally *fun* to them & belief that people should optimize for global utility, i.e. effective altruism. These are convergent goals only sometimes

@AOC The ACLU has lobbyists. UAW has lobbyists. Lobbying is not a crime

@vgr aestivation

@NickMeier21 @AOC I understand, but I don't think there's a clear distinction. There are very wealthy nonprofits and NGOs that can have more evil interests than a corporation. Should Trump Foundation be able to hire ex-WH staffers as lobbyists?

@NickMeier21 @AOC Right, so this bill makes lobbying efforts less effective across the board if ex-senators can't lobby for ACLU or for Goldman. I'm not sure if that's a good thing (i'm aware goldman will probably pay more)

@sjmmcd These guys are basically all ugly as balls and don’t want their takes associated with their visages not fit for the limelight. That’s how you become a nerd twitter celeb

@kathyra_ Look around while I come up with something to comment on

Global satellite internet a la SpaceX Starlink is a huge win for the liberal international order. Chinese local ISPs may have to bow to state censorship, but good luck blocking the truth streaming down from the heavens

@_Jason_Dean_ There are like zero people in the Deep South

Hot take: the legal concept of marriage will be dead given a few more decades

@Ajeetvijaysingh @Noahpinion @RanaAyyub Is this ironic

@computergorl @_Jason_Dean_ The Deep South is a more specific concept, i.e the belt from Louisiana to South Carolina. Population 30 million, which I will admit, is not “zero people” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South

@computergorl @_Jason_Dean_ I don’t see this regionalism thing as a threat though. If someone ran on a platform of segregation, even if they won 30 million votes in the Deep South (they wouldn’t because it’s a 1/3rd African American and that’s a total pop figure), they would get slaughtered everywhere else

@computergorl @_Jason_Dean_ But how would bringing segregation back ever be a “small part” of someone’s platform? If someone who even touched an idea as radioactive as that wins the popular vote, this country deserves what it gets

@dallenallred https://x.com/tszzl/status/1055989537078427649?s=21

@NickMeier21 @AOC I didn’t dig too deep but it looks like a not insignificant number join lobby horses of nonprofits, human rights orgs, civil service. Maybe those are just necessary casualties https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/top.php?display=I

@NickMeier21 @AOC Right so then my conclusion: Ex Senators make for *better* lobbyists than others, so having them step out just equates to a deescalation agreement — “ we will use less powerful weapons to lobby for our interests “, both for people who support my interests and those who don’t

@NickMeier21 @AOC So if lobbying is altogether worse, then I suppose the corrupting power of money in politics is somewhat lessened. I guess I’m a fan

@vgr Care to explain further regarding $$?

@KevinCastley Care to illustrate the difference?

@Taylor_Workman @JohnCarltonKing NIT is problematic for liquidity reasons. Tax refund lenders gonna have a blast

@JohnCarltonKing @Taylor_Workman What if I lose my job and my disbursements don’t reflect my new financial reality? There’s a year delay on these things

@JohnCarltonKing @Taylor_Workman The UBI is so much more psychologically friendly. The guaranteed and visible $10k paycheck every month probably also boosts its political popularity

@JohnCarltonKing @Taylor_Workman $1k* :P

@JohnCarltonKing @Taylor_Workman Yeah I didn’t think of that

@JohnCarltonKing @Taylor_Workman The end goal of technocracy is the price of everything going to zero and our monthly $1k checks deflating to far more than $10k in value!

@JohnCarltonKing @Taylor_Workman a society best described by Iain M Banks “Culture” series — anarcho liberal paradise powered by AIs that fulfill all requests and manage all allocation

@lpolovets @sarthakgh Why can’t federal governments just be conscious of this and run purposeful A/B tests?

@lpolovets @sarthakgh if federal government had this power they could run A/B tests much more effectively than states that aren't coordinating

@Aella_Girl Would recommend Greg Egan's "Axiomatic". explores this topic in depth

@Taylor_Workman @JohnCarltonKing What infrastructure?

@Taylor_Workman @JohnCarltonKing Idk that’s truly sad if we’re too lowtech to move numbers around in banks biweekly for a few hundred million

Is this really a thing though? Pretty sure all climate deniers in congress are doing it cynically and performatively. Lying about your views for political gain is the most basic political skill https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1168245895172898816

@DIorioNathaniel Weird flex

@litgenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factfulness:_Ten_Reasons_We%27re_Wrong_About_the_World_%E2%80%93_and_Why_Things_Are_Better_Than_You_Think

@marathiMaharaja Brb finna make a new version of the Bible that does guarantee gun rights, instant bestseller

@AndrewYang Banning something only helps to propagate it

@MaxGhenis What is the total rent value of all US land and how much could we realistically extract from it? Does that taxation scheme to other types of monopolistic ownership like a patent or copyright?

@can Adding enough riders adds buses to operation. Marginal decision making doesn’t make too much sense here

@ebruenig I think he realizes this just as much as any other thinking human. The thing is, his legions of dumbass fans don’t and he can keep selling books this way

@icsllaf @Wu_Tang_Finance Never post again

@SailorHaumea 8th cousins? this shit basically means they were unrelated my dude

@conorduffy_7 The CCP has proven itself uniquely weak

E cigs are strictly better for you than cigarettes https://x.com/WSJ/status/1169282745119457281

@zck Then explain LA

@ryxcommar You’d be surprised how much college admissions people hate essays like this

@agraybee Central planners are all alike

Pretty much all of these are because of the payroll tax exemption for health insurance / employer based healthcare, which is purely a construction of federal policy. You could fix this with the stroke of a pen https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1169737267436539904

@bt_hathaway @JasonBordoff @noahqk why won't the rebate offset?

@bt_hathaway @JasonBordoff @noahqk No part of this validates your claim regarding the rebate not offsetting the costs. you’re right that the cost of everything would increase, but not that it’s permanent. One day clean energy will be as cheap as running water; the point of the carbon tax is to bring that about

@Noahpinion Go up makes absolutely no sense here, or at least is damning to the policy. People often point at American healthcare spending and say it's way out of whack with international standards. How can less spending = more jobs?

@Scientific_Bird yes. imo nobody has a better grasp on what kind of arguments or what angle of attack would chip away at my beliefs than I do. Good arguments follow a power law -- the really good ones can shift your worldview many orders of magnitude more than a slightly worse one

@rishmishra You’re filtering out the VCs you wouldn’t want to work with

@CascadianSolo you're letting the monarchists win

@kchandwhipple I think it's kind of wild that we watch entire TV shows and movies sympathizing with protagonists who are actual cold blooded murderers (Narcos? Breaking Bad? Game of Thrones? Nightcrawler?) but the assaulter is beyond saving

@vgr @JeremyTRussell He’s a part of the Night’s Watch, colloquially known as “crows” due to their black cloaks. The whole series is pretty heavy on crow and raven symbolism, it was my first thought too

@vgr ⚔️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH

@vgr If I’m remembering correctly, the epic of Gilgamesh depicts the afterlife as painful and terrible for everyone, which is why Gilgamesh tries to achieve immortality in the first place

@vgr It’s an allegory about the dangers of communism

@owenrumney Awful lib fantasy

@JonMIPol What restaurant?

@jdcmedlock Why discourage both savings and consumption? Why not only vat? Perhaps with a progressive rebate

@jdcmedlock Discouraging investment then. Why put sell pressure on large shareholdings? I suppose I don’t really understand the theory, and should go read some papers. Seems strange to me to tax valuably invested wealth instead of spending on yachts & whatnot

@itsadumbwebsite @jdcmedlock It would, but my point is the tax is unfocused. Why tax shareholdings instead of just illiquid assets like home equity, yachts, and art as you say

@itsadumbwebsite @jdcmedlock I think we could do better than a wealth tax by starting a sovereign wealth fund. That way there’s some sense of citizens profiting from private capital growth

@mattparlmer 🗽 = liberal (in the European sense)

@ifthedevilisix accelerationists everywhere

@ifthedevilisix honestly I don't even disagree with this logic. Trump is a disrupter. I hope candidates learn from his campaign and adopt some of his style. Using twitter to communicate with your voters directly is something every presidential hopeful should employ

@JonMIPol Honestly it’s pretty amazing how loud this guy is, even after 7-8 hours. He’s all you can hear over the buzz of hundreds of people

@bufordsharkley @about_dave @FightForProp13 @CaNaacp hey, can you link some evidence on this?

@NightmareFuelNF regime change doesn't work

@NightmareFuelNF those liberals are skeptical about your methods, not your goals.

@Nymphomachy Literally the best the world has ever been

@casersatz @MarginalScribbl Low key 14 years is less than impressive

@coherentstates Just fyi the Bay Area housing crisis can entirely be attributed to strict/exclusionary zoning laws that disallow construction of dense housing in almost the whole place. The free market could fix this thing overnight. Can source you these zoning maps for evidence if you want

@ademska1 @coherentstates If you think luxury development makes the markets worse, you don’t understand housing economics. Without sufficient luxury units, rich gentrifiers displace people in the existing housing stock. https://mobile.twitter.com/devonzuegel/status/1079403412360519680

@ademska1 @coherentstates In other words, MORE SUPPLY of any kind relieves demand pressure across vast swathes of the housing distribution, from hovels and hostels to luxury penthouses

@ademska1 @coherentstates Not true; the point is that with less demand, prices drop. Landlords drop rent if nobody is filling the units, until the price is low enough to get filled. Vacant units are deeply unprofitable. On a marginal cost basis, it’s better to rent the unit for $1 than leave it unrented

@ademska1 @coherentstates There are empirical examples across the world, like Seattle, Tokyo, where rents have either been stable or gone down Bc of relatively little zoning restriction

@ademska1 @coherentstates Regardless of Japan’s macroeconomy, Tokyo population and investment both trend positive. “These markets are more complex than that” is a truism. It’s really that simple. If you knew Bay Area politics you’d know how hard wealthy homeowners fight to keep zoning laws intact

@Rationalbot i.e. starting from moral axioms that I apply elsewhere, circumcision is clearly wrong, and yet I don't seem to care. I feel this way about eating meat

@MadelineOnMars @conorduffy_7 Why not? On average these things will balance out. It’s fairly uncommon for two parents to have wildly different political opinions anyway

@Altimor The Zuck and the Sheryl

@DEL1B1RD @Nymphomachy nothing is irreversible

Gonna buy a juul to protest

This counts as patriotism

@cullend @rishmishra Absolutely. If I can work anywhere I want, any hours I want, I’m a contractor and not an employee

@WASBAPPIN idk about that dude. they seem to think capital owners are evil

@rishmishra @sarthakgh but what is the alternative? while rideshare is a gig that you can fit in anytime of any day, you cannot turn off the app and immediately find some other source of income. while your claim is flawed, my ideal future is where every service job is a gig "under the API"

@cullend @rishmishra tell me which job allows its employees to work for the competitor at the same time

@cullend @rishmishra Uber/Lyft don't have employees they have ICs that's the whole point. You're not allowed to work at BK/McD's at the same time, although people do it anyway

@webdevMason Can I ask how tf u can afford a whole chapel

@kareem_carr It’s about a shared aesthetic

@Noahpinion Sounds fun

@Noahpinion Facebook is a good company and its vocal opponents are mostly brainwashed and uninformed

@BernieSanders the same drug companies that have come up with thousands of major medical advancement in the past century, saving anywhere from millions to billions of lives?

@ggooooddddoogg It’s because the one unforgivable thing is being unironic

Not even true. Vaping illegal after market THC pods may have killed a few people — do you think a ban on flavored ecigs is gonna do anything about that? https://t.co/MucweVpBeQ

@sarthakgh Question: could someone start a (number of) large decentralized “Uber contracting Inc.” companies, or even trade unions that brings pricing power back to the drivers by allowing them to coordinate and respond collectively by collateralizing risk

@sarthakgh Even something as simple as coordinating mass closing of the driver app across a city to boost prices

@micahstubbs @rishmishra @sarthakgh Sure, but this is a small subset of the service labor market

@mattparlmer Just to be clear this is entirely an occupational licensing issue and the solution is a freer market. That’s a state government preventing Jorge from doing his job Bc it benefits some American Engineering lobby

@conorduffy_7 This guy is a parody account that gained sentience

@JohnCarltonKing Obama was a first term senator tho I don’t think experience matters at all for the presidency. Nobody is prepared for that job

@JohnCarltonKing 2015 Obama wasn’t the same guy who inspired millions in 2007. The skeptic who can lead isn’t the same person as the idealist who can win. And it’s quite possible that nothing but the “last quarter” could have freed him up politically to be that way. No more elections to win!

@JohnCarltonKing It seems to me that the people who change science and technology are commonly young inexperienced idealists — folks who are too naive to realize what they are doing is impossible. why do we not have that same expectation for politics?

@MattBruenig Except when you say it about Bernie, then polarity flips

@codinghorror Unionizing is not about getting more more money — it’s about price discovery. A very wealthy worker may still be undervalued and unions can help alleviate this You’ve unintentionally framed unionizing as greedy

@codinghorror There’s a fundamental bargaining power imbalance between employer and employee. Why is it only the employee that feels nervous walking into an interview? They have less info and fewer moves to pull

@_Jason_Dean_ @BricButler recent events are related to deaths from vaping illegal after market thc pods

@_Jason_Dean_ @BricButler Nvm, I see you meant the cravings. This is literally my defensive tic whenever someone criticizes juul

@_Jason_Dean_ @BricButler Does that rly happen though? Link pls

@_Jason_Dean_ @BricButler Yeah I get this all the time. I’m asking about nicotine shortening life / making it worse

@jacobmparis @Austen What? It’s normed to inflation

@_heyEthan @mksev @Austen This guy doesn’t understand inflation ^

@CindyBiSV @Austen https://x.com/tszzl/status/1172746886111006720?s=21

@CindyBiSV @jacobmparis @Austen Explain?

@staringispolite @CindyBiSV @jacobmparis @Austen CPI tracks a weighted basket of goods that includes healthcare and housing in ratios that represent urban workers. Meaning even if the relative costs of these have gone up, the whole basket is down and everybody is richer

@staringispolite @_heyEthan @mksev @Austen CPI tracks purchasing power. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than vague assertions

@kazoolist @staringispolite @CindyBiSV @jacobmparis @Austen Yeah CPI actually OVERestimates inflation so we are all even richer than this graph would have us believe. And as I said, https://x.com/tszzl/status/1172751406211768325?s=21

@staringispolite @CindyBiSV @jacobmparis @Austen Surely you’d agree that urban housing costs are a higher relative expense than suburban/rural ones? All of the growth in home values can be attributed to the land becoming more desirable, and no land is more desirable than urban land. It’s possible rural healthcare is expensive

@SparkSolar_US This seems like a knock against solar tho

@jlkirbee @kazoolist @staringispolite @CindyBiSV @jacobmparis @Austen https://x.com/tszzl/status/1172755094351351810?s=21

@owenrumney Explain your relationship to Michael Tracy RN

@conorduffy_7 Here’s the real question: “They is” or “they are”? Are we committed to singularity

@SparkSolar_US Power supply instability

@hawttawk @CindyBiSV @Austen @staringispolite @jacobmparis

@devonzuegel Furniture. There’s a special joy in ordering the amazonbasics cheap af version of everything

@litgenstein @ghibliantrains @galaxiaskykloz I’m killed