Interesting article in the FT saying inflows and outflows are more important than efficient markets theory states and that passive investing inflows explain a lot of the market exuberance. I know stock market isn't the same as the economy but that is what a lot of people pay attention to.
Something that I think might explain a bit of the mainstream liberal kowtowing to MAGA in the post-Kirk environment comes from Paul Berman's Terrorism and Liberalism book, where he argues that liberals have a rationalistic sense of proportionality about the world.
What he means is that if/
Great critique! I think many works are having trouble reconciling how little the details of policies matter for elections. They want policy to matter because they are smart, but it seems elections are more about sales, charisma, memeable videos and tweets, and they have much less to offer there.
I feel this way about so much political shit lmao
I haven't played the original since I played the remake but I could imagine its faults could stand out more now. I did love how the remake improved the settings. I liked the island more too with the rain
I kind of like that arcade-y feeling of the original, maybe it is just nostalgia, but i liked how gamey it was. The remake felt like a different game (which is a good thing)
I just don't understand why so many people are still on Twitter. It has caused me to lose a lot of respect for a lot of bloggers and journalists I once thought highly of.
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
It's not a very democratic philosophy but we are so beyond that at this point
Sort of, but a policy platform is secondary to having an attractive, charismatic candidate who can go on TV and have voters trust and like them.
To MY the policies matter more, which leads him to the absurd conclusion that Trump ran as a moderate for his second term.
The problem is in both directions - corrupt elites, moronic populace which refuses to acknowledge tradeoffs
I've read you since your early blogging days, but you have to come to terms with the fact Trump proved policy doesn't matter much for running campaigns and winning. Run cool likeable people regardless of policy prescriptions. It is bad for the influence of smart wonks like you, but it is the truth.
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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
amongussexgif ... Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet. Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it. Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola
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John Rawls on why we must believe that a just society is possible - especially in moments where it seems most in doubt
In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.
You think you’ve got a read on what’s going on here and then a M Night Shyamalan twist gets dropped on you out of nowhere
I used to think this, but Trump keeps drawing people into his circle, using them up, then tossing them away, and people still keep coming. Power is a huge draw.
I def agree there
There is a feeling on the left that the technocracy of an Yglesias or Klein is missing something and I can't help but feel like Trump II has validated that feeling
I think most of the ideas in "abundance" are good, what I am skeptical of is if these ideas would solve MAGA-ism and Trumpism
Dunno, it feels way worse than that
"A much more promising path to abundance than the one this book offers is to embrace a twenty-first-century New Deal. That is the tried-and-true model for a “liberalism that builds” in the United States" ~Sandeep Vaheesan
// this really is an excellent piece.
It was a whole social feeling they captured. Hot couch guy, shitting on Ross Douthat, skull kid and MarioKart sound bytes in the opening...it is hard to describe
I've said this before, but the problem is that the acceptable rate of wrong answers depends *heavily* on the task in question.
Counterintuitively, the simpler and less important the task, the *lower* the acceptable failure rate!
To paraphrase Stalin: Britain provided the time, US provided the money, Russia provided the blood
(Stalin was an evil POS, but he had some very good quotes)
“the act is the message” bsky.app/profile/davi...
...is that D'Angelo Barksdale!?
This is Geocities and usenet erasure and I will not stand for it