Also if you don't follow the line I just drew, consider the entire mainstream existence of Tyler Cowen

and I like marginal revolution on some levels! but yeah, that fuckin guy

tl;dr the economics profession WAY overemphasized "being clever" at every level, and people like this benefited most

I would draw a direct line between the old pop economics/freakonomics contrarianism to the current set of "just asking questions!"/IDW bullshit

The former produced a bunch of hacks like Bhattacharya and Oster, and the latter, fueled by COVID era BS, brings them further into the mainstream discourse

[You get an alert that your personal data is on the dark web]

BONTO! apologizes for the recent data breach and is committed to doing the utmost (nothing) to limit the damage

Excited for some billionaire or replacement level C suite type to find a way to be outraged by this

That graphic remains undefeated

it's VERY IMPORTANT you DON'T blame VIBE CODING

oh god, weird motivational bots have broken contain from twitter

Wait, the crypto dinner thing is happening again? After he mostly stiffed them the last time??

lol

It is genuinely difficult to remember which right wing goons work for the administration or work for fox news

sometimes it's really easy to mix up the various screaming personalities

He did the bushism and somehow sucked all the humor out of it

Screenshot from wargames (1983): "a strange game. The only winning move is not to play"

When the waymo nopes out of driving on ponce on a Saturday night:

I always thought this was just an Auburn thing

Bigger picture, scumbags like El*n are bad for the economy and the sooner traders quit him in general the better

I generally hope for good things for the economy and markets but I hope the spacex IPO goes up like one of his rockets. I really just wish him the absolute worst

Lol

I thought it was Rory yelling "gimme that shot back" considering how bad it was

Also I cannot believe some TV dope like Eric Swalwell has ride or die fans, please touch grass yall

Golf sponsorships are so funny to me, it's all business software and investment banks and shit

I'm excited, all the absolute worst people are gonna have a bad time

El*n M*sk could never

War damn NASA, war damn army of nerds

what did y'all think use cases for crypto meant? vibes? papers? essays?

We're still doing the AGI schtick? "OOGA BOOGA, superintelligent hacker AI," keep shoveling those benjamins into the capex furnace

"A working class person can't afford to own a car in NYC"

wonder what this one inherited to be here

Extremely funny and bleak to frame Keisha Lance Bottoms, near universally disliked in ATL as a one term do nothing mayor, as the vanguard of democratic policy thinking

"I stepped over a bunch of needles on my way to eat at the afghan restaurant" pretty much sums up my views here, and is also why an Auburn econ major turned into a social democrat

Philly and Baltimore

They're not perfect places but they both have great food, history, scenic places, and they're walkable even with meh transit

Ft. Worth. Sorry TCU

(I honestly didn't spend much time there, just struck me as a lot of Texas sprawl with no S tier Mexican food to reward you for it)

Also honestly didn't like Boston at all, pity I became a red sox fan in 2001 lmao

Also Birmingham has a ridiculously good food scene now

I get that elite athletes can't eat food like us mortals do but mid tier cities like this usually have great food

Like Memphis is rough but the bbq is elite, same with KC

The thing about selling your soul to the devil is they're still the devil? lol, lmao