though for borough wide popular votes i guess this isn't the worst

islington is bold

The underlying structural problems of UK politics that the country doesn't have the resources to do everything expected of it and a Westminster class in denial about this doesn't go away in the event of a new PM.

i like how the thriftbooks 'this year's top sellers' are like beloved by toni morrison or heated rivalry and the 'popular last year' list are like. melania: a memoir. the war on warriors by pete hegseth. moving beyond the covid-19 lies.

been seeing a lot of straight wedding content on instagram and thinking wow if i didn't know i was gay before i definitely know now bc if i was even a little bit not gay i would be trying to get a gf like crazy rn

i feel like if i want to split my three long trips (across the west and mountains through to detroit, around south central US, and around the eastern seaboard up to ohio) across this summer, next winter, and next summer the obvious answer is that this summer is for the cross-country one

'maybe he texted me about meeting this week because he would rather get it out of the way so he can never see me again' that's ridiculous, if he didn't want to see me ever again he would simply ignore me like all those other people have done before

bridgeport also feels kind of niche to know relative to the other major connecticut cities

it's like if all of gwynedd was called the city of bangor and then that was called a major welsh city

apparently it's just virginia beach

what's the 'major cities' category here

i think the rice in this mediterranean restaurant is too salty given how salty the meat also is

oh i get to quote luther again

and the actual new paper is about how under a world with both existing cross-border financial assets and new tariffs Lerner symmetry doesn't apply and high enough tariffs can make the other country richer or poorer depending on NFA position and can lead to total trade shutdown.

one paper is about how the sudden possibility of a mid-career market can affect how much intangible capital accumulates and affect the distribution of training relative to endowment income during young years.

occasionally i still get to see macro papers that genuinely changes how i think about things. obviously it could just be that i'm dumb but today that happened twice (well the first paper changed how i think about things when i first saw it three years ago but).

they gotta start doing a random generator for these things

macroeconomist enviously daydreams of being allowed to give i.i.d. regional interest rate shocks

Looking at the cohort design of the policy, was this proposed by an applied microeconomist?

there are hymns and then there are *hymns*

do they have lanterns up permanently or is some event coming up

oh great the CoE priests i follow on instagram are making reels about media coverage of a 'youth revival of church attendance' [that is actually based on unreliable data]

what's her perception of the audience of this podcast though

i think it's more this is the sort of salacious office gossip that has always been everywhere including in politics but they no longer feel like they need to keep it from public view

same podcast where Matt Forde got Gove to admit he has a crush on Shabana Mahmood and then a few episodes later he got his guests (Helen Lewis, Mhairi Black, Tim Montgomerie) to say which politicians they found fit

which in turn is a follow up from this being the podcast where Gove said he sometimes looks up photos of Shabana Mahmood

if this is the same Matt Forde podcast where he asked Helen Lewis, Tim Montgomerie, and Mhairi Black which politicians they fancy?

but equally you can think of industries like journalism or maybe tech as declining untrained/early career wages forcing poorer young people to allocate more time to earning wages and less time to training

the original inspiration of the paper is a shock to limited commitment (if workers cannot pre-commit to staying all career if their training is successful, the firm will invest less time on training and workers have to spend more time to compensate which only richer people can do)

i was first taught this paper three years ago in undergrad and i feel like it's changed how i think about professional careers a lot generally