I mean they broke search very early on. Though word on the street is that Musk still has access to working search

*Low-volume* prediction markets are meaningless and the trick Is figuring out how low volume is too low for a given market

Haven't read the article but I have read that if you add a N-yearlong lag factor it helps explain the sentiment. People take years to grow into acceptance of the new price level.

Big problem with all these studies is that the data have one (1) inflation event that was not also a wage-price spiral.

We kick ass at innovating beverages though our culture of appreciation is diminished bc many would-be connoisseurs are busy chasing a bag that is simply unavailable in Europe

Rich by global standards maybe

Loooooots of people with standing credit card balances will still ubereats/doordash McDs as a treat

Having a very short time preference in the 2020s is not an easy life

I mean if you watch reality TV (like my spouse does sometimes) you will see plenty of white men screwing up their lives because they are stupid and selfish and lazy, and those aren't marginalized identities.

Though maybe they think life is working for them even though it's not

How do we convince blue state politicians that they should be spending resources to attract and accommodate more residents, rather than spending those resources to directly benefit existing residents?

I know it's not the point but I'm really hoping you intended to say that the beauty pageant girl was the one wearing overalls

If it's about living in the same place for a long period of time, and that place is growing rapidly economically, then the people who live there need to either accept many many more neighbors (deeply unpopular) or raise their incomes faster than CPI-U every year (taxes cannot do this)

In the *immediate* term tax cuts absolutely increase affordability. Your disposable income goes up instantly. They are insufficient in the medium term.

The problem is that democratic voters in blue states do not want the long term project for affordability because they don't want new neighbors.

Look Dems have two ways to make their states more affordable:

1. Build lots of housing. Their current residents hate this, because they don't want to share the state with anybody new from outside their community
2. Cut taxes

Pretty obvious which one is gonna happen

I am not a moron and I could pull it off because my dad speaks it. but I would rather kms than leverage that talent into becoming so much as a city councilmember

Threads is full of copypasta and always has been

Don't apologize for fighting against context collapse

The belief among blue pols is is that Nothing of consequence gets done without federal support. so if you are a local politician you are holding out to move federal bucks

Nearly hit a moose one time. Brother if you hit a moose at speed you die and the moose gets the dent

One time I started my car 15m early to heat it up before I left - as one does - and forgot to clear the snow of the roof.

I reach the first stoplight, hit the brakes, snow slides off the roof onto the warm windshield. Instant crack across the entire fucking thing

Do you remember the late 10s when Teen Vogue [Was] Doing The Real Journalism?

Web 1.0 was open it just had friction

I assume it's a reference to ANWR which has been a national issue for decades

This plan has actually been posted by a DSA NY State Senator who later deleted it

NY leading the way here.

First you mandate unprofitability.

The next step is landlords sell at a loss. If a buyer steps up, attack them for being low-quality. Try to stop the sale.

Goal is forced receivership and a backdoor to new semi-public housing. "No buyer? I guess we have to run it..."

Nikki and Paulo episode is the Waterloo of LOST

This is all on point but you lost track a bit of a key detail you made upthread: Altman and Musk each did, for a time, do a great job in collecting brilliant people who are ball-knowers to work together on the "real" problem space.

And they hoarded those people as long as they could!

I am personally reaching levels of not-wanting-to-get-involved usually reserved for the holiday season

There are a lot of people that trace all internet culture megawar back to gamergate. The first global flame war after which we never stopped having global flame wars

Do yall not know about gamergate? That's no ordinary poster

The stock market is up today because the stock market does not measure how stupid the president is.

Isn't that just donating $90k?

At least five percent of the white people who observed discourse like this unfolding have concluded "wow phds agree that only white people are capable of addressing the big problems of our day"

I think that's lowballing it but at least 5% for sure