Way more people should have at least a vague familiarity with this book. Shameful that everyone knows what Freakonomics is www.amazon.com/Trauma-Recov...
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Way more people should have at least a vague familiarity with this book. Shameful that everyone knows what Freakonomics is www.amazon.com/Trauma-Recov...
Currently making the switch from democracy promotion (RIP) to civil engineering and yeah, this is my fear. That even working on much less abstract things, literal infrastructure, actual outcomes still won't be the priority
A change I believe we must make: say “much more infrastructure construction” not “much more infrastructure spending.”
We are plenty good at spending on infrastructure; we are bad at building infrastructure. People know this and will react to our acknowledging the difference
Trump tore down part of the White House and … does anyone outside of Bluesky care? Is it in the top 50 things that matter? I know that’s almost equivalent to saying “everything is bad” but well you’re living through a revolution from above, so it kind of is?
Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives
Tim Walz offering a positive vision of traditional masculinity and being loathed for it was low key one of the most blackpillling events of the past decade plus.
There needs to be a word for the tentative rush of joy followed by inevitable crushing disappointment you feel between hearing your phone‘s news alert buzzer going off and finding out he’s still not dead.
1 year anniversary of the actual layoffs hit harder than I expected, even having read Herman
The US military, acting in our name, killed nearly 200 children in a war of choice against a nation who had neither attacked us nor was planning to. At a certain point, the world will cease to draw a distinction between Trump and ordinary Americans, just like they once did between Germans and Nazis.
Did they just expect Iran to be like ok whatever you want sir like they were Columbia University?
Step one: I punch a tiger!! Directly in the nose!! Ahahaha
Step two: ???!!!????!!
New York Mayor Mamdani: "Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers."
Response is so good.
If Vance were to literally just kill him and then pardon himself, I think he’d get away with it, cause the stock market to go up, and lose exactly zero votes because the caveman community Trump draws his base from instinctively understands “THROG CHIEF NOW BECAUSE HE HIT OLD CHIEF WITH BIG ROCK.”
If not for the total and comprehensive awfulness of the crises we currently face these people and their stubborn behavior would be sort of funny
Personalist regimes fucking suck man
Prices were higher.
Trump's a liar.
Life was a bore.
We wanted more.
Don't ask about those matches, Frank.
Fukuyama, fuck you.
Ain't my fault, I blame the Jews.
F-15s in the news.
Kuwaiti Hornet blue on blue.
OK, we started the fire.
We were scared by transgender
and went on a bender.
We sta
Lucas is the Boomer Pythia. Now worshipped, now dismissed; possessed by visions—mystic desert terrorists, planes into buildings, cheeky machines, trade and tax, the beauty of Empire, centuries forgotten in a generation—he speaks but does not understand, each with a strange and bitter core of truth.
And I was a math-loving high school student hearing my usually feminist dad speculate that maybe Summers had a point because he was the president of Harvard...
Still got an econ phd, though. Better late than never, NBER.
Calculus really the only good kind of math
Rare experience of reading coverage of something I know a little bit about and being impressed by its quality
I see Garry Wills mentioned on here once in a while - and BD McClay wrote positively about Nixon Agonistes on substack once - and usually in DC that corresponds to some real-world presence. But Wills books are weirdly hard to find!
Unfathomably based
Donate, vote, spread the word. The primary in June is basically the whole election
I know Aparna from Stomp Out Slumlords and cannot say enough good things about her work there. Just the real deal, organizing for tenants' rights in difficult places, making things better for everyone else. Would be incredible to see her on DC City Council linktr.ee/aparnafordc
Some people want to learn, some people don't, and it's not great that a) the credential most correlated to a comfortable living is predicated on an appetite for learning and b) after that credential, an appetite for learning is not sufficient for a decent living
Kind of crazy that the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research appears to have a workable business model offering "Critical Ancient Greek: learn to read the classics not in translation" to working adults while the average university student won't take any classes that aren't absolutely required
Everyone who rhapsodizes about agricultural labor should be forced to spend a year as the lowest tier of farm worker. And not on a ‘organic’ , ‘sustainable’, ‘regenerative’ etc farm. One of the big commercial, mass-market operations that actually supply most of the world’s food.
FIRST AS TRAGEDY THEN AS FARCE
Still can't believe it was a cartoon account that coined "Honor can't be bought, only sold"
