@drewkadel
Long-time Episcopal Priest and Long-time academic librarian. Author of How do you Baptize a Whale? An Encouragement to Compassion https://wipfandstock.com/9798385256204/how-do-you-baptize-a-whale/ Blog: https://drewkadel.wordpress.com/
Yamaha is generally less expensive, but that's a decent price for a new, good-sized Steinway. If you buy a 30 to 50 year old instrument in good condition, it's still around $30K.
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
I think most Americans think there’s some kind of place you can apply to be a citizen, and then they check you out, and then you become a citizen. But there’s not.
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
oh man, the last paragraph of this, where he calls Victoria Hervey to ask her if she still backs her comments about Giuffre and she doubles down. These people can't help telling on themselves.
Many cities and small towns also had trolleys/streetcars. Even in pretty rural places. The Interurban trolley ran from Caldwell, Idaho, through Nampa and Meridian to Boise in the 30s and 40s. The car & gasoline companies got them eliminated through buying them up + lobbying efforts--nation wide.
In the 1950s the Episcopal bishop of Nebraska lived in Omaha, and frequently he would get on a westbound train on Sunday evening (he had a rail pass and got a sleeper room). He'd arrive in Scottsbluff in the morning & would visit parishes all week working his way east along the railway.
Trump's not riding in any fighter jet, I assure you.
My mom was born in 1930 on a small farm in the eastern Oregon desert. By the time she was a teenager she was desperate to get away, so she graduated high school at 15 and left for college in Seattle that fall. NEVER romanticized farm life.
Not every good investment from the old regime will be good in the new regime. Amazon is a predatory monopolistic behemoth, so I have little sympathy for its investors. There are ways to change incentives & rewards that don't destroy prosperity. Policy needs to discourage billionaire formation.
Ultimately our problem is reversing the policy changes, put in mostly since Reagan came into office (which was when I was 26, so not in the foundations of the country) which favored the creation of billionaires & disabling labor organizing. Taxing them out of existence is only a small piece.
unrealized capital gains--which is the bulk of the income and wealth of Musk and Bezos, etc. But currently policy is the opposite--the carried interest loophole (mostly for hedge fund managers) keeps huge amounts of income from being taxed at all.
You already pay that tax on interest and dividends in that range, capital gains are from the increase in value over time. In practice there would need to be nuancing to make it work, but taxing large capital gains at a rate even higher than straight income could be feasible. Perhaps even UNREALIZED
It's much more complex and really totally separate from generating glib answers to text based questions.
We are usually wrong by just a little bit because we use heuristics most of the time to get to "good enough" solutions. For exact solutions we use tools and machines. People kind of flip the script with AI. But real consciousness involves integrating all of our bodily processes + external inputs.
One thing that I think makes people think of Claude et al. as conscious is ironically how it shares in the sloppiness of most people's approaches to most things. A little informality, favoring being idiomatic over precise & people overlook how it's slightly wrong--most of us are slightly wrong.
Right. I posted before you wrote this but to reiterate: I think it’s a new wave of hands-off agnostics coming in for coding capacities and being surprised that the conversation isn’t the GPT3-era / Alexa machine they expected. Low expectations, lower bar, etc.
Move them all to Franfurt.
Always listen to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
(and get her new book, duh)
Trump speaking after markets close is usually a sign he’ll say something bad for the economy, and the White House communications team doesn’t want a graph with the line going down and blaring red numbers with a minus sign on the screen with him when he does.
Enormous ratings opportunity for a live broadcast from the deck of an oil tanker, Brian.
Or, you could build express high speed rail across the state, and require everyone to use it. (Probably would have to bill the construction costs to the EU to get it built however)
There might be a way around that that passes constitutional muster, idk. But capital gains are currently taxed at a different LOWER rate. So if you change that to a different HIGHER rate, then any time Elon sells a Tesla share to buy a sandwich you take $9,000.00
Yeah. Simply annex the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas, and make all their financial institutions U.S. institutions overnight with no warning.
If you want something else to think about besides politics and war, this is a fascinating exploration of how animals’ perception of time and pace of life are interrelated:
The policy choice is a layering of policy choices over the past 100 years--the built environment of many municipalities makes no sense without driving everywhere. We CAN change policies, but it's huge systemic changes, not the work of 10 or 20 years, but far more.
44 years ago, I was ordained in the Diocese of Nebraska. I was from out of state-nobody new me, but >30 priests drove to Lincoln for the occasions. 3 came from nearly 500 miles away! (Scotts Bluff) Then they drove back the next day.
the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”
It's not impossible that Elon has committed actual crimes for which he should be prosecuted. (More serious than what Martha Stewart went to prison for) Shaking loose his control of those companies & seizing assets isn't out of the question.
