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We are Paul Volcker, we carry the flame

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

I don't go in for most media-bashing on here, but this new thing where Trump calls access reporters during trading hours and gives them the SCOOP that the war's about to end is pretty egregious.

its only been like a week and this is already one of the stupidest things anyone's ever posted

Noooo Marcos deactivated

there's a serious problem with punditry (specifically in the heterodox sphere) where having specialized knowledge means that you get to be an omni-expert. Yggy has this problem too where he talks about housing policy but clearly doesn't know anything besides notes he's copied from smarter people

very funny new podcast beef starting: 5-4 vs Amicus Brief

Tablet and Hyperallergic should switch names already

An institution that sells stolen land in an apartheid state cannot be protested because its “religious“ and the country that sells them weapons ”has its hands tied”

The left-liberal position on Israel is that you can “criticize” but you have to treat it as an entirely distinct entity from the United States (at least until Jan 2025) and that you can’t criticize any of the US institutions that support it

If you do BDS (and you should) do you follow the “organic boycotts” or just the main list

Liberals discovering vote abstention now is so annoying

Fake slopulists when a real Settler shows up

#BeastMode

Been a rough decade for Kobe fans

Jason Goes to Hell is one of the better Friday the 13th movies

For the UK context, I find the idea that rogue billionaires are funding this persecution hard to square with the large numbers of NHS professionals who are professionally & proactively being complicit in persecution & child abuse. They aren't being bribed to cause harm. They are willing actors.

i hate our boy mayor so much

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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I wrote about this issue last year. In short, vaccines have been so effective that people have almost entirely forgotten what it is like to live with these really nasty diseases

gidmk.substack.com/p/the-proble...

The problem with health libertarianism a la MAHA and co is that it's fundamentally opposed to the evidence.

You can't easily reconcile the fact that much of health is outside of individual control and the desire to remove all government intervention from public health.

METABOLISM CONSORT: Sir, it’s 2am. He should go to bed immediately

BRAIN DUKE: No. Make music sound good to him for the first time in three years

PENIS SERF : And perchanse a bonner,

Milk me like one of your french cows

Likewise I see zero desire to actually curb the insane amount of issues it's causing logistically and socially. People write these off with "Well CGI already existed", which to me is like saying "Well the written word already existed" in reference to the printing press.

That's not a bad analogy. tbh How it's being interpreted really comes down to use cases and how many people's lives are made easier or harder by it individually.

For me zero work gains but every piece of tech has just become so much worse with integration and now security threats are innumerable.

sorry for headlineposting chief

something exciting about the next few years is that as left-yimbyism gains more of a consensus appeal Very Serious People like Barro will bend over backwards to defend the landowner class

Lawsuit settlement with State Farm requires rate increase reductions for property owners and increases for renters policyholders

They’re coming up with new and exciting ways for renters to subsidize property owners here in the Golden State all the time. It’s frankly incredible how many different levers they find to take money out of renters pockets and give it to homeowners and landlords.

Fuck them servicemembers

Roughly around the Bolsheviks but slightly to the right, dead on