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At some point I’ll sit down and collate the overlap of progressive German 1848 revolutionary immigrants in Turner Clubs, Wide-Awake Clubs, and 1850s-1860 militia companies - at which point I will reach full limit of potential and probably self combust

Agreed.

Operation Warp Speed was actually quite successful on the whole. And the GOP base lost their minds at ... a vaccine.

RFK is in some ways the scariest part of Trump II because the anti-vax stuff he represents is something the base pushed *harder than Trump*. there is something the cult is willing to fight him on, and it's the abstract idea of public health

Y'all, the Puritans gonna be mad as hell.

This point really upsets some folks, but it is true. Folks wonder why there's so much DLC, microtransactions and stuff and the answer is that at a $70 price point, inflation adjusted, games cost 75% of what they did in 2000 when it was typically $50.

Inflation is like that.

I don't know what to tell you, generic Internet commentator. I would hire someone - and give them a Claude subscription.

Its auxiliary. Its not a replacement.

But competency + Claude gives me reason to avoid hiring 2-3 more people imo.

This effect scales in specific ways and not others.

Don't forget the subcommittee review and the non profit input solicitations

... I can afford Claude. Unless I get a bank loan (dubious at this stage), or sweet talk a VC round, it's going to be Claude.

Sorry, badly paid people on oDesk who did bad work.

(And sorry, badly paid guy who did good work but had to dip for family reasons).

I am vigorously banging away in the evenings with Claude Code.

AI has absolutely replaced the low cost oDesk contractors I used to hire. It works far more reliably and has a higher quality.

Now, you say, maybe I should try hiring someone at full wages.

Well....

But the process.

Mazel tov

real time test of economic pressure.

A lot of people basically vote their pocketbook, looking at first order spend like taxes.

A giant stack of papers, about 1/2 the size of an apple, on a counter.

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again?

I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.

That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

Spent last night reading Strobist articles on lighting and now I am staring at the GBBO thinking of how they are doing lighting.

Its what he knows.

I would rather celebrate large families and build for them, making them welcome and wanting many children around and enjoying being with them them.

Ah well. I'm just an anon on the internet.

I don't think we will like to be in a country where youth are rare, I don't think it will be good for our children, and I think it will make life needlessly hard.

All of that is plain demographically.

One response here is to ban things that inhibit child making (thanks Augustine).

There's a very nasty political argument which is this, "be conservative. Have 8 kids. Your children will outvote the liberals' 1 child, and your grandchildren will absolutely overwhelm them".

I'm not sure that prophecy will fully hold - people tend to be chiller than their parents want. But ...

I fully expect that as birthrates decline, birth control, abortion, etc will come under increasing fire.

It is already evident that there are fewer children than our systems are built for, and that will become very ugly as we age. Staffing, taxes, ability to specialize, etc ...

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Saw this article and thought you might be interested, with your Orangey Gang

I heard this in the 2007 era from a devoted Fox News watcher.

Absolutely nothing makes me more Zionist than antizionists.

N.b. David Bentley Hart is the only recent author I can think of who has written with a wide range of vocabulary.

I'm sure there are others.

Reading thick books with complex and difficult sentences is good- writers who flex the English language's full facility are rare and should be celebrated - deep erudition is worthy.

happy to see the hostages coming home.

:-(

One reason why 2nd amendment people get shirty about gun registries.

Pardon power has to be one of the worst clauses in the constitution.

I've posted this picture before but I do find it interesting that the police here arresting Carlo Gambino, at the time one of the most dangerous men in America with dozens of killers at his command, didn't feel the need to cover their faces because they are not ashamed of their work

They should try to organize a couple of thousand normal people to strike for wages in a clear cut union contract bargaining situation before assuming that we can persuade an an entire nation to walk off the job by posting about it really hard.