A misconception doesn't have to serve a purpose to exist.

A motorcycle helmet with a knitted axolotl shaped helmet cover, on the back of a sporty motorcycle

A graph of supply and demand showing that putting in place a price ceiling below the market-clearing price causes demand to exceed supply, creating a shortage.

A fake "Free Steam Games" page, claiming to give you Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 if you enter your Steam username, password, and e-mail. A subheader reads "Need Proof?", above a red "Proof" stamp.

This is the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Democrat consultants will really be like "you believe in posting? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, winning an election" and then not win an election

The Peubloans of Chaco Canyon were not stupid- they built and coordinated complex systems of agricultural irrigation! But there was nothing magical about being pre-colonialism or pre-capitalism that made their efforts to reshape the environment to their own benefit sustainable.

These projects enabled an arid area to sustain a large population through high agricultural productivity even in times of drought. They also gradually raised soil salinity until large areas which were formerly fertile became inarable and the surrounding area became depopulated.

Native Americans engaged in major projects that reshaped their environment to extract greater benefits. Sometimes these projects were the sorts of things we would perceive as sustainable, but other times they took forms like the Pueblo People's irrigation projects in the American southwest.

As humans migrated out of Africa, they hunted the majority of megafauna in Australia, North America, and South America to extinction. This happened even as the total global human population was less than 5-10 million!

Humans did not live in harmony with a sustainable ecosystem prior to capitalism and colonialism, and in fact this notion ignores the many ways, including negative ones, that indigenous people across the globe radically reshaped ecosystems.

"If you disregard the many ways in which I am wrong, we can pretend I'm right"

It’s Tax Day. You’ve Paid Your Share, but the Billionaires Haven’t. You likely had most of your federal taxes deducted from your paychecks throughout the year. This is not true, however, for mega-millionaires and billionaires, some of whom are practically running our ...

Low taxes for the ultra-rich and corporations are part of the reason that America experiences supercharged inequality.

On tax day, @amyhanauer.bsky.social explains the issues we face with our tax system and the current path the extremely wealthy have put us on. itep.org/tax-day-bill...

Comic strip-style dialogue between Spiegelman and Sacco; one panel: I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language.

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language."

By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco

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It's difficult to build brick houses in California due to earthquakes. On top of that, homes are not sealed boxes and furnishings, walls, and floors will all be flammable. Homes can be fire resistant but not fireproof, and no design is safe inside a wildfire.

But giving context is an important part of textbooks! This says to me that the prof had previously assigned a book she wrote to make money. Because she could require it and nobody else would use it, it didn't need to be good, so she just pasted in primary sources while doing the least work possible

She says “Normally, I would spend lectures contextualizing the material [...] but now all of that is in the textbook we generated, and I can actually work with students to read the primary sources.” That implies the previous textbook didn't contextualize anything, and just was a dump of primary text

As called by Rafa Hernández-Brito & Carlos Baerga on Cleveland Guardians Spanish radio, ¡INCREÎBLE!

Here's what Donald Trump's tax plan would look like for Americans at different income levels. itep.org/a-distributi...

The problem seems intractable. Mentorship is something students need- advice is helpful but there are also real material benefits like internships and LORs which help secure jobs/grad school admissions. And the burden is worst for those who have the most workload and least support.

So you're saying this would be a bad time to write four years post-graduation to ask for a recommendation letter? 😄 Jokes aside, your public policy class was excellent, and helped inspire me into public service, but as a 100+ student intro class must've created a huge amount of requests for guidance

Samwise Gamgee type post

I don't think the lesson you should take from the tragic story of a young man forced into suicide by the threat of a multi-decade prison sentence for piracy is that we need to give copyright owners more rights, reduce the scope of fair use, and punish infringement more harshly.

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Minoring in political science probably does make you more qualified to talk about politics compared to someone who majored in political science. But still not as credible as someone who didn't study polisci at all.

Don't worry though, CalTrans does other stuff too! They'll have the high-speed rail ̶f̶i̶n̶i̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶ 2̶0̶2̶0̶ 2̶0̶2̶4̶ 2̶0̶2̶8̶ it'll connect Merced to Bakersfield by 2030 with the SF and LA extensions contingent on federal funding.

Excess mortality: Deaths from all causes compared to average over previous years Percentage difference between the reported weekly or monthly deaths in 2020–2024 and the average deaths in the same period in 2015–2019.

Even if you think covid deaths aren't being reported as covid, those deaths would show up in all-cause excess mortality. Which is currently at approximately zero. Of course covid deaths matter, but that doesn't mean mass death is being covered up (ourworldindata.org/grapher/exce...)

🎶Far above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell
Some say it's Cayuga's waters
Some say it's Cornell 🎶

You are developing a crypto project. Your entire grift relies on getting away with negative externalities.

Super cute! The sound effects were great.