John Voorheis

Facts care about *some people's* feelings

Gotta do prehistory imo

Introvert married to an extrovert

Guess I better get a lions flag to fit in in the neighborhood

The between sets music playlist is all shit like Take Me Out, and it is killing with the crowd, many of whom were infants or nonexistent when said song came out

We ain't got no place to go, etc

Extremely high marginal income and wealth tax rates are not just a valuable public health intervention for a vulnerable community (rich people gone crazy with wealth) but also have important spillover effects for another population (young men who will otherwise bankrupt their families on gambling)

At a top 1% share of say 10% (of a gini of say .25), a young man at median income had dignity. Double that, and the only way to have a "good life" feels like just being lucky

Not an original thought, but the twin scourges of sports betting and crypto/options trading (honestly the same thing at root) are downstream of a policy/social choice to allow inequality to increase dramatically and stay high.

I think it is harder to know ex ante which specific tasks are "no brainers" and which are going to eat up efficiency gains in not having to write code from scratch with extensive review/debug/reprompt cycles than would be needed to actually make this true

Given the preponderance of evidence re: PM2.5 related mortality, taking literally any steps to continue burning coal when another, lower particulate matter producing option is available actually is something like murder.

Also I haven't had coffee yet don't listen to me

I'm just saying the distribution of productivity gains in final income determines whether this is a nightmare dystopia or not, and the fact that "and we'll have to pay our workers more if they're so much more productive" never seems to show up in these is telling

"we anticipate a productivity boom and we intend on capturing all of it"

The right way to read these is as a statement of intent, that AI is a magic money printing macguffin that lets CEOs increase revenue and limit payroll (aka good old fashioned Marxist exploitation)

About the only upside to having a shitty commute foisted on me is that I can really lean into middle aged dudeness, audiobooks about the ancient world-wide

Some of that depends on whether you think of nomadic pastoralism as a sort of primitiva communism though, right?

5) mistaking lifecycle effects for cross-cohort effects is something that a lot of people do, but that doesn't mean you should jump off the bridge too, or whatever the aphorism is

3) So over-indexing on household-level measures (like SCF or HVS based stats) continues to be misleading and 4) At least for homeownership (in the CPS-ASEC), improvements stopped in 2022, and 35-45 year olds have slightly lower homeownership rates in 2024 vs. 2022

There's a kernel of truth here that's relevant -- through about 2023, the fortunes of the 35-45 year old cohort did improve relative to the mid-2010s -- but it remains the case that for this group, 1) homeownership is *way* lower than it was 40 years ago and 2) householder status is less common

Your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend/partner/random person you know probably wants a pumpkin donut and a dirty chai latte and if you get them one they will like you more

A big problem with basically everything is that the median person is a confident dumbass

Vance is tiebreaker though, so would be same result either way

Verbal debate, like upper body strength for men, is largely a vestige of previous eras, so it's a sort of historical playacting. Some guys like to reenact civil war battles, some guys like to debate like a pre-literate Sumerian, everyone needs a hobby

I feel like this is not adjusting for population properly, so it would be better to choose only the best single item/dish from each. My controversial list

A = French fries
B = cacio e pepe (going to say rome is B)
C = pizza
D =falafel
E = shiro on injera
F = maafe
G = burritos

This implies a grandma pie vs Detroit within-square factional struggle which I quite like

On a per capita basis it's less impressive though, thats like half the worlds population, it would be weird if it wasn't the top

This is more fun if it's "plants and animals domesticated in each region" instead of cuisines, but this still gets you to D

Is Sicily D or E?

Sensible countries rarely make history or whatever the aphorism is