Seth H

In his interview on the Klein show I got the impression he was saying you need some tightly integrated core group that is a majority. I’m not sure he was taking a really strong position on the exact nature of that group.

Wait until he discovers the difference between the calendar year and the fiscal year.

It’s the voters, existing home owners. They are making large financial gains from the situation while also pretending to care about affordability.

Space lasers

I agree, seems like either a Trump level law breaking, or a straight up lie.

They should really release the Epstein tax returns. How did he build such a large fortune?

This week on Colbert and the ring: we talk about hobbit architecture and what it tells us about functionalism in middle earth, with an exciting tangent into textile design.

Next act for Colbert: a weekly Apple TV+ show about LOTR

Cities either evolve and change, or stagnate , die and become zombie museums.

The point of the city is change

My MAGA neighbors have a starlink. They got it after we got cheap high speed fiber.

Everything is tribal

IMO the right has been actively manipulating them. The left needs to find a way to engage them.

Politics is about changing people’s minds, educating and convincing.

That’s a cynical oversimplification. These communities have real issues that went unaddressed for years by both parties. Villainizing them won’t help to turn things around.

But not hopeless

The media tends to describe a congressional district that votes MAGA by 60 to 40 as “deep red”, acting like everyone there is MAGA. When it was just 60% of the 40% of the people who voted, and many of them are not true believers.

It’s deeper than that. The people in these areas agree with the cuts. NPR had a longish segment with a rural station in Alaska (and another I think). They have gone all in on right wing media and alternate facts.

They like their station, but not the NPR shows.

Get the big stations to ask their members to consider joining other stations.

My suggestion: organize a nationwide list of stations in trouble (but could still survive) and ask people who are able in other markets to join. Perhaps have a goal of non-local members per station to try to even it out.

I’m in LA but could join another station

What was wrong with that story?

And stop reporting on the Dow Who invests that?

I wish the media would stop saying that the fed “sets rates”

They set some rates, but they don’t directly impact most people. The fed influences the rates that matter, but lots of things (like a weird crazy president and irresponsible budget) can influence them more.

Assuming the funding cut goes ahead (seems like a safe bet), is anyone keeping a list of NPR stations that need help?

I would be willing to join an extra station as a member to help out.

Not all of it was paid by consumers. A lot of that will have been paid by importers or intermediate consumers, either taking a loss or eating into margins. Either is likely to be sustained long term.

I differentiate between MAGA and republicans. There don’t seem to be many actual republicans left (none in public office).

Like I said, I think it's unfair, and also self-destructive to the industry. But it's no where near the very bad practice of using them low level security guards, hairdressers, etc

Generally for the highest paid workers the hiring firm will make you whole anyway. So you get a bunch of time off and come out ahead in cash. And they all do this, so no one gets an advantage.

I agree in general. But IME (I was subject to one by Ken!), as a well paid professional, it was fine. I just moved to California. :)

In the balance I think finance is just hurting themselves. It reduces innovation and costs a lot of money.

It’s the same basic setup as NY and many other places

The longstanding reality (regardless of which party controls what) is you can’t pass major policy changes so close to an election.

IME, almost all of the American AI PhDs his companies are chasing had their education supported by the NSF.

You can compare:

- not free for anyone

- free based on income

- free for all

There are reasonable good faith arguments and evidence for each.