Zander🚈🔰

I do not harbor any "back to the land" fantasies because I understand that one thousand generations of my ancestors would have given everything they had for my indoor reading and writing job.

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

when my stakeholder asks me how far i am on that dashboard i’m building

when people ask how the book project is going

The wikisky dreams will be realized

I can vouch for this

Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

either lives in the global south are real or they aren't fucking pick one, you don't get to trade lives in Gaza for lives in Ghana to soothe your soul

*Georgism intensifies*

perhaps make the tax based on something inelastic relative to its taxation level? spitballing here but i think there’s a solid candidate for such a tax

radical idea: we should have a broad-based progressive tax system that gives everyone a stake in the effective and equitable distribution of stably-funded services

once or twice per week she will ask a question seeking an explanation about (thing that i perceive to be common knowledge/subject of outrage) and i will be reminded that i am 100x more Online than the typical american. we have work to do to make this stuff break through

i have a friend from college who basically does not follow the news at all except through what she picks up in the news/current events channel in the Discord server for our friend group. she is unintentionally a very useful barometer for how much things are breaking through to normies

Its hard for me to get excited about voters turning on Trump. Like if a man tries to overthrow the nation in 2020 and voters are so stupid they re-elect him four years later, the chance that they'll forget about this is so high. 2024 revealed this nation had issues much bigger than Trump.

this tiebreaker table a Japanese fan brought to Korea-Australia needs to be added to Cooperstown, not even joking

Reaganism has infected all parts of America

(person who doesn't have to get up before 7:30AM) i call it "daylight savings"

I love Econ-positng. Dan Habsmith of Guttermeyer Associates posts the most confusing chart you've ever seen and says "Quite surprising VARG numbers, SPLG index showing movement" and you get the context by one of his mutuals quoting it with "Buy a fucking gun and head for the hills. Right now."

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

you ever think how this is all because america elected a centre-left black president once, and the right never forgave the left for it

this is what comes out of my idle brain cycles

seeing 御 instead of お always throws me for a brief loop

my more serious take on this is if you wanna break the cult of *** you gotta affirmatively say that your journal will publish null results! as in actively go out of your way to do so, actively tell your reviewers you will, etc etc.

flamingo moment

another victim of three cueing

it's actually pretty easy for me to explain why I don't feel the need to extend rights I think humans have to things I don't think are human

stupid DST means the UV index is now at High all the way until 5 PM

turns out people don't like it when you bomb them

a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc

Abolish DST.