Ben Gartner

Seems like a problem with the tax system too right? By the time you get through TurboTax each year you are free to decide taxes are making you poor, even if you've maxed out your 401k?

Is your take that people just randomly perceive inflation because price changes are so randomly distributed and people are bad at aggregating or that people are confirming whatever bias they have and prices are basically irrelevant?

The nonviolence was great regardless of the victimizer's agenda.

Hmmm, this appears to be some sort of extrapolation based on overwhelming evidence?

Well I saw my first one last week and I was just driving home from work so...yeah that's a level of laziness that takes some real effort.

Took a walk around to occupy the baby and hit up @ouacbooks.bsky.social @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social and @oddmartmn.bsky.social #hatrick

We gotta get that MAC airport glass for everyone in the helicopter zone. Maybe just relocate it from Nokomis or something.

I live five blocks from the shooting. My dad is from Richland County, MT. He grew up on a farm with eleven siblings. Their grandparents were Black Sea Germans who were invited to Ukraine to farm and then chased out for being German. We invited refugee immigrants to Minnesota. We are the same.

Or we might apply game theory to examine the incentive structure for a Senator who is reluctant to expend political capital while enjoying comfortable margins, and whose risk aversion is a strategy that is reliably exploited by the GOP.

The more I see the more I think it mirrors early search engines. Lots of ways to use them productively, even more scenarios where they are not helpful and a huge amount of trial and error for users to learn which is which.

Never assumed you were left of liberal but "Democrats should do something proactive" is sort of becoming a radical position and possibly the only relevant issue so it's hard to tell anymore

Ignore these galaxy brains, your reporting is useful.

It does seem bad. But also if you look at the gerrymandering situation in the state, the makeup of the legislature is also not what WI voters want.

And likewise, if you make your living explaining why moderation is the optimal strategy, ignoring how easily it's exploited by irrational actors, you just look stupid and evil.

The strategy of moderating viewpoints to maximize future electoral gains certainly had its place. But when electoral gains are the primary goal and the strategy is repeatedly exploited by bad-faith opposition, you just look stupid and weak.

Diversity of thought seems important. It's part of the reason you want diversity of background, age, experience, etc. Otherwise your institution develops blindspots. But mandating diversity of "viewpoint" seems like something else. Something backwards.

Or when he's pressed to make sense of something inherently illogical, that's how he rationalizes it. Feels like the dynamic that emerges when any micromanager is in over their head, people have to reverse engineer something that makes sense to them out of the direction.

Avril Lavigne

I don't think liberals consider Trump "too smart." Seems ungenerous. But Democrats seem to be getting outsmarted pretty frequently so everyone has to resolve that contradiction somehow.

Creating a human to solve a problem is a bad idea, whether it's a personal problem or an external macroeconomic problem.

It's like seeing a house that's on fire and slipping a dollar into the mail slot.

One of the most exploitable strategies I can imagine.

Active listening? In this economy?

But they still expect it to be collected later? Yikes.

Terrible, lazy messaging in both screenshots.

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@amyklobuchar.com skip the next rally please

Have fun in the primaries.

Someone buy these guys a one-dimensional chess board please