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They’re both abbreviations for Southern Comfort, right?

“I think the subnivean domain will define the 21st century.”

Yeah, absolutely. Buy everything in proportion to market value and hold it for the long term isn’t even a coherent concept here.

Derivatives are also bilateral and zero-sum, but it still makes sense to think of them as being a market with a certain size. No single metric is perfect, and the amount of outstanding notional value can be misleadingly high if the market participants are doing new trades that offset earlier trades.

One way to think to measure it is just in the outstanding notional value that’s committed. Like if someone puts money in now then they’re going to have it locked up for a while, and you can just count up the current value of locked up money.

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Yeah — the basic problem is that public preferences in America are just incoherent. If you want affordable, plentiful housing where everyone has a detached house with a lawn but can walk to a coffee shop five minutes away, you basically need large-scale spatial magic.

You really need something like proportional representation if you want to have a more reliable way to keep the Nazis from capturing one of the two parties in a FPTP country.

Their heads were buried in the sand.

I think too that without an example like this it’s hard to motivate the changes to make backsliding harder next time. It’s one thing to theoretically know that a given reform would be better and another for it to actually get widespread support.

Bluesky: “I can’t wait for discovery!”

Ken: *eye begins to twitch more vigorously*

It does actually work a lot of the time.

Sexy “yes in my backyard”

Those are screenshots from Bloomberg terminals.

I just choose to believe that this is what Holden would have posted.

Absolutely. There’s another desperate struggle among people in the top couple percent of the income distribution to still view themselves as middle class instead of rich.

Still would require constitutional amendments, but marginalization due to coalition fracture seems the best way to handle the fact that 30% of the electorate seems to prefer fascism.

The best approach I’ve seen would be to try to shift to a parliamentary system:

- Allow House races to be based on proportional representation by state.
- Reduce the power and significance of the Senate.
- Allow a simple majority of the House to appoint a new President and VP.

Ruin a science fiction story by replacing a character:

Foundation, but instead of Hari Seldon it’s Nicholas Nassim Taleb.

I would love to see him in a lot of Turkish Airlines ads.

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

I’m not as familiar with it — would it mean they could start using the military to carry out arrests for deportations?

Cornado is no place for a mighty warrior!

If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.

If you’re going to say that, the least you can do is be logically consistent and oppose nominating him on the grounds that you might accidentally make Kavanaugh’s evil doppelgänger a Supreme Court justice.

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

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