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Aspiring wastrel, applied econometrician. http://rachaelmeager.com for bayes, dev econ and meta science. Also http://rottenandgood.substack.com for writing, art, death and emotions. Gay academic nonbinary weirdo cursed to be serious in Sydney and in life.
Usual
WaPo Deputy Opinion Editor is just straight up lying about Mamdani's estate tax proposal (in both tweets and an op-ed).
The bill contains a $1.75 million primary residence exemption, exempts retirement accounts, and the 50% marginal rate doesn’t kick in until $30 million.
oh my god jack (but also, mood. sometimes when i get really depressed im like "well, could go on that risky hike im normally just a bit too sensible to do....")
the lace monitor is freaky but mostly fine but the fucking brown snake christ alive..... ive seen 1 in the bushes and it looks like fuckin death to me .....
no, we must learn to live in harmony with na ture
Nobody cares that you "don't dream of labour under late stage capitalism". Not when there's a growing number of men who think it was a mistake that you should have been educated, given the vote and allowed the job and bank account you're so ambivalent about.
it does have panache that is accurate
hmmmmmm maybe ... i think i have never seen one
the kookaburra is a dinosaur and i wont have u put slander upon it
the best analogue is deer. in most cases completely harmless and very cute, but they are able to grow big and heavy, and could get angry and aggressive and behave erratically and in that case it would be dangerous
one of the two shall happen! or both!
most aussie animals will not approach you and are safe if you do not approach them. americans always ask me if kangaroos are dangerous, i always used to say no of course not, recently i started to add "but no wild animal is safe to get close to, of course" but people do seem a bit confused by this
koalas are actually quite worth keeping away from as well
yeah smart question. little! but not tiny. maybe a bit bigger than a thumbnail. also most of the dangerous spiders in oz are quite shy and wouldn't go landing on you afaik
Didn’t get a good enough look at them unforch
Awwww that’s lovely and heart warming to hear (cheering news being somewhat rare in our profession and our world …)
<nods> the american choice
Yeah it’s crazy how far we’ve come in the last 20 years culturally (and I think that some of the current trad / fash stuff is genuinely partially a backlash to this, tho it is certainly not only caused by that and this does not mean the progress was too fast)
I try to dispel the myths about Australia and our exposure to wildlife etc but it is unfortunately also the case that I’m sitting outside under a gum tree at night and two spiders landed on me in the span of 5 minutes and I am apparently so desensitized to this now that I just brushed them off
It’s so often the way in those grad courses! Not really that much can be done about it sometimes. I wish I could have been there too! Was he aware that most people in the class were struggling? I found instructors vary in that awareness …..
I find them cute but they’re too expensive
They aren’t going away Andrew
I didn’t know you took a course from sims ! That’s so cool
whooohooo @simine.com !!!!!!!
Lmao Marc incredible
hell yes give us all the updates as u go please
wallaboo!!!!!
Nonbinary we count those
pls do see it and report back!!!
ah wow, really cool!