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@zonkerbrainless.bsky.social

Flower child. Cat owner. Black Lives Matter. He/him oh and I'm an economist! ask me anything!

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:sigh:

21.11.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hey!

20.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ROFL

20.11.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my experience with giving my kid adhd drugs is it increased her scores on standardized tests by a full standard deviation. but it also gave her an eating disorder. I wish I had managed it better.

20.11.2025 15:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

fuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuu

20.11.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

stupid onions

20.11.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

:screams in economist:

19.11.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

are we the baddies?

19.11.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No!

This is your guy! If he says it, you said it!

19.11.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here, table 1-2 on page 24. Saved you the trouble.

Advanced nuclear: $7,861/kW.
Wind: $1,500/kW
Solar + batteries: $2,000-$2,500/kW

www.eia.gov/analysis/stu...

19.11.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You don't have to hire an energy economist to know this, go to the DOE website and search for the table of estimated overnight costs of constructing different kinds of energy, you'll see how much cheaper wind and solar are. You're welcome.

19.11.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If your AI company needs electricity, there's millions of acres of land in the united states where farmers are being paid not to farm it in the name of conservation. Buy some of these acres from the farmers and build wind and solar farms there. It's scalable. And cheaper than nuclear.

19.11.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

so, you need to expand the electric grid and the most cost effective way to do it is solar panels+batteries paid by your company specifically but you don't want to admit it because you want the public to fund nuclear power plants on your behalf?

19.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

dislike

19.11.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh there's definitely something we can do. We can start referring to Trump as "President Pig." Will it help? No. Will it be satisfying? Maybe.

19.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the first 7 months after he seized the chancellorship, Hitler jailed 40,000 political opponents. So Trump's attempt to emulate Hitler falls woefully short

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

19.11.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NO COMMENTTTTTTTTTT

19.11.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or, they are incompetent boobs. Flagrantly citing racism as the reason for gerrymandering Texas, because they are stupid, while Dems did it the non-stupid way.

We'll see if the SCOTUS overturns the Texas decision. Probably. "Racism is totally fine, since it no longer exists"

19.11.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

dislike

19.11.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tish

19.11.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Holy crap I forgot all about that

That was like, 30 years ago

19.11.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here Comes the Sun

19.11.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And Trump can classify anything he wants

19.11.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What is the response that would be the most insulting, smug, and arrogant?

18.11.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's called "snoofing"

18.11.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, if she publicly apologizes to David Hogg and dedicates her life to gun control advocacy...

18.11.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Much better healthcare, yes, because well known market failures like adverse selection don't exist

18.11.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Halligan *lied* to the grand jury about the evidence she had???

18.11.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey so... where does the "Stefan" spelling of your/our name come from? My parents said it was Ukrainian but that can't be true

17.11.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

dislike

17.11.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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