Chance Phillips

Well I can't argue with that.

If there was a race of aliens of equal intelligence to humans, who wanted to eat humans but could trivially be prevented from doing so, would it be acceptable to eat them in turn?

Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25%. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

my life is that I record a podcast episode all about tariffs and leave the booth just to find out there are more tariffs

collected economic papers : joan robinson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The specific quote appears to be on pages 40 and 41 of the second volume, in the essay titled “The Philosophy of Prices”: archive.org/details/coll...

(The whole essay/collection is also a fun read of course.)

Some Reflections on the Philosophy of Prices Click on the article title to read more.

An earlier (IIRC) version of the paper/argument that the quote is from can be found at the link below. But it's not quite as direct. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

distribution of property, which is quite arbitrary from either an economic or an ethical point of view, and the manipulation of prices can be used as a corrective to the maldistribution of income.’’

Joan Robinson in a volume of her Collected Economic Papers series: “The case for pricing according to market demand is very much stronger in a socialist society than in a capitalist one, for in the capitalist society the distribution of purchasing power between families depends largely on the ...

Lawmaker says group threatened to burn his home, land over dog deer hunting Rep. Chris Pringle said a group of deer hunters who use dogs threatened his property, leading him to vote against rules limiting dog-assisted hunting.

Rep. Chris Pringle said a group of deer hunters who use dogs threatened his property, leading him to vote against rules limiting dog-assisted hunting.

Thanks for clarifying!

Only one of the victims who was apparently shot by the police died. The other is currently in hospital.

Is there other reporting to the effect that another one of the people who was killed had their death also caused by the police?

The numbers end up being quite close if you’re looking at quarters, but it’s not *just* division/arithmetic, per my understanding.

(Apologies if I’m misinformed!)

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas As part of the nation's central bank, the Dallas Fed plays an important role in monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and the operation of a nationwide payments system.

www.dallasfed.org/research/bas...

This isn’t how annualized growth works, is it?

Isn’t annualized growth the rate that the economy would grow if it continued at the current rate? So there is compounding and if the economy grows 1 percent in a quarter, the annualized rate is ~4.06 percent, not 4 percent.

Are you telling me that Trump was fine with/approved of Project 2025 when he told the press he didn't know about it? And that Project 2025 contributors & fans were the folks chosen to staff his second admin? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

Well, not that shocked.
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-...

To be honest, I'm shocked by this incredible show of bad faith on your part, Mr. Primary School /j

Hey now, she says calling Sliwa "someone who is going to represent the community, our people and every single New Yorker" and "the best candidate for us…. the people’s mayor… who is going to fight for you" wasn't an endorsement!

Essentially irrelevant to your appreciation for EA's past but possibly amusing: As a (basically) non-gamer, I keep reading these discussions about EA's legacy as discussions about effective altruism until I'm at least a couple sentences in.

Here’s Bruenig replying to other Matt @besttrousers.bsky.social on The Bad Site.

The Argument is based on Substack. On Substack, "guest posts" are tied to people's Substack accounts, and Bruenig's Substack profile pic is presumably the same as his profile pic on Twitter.

I can't speak to The Argument, but that's rarely how titles on pieces work. (But I have had editors let me sign off on titles in the past of course.)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Check out this great listen on Audible.com. This Star-Studded New Recording Brings to Life a History Changing Political Battle! The Lincoln-Douglas Debates made history and changed its course through ...

There's also a quite good audiobook version of the debates that people could consider listening to, given the original format of the *debates* and all.

www.audible.com/pd/The-Linco...

Battle of the Sexes | Jasper Craven Pete Hegseth has used his many perches—from Princeton to the Pentagon—to agitate for a kind of trickle-down masculinity.

"Perhaps the most ghastly piece printed during Hegseth’s reign as publisher was an assertion that Princeton’s characterization of sex with an unconscious person as nonconsensual was an effort to “indoctrinate” students."

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"I think you'll find a lot of Helen's positions are driven by the desire to increase suffering." ☠️

Trump Must Lose the Second Bank War Henry Clay understood what was wrong with the unitary executive theory back in the 1830s.

"Inveterate contrarian Sohrab Ahmari has argued that Trump’s clash with the Federal Reserve isn’t just one more manifestation of an imperial presidency. Instead, his column maintains that attacking Fed independence is a warranted reassertion of democratic control over the economy."

Truly grateful we have a major columnist with this command of history and constitutional law.

(To clarify, the first quote—“There is something odd ...”— is from Bouie’s new column. The following two are from A Necessary Evil.)

first one, is devoted to the application of the laws provided for in the first article.”

serve the first.”

“The hierarchy of functions in the Constitution is legible on the document’s face. Article I is devoted to the legislature, beginning with the more representative chamber, closer to the people as the source of lawmaking power. Article II, less than half the length of the ...

“Lawmaking is a society’s highest function; it sets the rules by which all things are to be done or judged. It precedes in time and dignity the execution or adjudication of the laws. Without prior legislation, there is nothing to be executed or adjudicated. The other two functions necessarily ...

“There is something odd, however, about a democratic accountability that relies on maximalist claims of executive power and the subversion of congressional statutes.”

As a lot of things do, my agreement with Bouie’s argument reminded me of Garry Wills in A Necessary Evil.