Yakov Feygin

China Is Deciding Not to Decide on a New Green Future The country’s underwhelming new climate pledge is more than just bad news for the world — it reveals a serious governing mistake.

What do China's new climate pledges show us about the future? The putative electrostate elected to punt -- it isn't ready to commit to a non-coal future. Xi's government is unambitious, and seems to be falling into the very middle income trap that it says it fears.

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My friend went to HLS as his second career and told me there is an epidemic divide between Obama era liberal profs and the liberal students who all think law is actually bs and it all comes down to political power. The kids are alright.

it's funny how con law guys will log on like once a month and go "if things don't turn around, the American public might begin to see SCOTUS as illegitimate" and then get buried in the quotes by middle aged libs who want Roberts drawn and quartered

[Chuck Schumer voice] For every subscriber we lose in Fairfax County, we'll pick up two in Galt's Gulch.

"...best seen as an example of the general theory of the second best: once one thing is distorted in an economy, you don’t get the best achievable result by keeping everything else undistorted but by distorting other things to compensate."

It would be a mistake to paint the administration as a genius supervillains simply because they are executing on plans to do bad things. They are imbeciles carrying out orders from a reactionary old man whose brain is goo

Ooh this is good

Some of it is weird stuff like PIMCO held leases.

Yeah that’s right imo. I also think that the ai data center stuff is pretty well wrapped up in its own buckets and leases.

And can your new growth service your old commitments?

Yeah but who has the pricing power ‘ then?

Yeah but if the big guys cut back spend that’s a problem. The debt assumes certain projected cash flow.

More like 2000 then 2008 because there won’t be a direct path to every HH but we never really dug out of 2000 either.

That’s mostly right but there is quite a bit of debt and finance leasing out there supporting the capex. Should be ok if there’s enough core profits to service but these things can get out of hand.

Cool cool

patriotic americans pioneered the amphibious invasion so patriotic amphibians could repel illegal invasions

Without a trace of irony I say that we need to get @interfluidity.com on the next Democratic president’s trade brain trust www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

(Or at least I think a lot of times radicals are correct but need to figure out how to write like Leo Strauss thought Maimonides wrote)

Like, what are we doing here? What do you think you are doing? How do you think you are getting there? How do your actions reflect on our besieged profession? Did you stop and think about what you were posting? Does provocation matter more than effective interpretation?

Joe, I hate to say it but stuff like this has also occasionally really led me to question the utility of our academic enterprise. If somehow someone can make it to an TT job teaching at an R1 but still not parse the difference between "fascist dictatorship" and "contested citizenship republic"...

Praxis

A people’s militia you say?

Guy would defund the police an replace them with something worse.

Silwa is maybe the one example of Republican who can be converted to socialism purely due to anti elitism.

Silwa unleashes a special move called swarm of cats.

he’s dead as hell

Closer to it than you imagine lol

Even moved to the train stop I grew up by, which tbh feels weird.

Officially a Brooklyn resident again!

I’d add that letting people pretend they didn’t vote MAGA is going to be a load-bearing social nicety if we want to win