Jim Vincent

How is it? I bought but I was going to wait until a long plane trip to get into it

Somehow my 12 year old daughter has become a huge Tom Lehrer fan out of nowhere! She actually introduced him to me, and yeah he’s a great listen.

Oh damn, ‘97 here, we’re everywhere you want to be (and a lot of places we’re not wanted)

Screeds against short sellers for sure

The memory of his first term is carrying markets right now

That's not fair.... Hoover didn't cause the depression, he was only too inflexible to do anything about it!

And this is why the chance for a debt crisis is so high. When faced with all these constraints and slim margins in Congress the easiest thing to do is just put it all on the tab. The deficit guys are the ones who are going to get screwed here.

I hear naked power politics targeting your opponents’ prominent supporters is in style again

I miss the days when they would hand you pamphlets that described the workings of DISC

This guy gets me….

There exists a popular sentiment that we can’t build as well as we used to and our best days are behind us. But when we choose to, we can still build beautiful and interesting developments.

Here’s a tour of 10 new projects that are creating a better built environment. 🧵

All of that money and time spent just so they can do the Truss/Kwarteng bit to see what happens.

But timing matters! If something passes Congress it will be functionally impossible to reverse. Instead expect a lot of condemnation of short sellers and the like.

The quote is also boring! The guy has no flair at all, even in his wannabe fascism.

All they need to do is double salaries

This moment reminds me a lot of the early days of the internet. We did indeed have a dotcom bust, but of course that was hardly the end

Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat Liberals spent the president-elect’s first term trying and failing to kick him out of office. This time out, they need to turn the White House into a prison.

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This is the way. Made easier by the astounding list of promises made during the campaign, which I hope a staffer is compiling right now.

Ooh, this is something I’ve always wondered about!

One of my favorite things about LLMs is that they don’t snark at me for asking dumb questions (of which I have many)

Can’t wait to see what strange concessions we need to make to get the senator from Prince Edward Island on board with major legislation

To be fair, the electorate was clamoring for war with Denmark

Excellent point, always something to keep in mind with per capita stats over time

Maybe Chinese Easter?

The (wealthy) Guatemalans I know are pretty negative on crime in Guate city, though it often seems like locals are more nervous than visitors.

Grew up distinctly UMC and I think we maybe ordered pizza a few times a year? Just wasn’t much of a thing until recently

He merely wants the media to draw the exact same conclusions as him and trumpet that loudly. Is that too much to ask?

Generational forgetting is an underrated factor of change. So many of the things we considered normal in the US were artifacts of WW2’s impact , and that’s fading fast….

Honestly this is great advice in general: get out and be someone who is clearly living well and comfortable with themselves, and others will be more inclined to to take what you say seriously