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Bad at video games, but I play too many of them anyway (I do not play league! the banner is a lie!) occasionally work on stuff on riggsmarkham.com

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It absolutely does. The CPI is about 40% housing (rent/owner-equivalent rent).

09.11.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a general situation though. The emergency caused a generalized supply crunch that took years to unwind. I don’t know where you got the idea that it was some kind of special emergency pricing that would go down once the emergency was gone, but … that was never the case.

09.11.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The CPI does include hedonic adjustments for the quality of items.

09.11.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They probably did, saw there was too much Trump in there, thought β€œthis is too political”, and refused to pursue it.

07.11.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

That you use it as a contentless pejorative?

06.11.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I said infinitely large, because that's the maximum possible impact it could have. Increasing it to ~600 seats does practically nothing.

06.11.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Expanding the house to be infinitely large would make the EC about 10% less unfair. That’s pretty insignificant.

06.11.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The NPVIC doesn’t require a constitutional amendment.

06.11.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Americans have spoken and they demand wokeness

05.11.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6219    πŸ” 780    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 18

Several times? That's a lie.

The modern filibuster rule was put in place in 1975. Since then, Democrats have had a filibuster proof majority in the following periods:
1975-1979
7 months in 2009

That's it.

03.11.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That poll doesn't seem very reliable. There is absolutely no way the shift among young voters was *that* inconsistent. Probably a tiny sample.

Did young voters shift somewhat towards Trump? Probably. Was there a 31-point difference between the shifts in Michigan and Georgia? Literally unbelievable.

03.11.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s wiggling so much he can’t walk in a straight line

01.11.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the key to understanding today's moment in journalism is specifically a subset of elite journos at NYT/Free Press/WaPo who basically adopt the position of the main character of NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) when it comes to their role in the news

31.10.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 439    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

What?

31.10.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The biggest failure of the Obama era was doing austerity, making the economic recovery anemically slow.

The central policy of the Biden era was to provide a ton of financial stimulus during COVID, making the economy boom.

Biden's biggest failure was letting the fascists go free.

31.10.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, that’s absurdly wrong.
As always, most of the US federal budget goes to social security and healthcare (Medicare/Medicaid).

Aid to Israel, at it highest, is about 0.3% of the federal budget.

30.10.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I reading this right? Is he simultaneously the mayor of Union City and a member of the State Senate?

28.10.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, so technically, the record on wikipedia (shared by 4 players now) is just times on base (9), but two of the other guys, Max Carey (1922) and Stan Hack (1942), also did it in only 9 PAs.

Max Carey also stole home in that game (and got 2 other SBs)!

28.10.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very blaseball

28.10.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's tied for the record (it's already on wikipedia)

28.10.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_on_base#Single_game showing Ohtani's current performance.

A screenshot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_on_base#Single_game showing Ohtani's current performance.

Making some wikipedia edits

28.10.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

boooo

28.10.2025 06:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

God, this game is incredible

28.10.2025 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which is extremely incorrect.

27.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you make people hungry, they usually don’t overthrow the system; they usually just starve.

27.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

By agreeing with the implicit sentiment that welfare is bad and that we wouldn’t need it in an ideal world. Which is extremely incorrect!

27.10.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s not the root cause though. We would still need welfare even if wages were 5x what they are now.

Most people in poverty are non-workers. You cannot help them through higher wages. You can help them via welfare.

27.10.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, but we definitely shouldn’t do that trade. Welfare isn’t a regrettable necessity that only exists because of low wages; it’s a necessary redistribution to non-workers at all wage levels.

27.10.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for your insight!

26.10.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least using literally like that had a purpose (at its inception): sarcasm

Using POV like that has nothing to do with the term

26.10.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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