Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
4mo ago
It seems like there’s a pattern in what forms of corruption are acceptable on the right -
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Diverting taxpayer money to family members or pet causes: Evil, ought to get you thrown out of a helicopter.
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Selling the performance of official acts to private interests for money or other services: No big deal. Everybody does it. Just an excuse to railroad somebody like they did to Trump.
Quantumfreakonomics
6mo ago
I'm actually not so sure about that. CEOs are, no offense, more important than regular people. This is true descriptively if not normatively. If CEOs stop maximizing shareholder value because they have concerns for their physical safety, that could have sizable effects on the economy.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
Listen here, you ignorant yokels. You might like to think that you're 'self-sufficient', but you're not. You depend on me, my tribe, the educated elites. Without us, you'd be dead. Specifically, you are dependent on the stock valuations of big megacorps continuing to rise. You know; stocks, the global finance market,
I mean, yeah. That is the implied connotation, because it's true. It's true the same way that you or I would tell the guys who set up the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that their project is doomed without the support of public infrastructure. That's just not how the world works. If they can't tell the difference between investment in medical innovation being driven by the expectation of future profitable sales, and the nebulous forces driving the educated consensus on immigration, then they are just stupid.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
It’s not going to go well for Jewish Americans if we start having ethnic purges. They have a sixth sense for this kind of thing. If Puerto Rico can be a floating pile of trash, so can Brooklyn.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
The "walls guarded by men with guns" in the clip relates to the wall (well, barricaded door) guarded by a man with a gun in the footage of the shooting.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
The 6 to 9 months between when most people were able to get the vaccine and when Omicron became prominent was worth a lot.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
While I think this is stupid, anybody can print out a voter registration form off the internet whenever they want. Having physical forms available does not meaningfully change anything.
Quantumfreakonomics
2mo ago
Maybe the cops in Utah are different, but speeding and fishing without a license are both incredibly low catch-rate offenses. There are hundreds, if not thousands of individual offenses for every recorded encounter. You have to commit a lot of minor infractions to get caught three times.
Quantumfreakonomics
4mo ago
Eric Adams is the big one in the news lately. He instructed fire marshals to look the other way on Turkey's NYC skyscraper in exchange for free first-class Turkish Airlines flights. Trump told the Justice Department to drop the case.
There was also the first impeachment of Trump himself. If wikipedia is to be believed, Trump tried to exchange military aid for political favors from Ukraine.
Quantumfreakonomics
5mo ago
The discussion was had and was highly relevent to subsequent developments. There was more than zero conflict, particularly around the aquisition of X/Twitter, but discussion ultimately won.
All things considered, I think he did okay on inflation given the hand he was dealt. I think inflation is a big reason why Kamala lost, but I don't think people realize how much worse not implementing those inflationary COVID policies would be.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
I finally got Robinhood event contracts working and put down a trivial amount of money on Harris. I find it hard to believe that after January 6, Trump is more popular than ever. I have a feeling that the movement reflects how pollsters are adjusting for their big misses in 2016 and 2020, not a change in sentiment on the ground.
Quantumfreakonomics
11mo ago
Biden's political instincts are stronger than many give him credit for.
This was the main reason I was hesitant to call him senile. Closing the border was a smart move. It neutralizes one of Trump's strongest arguments for moderates. It could be that his aging brain can't handle the bandwidth of spoken conversation. Maybe we need to put Biden in a Stephen Hawking chair for his own good. We could even give him his old voice back via AI.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
I think that’s a bit unfair. It’s not their job to pick the candidate. That decision came from above.
Quantumfreakonomics
8mo ago
I think that’s what it ultimately boils down to. Trump started his campaign promising to deport illegals. Then there was the Muslim ban. Now Vance is saying that Haitians on Temporary Protected Status are basically illegal and should be deported. The next step is to look into canceling green cards. Then revoking naturalized citizenship. Couple that with relaxing civil-rights laws, and you see where this is going.
Whether or not Trump himself wants to do all these, a sizable chunk of the population does. That is the demographic that attends Trump rallies.
Quantumfreakonomics
9mo ago
In this case why isn't the pro Palestinian charged with assault or Violation of a Constitutional Right Causing Injury?
Well, was Scott Hayes actually injured? The pro Palestinian got shot, a much more severe punishment than if he were to be convicted of simple battery.
Quantumfreakonomics
11mo ago
You don't think judge Merchan would be more willing to impose a prison sentence after Trump loses the election?
Quantumfreakonomics
11mo ago
Not at short range, but this was a pretty far shot. The bullet would be going much slower than muzzle velocity when it hits.
Quantumfreakonomics
1mo ago
The rant from "A Few Good Men", presented without comment.
Quantumfreakonomics
3mo ago
A perfectly fine symphony that will adorn the Hall-of-Very-Good for eternity to come.
Quantumfreakonomics
5mo ago
I'm thinking through ideas of what to do with this. No promises but there may be room for experimentation (this not how you hype crypto, but honesty matters to me).
My long-term interests are aligned with yours, Hanania Coin holders. We all rise or collapse together.
This is a public offering of unregistered securities. Hanania is in deep shit if this takes off and blows up.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
I think that hypothetical is correct. It shares a lot of similarities with post-birth abortion, which, while aesthetically repugnant, is probably okay in the strict metaethical sense I am talking about.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
I suppose I could have called them, "unable or unwilling to understand the production function of medical goods, the capital structure of pharmaceutical corporations, the inherent unfairness of mass tort litigation, the difficulty for an individual consumer to determine the expected utility to himself of a given medical product, p-hacking, and the extent of the natural human disease burden," but that would be just padding the word count.
Quantumfreakonomics
7mo ago
I am not going to die on the hill that COVID vaccine mandates were a good idea, but I am absolutely going to die on the hill that Pfizer deserved to make shitloads of money for developing and manufacturing the product that effectively ended the COVID pandemic as a going concern.
Nothing Ever Happens
DOGE is as good as dead. They’ve hit the wall.
Federal judge pauses deadline for federal workers to accept Trump’s resignation offer.
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts.
The one shining light of hope for true government reform was Elon Musk’s DOGE. They seemed to be making real progress. They may not have been loved, but they were feared, and Machiavelli said that’s enough.
Now they have lost the momentum. Stays and injunctions will start pouring in as district court judges stop fearing that their orders will be simply ignored.
If the
deep statecareer civil service can draw blood with a trick as old as “drag-up old racist internet comments”, then DOGE really are toothless. No one will take them seriously anymore.Maybe Congress can tap in…
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