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Vaccines aren’t perfect, and the inaction of others can cause extreme adverse impacts on everyone due to total vaccination rate falling below herd immunity levels. It’s just like t…

It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to predict what new information can be derived from the combination of different datasets collected from your devices. Especially as t…

Biden Admin?

Invisible. Trust me.

Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes. I guess busses run on fairy dust too?

Free public roads and highways? Free public parking? Good, normal, should be encouraged. Add a lane or two to the highway? Always a good idea! (hint: it never is) Free public trans…

Free transit: IMPOSSIBLE!!! Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL The political class are not typically utilizers of public transit: hence even the best attempts are structurall…

Exact same argument was made against the interstate highway system. Now it is lauded as one of the highest ROI investments the US govt ever made. If you really want to do the math:…

Ignorance is Bliss. Science is that which, despite your opinions, exists. Pathogens everywhere are cheering.

The commons of the creative output of humanity is a resource, just like oil or lithium. We are rapidly replaying the worst of the Resource Curse.

Fun fact: Biff Tannen was modeled after Donald Trump. Turns out the darkest timeline is also the dumbest. https://www.nme.com/news/back-to-the-future-writer-reveals-b...

You can read the entire exchange for yourself, it’s a link. At the bottom of the article.

It’s a commitment device: if the only way you’ll stay out of jail is if Trump is elected, you do anything you can, break any laws, whatever, to get Trump elected. Because then you …

Don’t Look Up!

Also, what dumbass is gonna drop a million on this? Literally the CIO of a $20b/year ARR company said to me: “I was gonna send my kids to school in the US. Now? Never in a million …

Ah yes, a feeling: even worse than an anecdote. Yes: they reinvested rather than pocketed revenue. Anyway, if did the research, you’d see the effective tax rate for the top income …

Didn’t they round up and handcuff a bunch of South Koreans who were legally allowed to work in the US? It’s really worth reading the South Korean perspective on the whole fiasco: h…

In the 50’s (the GOP’s good old days) the top income tax bracket paid 90%+ of every dollar earned above $200k. (Roughly $3m in 2025 dollars) Billionaires are a policy choice that s…

Duverger’s law: first past the post results in two party system. Any vote that is not proactively for the major party that is the closest to your political beliefs is effectively a…

Jane Jacobs: The Nature of Economies.

When you put foxes in charge of the henhouse, are you surprised that all the hens will be eaten? Tories think government is the problem, thus when they govern, they break the gover…

Look, you doubted that the quote could be sourced. Maybe check your epistemology: perhaps other folks know more and better?

Hmm… maybe go check every other reasonable wealthy western democracy and evaluate your statement. The people in power WANT the social safety net to fail. That is why it fails!

What, pray tell, is Hayek in fact advocating for in that section?

Arrest stats are also at historic lows. Criminal complaints are at historic lows. Murder, which is kinda hard to “juke the stats”, is at historic lows. Where is your evidence?