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I feel like the public, even in may 2022, just can’t grasp the basic concept of inflation. A better way than dropping cash out of helicopters, or mailing checks, is to give people …

“class of people so eager to take wealth/future prosperity from their children” Agreed. Very Ugolino.

Not really no.

Why would it be a bit much? Banks can’t give out fake loans. They try to all the time and are rightfully regulated/fined/charged when they do. Banks giving out bad loans caused the…

Exactly the same incentives problem with EDD. The more fraud, the larger their budget gets and so there is only one metric they care about; increasing the total number of recipient…

“The financial aid administrators at Pierce College say it’s not their job” Make them legally accountable. Banks can’t assist fraudsters and then say “not my job.” The administrato…

I’m normal.

You should read about inflation. Efforts to fatten up the middle class with free giveaways to certain voting blocks has and will continue to spur inflation and make those same vote…

Another manifestation of problems in higher education. It’s not just software. If you read up on the sociology of professional specialization you’ll learn that most technical compl…

“the question is whether you have large amounts of the kind of parasites that make you sick and more specifically, the kinds of parasites that can be treated with ivermectin.” It w…

Will you read his new book?[0] If anyone were in a position to know whether it’s possible, and how to do it, he’d be on the list. I think, regardless of his history regarding open …

On the other hand, we could have a zero Covid planet. A place without pandemics. Bill Gates is the hero we need.

Never been pro-ivermectin as a primary tool for Covid, but can you actually back up, “indeed, the argument for ivermectin in 1st world countries has been more or less demolished.” …

“folks from California and the Southwest wanting more water” People don’t complain about Floridians or iowaians. It’s always the brown bodies from California “driving up prices” an…

Why not talk about nuclear war? It’s one of several elephants in the room. The full collapse of a nuclear super power is unprecedented. Who gets the weapons?

I want to generalize and say things that are round. Circles, whether the wheel or the phonograph, or a pulley, or lipid nano particles— circles are true magic.

Reuters is not a credible source, even if they’re right in this case. Leave peer review to peers, in journals where it belongs. Reuters is just another USA Today at this point. The…

Maybe when the late great JPB passed on? Hurts my ears to listen, burns my eyes to see.

It’s LA so you can just step on a dirty needle. They’re scattered liberally.

Don’t question Dan. He gets results. Everybody loves his moderation, and if you don’t love the moderation then you should just leave. There’s always Reddit!

“We should just get rid or corporations. And we should get rid of prices too. And profit of any sort should not be tolerated by the Government. We should all have exactly the same …

The government, at federal, state and local levels, all rely on Twitter to conduct official taxpayer funded work. Taxpayer funded work should not happen on proprietary systems that…

They should have stuck to the dvd by mail model. There were so many good movies to watch back then. Lots of content doesn’t matter if it’s crappy content. I bought an antenna last …

Et Tu EFF? Sigh. I remember when they supported open source. Won’t give them my support going forward. At least rms is still alive and kicking.