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So much ink has been spilled on the "disconnect" between the public mood (very bad based on polling) while on paper Americans are wealthier than ever. The author's focus is the upp…

If you didn't bother to write it, why should I bother to read it?

I had to check the year on this post because I couldn't believe someone could post something this naive in 2025.

With the current data we have there's simply no good policy reason to cut interest rates. Inflation is either staying elevated or slightly increasing. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/…

People keep making the mistake of thinking that there is any sort of logical consistency to Trump policies.

Yes. The founding mythos of Silicon Valley is of plucky upstarts destroying all the middle men and dis-empowering the establishment. But now tech is the establishment and has all t…

I think you're being too kind in assuming there is some sort of real philosophy or faith here. I laid out what I have observed the tech elite doing precisely to show that they are …

It's been interesting to watch and experience Techbros jump on different philosophical/religious trends over the years. Post 9/11 through the Great Financial Crisis New Atheism was…

As a fan of Georgism and Land Value Taxation I was hoping for a good rebuttal but I am mostly just left confused by this article. It spends a ton of time talking about the politica…

Why this amorphous "the government" wording? The people elected Congress and Presidents, who did this over decades with popular support. Executive agencies are not unaccountable. T…

"Hitting a few singles and doubles beats trying to hit a home run and striking out." As game developers and publishers have consolidated into mega corps this line just isn't true a…

I don't think this is heresy at all. I read this and just think you have a giant blind spot because you seem to be assuming that the way you learn is universally applicable. I went…

Every 5 years or so a new food bogeyman appears and all the fitness/diet influencers hop on the bandwagon and blame every ill on it. Seeds Oils are just the most recent of these me…

I definitely listed the most egregious rules first. Those silly and overbearing laws exist though and have the same force as entirely valid ones like keeping trees along the coast …

The incredible thicket of state, county, and municipal rules all layer and combine to make housing incredibly difficult to build. It's the technical debt of the material world. Ser…

Yeah I used to listen to them quite a bit back in the day but in the lead up to the 2016 election they became insufferable. There was one Clinton story in particular they kept brin…

This is one of my big annoyances as well. Whatever happened to the idea of electricity that was too cheap to measure?

It sounds like something is wrong with your installation. That behavior certainly isn't normal for heat pumps and I would get a new vendor. I had a heatpump in my Condo and those t…

Yeah this list seems to be pretty low quality stuff. There's a couple economic/political links that I think are interesting but I can totally see why they would be removed as off-t…

The 2020 elections were such a shitshow on PredictIt. So many trades were skewed by partisan bias that it was shockingly easy to make money. My favorite trade that year was for som…

In the last year of my last job I took on recruiting and mentoring tasks as one of my goals for the year. Management encouraged it, I got great feedback all year, and in my annual …

"They provide high quality care at a reasonable price." What's the cost to the patient for this boutique care?

Also makes me think of the quote often attributed to Churchill though there is no evidence he said it. "Americans will always do the right thing ... after they have exhausted all t…

Caffeine pretty much every day, I can only have it in the mornings though or it interferes with sleep. Alcohol a few times a week, usually just one or two drinks. Now that i'm mid …

"Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the department assessed PSSI $15,138 for each minor-aged employee who was employed in violation of the law. The amount is the maximum civil mon…