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  1. Eh, I agree with that for a lot of reason (the big one being that the Bernie faction consolidated lefties towards the mainstream party, rather than pulling the party out of the mainstream), but you can’t deny that the reds and the browns are closer to each other ideologically than they are to either’s respective normies.
  2. Good post, and an interesting point about both Warren and Bannon, I agree. what’s the podcast?
  3. That inflation (ie the general price spike that resulted from supply shocks and massive cash stimulus) was transitory. It was the most predictable, and predicted and well understood general price spike in history, and it subsided long ago. Now you still have a ton of excess liquidity sloshing around, AND investors are rebalancing and doing some profit taking, and the FED has lowered rates (because reasons) AND you’ve got tariffs in place. And all those things are inflationary. On the other hand, you’ve got AI, which is probably very deflationary once it gets entrenched enough to really see the effects at scale, but we don’t know how long that is. ERP+CRM took about 7 years to destroy routine back office work, but got a big assist from the GFC. So, inside 10 years? But multiple things can be true at one time. And inflation is never evenly experienced across the economy anyway. Was inflation actually low before 2022? For example, decades of artificially low interest rates and tax stimulus, especially post GFC, essentially financed an acceleration of asset prices (like homes) with public debt, but we didn’t experience it as a general price spike because wages stayed flat* during that time and thus consumer prices for necessities were suppressed. But that’s an artifact of measurement, not a lack of monetary inflation. Anyhow, the people who said it was transitory weren’t wrong, it wasn’t ever in question. Everything is transitory. That’s not the right question. The right question is where are we now. We’ll see. * mainly because the people at the very top of the economy kept more of the productivity growth and already owned more assets, while the people below the top technically received compensation increases but they mostly get diverted to healthcare costs, which in turn increased the valuations of companies in that space.
  4. Wordle 1,638 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  5. My favorite Colin Allred moment was the commercial where he talked about wanting to work with the people who were lying about him.
  6. Far over the horizon of human time, when the galactic explorers from beyond our conception arrive to sift through the dust of our world, they will be greeting by a text from Colin Allred asking for $10 and describing his lessons from football and his single mother.
  7. Sent a lot of text messages, tho. Or at least Allred and Hager did. Lupe Valdez didn’t even do that much.
  8. Community notes FTW
  9. Wordle 1,637 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 my third guess embarrasses me
  10. We’ll see. But they are both more likely to set up and run good campaigns if they have to get through the other first.
  11. Love to see it
  12. No, not really. Campaigning everywhere that you can find an audience and speaking to people directly is like the definition of the basics and used to be the norm before professional consultants turned Texas Democrats into the Washington Generals.
  13. Competent campaign, decent but not great candidate. We’re just used to such shit candidates and campaigns he seemed amazing because he did the basics.
  14. It helps literally everyone who reads stuff off a screen. If they really want the typefaces to set the tone for this administration, they may want to consider Wingdings.
  15. So true. 2X National Latin Exam gold medal here prior to college, and in 5th semester of college Latin what I learned was that I was actually terrible at Latin.
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