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by freen 8mo ago
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 taxes.
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by freen 9mo ago
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 the N of datasets grows.
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by freen 9mo ago
Biden Admin?
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by freen 9mo ago
Invisible. Trust me.
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by freen 10mo ago
Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes. I guess busses run on fairy dust too?
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by freen 10mo ago
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 transit? KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! It will never work (those places it
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by freen 10mo ago
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 structurally challenged from the outset. If that isn’t factored into yo
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by freen 10mo ago
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: if we value all urban land equivalently, what is the subsid
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by freen 10mo ago
Ignorance is Bliss. Science is that which, despite your opinions, exists. Pathogens everywhere are cheering.
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by freen 10mo ago
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.
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by freen 11mo ago
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...
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by freen 11mo ago
You can read the entire exchange for yourself, it’s a link. At the bottom of the article.
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by freen 11mo ago
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 won’t go to jail. See Santos.
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by freen 1y ago
Don’t Look Up!
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by freen 1y ago
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 years. Even I won’t set foot there.“ You can’t win in t
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by freen 1y ago
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 earners in US was 40% back then. Substantially higher than i
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by freen 1y ago
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: https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_
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by freen 1y ago
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 starves children and stunts economic growth.
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by freen 1y ago
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 vote for the major party least aligned.
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by freen 1y ago
Jane Jacobs: The Nature of Economies.
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by freen 1y ago
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 government, which in turn results in situations like this, which
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by freen 1y ago
Look, you doubted that the quote could be sourced. Maybe check your epistemology: perhaps other folks know more and better?
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by freen 1y ago
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!
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by freen 1y ago
What, pray tell, is Hayek in fact advocating for in that section?
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by freen 1y ago
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?
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by freen 1y ago
Why would cops not report on crime? Seems counter to the incentive structures of police departments.
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by freen 1y ago
For those of you who like well researched analysis: the Lead Crime Hypothesis. https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
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by freen 1y ago
Hard to have effectively indentured servitude if there’s a social safety net. Remember even Hayek advocated for universal, government funded healthcare! Ayn Rand was on social security!
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by freen 1y ago
In order to make a government “small enough to down in a bathtub” you need to convince the general public that it is corrupt and incompetent, which has been the GOP play all along. If your core argument about why you should govern is that g
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by freen 1y ago
Companies have reserves, local stock etc. Fixed prices are a bet on TACO and hoping to avoid the orange rage: see what happens when you blame price increases on tariffs. Lots and lots of bribes have been paid. This is yet another.

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