imightbebatman

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by imightbebatman 24d ago
There is absolutely 0 reason for tariffs to need to change every 24 hours. It is economically suicidal to do so. In fact.
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by imightbebatman 26d ago
You've probably noticed, people like this like to adjust the goalposts.
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by imightbebatman 26d ago
That won't solve anything. Congress already has this power they just abdicated it to the Executive. The only fix is better voters electing better people into Congress. -- good luck with both of those. The US is cooked.
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by imightbebatman 26d ago
That's not going to happen. These people are not competent.
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by imightbebatman 2mo ago
Yes there are two interesting derivative questions from this, assuming I understand it. First, is it reproducible consistently at ~50% of workers? If not, what is the rate. Second, are there any lessons to be learned here to increase the ra
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by imightbebatman 2mo ago
In my experience with them, Trump voters have no shame. We should bring honor and Shane back into our culture.
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by imightbebatman 2mo ago
Noone with sense has ever accused Trump of being smart when it comes to geopolitics or war.
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by imightbebatman 2mo ago
In my opinion this is worth revolting about. It is critically important to the future of your progeny, that 1-2 companies are not able to corner the AI landscape. Open-source and open-weight or we throw ourselves on the machine worthy.
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by imightbebatman 2mo ago
If there ever truly were consequences in the oligarchy of the US, the time for that is long gone now. There will be none.
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by imightbebatman 3mo ago
Somewhat might be the understatement of the century.
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by imightbebatman 3mo ago
I have a similar PoV. I think rent seeking without sufficient checks is one of the biggest problems in our economy. But the underlying problem that people aren't paid enough is still true. Outside a few fields, most people are underpai
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by imightbebatman 3mo ago
No, yea that's fair. I think he'd be even more confounded about the current state of affairs though. Just my read.
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by imightbebatman 3mo ago
I very much doubt that. There isn't enough class solidarity to pull it off. There will be a few who brand themselves as such. But actually seizing the means of production and handing them over to the people? -- The oligarchs will burn
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by imightbebatman 3mo ago
Is it not the dot com bubble pop?
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by imightbebatman 3mo ago
The root of this started in the 70s as the New Deal coalition decayed and Keynesian economic theory fell out of favor among the elites. To be fair their were good reasons at the time to think it wasn't working either.