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@kk_1984 @jameswallner You can always repeal the subsidies down the road after elections are secured.

@jameswallner Hello James: what happens when the Dems offer the enhanced Covid ACA subsidies and the amendment passes at 51 (which it would). What then?

The SAVE America Act has stalled after 3 days of Senate debate. Republicans can't get 60 votes for cloture. Thune says a talking filibuster is "too risky." But there's a clear procedural path to a final vote — and it's already in the Senate rules. 🧵

@kk_1984 @jameswallner Heck that's genius, Thune should add it right now. Takes their best talking point off the table for midterms, literally throws it back in their faces when they vote for the amendment and then against the Act. We get SAVE and then run ads against vulnerable Dems until November.

@JohnBinder5 @antlionai @memeticsisyphus Yeah, the categories aren't great, should be 4: "Morally inadmissible under any circumstance, Not ideal but morally tolerable/acceptable, Morally Good, and Morally Neutral/Not a moral question."

@antlionai @memeticsisyphus Doesn't the term "acceptable" mean it's not a moral issue? I guess you define things differently. I'd say the death penalty is either good, evil, or acceptable.

Rightness and wrongness of these issues isn’t nearly as interesting as the massive amount of people who view their actions as having no moral consequences either way.

@mattyglesias I think the point is "even if all those other economic and regulatory impediments disappeared tomorrow, maxxing out current zoning wouldn't be enough to meet the need," hence OP plan to increase. That being said, 15k is skating to where the puck is instead of aspirational.

This is fine if you assume that zoned capacity is the ONLY constraint on growth, and there are no other regulations on construction and also it's not important to pay any attention at all to the economics of whether or not a given site is profitable to build on.

@DaCaveOfWonders @mattyglesias @StefanFSchubert It would be great to see this reranked by the "explained by" bars to more easily see the outlier residuals.

@mattyglesias @StefanFSchubert The report itself puts the part of their score where they are outperforming the countries around them as "residual". WHR doesn't know either!

The English-speaking world is falling in rankings of life satisfaction (The Economist)

@NorCalifPatriot Liberia's registry is run by a US corporation set up by an ex-Secretary of State during the Cold War to provide a flag of convenience and is basically a shell for our 3-letter agencies.

Many ships use a flag of convenience. They choose to register in a country with lower taxes/fees, less stringent safety requirements, and less stringent labor laws. This saves the ship owners money. However, it used to be part of the job of the country the ship is registered in to protect them in places like the Strait of Hormuz. The US should protect the few US flagged vessels for free and charge other nations a fee for doing so. If ship owners don’t like it, ask the country they are registered in to protect them. The largest registries are Panama and Liberia neither of which have a Navy capable of doing so. @johnkonrad thoughts?

@croissanthology Their next venture calls for cleaning up the oceans and reprocessing the trash into 3d-printed Watergeuzen, calling it the South Seas Company.

"crypto and tulip farming" is a very funny bit

@ringwiss @AndrewDesiderio Yeah, and then immediately kills the bill. I think it was Sun Tzu who said the best parliamentary maneuver is the one you don't file before your blathering opponent's bladder fails...

@AndrewDesiderio Filing cloture is useful because it causes whichever senator might be filibustering when the cloture motion ripens to lose the floor.

Sen. Mike Lee says it would be a politically “suicidal move for Senate Republicans” if they don’t do everything possible to pass the SAVE America Act Lee says filing cloture — which is Thune’s eventual plan, setting up a vote at a 60 threshold — would be “a mistake”

@SwipeWright I think it's because the talking filibuster takes time. So if you know it's only going to pass with 51 votes, you might as well cram every partisan issue in a single debate. There's no point in stripping it down to a "clean" bill and going for 60 votes if you can only get 57.

Why did Republicans add transgender issues to the SAVE America Act? This seems counterproductive and gives Democrats an easy excuse to not vote for it. Should be a clean bill.

@Steve_Beans @nicksortor @BasedMikeLee I think advanced is appropriate here, as debate is started. IIUC, a silent filibuster requires that a cloture motion be filed. They can then sit on that motion indefinitely without action. If Thune doesn't immediately motion to close, it means the talking filibuster is on.

@nicksortor @BasedMikeLee Your own screenshot says "Motion to Lay before the Senate." That means they voted to start debate. 'Advanced' is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here hahaha

🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: The SAVE America Act has ADVANCED in the US Senate, 51-48 GREAT WORK, @BasedMikeLee! KEEP PUSHING, PATRIOTS! We can get this done! 🇺🇸

@michaeljknowles Do we know if he rekanted his beliefs?

If recent reports are to be believed, Mr. Larijani relented.

@Michael_E_Lopez @QuaintTransfer @mattyglesias If decedent's cost basis was higher than the estate exemption, no step up.

@Michael_E_Lopez @QuaintTransfer @mattyglesias I would say all assets in the estate get stepped up basis to market value on date of death to a maximum of the individual federal estate tax exemption. Over that amount, you get the limit as basis. Either pro-rated or beneficiaries decide how to allocate basis across assets.

Anti-billionaire-ism helped paper over an Obama-era mod/prog split about taxing people with low six figure incomes, but it's now tipping back over into the idea that maybe those people need a tax CUT. slowboring.com/p/upscale-libe…

@PTBwrites Possible answer: the actual dynamics are the same in both cases, but the difference is whether one views dating as a means to an end (family) or a long-term romantic relationship is an end in itself.

@PTBwrites Define the gray zone between A: "more than casual hookups" and B: "could end in marriage and kids". Men are almost 2:1 in favor of B, women are π:2 in favor of A. Therein lies the expectations mismatch.

When you ask unmarried women today what some of the top challenges in dating today are, a lack of seriousness from men rises to the top of the list

@LibertyCappy Only a German would describe a bicycle as "kinky".

It took a German two minutes to realize that everything from NYC is 💩

@fleshsimulator 6 E 43rd St. About a block west of Grand Central Terminal, also adjacent to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (basically Taiwan consulate).

oh fuck its only minutes from collapsing into its own footprint

@rabbitholebot Imagine what could have been if the Holy Roman Empire had discovered central banking!

@arctanno That's a useless framing unless you're a college senior staring down an apocalypse with no sunk costs. Making a lateral switch now from an established career to a path with better effort/reward correlation to eek out margin before AGI automates the advantage is a fools' errand.

what are some good jobs to get into where your pay is directly related to how hard you work

@DukeLuk83200724 @Cernovich Even snuck in a Lepanto reference!

@Cernovich There are 8 Christian Churched on Doha bro ...

Why is Qatar pushing an anti-Catholic psyop and trying to divide the conservative movement by attacking Catholics?