Pixilator

Damn good question!

Joe Biden wasn’t perfect, he stuttered at times when he talked, he was older. But he represented us with dignity and grace. He didn’t lie every time he opened his mouth. The world respected him. Everyday of this administration makes me appreciate him more.

@The_Acumen @MsAndrea3000 Guys, I don't think she can hit those notes anymore. In MC's case, its just physical ability due to age and wear and tear on her pipes. We all have limits...

@MsAndrea3000 She is one of my all-time favorites. I’ve been locked in since vision of love. There are a few songs on this album I love, others where I want her to stop whisper singing. Girl, you ARE the bar. Act like it!

I’m so sick of Trap R&B, whisper singers, and non-singers releasing the same tired songs. I want real singers to the front of the line. I want melodies and a hook. I want to feel something. None of these people make me feel anything. Bring in live bands, cultivate a sound!

What game comes to mind?

@DianneM26751931 @allenanalysis @PeteButtigieg @GavinNewsom stfu dianne283729487984734

@allenanalysis @PeteButtigieg @GavinNewsom No. That would be like deliberately choosing to delete Christianity from modern politics. Christianity needs to make a comeback.

Would you support a .@PeteButtigieg /.@GavinNewsom ticket in 2028?

@allenanalysis @PeteButtigieg @GavinNewsom Seriously, f*ck Newsom. Give me a Peter Buttigieg + Elizabeth Warren ticket

@16bitnostalgia Wow, we used to be a society.

1997 (left) 1998 (right) Two of the best years in gaming, but which is your fave?

@michaelxpettis Reading the abstract, the similarities between the US and China are uncanny. You could almost swap Britain with the US/Western industry and the US with China. All except the last part on citizen science. Who can produce knowledge/tech in China is subject to state interests

Very interesting new paper on "The Industrial Revolution in the United States: 1790-1870". It shows how trade protection and industrial policy in the US turned the country from a commodity producer into a manufacturing powerhouse. It starts off (perhaps a little maliciously) by quoting Adam Smith: "Were the Americans to stop the importation of European manufactures, and divert any considerable part of their capital into manufacturing, they would retard instead of accelerate the further increase in the value of their annual produce, and would obstruct instead of promote the progress of their country toward real wealth and greatness." This is the same advice that economists give today. The article then goes on to show how the US implemented a wide range of industrial and trade policies, including tariffs, and by doing so transformed the US economy from a producer of commodities for England and Europe into the greatest manufacturing power (and the richest country) in the world. Perhaps the it was lucky that the US (not to mention Germany, Japan, South Korea, China, and many others) was such a torpid student when it came to economic theory. Among American academics, the prestige of economic historians and development economists may be lower than that of mainstream economists, but the US economy would probably be better off if economic policy advisors came more from the former than the latter. nber.org/system/files/w…

@JonathonPSine I wonder if this style of looking at individual figures diachronically was the inspiration behind Schell's 'Wealth and Power'. I rather liked that book

1587 is absolutely one of the great books on Chinese history. It is a series of vignettes, each a chapter centered on the life of a single notable individual in a single year during the Ming dynasty’s decline. Actually kind of gives ATLA's "Tales of Ba Sing Se" vibe

@SVG__Collection Left Eye and Aaliyah....

Which musician’s death saddened you the most?

@AbrahamHamadeh MAGA are such bootlicking losers lmaoooo

The best part of my office. 🇺🇸

@dieworkwear Great, now the "live forever" people are ganna start using architecture in their grift

Incredible. Roland Reisley is 101 years old, the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright. He still lives in the 3,200 square foot home that Wright built for him in 1952. The price? $40,000. Or a little less than half a million in today's money.

@StrictConst @AlpacaAurelius God has nothing to do with a man-made constitution. You sound like the Taliban

@Pixilator1 @AlpacaAurelius You are welcome to invent new rights, but "quality of life" is not a right protected by the Constitution or by God. No one has the right to the property or labor of another.

This is nuts. In 1990 healthcare wasn’t the top employer in any state In 2024 it’s the top employer in 39 states We are the united states of healthcare

@FredFellaIMO Ronald Reagan began deconstructing the liberal institutional infrastructure at a time when it won the ideological contest against the USSR. The platform promised wealth for all who joined along, so the tenants of Neoliberalism took hold, leading to illiberalism.

My American friends, how did America become such a political cesspool?

@Rizabellepow Nope. Ronald Reagan by miles.

Newt Gingrich

@GigaBasedDad Bro, how do you think capitalists view resources labor and commodities? Socialism makes sure the industrial class pays its fair share

@WhiteHouse You guys are the same administration as Don't Look Up. Such corrupt, unserious people...

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say we can’t post banger memes 💥

@LordCarsonEsq It got way too much in the 60s and 70s and the world is still hungover from those decades

@StrictConst @AlpacaAurelius The point is you think a service built on technological and industrial development that increases quality of life shouldn't be a basic right for everyone, just like how some people used to think some rights were for some but not others. You're the problem.

Yes. The Amendment process is difficult, requiring ratification by 3/4ths of the state legislatures, so politicians have invented devious schemes to get around it in order to get unconstitutional legislation passed. Why resort to such treachery? It is to buy votes. It is a simple as that.

@StrictConst @AlpacaAurelius And to think, without amending the Constitution, we wouldn't have the Bill of Rights either!

@AlpacaAurelius It is unconstitutional for the federal government to fund health care.