@FoolOfD @MinModulation Hey, there were at least seven good Nintendo 64 games
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neoliberal-ish type. JD Vance's strongest hater. Believer in America 🇺🇸
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The homes will get passed directly to the second oldest and second largest generation, the Millennials. And instead of listening to endless, incoherent rambling about sports and rock music, we'll get endless, incoherent rambling about the Nintendo 64 and its five good games.
misshapenidentity@misshapenident1
@FoolOfD Not sure why people think homes will get more expensive as the oldest and largest generation dies off.
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@SaladBarFan @TaupeAvenger The driver is cultural resistance, combined with a pleasant local environment
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@TaupeAvenger Very skeptical that prop 13 is the causal driver of CA NIMBYism when the northeast is also similarly anti-development
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For all the whining you see about Prop 13, California still raises a big share of its money from property taxes.
Garett Jones@GarettJones
For once, a map that's not The Map. [Claude, apparently drawing on @TaxFoundation data]
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Dealing with a falling population will require the elderly accepting a lower quality of life than they expected. This will be difficult to do because a falling population will also make them the electoral majority.
Nancy Mace@NancyMace
Our seniors should not pay property taxes.
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Here's why the youths aren't into the Star Wars shows: someone who was in 8th grade when The Mandalorian premiered is now a college sophomore and there have been 24 episodes. The streaming release schedule is multiple lifetimes for kids.
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@ChudNarodnik the same goes for skincare. talking about skincare with everyone, a lot, to explain my skin getting a lot better. I've actually adopted an in-depth routine so that helps.
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@ChudNarodnik prepping for this by bringing up my finasteride + minoxidil treatment with anyone who I think might ask questions
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Just got asked what hair product I used because the person in question noticed it mysteriously getting better the past few months
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@shteivred It makes sense if you consider that a potential career change due AI is most threatening to older workers and they’re the ones who are most anchored to the old price level. They are also the least acclimated to online spaces vs their exposure to them.
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@StatisticUrban It doesn’t undercut the “ai will take your job” messaging combined with a low-hire low-fire job market and a permanent increase in the price level as the cause though. If anything it reinforces them.
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Narrative violation: Gen Z has the highest consumer confidence. Gen X and Boomers are the pessimists.
I do feel that undercuts many of the material explanations for the vibecession, insofar as uniquely awful economic conditions for young people are a main driving force.
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I wrote down every reason I could think of that might legitimately explain negative economic sentiment (discounting fake ones, like "we're in a second Great Depression.")
I realize I'm asking Twitter to read a dense block of text, but I suspect the truth is in a mix of these.
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@zermatist What people are judging isn’t the objective data; it’s experiences they have, the opinions of others around them, and the future outlook presented to them by society + media
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A "vibecession" basically means that even though the economy is fine, people are miserable, and it should terrify economic planners and politicians more than it does because it indicates a rot that can't be fixed by "line go up." Instead, they mostly just scoff about it.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
The permanent vibecession is here to stay
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It feels very futuristic to imagine a world with one-and-done therapies that lower LDL cholesterol for life, but... it might not be far off!
These are new phase 1 data for Verve/Lilly's PCSK9 base editor: one single intravenous infusion reduces LDL cholesterol by as much as 60%
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@maiamindel @TheLastNeocon No they didn’t and that’s the problem!!! Incorrect expectations were set and credibility was harmed.
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wasn't it kind of openly stated that the super alarmist scenarios were very unlikely and that even the 1.5-2 degrees ones would have *really bad* consequences? like, did nobody else do the reading?
Steve Guest@SteveGuest
Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5. “Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.” vox.com/future-perfect…
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@tracheesecake If you can avoid the acne it’s worth it. I used to use one in college.
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> economics grad students are essentially being radicalized into anti-rent-seeking jihadists
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𝔐𝔽𝓩@mean_field_zane
Economists are already writing about this. Current generations of economics grad students are essentially being radicalized into anti-rent-seeking jihadists by Acemoglu, Friedman, Mokyr, Stigler, Glaeser, and Hsieh. It is glorious.
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@EiratheIntern So much of that impulse, I think, is a result of people not updating their image of what media is like today. In the 2000s this was often true but raunch culture is dead!
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People often act like media is more degenerate now than in the past, but I saw some old clips of the Jerry Springer show, and it's undeniable that 90s-2000s "trash TV" culture is some of the most trashy degenerate media in existence.
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The Swiss grid is almost completely carbon free, yet it is largely illegal to install air conditioning in a house in Geneva, without a doctor's note and heat pumps have the a/c mode disabled and fines issued if used. A mean spirited degrowth mindset that transcends class and hides behind an environmental narrative even when it has nothing to do with the environment, like here. This is emblematic of a pathological hatred of the future and progress, that is a threat to Europe.
Atticus@redl3tters
One of my business school friends comes from a wealthy Swiss banking family and lives in the ritzy part of Geneva where the average house is in the tens-of-millions range. When I visit, I stay in his guest room and sweat profusely at night because, for all their wealth, these bozos can’t understand the unmatched pleasure that is a nice, cool room to sleep in at night. Bunch of uncultured rubes.
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@midwestern_emo It’s hopeful and motivation but you do what’s right for you
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