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@YNMIDK

now you see, me, I’m old school

Katılım Haziran 2019
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@ragandboneshop If you check the paper they used LLMs as a tool to do this survey
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@jonathanshainin Can’t believe the Palestinians made Richard the Lionhearted’s subjects act like this. Do you think they learned antisemitism from Palestinians while out crusading?
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@jonathanchait Would hate to be humiliatingly wrong about something in a private letter to a friend, but at least it wasn’t published proudly for public consumption. pics unrelated
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@JohnJSSoriano @NathanJRobinson @DKThomp It’s not an appeal to credentials, it’s arguing against Derek’s point that the author is unfairly or naively contrarian to orthodox economics. Do they not mandate English classes or teach reading comprehension in Economics programs these days?
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John J.S. Soriano@JohnJSSoriano·
@NathanJRobinson @DKThomp Its hilarious how you appeal to his credentials and not the credentials of the 99% of economists that don't agree with him.
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I'm glad that the author of "Rent Control Is Fine, Actually" calls themself Unlearning Economics, bc it's good to just state things clearly, such as the open animosity that many left economic populists have for the field of economics and economists themselves. Economists aren't gods, and economics isn't a divine truth, but economists are good--better than most--at something critical for making public policy: They're good at identifying tradeoffs. "Rents are too high, so freeze them" is compelling politics. But in the absence of other pro-supply policies, if you make it illegal to increase rents, landlords will stop upgrading units and convert them to condos, which reduces the supply of units for rent, reduces mobility, and drives up rents for everybody else. The left econ populists have some clear, and clearly stated, policy ideas: - Rents are too high, so freeze them. - Electricity is expensive, so stop rate increases. - Homes are too expensive, so ban institutional investors. - Power prices are rising, so ban data center construction. ... All these policies feel like solutions because they're brisk, they name enemies, and they take on the most visible source of frustration. But they are much better as villain-naming exercises than they are as a complete public policy. On their own, each creates other problems: less housing built, less clean electricity built, abdicating energy policy by encouraging AI firms to build data centers abroad in unsavory countries with more emissions, etc. I can't think of a single economic populist idea that wouldn't be helped with a little dose of economics, which is why it's troubling when I see the left participating in, and even celebrating, the great unlearning of economics.
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson

an economist explains how rent control is actually fine and good currentaffairs.org/news/rent-cont…

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@burnedbarry Well surely they won’t retaliate against GCC states and Israel starting another round of escalation. This time it will work
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@lionel_trolling Ditto for Paris if you steal from the Louvre
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65k-72k is actually plenty of money in New York if you just steal from Whole Foods
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@MenchOsint Aoun has already announced his apology to Israel for the soldiers getting in the rockets way
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@JackMassa05 @tysonbrody Don’t call yourself Jack Massacre if you don’t only tweet “Jack Massacre” like a Pokémon
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Jack Massacre@JackMassa05·
@tysonbrody That’s not fine, lmao. Don’t call it “TrackAIPAC” if you’re not TRACKING AIPAC. 💀💀💀
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@andersleehere “As a professor of media studies”
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Anders J Lee@andersleehere·
As Paglia would know if she watched more than 30 seconds of The Sopranos (which she admitted elsewhere she hadn’t) is that the some of the show’s most accurate and biting portrayals were of people exactly like her.
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@SweatieAngle Self diagnosing as autistic was a trend among children, It wasn’t even a woke thing. When you’re 30 and tiktok scrambles your brain it’s time to accept you have a weak mind
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🔎Al🔍@SweatieAngle·
I thought I was autistic. But it turns out I am just annoying.
Christina Buttons@buttonslives

I thought I was autistic. I was wrong. I was 30 in 2019 when stories of women discovering they were autistic all along began appearing everywhere. They popularized a newer understanding of autism, with its own “female presentation.” It was framed as a scientific correction to a historical wrong against women, the kind of narrative the press finds irresistible. Like so many women, I felt immense relief when I was formally diagnosed. It offered an explanation for the mental health crises of my youth and the daily realities of my adult life. Then I spent a year in the online autism community. What I saw there, especially the way activists treated parents of severely impaired children, turned me into a critic of neurodiversity. But it was becoming a journalist in 2022, after discovering detransitioners’ stories, that forced me to question narratives about identity and diagnosis, including my own. Journalism also required the social skills autism says I should have lacked. From there, the rest unraveled: many traits I had come to associate with autism are not uncommon in the general population, but through the “female autism” framework, they looked like a meaningful pattern. I don’t think my story is unique. The same incentives that kept my diagnosis intact may also help explain why so many women are entering the autism category in adulthood. Read my first article for @thefp: thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-…

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C Dahlberg@logicrafting·
@YNMIDK @SweatieAngle Why do you support something so socially corrosive, harmful to children and empirically unsupported?
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🔎Al🔍@SweatieAngle·
Frankly policing YouTube essayist opinions always seems like a more of an idle pastime than productive exercise to me and I try to avoid it- but this strikes me as a willful misunderstanding of how negotiation works. You ask for the moon and the moderate gains are the compromise
WOR$T JOSHIPGIRL IN AOTEAROA@joshipgiirl

Natalie thinks the left wants too much, and that they think she has a courage problem. Personally I would diagnose it as her having an optimism problem that prevents her from strongly advocating for bigger change, because she doesn't believe it can ever happen.

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@Tj_See_Whose_in Keep digging, you’re almost at the truth 👁️
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TJ Seehusen@Tj_See_Whose_in·
It’s crazy how so many people know that these scientists disappearing and dying were researching anti-gravity technology and is the reason they’re being killed off. And the people behind it give zero fucks and continue doing it. That might be the scariest part
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@c0mbien I strongly advocated that we not elect a president who would invade them
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@nawafsalam Incredible work by the Lebanese cabinet securing this ceasefire! You all did a great job and really helped
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Nawaf Salam نواف سلام
أرحّب بإعلان وقف إطلاق النار الذي أعلنه الرئيس ترامب، وهو مطلب لبناني محوري سعينا إليه منذ اليوم الأول للحرب، وكان هدفنا الأول في لقاء واشنطن يوم الثلاثاء. وإذ أهنّئ جميع اللبنانيين بهذا الإنجاز، أترحّم على الشهداء الذين سقطوا، وأؤكّد تضامني مع عائلاتهم، ومع الجرحى، ومع المواطنين الذين اضطروا إلى النزوح من مدنهم وقراهم، وكلّي أمل أن يتمكّنوا من العودة إليها في أسرع وقت. ولا يسعني أيضًا إلا أن أشكر كل الجهود الإقليمية والدولية التي بُذلت للوصول إلى هذه النتيجة، ولا سيما من قبل الولايات المتحدة الأميركية، وفرنسا، ودول الاتحاد الأوروبي، وكل الأشقاء العرب، وفي طليعتهم المملكة العربية السعودية وجمهورية مصر العربية، إضافة إلى دولة قطر والمملكة الأردنية الهاشمية.
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