bill pulec

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bill pulec

@billpulec

Katılım Eylül 2009

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bill pulec@billpulec·4 Nis

@JeremiahDJohns @Evercor91 Yet almost all the games on that list are f2p. But I think that's the appeal, they are free games that sell constant content updates so your not really playing the same thing as when you started. It's not really like listening to the same song as the games evolve

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·3 Nis

@Evercor91 AAA video games are cheaper in real terms than they have been basically ever.

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·3 Nis

I've written about this before, but it's remarkable how much older music is strangling new music. And the same is true in books, movies, video games. Older media is taking up a bigger and bigger share of the market every year.

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bill pulec@billpulec·1 Şub

@JeremiahDJohns The SEC doesn't do that well in the party school list tbh. 2026 Top Party Schools in America - Niche share.google/MphAKVz1Mqt81v…

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·31 Oca

Sorry, I can't take seriously a ranking where schools are judged by "How many ROTC folks are there" or "anti-zionist organization count" or "having lots of religious groups" Hell, the party school ranking is part of the metric too, probably as a way to hack SEC schools higher

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·31 Oca

The Manhattan Institute put out a new anti-woke university ranking - and I say the following as a graduate of a top ten school on this list - this is one of the stupidest fucking things I've ever seen.

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bill pulec@billpulec·25 Ara

@s8mb I just got a subscription for Christmas looking forward to it

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Sam Bowman@s8mb·22 Ara

One of the best gifts you can buy someone this Christmas is a print subscription to Works in Progress. Order now and your loved one will get their first issue, issue 22, in mid-January. worksinprogress.co/print/

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bill pulec@billpulec·26 Kas

@wavygravy39 @CNLiberalism 730 ILCS 5/5‑4.5‑95(a) is the exact statute

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Green Goblin@wavygravy39·26 Kas

@billpulec @CNLiberalism Where do you see that Illinois has a three strike law?

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New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@CNLiberalism·26 Kas

We let three strike laws fall out of fashion around 2020, but if you are someone who is going to commit three crimes it's probably the case that you are going to keep committing crimes

New York Post@nypost

Bethany MaGee, 26, identified as Chicago woman set on fire on CTA train by serial thug with 72 arrests trib.al/DzKkp2e

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bill pulec@billpulec·26 Kas

@CNLiberalism He probably was never tried for the majority of his arrests, or possibly took plea deals or they were very minor offenses that didn't count against the three strikes. 71 arrests, although a lot, doesn't actually tell you that much.

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New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@CNLiberalism·26 Kas

@billpulec Then what happened here?

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bill pulec@billpulec·12 Eyl

@HighyieldHarry My favorite is actually Too Big To Fail

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High Yield Harry@HighyieldHarry·12 Eyl

Time for a timeline cleanse Do you guys think Margin Call is better than the Big Short?

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bill pulec@billpulec·20 Ağu

@JeremiahDJohns @therealCoinmon Its like the ultimate test of how much you can sanewash

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·19 Ağu

@therealCoinmon There are a surprising number of sane people who go to bat for Taylor at times, my theory is that she's personally friendly and a good networker. It's honestly a great bit when someone reasonable is forced to try to rationalize her insanity.

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·19 Ağu

"The DSA is more fascist than Nazis for not requiring masks in 2025" gets an immediate ticket to the 2025 bad tweets bracket

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bill pulec@billpulec·12 Kas

@eigenrobot At least some of this is the fact boomers are a lot older grandparents typically than my grandparents were. When I was born my grandparents were in their late 40s and early 50s. My kid's grand parents are in their mid-late 60s. Thats a very different stage of life

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot·12 Kas

i wasn't sure what people were talking about when they claimed that boomers checking out of family life contributed to grandkid famine but each of these items makes sense to me as contributing to long term dissolution of family lines every year i am more grateful to my parents

Anna Gát 🧭@TheAnnaGat

@eigenrobot @GeorgePunished @robkhenderson In my circles: career first Boomer parents, divorce, promiscuity, being absent, constant financial instability/illegibility, sometimes abuse And most of my generation when they have kids the grandparents are not available- either because of work or they're travelling/indulging

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bill pulec@billpulec·8 Kas

@davidshor @vanillaopinions Do you have any hypothesis to the casual chain there? Just always backlashing against parents?

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David Shor@davidshor·7 Kas

@vanillaopinions I think an underrated part of it is basically that millenials had boomer parents while Gen Z had Gen X parents. I did a survey once asking people how their parents voted when they were growing up and there was a pretty big generational gap in parental partisanship.

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vo@vanillaopinions·7 Kas

can someone under the age of 25 explain why so many young people are voting republican now? like i'm 27 and it feels like my age and up this isn't really happening but the youth swings this election were massive

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bill pulec@billpulec·5 Eyl

@ArmandDoma Well. And it's clear they actually believed in democracy

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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma·5 Eyl

in retrospect neocons becoming liberals should not be entirely shocking—anyone who believed the US government could fundamentally restructure Afghanistan and Iraq had far more faith in the power of government than the median conservative

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bill pulec@billpulec·2 Eyl

@AlanMCole Huh. I totally forgot about that too. It was so dumb it's real hard to actually keep up with all the dumb decisions

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Alan Cole@AlanMCole·1 Eyl

There is so much bad stuff in Rise of Skywalker that I've apparently blocked out of my memory because it's so stupid. I just re-learned that Rey accidentally kills Chewie, then they just kind of forget about it for a while, and then eventually it's "oh no actually she didn't."

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bill pulec@billpulec·31 Ağu

@bendreyfuss I went to college at the same time and remember protests against the Iraq war?

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Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss·31 Ağu

But I don’t actually remember any mass protests when I was in college (2005-2008). There were activist protests in 2005 about the immigration bill from the right and left, but I wouldn’t call them “mass” examples.

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Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss·31 Ağu

Seems like a lot of them were rather fond of the Khmer Rouge.

Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper

Genuinely curious: are there examples of an American student protest movement where we now think, with the benefit of hindsight, the kids were on the wrong side of the issue? Every student movement I can think of was vindicated by history. Are there counter-examples I’m missing?

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bill pulec@billpulec·31 Ağu

@xlr8harder The star trek computer can be close sometimes, although it seems like all the characters underappreciate its power....

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xlr8harder@xlr8harder·30 Ağu

The weirdest thing about reading scifi in 2024 is that even relatively recent work like the 3 body problem series fails to account for the incredible progress in AI that we have already today, and starts to feel anachronistic.

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bill pulec@billpulec·31 Ağu

@elliot_olds @dylanmatt Yeah, this is exactly my thought. There is no lock-in preventing investment in other places as any ability to sell shares to invest somewhere is made possible by some other investor buying the shares.

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Elliot Olds@elliot_olds·30 Ağu

@dylanmatt For the investors to deploy capital to new projects they need to sell their shares to other investors. If that doesn’t happen then other investors have more money to invest elsewhere. Isn’t the total money looking for investment the same in either case?

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bill pulec@billpulec·30 Ağu

@JeremiahDJohns It's mostly just people pissed about Musk doing this imo

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·30 Ağu

Second: I'd bet we are talking about a tiny subset, even among the super rich. People who are rich enough to do this, sophisticated enough to do it, with wealth concentrated in one stock, also not giving away their money ala Gates. I suspect this number is VERY small

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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·30 Ağu

So, about the whole "Billionaires borrow against their wealth until they die, and thus never pay taxes, therefore we need to tax unrealized gains" scenario. There's a lot of stuff here that confuses me.

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bill pulec@billpulec·30 Ağu

@not_conjecture @StatisticUrban USPS has a significant number of blue collar workers and that's a big part of this chart. It's also why Amazon is a lot less blue than the other tech companies, because it hires a lot more blue collar workers.

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TruthAndConjecture@not_conjecture·30 Ağu

@StatisticUrban The US Postal Service is most interesting to me. Republicans literally want to cut that department and have actively aimed to make it function worse.

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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·30 Ağu

How employees of the 100 employers with the most donors donated.

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bill pulec@billpulec·30 Ağu

@90125Meddle @TrueSlazac @StatisticUrban Employers(i.e. companies) are not allowed to donate to campaigns. So most of the time when this stuff is measured they are measuring employee donations. (Worth noting that even the CEOs of companies are included in employees for these charts)

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Meowsar II ☀️@90125Meddle·30 Ağu

@TrueSlazac @StatisticUrban i see, i sort of misinterpreted it too, i thought it meant donations by the EMPLOYERS not the employees

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bill pulec@billpulec·29 Ağu

@PLongsticking @studentized_tea @Bridoc10 @mattyglesias Part of the issue is Harris needs to win more swing states than trump does to win. So even if she's leading in a bunch only one or two need to be wrong to give the election to Trump.

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Pippy Longsticking@PLongsticking·29 Ağu

@studentized_tea @Bridoc10 @mattyglesias This is fascinating bc the model favors Harris in virtually all swing states sans NC.

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bill pulec@billpulec·27 Ağu

@besttrousers I've heard a lot of complaints about her from epidemiologists! Some are covered here but there are more. Certainly there is tension vox.com/the-highlight/…

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Matt Darling 🌐🏗️@besttrousers·27 Ağu

There's a very-online concept that there was some sort of epidemiology/economics rivalry during the pandemic, but I don't think that's particularly true in the real world. (I recall the head of the APHA lauding Emily Oster's work in science communication at their annual meeting)

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Matt Darling 🌐🏗️@besttrousers·27 Ağu

I'm honestly not even sure what actions this is talking about - economists don't particularly conflict with epidemiology or climate science.

Jathan Sadowski@jathansadowski

Ironically, economists regularly tell policymakers to ignore epidemiologists and climate scientists when their findings contradict the ideological pseudoscience of economists.

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