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@jeff23hi @MattBruenig @SnekMonger If you have a mortgage with negative equity it's basically impossible, and not for mental reasons.

@MattBruenig @SnekMonger Sunk cost - hard mentally to walk away from that loss.

Why do workers stay in places facing economic decline? Great paper using Norwegian administrative data to show that the decline in local home prices keep homeowners there (but not renters) norges-bank.no/contentassets/…

@Fifongirmfo @jakebackpack The commas indicate a non-restrictive appositive. It's just additional information, it doesn't change the previous clause. Maybe it got mangled by a copy editor but I think it's just sloppy.

@jakebackpack The biggest of those acting in accordance with France to recognize Palestine in 2025. Not the biggest to ever do so. It’s a stupid, unnecessary framing obviously. But still…

@SethYefrican Thinking trans people are human is leftist ideology.

After much speculation on the shooter’s politics, it seems it’s not exactly left or right, but more Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon

What’s currently happening in the tech sector is possibly the biggest misallocation of capital in history: socially- and environmentally degrading, wasteful of crucial natural resources, involving a massive political power grab, all without providing any real productivity increases or technological breakthroughs—and yet we’re told that this newest act of oligarchic enrichment and authoritarian aggrandisement is evidence of the superiority of the American model of capitalism.

@rcobooth He posted a follow up that basically shows Trump/Harris accounts for the majority of whatever difference there is and gender is kind of just there for the narrative. x.com/SteveKornacki/…

there’s a lot here around marriage and kids, but it’s also worth noting that 75–80% of both Gen Z men and women say owning a home isn’t personally important for a successful life x.com/stevekornacki/…

@SteveKornacki So gender is basically irrelevant then except for narrative purposes. What's the margin of error on these crosstabs btw?

The numbers for Gen Z women who voted for Trump and Gen Z men who voted for Harris

Our NBC News Decision Desk poll asked Gen Z adults (18-29 years old) what they consider important to a successful life. The combination of gender and politics produced two very different sets of priorities:

@OsitaNwanevu MacIntyre himself dismissed Virtue Ethics in his earlier "Short History of Ethics"

@TheJackieB @Sam_Rasoul The focus on standardizef tests was a Republican project from the start. Dems should just ditch them and refocus on actual teaching.

@Sam_Rasoul Why are we pushing SOL scores so hard when we know they're not a measure of learning, when teachers have said they make teaching very difficult and very limited, and students are distressed and exhausted by them?

Our students' scores are not improving enough under Governor Youngkin's leadership. We need to stop distracting from the work ahead with political games and the privatization of our public schools which leaves so many Virginians behind. We need to invest in our kids' education.

@NoahProoval @MattBruenig @ckieser13 Yes, they are capped by the Obamacare law. They used to be much higher.

@MattBruenig @ckieser13 Also, aren't the insurance company's profit margins more or less directly set by law? Like they gotta spend a certain percentage of the premiums on care?

@besttrousers @MattBruenig @KelseyTuoc The impact of the treatment could depend on some variable which is distributed differently in the volunteer and non-volunteer populations, which would bias your estimate.

@MattBruenig @KelseyTuoc This doesn't really make sense. Randomization is used to solve a specific problem; ensuring that the treatment and control groups are similar, so you can estimate the true impact of the treatment.

Yes - we are getting to the Argument part of The Argument.

@MattBruenig 🎶DJ Khaled... 🎶

@SethYefrican That's a graph of the wealth distribution.

Very funny that the best they could come up with looks like the logo for a bank that went under during the 08 financial crisis

NEW: UNC Student Activist Loses Prestigious Scholarship For Gaza Protest Laura Saavedra Forero, a wheelchair-using student activist and Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, has lost her scholarship after helping organize last year’s Gaza solidarity encampment. Once praised by the program for her disability rights advocacy, Forero was later surveilled, disciplined, doxxed, and criminally charged for her pro-Palestine activism—before the scholarship was finally revoked. Key Details: ➤ In 2023, the Morehead-Cain Foundation placed Forero under contract, warning her against engaging in “disruptive” activism. ➤ The scholarship fully funded her education and supported her roles as co-president of UNC’s Campus Y and team manager for the national champion women’s soccer team. ➤ On April 30, Forero joined the pro-Palestinian protest with her laptop and wheelchair charger; all her belongings were seized during the police raid. ➤ She was later charged with resisting an officer after she says UNC police knocked her out of her wheelchair while seizing her phone. ➤ Forero emphasizes that she was targeted for being “hyper visible” and unmasked as a disabled activist. ➤ The Morehead-Cain Foundation suspended and later terminated her scholarship due to her continued involvement in protests. ➤ Despite these challenges, Forero remains resolute: “I think there is no greater show of moral force of character than being willing to stand up to a genocidal regime knowing the consequences that await.” [Read the full story by Brianna Atkinson via WUNC. Link in reply.]

@eriktweets "A lot of the people who steal Palestinian land are suburbanites with high tech jobs." Um, ok?

Every day on here I am confronted with nonsense like this and have to wonder - is this person an unserious naive moron or a psychotic liar?

@who_shot_jgr I'm A.C.E.

sorry liberals there's only five genders: PE AIA MD CPA Esq.

@roomcguire Get that little girl inside already you monster.

Get me to God’s country

@verdazarine Now my kids are on Java and my new job is mod installer. So many tears about mod and version conflicts.

@verdazarine Lol this was me in 2020 trying to figure out why my son's item sorter wasn't working. The biggest issue we had was finding videos for Bedrock.

New madness rune just dropped: I’ve been trying to learn Minecraft tech for my kids who want to build like fucking particle accelerators and this is by far the best content but it’s all like this

@tysonbrody I feel like this was always the plan. Let everyone think about it over the weekend, have a phone call, then do a Truth about how they gave him what he wanted.

@singlepayertom Then right after you were done painting it they could tell you they wanted a different color all along and have a screaming meltdown.