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@PolicyEnjodgn9 @Aethelcynd @THEZONEEEEEE @cccvb90482622 @StatisticUrban no it isnt. the “hoods in Europe” have high crime rates. gun ownership does not explain the drastic changes in crime rates in the united states over the past century, not in the slightest.

@Aethelcynd @THEZONEEEEEE @cccvb90482622 @StatisticUrban It’s really not it’s by far the biggest reason. You have hoods in Europe too but they aren’t all shooting each other.

Narrative violation. Conservatives may cry about it . But Trump doesn't. “And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history,” he said. “The lowest number in over 125 years—year 1900.” - Trump

@skyybeenup man just delete this shit. what a waste of money 😭

@Ash243x @LexerLux @ShadowyZephyr ??? well you have to put them somewhere before you execute them. what kinda argument is this

@LexerLux @ShadowyZephyr seems like prison didn't work then did it.

Since I have never heard a remotely sane person advocate for prison abolition, I ask you all to please steelman it for me. What does an "abolitionist" society do with people like this?

@BobaCalifornian Lmao

Made my first Wikipedia election! What if both moderate candidates advanced to November's general election in California?

@mattyglesias @harrisonfinberg i simply dont believe you, what? I knew of that nazi symbol when I was like 14?

@harrisonfinberg It’s definitely not “famous,” the first I heard of it was in the context of this campaign. And there are some iconic Jewish Mainers!

What is the upshot of the Platner tattoo discourse? Let's say I find his story fishy. I'm supposed to worry that this seemingly left-wing guy supported by all the left-wing people is secretly a Nazi just pretending to be a progressive populist?

@mattyglesias So what does it mean?

@sporadica i dont see the problem

can someone explain to me how this is somehow a smart move by Buffett, because frankly it seems like a pretty big failure on the part of Berkshire to be sitting on cash and T-bills while inflation skyrockets and the market keeps on absolutely pumping

@Lux_Stella_ this guy is indian

do american universities lock their libraries or something

@VolvicCh @Intarabus333 whats going on in turkey

@Intarabus333 Time to make the Americans jealous:

So technically, according to the strict law of the Torah...

@PiotrKo94186316 @Skeptical_S @auntiesam_2 @nunaambon in some states. my state requires all distilled alcohol and all alcohol above like 14% to be sold in a separate liquor store that pretty much exclusively sells alcohol.

@Skeptical_S @auntiesam_2 @nunaambon And the bottles are just sitting there, uncapped, unblocked, unprotected from sticky hands?

Time to make the Europeans jealous!!

@MkenyaMzi @nunaambon @grok who is gonna buy this from here lmao like “oh yeah i forgot i needed those!”

@nunaambon Found it ! @grok make a detailed model train engine placed on checkered tiled flooring amzn.to/4d29jtK

@TouchMeTeaseNYC @anonref2 @lilyzura1 @navelwriter broke

@anonref2 @lilyzura1 @navelwriter send him the $99 or stfu

yeah so i’m trapped in atlanta with no money to afford another flight this is a fate worse than death.

@uhshanti @DKThomp why dont we “heterodox” physics or biology

@DKThomp the Unlearning Economics guy is an economist. perhaps your reaction to heterodox economics is a bigger tell than his blog title

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.

@AAAAA4A4AAAAA 200k followers and no engagement lmaoooo

@skyybeenup bought a botted account 😭😭😭😭

@RichardDawkins why do you ask that like natural selection is an intelligent process with thought put into it

My own title was, “If my friend Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?” If Claudia is unconscious, her behaviour shows that an unconscious zombie could survive without consciousness. Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies?

#comment-1031777" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-… I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.

@Vexxter4sure @hivossnoid okay so he isnt a physicist thats the fucking point

@hivossnoid x.com/i/status/20503…

The last time a physicist tried making money, he solved financial markets

@Vexxter4sure @noesis89474724 so he isnt a physicist retard

@noesis89474724 Ummm akshucally 🤓☝️, he was a mathematician, first off his work in mathematics led to a noble prize in physics, second of all almost of the early rentech employees were predominantly Physics PhD's, istg some of you have raisins in your head instead of brains

@retardbeater_ @a9AlThani @jellicentz think your bio might apply to you buddy

@a9AlThani @jellicentz shocking, the arab guy thinks the one that looks like a teenager is hotter

i was watching some new netflix movie called roommates and why did nobody tell me that this ivy wolk girl was an actual actress and not just the twitter mid-off meme girl

@feedmepritzker @fedtanyl @BagvBones You say this regime is now our “puppet.” It is in our control, so we are continuing this illegitimate dictatorship that has brutally oppressed the Venezuelan people for years. That is what is disgusting and monstrous.

@sbjosh02 @fedtanyl @BagvBones explain what we did that was “disgusting” or “monstrous”

We’re currently 0/2 in our ongoing regime change efforts, but hey, maybe third time’s the charm!