I sure hope someone FOIAs the travel expenses for this so the American people can see how much they paid for him and his entourage to fly all over the country eating brisket and ribs while he tells them to eat liver.
Economists call this (essentially) first degree price discrimination: seller set prices to perfectly fit consumers' willing to pay, so the joint gains from trade ("consumer surplus" and "producer surplus") go entirely to the seller.
I took it as a thought experiment when I was in grad school.
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.
itโs amazing how these rich and powerful menโs core problems, their central complaint about the world, is โsomeone called me a mean name and it made my tummy hurtโ
Instead of everyone reviewing that Melania film to talk about how bad it is, since itโs not really a movie more than it is a bribe, how about writing about some of the great films this year that people may have missed? I donโt think we need 100 of the same reviews about a non-movie.
Let me give you a thought experiment:
Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving forceโas it should.
www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product."
No we can commodify each other, too.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence ๐ฅ
"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy
AI shows ingroup bias towards AI content!
If we deploy LLMs in decision-making roles (e.g., purchasing goods, selecting academic submissions) they will favor LLM agents over ordinary humans
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I know multiple people who reported their cars stolen just to have the cops accuse them of trying to commit insurance fraud so they didn't have to bother investigating. Then the victims had to fight w their insurance companies for months bc of this.
See also: Mike Birbiglia's car accident story.
Multiple times yesterday, Trump attacked decisions he made himself - because he canโt remember his first term.
He then told a Unabomber story as his own, when it was actually a story Jeffrey Epstein used to tell.
Mainstream media remains silent on his debilitating illness.
I'm about to do it. I'm about to say "imagine if Biden did this." I don't want to but I must, because it'd be very funny. Imagine if Biden said his uncle told him how brilliant the Unabomber was a decade before he was identified. Imagine the very funny NYT push notification you'd get on your phone.
This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT.
The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.
Tapping the sign that says โNSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovationโ
This is one of those examples where, if the flood hadnโt happened and a camp director was telling you about this story it would be a perfect example of red tape, bureaucracy, the hassle of regulation etc. And yet.
apnews.com/article/texa...
Senator @marshablackburn : no town halls since 2017
@senatorhagerty : no town halls.. ever
What are yโall so afraid of? You must really not like your answers. @RepTimBurchett @repandyogles @RepChuck @RepDavidKustoff @DesJarlaisTN04 ๏RepJohnRose ๏RepHarshbarger
Happy 8th anniversary to people getting PO'd at NPR because they didn't recognize or agree with the Declaration of Independence when it was tweeted out line by line. apnews.com/general-news...
3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill:
3M
Altria
AT&T
Charter Communications
Chevron
Cisco
Comcast
Delta Airlines
Door Dash
Great Clips
Hair Cuttery
T-Mobile
Uber
United Airlines
UPS
Verizon
The math on preventative health care for all is so blindingly obvious that everyone sees it except us. So we just keep paying the most money per capita for the worst outcomes and the most suffering, while for-profit health care manages its quarterly earnings.
Say what you will about Trump threatening to strip citizenship from his critics and have immigrants put into concentration camps in a swamp, but he never did anything truly power-mad like forgive student loans.
confident that if Biden were blackmailing Corporate Media into giving him $16 million in cash, Corporate Media would call him out for blackmail AND how that weakens freedom of speech, democracy, and our economy. instead, Corporate Media normalizes Trump Family corruption by treating it as business.
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
Chamath Palihapitiya ยฎ Au @chamath Follow Make no mistake, just like in a private company, these are losses. America is deeply unprofitable, far away from breaking even and if outsiders stop lending us money, we will go bankrupt. So, in case you didn't know better, if you are still wishing DOGE to fail, you are wishing for America to default.
โAmerica is deeply unprofitableโ itโs a country not a B2B startup you fucking dweeb
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
Thought I'd write something about how Elon Musk has access to every expert he could possibly need to understand stuff, and yet appears to simply believe any random chud on ExTwitter spewing utter nonsense. And why journalists should ask him about that. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s...
Musk saying heโs shutting down illegal money launderers and itโs Lutheran Social Services
Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down
Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?
