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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Import tariffs are explicitly inflationary. Even the rhumor of them is arguably inflationary. Lowering the interest rate (which Trump is currently in the midst of bullying the Fed chair into doing ) is also explicitly inflationary.

    All of the things he has done that actually pertain to inflation have been to increase it.




  • You’re not creating more stick, but you’re making the stick longer. The pressure wave in the stick will travel at the speed of sound in the stick which will be faster than sound in air, but orders of magnitude slower than light.

    Everything has some elasticity. Rigidity is an illusion . Things that feel rigid to us are rigid in human terms only.


  • ‘Data’ is not neutral! The point of collecting data on teachers and schools was always about control, pushing down pay, cutting benefits and cutting funding

    No, it’s not. It is actually possible to use this data wisely. Source: every other country with better education than the US.

    A few naive people think that they might have some use in monitoring standards between schools, THEY DON’T. Pearson, Springer, and the other large education companies suck up much of the funding…not to the benefit of classrooms and students.

    American skills issue.


  • It fits on with what I thought would happen when all the genocide Joe people were insisting things couldn’t get worse. Netanyahu has a direct interest in involving the US as deeply as possible into his conflict (yes it can get deeper) while maintaining a stranglehold on US politics . Ultimately this is a short term play. He helped Trump win , but Trump is destabilizing the US to the extent that long-term Israel is going to lose its one absolute ally.








  • Huge numbers of people who benefit directly from the work of the NLRB vote for people who openly want to gut it. The reason every authoritarian regime seeks to control the media is simple - it works. Americans created an information environment where Fox News spewed their filth and lies day in and day out for decades. This was the inevitable conclusion to that. Those in this bubble who supported this see everything that’s happening as the smashing for the deep state, and a federal government that “didn’t do anything for anyone anyways”. They’re wrong and they’ll be hurt, but so will everyone else.