That's the good stuff, the old Andrew Wakefield grift shit before his antivax audience wouldn't tolerate him hawking alternative vax schedules anymore.

I will say, this is probably the least scary "large forceful intervention" in a Latin American country this admin could announce.

You've got to wonder if the person who created this chart was trying to make a dot-com reference with it

Someone needs to discover time travel just to show the Vance quote to even the most online person around at any point between 2016 and 2020 and watch their brain melt out of their nostrils

The funniest shit about this not-yet-party remains that when it was announced as corbyn's new party by Sultana to force him to commit to it he still dithered on whether he was really part of it for a few days. The first official announcement was already a split, if a temporary one.

West Germany really is a very fun experiment in a housing (and just about every other) policy designed in expectation of long term demographic decline from the 90s/00s onwards followed by becoming for most likely a few more decades a growing nation of immigrants

Truly fascinated by the guy sitting opposite to me on the train working on his laptop just having a teleshopping channel playing on his phone without sound (or headphones), but also never looking at it.

I'd love to hear some of my Utah mutuals' take on Mr Depolarisation Free Speech and Abundance, the GOP governor of Utah lol (Link is the text version of the interview) archive.is/b1AiW

You could probably write an interesting story on the trajectory of two vox founders from the convictions they describe in their 2020 book to what they are doing today, and even if written sympathetically neither is going to look great.

Honestly, seeing this type of "empirical" bullshit kind of makes me understand econ's superiority complex as a discipline*. *exceptions apply for quant pol sci and sociology and empirical tax, accounting and finance researchers, applied micro is more of a method than a field anyways.

Tbf you absolutely should do that, just for the 10 rival claims spread out over 13 books and movies of who put the zip ties on his sweaty wrists

I wanted to check the billing history of a (e-)newspaper subscription I got myself when I was 17, and not only was the address 5 years out of date, these madpeople do not even allow you to change your address online lmfao. I had to call their service line just to correct that.

I remain deeply alarmed that real people will semi-regularly consider me trustworthy, not sure if that reflects well on their judgment.

Honestly there are basically only two bets I'm willing to make on youth voting in Germany: - lowest AfD support among demographics under 65 - party preference (relative to other demos) has basically no stickiness over a 4 year time horizon

Packed last night's leftovers for lunch today, and only now am I considering that an "onion cake" may not be the best choice for an office meal

I really need to clean up my Spotify podcast feed, just had Ronzheimer start playing on local elections and only shut it off when his guest (table media?) started saying how "security" and "the appearance and cleanliness of inner cities" are the "related" issues motivating [AfD] voters against Wüst.

sometimes I question how much my partisanship in German politics is downstream of where I grew up, and looking at the local election results certainly isn't helping the milieu politics accusations

Since we may finally have a new domestic intelligence chief, I've got to once more hand it to the German deep state for absolutely nailing the look of the type of guy that has been getting this job since before the FRG existed. Doesn't even matter that he's a Turkish immigrant, he still has the look

This is art

So what I'm hearing is that we need a government scheme of year-round jungle camp, Big Brother etc to keep busy the multitude of bruised egos that see fascism as their best bet on reviving their media careers

I'm going to become the joker

Only feeling better about this take www.ft.com/content/7068...

lmfao

this does feel a little ironic, considering that de jure monarchy (for technological, economic and social reasons) was functionally never even close to the end point of de facto centralised power

I've spent the last week complaining at every opportunity that I'm reading way too many papers while my reading list is growing at an even faster rate, so I'm questioning why exactly past me decided to order a thousand page Walter Ulbricht biography (because it's a cheap temporary bpb print run)

Did not expect the fixed sirens to also go for round two, 10/10 productive day so far

It's Bundeswarntag Baby, can't wait to have random phones going off with inexplicable delays for the next 2-3 hours. Also one of the sirens here was 5 minutes early, I hate spoilers.

Lol, wtf is happening today

Train getting stuck right outside the station is always quite annoying, but at least today it's on the bridge over the rhine so I get a nicer view than usual

Disadvantage of living slightly in the sticks while the grape harvest is going on: basically every day if I choose to cycle or walk to and from the station I splash my trousers with the squashed grapes all over the roads and paths.

So academic econ is a bit allergic to treating other social sciences as real and their publications as relevant, but how are you supposed to deal with a literature that started in econ, mostly died in the 00s, and was revived by quant polsci with some of the old econs in interdisciplinary journals?

Realising that long term exposure to doctors talking about the German health care system has made me default to outright conspiratorial thinking about the statutory insurers and central medical organisations (KVs) interfacing with them

I have a very absurd idea for a research design that serves no purpose other to prove the design of a big policy evaluation project invalid. The slight problem is that said policy evaluation isn't going to really start until 2027, so for now I would just be targeting obscure data collection reports

I love looking for papers on a very specific sub-topic and every publication on it from 1995 to this August shares a co-author, who from a cursory look at his CV is unlikely to have much time left for further publishing.

the search continues and I have been reminded that it was perfectly normal for a lot of German economists to publish their academic research *in German* as late as the 90s, which just seems silly in retrospect.

Seems like a good time to fill up my car, I guess

trying to find any econ literature on a German defence context is a struggle, but at least the guys in Kiel drop reliable bangers

This is actually a common misconception for this discourse, the German obligation of identification requires you to possess valid ID, not carry it. The being ridiculous part is not having a central standard for IDs, which I guess via Real ID actually becoming a thing has been lessened somewhat.

Everything else im this thread is horrifying, but this one is just funny tbh

It's cool that there are a lot of small coffee roasters selling various single origin stuff around here, but it would be nice if from the nearest 12 roasters that I've been to more than two had even a single light roast in their range.

My morning train apparently had a partial engine breakdown, something the driver took 5 attempts to announce because halfway through every announcement he was disrupted by blaring alerts in his cabin lol

@gigansprogress.bsky.social Euro defence data report you shared a while back contains (on pp. 10-11) the statements that 24 MS meet the 20% defence investment benchmark, 12 are at 30% or more, while the aggregate is at 31%, some of the distributions they refuse to comment on must be interesting.

Maybe as a collorary, if you hope someone to be Centrist or Moderate Mamdani, maybe avoid inviting them to conferences with your less savoury group chat buddies.

Realising I may be RETVRNing to physical paper at least for reading an annotating stuff, don't know how compatible that is with my pretty bad habits around archiving paper notes, especially because I'll be moving stuff around a lot between 3 locations.

It's very nice to get your coping mechanisms validated as professionally useful. I'm definitely constantly bombarding my brain with current affairs, polsci and history content to make myself a better applied economist, not because I used to be pathological about preventing my thoughts from idling.

I don't really notice it anymore because I've been using pharma swag notepads, pens etc for as long as I can remember, but apparently other people find it awkward when there is a big speculum printed in the corner of the pad in front of me

took me a while to realise why there was something so uncanny to me about the deportation abundance guy's headshot (besides being poorly cropped on the abundanceDC website), but I finally got it. He has styled his face into a living Roman statue avi. This is a face meld of 20-ish Roman emperors

You're telling me another AfD candidate for the local elections died?

Since the conference with an abundance of right wing speakers is the discourse of the day, maybe the earliest indicators were actually right and ought to have been sufficient

this is revenge on his former allies for refusing to fund his musical theater habit