Why did zoomers all convince themselves social security won’t exist when they retire. What is the basis for this, other than the rectangular misery devices that tell them to hate life all the time

It’s very funny how some people correctly criticize big pharma for having an economic incentive towards treatments over cures let alone strong prevention but also think that vaccines themselves are a huge nexus of pharma profits

It’s good to be skeptical of pharmaceutical companies for millions of reasons but the amount of “pharma greed” accusations leveled around generic medications (SSRIs, HRT, etc) that the companies just don’t care very much about anymore is very funny.

It’s very funny how AI boosterism is a society-wide phenomenon that can be directly to what OpenAI nervously tells investors when they ask “hey isn’t your entire corporate structure going to be eaten alive by Microsoft by Q1 2027”

Could be speaking too soon but it’s weird how the bottom hasn’t fallen out yet. I get Wall Street likes Trump, but like with emerging market institutions I’d expect some emerging market levels of investment and GDP growth lol.

It’s weird how we’re still stuck in David Autor/China shock mode of discussing labor market shocks, I.e. there’s a lot of opportunity for the affected people there’s just lots of roadblocks in their way. My brother in christ the only job growth area right now is wiping butt

lol this is about as long as the F Liner in Tokyo???

“If you outlaw certain economic behaviors, those behaviors usually just get lost to the void rather than being replaced with better alternatives” is a conclusion from economics that is really important for understanding the world, and relevant to the “why don’t they hire Americans???” h1B discourse

I want a wolf cut but unfortunately my hair naturally forms into the zoomer perm

Tbh its interesting how attitudes towards hierarchy is absent in much talk about collectivism in English. It’s assumed collectivism is left wing and individualism right, but hierarchical collectivism is probably the dominant form of social organization in the world.

The rule of thumb is that if you see any stock analysis accompanying a screenshot of Google or Yahoo Finance you should disregard it immediately. Only the pristine monospaced orange and white on black of a Bloomberg Terminal by Bloomberg LP signals the necessary gravitas to be worth your attention.

Tbh even if the food was gourmet it was gourmet by the standards of the 60’s, so like, mayonaise aspic and ham with overcooked hard boiled eggs

If you want to be influential, start a YouTube channel. Text is a dying medium.

This really is the perfect mix of illegal, self-sabotaging, and corrupt policy that is characteristic of Trump lmfao

It’s so funny how many expats who live in China are like “people say it’s authoritarian but you’re allowed to drink in public, and if you don’t say anything the government doesn’t like they don’t care what they do, so you know, it might be *less* authoritarian than America”

Wait, Chinese cars sales peaked in 2017 and haven’t recovered since?

Ngl the funniest part of the AI hype is the “practical career advice” given. A machine that can do any intellectual task a human can do for a price too cheap to meter will be available by the end of the decade, but if you use it to summarize emails now, your job will be safe.

What, exactly, was so good about Bari Weiss’s schtick that it was able to grow into a brand worth hundreds of millions of dollars? Especially considering basically every single writer in every single opinion section was doing the exact same schtick?

It’s always funny talking to a nurse complaining about understaffing knowing this is literally the best it’s going to be for the rest of our lives

Me seeing the EU-America AC shitflinging wars going to a university where a lot of buildings don’t have an HVAC system at all

The “what are we a bunch of Asians post” is funny both because it’s mostly about defending North Korea, but also it’s possible compare certain policies to other countries’ without incriminating the race of people there

“Why didn’t Kamala take risks when she was behind? - person who still realitigates Hillary Clinton cancelling a Wisconsin visit to address the Pulse shooting in Florida in the big 2 5

Best boss in Silksong out of context: doomed gay bug robot yaoi

The Atlantic Mind Virus

Democracy is like a tram, an indispensable infrastructure system for modern urban society. Singapore and Hungary to governance are like Los Angeles and Miami to urbanism (derogatory).

This, but also ngl it goes both ways. Everyday people don’t support higher minimum wages because they read the economics literature on monopsony and think it’s a good policy. Like no, they think the government can set high wages by fiat with little consequence

Tbh people are really hostile to anti-small donor rhetoric but I do think a significant part of Mamdani’s success was that he was much more focused on kitchen table issues within a strong social media campaign instead of appeasing a class of psychotically Postmaterial professionals

I mean this entire time Klein has been pretty clear that Liberals got ourselves into this mess by being too mean to conservatives lol.

I mean if you look at the numbers the only medications that really work to extend your life are antibiotics and vaccines. Everything else is just nice to have. Also they’re not really all that pricey

I’m not so sure about comparing these things by weight? Coal is cheap but heavy, nickel and lithium are quite expensive.

Funny to think an Oberlin student from Vietnam saying the Banh Mi at her school’s dining hall is bad was more politically consequential than Trump’s assassination attempt

The primary mechanism of sibling to sibling abuse is that the parent tries to “try to control only what they can and have the serenity to accept what they can’t,” and you’ll never guess into which categories the abused and the abuser fit in

It’s weird how Republicans correct see higher education as a significant asset for Democrats but Democrats don’t really see it as such

I thought the politics of the ban were iffy but man it’s crazy how we’re just a dictatorship now. Congress passed the ban, a president signed it and 9-0 the Supreme Court said it had to happen. But it never got banned because el caudillo wanted to Make Deals

The vibes of the Republican Party voting for stupid Trump shit out of fear of getting death threats is very similar to that scene in A Glass Onion where the influencer’s assistant realizes she hitched her wagon to someone who thinks “sweatshops” is just the name of sweatpants factories

There’s a lot of lines you can draw between important job centers and dense residential areas in the US but when you do the math it ends up not pencilling out even a little with extremely generous passenger projections. But transit fans often will cling to those original reasons. It’s frustrating

Visited the fuckass library again award

Bus lanes really seem to be both underrated and overrated. Underrated in that a lot of buses are stuck in traffic but also overrated in that if traffic is free flowing they aren’t really needed.

Whoever invents Eating Disorders, but for Men™️ is gonna be the worlds first trillionaire

“Mommy, how did daddy meet mommy?” “Well, son, it starts with Captain Matthew Sankey needing a visualization as to how energy is lost in a steam engine”

I am activating the nuclear-grade subtweet machine here but I cannot stand the genre of article that goes "Trump is wrong to attack XYZ institution—but XYZ institution *does* need reform" and then just says we should discuss reforming XYZ institution but doesn't propose a coherent plan of its own

The midwestern mind cannot comprehend the outdoor Costco food court

Reducing the trade deficit by making US an emerging market hellhole that foreign capital dare not touch

Kinda coming to terms with the left wing 21st century agenda is to do anything it takes to get majority 4 year college degree attainment

The modal American lives in California, is unemployed, is a white woman, and drives a RAV4

Am OFFICIALLY Californoid 🫡🫡🫡

Ngl one of the weirder parts of wonk twitter was how Bryan Caplans ideas on education became understood as the consensus of academic economics when… lol.

Surely I’m not the only one who finds it weird that the economy right now is blue chip companies and confidence scams with no in between?

Median +75R California district Assembly member vs the median LA senator