The his is the best miso glazed salmons I’ve ever made (excuse my mom already have taken a piece)

Am I an insane luddite for thinking that the Amazon "just walk out" tech is a lot less fun to use than the Uniqlo RFID self checkout

Given that REITs are more accessible than ever and that the S&P 500 has outpaced basically every real estate market in the US over almost every timeframe, I think young men are pushed to high risk speculation because "get rich quick" schemes are appealing and gambling is fun.

tbh if you really are a pragmatic centrist who understands that voters don't care how moral energy is, just that it's cheap, you really aught to be advocating for the painful reality of a US foreign policy more willing to cater to Saudi/Iran/Russia's wants lol.

tbh I'd prefer the future of the energy industry to not be in the hands of Russia/Iran/Saudi but also "a world run by oil from democracies" is also one where we have more immaterially moral oil that is also significantly more expensive, something that he's constantly scolding dems for wanting.

Can BYD just put the US auto industry out of its misery already? We have higher value add industries we really should be focusing more on

China is aggressively seeking an "all of the above" energy strategy, which makes it funny that it's admired so much by new left "keep it in the ground" types, while the "all of the above" people are talking about how bad their emissions are.

"I'm pro labor but not the unions that are more focused on extracting concessions from consumers, non-union workers, and lower seniority union workers rather than corporations" is not really a sustainable position in the world of post-1970 producer surpluses

ngl it's weird that a lot of people who argue that there's nothing we can do to ban or regulate AI because you can run deepseek/qwen/etc on consumer GPUs fairly trivially (True) but also do think there can be a way to "tax the winners and compensate the losers of AI-driven job disruption"

Due to the end of high margin industrial growth in the US, unions went from extracting from producers to extracting from consumers and non-union employees? You're telling me this now, for the first time?

tbh the problem is that Biden did try to do a new deal for postindustrial areas but there was a lot of local resistance bridgemi.com/business-wat...

*Explaining a font change to a conservative* Imagine if times new roman was the aryan master race,

Few better examples of how the “working class”/“elite” distinction is just about immaterial cultural signifiers rather than relations to the means of production because why is a union leader arguing for a policy not on its merits but on the grounds of what kind of snacks the advocates eat

Ouch…

ngl it's very funny that Skyward Sword gets a lot of hate for *merely* being a 9.5/10 but not one of the best games ever made.

I don’t like Regan but it’s funny that he’s the reason why the postwar golden age ended in the minds of many liberal and leftist Americans, given that the slowed pace of quality of life improvements pretty unambiguously can be traced precisely to October of 1973

Like voters being mad about inflation is definitely understandable, no one can afford a home and other status symbols are unobtainable now. Not to mention, the looming labor market disruption from AI is scary, but also there were worse periods of times when we were economically happier somehow.

Tbh on one hand this is true, but also we’re feeling more sour than the time that inflation was 15%, unemployment was way over 10%, real income and GDP/capita growth were negative, and the average mortgage rate was like 20% so something really broke at some point.

I can't get "spongebob big guy pants okay" out of my head Such a dumb line but it keeps on repeating in my head

The thing about pro-fossil fuel policy is that supporting the domestic industry politically is Culturally Very Penis but ultimately 1. The industry only really benefits from higher global prices 2. If prices were at levels voters actually wanted, we would be completely dependent on Saudi oil.

tbh "we should embrace the oil and gas industry for affordability reasons" would make sense as an argument if the vast majority of US wells weren't only profitable well into the $60+/barrel range, which is like, $3.30 at the pump. We have to admit we're at MBS's will here and that's bad!

ngl I kinda refuse corporate lobbying is a cause of any issue America has that Japan or South Korea doesn't, given that they have a much closer relationship between industry and government there.

Tbh “the existence of illegal immigrants is the reason why life doesn’t feel as good as it did when you were 12” really is the perfect encapsulation of The Malaise haunting developed democracies

Tbh a big reason why people aren’t concerned enough about the aging of developed countries is that 99% of people would get “who consumes more healthcare? A 26 year old obese chain smoker, or a 75 year old who did marathons since he was 20” wrong

Tbh I have no doubt that AI isn’t an important part of 2% YoY gdp/capita trend continuation at this point but if it’s truly an eschatological technology I would like to see it reflected in the productivity statistics at least a little at this point

Unlike many people on this website I do think that Shor deserves credit for pointing out that small donations have been really bad for Democrats but at the same time it's awful that the man dictating centrist Democrat policy by fiat has like no economics background whatsoever

The thing about Bari Weiss is that she's obviously a propagandist for Trump and a huge megaphone for issues that divide the Democratic coalition, but what bothers me most about her is that she is unfathomably boring.

okay am I going crazy or is it legitimately absurd to do heavy industry startups like this? I guess spaceX was a thing but it really seems like that new technologies are best implemented by already large players or state-backed startups. We're talking about globe spanning supply chains, not software

tbh I see a lot of people saying it was good but messaged poorly, but the thing is that people are primarily upset about prices, and don't really respond to messaging, just the prices they can obviously see at the store. I think the problem was it just didn't act fast enough.

I WILL BECOME THE NEXT DUBAI

tbh the craziest part of all this is how we had to pretend "Americans eat a poor diet" was some sort of bold kernel of truth within RFK's existence. Uh.

I don’t understand the “oh, you have a LINE on a GRAPH, you think that MEANS anything?!” people who also self-id as some kind of socialist/communist. how exactly are you going to run the command economy, dude? macroeconomic policy made on vibes?

the weirdest part of this is how a lot of conservative aesthetics were gay aesthetics like 10 years ago. Are they all gonna wear pearls in 10 years?

How does Stancil do it. You argue that people's economic sentiments don't match the data. People tell you that you're dumb because people have very sincerely held sentiments not reflected in any data, and also US incomes peaked during the Volcker shock. It's rally a form of psychological torture.

Visiting my family (who now live in an exurban retirement community in Phoenix), don’t have a car available to me 90% of hours, forgot my switch back home and like, I totally understand why people in rural areas develop substance abuse problems. There’s literally nothing to do but overeat ice cream

No lots refused pimped out upzoning

The concept of someone who thinks fast food is an everyday staple

At the peak of the Volcker shock inflation was 15%, unemployment was in the double digits, and the average mortgage interest was close to 20%. That people think 2025 is worse is INSANE!

I need an epithet much stronger than “treatler” to describe people who think that $15 Taco Bell is worse than the oil crisis, the Volcker shock, and the 2008 GFC

The good news for Democrats is that voters will respond just as charitably to "Greedflation" and taking credit for price cuts that were already gonna happen when Republicans do it as they did when Democrats tried it

What profit margins, the US health insurance industry runs similar margins to retail lmfao

tbh I'm obviously a colossally biased YIMBY I feel like a small part of the rise of the populist right is that an atrophied construction industry means that young men have more time to watch inane twitch streams instead of swinging a hammer

It’s interesting that the right think everyone goes to college to get a degree in North African lesbian poetry while the left thinks everyone goes to college to get a CS degree. But like, reality is the most popular majors are business, psychology, and nursing

"Healthcare can't be a right because it requires someone else's labor" is probably the stupidest conservative point because like, all rights require some amount of bureaucratic labor except maybe freedom of speech lmfao.

tbh the funniest thing about this story is where anthropic employees tried to justify the insane llm behaviors with something like "Claude just doesn't understand the real world yet" instead of "yeah it's mostly just token prediction with RLHF, lots of weird emergent behaviors can happen"

San Diego rent seems absurd until you realize that like, gun to my head, I couldn't tell you where my thermostat is in my apartment

I'm iffy on a ban but it was a law passed by congress and upheld by the supreme court, we literally just do not have congress anymore

it's very funny how we all have this little voice programmed into our head that we are starving at all times and we must eat as much as possible, which was an extremely useful evolutionary adaptation but is now responsible for about 5% of our problems