It’s been a while since I followed this closely but isn’t the problem with solar is that it’s cheap in the middle of the day when generation is at its peak and demand is relatively low but starts declining in generation right as demand spikes? Obviously batteries address this but they aren’t free

Idk why I like the VW Golf so much, a completely bland car built for maximum practicality at the cost of everything else, even though despite that still is completely outclassed by its Japanese equivalents in nearly every way.

“Can you BELIEVE AI is making lefties into IP absolutists?” Yes? Most people have a sense that the law exists to protect Good Guys like themselves at the expense of Bad Guys like Disney or OpenAI, so they’ll have deeply conflicting views on, like, zootopia porn and use of art for model training

Ngl I wonder how much of this is demographic. Used to be, pensions and healthcare were cheap because most people didn’t get pensions or use a lot of healthcare because we were, on average, a lot younger. But these policies now are now incredibly popular but also difficult to pay for

all credit default swaps need two independent staircases

One interesting side effect of edpol is how republicans can just lie about everything and no one can challenge them on it because the number of Republicans who want to scour fed data is basically zero

Sam Altman: we’re going from nonprofit to for-profit Investors: so you’ll start making a profit, right?

something that I wish was interrogated further (aligned with @sharonk.bsky.social's notion of china and the US as bretheren nations) is the tension between the traditional venertion of agriculture and rurality in china, versus the (arguably historic inevitability) of industrial urbanisation

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane

@hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social 我也不喜欢万税爷

Simultaneously the most and least normal opposition to Mamdani

I loathe to give Shor credit here but his theories really taking popular positions on *salient* issues. A lot of centrists think that you can just run on 80-20 issues no one cares about and win automatically. Which ironically is the GOP strategy with running on trans sports

Tbh so much of the discourse is if they’re even feasible (obviously yes) or Literally Communism (obviously no), very little discourse as to if government run grocery stores could deliver significant cost savings without massive subsidies (probably not)

jay jones has a winning message for 2026: [REMOVED FOR VIOLATION OF TOS]

> the “if Hitler, pol pot, and the Republican minority leader were in the room and i have two bullets, I’d shoot the Republican twice” is ahead by nearly double digits

But I wanted policy that fleeced retail investors

Seeing a significant swing towards Dems in Loudon after 2024

Lefties talking about how great China is because of restaurant prices really shows how bad everyone wants there to be a huge underclass to provide services to them for very cheap

Tbh it’s really weird that you can make a pretty good dairy substitute with beans

You can't compare the stock of *value* like corporate valuation to economic *output* like GDP. It's like saying your car makes up "30% of your annual income" because it's worth $30k and you make $100k. A $5T valuation is big but total US household net worth is like $167T

The lion really doesn’t like meat or eggs so he has a concerning amount of dairy and protein shakes

@foxes.bsky.social what’s the best smelling cleaning chemical? I mean not like added scents, like actual active ingredients

I’m sorry but “America bad at growth because politicians are lawyers and China is good at growth because their politicians are engineers” is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard and I say this with a degree that says BSE on it

It’s easy to say this but there really isn’t “progressive” or “moderate” political consultants, both factions use the same consultants at pretty much the exact same rates 🤷‍♀️

today, the Babylon Bee guy and Matt Walsh are fighting over Pat Buchanan [john ganz laser eyes]

It is kinda insane how the entire economy is being held up by an AI boom that is benefiting almost no one except owners of NVidia stock

No one in America really cares about foreign countries but I really wish there was a more nuanced conversation about labor conditions in foreign countries. This obviously is itself a huge lightening rod for edgy contrarianism (looking at you MattY), but like sweatshop workers *are* locally rich

Who wants to address political division? Who wants to meet the other side where they’re at and give up some of their own personal values, no matter how dear you hold them?

I really loath The Economist for making this chart. It’s an extremely compelling narrative, but would run into issues if a schizophrenia miracle drug was approved in the mid 1950’s, which… is exactly when the first antipsychotic came onto the market

Tbh I feel like Chinas explosive growth isn’t really a story about how authoritarianism can produce growth as much as it’s about how a clean slate of commercial interests as a result of the ruling class built around Mao allows the establishment of a healthier system with relatively little pain

Not to be too credentialist but it’s very funny how a lot of highly engaged people will bemoan how voters have eclectic preferences based entirely on vibes while themselves having not nearly the math background required to understand economic policy and go off of vibes and elite signals

Ngl the civil rights act definitely knocked down the load bearing pillar of American democracy (being able to subsume racial interests into regional interests) and I don’t know how to feel about that. Not that pre-1964 America was much of a democracy, but still!

Tbh you already see this with people from the West Indies in NYC but the discourse is just not ready for a minority that fits the “model minority” descriptor that is also black

Shot // chaser

Is there a specific name for the kind of weeb who really wishes they weren’t a weeb but no matter how hard they resist they’re stuck enamored with the vibes of Japan

I love our gay little president who’s more concerned with decorating the white house than running the country

Why does every gay man with a nonzero internet presence have an apparel brand

I find AI cool and useful I just also don’t think it’s as big as the industrial revolution and resent all the oxygen it’s been taking up under that assumption

I'm anti-anti-anti AI I think. It probably could be used in responsible ways for many applications, but it's appropriate that it face stiff headwinds when doing so to keep the people who want to use it honest. The skepticism is healthy.

By every measure we have the general population finds the left more annoying than the right, and it would be an interesting discourse if it wasn’t a flashing red sign to relitigate your personal problems with the broader left

It’s easy to say that we need to return to manufacturing tangible goods again but do you have the courage to say our economy should be more like Japan’s and less like Sweden’s?

Adam Tooze was right, the crisis really is poly

Ngl being able to go for a jog at any time of day really is why it costs a bazillion dollars to live here lol

My last Halloween as a Controller. Time for a (Nintendo) Switch.

Tbh I’m open to moderation I’m just not sure “run exclusively on a small handful of eclectic set of deeply focused test policies using a highly focus tested message” really will do anything about how people find democrats inauthentic and lying to pass massive middle class tax hikes

A fitting enough epitaph for the human project.

0 indexed in a stats context again award

The lion repurposes stale bread into sopa de ajp