PhDs in political economy and anime for @neighborscipod 🏴👻 🌻🐌 He/him/おいら. Next you'll say, 'pronouns in bio'
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Thai artist carves snail shells into ancient art that costs thousands
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This is a great illustration of what's wrong with economics. We take very complex phenomena and reduce them to comically simplistic diagrams like this, that don't stand up to empirical or theoretical scrutiny, and then mock people who don't repeat our baseless, simplistic dogma.
Literally just taught this graph in Econ 101 this afternoon, and I had to work hard not to laugh and explain that politics can lead people to forget it.
#TeachEcon
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Larry learns that Cheryl's new husband Ted is cheating on her with a local reporter who has been giving glowing coverage to Ted's new nonprofit. Larry debates with Susie and Jeff whether he should tell Cheryl. Susie makes Jeff sleep on the couch for saying Larry shouldn't tell.
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Wordfreq, an open source tool that analyzed trends in human language usage in 40 languages, shut down because "generative AI has polluted the data" and there is so much AI spam that it is now very difficult to analyze broad trends in how people write
404media.co/project-analyzin…
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ALT A woman says "it's weird how 9/11 became a national holiday." Another woman, distraught says "OH NO! That means..." We seek Jack Skellington from Night Before Christmas approaching a door that looks like the twin towers. He emerges from an airplane bathroom in front of a bunch of nervous looking passengers and says "what's this?" We see the plane he's on about to go into the first tower. He says "what's this?"
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Most people don't realize the massive extent of what was lost when the Twin Cities lines were torn up. 543 miles of track and a city charter requiring a line within 400 yards of every resident, rich or poor, black or white. In 1924 268 million passengers rode the system a year.
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Kind of crazy that we used to have streetcars like this all over the city, but we tore them out to make room for car traffic
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"The civilian mind is standardized by news and not by drills." -Lasswell, Propaganda Technique in the World War, 1927
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You know Disco Elysium is a leftist game when opting into communism gives you negative points for being obnoxious
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David Simon has many bad takes but this one is very obviously correct:
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Kevin Durant 2011 tweet:
Some these Money Python skits... LMAO! 🙋
Kevin Durant 2024 tweet:
[replying to an 85 follower account that tweeted "Dur*nt's jumper looks flat"] Package in the mail for u big guy 📦⏰💣
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So which part of "supply and demand" is it when there is overwhelming demand, supposedly limited supply, record low sales, no meaningful decrease in price, and sellers demanding a government bailout?
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Wow… all I can say is wow. Elusive Samurai is PEAK. Takauji is for sure one of the best antagonists.
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I am a scientist at a major pharmaceutical company. Chemistry was one of my majors. I fully know and understand the benefits of synthetic chemicals.
Almost every time I see someone's garage/farm, I am astonished by the array, amounts, and profligate use of synthetic chemicals.
