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The former Vice-President told reporters he took pride in the fact that his campaign has been funded exclusively by small contributions.
Practically every day I read an economist like Paul Krugman or Brad DeLong talking about how the economy is the best ever, but ordinary people just don’t get it, and must be idiots influenced by propaganda.
Someone’s an idiot on this subject, but it’s not ordinary people.
Mish Shedlock had a good article on medical inflation. Here’s two charts from his article. First, costs:
The housing crisis in our city is reaching a breaking point. Something has to be done to help the struggling members of our community, which is why we, the city’s appointed housing task force, are announcing a plan to eliminate homelessness entirely. Through our bold, new initiative, we plan to end homelessness in our city by calling it something different.
Does “non-roofed” sound good to everyone?
You see, once we call the issue something like, just shooting from the hip here, the “houselessness crisis,” no one will technically be homeless anymore, because we won’t use that word. Got it? Good. Because this initiative will take all of us.
Now, you may wonder why we can’t just provide people housing, especially since there are more vacant apartments in our city than people who need them. That’s a great question. The answer? It would be hard, and we don’t want to. While we support subsidized housing in theory, in practice, there are a lot of rich complainers in this town we don’t want to deal with.
Boarding planes could have been very different
There are a ton of reasons to be excited about Doctor Who, but Disney+ viewers might need a reality check regarding what they're getting.
Watch how hundreds of thousands of bats choreograph jam-packed nightly migrations with surprising grace.
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In an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the groups warn that the “communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalised by the Summit” while a select few corporations seek to shape the rules. The letter has been coordinated by the TUC, Connected by Data and Open Rights Group and is released […]
“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons.” — Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
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The problem is the human finger. Fingers are too well-engineered to fit around the trigger of an assault weapon. On other planets, life forms have fingers with no joints that are only straight. You don’t hear about gun violence on any of those planets.
The problem is the human hand. If hands did not have four fingers and a thumb, you would not be able to put a gun into the human hand. And more importantly, no one could use a phone to call for help, so we would never have to hear about all this unpleasantness.
The problem is the human arm. Humans could probably get by just fine with a big cupholder in the front instead of arms. Cupholder-humans would be a superior life-form, and guns would exist in abstract space, harming absolutely no one.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: SNL, Rick and Morty, Fear TWD, Jujutsu Kaisen, SAG-AFTRA, Ghosts, Doctor Who, Barry Manilow/NBC, Loki & more!
The Lever explores the recent corporatization of the online music platform Bandcamp, amid a sale to Songtradr, and what it means for the music industry.
"It acts as a platform where people in the media world can talk, work together, and resolve any issues that come up."
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So in what sense is this “dynamic stochastic general equilibrium” model firmly grounded in the principles of economic theory? I do not want to be misunderstood. Friends have reminded me that much of the effort of “modern macro” goes into the incorporation of important deviations from the Panglossian assumptions that underlie the simplistic application of […]