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Honestly, I don’t think we should be trusting any economists since they refuse to take human behaviors into account or use any tangible science when building their models. They are among the fakest of the fake scientists.

It’s like using astrology instead of psychology.

We would be much better off hiring historians who study historical economic trends.

“Less than three months into his presidency, Trump’s approach to policy-making had already begun to reveal its erratic nature. His decision to impose tariffs, a move that put the global economy on the brink, did not stem from a robust economic discussion or expert consultation. Instead, as Maddow explains, the genesis of this policy was farcically superficial. Trump, lacking formal economic advisors, tasked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with finding an economic expert. Kushner’s method? Browsing Amazon for books, where he was struck by a title, “Death by China,” leading him to contact its author, Peter Navarro. Navarro, a proponent of aggressive tariff policies, appeared to have the intellectual backing for his views. However, it was later revealed that the economic expert he repeatedly cited, Ron Vera—an anagram of Navarro’s own name—was entirely fictitious. This shocking discovery implies that significant policy decisions, capable of wiping trillions of dollars off the global market and pushing the world towards a recession, were based on citations from a non-existent person. This revelation not only casts a shadow over the credibility of Navaro’s advocacy for tariffs but also raises profound concerns about the validation process of policy proposals within the administration.”

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Rachel Maddow: Trump crashed the world’s markets based on the advice of a fictional economist.

Jesus Christ. Their incompetence is matched only by their stupidity.

Fuck every single person who voted for this nightmare.

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"We're living through the ongoing fascist collapse of the United States but I still gotta clean the kitchen and go to work tomorrow" sure is the mood right now, huh.

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United Healthcare getting sued by its investors, because it didn't warn them that the CEO getting murdered (by the tendrils of their unmitigated greed) was going to lead to them approving more claims (for covered services that they had no right to deny) is a cartoonish example of exactly why their CEO got murdered.

Their argument is essentially "You promised us a specific profit margin that is not possible to achieve under this increased public scrutiny of your unethical practices. We only agreed to invest because of those unethical practices. So we demand compensation because you didn't warn us that you'd be behaving more ethically"

And idk. Satire isn't just dead. We've pissed on its corpse and now it's dissolving in lye.

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this fourth of july, instead of celebrating a country whose wannabe-dictator president is funding and fueling genocide, essentially building concentration camps, among a myriad of other awful things, please consider supporting any of the following:

LDF (legal defense fund)

the aclu

democracy forward

immigrant legal resource center

the sameer project

palestine children’s relief fund

dahnoun mutual aid

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According to astrology I should be quick-tempered, tactless, hypersocial and a big risk taker with a passion for sex and gambling.

I don’t get angry that often and will give most people the benefit of the doubt. It takes a lot to even get me frustrated.

I am probably the most tactful person in my family to the point that I live in perpetual social anxiety when I spend time with my mother who (despite being sensitive about her own feelings is like a bull in a china shop when it comes to being tactful and sensitive to the feelings of others—and we are not even the same sign, she’s water/earth heavy).

I am a massive introvert. It is my biggest personality trait.

I hate taking big risks unless the payout is worth it (and it’s only worth it if I get something regardless of the outcome, I hate losses and losing out).

I’m not that interested in sex and identify as asexual because while the thought, mention, and open discussion of sex is not repellant to me the act itself is… not something I have any interest in personally doing.

And I HATE gambling.

Based on astrology I should be an earth sign or maybe a water sign (but I’m not particularly emotional).

I have looked at my chart and while I do have some water and earth sign in there, it’s not enough to explain my personality.

I am very familiar with astrology. Enough to know I make no god damned sense based on what the books and websites say.

Do not take it seriously.

it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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Personally I don't really understand why we are so anti-solidarity these days, but I don't like it.

"I relate to your struggle because it sounds similar to my struggle, therefore I want to help you with this the way I would have wanted to be helped myself" is pretty much the baseline of allyship. For whatever reason, though, it's almost become a matter of stolen valor and stealing the spotlight, and frequently I see it rejected outright.

I just don't get it. Personally I am thrilled when someone who Isn't Like Me reaches out to share help or even just an encouragement. I don't really see it as an out group "making it about themselves" if they're just trying to say they've experienced similar and sympathize.

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TIL “Yankee Doodle” was written by the British to mock americans. “Doodle” is thought to come from the German “dödel”, meaning “fool” or “simpleton” and “macaroni,” a flamboyantly stylish type of dress, painting the Yankees as morons who thought placing a feather in one’s cap made them a “dandy.”

via reddit.com

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If you make her exceptional everyone will find her more unlikable (because heaven forbid a woman be exceptional), so she has to be normal to achieve average levels of unlikability…

The only way to make her super likable is to make her so profoundly fucked up that she comes out the other side of the unlikable spectrum.

"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws

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I’ve been listening to the people in the apartment below me have arguments for two years now and I still can’t figure out what language they’re speaking. The best I can narrow it down is like if Portuguese and Hebrew had a baby. Is that a common pidgin combination

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I talk so stupidly when it comes to cats.

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It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

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My HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

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2025 and the USA has become a very dark red color…

Global Press Freedom Index 2024

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I would dearly love for more people to be capable of differentiating between public risk and personal risk.

Examples: drinking is a personal risk. Drinking and driving is a public risk. Going scuba diving is a personal risk. Running a scuba shop with faulty equipment is a public risk. Riding a bicycle without a helmet is a personal risk. Not maintaining public transport safety standards is a public risk. Foraging for mushrooms is a personal risk. Advertising a mushroom identification app that uses shoddy AI is a public risk. Elective surgery is a personal risk. Not wearing a mask in a doctor's waiting room when you are sick with a contagious illness is a public risk.

I could go on just about forever here. But it's a really important distinction and it drives me nuts when they get conflated, and it's so common.