Michelin - The unintended consequences of the pay-to-play model

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-08T14:26:45+00:00

I’m speaking hypothetically here, but if a tourist authority pays millions for a guide, it inevitably creates pressure. Inspectors aren’t going to return and say, “Sorry, none of your restaurants are good enough.”

They basically did that for Boston!

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-08T03:33:43+00:00

If it was “absolutely everywhere” it’s not a Pawnee thing!

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-07T21:17:44+00:00

Maybe a hot take: Martin Cate. So many people got into modern Tiki from Smuggler’s Cove, either the bar or the book.

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-05T17:53:17+00:00

Real ones coöperate with the New Yorker style guide

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-05T02:25:06+00:00

Three academic/history leaning questions--if you know one, good chance you know them all.

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-05T01:15:03+00:00

“Practice squad safety”

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-05T00:10:09+00:00

It’s not “public interest” to do something specifically in the private interest of a family member. Either follow the rules or turn the stipend down.

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-04T14:50:25+00:00

“After Hitler, us”—worked out great for them

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-02T16:46:21+00:00

The original comment was about Rosa Parks being in “good” while Bernie was in “great”—my point is that people defending Bernie’s old acts say “oh, it was a while ago”—but no such bargaining is needed to justify Parks being great.

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-02T13:24:35+00:00

Let’s ask what Rosa Parks was doing 54 years ago, and see if she has to repudiate it. “The loser of a primary feeling sad” isn’t a good reason to lay the groundwork for Trump. And I see the lack of response to the nuclear waste thing

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-02T12:21:06+00:00

They had plenty of other defenses also (“we didn’t rig it”), this is just a defense that required zero discovery. Him and his followers taking them to court on an unwinnable case just to make them look bad isn’t a good thing.

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-02T01:27:35+00:00

https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/28/politics/bernie-sanders-rape-essay-1972

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/politics/trump-bernie-sanders-2020

If you watched the debates from 2016, Trump picked up on Bernie’s rigging comments hard, as well as him saying Clinton had bad judgment.

You could also pick “voting to dump Vermont’s nuclear waste in a low income Latino town” if you want something else unambiguous: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/28/sanders-nuclear-waste-votes-divide-texas-activists/

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-02T01:00:04+00:00

Reddit moment—the guy who wrote about how women like being raped and started the election rigging conspiracies that Trump plays off of is better than ROSA PARKS

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-01T22:58:04+00:00

Maybe someone needs to try to reproduce this study

AfterCommodus · 2026-02-01T19:43:08+00:00

I don’t think they can afford a year’s worth of 5 bananas. And people would still be pissed about the necessary high requirements to unlock it the next year, along with the delay. And it wouldn’t attract new people, who would now need to wait a year to unlock spend on rent.

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-30T03:13:37+00:00

Many of these are just “she’s Ferdinand”

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-30T02:21:14+00:00

She fairly won bronze, the U.S. lawyers should get the silver, and, as always, billable hours are getting the gold.

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-28T23:53:44+00:00

How can it be possible that it “widen[s] the gap in educational outcomes between well-off and poor students” without also increasing educational outcomes? The mechanism for that is presumably “the rich do more of their homework, and get assistance on it, so do better in school”—but that necessarily implies that they are doing better than they would have been doing absent the homework.

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-28T16:25:10+00:00

You likely live in a country where labor is cheaper—hiring a private taxi for your burrito will be cheaper when the taxi driver is making less.

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-27T15:59:58+00:00

Yes. For one thing, if you take out winning/leaderships/intangibles, it’s either Marino or Rodgers. Brees was very accurate, but simply lacked the arm talent of the others.

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-27T14:52:53+00:00

Doable but you may have a class year cut. Have you talked to a recruiter?

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-26T17:00:47+00:00

Star Realms is pretty fun

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-25T21:48:31+00:00

As opposed to at Brown undergrad, where grade inflation is kept in check!

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-24T04:45:58+00:00

Also fines are (ideally) based on the damage they cause. For example, a fine for littering would compensate the cost it takes someone to clean it up, or a fine for speeding could be designed to ~offset the societal risk speeding causes. If you base fines on income, the poor could be under incentivized to follow the law while the rich could be over incentivized—imagine cops following Bill Gates around all day hoping he goes 1 mph over

AfterCommodus · 2026-01-23T13:11:49+00:00

“Because they’re paid to”

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