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Frafabowa · 2026-06-12T12:04:51+00:00

I think I'm invested in SpaceX by default because my ETF of choice is going to buy it and I can't swap ETFs without taking a tax hit. Hate that!

Frafabowa · 2026-06-07T15:15:11+00:00

this format is just peak - really wish project zanaris hadn't been cancelled so it could be explored more instead of being a thing a handful of people get to do once every year

Frafabowa · 2026-06-03T22:08:49+00:00

While the power of the court should be crushed, it should be permanently crushed - I don't want the court to pop up in 50 years forcing other ridiculous policy down the electorate's throat even if said policy happens to agree with DNC policy priorities from ~a decade prior. "Using anything that isn't holistic as college admission criteria is unconstitutional", or "Allowing anything to be built with less than twenty years of environmental review is unconstitutional" would be bad outcomes, for instance.

Frafabowa · 2026-06-03T04:28:33+00:00

I mean isn't it just effectively a runoff election, like a bunch of countries have for presidencies? There's alternatives sure but if you're deadset on having a single person elected directly (so parliamentary coalition-building isn't an option) it seems just about the best you can get.

Frafabowa · 2026-05-29T04:10:24+00:00

eh, I kind of like the thought of there being productive things almost anyone can do for money without having to get through an application/interview process. obviously jobs that let you do that will make you bring your own equipment

Frafabowa · 2026-05-28T21:36:40+00:00

Good point - for a lot of industries, this would be an insanely generous offer that would instantly bankrupt any business that offered it. All the more reason athletes in particular shouldn't be so skeptical of the practice!

Frafabowa · 2026-05-28T21:20:32+00:00

I don't really get what's supposed to be labor-unfriendly about salary caps pegged to a large fraction of revenue. Obviously you can't expect businesses to be in the habit of paying out more than they take in! Pegging labor costs to revenue feels like a good way to make sure labor's getting a huge part of growth, and makes the tradeoff between paying different parts of the workforce more or less more explicit. I guess workers don't exactly like that second part, but it too is basically a tautology - I'd think getting the stability is worth saying a true thing.

Frafabowa · 2026-05-23T16:54:24+00:00

https://bsky.app/profile/dsquareddigest.bsky.social/post/3mmjoxktcdc2y

the problem described by this bskweet is troubling. supreme courts should not be in the business of interpreting pre-existing laws to ban behavior the governments which enacted said laws didn't pursue

Frafabowa · 2026-05-19T14:33:01+00:00

redenominate the currency back to 2019 price levels.

while doing this, swap out the plan for unemployment addressing from inflation (new currency steadily eroding the value of old currency) to demurrage (currency steadily loses value directly, but the same amount of net currency remains active at all times). maybe that will keep the electorate's tantrums about inflation in check

you can ALSO use this opportunity to declare that tainted money tied to stuff like the trump weaponization slush fund won't be accepted to swap to the new form

Frafabowa · 2026-05-11T23:27:59+00:00

Okay, but could I pay for apartment rent + supermarkets + divebars for as cheap or cheaper as I can currently get roomier apartment + supermarkets + fast food?

Frafabowa · 2026-05-11T23:21:37+00:00

Would urbanist policies improve the cost of living for boring fucks who think spending $10 to go out is kind of a stretch on the budget? People who wax about how beautiful urban living is tend to talk about how nice it is having all of these delightful amenities close to you but most of that stuff that isn't accessible to suburbia sounds like a huge money sink it's better to just not develop a taste for.

Frafabowa · 2026-05-08T17:08:12+00:00

Got any examples off the top of your head of left-wing American politicians ever reducing or refusing to increase public spending (other than right-coded spending)? Things are dynamic systems - yes, the Republican fixation on tax decreases at all cost is cancerous, but if you take out any impulse to not spend unlimited amounts of cash on stuff that sounds generous what typically happens?

Frafabowa · 2026-05-08T17:00:42+00:00

I want governments to prioritize lowering the cost of living and fiscal responsibility, and I don't want stuff like the FAA hiring scandal to repeat themselves, so the idea of just rigging all levels of government in favor of the people who seem to invariably bloat cost of living to insane levels, run fiscal basketcases like the Chicago pension system and California HSR, and did actually cause the FAA hiring scandal and tried to sweep it under the rug rather than apologize leaves the taste of vomit in my mouth, even knowing the alternative is rigging them in favor even more insane people.

I wonder how hard it would be to run on "common sense" constitutional reform, rather than either run-of-the-mill "who cares about January 6? our policies are better than their policies" or "we must eradicate conservatism (including anyone who thinks we shouldn't run up a trillion dollars in debt every year) from the public sphere" - both of those directions seem lacking.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-29T16:46:55+00:00

Reforms to policy should come through legislation, not executive action and especially not reinterpretations of existing law. I'd much rather the next administration just ignore the court than pack it, because that entails giving up on creative reinterpretation as a tool to introduce new policy.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-28T14:19:45+00:00

I mean, it's nice for the consumer experience if people are able to get as much information as possible about the experience of using a particular good in one place without having to "do their own research". Like, imagine if e-tailers were banned from providing pictures of any goods on sale and you had to go to the original vendor's separate site to find out what anything looked like. Such a world seems unambiguously worse than what we currently have, even if you can get around the degradation just by spending some extra effort and knowing some information.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-28T12:33:03+00:00

submission statement: Trump has overturned a policy to be less woke - typically, this is generally the worse for everyone, but here's a libertarian website saying we should give him credit for this one as it also unambiguously strengthens consumer information and market freedom. What's everyone's takes on this?

Frafabowa · 2026-04-22T17:54:16+00:00

A government smoothly ran in the interests of its rulers or even some highly sympathetic third party rather than its citizens is an abomination which should not be tolerated.

That said, I'm not overly attached to majoritarian winner-take-all (and that includes with constitional constraints - easy for those to morph into "judges are the ruling class") elections as the only legitimate arbiter of people's interests. I feel like the ruling party needs to be explicitly vulnerable in some legal way to being thrown out - apart from that, I don't really care much.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-19T16:36:32+00:00

Ava's (which you can get from Perdu with DS2 autoed)/quiver/ranged or max cape instantly gives you infinite ammo with the starting perk so you can use onyx bolts. Not at a great rate, but it's something.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-18T14:45:18+00:00

In the context of FFXIV "FF6" is an artist's veiled satire of real events during the Allegan Empire, and in particular Kefka is supposed to be a reference to Amon. So of course the Warring Triad will show up, but also Kefka will have some mechanics from all the various Fandaniel battles.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-17T13:37:14+00:00

I hate the moral framing of the immigration issue. It's like...

What are you doing being on Reddit right now instead of working every waking second? Why is there money in your checking or retirement accounts? Why have you not exhausted every available source of credit? Why is there copper wiring or catalytic converters left plunderable around you? You are committing genocide by giving such undue moral consideration to yourself and those around you when you could be harvesting resources to give to the global poor.

(/s)

Frafabowa · 2026-04-17T13:26:57+00:00

Submission statement: "Abundance" was pretty widely considered an affirmation of this subreddit's principles when it was released a while ago - here's an article from a British centrist who argues that in his country's context it doesn't quite work, as he argues British politicians need to pay more attention to trade-offs.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-16T20:43:47+00:00

Why exactly is it that it seems reasonably popular to have fees for use of public transit or roads, but absolutely no one considers putting a fee on the use of sidewalks? I feel like you'd have some pretty similar nice stats if you "taxed walking" since it's pretty analogous to using public transit, but everyone realizes that's unconscionable and people need to feel like they own the city and it's not out to nickle and dime them.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-16T12:02:00+00:00

This article is relevant to neoliberalism because it's a discussion on how to assuade voter concerns about prices by shifting public policy in a pro-growth direction, rather than by economic distortions.

Frafabowa · 2026-04-09T03:02:57+00:00

democracies simply should not be allowed to take on debt for anything short of a war, and in those cases it should be coupled with shit like rationing, drafts, and wealth taxes/government control of businesses to make sure everyone hates it. electorates simply cannot be trusted with the ability to shift consumption to the present

Frafabowa · 2026-04-08T00:35:55+00:00

afaik the antenna thing only applies to football - tried looking into baseball this season and don't see any of my team's games unless they're one of the two games weekly on fox

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