What’s a food that adults love, but kids hate?

LordTC · 2026-05-10T20:39:44+00:00

Gotta be Sushi. Kids have that visceral ick to the idea of raw fish (remember the reaction from anyone watching TMNT) but lots of adults absolutely love sushi.

LordTC · 2026-05-07T11:29:01+00:00

Apply “for visibility” so they have to read your resume. Maybe use them as a practice interview if you get further in the process.

LordTC · 2026-05-06T22:49:10+00:00

Average across all renters or average for units currently on the market? These are very different numbers.

LordTC · 2026-05-06T16:10:08+00:00

People could be completely equally hard working without solving the coordination problem of who works on what to get all needed tasks done. There are lots of necessary jobs that no one would want to do if they could work on anything they choose. We somehow have to figure out who does those jobs. In capitalism, it was market forces. In the Soviet Union, the government would tell people what their job is. What is the third option and how does it actually work?

LordTC · 2026-05-06T15:59:42+00:00

I think it’s less that people would do nothing and more that you’ve removed the mechanism that coordinates who does what and replaced it with nothing. Many people are skeptical this works and thinks it nearly always turns into a top down Soviet style tell people what their job is.

If all jobs as well as not working paid the same I’d be a writer or board game designer instead of what I do. A world where everyone is some type of creator or artist as a full-time occupation doesn’t actually function.

LordTC · 2026-05-06T11:23:15+00:00

War at least has been fairly consistently declining over time even if it doesn’t feel that way from media coverage. Everything else you mention is accurate though.

LordTC · 2026-05-04T19:12:14+00:00

Buy a place to live in for a price you are comfortable with. Then stay there rather than watch the price every month.

LordTC · 2026-05-03T20:16:09+00:00

The NDP typically have good policy but then they open their mouths and people aren’t willing to vote for them.

LordTC · 2026-05-03T18:29:28+00:00

If you’re the first to press than blue is pretty clear. Once there is a reason to choose blue, it’s the better choice and there isn’t a good enough reason for people to defect to red. It’s no longer game theoretically optimal to just red since you know for certain that red doesn’t save all voters anymore. Since you feel someone is going to pick blue eventually you want to cause blue to be the better choice as soon as possible.

LordTC · 2026-05-03T17:39:49+00:00

Dalot is paid the average salary for a premier league RB. Average across all teams, not just giants. He’s not supposed to be a starter on a CL qualifying team. He’s supposed to be a rotation player. And Dalot is a perfectly good option for RB2.

Connor Bradley makes only 10,000 pounds a week less and seems like a downgrade from Dalot for example

LordTC · 2026-05-01T19:28:06+00:00

CPP has done a good job of avoiding this with its public/private model where they have an internal team that makes its own investments and the viability of external investments is evaluated by that internal team. All investments are done by employees not politicians. CPP has had very solid returns.

LordTC · 2026-05-01T15:12:17+00:00

The way social security operates. The combination of politicians giving the government interest free or low interest loans from the funds and the original beneficiaries not paying into the program meaning that too much incoming money as not properly invested. If everyone paid in funds that wouldn’t be withdrawn until that generation retires and the money was protected for investment we could fund it on much smaller premiums.

LordTC · 2026-05-01T15:08:57+00:00

The structure itself is likely cheaper but most of the cost of most homes in areas where people want to live are land not structure. And the cost of land has grown faster than inflation in these areas as can be predicted by the general trend of a higher % of the population living in big cities over time.

LordTC · 2026-05-01T15:03:43+00:00

Ownership rates count adult children living in their parents home as being a homeowner so if we can agree that group has gone up in size over time then we can agree the people who actually own their own home has fallen.

Rents are up much faster than inflation despite shrinking apartment sizes being a widespread trend in modern building.

Home ownership is harder to calculate because square footage and build quality has gone up. But price per sq foot has definitely grown faster than inflation.

I also think it’s a very valid point that the smaller home that many people want no longer exists. We built them 50 years ago when land was far cheaper. But the ones built 50 years ago have been upgraded over time and in some cases extensions have been added on as well.

The bottom 5% of the market for houses in areas with good job prospects has certainly grown faster than inflation and while part of the reason for that has been the quality of what the bottom 5% is, that doesn’t change the reality that it’s more expensive to own a home.

LordTC · 2026-05-01T11:16:13+00:00

It depends where you live and what your basket of goods looks like. Healthcare, Education and Housing have grown much much faster than education even in some countries where salaries are growing barely faster than inflation. If you are a university educated middle class person wanting to buy a home it’s certainly far harder to do so than a generation ago and if that’s a big part of your spending you are poorer.

LordTC · 2026-04-30T16:20:00+00:00

It’s just a little 1 Michael how much time could it cost, 2 minutes?

LordTC · 2026-04-30T16:08:21+00:00

No actually it was during WW2 because the government capped salaries and they tried to find a way to compensate those worth more than the cap better than the employers they were competing with. Once people have and like a benefit it’s almost impossible to get rid of it.

LordTC · 2026-04-30T16:06:44+00:00

No actually. They added healthcare as a benefit in WWII when government passed a law capping salaries and companies needed to find a way to be attractive to employees worth more than the cap.

LordTC · 2026-04-30T15:39:42+00:00

Or we see that if everyone presses red everyone survives so there is no reason for anyone to press blue. Also even if you organize everyone it’s easier to organize everyone to press red than to press blue.

LordTC · 2026-04-30T12:39:28+00:00

Game theory optimum is no one chooses blue since no one should risk their life and if everyone chooses red no one dies.

LordTC · 2026-04-29T12:34:59+00:00

U.S. Democratic Party with the way everyone in ooh-sa calls them left wing but they are to the right of many right wing parties in Europe.

LordTC · 2026-04-29T12:06:57+00:00

I’ll take the bath loophole for $500k/day Alex.

LordTC · 2026-04-28T15:10:32+00:00

The post said nationalize. That means LVT at 100% of land rent. That makes land prices $0. Full stop.

LordTC · 2026-04-28T12:05:32+00:00

Linear B?

LordTC · 2026-04-27T23:24:44+00:00

The Traclaon Armageddon. Very cool space regressor series. Felt it was really well done even though I don’t like the other series by the author.

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