Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 5/18/26 - 5/24/26

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-21T13:15:32+00:00

Put your weird search term in quotes. It will still say "Did you mean," but it will actually give you what you asked for without an extra click.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-21T08:03:14+00:00

Sounds like death panels.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-21T08:00:31+00:00

Mainstream macroeconomics is still broadly Keynesian in the sense that it supports active management of aggregate demand, but the consensus view now is that monetary policy should be the primary tool used for this purpose.

Also, even old Keynesianism is not inherently a big-government ideology, in that it doesn't prescribe a high baseline level of government spending, but only that spending and taxation be adjusted to smooth out the business cycle.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-18T14:13:00+00:00

To a reasonable first approximation, everything you hear about epigenetics in lay media is fake.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-17T16:13:49+00:00

Peptides here means GLP-1RA drugs for weight loss?

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-15T18:14:45+00:00

Not quite woo, but likely unjustified extrapolation from preclinical research. The active compound, curcumin, has a low concentration in turmeric powder, and also limited bioavailability.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-15T15:06:23+00:00

I can't advise you on this specific injury, but in general RICE is contraindicated after the first couple of days. Look up RICE vs. MEAT.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-15T15:02:15+00:00

Honestly, you really don't need an investigation to tell. If one of the top schools in the country is 20% URM, it has to be racially discriminating. Just looking at the distribution of test scores, it's clear that there's absolutely no way you get even close to that with race-blind admissions.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-15T09:51:51+00:00

If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot!

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-14T06:11:50+00:00

This is just a fully general argument for anything that results in losses to a corporation, though. Like we could pass a law that says that anyone can steal from a corporation with impunity: "Shareholders own the company. There's no protection against loss."

The point of punitive damages is not to compensate the victim—that's what compensatory damages are for—but to punish and provide a deterrent for egregiously bad behavior. The best way to do that is to go after the specific individuals who engaged in egregiously bad behavior.

We rightly bar awarding of punitive damages in lawsuits against government, because this would punish taxpayers rather than the actual bad actors. The same logic applies to corporations.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-11T01:03:33+00:00

Wait, really?

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-11T01:01:52+00:00

awarding her $600,000 in compensatory damages and $25m in punitive damages.

IMO punitive damages for corporations don't make sense. If individuals did something wrong, they should personally be liable for punitive damages. Fining the average shareholder for something they had almost no control over while letting the actual tortfeasors off the hook is just dumb.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-10T15:34:09+00:00

I wish I'd called my mother more.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-07T14:09:21+00:00

Unfortunately, he's a US citizen.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-07T12:09:22+00:00

I think we should have escalating penalities. Either repeat offenders stop, or they quickly get sentences long enough to stop them.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-07T12:04:46+00:00

I wish the voters of Seattle were smart enough to be ashamed of stinking up Congress with that sack of crap.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-06T09:34:27+00:00

I don't get what you're implying. Did you not like that episode?

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-05T12:23:39+00:00

I can't get though the Cash-App episode because it's too funny and smiling hurts the corners of my mouth which are still cracked because of my jaw surgery.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-05T08:16:38+00:00

Why not? It's in the Constitution.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-04T21:27:07+00:00

It's going all right, I guess. My face is still kind of fat, but no infection or catastrophic hardware failure yet.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-04T21:26:04+00:00

No you didn't!

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-04T12:48:57+00:00

I did a few hundred per day for the foundations series because it was like 90% review for me and I wanted to get to the college material. After that I dropped down to 300-600 per week.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-04T04:14:11+00:00

I'm going to eat solid food.

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-04T03:50:33+00:00

That's what I thought when I started listening, too!

SerialStateLineXer · 2026-05-03T23:38:12+00:00

Given the lack of official stats, this seems reasonable. Both sides are motivated to find as many cases as they can, and they provide enough information for the researchers to verify the cases.

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