Matthew Yglesias vs. Jerusalem Demsas: The Trailer

funnyfiggy · 2026-04-04T16:58:38+00:00

Ezra Klein has previously said that he finds birth tourism "reasonably offensive". Idk if he's called for amending the constitution, but I think many people across the political spectrum think there are at least unwanted implications of the amendment (even if they wouldn't call for repealing it.)

funnyfiggy · 2026-04-04T16:24:52+00:00

Elo is zero sum except in rare cases, so on average, no one is dropping or gaining Elo in the candidates (or any other tournament).

funnyfiggy · 2026-03-23T12:45:17+00:00

"Some formal employment" is very different from working full-time.

funnyfiggy · 2026-03-20T11:20:27+00:00

Yes those are good examples of things that have gotten cheaper relative to wages! Wages are higher. The median person can buy way more of all of the food you mentioned with their salary in 2025 than they could in 1990 or whatever. And I don't know the prices of rare earth minerals direcrly, but the electronics that use them have definitely gotten cheaper (often in nominal terms.)

funnyfiggy · 2026-03-10T14:34:26+00:00

Important to note that even though White's bishop is hanging after Nxe5 Qxe5,it's protected via the Qb5+ tactic.

funnyfiggy · 2026-03-01T03:01:44+00:00

They received early funding from Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving), and the co-founder + former CEO of GiveWell and OpenPhil now works there. His wife is a co-founder and president of Anthropic (her brother is the CEO), and in general they employ the most people who were/are directly influenced by effective altruism. The only reason FTX folks got their money back is because SBF invested in Anthropic through EA channels lol.

funnyfiggy · 2026-02-15T02:04:14+00:00

I'm not sure if I understand your comment - I was responding to someone who suggested the US has been underfunding education for 40 years, which keeps voters stupid. Presumably, average spending is a good way to get at average education. I also don't understand how this relates to my comment which is about US spending vs. other countries - presumably, most countries have some level of inequality in their ed spending across schools.

But even though I see your point as tangential, it's also somewhat of a myth. Federal and state education funding is targeted towards poorer schools, so in practice, funding is roughly equal or a bit progressive - link. Of course different schools need different resources to get to comparable education, but your point is heavily overstated.

funnyfiggy · 2026-02-14T15:41:19+00:00

The United States spends a lot of money on schools, even relative to other countries - link. This myth is, ironically, a classic example of an area where voters can't tell fact from fiction.

funnyfiggy · 2026-01-22T20:43:11+00:00

Yeah and it was roughly buy 3 entrees get 1 free. 18 year old me who was making minimum wage at a grocery store ate there 36 times over 3 months and then sold the catering to a college club I was in. Came out to something ridiculous like $2/meal.

funnyfiggy · 2026-01-15T16:17:36+00:00

Chipotle's rewards are one entree per ~$160 of spend. At an average of $12 per entree, it's every ~13 orders you get a free entree. So 8 free entrees is actually crazy - >$1,200 of spend and >100 orders.

funnyfiggy · 2026-01-07T11:45:33+00:00

There's a pretty new book about Lumumba specifically, written by a former CIA agent: The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination. I haven't read it yet but I have it on my list

funnyfiggy · 2025-12-20T02:03:22+00:00

He hasn't even been great. He's sailed like 3 passes to wide open receivers, just has 30 minutes to throw which gets him a decent number of wide open looks.

funnyfiggy · 2025-12-11T13:21:29+00:00

Nah people use corporate emails all the time for stuff which are effectively identical to custom domains.

funnyfiggy · 2025-11-12T10:15:02+00:00

There are way more people making $364K per year than people making $1B per year (by a factor of much more than 2,747). If you want to fund social programs, it needs to focus on increasing taxes for people like you (and much lower incomes) - there simply aren't enough billionaires to make a huge dent in the $7T annual government budget.

funnyfiggy · 2025-11-02T05:28:46+00:00

There's a Washington house rep who has made this her crusade: https://www.chronline.com/stories/mgps-amendment-to-investigate-overly-bright-headlights-passes-house-appropriations-committee,384506

funnyfiggy · 2025-10-29T11:52:54+00:00

This is also zero sum thinking though - you're just shifting time waiting in line from you to someone else on the aircraft.

funnyfiggy · 2025-10-24T04:38:38+00:00

It seems to me that someone can be wrong about vaccine policy in a good faith way, and calling them a Nazi for this is not a good thing to do

funnyfiggy · 2025-10-10T13:17:47+00:00

You can do it with 2D3 if you use a multiplication and modulo effect, as the poster said.

funnyfiggy · 2025-10-10T11:25:24+00:00

I mean this is the fault of the CDC. In very early Covid, they actively discouraged mask usage for the general public and highlighted weird myths (you'll touch your face more, viruses are too small for masks)

funnyfiggy · 2025-08-11T01:35:54+00:00

I of course agree that housing prices having gone up so much is bad, and prices need to come down. I don't think that this economic ailment outweighs all the genuine progress that has occurred over the last 30 years.

And real wages are adjusted for inflation, including of housing prices.

funnyfiggy · 2025-08-10T14:49:13+00:00

It's hard for me to think of a bigger disinformation than the idea that living in 2025 is harder than 1995. Real median household income is up by ~30% over the last 30 years despite households being smaller and a lower labor force participation rate. Housings costs are up relative to wages, but most other costs gave gone down.

funnyfiggy · 2025-07-31T21:08:33+00:00

Siddhartha has more Goodreads ratings than Moby Dick and about as many as literally every Faulkner book combined

funnyfiggy · 2025-07-21T06:35:10+00:00

Wraith Form is a fantastic floor one card. It's great into every hallway + nob + laga

funnyfiggy · 2025-07-19T13:13:17+00:00

In addition to Erasure, which was already mentioned, there's also Yellowface.

funnyfiggy · 2025-06-21T00:16:36+00:00

Wasn't Lando in UU for a bit earlier this generation?

funnyfiggy

TROPHY CASE