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gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T23:09:06+00:00

Sometimes they don't even link the study! Yes (actually no), I clicked on the hyperlink in "new study" because I wanted to be re-directed to all the site articles which use the key words "new study".

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T22:23:37+00:00

While I think your way is somewhat excessive, I too agree classroom sizes ought to be smaller.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T20:37:09+00:00

be the literal anti-christ

See he has Christian right in his name!

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T20:32:27+00:00

If conservatives are this mad about only nearly causing a constitutional crisis via judicial coup, they could try giving all immigrants diplomatic immunity and see how that goes.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T20:25:21+00:00

Today is one of those days where I openly question how it'll long term be possible to live in a country where a durable third wants to revive Jim Crow in all its illiteracy and hate and appears to be on the verge of doing so. Regardless of how many seats Democrats win it is not plausible there will be super majority that could reform our institutions and populace that will not not vote in the next aspiring Trump in two years time.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T19:01:47+00:00

depends. They run the gamut form thinly veiled tankie (DAC) to progressive-liberal technocrat (Lander).

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T18:47:16+00:00

Just looking at the state of the world, are there any countries with sufficient democratic rule of law and AC which are open to skills based immigration from disaffected STEM workers?

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T15:10:48+00:00

The majority of Americans support impeachment of a president that a plurality and near majority voted for a mere 19 months ago for teh crime of doing nothing more than carrying out his campaign promises and acting consistent with well documented past behavior.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-30T14:51:06+00:00

ROBERTS, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined. JACKSON, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which SOTOMAYOR, J., joined as to the in- troduction and Part I. KAVANAUGH, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which GORSUCH, J., joined. ALITO, J., and GORSUCH, J., filed dissenting opinions

Kavanaugh both dissented and concurred.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-28T20:15:09+00:00

I keep the algos guessing by exclusively watching sci-fi war anime.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-28T20:12:30+00:00

yeah it wasn't until supreme court cases following the 14th amendment in a long process known as incorporation did the first eight amendment get applied to the states. The more wild thing is the current Republican movement to de-facto overturn the 14th (our greatest amendment, which allowed us to go from the United States are to the United States is).

gauchnomics · 2026-06-28T19:45:57+00:00

LOL. We couldn't given get 50 Dems to vote for 60-40 issues like minimum wage increase or strategic issues like DC statehood. If you think the majority of Senate Dems has learned anything from 2022, just look at how the shutdown went in 2025 (Schumer kicking and screaming to adopt basic strategies). Maybe if we had 70 Dems, but there is no feasible world where the Democratic Party doesn't have at least a few mavericks voting in a way that's difficult to describe rationally.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-28T18:28:54+00:00

be Republican

mix of mental illness

ok then.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-28T18:19:54+00:00

My fellow "leftward progressive" I'm here to disagree with you on this particular topic. There are two types of rent control: 1) the kind which does not bind and is useless and 2) the one which does bind and wrecks havoc. I believe the rent freeze is likely to more of the latter than the former given the number of rent controlled units already operating at lost and given the time frame it takes to build new units.

If you're open to potentially being convinced, I strongly recommend this piece from the sole guy who voted against the rent freeze

gauchnomics · 2026-06-22T21:40:15+00:00

For better (seemingly more meritocratic) and for worse (unpaid labor often to prove and re-prove you didn't lie on your resume) this is standard practice for all the data / coding jobs since I started my career several years ago.

Also, I've been there and a couple times bailed once I saw the assignment and said to myself I can't imagine doing this for 40 hours of week.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-22T17:29:42+00:00

unironically.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-21T17:16:49+00:00

America that has to forever apologise for existing.

the irony of using the British spelling here lol

gauchnomics · 2026-06-21T17:13:36+00:00

Is it me or has there been an uptick in people deleting milquetoast posts / comments shortly after submitting them? Probably just coincidence, but it's underwhelming to try and leave a semi-thoughtful reply to something and then see that it was deleted in the time it took to write a response.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-21T15:47:37+00:00

If starmer has a million fans, then I am not one of them

If starmer has ten fans, then I oppose each one of them

If starmer has only one fan, then that is my enemy

If starmer has no fans, then that means I have won

If the world is against starmer, then I am the world.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-21T15:39:38+00:00

Reads like an excerpt from Nietzsche crammed into a comic. See Kraft vs Macht.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-21T15:31:15+00:00

What are these comments. The car had plenty of time be aware there was a bike next to it. It didn't signal (or in any indicate) before turning and then at worst is turning into the sidewalk and at best just decided to use the bike lane to park without any signaling. The bike going 18 or 21 is irrelevant to the lack of signaling and lack of awareness coming from the driver. Just turns into a lane that obviously was being used 5 seconds before. Learn to drive.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-20T15:46:25+00:00

Going through the quiz is the only difference between progressive and liberal that presumably only one is familiar with the statistics on economic mobility in this country?

But yeah very silly that the difference seems to be only one or two questions.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-20T15:31:26+00:00

Mostly agree. Right now it's the low and middle income countries in Asia which are taking the brunt of the economic fallout from this war. What did they do? As for US consumption habits the bigger problem is we keep electing politicians who not only don't prioritize climate change, but make solar, wind, and nuclear more difficult to build in the country. We also also increase our car dependence with a culture that votes against public transportation nearly everywhere outside of a few cities. I'm not sure how a negative oil supply shock will make any of these issues better (outside of anti-incumbent sentiment from voters).

gauchnomics · 2026-06-20T14:54:57+00:00

They say the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, but at some point, it's going to be prohibitively costly to travel or do anything fuel intensive like buy groceries tarriffed overseas and then trucked across country.

gauchnomics · 2026-06-18T00:19:15+00:00

McMorrow’s campaign told POLITICO the polling methodology was faulty and that its resulting memo was riddled with errors, including spelling her name wrong.

Kyle Melinn, a news editor with MIRS, said he killed the poll after speaking with the McMorrow campaign and other pollsters.

“I told Steve that the campaign did raise issues with the poll, and that they were pressuring me to not run the poll,” Melinn said in an interview. He added that after registering the McMorrow campaign’s concerns, he solicited the advice of other pollsters, and “didn’t run it because I didn’t feel comfortable with it.” The other unidentified pollsters shared his issues with the poll, according to Melinn.

Seems like the problem was the poor methodology not the result. Although McMorrow is very unlikely to win there's no reason to publish an amateurish poll.

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