Horrific that we built an entire economy on hypertext and the best way to distribute a canonical text block is as a bitmap.

If you're a capitalist and you want to keep people from voting to nationalize grocery stores you should take the easy win of banning surge pricing for groceries so people don't feel like they're being constantly manipulated and extorted. There's no intraday variation in the

The problem is that the Dems whose job it would be to cut together an attack ad of Mamdani's comical woke tweets are either themselves still believers in that mindset, or are surrounded by such believers in an environment where they hold outsized moral authority.

>"Conservative fighting for Missouri’s working class" The working class should be able to file the 1099 for their UberEats job for free on the IRS website, not have to buy TurboTax Premium.

The fact that 5G competition forced ISPs to offer better and more stable pricing suggests they were being insufficiently regulated as utilities, when they should have been offering fair and predictable pricing all along.

As a former libertarian, this is the sort of market dogmatism I find unserious, that treats all regulations as equally bad. Like if we regulate how credit card fees work, this is the same kind of command economy road-to-serfdom that gives us bread lines and the Holodomor.

If the son of an HVAC tech with no degree gets a bachelor’s in communications from the local community college, his coded educational attainment has gone up even though it’s less technical and less impressive in real terms.

Fascinating clip. Note how he defines freedom as the ability to bribe the police. He doesn't believe the UK is free because you can't do that there.

One fun graph for pride: the single strongest demographic predictor I’ve found so far for predicting Cuomo vote share is what fraction of registered voters in the precinct identify as heterosexual

Mamdani is the candidate of the “haves,” who disguise their rage at the “have-mores” as concern for the “have-nots” (who don’t support Mamdani). The typical pattern you see with socialist movements in general.

Spectacular levels of sanewashing of America becoming a country of racial spoils and identity appeals. The SHSAT is "race neutral", but if I explicitly said it was a feature of the test to exclude blacks you would rightly question my fitness to represent them in a democracy.