@kentwillard i think the cause of peace is better served by more “national self-sufficiency” between US and China than by mistrustful interdependence. so yeah, i definitely want industrial policy to support that. ( i can’t recommend Keynes’ talk on national self-sufficiency enough: https://jmaynardkeynes.ucc.ie/national-self-sufficiency.html )
@kentwillard thanks!
the proposal is not motivated by any desire to compete with China, but rather to learn from China.
in practice, though, the US adopting a more China-like economic approach will create tensions with China. China recoups much of what would otherwise become subsidy (opaquely embedded in underperforming loans) by international sales. our becoming a net overproducer reduces our role as customer and creates new competition for products in third markets.
some days it seems like everything new is old again.
@BenRossTransit oh yeah, consensus is what i’m apologizing for, to whoever the real author of the quip is (usually attributed to Twain, probably apocryphally). it’s my mischief.
the usual version of the quote is “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
“It ain’t what you disagree about that gets you into trouble. It’s when you find consensus on things that just ain’t so.”
~with apologies to (probably apocryphally) Mark Twain
“Texas has sued to block federal rules that prohibit investigators from viewing the medical records of women who travel out of state to seek abortions where the procedure is legal.” #MichaelWines https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/us/texas-abortion-medical-records.html ht @Atrios
// it's weird times we are living in
just because a claim is often made disingenuously doesn’t imply the claim is always wrong.
Winner-take-all markets make first-to-market the only thing, which means best-to-market may never come at all.
None of Trump’s corruption, #DavidFrench?
Florida under #RonDeSantis is a cesspool of patronage, from Ben Sasse to Richard Corcoran and the people they hire to do minimal, mediocre work at exorbitant salaries.
from https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/opinion/maga-movement-trump-election.html
Text: If Trump loses, there is no ready heir to his MAGA crown. Vance, Trump’s vice-presidential nominee, would be saddled with at least partial responsibility for Trump’s loss, and the American people already view him unfavorably. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida seemed poised to offer a perfected version of MAGA to Republicans — all of the Trump culture war and none of the Trump corruption (and he actually substantially outperformed Trump’s 2020 Florida margin in his 2022 re-election). But he’s a diminished figure after his disastrous presidential primary performance.
@artcollisions appropriately a kind of less representational, modern-art version, maybe with some Robert Mapplethorpe influences…
“This is, to me, a Rosetta Stone for early 21st-century liberal politics, an impossibly perfect symbolic object. A bunch of young idealistic Millennials who tweeted all day about intersectionality and dismantling patriarchy worked for an organization that thought nothing of exploiting its internal culture of immense professional pressure to compel vulnerable interns to drink piss.” #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-be-a-try-guy
@avi @dubroy @recursecenter you’ve done your part!
@mister914 gun culture is no excuse. the point would be to set a strong, sharp norm. if you let your kids have access to firearms, you are responsible for what they do with them. even if a kid seems super sane and responsible, it is your duty to regulate and supervise their use. 1/
@mister914 if you don’t think you can do that, don’t let them access and use firearms. it’s not too big an ask. if a kid gets access to firearms without - parent’s knowledge, despite exercising reasonable care to prevent that, a parent would not be liable. but as a parent, you have certain duties, and regulation of firearm access and use would be far from the most burdensome. 2/
@mister914 will there be sad cases where nice well-meaning people go to jail for what their kid did? yes, just like nice well-meaning people go to jail for drunk driving. like with drunk driving, you have to balance the harm of punishment against the harms that result from failing to deter. in both cases, i think the harms that result from failing to deter overwhelm the harm of punishing people who have in fact done something wrong but still intended and meant no harm. /fin
whatever else might happen this election, we should all take some solace that #RichardHanania has finally fallen in love. with a black woman. who had that on their bingo card? the film, a kind of coming of age, will be so inspiring. a bit bittersweet, as she’s already taken. https://x.com/richardhanania/status/1832537875369619559
@marick (it’s interesting just who it is complaining about the tactic of playing up “censorship” now.)
it seems like the more the Harris campaign wins endorsement of high-profile ex-Republicans, the worse it does in the polls. hmmm.
@magicalthinking biologically i think they’d remain quite similar, they’d not evolve if life support was sufficient to ensure almost everybody lives through reproductive age, but yeah culturally linguistically etc i suspect we’d find them pretty weird. that stuff diverges very quickly.
“this is the new playbook for many on the right. They make provocative statements in hopes of generating objections, and then they cite those objections as proof that no one is allowed to have the conversation. I guess they think you're too stupid to see that the objections are themselves part of the conversation.” https://x.com/sethdillon/status/1832596724919021876
@magicalthinking i mean a small number of people each generation cramped together experiencing similar lives under common governance over tens of thousands of years would become what we call “homogeneous” for sure.
@magicalthinking i’m a bit skeptical it would be that, um, fun. i mean, yeah everything would be recycled so cannibalism in that sense, but i doubt on the generation ship they just eat grandpa. i’m not sure why gender swapping would be adaptive, though i can see wanting technologies like cloning or artificial wombs. bug eating, well, even on Earth we’re likely to source protein that way, but i suspect it’ll mostly take shape as obscurely worded ingredients in processed foods.