terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉

People keep pointing out how bad 1976 was in response to this but like,,, in 1926 only half of Americans had running water. There was no cure or prevention for polio. On the political end, no FDIC, no SSA, Jim Crow was in full swing, etc

I feel like one of the issues with economic malaise is pretty clearly the fact that if you look at 1826 -> 1876 -> 1926 -> 1976 -> 2026, every one of these 50 year periods saw a massive, qualitative, jump in quality of life, except the last one

Solutions for each of these 1. Universal healthcare to make it so that full time employment isn't super incentived 2. Make COBRA like 2-4 years and better, make Section 8 and SNAP universal 3. YIMBY

I feel like one of the issues with economic malaise is pretty clearly the fact that if you look at 1826 -> 1876 -> 1926 -> 1976 -> 2026, every one of these 50 year periods saw a massive, qualitative, jump in quality of life, except the last one

Like the Internet and computing haven't delivered the kinds of gains of previous industrial revolutions, and welfare politics kind of stalled out

It's so weird how most US cities are run by like,, a version of the Urban Growth Machine that's somehow also nimby now? Like they'll support extremely dubious public private partnerships for sports stadiums, and want to legalize gambling for the tax revenue, but housing is too far

It's crazy that learning styles, which are basically astrology, are treated as completely legitimate by everyone, including many education professionals

Like the benefit comes from people learning the same material multiple times, with the different modalities serving to increase engagement. If people actually think the goal is to match their learning style with the specific modality, you might as well just have one modality for everyone

It's crazy that learning styles, which are basically astrology, are treated as completely legitimate by everyone, including many education professionals

Critical analysis of Avatar the Last Airbender that suggests that the notion of the Avatar is a later imposition onto earlier independent traditions

I think that specifically Klippenstein, who talks about online politics a lot, should probably know who h3h3 is

But like? He is historically pretty important. Like I don't think it's possible to discuss political internet copyright law without talking about h3h3 for instance

Do other countries have like vaguely nationalist state politics like India does? Like I feel like the average chatttisghar resident considers the 1947-2000 period to be soft colonialism by Madhya Pradesh

I think that specifically Klippenstein, who talks about online politics a lot, should probably know who h3h3 is

It's interesting because while I use LLM assisted agentic coding and proofs a lot in my PL work I feel like in the context of biological statistical analysis it is really really easy to get a bunch of answers to the wrong problems and not really have a good level of control over what you're doing

Like when the code is largely an expression of intent, you don't want to hand over coding to the LLM, in the same way that you don't want to have an LLM write your paper

I feel like this post only makes sense in the context of a guy who has only ever experienced the cheesecake factory via its depiction in Big bang theory, which leads me to the question:

The reply to this is also correct (simply put down a phone if you want to be bored) but I think a lot of people have just completely forgotten how bad true boredom was. It's just not a concept in modern society anymore, which is great

I feel like people say this a lot but they haven't fixed the cheese, which is in my view, the most important part of a pizza