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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival
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chairman of the overseas committee for the promotion and defence of british interests | nanny-statist | anglican protestant (TEC) | grad student somewhere (econ) Philippians 2:12-13 | Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.
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genuinely surprised people say positive things about the FED
How Republicans and Democrats view federal agencies Majorities in both parties have a favorable opinion of three agencies: the National Park Service, the National Weather Service and the US Postal Service. www.pewresearch.org/fact-sheet/h...
the old lady in binghamton yesterday still thinks we don't have an ozone layer
There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more
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i'm not exactly hiding it but i generally think governments can and should be a lot more intrusive in social policy than they are now in the west
what is an *actual*, *specific* opinion that you hold that will be unpopular on bluesky ? Mine is that Javier Milei is horrible but probably did a better job in fixing Argentina’s hyperinflation crisis than any of his opponents would have
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The sheer crackpot unreliability of the Kunley Drupka account (an online influencer on the Anglofuturist + racist right ecosystems) is exemplified by this conspiracy theory that IEA director Daniel Hannan has become a secret convert to Islam & is making staffing decisions on that basis.
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I once got into an argument with someone when I pointed out that this is the textbook example of a revealed preference, which is how I learned that a whole bunch of people think that "revealed preferences" are bad things that only big evil corporations corporations do.
The British syndrome, summarised: 78% of us say our high streets are important to us. But only 28% of us actually use their local high street even once a week – and only 53% of people said they used theirs *once a month*. We won't use it, and we won't lose it.
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but you have to consider what you're paying for: the opportunity to live in a permanent sauna convenient to a wide variety of predatory lizards and the rising seas that periodically try to kill you with hurricanes
Median rent as a share of median income of renter households in major U.S. metros, 2010 vs. 2024. Minneapolis is lowest on the list, at 29%, down from 30.4% in 2010. www.artio.so/dataviz/page...
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i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy
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