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Sep 21, 2020 6 tweets 1 min read Read on X
So, for the foreseeable future, Republicans have an advantage due to the electoral college system. If you're a billionaire Democrat or a well-funded PAC, taking the long view, why not do the following:
Find concentrations of Democrats nearest to red states. Then, set universities and inexpensive across the border to draw left leaning voters. Wyoming, for instance, has a very small population and is nextdoor to CO.
OR, find reddish-purple states with left-leaning urban centers and just pump up the university towns. E.g. Texas, Georgia.
Obviously this is expensive, but like... the amount of money now going into every election season is extraordinairy.
Just to bottomline it: If Democrats were evenly distributed in the US, they'd win far more elections, both presidential and senate. But they hunker down in cities because of their precious flat whites and fusion sushi or whatever. Put that stuff in Wyoming in West Virginia!
*inexpensive housing

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Nov 5, 2024
It looks to me like this election's shaping up to be about votes and the numbers of them in each state. So, if one candidate gathers more votes in one state, they’re likely to get that state's support.
But if the other candidate scoops up more, then the first candidate will be left hoping for votes elsewhere. So it’ll come down to each state, one by one, with each candidate hoping for the highest vote count they can get, state after state.
Each one will look at each state and hope, and then hope again, for numbers that favor them. And the one with the higher count at the end will come out on top—if their votes add up enough across all states.
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Words are of course fluid, but I'm just reading a book that refers to the costco hotdog as being resistant to capitalism, in that its price has stayed the same for a long period. This is a kind of fascinating usage!
I don't know if this is the common sense, but what's amazing is that of course costco is extremely capitalist, if by capitalist you mean the more traditional sense of not-socialist, meaning "you can own a business and buy equipment and hire people and make profits."
My impression, having been born in 1982, is that there have been these shifts:

1) Capitalism = not-socialism, and/or entrepreneurialism
2) Capitalism = consumerism/greed
3) Capitalism = bad stuff happening that involves markets
4) Capitalism = bad stuff involving money
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Jun 14, 2023
Been enjoying "The Price of Time" by Chancellor. One thing discussed is obvious but really interesting, which is the idea that when a price bubble pops, it doesn't destroy value - it reveals the capital that was destroyed.
Stuff like this puts into perspective things like NFTs, crypto bubbles generally, vast spending on AR/VR setups nobody really wants. The bubble around the idea isn't just goofy - it harms everyone by taking a bunch of people and making them work on pointless bullshit all day.
When the bubble pops, the truth is revealed that nothing of lasting value to human productivity was created. The labor of countless people, including top quality engineers, was spent driving a fantasy that beguiled investors with access to easy money.
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So I was at a big grocery store yesterday and a robot was taking inventory. I talked to the cashier about it, and she found it interesting but also said "it's sad, isn't it?"
What was interesting is everyone knows taking inventory sucks. Robot's doing at least some of it now. And the response from a person doing blue collar customer service was to be bummed. Not fighting it, nor excited for it, just found it sad.
Like, it's obvious to me why I'm bummed at the idea that jobs like mine would go away, but even the lady running cashier at a grocery chain draws meaning from her labor. I don't know what the solution is to this.
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I'm way late to this but I didn't realize ThinkGeek had died! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkGeek

What a bummer - I have strong associations between them and that in between period when geeks were finally being catered to a little, but it hadn't all gone mainstream.
One kinda subtle thing about the Internet I was thinking about recently is how the culture around novelty items has changed? Like, it used to be a decent amount of work to make a Weird Thing, but the process has gotten soooooo much easier, and that changed the landscape.
For example, just 20 years ago, it was a non-trivial task to make a quality amusing shirt. Not just to come up with the joke, but to set it up with a screenprinter, receive merch in a certain ratio of sizes, pack and ship. Now, you design and never touch the product.
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I've been mulling over why Kate Beaton's work, and especially her character art floors me so much, even though there are now lots of artists with similar styles. Here's what I think it is:
what's astonishing in her work is that it somehow sneaks a massive amount of subtlety into characters who are ludicrous.

Consider this classic: Image
There are two tricks I really like here. One, notice Gatsby in the middle panel is made a little subdued. In comics there's always a temptation to go for big expressions. But, she reserves that.
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