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Dec 27, 2021 19 tweets 3 min read Read on X
flight home canceled with like four hours warning

god fucking dammit
i can see this ending with me paying two fucking grand for an alternative flight
airline gold status number just went dead when i called
the link to rebook on another airline broke the first time i clicked it and has been expired since

there are no other flights available today or tomorrow

i have been waiting for a call back for hours

@AlaskaAir get your shit together jesus christ
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im not fucking driving 30 hours across the country with a screaming infant stop telling me to do this
barring additional cancelations im somehow im making it home tonight and it only cost me two grand
managed to find the last first class ticket on a delta flight to portland. im taking that and renting a car and driving up to Seattle

meanwhile moon will have the last seat out of minneapolis to seattle proper (!!!) on a sun country flight arriving at SEA 3h after i get to PDX
by this back assward method we should be sitting at home around midnight and moon can pass out with the baby while i clean up whatever disaster the cats have left for us

we did it reddit
lol actually no we didnt moon's flight just got canceled

rebooked to thursday 🙄
apparently the top floor of SEA airport parking is closed because of snow which is too bad because im parked there

kind of wonder if the airport is just basically nonfunctional

rumors that they cant get anyone to plow anywhere because of vaccine mandates, everyone quit
currently about an hour out from portland where my car awaits me

slowly caffeinating before getting a bigass gas station cup when i get on the road

i received a report from moon that baby was delivering a speech at dinner. something about "DADA GO"

im gonna make it 😤😤😤
christ this coffee is bad. burned to shit. must have been on the burned for hours

perfect for the road
stretching outside olympia and reflecting

there is something equine about a semi trailer overturned in a ditch, fading into the snow

btw im fine and assjme remain so until you hear otherwise, i promise i will post first thing if i wreck this rental
at SEA

they did "close" the top floor, the bastards

investigating further
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time to go home

if i can find gas
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I AM INDOMITABLE
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More from @eigenrobot

Jan 17
a major lesson of the awokening for me was that a significant number of people on the left hate me and would prefer i not exist and a majority of the country is willing to go along with policies operating toward that end

this was probably an infohazard
i call it an infohazard because there's really not anything i can do with this information but it leaves me anxious about the future, and experiencing to varying degrees contempt or outright hatred toward people about whom i had previously felt positively
when i look at the political landscape i see two factions wholly unworthy of the inheritance bequeathed to us by our ancestors

the important difference between them is that one is directed by people who would prefer i be erased
Read 4 tweets
Dec 19, 2025
ive come to care an awful lot about my distant ancestors after having kids let me work out how much those ancestors probably worried over my well-being without ever knowing me and struggled their entire lives to build a world to pass down for my benefit
every day I try to keep my shit together and care for my dependents and think about how my parents had to do all of this too, how would they have tried to manage this, how on earth did they do it, how did their parents do it, on and on backward through the generations
here's a fun one. i have mayflower ancestors. their first winter, something like 45 of 102 passengers died. ghastly

but all the dead were adults. they managed to get all the kids through alive.

miracle? no. you can bet the adults let themselves starve to make this happen.
Read 9 tweets
Oct 9, 2025
israel is NOT an ally of america. theyre aggressively trying to capture our strategic ashkenazi resources. is that how an ally behaves?
a true America First policy would be ANTIZIONIST

jews dont belong in israel. they belong in new york and its time to come home

the eigenrobot administration is prepared to agree to a population swap of 100 american muslims repatriated to arabia for each israeli returned to us
im also prepared to accept a "Two State' solution wherein palestinians from gaza and the west bank will be resettled in michigan territory redesignated "new palestine" and expelled from the union. in exchange the US will accept all current Israeli territory as a new 50th state
Read 5 tweets
Sep 22, 2025
cant believe ive been outed as a postrationalist

but yes im sorry the credibility revolution was a mistake and economics has long since abandoned careful empirical work for atheoretical regression slop that it massively overinterprets to mindlessly support political claims
my advice to you is if you ever want to ruin a party full of applied econometricians talking about the effect of immigration on native employment, bring up the mariel boatlift after everyone is several drinks in

you may find result enlightening and you'll certainly have some fun Image
fun inside story

when seattle implemented a $15/hr minimum wage they asked some ppl at UW to do a study of the employment effects

the big paper dropped in 2017 and found huge disemployment effects

so the city immediately disavowed it and ran to amherst for a rebuttal
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Sep 21, 2025
we can easily exploit this with secondary markets in H1B workers. all we need to do is buy up 63 H1Bs for a guaranteed successful IPO. vcs are leaving trillion dollar bills on the ground here
its a reasonable microeconomics paper with a plausible identification method and lots of regressions that are highly suggestive if you dont think about them too much

(are patents actually predictive of ipo success? are the h1bs producing these patents themselves? lol who knows) Image
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the literature review provides some complementary evidence, some of which is interesting context and some of which flatly contradicts the claim tabarrok would like to make Image
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