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This matches what we teach in NECO 101

nekonomics is the study of scaredkitty and the nyallocation of scarce resources

#econposting

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Tharja just floating around

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fitness was cooler back when we had no idea how the body worked

just remembered that Carton de Wiart moment where he wanted to drop weight so he could enter a steeplechase, so (seeing as he lived in Cairo at the time) he put on his heaviest clothes and ran back and forth to the Pyramids until he had sweated off a satisfactory number of pounds, then proceeded to completely bungle the race because he was (as you might imagine) dehydrated to the point of delirium

#roonposting

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friend of mine tried this basic approach plan with a girl...

someone confess their love for me already so we can makeout and jerk each other off

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This is how the German naval mutiny started

Don’t care. Die.

#boatposting

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I think that general policy paradigms tend to get popularly discredited when a major crisis hits, regardless of whether that paradigm is actually responsible for the crisis.

Great Depression was caused by a monetary crunch, but gave FDR a popular mandate to slap on regulations and land the US with an incoming social security budget black hole nearly a century later even if laissez-faire capitalism wasn't really the cause

GFC has a lot more to do with the American housing market than trade policy, but somehow destroyed faith in trade without convincing people to radically shake up housing policy

Covid was a one-off recession but pushed us into a new age of expanding government and doubled down elite views on industrial policy

I bet the large state 1970s policy shiftinto Reaganomics was probably caused more by Vietnam war defecits, the oil embargo and beginning of the productivity slowdown, more than the Great Society.

Matt Darling showcasing some blast-from-the-past "what is wrong with economics" takes that are apparently preserved in amber from 2008 being retold in 2024:

"Don't economists know that scalar models aren't everything" wow. amazing.

"hAvE yOu tRiEd SyStEm DyNaMiCs" fucking lmao

Anyway our boy Michael Saylor continues by asking "hasn't anyone tried tracking price changes for specific goods?" - inquiring minds at the BLS want to hear more. Will you be shocked to learn this guy is an ex-tech CEO who is now really into Bitcoin??

Back in 2008, the financial crisis hit the world, and while the idea that it was "economist's fault" like they were running things somehow was very silly, its fair to say it was a black mark on a lot of mainstream macro people - it did cause some solid revisions & debates. And in the dissident econ era of that time, it became a "thing" to talk about economics as this sort of backward institution, obsessed with models disconnected from reality and privileging math over data, since if macro was vulnerable the whole field was.

This critique was fully outdated at the time, but I will least credit that it takes time for people to catch up to the frontier, and the critiques were like a bit valid about say 1980's economics - with the extremely obvious caveat that they lacked affordable computers then and so couldn't do shit like system dynamics, but w/e. Still, if it was outdated in 2008, its laughably off the mark in 2024, discussing an econ field flush with econometrics, measurement & big data, and diverse mathematical and computational methods. But since the ideas of 2008 were foundational to so many dissident movements - like crypto for example - they continue to march on, divorced from their place and time.

Fun to see an old friend I guess; how ya been since Occupy Wall St eh?

#somewhat wide confidence intervals on all of these #econposting

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Everybody wants to reblog "reblog this if you want anonymous opinions of you" but nobody wants to drop anonymous opinions 🤔

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#real

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Personally I think we all got a lot less online and recoiled a bit at the cringiness of woke stuff, which is most of the climbdown since 2020. But structurally I don't see much reason it'll go away, I think the same drivers of increasing neuroticism, education, feminization of culture are all still there.

Some vague thing I wonder about is a rightward shift among youth, purely as counterculture. Owning the 40-50 year old millennials, laughing at them for being soft and stuff. Along the lines of 60s radicalism. But that seems to require a large young cohort which the self-obsessed doomer millennial/gen-z cohorts won't give us!

When would you say we hit peak woke?

I think 2020, which I will admit I think very strongly. The woke revolution to tease, or the social justice movement to be academic, was probably the most "online" movement in American history. Which I do not mean pejoratively, simply descriptive here, the history of the 2010's is very much the history of the ascendant internet. And 2020 was the year we just forced all of humanity to be online 24/7 with no recourse; we threw Americans to the fucking lions man. All these little gazelle up against seasoned internet warriors with a decade+ of practice honing their craft. And of course in a time that objectively felt apocalyptic to so many people. I think the George Floyd protests are absolutely the peak for the movement, the energy it brought in was unreal.

It, of course, as these things go, was also the end for it. All that energy was applied with all the undisciplined ferocity that its most extreme adherents were able to command, towards obviously unachievable goals - something they could not see being high on their own supply. They tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell. And once the quarantine ended everyone (well, everyone liberal) was ready to move on. The Return to Normalcy was a go.

Which Imo does mask the actual achievements of the movement? I do personally think it was on net a misguided use of energy focused on symbolic targets, but it did hit some of those targets (when is the last time you even questioned a mainstream Hollywood movie or TV show having a diverse cast, for example?). But its big achievements it had locked in earlier in its run. Its a classic tale, you set out to achieve something, you pretty much achieve it actually, the only way you were ever going to at least, but what - are you going to disband? No, of course not, you double down, you go harder. So went the First Republic, so went the Woke Revolution.

The alt-right of course had its own similar journey at pretty much the same time, which culminated in 1/6. For, hm, reasons, it does not have the same ending.

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I think making death threats is illegal in other places too

came across a Reddit thread from the r/unitedkingdom subreddit and it is crazy to me how much they are like "it is good and just to get threatened with jail for things you say actually" in that country. genuine, unadulterated America W to not have that legal feature

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reblog this if you want anonymous opinions of you

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Completely adore this review

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Record of Lodoss War - ロードス島戦記 (1990)