Surly a reduction of government command over the economy s/

I think the main issue is a loss of common sense with the general public.

For a lot of people it is glaringly obvious that natural market forces have little to do with inflation (excluding monopolies, duopolies, cartels).

Knowing this to be fact, then seeing Congress pretend it isn’t, elicits a terse but well deserved response: sham

Hybrid is the best solution. Best of both worlds: and having to do both makes you appreciate both more.

Loathe to think China’s zero covid policy will prove to be best after all

China's real-time maiming of its own economy can hardly be classified a "win" in any sense, especially given COVID is endemic and will always force justification of a dynamic zero policy by the party so long as the party continues to save face (which will be forever because single party authoritarian regimes cannot abide humiliation).

So few Chinese have COVID antibodies that this will remain a powderkeg able to go off at any moment. The economic harm is already done and flight of the bread and butter Made in China industry is rapidly accelerating. There's no unwinding it now.

Lock yourself up until the flu goes extinct or you're an asshole.

nah it hasn't been and will likely never be, this study doesn't even quantify the damage even suggesting that it's only important for people already vulnerable to alzheimers

Agree. And I’d first float it permanently over the Atlantic where hurricanes seem to grow over warm water.

Sure if that somehow improves the drought conditions in the US southwest. (And it might considering the rain the southwest experienced this year.) Seems odd to prioritize hurricanes that don’t really seem to affect the South that much while the southwest has millions of people experiencing wildfires and in danger of running out of water. Run out of water and literal society fails. Too many more wildfires and we might start losing whole forests. NM looked to have come close this year.

What good is more housing without more schools, new parks, wider roads, more public infrastructure, etc? Net net it becomes a step-backwards for the group when just adding more housing alone

Startups like this are extremely guilty of offloading massive externals costs on the communities they sell to

If a nice place is becoming cheaper, it’s also probably becoming less nice.

Is that true though? Or is it just something that your monkey brain feels?

Bitcoin doesn’t proactively disrupt centralization as much as it does so passively, by just existing. And arguably it has come a very far way by doing absolutely nothing other than that.

Its functioning exactly as it’s supposed to while central banks and governments around the world try desperately to change things every which way. And Bitcoin will stay that way even things continue to change further (in likely a bad direction)

Building something steady seems like a different and good bet to me

This seems prescient:

“The most “woke” people are the ones who aggressively try to silence all dissent (https://fakenous.net/?p=2932) and to exclude conservatives, libertarians, etc., from the Academy. So they not only fail to value intellectual diversity; they are just about the most stridently anti-diversity people in the entire country.”