Usual suspects

Instead of searching for existing gifs, Google will now pipe your search terms to Gemini so it will generate a gif for you.

The irony is that Alito, Gorsuch, and Thomas are (in)famous for being the most textualist of the judges, where they pride themselves on not interpreting the words, and instead follow the law as it is written.

Except for the clear cut case of birthright citizenship.

The straight pride flag. Because heterosexuality is a prison.

Same energy

The industrial revolution began in Britain around 1760, but living standards for most people did not meaningfully improve until the late 19th century, they even fell in the first few decades.

That’s over an entire century, or at least four to five generations for meaningful improvement.

Who is Sarah and where are the videos of her toning her body

Sadly from personal experience, no, the general public does not know that coal power plants work by burning coal to boil water, and are horrified at how trashy the concept is.

High-key a great way to persuade them to support renewables. Associate coal with the image of people in underdeveloped countries burning fossil fuels in their own homes to exploit their own preconceived biases.

Actually, the term third world country is outdated and referred to countries that couldn’t decide whether to align themselves with the US or Russia-oh wait

Why are they called pussups and not bussups?

It was too good to be true. Microsoft had to implement additional 5 hour and week usage limits to cope with demand.

The problem was, for the entire history of copilot, there was literally no way to even check these usage limits. All usage counted towards these limits, even those with a 0x multiplier that didn’t consume premium requests.

It was so bad that many people couldn’t even use the premium requests they paid for the month. The only around it was to switch to auto model routing, which would tend to route to lower quality models.

Copilot was uniquely awful at this, because up to until literally days before the switch to usage based billing there was no way for people to track token usage, despite repeated calls from the community.

Microsoft only added a billing “projection” feature on the admin page that was meant to download a spreadsheet (which straight up didn’t work for most people) less than a week before the new billing structure.

Doom is Turing complete FYI, so if it wasn’t for the inherent limitations on the number of gates due to small map size Doom would be able to run Doom

But can DOOM run it? - https://calabi-yau.space/blog/doom.html

From the manufacturer’s point of view all they see/hear from big tech is “these fridge ads are very effective, see this guy who bought a fridge as evidence.”

Not just influencers. EdTech, including Khan Academy, is pushing AI to make virtual versions of historical figures to engage students.

Did Adam eat Eve’s ass? Think about it. From the moment they were created to just before Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit, they were exploring the Garden of Eve, as well as trying to understand each other. Was the time in-between a matter of days, or weeks? We do not know because we were not there. Despite Genesis being the official story, this Old Testament book was created for human understanding, thus we don’t actually know. Therefore, Adam had plenty of time to experiment, despite not knowing what he was doing. One afternoon, Adam could’ve placed his hands on Eve’s ass and decided, “Hm, this feels nice, I wonder what it tastes like?” Please keep in mind that the good Lord said they could eat ANYTHING in the Garden, except the Apple of Eden. With this fact in consideration, Adam could have proceeded to eat Eve’s ass without repercussions, with God looking on thinking: “Well, they aren’t eating the Apple, so…” Lucky bastard

Because wealth rapidly becomes illiquid as it increases in value. The capital of the ultra wealthy is intimately tied to physical assets in the real world that makes it difficult for capital flight to occur. They are wealthy because they own the supermarkets, the hospitals, and physical infrastructure.

An example of this is when the UK froze/seized Russian billionaire Abramovich’s assets as part of sanctions, which included the Chelsea Football club. Abramovich (and the media) made a big stink about it, but was ultimately forced to sell.

The case for keeping the ultra wealthy around for their entrepeneurial innovation is inconsistent with broader economic evidence. Bell et al 2019 (QJE) show that although it is true that the young of the top 1% (again, not the ultra wealthy) are 10x more likely to become inventors, the actual causal mechanism is exposure effects, i.e. having strong peer networks.

This is something that is explicitly worsened by abolishing wealth taxes, which are well documented to increase wealth concentration and social mobility.

Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation* | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic - https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/134/2/647/5218522

I suggest you read Zucman’s common wealth tax objections, which addresses most common rebuttals.

https://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/saez-zucman-wealthtaxobjections.pdf

I applaud the high quality references, but the wealth taxes studied by Econ are often not the wealth taxes that are in popular discourse.

In particular, the general public, and the few inequality economists like Piketty, Saez, and Zucman, advocate for a billionaires wealth tax. Due to the lack of any sort of data on this, the broader economics profession generally only studies the effects of wealth taxes in the top bracket, which targets the wealthy, but not the ultra wealthy.

The NBER paper you cited is particularly egregious. The claim that a one percentage point increase in the top wealth tax rate leads to capital flight is arguably misleading because Sweden and Denmark have infamously flat taxes (contrary to popular belief). Their top wealth tax applied to singles/couples with a wealth exceeding 1500K/3000K, or about 150K/300K USD.

That is… not very wealthy, and if anything only middle/upper middle class. Not at all what a billionaires tax would target.

The broader evidence is that Sweden has exhibited a serious backsliding in its inequality measures, and the collapse of its welfare state after abolishing wealth taxes.

‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country - https://theconversation.com/we-got-lazy-and-complacent-swedish-pensioners-explain-how-abolishing-the-wealth-tax-changed-their-country-272041

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