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by Herring 1y ago
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/america-has-two-economies... . (2019) Going by that analysis (specifically differences in age, education, immigration) it looks kinda like massive brain drain from red into blue areas.
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by Herring 1y ago
It’s not a black or white thing. You can be disappointed with Biden, but by itself that’s not a reason to just switch parties ignoring the Republican performance, especially after Jan6. At the end of the day, Trump’s “burn everything down”
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by Herring 1y ago
I think you’ll need a better analysis (longer timescale, more fine-grained, more explanations - education, age, productivity, investment, r&d, immigration etc) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/america-has-two-econ
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by Herring 1y ago
Vote for republicans => get red state policies. Trump won the popular vote. America is trying very hard to become one big red state. Red states have had the worst outcomes for generations but they keep going back to republicans. The reas
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by Herring 1y ago
Concentration of economic power generally leads to concentration of political power (ie non-democracy). There are tons of pathways, eg campaign finance, lobbying, media ownership, threat of capital flight, regulatory capture, to name a few.
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by Herring 1y ago
Be careful what you wish for, unless you want tech oligarchs messing with your governments as well.
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by Herring 1y ago
“Differing political opinions” is a dealbreaker for liberals, but NOT for conservatives. And conservatives don’t know this, they just love to take advantage - a Supreme Court seat here, a presidency there… One fine day liberals will wake up
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by Herring 1y ago
You have plenty of time. Even if Trump leaves office right now, his damage will last for decades (eg look at the supreme court). And speaking as someone on the ground, ordinary Americans are very far from learning the right lessons. They&#x
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by Herring 1y ago
Well ping me if you find it. I think the winds are seriously blowing against you right now: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/08/the-china-models-...
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by Herring 1y ago
Better anti-monopoly enforcement, better worker-rights regulations, better taxation schemes for redistribution, better healthcare etc. Even stuff you wouldn't think about like free college or good Singapore-style public housing reduces
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by Herring 1y ago
You're missing the point. My response was to the article: > The report somehow fails to mention the bit where the Silicon Valley VC and executive crowd worked their backsides off to elect Trump and several of them sat in the front
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by Herring 1y ago
You missed the point. Yes I agree they're more concerned with "how to tilt the field", but that's not what good governance is (should be) about. It's a bit like a kid trying to push the bounds of acceptable behavior
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by Herring 1y ago
I think the problem is businesses are tiny little fascist dictatorships. They are always trying to pay less taxes, evade regulations, layoff workers, monopolize, destroy competitors etc. This is their first time ever having to think about t
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by Herring 1y ago
I meant the whole site. I was using the word "content" broadly. That website is far from concise. 50 pictures of everything.
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by Herring 1y ago
Interesting. I think I'm a better editor so I use it as a writer, but it makes sense that it works the other way too for strong writers. Your way might even be better, since evaluating a text is likely easier than constructing a good t
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by Herring 1y ago
Spoken like a true "just the facts" guy. If this is a competition then Hemmingway is losing hands down. Serious well-funded marketing departments came up with that long-form style, because that's what the vast majority of peo
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by Herring 1y ago
I think half the population of the world wants just the facts, the other half wants long flowing beautiful content like on apple.com, and neither group knows the other exists. Of course this is the right way to do it!
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by Herring 1y ago
In my experience Gemini can be really good at creative writing, but yes you have to prompt and edit it very carefully (feeding ideas, deleting ideas, setting tone, conciseness, multiple drafts, etc). https://old.reddit.com/r
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by Herring 1y ago
This is not a difficult problem. My last position had me take a drug test. I had to go to an actual building, show my ID, and the place/results were logged. They also did a background check, which presumably would have flagged any issu
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by Herring 2y ago
It doesn’t work for Democrats. They were punished hard for that healthcare bill > According to a report from the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Democratic Party has lost a net total of 13 Governorships and 816 state legi
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by Herring 2y ago
Vote for republicans, get red state policies. Trump won the popular vote. America is trying very hard to become one big red state. Red states have had the worst outcomes for generations but they keep going back to republicans. The reasons e
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by Herring 2y ago
Learning new languages has a lot of benefits, talk to ChatGPT about it. One example connected to recent events is it helps people become more cognitively flexible and less tribal. If your favorite burger joint starts serving contaminated fo
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by Herring 2y ago
Yeah I have to agree with the author's main point near the end. Knowing a new language is a lot more than the ability to use google translate.
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by Herring 2y ago
That's called gaslighting, and it's a hostile act. Truth is the first casualty of war. If someone is trying to deceive you (or deceive others and ruin your reputation), they are actively exposing you to some kind of risk, usually
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by Herring 2y ago
Yes I meant now they have reasonably stable anti-fascist institutions, unlike Russia.
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by Herring 2y ago
Idk about the lead idea. There was a lot of BS going on in the world before it showed up.
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by Herring 2y ago
Yeah in retrospect I could probably have phrased that a little better!
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by Herring 2y ago
lol you think .666 is a lot? The entire South has been stuck on this point for generations. They keep voting for tribalism/racism/nepotism, and the poorer they get the angrier and more aggressive they get. Voting is just one big p
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by Herring 2y ago
Ok so you're a fan of aggressive stupidity. That's certainly on-brand American. Not relevant to this discussion though, you do you.
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by Herring 2y ago
Who is "others"? Who is "aggregate"? You're being vague because your idea doesn't make any sense. Let's be clear: 1) Trump very clearly - very obviously - cares a lot about broad US economic performance co

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