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by angelzen 5y ago
A longwinded way to say that the health benefits of the vaccine in the 5-11 population are underwhelming. * Cases are irrelevant, in particular because it is well known that VE against infection fades away after about 6 months. * The articl
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks for the link. The congress vote went 66-34. The congressional delegation, 79-21. There is a noticeable gap there. Perhaps this is a moment to step back, and at the very least analyze the full data set? How much being in charge of the
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by angelzen 5y ago
Thanks for the link. The congress vote went 66-34. The congressional delegation, 79-21. There is a noticeable gap there, any plan to fix it?
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by angelzen 5y ago
I could not find the Congressional vote totals on the Wikipedia page. If you have a source with the Congressional vote totals, please share. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
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by angelzen 5y ago
Order of magnitude means 10x. This is 27 vs 16, not even a binary order of magnitude :) I agree that gerrymandering is a major issue. I wholeheartedly disagree that it can be solved if framed through partisan lenses. Our brains crave to kno
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by angelzen 5y ago
I live in WA state. All vote is mail-in. I can't vote in-person even if I want to. This is not democracy. Some further thoughts: * I was raised in a country with a single party and 99% outcome elections. People, kids my age (at the t
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by angelzen 5y ago
The ability of the partisan brain to consistently be outraged by the perceived foul play of the other side, while never bothering to check how one's own side is measuring up, is a fascinating phenomenon. This is really easy to sanity c
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by angelzen 5y ago
I'm not taking the bait. As far as I'm concerned, CPI methodology is a truism worthless by itself. Like saying "goods and services cost money". If you want to argue the specific numbers issued by the government are repr
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by angelzen 5y ago
We first embraced hard lockdowns. No cost was high enough if we could contain covid if only just a little bit. Then we turned to vaccines as a miraculous path back to a life resembling normal. As the vaccine performance falters (*), I'
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by angelzen 5y ago
No, we are absolutely not. You are measuring time spent, I am measuring results. The results, aka homecooked food, are not even barely passable in an American context. As I already said, pasta salad, microwaved mac and cheese and occasional
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by angelzen 5y ago
What goods and services, what weights, what substitutions? Devil's in the details.
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That is exactly how the ruling class sees the situation. Gallon of milk $10? Chump change, maybe once it hits $100 it will make for a bit of faux concern table chatter at our $10k/seat fundraising dinner next week. The plebes agitating
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by angelzen 5y ago
There are ways. Automate the burger making machine. Reduce inventory, "just in time" supply chain. Pay the workforce less, aka "financial innovation". Substitute lower quality ingredients. Shrink the burger size. Harvard
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by angelzen 5y ago
Ah, the Nordics. What we are seeing is the result of the collapse of the family. First the village church, then the extended family, lately the nuclear family. Of course once people are completely and utterly atomized all gender roles are l
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by angelzen 5y ago
Having lived through hyperinflation, two of the early signs are jolts in prices of common goods and shortages. I really really wish I am not going to live through another such period late in life, but who am I kidding?
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by angelzen 5y ago
Yeltsin Era.
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by angelzen 5y ago
The argument is that there is no inflation if people can't afford stuff, because they'll just be priced out and forced to not buy stuff anymore, thus their expenses will be stable. Duh. Inflation is not how much money people spend
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by angelzen 5y ago
As a commentary on the power of information bubbles, I weakly follow a handful of conservative figures. Yet this is the first time I hear about this particular Joe Biden comment, forget about him banning meat to accomplish the feat. Funny e
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by angelzen 5y ago
FWIW, I think the OP used quotes to distance himself from the quoted text, not to literally quote a passage.
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There is a whole world out there full of delicious fresh food for a mildly active cat. Just saying.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Google tip: lose the quotes, use just keywords. https://www.google.com/search?q=individualism+white 4th result, the notorious 2011 "White Fragility" by one R. DiAngelo. Let's search for the root, "indivi
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by angelzen 5y ago
Even a minimal familiarity with the American cooking landscape should easily disabuse anyone of the notion that Americans of either gender cook at home. No, "pasta salad", microwaved mac & cheese and the occasional barbecued h
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by angelzen 5y ago
Limit. Population. Growth.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Oh, but there is. Move in with roommates in a bad part of the town. See the dentist only to pull out excruciatingly painful rotten teeth. Leave small kids home alone, perhaps pull their older sibling from school to babysit for free.
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by angelzen 5y ago
It's not valid though. Inflation driven substitution means lower quality. You used to barbecue steaks every weekend. Now you can only afford bologna. You used to wear leather shoes. Now you can only afford plastic crocs. Etc, etc, etc.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Sadly, it's a moving target. After a number of months VE against infection falls off a cliff. VE against severe infection has decreased some 10%, but has not fell off a cliff. I don't know what the future will bring, I'm keep
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by angelzen 5y ago
That's how inflation behaved in many historical situations. I'm bookmarking this comment, at least I'll have the pleasure of "I told you so" if the authorities fail to bring inflation under control.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Basket of things with a vastly oversized share of cheap plastic crap made in East Asian sweatshops and or unrealistic substitutes. If 95% of Americans see a "personal inflation rate" significantly larger what the government claims
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Even in affluent locales, quality base ingredients are noticeably expensive.
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by angelzen 5y ago
Fake. Everything is fake. The polite term is "substitute", there are entire shelves of respectable economic literature on how to deliver fake goods and services to consumers so they don't notice. * The food supply is fake. An

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