marcusverus

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by marcusverus 8mo ago
Luckily we don't have to figure this out from first principles, we can just look at the data. 9/10 countries with the highest GDP per capita have populations under ~7 million, and the vast majority of the top 20 do as well. This i
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
The coalition government prevents a single party from controlling the government, which is definitely a benefit, since the two parties will somewhat limit the ambitions of the other. In the areas where they agree, though, those parties (who
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
This is an exceedingly common way to lie. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_fallacy
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
Which countries do you have in mind? In my experience, most parliamentary democracies have rules which actually exacerbate the issue. See for example the elections last year in Germany, where the CDU/CSU + SPD coalition won a majority
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "economies of scale", which is normally a benefit of mass production. It's true that centralization of political power can bring economic benefits, but the economic benefits stem from
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
Every study I've read that supports the "cheap solar" thesis assumes sunny days in normal temperatures, and never includes enough storage to maintain consistent output overnight (after sunny days in normal temperatures, let a
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
Basically all centralization of political power in human history has been accomplished by force. See Rome, Persia, Germany, USSR, etc. etc. etc. Even the USA's transition from a union of united States to The United States occurred unde
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
Fair market value: the price at which a thing would change hands between a willing and informed buyer and seller. A company's market cap is, by definition, its fair market value. > Tesla is not priced according to its underlying ass
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by marcusverus 8mo ago
> The ice seem to have roughly the same priorities and roughly the same methodology as the SA had in the beginning. How do you figure? > I mean I saw the pretti videos and it certainly seems to corroborate what media is saying. Media
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by marcusverus 9mo ago
100 moves of this size (~$10B) would make up 0.1% of foreign-held US treasuries (~$8.5T).
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by marcusverus 9mo ago
1) This wasn't a poll of all Europeans, only of ten EU countries polled (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Estonia, Portugal, Hungary and Bulgaria). 2) Participants weren't asked if we were any ally, they were asked
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by marcusverus 9mo ago
You got me. I am avoiding the comment about the Perry County Police Department, as it's so incredibly damaging to my worldview. The cognitive dissonance is simply too great to bear.
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by marcusverus 9mo ago
> You're joking right? People got arrested and jailed for posting a Kirk meme https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/17/politics/retired-cop-jail How are the actions of the Perry County Police Departmen
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by marcusverus 9mo ago
> He wrote that the FCC wasn't a government agency. Hard to argue that is correct You're harping on a detail that hardly matters in order to avoid the broader point, which is rather silly. The FCC is a government agency. Brenda
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by marcusverus 9mo ago
He's clearly alluding the fact that the Biden admin did far worse. The great sin of Trump's FCC was a single ill-advised tweet by FCC chair Brendan Carr... in which he threatened to enforce the law as written. For comparison, the
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by marcusverus 9mo ago
As a non-musical person, I went looking for how to set it to 1 note!
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by marcusverus 10mo ago
> Again, the entire commentary you have here is all more FYGM. Typical progressive inversion of reality. If you think it's selfish for Americans to expect the American government to put them first, I'd hate to hear what you hav
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by marcusverus 10mo ago
Deportations aren't causing the cost of food to rise: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIUFDSL > Which makes me wonder - what exactly do you think the value prop is, here? I want to leave my country to my ch
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by marcusverus 10mo ago
You can be butthurt all you want, we don't owe foreigners access to our country.
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by marcusverus 10mo ago
> Who cares? The vast majority of people care. > We were nomads before we settled in cities, and it's only the designs of the empowered few that ever made the idea compulsory. Reasoning from pre-agrarian living patterns is, quite
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by marcusverus 10mo ago
This argument has never, in all of human history, been made in good faith.
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by marcusverus 10mo ago
Th US spends >$30K per year on HUD, medicaid, and food stamps for every person whose household income poverty line. The idea that this issue is somehow evidence of the need for more welfare is only possible if you don't have any ide
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by marcusverus 11mo ago
The same sense of muddled analysis (which I also found to be extremely off-putting) comes through in this interview: > There's a lot of myths that you need to bust about the gladiatorial games, particularly in the center of Rome in
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by marcusverus 11mo ago
The purpose isn't to protect the public, the purpose is to unlock the ban-hammer, with the full knowledge that it can be weaponized in case of political emergency (see the Hunter's Laptop story).
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by marcusverus 11mo ago
Yep. "Remote touch allows the detection of objects buried under granular materials through subtle mechanical cues transmitted through the medium."
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by marcusverus 11mo ago
> The USA has no negative income tax. They're called refundable tax credits. They result in people being net recipients of the income tax after refunds are paid out. This is a negative income tax. > Someone generalized - You call
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> $780 is insignificant. Yeah, just stating your opinion isn't an argument. > Tax policy is written by humans, and they can do what they like with it. Insightful! > If you want to cut taxes for the poor, you do. What taxes? Th
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by marcusverus 1y ago
This makes me laugh. > The tax savings were relatively small for many families, however. The middle fifth of earners got about a $780 tax cut last year on average, according to the Tax Policy Center. If you take someone who pays a small
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> Decline from what? GDP is down ~12% since 2010, even though the population has grown by 20% over the same period. Per capita is down ~40% since 2010. Why are you pretending that this isn't an issue?
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by marcusverus 1y ago
> Conservatives... haven't cut taxes for folks other than the rich in a long, long time. This is a lie: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/business/economy/income-t... > private services

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