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Chasing Ennui

@chasingennui.bsky.social
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I vote for the Democratic party They want the U.N. to be strong I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts He sure gets me singing those songs

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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A major cause of people in their 20s complaining about the economy (which every generation has done while in their 20s) is just that they're comparing their SoL to their memory of their SoL while in HS living w/their parent (who were then in their 30s-40s).
Graph of earning by age for each generation, showing that each successive generation (from "Lost" to "Gen Z") had a higher median income in 2019 at a given age than the preceding generation
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
To paraphrase MLK Jr., I have a dream that Americans not be judged on the birthplace of their ancestors, but by the content of their character.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I have a modest proposal for all the pro-natalists out there.
Graph of fertility rate vs. child mortality showing a positive correlation
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I can't quite put my finger on it, but something seems wrong about using military force against drug smugglers
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The NVDA/AMD deal is proof that, not only is the power to tax the power to destroy, but the power to destroy is the power to tax.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
You'd think Justice Thomas would be more sympathetic to people wanting to watch porn.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye of Uganda holds the record of having had more (well-documented) biological children than any other woman - 44 in total. All the documentation you really need to believe this claim is this expression
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The thing with logical fallicies is that they are often good heuristics. For example, as @xkcd.com once pointed out, "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there.'"
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The idea that it's important to pass on your specific genes seems so alien to me. I don't want my wife to cheat on me, but that's b/c I value the relationship, but your monkey brain doesn't understand sperm donors and you're not going to love your kid any less.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The problem with crosstraining is that when I bike instead of run, I feel bad about missing my step goals. It's dumb, but I want to hit >10k steps, and that's hard if your daily exercise doesn't include steps.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
People misunderstand "comparative advantage." It's often not that the country doing the thing is better at it, but that the country not doing the thing has better things to do. If the US started doing a lot of low-skilled manufacturing again, it would be a big step backward.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A good rule of thumb is that ~50 murders/year may not be great but doesn't count as a genocide. dilanesper.substack.com/p/not-everyt...
dilanesper.substack.com
Not Everything Can Be Genocide
A Key Tool of Activists Is Very Harmful
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I disagree with the repugnant conclusion for a lot of reasons, but one is that you shouldn't use Utilitarianism for more than a general guideline. It's a good idea to generally aim to increase happiness, but if you get to the point where you're doing math, things fall apart quickly.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Not sure if this has made it to Bsky yet, but it appears Musk has given Grok brain surgery to force it to agree with him on the Afrikaner farm attacks and it hasn't gone well. The left image is Grok yesterday, the right is Grok today, responding to something entirely unrelated to South Africa.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I was in law school just as online legal research was taking off. As a result, before we were given full access to Westlaw, we had to pass a course on library research, using a combination of Shepherd's, treatises, legal indexes, and dumb luck. By the time I graduated...
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Going to college (even w/student loans) is like getting vaccinated. There are people who suffer vaccine injuries, and people for whom college doesn't work out, but on average, both leave you way better off. www.axios.com/2024/03/04/c...
axios.com
Show this chart to anyone who tells you college isn't worth it
Yes, college is still worth it.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Hypothesis: Dating apps are at least partially responsible for the loneliness epidemic. Pre-dating apps, if you wanted to find a mate, you had to go outside and socialize in hopes you would meet someone to date, or at least meet someone who will set you up...
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I hope the people who mysteriously bought into the market shortly before Trump announced the pause are still holding and are highly leveraged.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Have we really gotten to the "golden idols" stage of things?
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Imagine if Apple's shareholders were constantly fretting over the fact that the company wasn't successful and demanding that the board dramatically overhaul its business models. Maybe stop selling phones and switch to selling groceries. That's basically the US electorate.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
One of the perks of a Republican administration is the Volokh conspiracy starts writing articles I agree with.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This paragraph from @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's post on the history of bread really gave me some insight into why people like Trump are so opposed to trade. Of course, thanks to Adam Smith, we've known this medieval view to be wrong for 250 years. (Source: acoup.blog/2020/08/21/c...)
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If Trump had paid attention to Ferris Bueller's Day Off we wouldn't be in this mess.
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a man wearing glasses is standing in front of a blackboard and saying `` anyone ? '' .
Alt: Ben Stein's economic lecture from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Sounds like Trump was as good a father as he is a president.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
AI is creating doomsday cultists who think nothing matters because we're either going to have AI doom or AI utopia in a few years. Doomsday cults are bad ideas because sometimes the doom doesn't come, and you just wind up bald, castrated, and wearing a tracksuit.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We experienced significant inflation under Biden, but this inflation was largely a result of an overstimulated economy, which also led to increased wages. It annoyed many people, but it ultimately had little impact on personal finances. It's unlikely tariffs will raise wages.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The US is an economic hypochondriac, having convinced itself it is impoverished when it is one of the richest countries ever to exist. And like a hypochondriac told by Drs that it isn't sick and doesn't need any medicine, it's poisoning itself w/snake oil to cure imagined ills.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Can we just convince Trump that stocks and bonds are export goods and should be included on the positive side when calculating trade deficits? Seems like it would solve a lot of problems.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm surprised I haven't heard more arguments on why Trump's Tariffs have such questionable legality. Among other things, it seems like a good time for the Dems to break out the major questions doctrine. I bet a lot of SCOTUS justices would be happy to "unfortunately" have to cancel the tariffs.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is literally a super villain monologuing.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
On the off chance that the time and method of the attack on the Houthis weren't classified, wouldn't that be a bigger scandal? Like someone would clearly have dropped the ball in not classifying that very sensitive information, right?
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The idea that it's better to have Trump be president than to take less-than-maximalist stances on every Democratic priority is crazy. Maybe the trade off wouldn't work, but I can't understand how you could like at the last month, or last 9 years, and not be willing to make that trade.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Given that some people want universal standard time, and others want universal DST, we should compromise and have ST in winter and DST in summer.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Did Trump just effectively withdraw from NATO?
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social writes about how people used to mistrust merchants b/c they didn't realize a transaction could benefit both sides and thought merchants made money by swindling you. It seems pretty clear Trump still has this medieval understanding of economics. We're screwed.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
What's the actual point of a meme coin other than to play musical chairs with stakes? Bitcoin's pretty dumb, but maybe someone will find a use for it other than money laundering. What was the best case business model for $hawk?
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The MMR and COVID vaccines cause cancer! (because if you don't die of COVID or the measles, it increases your chances of living long enough to get cancer).
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Libertarians are funny with their declarative statements about what you are or aren't entitled to or what rights you do or don't have, as if the libertarian view on rights were objectively true.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I feel like I'm much more comfortable with not knowing the answer to things than most people, particularly when it's something that doesn't directly impact my life. Like, if there's an answer, I generally want to know it, but if there isn't, that's fine too.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Is it common to have views about your views? I tend towards having reactionary views, but I also don't think that being reactionary is a particularly good outlook. As a result, I spend a decent amount of time thinking about whether my media intake is fostering my reactionary tendencies. 1/3
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
There's a loud contingent of people who claim that both Neely and Floyd died for some reason other than Penny/Chauvin. Color me skeptical.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I don't understand the freakout about drones. They don't seem to be causing any problem, and if it's Chinese spying or something, I trust the Federal government to deal with it and understand why they might not hold a press conference about how they are doing so or why they chose not to.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I've always been a fan of utilitarianism, but it just occurred to me that I always subconsciously think about it as individual utilitarianism. Instead of saying morality is about the greatest good for the greatest number of people, I think of it as the greatest good for me.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This tweet is a great example of how the left misunderstands the center. The OP thinks it's inconsistent/hypocritical for @mattyglesias.bsky.social to criticize gun control efforts while pointing to the impact of gun deaths, but it really isn't. MY's point on gun control wasn't that... 1/10
Tweet contrasting two of Matt Yglesias' tweets: one suggesting US life expectancy is brought down by its unusually large number of "maniacs with guns" and another suggesting that the Dems pursuit of gun control and assault weapons bans were a bad idea.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
It frustrates me how polarizing the Penny case was. The answer to me always seemed like "its complicated and fact dependent." On one hand, it seemed like he was probably trying to do the right thing and protect people against someone who was a belligerent, potential threat ...
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I don't know what I purchased to inspire this, but I need to go seriously reconsider my life.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
If you're not equally happy with the material Biden/Harris and Trump/Vance would use a tool to censor, you may not want to give that tool to the government.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Having coverage decisions made by "public servants" rather than profit-seeking capitalists sounds all fine and good until you realize those public servants are going to be Trump, RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, and the GOP Congress. Notice how Medicaid doesn't generally pay for abortion?
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I'll be more concerned about doctor reimbursement rates when I start seeing doctors driving around in Hondas.
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Why is my house so much colder at 72F in the winter with heat and a sweater than 72F in summer with AC and shorts?
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