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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 16h
Case in point: Terra’s Anchor Protocol paid ~20% APY on its stablecoin UST. In May 2022 the peg broke, and roughly $40 billion in market value evaporated in about a week — one of crypto’s fastest wealth wipeouts.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 16h
That double-digit crypto “yield” isn’t investment income — it’s a subsidy paid from new deposits and VC cash, not profit. When money coming in stops beating money owed out, the yield stops. That’s not a bug. That’s the whole model. #crypto #investing
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 17h
New Daily Bloops short: Socialism after Soviet failure 🩵 #LifeAdvice #LifeTips
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership calls for reviving "Schedule F": reclassify tens of thousands of career civil servants as at-will political hires, so any administration can fire them without cause. That's not draining the swamp. That's making expertise disposable. #Project2025
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Reproductive Bans Harm Women 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The FBI reviewed decades of its own hair-analysis testimony. Verdict: examiners overstated the science in 96% of cases — 257 of 268 trials — almost always favoring the prosecution. That's not junk science being used. That's junk science convicting people. #CriminalJustice
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Rawls' Test for Bosses 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: PR's Original Cigarette Playbook 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amazon's own engineers nicknamed the Prime cancellation flow 'Iliad' — a multi-page maze, on purpose. The FTC sued in 2023 and won: a record $1B penalty plus $1.5B refunded to trapped subscribers. The cancel button's location is a policy choice, not a UX accident.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Conversion Therapy Never Works 🩵 #MentalHealth #LifeTips
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Minimum Wage: Frozen Since 2009 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Labor Strikes Won Your Weekend 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Immigration Detention Built By 1996 Law 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's not a benefits-package problem. That's the floor of the labor market falling further behind rent every year since you were born. No wonder "get a job" doesn't fix "can't afford an apartment" anymore.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In 1980, federal minimum wage was $3.10/hour. Adjust for inflation and that's over $11/hour in today's money. The actual federal minimum wage today: $7.25. It hasn't moved since 2009 — the longest stretch without a raise since the law created it in 1938. #GenZ #adulting
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Dairy Farmers Pay for Domino's 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Secret list. 20+ years. The Southern Baptist Convention's own investigators found it: church leaders tracked accused abusive pastors internally while telling survivors there was no way to know who was dangerous. Confirmed 2022. #SeparationOfChurchAndState
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: The Property Tax School Divide 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Since 1979, US worker productivity has grown several times faster than typical hourly pay (Economic Policy Institute's productivity-pay tracker). The surplus went to profits and top incomes, not paychecks. That's the trickle that didn't happen.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trickle-down's steelman: cut taxes and red tape on capital, and growth trickles down to workers. Coherent in theory. Wrecked by four decades of data. #PoliticalEconomy
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Disabled workers subminimum wage loophole 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So states passed 'ag-gag' laws criminalizing filming inside factory farms. Courts keep striking them down as unconstitutional — Idaho in 2015, Iowa three separate times. Legislatures keep passing them anyway.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most antibiotics sold in the US each year don't go to sick people. FDA's own data shows the majority of medically important antibiotics sold go to livestock — a straight line to the resistant infections the CDC tracks.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The EPA doesn't actually know how many factory farms exist in the US. A federal watchdog found the agency lacks basic data on CAFO locations and discharges — you can't regulate what you refuse to count. #FactoryFarming #AgPolicy #AnimalWelfare
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Stablecoin backed by its own token 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Picking a puppy from a litter? Try this: set something new in front of them (a pillow) with mom out of the room. Charges in confidently = front-of-pack. Hangs back = back-of-pack. Curious, sniffs, plays = middle-of-pack — Cesar Millan calls that the easiest family dog. #wellness #health
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Bite mark forensics never worked 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 1953 the CIA helped overthrow Iran's elected PM Mohammad Mossadegh (Operation Ajax) — and denied it for 60 years. In 2013 the CIA finally admitted it, releasing an internal history calling the coup “carried out under CIA direction.” Not a theory. Their own paperwork.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Housing Costs Outpaced Wages Since 1980 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1953: Robert Moses routes I-95 straight through East Tremont, Bronx, bulldozing homes and displacing roughly 1,530 families in one stretch alone, per Robert Caro's The Power Broker. The neighborhood never recovered. That wasn't decline. That was a decision. #UrbanPlanning #Housing #Zoning
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Church Stashed Billions in Shell Companies 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Just get over it" assumes trauma is a choice. It's not — it's neurobiology. The 1998 CDC-Kaiser ACE Study tracked 17,000+ adults and found a stacking, dose-response link between childhood adversity and adult disease. More ACEs = more risk. Not weakness. Wiring. #trauma #MentalHealth
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Productivity Surged, Pay Flatlined 🩵 #SelfImprovement #LifeTips
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amazon Prime's cancel flow wasn't broken. It was engineered. FTC's 2023 lawsuit says Amazon's own designers internally named it the "Iliad Flow" — because canceling should feel like an epic, deliberately long journey. That's a business model, not a UX bug. #TechEthics #BigTech #DarkPatterns
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Most Antibiotics Go to Livestock 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AP reported in 2022 that a company called Fog Data Science sold police departments access to billions of app-harvested location pings for under $10k/year. Same tracking Carpenter required a warrant for — just bought instead of seized.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Then they found the workaround: skip the carrier, buy the same location data from a broker instead. No warrant needed — the data was "voluntarily" sold, so the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 2018 SCOTUS ruled cops need a warrant to pull your phone's location history from a carrier — Carpenter v. United States. Big win for the Fourth Amendment. #Surveillance #Privacy #CivilLiberties
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Morality Is Not Divine Orders 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Economists studying stadium subsidies are close to unanimous: a review of 130+ academic studies found no consistent boost to local jobs or income. Owners get a new asset. Taxpayers get 30 years of bond payments.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Buffalo Bills stadium: $850M of the ~$1.4B total cost is public money — the largest taxpayer subsidy for an NFL stadium ever recorded. The team keeps the equity. Erie County makes the debt payments. #SportsBusiness #StadiumSubsidies #NCAA
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Learning Styles Are A Myth 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Honest objection: Soviet-style central planning failed — shortages, stagnation, repression. But Mondragon and Vienna aren't that. Co-ops compete in markets, cities build housing within them. Ownership structure did the work, not a five-year plan.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Vienna decommodified housing instead of subsidizing landlords: about 60% of residents live in municipal or nonprofit "social housing" built since the 1920s Red Vienna program. Rent stays cheap because the city owns the building, not a landlord.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Worker ownership isn't a thought experiment. Mondragon, founded in Spain's Basque Country in 1956, is now one of Spain's largest business groups — tens of thousands of worker-owners, no mass layoffs, exec pay capped at a fraction of typical US ratios. #socialism #WorkerPower
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Morning Light Fixes Brain Fog 🩵 #BrainHealth #LifeTips
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Divine command theory has a real strength: it gives morality a fixed anchor point. But Plato punctured it 2400 years ago — the Euthyphro dilemma: is a thing good because God commands it, or does God command it because it's already good? Either way, reason is doing the real work.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New Daily Bloops short: Iran Coup Blowback Still Costs Us 🩵 #LifeTips #SelfImprovement
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The incentive structure: journals want splashy findings, researchers need publications, and nobody's job depends on catching bad stats before print. Peer review didn't catch this one. A blog post did.
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Daily Bloops. @dailybloops.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
That's p-hacking, and he called it good mentorship. BuzzFeed News dug in, Cornell reviewed his work, and found enough misconduct that he resigned in 2018 — after 13+ papers were retracted, years after journals and media had already run the story.
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