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Punching the services sector in the crotch over and over again until it gives up and magically returns to me the glorious era of mass manufacturing employment I mostly invented and automation has forever replaced.

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No one tell the lads protesting at Dover.

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Even if they don't they are still significant GDP contributors! GDP isn't just a measure of your salary!

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Services aren't real, Ben. Only goods made by manly heterosexual men in oil stained coveralls actually contribute to the economy. It is 1776 and I'm somehow already an idiot.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 27/09/2026

"International students have little impact on GDP" is certainly a take.

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I'm not exactly Reacher either, but then I don't let them put my face on posters with the word "Muscular" in size 72 font. This looks like if the Crusades were to liberate an Apple Store Genius Bar.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/09/2026

One obvious problem here is that both sides are led by bullies who believe the only time anyone would ever make a concession is if they were weak. Therefore any overture or attempt at compromise is interpreted as proof they've got the other guys on the ropes and are close to claiming total victory.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/09/2026

"I didn't say that, it was my AI Agent, Lil'hommie."

A screen grab from a Key and Peele sketch called "Lil Hommie" featuring the puppet of the same name.

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This could be a mediocre time-filler speech during a slow period at the Republican National Convention or Tory Conference.

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I just very gently feel like a lot of people here being like "WELL I HIRE PEOPLE BASED ON THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER" are doing more self-congratulation than practical advice. I wouldn't rob your house either, but I'd still advise you to lock your front door.

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Neither has any impact on your actual ability to do your job, and both could be interpreted as a failure to abide by professional norms. I'm not saying this is how it should be, I am saying it's not bad advice. (Also, obviously it depends on what your beverage looks like.)

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Neither is turning up in yoga pants but I still wouldn't advise it because while a sufficiently even handed and enlightened hiring manager will look past it, the odds are not in your favor. They are probably deciding between 5 similarly qualified candidates. Why take the risk?

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World of Warcraft: Clicking Play and Enter World

Sitting down at the campfire with my friends, watching the stars, and sharing a laugh about how we almost wiped to trash in the last dungeon right before 800 screaming morons named Qock Swalla run past spamming the female nightelf with hilarious jokes about making them a sandwich.

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Alt: World of Warcraft: Clicking Play and Enter World

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His community can't possibly be worth the reputational, ethical and game atmosphere consequences of ignoring your own rules to leave him unbanned.

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The Expanse (not on here) also included a significantly more realistic depiction of actual diplomacy than the Diplomat (inexplicably on here).

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To some of the people telling the owner of a lesbian bar that she deserves to be firebombed, perhaps?

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More broadly I think "how much time do you spend affirmatively championing your cause versus using it as a permission structure to abuse those you disagree with," is a revealing question well beyond the statue pfp bros.

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Not necessarily what I signed up to @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com 's substack expecting, but I know many will find her curating the top OnlyFans to be a valuable service.

Substack Notification:
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"Peter." "Michael." "What do you know about 7 habits of Highly Effetive People?" "I know one habit I need is to stop wasting time trying to figure out if Diarrhea Lettuce and Puke Shrimp are health warnings or search flags on Grindr."

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I look forward to the next IBCK opening with Peter asking you if those are gay slang terms.

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I'm drawing a parallel with Elon Musk's Grok X-bot generating underage CSAM...

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If it was discovered that I ran a company that used a team of photoshoppers working remotely from North Korea to generate on-demand sexualized images of women without their consent, including minors, which I then posted live on Twitter, I do not think the response from authorities would be silence.

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If Elon Musk and half the Tesla C-Suite were currently in jail because Grok spent weeks generating CSAM-on-demand while they memed about it, Altman and the rest might be a bit more cautious about letting their little robots commit share price friendly press releasable crimes.

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I am wasted as... <checks notes> ...whatever the hell it is I do.

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If you have a wife, how come you never mention her?

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Ok, fine. Clearly you all won't calm down until I do this, so here it is: the definitive list of who is and is not English in alphabetical order... (1/58,722,468)

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I did, I think I retweeted it the other day. It's so good.

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I talk about LogFrames in the piece and they were rolled out for USAID projects in _1969_!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/09/2026

Be charismatic. Do not, not be charismatic.

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Reposted by Dmitry Grozoubinski

Having now worked on the donor, recipient and delivery side of aid for quite some time, I had complicated feelings when Trump started bashing Effective Altruism. I tried writing some of them down. They may not have become more coherent in the process. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/effective-...

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Effective Altruism

Some Knee-Jerk Reactions from a Jerk with Knees

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This theoretically means one day we can both be on at the same time! Then, whenever people ask about me, people will be able to confidently assert that "Dmitry knows Ball."

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