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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 7h

This is thoughtful and I suppose entirely correct, but I’ve achieved the same or more mostly by not paying attention. The median age of my clothes is probably 15-20 years and I have 2 sweaters I’ve been wearing (a lot!) for over 40 years.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ceria Grainwave, a Belgian style white, has a nice flavor, but its lack of body makes it so hollow that it echoes in the mouth.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Guinness is decent, tastes and feels pretty close to the regular one.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That should be limited to specifically defined extreme cases, like undisclosed participation in crimes against humanity.

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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is a really super analysis of US wage trends since 1982, all in clear English and simple charts. Well worth a read by everyone. Very solid on the facts and I largely agree with the interpretations open.substack.com/pub/agglomer...

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The Chart that Explains Work in America

Five eras of U.S. wage growth and the six stories that define them

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But, when talking about a population, isn’t aging partly (and in the specific US case even primarily) due to lower birth rates?

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Do we think cars have been a good or bad thing?

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

With the exception of NYC, none of those places are transit-rich, and at best some parts of them are pedestrian- or bike-friendly. That’s a significant part of the problem.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Whom did Taylor Swift exploit?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"The version of Zionism the Israeli government put forward is racist" is a completely defensible and true statement. But that's not what the resolution says, is it?

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Economists aren’t immune to dementia, so I’m sure that rando’s statement is technically true.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That’s true, but it’s orthogonal to the argument. Occupations may be a better indicator of how various individuals are doing, but the situation by industry shows more about the state of the economy. All job growth concentrated in one (famously non-cyclical) industry is not normal or good.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It pretty much doesn’t. The best other industries do is stagnating, or having an occasional isolated positive month.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

(And yes, I know, Tucker would like all of those things.)

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TBF, he was responding to the dumbest possible argument for defeating Hitler. If someone is more afraid of polysyllabism than of totalitarianism and of clusters of consonants than of concentration camps, I can think of more adversarial retorts than “who cares”.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A reminder that there were judges among the people tried (and convicted) in Nuremberg.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Theoretically it should reflect only the former, not the latter.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It doesn’t and it does. Sure, most of the distribution of wealth is driven by asset prices, which don’t enter this picture at all, but at the same time corporate profits (a partial complement of LS) are the highest share of GDP in a bazillion years, which mainly helps those who are already rich.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also, notably, the trend was global in the late 20th century, but U.S.-specific in the 21st.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t know what everyone assumes, but we’re not dividing society into capital and labor, but looking at how much income each of those factors of production gets. For a long time economists thought that should be stable over time, and its continued trend is a puzzle and a problem.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It *is* a lot of stuff. Everyone’s favorite explanation always ends up explaining only a small piece.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That (and some other measurement issues) is certainly a significant part of it, but how does it explain the big drops after the GFC and (after publication ) the pandemic? More or less all LLCs that were going to convert to S-corps had done that already.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Asset appreciation is not included in the GDP and therefore has nothing to do with this chart.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unemployment rate in November 2008 was 6.7%

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People seem to clearly dislike violence in the case of assassination, but not in the case of a military coup. The latter is a bit disturbing.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On behalf of all fellow Honda Fit owners, I take offense at the Fit being confused for a Civic.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Most federal workers are unionized; that doesn’t help when the employer has unlimited power.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Prices in real terms” is not a meaningful concept. Your chart shows that the median new house price increased 17% less than consumption prices; you can’t say that it has fallen by 17%.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who pays such rates? I bought a used car 3 months ago and got a 2% interest rate. To be fair, that was a deal offered for the specific model, but such deals are common and a rate around 5-6% should be easy to find if you have good credit.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fun fact: his full name is ERICKROLL Flores.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But the variable that changed is the Mayor, yet somehow everyone but you is missing the point.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Goods and services are supposed to be quality-adjusted. But that’s relatively easy to do with some (cars, computers, TVs, phones…) and much more difficult with others (how tasty the food is or how satisfying the customer service).

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cuomo hasn’t held office in 5 years.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Enshittification *is supposed to* be reflected in inflation indices, but it is difficult to measure quality of items like restaurant meals or (more significant over the last 20 years) customer service.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ossoff is one of the most “center” Democrats by his voting record, so this difference between him and strategists is completely made up

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the first thing Democrats should do in 2029 is to tax the sale of voting dual-class stock according to its percentage of the total control of the corporation rather than its book value

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t know what he said other than what was cited as a reason to drop him. I never even heard of him before this controversy. It’s certainly irrelevant if he says stupid things - it’s not his job to be smart. But what exactly did he blame ICE for that you think was stupid?

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But he wasn’t dropped from the tour because of that, right? That was a while ago, so everyone involved was fine with that until… what? The correct conclusion is not that Sheeran was right, but that he was wrong twice.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He must’ve been popular in his time since he got elected in the biggest landslide since Monroe ran unopposed.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exactly a decade ago the prediction was still hinging on the election; two months later it was already too easy.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyway, I had minor surgery today so I was very online and tomorrow I’ll disappear back into the real life. I enjoyed the discussion and learned a few things, thank you.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For the record, I agree that U.S. has little to do with Syria and also that, to the extent we do, the deaths that the Baathist regimes would have caused if left alone need to be netted out. But I would like to see consistent and clear criteria applied to deaths/damages attributable to actions.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

…I think those are legitimate questions in assessing damage. Also, German expansion was a pretty direct cause of post-WW2 East European suffering. Even the unusual clarity of the villain’s identity in WW2 may have contributed to the Allies’ subsequent confidence in being the good guys in all wars.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But are most people right in Suharto’s case? I don’t know anything about SE Asia to have an informed opinion, but could Japanese occupation have caused subsequent leaders to be more murderous? Would Chinese and North Korean communists have ended up as murderous without it? Getting off-topic, but…

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

…down to ~1.1 million, which may not have included deaths of enemy combatants and others deemed traitors.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

…who didn’t surrender by 5/9 (and probably some who did). The numbers claimed were highly controversial though; initially it was the entire demographic deficit of the was (1.7 million), which clearly included the domestic enemy deaths (as well as births that didn’t happen). It was negotiated…

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What confused me was that you specifically said “Croat civilians”. Post-war reprisals and frequent murders of civilians suspected of collaboration or just being at the wrong place at the wrong time were countrywide; the only massacres with specifically Croat victims were those of troops…

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Arguably the Soviet regime was committing genocide long before Germany invaded, so this seems like a good benchmark for “you shouldn’t count the victims of pre-existing murderous regimes”, which is certainly applicable to CoW, but it’s a pretty specific criterion.

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Svenosaurus @svenosaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I also think 1990-1945 >> 2011-2003 and while the wars after SFRY’s breakup partly invoked rhetoric and symbolism of WW2, they didn’t have the direct connections like in the Baathist regimes vs Al-Qaida cases.

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