ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You are more right than you realize. Nearly a quarter of new doctors in the US come from abroad as well nowadays. 020
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every once in awhile I wonder, is it possible execs don't really know what they're doing? Couldn't be 270
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What does that mean in concrete terms? The eradication 001
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@scanpipedreams.bsky.social and @blackcat716.bsky.social what does it tell you if you're both right. Blame is so convenient. You can always be right, and at the same time useless 000
Reposted by @ventifact.bsky.socialPietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026But we are the first to do this!! EVER!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (in economics, but who cites sociology anyway??) 1121
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ways & means is money, you mean means & methods 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026spoiler: the court we need turns out to be a functioning Legislature 100
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I suppose if we had runaway inflation, it would finally cure the long-running trend of housing consuming increasingly more than the recommended 3rd of household budgets 😁 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Me: "Oh nothing for me, thanks, I stopped for some coffee on my way in." Them: Me: Them: Me: "Shoot, was I supposed to bring enough to share?" 010
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lol yeah I had a coffee mug at my most recent interview, and they presumably didn't object---but it was a video call. I wouldn't bring my own drink to an in-person event *unless* it was an all-day type interview. 230
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is one of the more curious responses I've gotten from someone after I chimed in to agree with them. If I'm wrong then you're, uh, wait...static.klipy.comConfused Man with Math ProblemsALT: Confused Man with Math Problems 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There has been at least one controlled experiment where they gave kids stuff gum to chew and it did give them bigger jawbones over time. Pretty neat! 290
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Centrists, we can only hope, will take note of your high principles 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If a person won't tell you what you want, it doesn't mean the person is being evasive. I have made exactly the point I want to make. If you want it made in more concrete detail, among many other things I could observe that if you don't know of any non-sellout centrists, you don't follow primaries. 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The point of the post was bsky.app/profile/vent... 100
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ok well, whether you don't know about orange sherbert (dessert that isn't chocolate) or mole (chocolate that isn't dessert) you clamoring for examples is reasonable only inasmuch as a child who knows very little about food reasonably is astonished to be told that chocolate doesn't equal dessert. 100
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The discussion switched to what an equals sign means and which kind of counterexamples count in the post this fine scholar made here: bsky.app/profile/whis... 100
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sure, but whether you only want counterexamples of sellouts who aren't centrists, or centrists who aren't sellouts, I have asserted that both exist. If both exist, then whichever one you want also exists. 200
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What's amazing here is that you are both wrong about an equal sign, AND even if you were right I mentioned both A that isn't B and B that isn't A so it's extra bizarre that you're anchoring on this. 200
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Lol are you upset that I *wasn't* sloppy about what an equals sign means 100
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Small child: "Chocolate *is* dessert!!!" Grownup: "Little guy you might think that, but there are desserts that aren't chocolate, and even chocolate dishes that aren't dessert." Small child: "No way! Like what?" 100
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Let's not overlook, in addition to how self-centered he is, just how incorrect he is. 020
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think about this every time someone yammers that trans girls shouldn't play with other girls. So much of the angst is premised on these ridiculously high stakes youth sports entail. 010
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We certainly shouldn't conclude all is well in the information landscape 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Imagine thinking sellouts = centrists. The counterexamples are so abundant it's hard to take anyone seriously who says such silly things 200
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Agree, if we indulge the stupidification further, we just get more of the actual crisis stuff over time 010
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Normies and anti-normies alike, ironically 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We've seen that if you blithely ignore how the Constitution works, it won't hold you back. Can the same trick work on the laws of economics? 020
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Production cost for a factory to make, and cost for a consumer to buy, are two distinct things. It's possible for the former to lower while the latter rises. 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The best way to make sure the war ends after the midterms is to vote out the losers who started this war, in the midterms. 010
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Kinda fun to think the public attention span is so short we'd forget about an unconstitutional war so long as it wasn't ~actively~ raging but, if it is, adversaries can use that to their advantage just as well as our own leaders... 010
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Remember when Nixon had a secret plan to end the war after the election 030
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The last time I walked through a downtown in a suit it *was* after a wedding, and I got a lot of smiles and nods (from strangers who didn't know that) 🤷♂️ 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 13/09/2026static.klipy.comAziz Ansari - Treat Yo Self (Parks and Rec)ALT: Aziz Ansari - Treat Yo Self (Parks and Rec) 011
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Thank goodness for another boomer take I never know what y'all think 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fair and well said! Let us all remember we're on the same team. 011
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This "regulation" you speak of, does it require taking back the Court, executive, and/or either legislative house? 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We're overdue by a generation in dealing with this one. The idea that one can have critical thinking without knowing facts has been persistently popular since the days of the "information superhighway", perhaps because folks who know very little don't know how bad their critical thinking skills are. 031
Reposted by @ventifact.bsky.socialTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Pedagogy is not some new, unsolved problem awaiting its Silicon Valley disruptor. If you want good teaching in any given subject, it’s there to be had. If you just don’t want to pay for it, then all we’re really talking about is how much you want something for nothing. That’s nothing new, either. 235399
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Fwiw, socialism has a lot of potential for strong sense of identity. People taking care of each other, and feeling like their tribe has their back in tough times, that builds in-group identity. 130
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026static.klipy.comPam: They're The Same Picture - The OfficeALT: Pam: They're The Same Picture - The Office 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I don't think OP introduces the idea of "intrinsic" appeal. He makes a generalization, but as NME points out, that generalization might well be explained by the fact that all countries experience some degree of threat. It's a rough world out there. 130
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I think we agree, except instead of calling external threats a confounding variable I would call it (if you want to use that language) another important explanatory variable 0100
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Even if you're right about the effect of external threats, it's worth asking, is that anomalous? It's a rough world out there 1181
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Weird, she isn't feeding them to LLMs and then pulping them? 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Interesting to consider that the folks paid to drop the bombs have socialized healthcare 000
ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A very niche instance of horseshoe theory: only the very best DC charlatans, like Vance who relies utterly on his Ivy legal training to make a dignified case for awful behavior, can hang with the guy who was elected because of public discontent over DC charlatans. 030
