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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1h

I have taken exactly one actually labeled-as-econ econ course, and it was by a prof who did his PhD in marxist econ at LSE in the 80s. The other technically econ course was Ecological Economics and most orthodox econ folks... do not like Herman Daly or his followers that much, lol.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1h

homo economicus might be the single most unproven thing we tell undergrads at universities lol (*usually with that context, but)

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1h

... sky

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 3h

are we absolutely sure they don't just have a kink

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 3h

faineg, like pronouncing "fang" in Shakespearean Diction to force a rhyme no one has used before or since

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 3h

on the other hand: it will make future investigations by a just system much easier

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 9h

And that's before the problem of content churn and obvious filler releases over anything actually worth watching comes into question.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 9h

There's a reason piracy became far less common when Netflix came out, was (reasonably) good and convenient, was cheap, and didn't have a dozen other competitors making walled gardens of content with their own curated collections of shows.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 9h

minor missed opportunity to not call it "Rebuild of" for the full elder millennial reference set

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 10h

I never spent much time with it but this phrase always makes me laugh because only in 1991 could you put this as a tagline and not get immediate "what are you, 12?"

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 10h

I'm 34 tyvm

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 11h

This is how I learned I was using computers (to play command and conquer and mechwarrior) when you were born

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 23h

It's very good, but I do think it's their weakest gameplay loop. Which... I mean, it still got me to like a sports game, so it did something right.

But Transistor is the one that was made for my specific tastes, so.

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

alternatively, use the way I pronounce "lmao" ("le Mao")*

*don't do this, i started it as a joke and now i can't stop doing it

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

once again: everything is gender

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

I will just avoid hearing it for as long as possible and then avoid repeat encounters as much as possible.

a man standing in a field with the words it 's a peaceful life written below him

Alt: Mads Mikkelsen, looking very drenched by rain, saying "It's a peaceful life" in a field.

media.tenor.com

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

I have had a premonition of the year 2029, and Katy Perry is going to write a breakup album about Justin Trudeau that has a song about his performance in the bedroom and we're all going to hate it