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関税オタク大統領、やめて

@hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · Jan 27

> Trump suggests something catastrophically stupid
> everyone panics
> market dips a tiny bit
> motivated by the market panic, Trump rolls it back something stupider but less catastrophic
> Nothing eventually happens

Repeat twice per day, every day, until Jan 2029.

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 14m

It’s especially maddening how they constantly flip between “we’re getting gouged on every day essentials” and “there’s many things more important in life than cheap goods from China”

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 15m

Sometimes TikTok gives me a meme that wouldn’t have been very far out of place on vine and it makes you realize how far short form video content has fallen.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 26m

Tbh globally everyone seems to be voting inflationary maniacs to punish incumbents for tolerating inflation

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 55m

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 35m

This is my theory as to why so many American lefties think America is some sort of tyrannical technocracy of economists and engineers. If you go purely off of the professor pay scales, it’s true!

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 40m

My favorite forever was Maverick tbh, one of the first roller coasters built to have actually bypassed my human brain knowledge that I’m on a very safe machine.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1h

Now I’m craving a ride on millennium forceless fr fr right now

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2h

It’s really beautiful in America that you can go to a theme park themed all around Dolly Parton and order a $230 apple pie that weighs 25 pounds and against all odds is actually pretty good

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2h

I grew up going to cedar point every summer and I loved it but as a park it’s more about pushing the limits of your limbic system and eating overcooked chicken tenders than it is about cool themed experiences

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2h

It’s very amusing that in America we have a theme park entirely themed to Dolly Parton and it’s probably the best non-Disney theme park in the world

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2h

It’s kinda amusing that LLMs are such a power tool but it also takes a lot of money to RLHF “Biden is no longer president” into them

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2h

I’m not sure if I buy it but there’s some reasons to believe that the ratio of people studying law to those studying engineering in developing countries is a good indicator of future growth in developing countries.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 2h

I think if white collar employment goes more from human creation to signing off AI outputs as being compliant with regulations, I think that would create a massive incentive from the middle class for more onerous regulations to protect and enrich white collar workers

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 3h

Ngl, something I think a lot about with AI and white collar labor is how bad it would be for the political economy of regulation for white collar labor to shift away from actually creating stuff to regulatory compliance

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

I think lawyers are and aren’t exposed to automation risk because I buy that for most common legal use cases this is or will soon be a LLM that will give you legal advice as good as you’d get from the average lawyer you could afford, about 70% of the time, and possibly destroy your life other 30%

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 6h

That one piece going around that centrists think says “if you press the ‘implement phonics’ button you get Massachusetts reading outcomes” actually really was about how No Child Left Behind probably would have worked if the unions and states rights psychos weren’t so hostile to it lol.

関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 6h

Tbh from the no child left behind debates people forget that a lot of Republicans actually do care about states rights for not exceedingly racist reasons as well

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 8h

Takes you can only see on X, the everything app: zoomers preferring chain fast casual places is a rejection of hedonistic consumerism in favor of community and family

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

Interestingly enough, it’s largely the result of cross pollination between the British and Japanese navies

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact: Japanese curry comes from Britain!

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

This could be controversial but British food isn’t one of the worlds Great Cuisines but most people unfairly generalize all British food to postwar slop. No one hates shepards pie or fish and chips

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t imagine setting your effective amount of experience to 0 can be made up for with the value of training alone, especially considering that training has lots of costs into itself

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

I do use AI for helpful projects but man the ecosystem is such an ouroborous. AI generated resumes that get rejected by AI screeners all running on chips gifted to OAI by cloud providers who profit due to the appreciation on stocks from the headline of an OAI deal

This is all GDP growth rn btw

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

“Retraining” is usually given as a way to help people adjust to labor market disruptions but is there any evidence that it actually improves people’s lives very much? Training has a massive opportunity cost and it’s not like they couldn’t have retrained while working if they wanted to

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

I mean the latest Bruenig discourse shows a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of the time value of money itself

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how certain left of center people criticize an environment of low interest rates as a time of rampant capital accumulation at the cost of everyday people’s ability to build wealth while high interest rates is usury crushing the working class. Either way it’s regressive neoliberalism

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関税オタク大統領、やめて @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 1d

One big beautiful leap forward

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