"trump is a treasonous disgrace to america but i am prepared to accept a little treason in exchange for my specific priorities being met"

yeah comparing to another candidate higher on the ticket in the same election controls for a bunch of stuff out of the box so it's a much more reasonable picture. even then it's not going to tell you how a counterfactual candidate would perform

you worm

voxism sounds like one of those tiny artistic splinter cells from early post-revolution ussr that had like 5 members all of whom constantly fought and slept with each other and whose main output is a scrapbook of a dozen prints. alas actual voxism is nowhere this exciting

what kind of shenanigans did she get up to? has to be something spicy, i feel like we're well past the point where one of these people would resign over some boring white collar bullshit like insider trading

i mean I agree that this is also a useless comparison when we're talking about sentiment. the obvious conclusion that one should draw from this is that the index has drifted and comparing these numbers across decades isn't actually telling us anything interesting

use it for what? it's a useless comparison if you're talking about people's sentiments

people react to changes in levels rather than absolute levels and recency bias exists. these are much more plausible explanations than vibes (which does not explain anything)

my "i have not lost control of the house" tshirt is raising many questions which are all answered by the tshirt

horse kick to the head syndrome, many such cases

unclear why a seagull has ezra klein's face tattooed on itself but i shall not be investigating further

thirst thesis undefeated

yes

to be extremely pedantic this would be true for perfect vacuum but is not quite true for space, which is filled with cosmic microwave background radiation that has the temperature of roughly 2.7 K

ultimately there are only 3 ways to move heat from one place to another, and radiation is the least effective one. if you have to radiate out 1 GW to keep your GPUs below 90 C (generous) you'll need 1e6 square meters of radiator

worse than decadence, imo! decadence implies at least some sort of passion, some human end. this is wall-e level brain death