ooh!

Bits of Peter Washington's Madame Blavatsky's Baboon have not aged well but it is a very funny and well written book.

I'm not a real payments geek who can say if this is even possible (Patrick McKenzie would know). What strikes me are the priorities. We will pressgang payments platforms into policing immigrants' payments. But we'll pre-stamp a get-out-of-jail-free card for platforms facilitating terrorism/crime.

Or even better: look at Turkey’s stock market, under the crazy policies that delivered inflation north of 70% (still above 30%). Markets can go very high under crazy policies, because lots of money can still be made, even in economies that are being immiserated.

This reads to me less as "siding with" than "sidling against." Is there some context I'm missing?

This is not the first go-around of this line of argument. I don't have any great animus against Tom, but for him, mere historical facts are evidently insufficient to refute the higher truths of the spirit bsky.app/profile/hims...

you'll want to be watching the masterclass version of this in a Cavan accent www.youtube.com/watch?v=04vh...

our lovely neighbour in the south of the county had a stronger accent - I managed about 40% on a good day and my American spouse maybe 10%.

I didn't know this existed till you flagged it - looking forward to digesting at leisure tomorrow, but on a quick initial skip through to get the gist, it is amazing and genuinely startling to me how much work and creativity has gone into this, and I really don't know what to say except to thank him