“Rideshare” is an insane term. The chauffeur is not already going where the client wants to go. There is no sharing a ride. The client is paying a chauffeur to go someplace the chauffeur has no interest in going. It’s just a taxi.

CDMX

Autocrats having that kind of power is worrying to me

Exchange rate manipulation and manufacture subsidies to maintain employment result in overproduction and comparatively low prices. Places that don’t counteract either of these things cannot compete which has the effect of centralizing manufacturing in china which can be used coercively

Incentives matter as the econ profession likes to say

This is the same idiot who made a textbook correlation is not causation graph and then was dumbfounded when people told him it wasnt a valid basis to determine causation. Just a Yale legacy proving why legacy admission is bullshit

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Who’s going to rent the fucking things when trump deports everyone? I never got how this scheme is supposed to work out.

Short term greed leading to long term collapse. I hate these people

more seriously I think the main problem here is that mass media in general and social media specifically really, really broke the societal pressure valve of allowing the kind of latently prejudiced to sort of passively opt out of change. ragebait is fundamentally corrosive to social cohesion.

How the fuck can they do this wirhout congress?!

key part of modern american conservatism is people viewing their children as their property imo

Wait…. Fucking Richard Hanania is a “public intellectual” now?! What the fuck?

What was it that @jvl.bsky.social said on this topic? No more performative scrupulosity….

Fuck Josh Shapiro