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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 5d

In recent years yes

Haven’t had an electric setup since I first moved to DC 10+ years ago but happiness would be an ES-330 into a Fender

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 6d

Also that video makes me want to get a 000-style quite badly

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 6d

I was thinking this more than radio country (agreed on how formulaic it is)

youtu.be/sc5RFpYge1Y?...

Colter Wall - 1800 Miles (Live Performance Video)

YouTube video by ColterWallVEVO

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 6d

The moment begs for a garage band punk (and country?) resurgence

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 7d

Best of lucky buddy! Am sure you’ll crush it

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 7d

In fairness 90% of my exercise happens with running shoes or skis on so I very much am too

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t see the words “deadlifting” or “carrying heavy crap a long way” anywhere in there. What gives?!??

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 10d

I feel like having that thought suggests the personality type for whom it likely is irrelevant

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 10d

This looks absolutely amazing Preston! Heck of trip and route. I have little urge to get into most forms of biking but then I see some awesome bikepacking like this and wonder…

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 12d

I see that and raise you ‘the chipotle by the Verizon center on a busy night’

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 14d

We live in a small boom town so big caver but within 1 mile radius of my house there are ~150 SF and a ton of multifam in various phases of construction

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14d

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 15d

Oh so sorry buddy! I live in knee-related anxiety all fall for ski season’s sake

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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 16d

The man who gifted Musk his infamous chainsaw is now begging the US for a bailout…

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18d

Argentina spends $1bn to defend peso as Milei’s crisis spirals on.ft.com/4gtNFzW

Argentina spends $1bn to defend peso as President Javier Milei’s crisis spirals

Monetary authority intervenes in currency market for third time this week, selling $678mn on Friday

on.ft.com

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 16d

I think most consider that a completely separate thing

“Structurally we’ve been screwed by (low rates leading to) expensive down payments, now we’re wrecked by the mortgage and the down payment. Job prospects only make that worse not better”

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 16d

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

Educated Americans Paved the Way for Divorce—Then Embraced Marriage

The countercultural revolution of the 1960s and ’70s didn’t get rid of the institution of marriage. It transformed it along class lines.

www.theatlantic.com

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 16d

I feel like the Atlantic has done some good writing on this, which is both my cultural prior and one that ties nicely into the story in a way

Source: The Atlantic share.google/A6U485SHqogM...

The New Divide in American Marriage

College graduates are marrying at high rates. Everyone else isn’t.

share.google

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 16d

Well the answer for a huge swath of the people who are currently most animated on this subject is “I was in college and/or 26”

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 16d

And it ties into other trends many people inclined to boost this consider negative such as later marriage, the skewed likelihood of marriage by edu & income, and the gap between fertility rates across married vs not couples

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Wendy Edelberg @wendyedelberg.bsky.social · 20d

Since immigration’s effect on job growth is in the news:
@taraelizwatson.bsky.social & @stanveuger.bsky.social and I explain how breakevens are affected by current immigration policy. There’s lots of uncertainty but my preferred estimates from the paper are in this table.
www.aei.org/wp-content/u...

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 24d

Without the prior history to add a bit more insight, I wonder if capex in America is more skewed to small but growing firms and the massive cycle winners/definers?

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 24d

Chart 5 is by far the wildest to me. Despite the sluggishness it’s a better outlook than it had for almost all the post-GFC period!

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · 27d

There’s a couple of these in a group of boulders in the Firehole River in Yellowstone and they make me happy every time I see them

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Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 5

I tend to be more of a slarver than a pretty carver and don’t a super “input required” setup, which is hard to find with mid to lighter weight touring skis

Peter Williams @pd-williams.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wanting a new steep/big touring days ski and really pondering a pair of Solis’

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