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Will Thorne
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Nearly an economist. Boardgame sommelier. PhD candidate in economics, interested in cities & housing, politics.
it looked like an effort to bypass midfield & press and play over the top, but rarely actually did so
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Been called 4 times!
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
One movie I am glad that nearly every MA student watches in school.

Being a Massachusetts Sumner definitely elevates it a bit for me.
October 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Enjoying the Say Nothing tv series about the IRA.
September 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
we have a spa/baths nearby that is apparently warmed via bitcoin mining or something similar. So there's precedent
September 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Boy, do we need more of this in Economics.
September 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
(The comments are still filled with garbage, but I think this is pretty close to the gold standard for explaining what we know, don't know, and can't ever know in the context of complicated scientific material.)
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It's a bit of an odd source/version of this, but I thought this (Practical Engineering on Texas Floods) was a great way of presenting "shortcomings" without yielding room to the monsters:

youtu.be/3FfMzWa6LKg?...
An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods
YouTube video by Practical Engineering
youtu.be
September 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I remember encountering a dataset that (at least in-part) determined how corrupt a country was, based on how many gov't officials were prosecuted on corruption charges.
September 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
WSJ reported the "transgender ideology" then retracted.

Guardian reported he was leftist according to a high school friend and then retracted.
September 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If that was what GOP wanted, why wouldn't they just force the shutdown themselves?
September 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Now that they see what this actually looks like, (not just deporting dangerous criminals) they have cooled on the idea.
September 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Polls initially shower support for these policies because the average American is completely ignorant of who undocumented immigrants are, they were painted a picture by Trump of murderers and rapists with almost zero push back from the cowards who lead the democratic party, and they believed it.
September 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM