chooky
1d ago
This is just a natural part of fashion cycling. Form fitting jeans will eventually return to being in vogue. I would say that a major catalyst for the baggy jeans resurgence was Billie Eilish, but a lot of it is also just the nostalgia factor for people who grew up when skate culture was big.
chooky
7d ago
I have lived in a couple towns. In both, existing residents have complained that high-income new residents are bidding up the price of housing, so it seems like the problem you are describing does not exist that much. Things probably change when you get to poor immigrants, refugees, etc, but few families with an $85k income would even consider moving to high-cost cities like NYC.
Another thing that your argument is missing is that many muni services have very high fixed costs. As you correctly point out, growing cities indeed run into traffic problems, crowded classrooms, etc, as population rises but before they do the next big capital infusion. Sure, it is annoying, but it is far better than the opposite problem of spreading the same fixed costs across a declining population, especially since the latter usually means an increasingly poor population.
chooky
9d ago
Wouldn't your logic on the marathon suggest that I could just squat 50 lbs six times and call it 300? As with a very long walk, I am doing the same amouny of "work" with low weight and high reps.
chooky
13d ago
Footnotes would be fine. What makes IJ obnoxious is that it has extensive endnotes such that you are constantly flipping to the back of the book. Or have they fixed this in newer editions now that Wallace isnt alive to stand in their way?
Anyway, if you guys enjoy IJ, I would consider Solenoid to be an absolute must-read.
chooky
14d ago
Wake me up if Israel/Palestine stop killing each other for more than a few months! I think this is a case where Trump's approach of steamrolling Israel into accepting his terms worked well and good for him, but it also seems way too easy to be real. Also, it is somewhat difficult to evaluate Israel outside of the context of Ukraine, on which there has been no progress toward a peace that doesnt just reward Russia's initial invasion.
chooky
16d ago
Nah, Golden is just Heaven by DJ Sammy redux - a quintessential feel good house song. Like Heaven, it is great, though admittedly not inspired like the best Daft Punk, for example.
chooky
18d ago
How do you deal with the fact that digital money, including credit cards, makes 25 cent multiples basically pointless? Do digital spenders get screwed or helped by these price increments? Is it really the case that businesses with low-cost items (eg grocery stores) do not have 5-20 cent price increments currently? Surely not.
chooky
18d ago
I have very nice neighbors who trained or tried to train a dog to stop barking inside with one. I live in a very normy, probably even slightly upper middle class, burb.
chooky
26d ago
Trying to defund woke by instead funding creationism honestly seems like a pretty likely outcome!
chooky
28d ago
Yes, I am 100% sure that HSA providers used by big companies have procedures that will guarantee everything is fine forever. I'm more interested by the financial argument than a receipts argument.
chooky
29d ago
I am not very up on Roth stuff, but wpuld things change if receipt storage were completely trivial? The way my, and I assume nearly all, HSA works is that I submit receipts to the conpany that manages the HSA, and then those credits for withdrawal and ready for me whenever I want to use them. There is no receipt tracking because I just submit immediately.
chooky
30d ago
But children of the 90s are like 40 now and would have also grown up entirely under the post-1970s paradigm, while the rise of incel culture (and various other apparent symptoms of dysfunctional romance) seems like a phenomenom of the past 10-15 years. I am having a hard time ascribing this to the 1970s rather than technology shifts (Tinder, etc), high pace of housing inflation (which reduces incentives for household formation and makes it much harder to not rely on also-expensive daycare, aka the two-income trap), or the transition of church and religion out of mainstream (which I would argue began to rapidly occur during Bush 2 and was basically complete mid-Obama).
chooky
30d ago
I am far more nail reliant in Silksong than I was spell-reliant in HK, partly because the upgraded spells in HK were just completely OP. It always kind of hurts to use tools because shards are not actually that easy to rapidly acquire if you are aggressively using tools.
I do greatly appreciate tool repair being free for some tough act 3 battles.
chooky
30d ago
I am sure this has been asked before, but why is it that these purported consequences of the 1970s sexual revolution have not shown up until the past 10-15 years? It really took 50 years to come to a head?
chooky
1mo ago
My point is that if Erika Kirk did not genuinely forgive her husband's murderer and inwardly longed for violent vengeance, her taking a public stance either way almost certainly has zero impact on the actual outcome. Indeed, I would argue that there are strong incentives, both social and financial, to take on the forgiveness stance. While I am not doubting her sincerity (and I certainly approve of these incentives' continued existence as a plus for contemporary Christianity), I am not impressed by it.
chooky
1mo ago
What would it mean to not "forgive"... to proclaim a desire for vengeance? If so, that seems like a much more staggering path. Even after seeing his previous career, Trump's words at the funeral are the ones that are shocking to me, as I have no wish for ill to befall my American political opponents and indeed would like policies that I oppose to prove me wrong by being beneficial. (For one, it costs me money when the economy is bad!) All this to say that I think that you are simultaneously too cynical about basic standards for human behavior and not nearly cynical enough about the extent to which this is a cost-free, potentially calculated position: Erika Kirk doesn't legally really get any say in the punishment already.
chooky
1mo ago
Lucky thing for us is that Slay the Spire 2 and Hades 2 are going to come out this year too.
It does seem crazy that Silksong is $20, which seems to me like it is mainly a reflection of Team Cherry becoming fabulously wealthy (surely, right?) and not caring at all about money anymore.
chooky
1mo ago
Supposedly, the reason for fewer gears is that back wheels have improved to a bigger range of teeth, which means you can hit a similar range of gear ratios with only 1x12... and of course derailleurs are everyone's least favorite part of mountain bikes.
chooky
1mo ago
My main complaints are haphazard rather than targeted cuts, wild overcounting of savings from cuts, failure to make substantive cuts (i.e., no government departments are more in need of efficiency than Medicare), disorganized nature of cuts leading to short term wasted resources, simultaneously serving as a means of political revenge (e.g., cuts to DEI and arts, though I personally find these cuts acceptable given deficit) but also making a whole bunch of cuts to basic research and data gathering. In general, they did not seem to hire a good team for DOGE, which resulted in a great deal of disorganization, squandering political capital and what could have been an opportunity for a sustained, broad recommitment to efficiency.
chooky
1mo ago
Trump 1 was okay in my view, but Trump 2 has been a disaster due to SALT reinstatement and other OBBBA bad ideas, not to mention tariffs and DOGE's hyperincompetence. With the deficit expansion, I think the long term outlook is pretty bad.
That said, I have no problem with this H1B change given the clear abuses in the existing system.
chooky
1mo ago
There is no question that The Daily Show took a political stance and generally thought that Dems were correct and Reps wrong, but did it take stances that Republicans would have found offensive? A TV personality rather than a radio personality, if you will. From what I have of Kirk, he was much more of radio personality, taking more provocative positions and being much more blunt.
chooky
1mo ago
Surely, Jon Stewart was less controversial and much more of a celebrity than Kirk, who I had never heard of prior to his death.
chooky
1mo ago
It is strange that these shows would be so expensive. The content is largely free given that they are publicity vehicles for actors with new films and so forth.
chooky
1mo ago
I don't know about that. Do you seriously think that Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Romney, etc., are ideologically or temperamentally down with Trump? I would say the Republican party has cohered around MAGA far more effectively than the Dems have managed to cohere around... anything. Republicans who have not come around have essentially been booted from the party, while a notable Dem example would be Manchin's more or less victorious showdown with Biden over BBB. (Manchin is no longer senator, but he lost from the right, not the left.)
On Sorkin, again, we are talking about someone so clearly dissatisfied with the putative nominee and VP in Harris that he writes an op-ed suggesting that Dems nominate a Republican, but you are somehow shocked that they later write a tweet endorsing Harris over Trump?? Do you want him to get mad and endorse a third party or something? Either a) he genuinely got caught up in the idea of Harris or b) he simply wants to convey enthusiasm in order for Trump to lose. His editiorial's thrust was very much that Trump's 2nd term would be very bad; once a nominee has been picked or settled upon, surely it would make no sense to be publicly milquetoast about that nominee.
Yeah, boyfriend cut was somewhat a revival of 1980s, current baggyness is a revival of the comically baggy JNCOs of 1990s middle schoolers.
Dont worry too much, nothing has changed about skinny-ish dark being the most flattering and most enduring.
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