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RustyEarthfire

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  • NY City Council considers $100K annual pay hike for Mamdani

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  • This is almost precisely that. It's 1% more than 3% per year over 10 years for mayor, and half that for the council members.

  • Democrats Caved in the Shutdown Because of the Filibuster

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  • I'm not sure where you got the idea they "acknowledged" this as their reason. It's a wholly unsupported theory based on nothing but some random opinion in the NYT (although I do love the notion that this opinion somehow "got lost amid the excitement" as opposed to simply being uninteresting).

    It doesn't even make sense. You don't need an opposition filibuster unless the majority of the party is "fringe" (straining the meaning of fringe). There are plenty of other ways to bury a bill or -- worst case -- excuse a couple defectors.

  • Meetup rule

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  • Are you sure that's not the FORTRAN meetup?

  • Quebec to ban religious symbols in daycare centres

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  • People probably mistakenly assumed the law was in good faith and would do something like ban hanging crosses around the classroom, not ban covering up part of your body. Calling head coverings "religious symbols" is flatly dishonest. Next up anybody who doesn't eat bacon at every meal will be fired for forcing their religion on others.

  • Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

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  • I feel like there may be a subtle statistical error in judging the overall will of "Democratic voters" based on rough observations of attendees of a Mamdani rally.

  • The shortest distance

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  • Does work for Tampa though

  • I smell fresh blood.

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  • Mamdani Pounces as Leaked Audio Shows Cuomo 'Expecting Trump's Help' to Win

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  • What I’m not seeing is any explanation for why the DNC ... is accepting help

    Cuomo is running as an independent. He is running against the DNC.

  • Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets

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  • Best System Possible

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  • Capitalism isn't unique in perpetuating injustice, but it certainly excels at it, with passive exponentiality and unprecedented scalability.

    Regarding comparison to planned economies, I was solely referring to resource distribution. Planned economies (including the planned aspects of mixed economies) typically have significantly more equitable distribution of resources than capitalism. Certainly there is still massive inequality, but it is far less than capitalism. E.g. the Gini index for USSR/Russia basically doubled when capitalism replaced communism.

  • Best System Possible

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  • Amplifying that last point:

    • Capitalism amplifies and perpetuates injustice. E.g. descendants of both enslaving and enslaved are receiving exponentially multiplied effects of actions 100+ years ago.
    • Because wealth is power, concentrated wealth often receives far better than average returns by rigging systems in its favor.

    Even ignoring these perversions, capitalism is terrible at answering the economic question, "for whom to produce." This isn't much of a change relative to previous systems, but it compares unfavorably in this regard to planned economies.

  • Growing a personality

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  • bought in exchange for political capital

    That's a very uncharitable assumption of his motivations.

    Dropping out of an (FPTP) primary is like awkward manual runoff voting. Once you clearly aren't winning, you drop out so those votes can flow to the next preferred candidate.

    People voting for Buttigieg switched to Biden because he was the most similar candidate. Of course Buttigieg would support the candidate that best matches his policy preferences -- and the preferences of voters.

  • Damn Fox, you didn't have to turn me on more.

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  • We find that a 10% minimum wage hike translates into a 0.36% increase in the prices of grocery products. This magnitude is consistent with a full pass-through of cost increases into consumer prices.

  • As far as I can ascertain, Peter Thiel* is the 103rd richest man on the planet, with a reported net worth of $20.5 bn US. How and why does his influence reach farther than so many others?

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  • Those "richest people" lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.

  • "Character Introductions" (Art by Kymmaa)

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  • Special K

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  • Strange things are afoot

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  • In the EU-wide survey conducted by Eurostat, participants were asked whether their household could afford the adequately heat the home. No fixed temperature was specified; answers are based on self-assessment.

  • Photons

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  • The California fires could scorch the state's broken insurance market

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  • Most of them are leaving. I think the ones remaining rely on bundling with other insurance or services.