AmericanEconomicThinkTank

Ugh Jesus.

To quote some of my most respected and honorable colleagues on the hill:

“Stephen Miller plays with dolls”

Kinda like that other guy, once I ripped my cd collection to digital, just didn’t even get into streaming.

Still make mixtapes the old fashioned way for my partner (corny lol I know) and I buy the occasional remaster at a local thrift shop, or the old baked out hippie running a music / instrument shop.

It’s an honest joy.

I try to curate zines from around the world into local exhibitions, do hand translating alongside if need be, imitate the original paper best I can.

It’s kinda fun lol. That and kinda similarly, but I love♡ spending time on online software radio sites, just listening into different channels like I was there myself.

Oh I can tell you from experience, like full on star wars, hate and anger literally does this to you.

I had an Aunt, reserved woman, but honest. She was the first woman born in the entire family to be born with the right to vote. She managed to chisel herself a career in civil service for her entire adult life, never married, through all the rather distasteful attitudes she’d deal with on a daily basis.

Even she kept a copy of the constitution in her purse, a document that forbade her own mother from being able to vote well into adulthood.

Way I see it, our nation as such beautifully unceasing promise behind it, and they’re damn afraid of that fact.

Lol sorta. For me, I run official accounts in these sorts of circles mainly because I despise modern corporate social media platforms, I’d still be on newsgroups if it weren’t so much work lol.

So, I do enjoy seeing notifs, mainly in the hope (like every other boring ass economist) that I get to have some dialog on an interesting topic.

I miss the Car Talk days of NPR, just on my commute to night class today I get to hear them make the statement “Democrats shut down the government.”

God this shit is disheartening.

Interesting, I’m starting to see what you mean there. Comparable to US steel quality dropping and being supplanted by Japan, or currently China.

Hell even the axis started using compressed cardboard by the end of the war.

I recall hearing the statements about bone health increasing in the generations after the collapse of the Rome and the such. That ring true? What piqued your interest in the era?

If that’s what you’re facing, maybe try thinking of it like you’re trying to get to know them a little. If you start talking about say, your recent effort to make sambal oelek for use in say noodles, asking if they’re familiar with the name, talk about how it has some origin in French cooking from the colonial period, add some info about how you like to use it etc.

Like if I’m ordering food, I’ll always go for the full pronunciation, then maybe follow up with the server or whoever asking if it’s the dish with this or that main focus.

I also love having fun with themed dinner parties with friends and the such, give full presentation on the pronunciation, it’s history in different areas that make it slightly different, give everyone a copy of the recipe (minus a few key but subtle ingredients lol) in both the original language and English.

All in all I say just try to make it a chance to be enjoyed one way or another and it doesn’t take long to get your confidence flowing lol. I totally empathize, I used to be absolutely mortified about the same thing, still do sometimes, just less so these days.

I would say absolutely in the general sense nost people, and the salesmen, frame them in.

When I was invited to assist with the GDC development, I got a chance to partner with a few AI developers and see the development process firsthand, try my hand at it myself, and get my hands on a few low parameter models for my own personal use. It’s really interesting just how capable some models are in their specific use-cases. However, even high param. models easily become useless at the drop of a hat.

I found the best case, one that’s rarely done mind you, is integrate the model into a program that has the ability to call a known database. With a properly trained model to format output in both natural language and use a given database for context calls, and concrete information, the qualitative performance leaps ahead by bounds. Problem is, that requires so much customization it pretty much ends up being something a capable hobbyist would do, it’s just not economically sound for a business to adopt.

It’s almost funny seeing the unblinkimg sycophants working the same idea across the media spectrum the past few weeks in preparation.

Honestly primary these guys.

Pretty much.

Interesting comparison though, sad to say my understanding of old world economics is too low to give a real answer in that regard lol.

I try to find even 10 minutes alone to decompress and watch what little nature I can. Usually helps a bit.

That or a short walk or stretch, both good.

Honestly it’s mostly unconscious for me, the brain just does it’s thing sometimes.

Well to give you a real answer that would depend on how you look at it. Transport industry tends to favor east coast, but that’s mostly thanks to legacy infrastructure.

On the other hand, the past few years of infrastructure bills promoted southwest manufacturing uptick due to easier tax rates, preferred interest from government structures, and as well lower cost workforce that require lower per capita investment for bringing training up to speed.

California had a whole bunch, between strong port access, strong technical expertise, the whole Silicon Valley thing lol.

But given current administration policies, attitudes towards education achievements, and importance of targeted subsidizing, nevermind everything else the past 40 or so years of privatization. It’s a lot to catch up on, most of which requires long term planning.

Of course then you could get into the economics side of things, and that the amount invested through our own foreign direct investment brings about greater income in the long run. Basically by subsidizing foreign production of different goods, we don’t bear the cost of better research and investment in the future, we can use trade agreements to purchase, say computer chips to keep things consistent, which have stipulations that the exporting country purchase mass quantities of lower trade goods at a price advantageous to us.

So uh, it’s pretty much a loose loose situation here lol.

Don’t forget, fashionably American as well.

You’ve got this, kick their asses into next week.

Surely you couldn’t expect our representatives and congressmen to be motivated to work by anything other the big bucks.

Lmao what the fuck