🪐 @ericjmorey@qoto.org

How did we go from from plastic straws wrapped in paper to paper straws wrapped in plastic?

@w7voa

The text of the bill can be found in the Senate Appropriations Committee Press Release

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majority/murray-releases-text-of-bipartisan-national-security-supplemental

@freemo

I think I know someone who is looking for a new opportunity that has relevant experience for the Sr. Dev position. What is the best way for them to contact you if interested?

@freemo

What is CleverThis going to be?

@CrashCarroll

If anyone with those concerns bothered to look into the details (which I and many others did), they would see that the the speed of the trials weren't in the form of cutting corners in the the trial methods, but in the funding and resources provided to allow for parallel actions.

After weighing risks of a properly vetted vaccine which hasn't had a decade of use in the general public against the known risks of the rapidly spreading disease in addition to the unknown long-term risks of that disease, it becomes very hard to see the other side as anything other than lazy, obstinate, credulous, having an irrationally fearful bias against taking action or a combination thereof.

@JessTheUnstill

@zeldman

Need competition to soak up that excess profit, which is why companies fight so hard against allowing competition.

@fifonetworks

Why should companies care if the only repercussions are offering payment for 12 months of credit monitoring post data leak to those suspected of having their information exposed?

You propose things that are way more expensive to organizations that place nearly no value preventing these events and have almost no external incentives.

@tadahide

@QasimRashid

Russell Moore in an interview with NPR:

"It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis."

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity

@QasimRashid

I've been writing to expand Medicaid to all.

@wollman

That's irrelevant to the concerns raised or the make up of the market portfolio.

@neffo @axios

@neffo

Sounds like you don't know what I'm talking about. Vanguard allows for gold and silver ETFs to be traded bmvia their brokerage. They suffer from the same concerns you've raised.

@axios

@thesquirrelfish

Imagine caring for someone who is sick and no money is exchanged. This activity is measured as having no value by GDP.

Imagine raising a child without being paid for it. This activity is measured as having no economic value by GDP.

Imagine charging for the care of people who can't care for themselves. Imagine minimizing your costs to the point where the number of people who keep up with the hygiene of those that can't for themselves is so few that on average the aides hired have only 20 minutes a day to take care of each person's needs including washing, dressing, cleaning teeth, cleaning asses, etc. This is valued highly when measured by GDP.

@lispi314 @datarama @pluralistic

@axios

This is surprisingly dumb from the perspective of the Efficient Frontier Theory that Vanguard has based their entire existence on. A mix of all assets are part of the theoretical market portfolio, the only reason not to include an asset would be from outsized transaction, holding, or other cost inefficiencies.

A small proportion of cryptocurrency indexing is appropriate for a well diversified portfolio.

@jenniferplusplus

From my view, they're both just part of the group that injured themselves. The fact that some were harmed more than others is largely irrelevant to show that exogenous factors labeled as "the economy" are not the reason for the layoffs.

Apropos of nothing, did you see Zuckerberg's super relatable post about how he and his daughter have a hobby of raising cattle on their ranch by feeding them 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each from trees that were planted and grown on Zuckerberg's property adjacent to Zuckerberg's ranch in Hawaii? Why can't we all bond like this with our families? Perhaps because some were among the tens of thousands of people that were laid off by Zuckerberg's companies?

@ado @whalecoiner

@ado

The VC Tech crowd literally ginned up a bank run on themselves that was entirely avoidable and had nothing to do with interest rates or COVID.

@whalecoiner @jenniferplusplus

@theaardvark
Read the [relevant thread on Nitter](https://nitter.net/gkwood3/status/1744650520420045219)