#System

How I see it:We have Covert Monetary Financing (CMF) now.Primary dealers take up all newly-issued Treasuries, and the Fed backstops primary dealers. Ergo, the Fed is *already* directly coordinating with
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6,400-12,000 nursing home residents in New York died because we trusted a market-driven healthcare system to take care of our most vulnerable members during a pandemic.Our political system just followed
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I’m not doing a phd to just do all the ‘right things’ and get a job in academia and keep my head down and churn out papers to keep my
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A couple reasons I'd encourage you to show grace towards voters who don't Vote Like You: our politics are insane, our media/social media eco-system is broken and manipulated, and a
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This is not an uncommon mindset, and it's exacerbated by the nutraceutical rules (championed by my favorite quack punching bag, Linus Pauling) that prevent the FDA from putting the kibosh
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The field has moved quite a bit since that paper. I'd recommend https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12142 for a recent look at these ideas.A few sparse comments:- saying that the brain or any other
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My thunderer in today's @thetimes looks at how journalists' details are being flagged to a secretive unit in the Cabinet Office that screens #FOI requests, putting a key democratic safeguard,
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So I’m probably a few weeks away from having a usable SRD for Silhouettes, but in the meantime I want to make this quick announcement, in case I haven’t already
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The concept of plurality can be overwhelming for some people. It’s really stressful and difficult being one person in one body— how could people be more than one person in
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Having read Robert Jenrick on his "radical and necessary" planning system reforms, my thoughts are:1. No sense that planning is always a trade-off. The more "automatic" you want approval to
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i feel like these programs are kind of a greay area? like while they have many cons for both people who are in them and who are not, they also
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In the recent Suga + Jin FM they talked briefly about their MBTI types. As someone who has studied the system for a LONG time, I would like to say
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Not to downplay code-to-diagram tools in SEEING-what-we-have-here, but sketching helps draw (literally and figuratively) attention (shaping the narrative, making the reveal) and works in support of conversations/words, etchttps://twitter.com/ruthmala
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A bunch of PhDs are trying to clarify that this study is somehow biologically impossible or anthropologically illiterate.The amount of trouble academics go through to shield people from what they
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Failing to vote doesn't "tear down the establishment" or "dismantle the two-party system" The establishment loves it when discontent and apathy drives people to abstain from voting. Likewise, voting doesn't
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Always find it a little funny to see people make bullish, table-climbing predictions on teams solely because they've signed a lot of players with pretty much 0 evidence to support
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