Zoe

C-man

C-man’s Substack

11h

Liked by Ben Krauss

I don’t have anything hugely insightful to add to this excellent piece, other than that in our thoroughly anti-elitist age there seems to be a notion that people have an inalienable right to low-quality slop for their mental and physical nourishment, and to say that maybe we should all aspire to something... See more

David Abbott

David’s Determinist Substack

1d

The “speech is violence” frame is a loaded gun pointed at everyone. If hateful speech is itself a form of violence, then Charlie Kirk — who spent years saying things like “the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake” and warning that Muslims were “conquering Europe” — was, by that definition, committing... See more

Neeraj Krishnan

Neeraj Krishnan

10h

There is a conspiracy against healthy eating.

How do you explain the fact that potatoes are so easy to grow. Having started out in South America and spread worldwide by the Spanish. How is it that they can be sliced into 1mm thickness while retaining shape and when fried create a crisp texture, deep rich flavor,... See more

avalancheGenesis

11h

Liked by Ben Krauss

Senator Schmitt thinks foreign nationals and their children (like me) aren't smarter and more talented? That Real Red-Blooded Americans deserve our hard-earned prosperity, but are cheated out because they insist on a living wage for non-conformists? Well, besides the obvious horseshoe implications, I just wanna... See more

Tom Hitchner

Stoic Poker

6h

When I come across something like this, or about unions making film production in LA unaffordable, I despair a little bit at how these counter-productive policies could be reversed. Because one of the characteristics of left-of-center thought is, when we institute a policy, we are never just trying something to see if it... See more

“ We’re becoming a society in which people struggle to remain adequately indifferent

I am about to use the hated R-word.

We should all be more... resilient.

Neva C Durand

11h

Re: cash instead of Medicaid - unlike food, there’s an information power imbalance when applied to medical services. The government has an important role in determining what treatments are worth the cost, even though this is obviously something people hate.

25% VAT!!!!!

Hygge is the concept of doing things that don’t cost money and just getting drunk in bed.

Blowfish

10h

Another theory complementary to this is that when the cost of switching to a different song/album/artist is basically zero, there is a lot less opportunity for music to "grow on you". Before, if you bought an album and didn't like it on the first listen, you are still stuck with the album, so you would probably listen to it again and... See more