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Vaccines aren’t perfect, and the inaction of others can cause extreme adverse impacts on everyone due to total vaccination rate falling below herd immunity levels.

It’s just like taxes.

It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to predict what new information can be derived from the combination of different datasets collected from your devices.

Especially as the N of datasets grows.

Biden Admin?

Invisible. Trust me.

Every time you earn money/spend money you are paying taxes.

I guess busses run on fairy dust too?

Free public roads and highways? Free public parking? Good, normal, should be encouraged. Add a lane or two to the highway? Always a good idea! (hint: it never is)

Free public transit? KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! It will never work (those places it did are aberrations)

Go look up: 1. Jevons paradox (induced demand): More road capacity → more traffic. 2. Marchetti’s constant (30-minute city): Average commute time is stable; faster modes → sprawl. 3. Downs–Thomson paradox (transit sets highway speed): Car speeds improve only if transit gets better. 4. Braess’s paradox (network effect): Adding a new road can worsen traffic for everyone.

Free transit: IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL

The political class are not typically utilizers of public transit: hence even the best attempts are structurally challenged from the outset.

If that isn’t factored into your analysis, you are missing a huge reason why it sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds.

Exact same argument was made against the interstate highway system.

Now it is lauded as one of the highest ROI investments the US govt ever made.

If you really want to do the math: if we value all urban land equivalently, what is the subsidy provided by free parking? In NYC, it’s astronomical.

Free transit is trivial to fund if you actually care about humans being productive.

Not everyone does: harder to capture rents that way.

Ignorance is Bliss.

Science is that which, despite your opinions, exists.

Pathogens everywhere are cheering.

The commons of the creative output of humanity is a resource, just like oil or lithium.

We are rapidly replaying the worst of the Resource Curse.

You can read the entire exchange for yourself, it’s a link.

At the bottom of the article.

It’s a commitment device: if the only way you’ll stay out of jail is if Trump is elected, you do anything you can, break any laws, whatever, to get Trump elected.

Because then you won’t go to jail.

See Santos.

Don’t Look Up!

Also, what dumbass is gonna drop a million on this?

Literally the CIO of a $20b/year ARR company said to me: “I was gonna send my kids to school in the US. Now? Never in a million years. Even I won’t set foot there.“

You can’t win in the global economy AND nativist white supremacist politics at the same time.