Yeah obviously the president of the US and the Senate couldn’t possibly be controlled by Democrats, because otherwise they would have the absolute ability to remake the supreme court. It’s too bad, gosh it sucks that we live under the control of Republicans who control every arm of the federal government.

The followup:

“Sure I made it up, but isn’t it scary that the dumbest people on planet earth believed it???”

Isn’t that Dukakis?

“You’ve researched [Arachnids]. You were in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.”

TL;DW: It was a complete catastrophe which unsurprisingly lead to its abrupt shut down. The promise for the hotel was a two day event of “interactive storytelling” and escape-room-esque activities in a luxury environment; instead, the interactivity never seemed to work, the activities were boring even to children (when they were functional), and a tiny room with bunk beds certainly didn’t justify the $6,000+ price tag.

The dunk here is not on MMT, it’s that the head of Biden’s council of economic advisors opposes MMT but can’t even try to muster a reason why. The woman interviewing him in the video is Stephanie Kelton, author of the Deficit Myth and the main proponent of MMT. She describes (as shouldn’t be shocking based on the name of her book) that deficit spending is actually a necessary good to keep the economy functioning, and in that way fits within the left as a counterpoint to criticism of progressive policies like universal healthcare or free college or reparations etc. as “unaffordable.”

But your instinct is right, MMT isn’t necessarily collaborative with leftist ideas since it isn’t concerned with class or redistributive policies. It’s basically just a way to explain why we can print so much money and see barely any inflation despite classical economics constantly warning about that exact scenario.

love to see this

#Tradle #748 1/6

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https://games.oec.world/en/tradle

I thought it was like a meme but it’s literally a still from the interview. That’s the CTO of OpenAI saying she’s not sure what data was used to train the models lmao.

Lol: “The State Department on Friday made clear that the American military will not abide by the requests of the Iraqi government to leave the country and instead will stay indefinitely.”

Beautiful

Not me furiously searching “Henry kissinger assad” so I can post that the Lion of Damascus has done it agian

Excellent work of course, and you’re right I groaned in real life. Learning that counting the elements in the individual pictures was pointless and that there’s an unused sixth picture is pretty infuriating. Good luck in the contest!

Thank you, that one was killing me. I had ordered them by release date but spent a ton of time puzzling over the significance of the shaded in squares lol.

A little - the last couple of times timehop had a puzzle hunt it was just a web page with a set of themed puzzles, this time they’ve incorporated some other apps they’re associated with and host the clues within their platforms. You still don’t need an account or to download an app but it’s definitely attempting to encourage people to use their bullshit.

But to be clear, the puzzles themselves have halloween themed answers, you won’t get “always drink your ovaltine”.

Pinging @HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net since they helped out last time I posted one of these puzzle hunts.

That’s a picture of Osama Bin Laden, from the article to the left “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace”

If you click on the three dots icon on the bottom right of the comment, and then click on the little page icon (rightmost of the newly revealed icons), you’ll see what the markdown code looks like that renders that comment. For this case, pipes (“|”) are interpreted by markdown as table boundaries.

What part of “uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire” do you think is a joke exactly?