half_giraffe

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.

How the fuck are we consistently the best website on the planet with a sore loser emoji already????

TL;DR: Allowable differences in the dimensions of venues make more precise timing unreliable.

Timing beyond the hundredth of a second is not a reliable indicator of athlete performance. Instead, when capturing millimetres of movement with each frame, you might be capturing allowable differences in the measurement of the pool, track or other venue.

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?

Lol

"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.

Yeah I was saying a Nuggets/Celtics final was the most likely a week ago, but now Denver proved how insanely cooked they are lmao.

Who do you all think is moving on to the next round? My predictions (very low level of spiciness) are:

Celtics > Cavs

TWolves > Nuggets

OKC > Mavs

Pacers > Knicks

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.

Since no one else will, here it is to ruin the fun: