The mint should offer to put your face on a single coin, for $101,000 dollars. The coin would have a face value of $100,000 and be legal tender, so really the net cost would only be $1000, right? But who’s gonna spend a coin with their face on it? It’s basically a way of persuasing people to reduce the velocity of currency by making the inflation cost of holding cash worth bearing. (regulators should declare it imprudent for banks to lend against coin.)
inspired by @rohan
i think i saw a ghost, haunting the parking lots of Ron DeSantis’s Florida.
a creepy lifesize image of Ruth Bader Ginsburg through the window of a car in a parking lot.
perhaps what the dead miss most is the sensation of missing at all.
“the state is corrupted by private power. therefore, we should eliminate it and, um, cede everything to private power.”
On the one hand, getting on #discord hosted by projects, I've gotten very prompt and useful help on snags I've hit. On the other had, if we'd had those conversations with the asynchronous ceremony of #StackOverflow, a searchable record would have been left for others.
yeah but i bet they don't have some guy dressed as a moose.
My heart is with #Brazil today. And I hope this US administration's rhetoric about democracy is steadfast in its foreign policy.
(Talk about appropriation, I keep reading American commenters discussing #Brazil like the January-6th-ists had invented the coup.)
the algorithm is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
(with apologies to Mencken)
once it all makes sense you know it is probably wrong.
people often mistake their personal agency for the strength of democracy, but democracy is about collective agency.
ironically the people with the most personal agency sabotage it on these grounds, it can’t be good if it hinders them personally, while those with little personal agency appreciate the value of collective agency.
@hollywooddfpd why not both?!
@LeftistLawyer despite itself. or true to itself despite those who most control it.
@LeftistLawyer run that one!
the state.
God is the entity that gets all the jokes the waves and storms are powered by Their laughter.
how long until AI puts only fans out of business?
my alma mater, a site of great beauty and intense transformations. they complain about low enrollment at 700, but i opposed expanding it from 500 when i was there. there is so much does-not-compute in this. https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/06/gov-ron-desantis-wants-conservative-overhaul-at-new-college-of-florida/69784941007/ ht @mdslock and others offline
they made a kids movie about when emacs saves a backup file of your mom.
