@PatrickHeizer
Biomedical engineer, permaculture farmer, Camus scholar, Maryland supremacy, husband, and father.
2001 Live @25YearsAgoLiveThe Washington Post reveals that World Trade Center security executive Rick Rescorla rescued nearly 2,700 people during the September 11 attacks before dying in the attacks. He is certainly the hero of the day, as hundreds of survivors step forward to corroborate that he continuously went back into the building to pull more people out.
Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devilTbh I think MMT has been reasonably well borne-out? it’s not a theory that says you never get inflation. It says inflation is driven by real-economy shortages and/or gluts of their version of the money supply. COVID produced real supply shocks and the MMT version of the money supply has exploded over the last decade.
Oli London @OliLondonTVHollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence appears ‘unrecognizable’ on magazine cover while claiming to have only ever undergone one plastic surgery procedure. The ‘Hunger Games’ star has admitted to having a breast augmentation surgery and ‘baby botox’ while saying she wants to get a facelift in future to be a “sexy mom.” “I want to be a sexy mom. At drop-off, I want to look like a woman that has her s**t together even when I’ve just woken up and don’t have my s**t together.” Fans have speculated she has undergone more procedures after they branded her ‘unrecognizable’ during her appearance on the cover of ‘The Cut’ magazine.
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Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo@PatrickHeizer I think there is a sound argument that the math is unsustainable, and that it would be better to stick to that argument than adopt the "Why are you boomers insisting on living in your houses rather than moving to a hostel and subsisting on gruel" vibe of a lot of this discourse
Ken Gardner @KenGardner11We might find out in a few years that Trump 2.0 was by far the most corrupt Administration in American history. It isn’t just stories like this one. It was also the obvious playing of games with oil futures and prediction markets during the first few months of the Iran war. And also the people who made fortunes on insider trading just before announcements relating to tariffs and trade wars. And God knows what else. And I haven’t even mentioned the Jared Kushner rumors, but only because these types of extraordinary claims still require extraordinary evidence.
Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliriMedicare For All is a delusional proposal. Universal coverage always ends the same way: societies can't afford it, systems become overburdened, wait times explode. Over 10 years, waits for elective care in England have ~doubled. Wait time in Canada for an MRI is up 42% between 2019 and today. Australia, Brazil, Mexico, it's all the same. How many examples do you need before you start acknowledging facts are facts? In every case a failing public system is paired with a burgeoning cash-pay private healthcare system used by the wealthy to avoid waits. This would I'm sure do wonders for class conflict and tensions over wealth inequality in the United States. It would be one thing to consider M4A if we were running a fiscal surplus. But with a $2T deficit, $40T in debt, and shaky 10Y treasury yields you have to be out of your mind. Young adults especially should be up in arms. It's tempting to see universal healthcare as a solution to the cost of living crisis we face. But just as rent control does not expand the supply of housing, universal healthcare is a golden calf that does nothing but double mortgage your future. We will live in poverty paying the debts of our parents. The way to get what you want is to make more of it. Have you considered that supply side reforms and embracing technology, particularly AI, might be the right answer?
Rick Esenberg @RickEsenbergI'm not entirely sure that I think it's outrageous for people who have worked all their lives and educated you and worked to build the country you inherit to have a more or less average income in retirement.
Bruce Varney @varneybe@PatrickHeizer Property tax breaks aren't a thing in every state, the enhanced deductions are temporary, and senior discounts are few and far between for any normal spending pattern.
Councilmember_RobertWhite @CMRobertWhiteDCEvery year, thousands of DC residents lose their homes over unpaid rent. Most owe less than $5,000. Going to court is stressful for tenants, expensive for landlords, and slows down the system. We need a better way to resolve rent issues. 🧵⬇️
Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizerFive years ago, we purchased a fallowed horse farm. Since then, Blue Glade Farm has grown to three steers, a chicken flock, 15 beehives, ~85 chestnuts, ~30 pawpaws, hundreds of hazelnuts and persimmons, many other projects, including two kids! The journey is just beginning.
Jack @tracewoodgrainsIt seems very likely that humans will never again lead the frontier of understanding the universe.
Gregory Conti @GregoryConti19Whenever these announcements are made a new wave of grief comes upon me. Our intellectual horizon is closing. The mental struggles and accomplishments that inspire us & give us purpose are being rendered irrelevant. This is too great a price to pay for any amount of prosperity.
Jerry Hathaway @etubrutonre: airbnb discourse in college I worked as a server at an upscale steakhouse. we had a few different steak sauces that were made from scratch daily. they were expensive to make, and less than half of the customers that ordered steak wanted sauce, so the restaurant charged $3 for it we got complaints constantly. just at my own tables, half a dozen times a week I'd get complaints about being "nickel and dimed" for $3 of sauce on a $70 steak. a few times a month someone would mention it in an angry online review, or ask to speak to a manager and demand that it be removed from the bill because "who the hell charges for condiments?" after several years of this, finally management had enough. they raised the price of every steak by $3, and now complimentary sauce was included with each steak on request. want to hazard a guess about how many customers complained about the $3 price increase on steak? essentially zero. it was great, from the restaurants perspective! no more complaints, and instead of making $3 on 40% of steak orderers, they made $3 on all of them. and the customers were much happier, despite this deal being absolutely, unequivocally worse for them. consumers are not rational agents from microeconomics textbooks. very often the *feeling* of what they're being charged for matters way more than the absolute value of what they're being charged. I think that's more or less what happening with airbnb. people don't want to be charged a cleaning fee and then also told they have to clean, even if in the counterfactual world the additional cleaning fee is more than they'd be willing to pay someone to do the required cleaning. a $100 cleaning fee *feels* better than a $50 cleaning fee + "load the dishwasher and take the trash out to the dumpster", even though most people would not pay $50 to not have to do that.
