My hottest take that might get me banned from economist discussions might be "Georgism would never work because land values are calculated by people with political values, and politics will prevent land value taxes from ever truly matching the value of the land."

If we dance do you think emrakul will let us have a sleepover?

"The plane of Ravnica is supposedly ruled by 11 guilds, though one of those is only a group of cosplayers with a disturbing preference for dragons, and mentioning one of the other guilds would cause the world to fall into a sort of anarchy." (guildpact suddenly falls apart)

Just saw a post from @spacecitywx.bsky.social arguing whether August or September is worse in South Texas, because August is the hottest but September always gives us hope and then breaks out hearts.

Well, I don't know why I logged on today
All my connection issues won't go away
There's a problem between keyboard and chair
And remoting in to take down the wares

Maybe we need some government intervention to slow LRR down, for its own sake.

Apparently after Macklemore won the Grammy for rap album of the year, he tried to course-correct on the second album to make it clear how much he respected the other people around him to the point that the cringe may or may not have become unbearable. This video was a neat dive into the album.

Look that's how I walk when I'm dreadfully tired from the heat and acting like I'm still awake

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social podcast patreon bonus episode please

I've been reading your stuff for decades at this point. And I just wanna be like uhhhhh how autobiographical was this one