🤔 haven't heard anything from Adams in a while, now that I think about it. Did he find out he wasn't cancel-proof after all after that "move away from black people" thing?
> substack page
:neocat_thonk:
> it actually has an rss feed
:blobcatthumbsup: you are functionally incompetent at PR but you got this part right at least
I signed up for a substack once years ago, and then after poking around all over the website I finally sent their helpsesk a message "why the incessant email spam, where's the RSS fees?"
They were like "we.... dont have those."
Last time I ever touched substack. Good to know it's a thing now.
Visegrád 24 on X: "BREAKING: Argentine President Javier Milei just managed to push through his package of reforms that will transform the country’s economic system. 300+ laws will be repealed or amended. State-owned companies are sold off & massive deregulation introduced The vote? 144 vs 109 https://t.co/SuT87tRZ33" / X https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1753565745500365229
Think of the post office, or amtrak, or the NY subway, or public schools. They provide shit service at outrageous cost, and with all of that they aren't even profitable counting the public teet as "revenue". And they don't need to be because their customers aren't the people relying on their services, their "customers" are nameless bureaucrats spending other peoples' money.
Companies aren't inherently good, it's just that in a free market the bad ones are allowed to die.
In the US the government has to keep swooping in with hundreds of billions (cumulatively into the several trillions) of dollars in bailouts to protect the banker caste from capitalism. It seems odd and perverse to lay that outcome at the feet of capitalism.
The US is fascism wearing a free enterprise skinsuit.
The booze was qualitatively different back then. Gin was basically an apothecary in a bottle instead of cheap grain alcohol with some dye and chemical flavorings.
@icedquinn
🤔 I do vaguely recall AJ or someone around the mid-late oughts reporting on the secret development of a gas weapon that could be fired into enemy positions and turn them all temporarily gay.
He was always a Cato-esque, "corporate tax rates should be 3% lower, but let's not do anything 'radical' that might actually reduce the size and scope of the state!" kind of libertarian, but he went off the deep end over covid.
He's just saying out loud now what Reason has been thinking.