Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues.
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view profile on Bluesky Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
Political party discovers that higher tax rates lead to higher tax revenues.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is kind of weird, since Trump is a teetotaler. (I don't know about Kennedy's use of alcohol.)
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
"Planet Earth?"
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I usually get carryout because it's cheaper, and maybe once there was somebody there when I was there and I had to stand in line.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Or how much money they donate to Trump.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Now you tell me...
Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted
They bombed without warning a non-threatening small boat, which is insane and a violation of international law even if it was carrying contraband which we have no way of knowing, and then gleefully shared it as a snuff video.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Sunken cost fallacy!
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
co-signed
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Spuddy! Buddy!
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
It's Idaho, on the Palouse River. Probably lentils.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, It's That Native Guy. Just about any time somebody needed a Native-coded role, he was there.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Because he's not the one who did the rear ending?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
More math questions need to ask why?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I think he's a Boise native (or lives in the TV somewhere). Breaking records is his thing. He will be invited (well, a paid speaker) to go somewhere, and he'll break a record. (I think that the Boise-area Science Bowl had him one year?) www.boisestate.edu/alumni/2024/...
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
This is lentil erasure. Idaho State should be the one with this helmet.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
Which is funny, because taters aren't grown in that part of the state. Should be fighting pulses or something.
The Gurgling Cod (he/him) (@thegurglingcod.bsky.social) reposted
Boise State volleyball player Nora Hayd has been called a "Gothlete." This implies the existence of Gothletic directors, which is now the job I want. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Ours required a longer password (harder to crack, but it feels like I'm writing a novel when I log in), and we now only have to change it once a year. Big improvement, IMO.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Putting the Multi into M.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
lewisartwilliams.com/works
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Both the subject and the style remind me a lot of Lewis Williams.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
No. Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia. There has been no peace.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm a non-expert. Maybe he should trust me.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Soon, there's not going to be any funding left to target.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
And doesn't include people held abroad? (They're not in the US or its territories.)
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope it's because you read the manual.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
Canada catching strays.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Our season starts today, in about 5 hours. Go Broncos!
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably on the radio, somewhere.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
I'll watch this any time I see it, and probably retweet it, too.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Indiana Dunes State Park?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Mine is filled with chess puzzles (I guess chess groups that I'm not a member of, and don't intend to join), probably because I occasionally click on them to see the solution.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
When I first moved there, I had no idea!
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
When I lived in AZ, we got monsoon rains regularly. From late July to early September, almost like clockwork, it would pour rain at about 4 PM.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
And Tulane, somehow.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this double jeopardy, or does that not apply to different charges for the same act?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
But he's not racist.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Even in the math building, I don't think we have any more chalkboards. (Well, I can think of one chalkboard in the entire building. Maybe some professor still has one in their office.)
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
You can care about big issues and still pay attention to smaller issues. Smaller issues are often times pretty big to some people, too.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
They think that these powers were wielded by the Democrats already, and aren't afraid of that again. (Prosecution of enemie, like raiding Mar-a-Lago, prosecutig J6 insurrectionists, etc.)
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
The appropriate wording, though, would not be to ask if their students would revive the tradition, but if the WSU students would revive the tradition.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Just post a link to the main page of TikTok, I guess?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
Return "Alligator Alcatraz" to the alligators.
Catholic Democrats (@catholicdems.bsky.social) reposted
Read @JamesMartinSJ robust public letter in @AmericaMag to President Trump providing pastoral guidance to him – rooted in the Gospel and the Catholic tradition - on “how one enters the reign of God.”
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
They should include "teams that have made the playoffs multiple times in the past few years" as a quality non-conference team, too.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
There's at least one error on here. One student who is listed as going to UW is actually going to WSU. (But we're in touch with him, and he's potentially starting a club at WSU.)
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
@sarahtaber.bsky.social did a thread on how this statistic might be misleading. bsky.app/profile/sara...
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
I can guess which Scripture passages they're *not* quoting.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I can guess which Scripture they're not quoting.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you need my address?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
That's how they've become experts in recognizing this crime!
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
The *Trump* administration is investigating people for mortgage fraud and bank fraud? How ironic.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, oh no, is this me?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Every exhibit about slavery that gets removed should be replaced with an exhibit about Epstein.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
There have always been "it wasn't such a bad thing" apologists, back to when it was "it isn't such a bad thing."
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
This sounds like an anti-American ideology. Maybe the DHS shouldn't get any benefits?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to keep my car's clock on standard time so that I could remember what time it was in the rest of the state.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I doubt that he's ever visited one. There are lots of museums, with lots of different exhibits, focusing on lots of different things.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
My family are harvesting huge figs right about now!
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Dare I ask what happened?
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
one guy even tried to give us a sandwich
LearnedLeague (@learnedleague.com) reposted
Happy LL106 Opening Day, LLamas! Also less happily, to those who observe, condolences on "Oh Man I Thought I Was Registered" Day.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Rwanda, not Uganda. Somebody downstream listed them all. bsky.app/profile/em-j...
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I think he's taking credit for the India-Pakistan blowup ending (they don't credit him), the peace treaty with the Houthi rebels (which didn't last), and the DRC-Uganda peace treaty. I don't know the other three.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Our neighbor used to have those thick-skinned muscadines, and I have lots of fond memories of standing under the arbor and eating them in late summer as a kid.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
There Was An Incident
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
The Bee Ell Tees.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, it's like 15 seasons long, so that's a huge commitment.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
That was, what, 20 years ago? Have you updated it? (Does it need to be updated?) I mean, it's great that you did that! It would be good for others to have the same forethought.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Dad died a few years ago, and we had to deal with some of this. (Fortunately, he had written passwords down a few years earlier before going through major surgery.) But having gone through that, we're in a much better position with Mom.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it depends on how the contract is structured. A lot of places spread out the 10 month salary over 12 months. Some places let teachers choose which model to get paid with.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I think that in a lot of these sports (maybe internationally?) "canoe" includes kayaks. Like the canoe racing is really kayak racing (including a portage!).
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I imagine it would be theoretically easy to intercept data sent to the printer, even if somebody were there to pick it up. I didn't know how secure hotel printers are. If it is known that gov. employees use hotel printers, an agent just has to get there first.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the feeling you have when the fish that's this big gets away.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
This is blocked in a lot of red states.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I imagine that a boa is a constrictor.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Rubber boa baby bumper
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Needs a GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! call.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
At first I thought you meant Sri Lanka, but then I remembered the show (which I've been making my way through lately) and remembered that episode.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know what my reaction to the word is, but this is close.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, so you already had those? You didn't have to make them?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I try to avoid caffeine so that when I need it, it's effective. I don't want my body to get used to it. (I don't always do a good job at that, though.)
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Cash is king, but if you're going to donate food, I guess personalize it and make it more than just staples.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
The drones need to be bigger so that they don't look like bumblebees buzzing around.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
What's the part for? How did you do the metal? Or did you just need to 3d print the plastic frame?
Catholic Democrats (@catholicdems.bsky.social) reposted
What Cross am I Called to Bear, Lord? As a boy, #StMaximilianKolbe had a mystical experience that he would later recount to his fellow friars: 1/7
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a name that is common in a certain part of the world, so I get all sorts of interesting misdirected e-mail.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Or the best.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
I took his name for confirmation.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, the crime problem is that people are woefully bad at recognizing how low the crime rates are, historically.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
He probably feels the same way about Catholics, too.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
It's set in 1905, 7 years after the book was published. Did the world change that much in 7 years?
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
It's coming...
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like the difference between trying to read 20th century numbers in Roman numerals and 21st century.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
The lady taketh the head, and she giveth the head.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social)
This is brilliant.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
8 million years ago? I don't think it was done by humans.
Colin (@egnowit.bsky.social) reply parent
8 million years ago. Crossbreeding can happen naturally, too.