Oh Man! You Know Jack

Clare Briggs / November 30, 2018 in Comics / Oh Man #Speakeasy

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Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930.

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Kolohe says:
November 30, 2018 at 7:10 am
Speakin’ ain’t easy.
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Mike Schilling says:
December 1, 2018 at 3:00 am
He should have tried “Swordfish”.
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State of the Discussion

2 mins ago

to Blomster

Saul Degraw

+ "As for the big love of sentimentality… I get it. There is so much ugly in the world into which the 24/7 news cycle and [. . .]

"As for the big love of sentimentality… I get it. There is so much ugly in the world into which the 24/7 news cycle and social media relentlessly bombardes us without possibility of escape, that we just crave these little moments of positivity and prettiness, even at risk of diabetes."

I don't think of it as positive or pretty. I think these are mawkish and the coziness is fake. A Degas painting is pretty. A tweet about buses being given cocoa is glurge. The world is beautiful because it is gray, dark, nuanced, and complex. We should embrace that with full fire, not retreat to tweets about buses and cocoa.

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Sunday Morning: Stardust

2 mins ago

to Mark of New Jersey

bookdragon

+ Ideally they write legislation so that if congress, the president and political appointees (including WH and Cabinet officials) get paid, then so does any federal [. . .]

Ideally they write legislation so that if congress, the president and political appointees (including WH and Cabinet officials) get paid, then so does any federal employee. Or at a minimum, any federal employee who is required to continue working. That alone would help prevent future hostage taking.

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Getting Through The Wall

7 mins ago

to Road Scholar

Marchmaine

+ Thanks, yeah, it's "Distributish" but fundamentally oriented towards distributing the wealth where and as it is created as a "better" (if not perfect) way of [. . .]

Thanks, yeah, it's "Distributish" but fundamentally oriented towards distributing the wealth where and as it is created as a "better" (if not perfect) way of addressing some barnacles on the barque of capitalism. Else, as I note way up at the tippy top, we'll be bamboozled by UBI as a substitute Tax that the wealthy and influential maintain as an alternative to a more broadly distributed share in the creation of wealth.

Now there are indeed some distributists who are very keen on Georgist theories as well... I'm a little more skeptical than most on a few accounts 1) the math and logic seems to work pretty well in highly bought-up and utilized areas like, say, cities, or city-states like Singapore and Hong Kong, less so as the amount of improved land diminishes; 2) the appropriation of the surplus land value (ha!) as "common property" distinct from the state is an interesting concept but one which I fear has no practical application... so in effect all value is appropriated by the state, and that assumes (requires?) a certain level of trust that the State and Common Good are somewhat aligned, (Are they? Is that a monumental pre-req?)and 3) that it becomes a sort of weaponized land disposession as wealth from the city moves outwards (or in some circumstances simply relocates)... to say nothing of the pressure to abandon less efficient uses of land to perpetually more efficient - displacing perfectly good ongoing concerns with insufficient remedy for the loss of the concern.

Which is to say that it has all the markings of a well thought through modern economic option, but suffers (ironically) from working only in small, beautiful, high-trust societies.

But yes, I share your interest in heterodox economics and would happily revisit Georgist schemes as they are updated (perhaps already done) to address my concerns above.

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What Happened To The 15-Hour Workweek?

8 mins ago

Saul Degraw

+ I never did it but I remember it being a thing for college-students to do Adderrall in order to help with all-nighters. Though my other [. . .]

I never did it but I remember it being a thing for college-students to do Adderrall in order to help with all-nighters.

Though my other very unpopular thought is that student all-nighters are largely unnecessary and are more about social performance and the much dreaded "virtue signalling" than anything else. People do all-nighters because they learn somewhere that it is what you do to be a serious and real student.* Perhaps if we taught project management in high school, this would change.

I'm not a fan of Bryan Caplan. I think he is largely a crank who reveals in knee-jerk contarianism but one of his sharper observations is that the global/American economy rewards those who can sit for long periods of time and follow instructions very well. These are the kids who end up in universities (especially good ones) and then in plum white-collar jobs that seem to get most of the money. There is a perception (real or imagined) that boys are not good at this and I do think there is an uptick in middle-class parents getting their boy children diagnosed with ADHD so they can get them on drugs to calm them down and get them to sit. I was an atypical boy so I did not run around that much but this is just my view from afar.

*I don't know where people learn this. If I was ever taught this, I ignored it. I've had 24-hour exams before where you pick up an exam and need to turn it in 24 hours later. I've usually spent about 9-13 hours doing these exams. A long day basically. A huge number of my classmates at least said that they spent the whole time awake doing these exams and then went home to crash. I did well on these exams so I wonder where the feeling comes from.

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What’s with America’s Adderall Problem?

13 mins ago

to Chip Daniels

DensityDuck

+ "About 80% of the cost of buildings is in land..." hey, you know what I remember from driving through San Francisco? Block after block after [. . .]

"About 80% of the cost of buildings is in land..."

hey, you know what I remember from driving through San Francisco? Block after block after block of two-floor walk-up condoes. You know what could go there instead? Five-floor condoes. Boom, I've more than doubled the amount of land available for housing.

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A Higher American Minimum Wage Is Something We Shouldn’t Even Be Debating

14 mins ago

dragonfrog

+ My daughter and I just watched Stardust on Friday night. It was a re-watch for me, a first watch for her. She needed [. . .]

My daughter and I just watched Stardust on Friday night. It was a re-watch for me, a first watch for her. She needed a short bedtime read of something not scary after watching the movie.

I really like both the movie and the book. I prefer the book, but I almost always prefer the book. In fact it might be 'always' not 'almost always' - I don't know that I can think of any movie-of-a-book that I prefer over the book itself.

The first time I watched Stardust, my only beef with it was the use of green flame effects to telegraph "Here be magic!" Like, it's not sufficiently obvious that there was magic when a witch transforms a teenage boy into a goat, they've got to CG in a bunch of green flames to spell it out for us.

The second time through, I was mostly over that I guess...

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Sunday Morning: Stardust

28 mins ago

dragonfrog

+ Worth noting that the difference in effect between amphetamines and methamphetamines is fairly small, as I understand it. The main thing is the ratio between heart [. . .]

Worth noting that the difference in effect between amphetamines and methamphetamines is fairly small, as I understand it.

The main thing is the ratio between heart rate acceleration and other physiological symptoms, versus subjective experience of stimulation and alertness. Methamphetamine has less physiological symptoms for the same subjective experience. Which is why Desoxyn (brand-name methamphetamine) is sometimes prescribed for patients who experience racing heart rates with Adderall (brand-name amphetamine).

The biggest problem with illicit methamphetamine is the "illicit" part, not the "methamphetamine" part - it's mostly manufactured in conditions of shockingly inept chemical engineering.

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What’s with America’s Adderall Problem?

29 mins ago

InMD

+ OW1 There's a counter argument that a local sports commentator frequently makes that less official review is the answer to these controversies rather than more. [. . .]

OW1 There's a counter argument that a local sports commentator frequently makes that less official review is the answer to these controversies rather than more. I'm not 100% sure I buy it, but I do think that the reason the officiating is the story every Monday instead of the game is because of how much of a part of it official review has become. Knowing there's always a 'do over" option has definitely changed the way refs call the game. It also puts every call or non-call under a microscope in a manner that gives fans of the losing team and reporters tons ammunition for their sour grapes.

Now I agree that the non-call in the NO/LAR game was a tough one to swallow. It looked pretty flagrant in real time. But I also think we'd be better off if we just accepted bad and missed calls as part of the game. The slow motion itself can be deceptive. No one is complaining about the reversed punt return turn over in the Pats/KC game because Brady threw a pick a couple plays later but that itself could be looked at as a weird second guessing of reality. The catch rule has become a joke due to the seemingly arbitrary way its reviewed during games.

The blowback is a sign we've passed the point of diminishing returns.

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