why is it red?
Readit NewsSupply side economics, which aims to stimulate growth by reducing costs for industry, is jeered today as “trickle down economics”; it’s considered regressive because the benefits are concentrated for suppliers while the benefits to consumers never materialise. This policy has “failed every time it’s tried!”
Tariffs are the antithesis of supply side strategy. Yet tariffs, which increase costs for suppliers like any other tax, are derided by the same people as “regressive” as if they will always be born 100% by the consumer. Supposedly, tariffs cannot possibly benefit the working class on any time scale.
At least one of these positions must be at least partly wrong. Which is it?
Does partly wrong imply they can both be partly right?
Regardless, within the current system (which is not based on theory and based on reality), we combine these elements, and neither seem to directly benefit certain industries depending on who you're looking at. If it does, these policies may not benefit everyone.
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In a meta sense, yes, but in practice it’s mostly just a large collection of journalists and editors, real humans, working in a chaotic information space where there’s a large variety of angles and sources being put out at all times depending on the context.
It’s equally easy to cherry pick this sort of thing to build a narrative of some ulterior agenda. Especially given the high pace that news demands in the social media age.
What gets covered could simply be who a journalist happened to talked to the past week or what is trending on social media that will get clicks.
> What gets covered could simply be who a journalist happened to talked to the past week or what is trending on social media that will get clicks.
Do you believe this with regard to what is happening in Israel/Palestine?
The chaos of information and what is truth is only bubbled up when 1) there's very few journalists in the area or 2) all the journalists are being killed or 3) there's no journalists and only special interests.
Consider that even if it was a "narrative" which at this point is controlled by social media, as it stands it seems to be: "these people are evil, they should be killed, sorry not sorry about the babies" or "these people are committing genocide, this bad."
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As a Russian, I wouldn’t trust anything that comes out on RT. Banning it though is a really bad move – something I would expect from the Russian government itself, not Europe. One of the reasons I’ve become disillusioned in EU recently.
Most thinking people will try not to take current event reporting at face value. For many Americans, it's easy to accept a lot of things your Mainstream Media Source gives you (including NPR or NYTs), and ironically when one of the current themes is to distrust mainstream media.
memonkey commented on Ask HN: If AGI were invented tomorrow which countries would fare better? · Posted by u/mattigames
Sociopathy still needs intelligence to effectively operate. Nobody brute forces their way to the top.
You can be born into it
i built this toy game using cursor and claude 4. it's a game to help you decide which movie to watch. default shows 90s films bc it's my favorite film era at the moment. but need currently streaming titles, so that's a filter as well. adding more filters should be relatively simple since using TMDB. i'm thinking about adding game rooms (w/ sockets?), and eliminating the need for 2 players (maybe can be any number of players up to 6).
rules of game are:
1. player 1 chooses 3 movies 2. player 2 chooses 3 movies 3. roll dice, doubles chooses the n selected movie
would love feedback! maybe someone has built this before?
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/17744?phrase=Onaga%...