Sky Marchini
economist, 🇨🇳, policy research. this is for display purposes only. 🧸 contact: robertmarchini1993 at gmail. 🏳️🌈 they/them. new jersey resident. skymarchini.net
- BRUH THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION IS SAYING IT'S NOT JUST GONNA GET WORSE BUT SPREAD???
- Titcoin is currently at 82 million market cap
- us gov't says 0.58% of bags are mishandled, or an "uptime" of 99.42% - that's like 48hr a year of total downtime, pretty damn good www.bts.gov/content/mish...
- he argues in the book that its possible to fix lost airline luggage permanently but They Just Don't Want To Fix Their Systems so we end up with "duct tapers" temporarily patching over the problem This idea - that any system will have 100% reliability - is quite literally deranged.
- look, I'm just saying, these guys don't really look like cops.
- one of the wildest books I've ever read is "nuclear war survival skills" which tries to have this chipper optimism about how easy it will be to rebuild society after a full-bore nuclear exchange beween the US & USSR free pdf: archive.org/details/Nucl...
- there is a near 100% chance that pope leo xiv has shouted "C'MON UMPIRE THAT WAS A STRIKE" while holding a $17 bud light
- there was someone on here posting about how you needed to buy iodine tablets RIGHT NOW over *pelosi going to taiwan*
- Again: he is not going to back down from tariffs because the imports collapse is an explicitly good thing to him. It’s the whole goal of the policy. He sees the number of containers going to zero and thinks *that is a success* because it means we’re not buying things from those foreigners anymore.
- Reposted by Sky Marchiniall of this is basically irreconcilable
