RustyEarthfire

joined 1 year ago
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago
  1. The article argues campaigning with Liz Cheney seems to have no effect. Calling it an "electoral fiasco," especially in the headline, clearly implies that it was detrimental in a significant way.
  2. The evidence that the rallies were ineffective is comparing Harris's results against Biden's. This is terrible analysis. This should be at least a difference-in-difference comparison (the difference in the change vs Biden, using similar counties that were/weren't visited). Useful evidence that their analysis actually works would be applying it to strategies they think were positive, and showing the relative improvement there.
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

An article about how we all need to come together opens with a salvo against all of their allies. Beyond parody

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Also, he was suspended in July 2021, so the consequences were pretty quick, and only the final nail in the coffin was delayed.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

omg Toad, you can't just ask people why they're purple!

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nah, that's another cut up with very little of the interview

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Referenced study, from 2013, requires journal access: https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12359

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

If there was a government-mandated monopoly on coffee and it was sold in L/s, we probably would.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Surprised not to see any posts referencing the Arbitrary List of Popular Lights or !flashlight@lemmy.world.

One of the requirements to make it on the list is:

A user interface where a single click turns the light on in a reasonable mode, and another single click turns it off.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The notion that housing should take up a particular portion of your income is fundamentally flawed. It relies on a fixed relationship between prices of different classes of goods, when that relationship varies over place and time.

Which situation is better: making 50k take-home and paying 15k in housing costs (30%), or making 100k and paying 50k (50%)?

There are real problems in the housing market and overall affordability, but this statistic is like trying to measure national health by the percentage of people drinking 8 glasses a day of water.

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