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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 17h

Also just extremely funny to take over a major news org and your best idea is to use it to boost your substack

Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 20h

The paper structure of some reduced form causal inference leading into a welfare analysis around a GE or sufficient statistics model makes sense, but way too often it feels like the main paper just waves away the method part of the latter while heavily relying on its outputs.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 20h

I understand why it's a thing these days, but I really don't love how many applied econ papers add up to well over 100 pages including the appendix, especially when the latter contains functionally the entirety of the information you actually need to evaluate the robustness of the core conclusions.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 22h

"Facing your history honestly" involving the prominent public display of statues rather than engaging with modern historiography of the subjects of such monuments isn't a surprising take in general, but seems a tad odd from someone tasked with curating opportunities for said engagement.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 22h

There is definitely reason to believe their overreach may backfire, but idk if that can be considered a real failure until it actually turns into realised policy outcomes.
And for the moment they are still able to entrench the settlements on the ground if not in public opinion.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 22h

Palmer Luckey is an unserious clown and founder of Anduril

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 23h

Has he considered telling Luckey about this?

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 23h

It's always oddly comforting if the train driver sounds just as if not more exhausted with the unreliability of the local rail network as I am

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

Also accelerated land seizures, Israeli-PA (fiscal) relations devolving further into their desired direction etc

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

social media editor of the onion posting nazi memes, but leftistly, I guess

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

The bigger problem here is that he can't write R or even imagine using it.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

Probably also worth adding that (at least in German Catholic practice, ymmv) a eucharist procession is reserved for high feasts (mostly the Feast of Corpus Christi), so doing an unusual one to offer Communion to the detainees is also a significant recognition of them by their brethren and Church.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 2d

Really need an all stick no carrot edit to rival the tariff otaku image at some point

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 3d

"the failed congressional candidate that wasn't doing shit for the better part of the year is really impressive for sometimes having a look at what his soon to be boss is doing"

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 3d

Hatte da glaube ich sehr ungesund durch replies und qts geklickt.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 3d

The reform proposal is hardly great, but particularly when acknowledging in retrospect that the present slump dates back to 2019 a lot of the changes in the SI/SA system since then are absolutely unhelpful.
(This doesn't strictly mean too generous, but with too bad labour market and fiscal effects)

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 3d

Cutting back on one of the most generous cash benefit schemes in the OECD when the country is in a 7 year economic slump isn't really an unthinkable option and probably doesn't warrant bringing back slogans equally popular with anti-democrats of all ideological stripes.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes I think it's bad that my feed here has insufficient German political content, but whenever I get hints of the DE bubble on here I conclude I should follow fewer German language posters.

Very unlike the DE policy content I got on the other side, high risk of negative polarisation to me.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 3d

Every upwardly mobile Kiwi I've met talked about how to best time their emigration to Australia (or further away) with their uni loans lol.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 4d

@sky.skymarchini.net behold the fruits of your labour

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 4d

Just watched someone be ticketed for illegal parking, inbetween two police cars, in front of regional police headquarters. I'm honestly kind of impressed by the audacity.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 5d

love that all of the guys look like they will be deeply obnoxious to be around, while the look of a young female tory is apparently just that of a vaguely professional conference attendee?

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 5d

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 5d

it remains too funny how functionally all the notable far right "trad"-"caths" have thoroughly protestant views of the modern papacy's authority

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe social media access should be restricted by profession rather than age

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