PinchingSlimbah
@pslimbah.bsky.social
Bored economist from Sydney
How about we combine robodebt and steroids?
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
How about we combine robodebt and steroids?
That's a pretty standard recipe for passionfruit curd. It should have set even without the gelatine.
November 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
That's a pretty standard recipe for passionfruit curd. It should have set even without the gelatine.
You must be joking. Deadstar was lightweight pop. The Breeders were an offshoot of the Pixies, i.e. not pop. Kim Deal was just as good a song writer as Charles ever was. "Last Splash" was one of the greatest albums ever.
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
You must be joking. Deadstar was lightweight pop. The Breeders were an offshoot of the Pixies, i.e. not pop. Kim Deal was just as good a song writer as Charles ever was. "Last Splash" was one of the greatest albums ever.
Isn't it a "Clockwork Orange" reference?
August 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Isn't it a "Clockwork Orange" reference?
You ain't old yet. Enjoy being not old while you can. :)
August 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
You ain't old yet. Enjoy being not old while you can. :)
The defined benefit schemes closed around 1990-1992.
The future fund has never paid out anything at all to anyone.
Marles will probably decide that it now has to pay for AUKUS, or some bullshit like that.
The future fund has never paid out anything at all to anyone.
Marles will probably decide that it now has to pay for AUKUS, or some bullshit like that.
August 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The defined benefit schemes closed around 1990-1992.
The future fund has never paid out anything at all to anyone.
Marles will probably decide that it now has to pay for AUKUS, or some bullshit like that.
The future fund has never paid out anything at all to anyone.
Marles will probably decide that it now has to pay for AUKUS, or some bullshit like that.
No, the future fund was supposed to cover the cost of the old "defined benefit" super payouts.
August 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
No, the future fund was supposed to cover the cost of the old "defined benefit" super payouts.
(I assume you mean nicotine gum, you're not just chewing on Juicy Fruit?)
June 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
(I assume you mean nicotine gum, you're not just chewing on Juicy Fruit?)
The gum will get you through it. You'll be fine.
June 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The gum will get you through it. You'll be fine.
The USS Nimitz, the US's oldest operating carrier, due to be decommissioned, is heading toward Iran right now. I suspect it's being sent for the precise purpose of being a target.
June 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The USS Nimitz, the US's oldest operating carrier, due to be decommissioned, is heading toward Iran right now. I suspect it's being sent for the precise purpose of being a target.
It's a Cat Stevens song FFS. Rod did a pathetic cover ten years later.
June 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It's a Cat Stevens song FFS. Rod did a pathetic cover ten years later.
I tried a few times to get a response from moderation about this, but no luck.
May 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I tried a few times to get a response from moderation about this, but no luck.
Firstly, Yglesias is an idiot. Secondly, the correlation between CEOs and prisoners is due to psychopathy/sociopathy, not IQ. CEOs and prisoners include more psychopaths/sociopaths than the general population.
May 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Firstly, Yglesias is an idiot. Secondly, the correlation between CEOs and prisoners is due to psychopathy/sociopathy, not IQ. CEOs and prisoners include more psychopaths/sociopaths than the general population.
Over 20 years, of course.
May 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Over 20 years, of course.
This is wrong. $3 million in super at 4% gives $220,745 per year, or $4,245 per week.
May 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is wrong. $3 million in super at 4% gives $220,745 per year, or $4,245 per week.
Van Badham is a nutcase genocide advocate. Labor doesn't have any progressive action in the first place.
May 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Van Badham is a nutcase genocide advocate. Labor doesn't have any progressive action in the first place.
WTF is a 1962 Celica?
May 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
WTF is a 1962 Celica?
It's certainly the only reason I have PHI
May 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's certainly the only reason I have PHI
This isn't going anywhere. Noether's theorem is more like "math that has fallen out of physics". And again, you can't tell a priori that it will apply to some new physical phenomenon.
April 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This isn't going anywhere. Noether's theorem is more like "math that has fallen out of physics". And again, you can't tell a priori that it will apply to some new physical phenomenon.
No, a famous example of this would be special relativity. In Newtonian gravity, there is no way to obtain the constant G without experimental measurement. Similarly, general relativity derivation relies on a few assumptions, but the math can't tell you a priori which assumptions are correct.
April 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
No, a famous example of this would be special relativity. In Newtonian gravity, there is no way to obtain the constant G without experimental measurement. Similarly, general relativity derivation relies on a few assumptions, but the math can't tell you a priori which assumptions are correct.
Physics absolutely does not "just fall right out of mathematics". How does either Newtonian gravity or the general theory of relativity "just fall right out of mathematics"?
April 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Physics absolutely does not "just fall right out of mathematics". How does either Newtonian gravity or the general theory of relativity "just fall right out of mathematics"?
Well, it's a shame that Joe Biden's genocide got in the way, isn't it.
April 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Well, it's a shame that Joe Biden's genocide got in the way, isn't it.
Had been meaning to try it, guess it's a bit late now.
April 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Had been meaning to try it, guess it's a bit late now.