Edward Cree @soundnfury@schelling.pt

@WomanCorn So it turns out that somewhere between 52-48 and 54-46 is the threshold between "you don't have a mandate, we need a People's Vote" and "everyone on the losing side is now an unperson".

@fediverse I think it assumes it's symmetric; measures round-trip latency and divides by 2. One of many reasons to fix bufferbloat!

@Catsandcatsandcats Someone has to work in order for there to be roofs. And capitalism's system for arranging this — where employers must to some extent compete for labour — is far more just than communism, where the power is placed in the hands of the State, an organisation which faces *no* competition.
I strongly recommend you read _Time Will Run Back_ by Henry Hazlitt, to understand where power *truly* lies under capitalism (hint: it's not with your boss, nor 'the rich').

@Catsandcatsandcats Maybe 401ks are fucked-up in ways that the British equivalent isn't. I must concede that I am not an expert on US investment markets or law.
But I agree that defined-benefit plans are a bad idea, precisely because of their risk profile. A defined-contribution plan would have just lost some value (and perhaps not that much if it'd been bond-heavy late in life) rather than collapsing entirely.

@Catsandcatsandcats dude, Marx's whole schtick was that the capitalist class, defined by receiving income from capital, were exploiting the proletarian class, defined by receiving income from labour. How does that work when the proletariat own capital too? And what do you think long-term pension funds are investing in, if not the means of production?

@georgespolitzer You know, if you had actual arguments, you wouldn't need to (a) throw playground insults (b) accuse me of racism on zero evidence (c) accuse me of purposely misgendering you, rather than *not caring about your fucking gender because the only people for whom the contents of your pants are relevant are your lover and your doctor*.

@georgespolitzer I didn't mention climate. But since you bring it up: economic estimates of the likely net impact of the level of warming predicted by the latest IPCC report *have confidence intervals that cross zero*. That is, we can't even reliably determine whether the warming across the 21st century will be a good or a bad thing for humanity.

@georgespolitzer In my native dialect, 'he' has a secondary use as a gender-neutral pronoun, correctly used when gender is unknown and irrelevant (a situation in which some other dialects would use singular 'they'). I didn't know and don't care what your pronoun is. If you want to call that a 'microaggression' then you do you, but I'll keep speaking my language.
I was using the third person *for rhetorical effect*, to frame that remark as an aside to the audience rather than directed at you.

@georgespolitzer I never even at any point *suspected* you were coloured, nor even considered whether you might me. So please explain to me how your race could have — hah — coloured my opinion of you?

@georgespolitzer Oh great, he's brought out the racism card. Here's a hint: you're not stupid 'cos you're coloured. You're stupid 'cos you're *you*. Until you just mentioned it I had no idea what colour your skin was, so how could anything I say about you be racist?

@georgespolitzer Chileans who studied at Chicago are not "basically everyone in the chicago school of economics".