The great thing about search in social media is you can always check if someone has made your devastatingly insightful or funny remark before. It's usually multiple times, too, rather than zero.

(Post, search, delete: done it again)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys/115544199459872878

Is Samuel Pepys in the Epstein e-mails? I'm sure he would have if he could have.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115543240561442004

My soundbite summary of the effects of tariffs (on the basis of a u/g degree in economics more than 4 decades ago) was that consumers would end up buying less of imported goods, at a higher price, and more domestic goods, at a higher price, buying less in total. Whatever about volume, the price data goes the way I expected.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CentralBylines/115543613034480430

This is the big problem with action on climate change: the people in a position to lose out have huge financial resources, and they're more than willing to use them, even with the side-effect of destroying democracy.