I profess to understand economics and explain lessons distilled from that field. I also like movies.

Joined August 2020
eKaneomics retweeted
Just found out about recency bias. Maybe the most important bias ever
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Idea for a show: Great British Baking Show, except all the contestants are actually British.
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eKaneomics retweeted
It’s August 4th, 2026. Today is the only day you can say this:
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eKaneomics retweeted
This photo went viral with zero credit. So let's fix that - I am the photographer. "Stop," Utah / 2016 From the series Shaped by the West. Also released as a book in three editions (sold out as of writing), exhibited from New York to Paris. Prints available if interested.
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eKaneomics retweeted
meep meep ass location
'Liminal Stop Sign', Monument Valley, Utah
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Photographer's credit is missed. The author of the photo is @dinokuznik x.com/i/status/20843…
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Having kids instantly gives you a superiority complex over other parents. -Keep dyes out of food, etc? "Unlike other parents, we care about health" -Feed your baby a cake-pop from starbucks? "Unlike other parents, we're not gonna give our kids neuroses about food"
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GM!! Halfway to Friday!!
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Just discovered that the most popular upload of "It's-a-Me, Mario!" has been auto-dubbed by YouTube's AI into "English". The only way to hear the original sound bite is by changing the settings to "Romanian Original"
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I'm cryin they popping open like every break open in case of emergency here
Bethesda: Fallout 5 is currently in preproduction, in development on Creation Engine 3 Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters in development More: bethesda.net/en/article/7wrf…
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You’re listening to Sisyphus FM, the home of non-stop rock.
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eKaneomics retweeted
i never had to read catch-22 in english class and while i was vaguely aware it’s a satire i didn’t realize this would mean it had twenty jokes per page
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Ive got to admire the chutzpa of when a modern student does this. Takes guts, and i respect that.
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eKaneomics retweeted
HOME. The Artemis II crew has arrived back on Earth, ending a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon. The trip took them farther into space than humans have ever gone before, and now they're safely home with us. go.nasa.gov/41r9eL0
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eKaneomics retweeted
They're halfway home. The Artemis II astronauts have hit the "halfway" mark between the Moon and the Earth. They will splash down in the Pacific Ocean around 8:07 pm ET on Friday, April 10 (0007 UTC on Saturday, April 11), off the coast of San Diego.
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Interesting tidbit here is the separation between "The Holy Bible" ~900 & "The Bible" ~1050 I have my own theories
The same guy did this for books too btw "Books that make you dumb"
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My guess is Charles III, he was heir to the UK throne in 52, so would be important enough to write about
now that khamenei is off the table, i wonder which times obituary has been in the system the longest
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In "The Office" (2007) the group all sings 'The Flintstones' (1966) theme song-which itself is a reference to "Planes Trains & Automobiles" (1987)-. People aged ~25-60 all sang along in that episode, and nobody found that at all odd, because everyone knew the Flintstones back then. Are there any cartoons/shows anymore that a typical American kid might watch that is also well-known to the past two generations? Kids today aren't watching the cartoons from the immediate past generation, let alone stuff from the 60s. Lots of cultural commonalities like the Looney Tunes are getting washed away.
The strangest difference between my generation (Millennial) and Gen Z that I've found is the near total disconnect from past generations pop culture. Most Millennials and Gen Xers grew up in a time where we still we were still somewhat connected to the shows and music of our parents. I'm 43 and still remember growing up watching reruns of Leave it to Beaver, a show that had gone off the air around 20 years before I was born. I knew about bands and singers that had stopped performing or died before I came into this world. It doesn't mean that we were necessarily into them, but we knew about them. Today, many younger Gen Z people barely know about anything from the Millennial generation, never mind Gen X. It's easy to look at it as a "These damn kids don't know anything" thing, but it's really not the case. It's just the internet. Growing up, pop culture was slowly developed. Trends happened in slow motion. We often grew up looking to past generations for things like that. Today, new pop culture is created instantaneously. It spreads like fire. New shows, new music, new trends. The old guard being replaced by the new guard faster than they could even be created before the internet. It's more disposable because there's so much waiting to replace it. There's never a shortage. In the end, it's just pop culture, nothing important. What's scary is when things that are important are forgotten in the age of the revolving door. That's happening as well, and you never know what will replace it.
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All these instructors at my college are fantasizing about being targeted by ICE and getting thrown in vans. "I'll fight them if they try to kidnap me!" It's the new version of the prepper salivating over the end of the world.
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martin luther: (sipping beer) time to write my 20 theses. thesis 1. christ’s word, “repent,” accurately translates... (…) luther: (buzzing) thesis 46. christians should help the poor, not buy indulgences (…) luther (destroyed, slurring): 75–SAY FOR ARGUMENT I VIOLATED MARY
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eKaneomics retweeted
I've spent years struggling to prove that the sunk-cost fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. No sense in giving up now, though.
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