People on the internet will really be like ‘you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart’ and then not firebomb a Walmart.

For those curious this is not as bonkers as the title suggests. Just run-of-the-mill police state injustice.

The artwork prompted school authorities to file a police report, leading to the investigation of Moskalyov’s social media activity.

Moskalyov was sentenced to two years in prison, following his outspoken online posts against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Is there a scientific “answer” to whether alcohol causes prostate cancer? That too depends on a wide variety of social factors and can be biased by ideological assumptions (eg drinking alcohol is a vice).

Nevertheless biologists develop competing models, use them to form hypotheses, test the hypotheses, subject the results to peer review, and revise their models to arrive at a consensus. Economists do all the same things.

Why should anyone care what Nobel’s descendants think?

I don’t think any field of any research comes down to one person. Nevertheless, academics recognize that some people make greater contributions than others.

This is baked into academia in the form of citation. At the moment you wrote your first bibliography you distinguished those who made significant contributions to your own work. It would have been unacceptable to write an academic bibliography consisting of a single line: “All those who came before”.

And even though research is always a collaborative effort, like soccer and filmmaking, it is natural for humans to recognize those who made the greatest contributions. That’s why we award MVPs to athletes, Oscars to actors, and Nobels to economists.

You did. Is there one economist in particular who you think contributed more to this field than the actual winners?

That’s kind of my point. They didn’t come up with their ideas yesterday, so you shouldn’t expect the results to appear groundbreaking today.

The prize is for research in economics, not history or social science. They may be interested in the same topics, but economists usually take longer to reach a conclusion because their work is usually more data-driven.

Hence their conclusions appear to be “not news” to historians and social scientists who already believed the same things without the benefit of economic data.

The economics prize is funded by Sveringes Riksbank but they are not involved in selecting a winner. Neither is the government. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is solely responsible for selecting the winner, and it is not part of government.

Here’s the thing about economics: the “dismal science” is often trying to prove - or disprove - what appears to be common sense.

For instance, to some it’s common sense that minimum wage increases cause more unemployment. To others, it’s common sense that they don’t. Eventually economists will reach a consensus, and it will be “not news” to half the population.

Since you’ve done research in this field, you must be aware that Acemoglu and Robinson have been publishing on this topic for ~20 years. Is there some earlier economist who was not properly given credit for their results?

The prize in economic sciences is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, according to the same principles as for the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901.

The Nobel Prize is awarded after a lifetime of work, not the latest news.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for describing the violation of Bell inequalities. The initial experiments were performed in the 80s and the results are “not news” to many current high school physics teachers.

How is the culture minister the “same people” as the Royal Academy of Sciences?

Did you also teach your students about ethnic prejudice?

Not to mention that Trump’s wife and mother are both immigrants.

Yes, but unfortunately they vote by state not individually

You sign the envelope that contains the ballot. That way, an election worker can compare the signature on the envelope to your signature on file.

This is how they make sure that someone didn’t steal the ballot from your mailbox and fill it out for you.

Once the signature is verified, the envelope is opened and the anonymous ballot inside is removed and stored with all the others. When they are counted, there will be no way to tell who filled out each ballot.

It’s all just saber rattling, when was the last time Netanyahu actually launched attacks on another -

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Oh.

For tomorrow’s headline, swap “Israel” and “Iran”. Repeat ad infinitum.

Unlike Russia, Israel has no qualms about calling this a war.

But wars are divided into offensives, eg Ardennes Offensive, Tet Offensive, eg. This is the latest Israeli offensive in their war.

Not to mention you never apply that same lens about aggression to the actions of Israel.

Sure I can. For example, Israel attacked Iran with an airstrike. That’s an act of war. When Iran retaliated, nobody pretended the victim was the aggressor like they are now with Israel and Hezbollah.

I think Israelis and Palestinians need to have a Secular One-State with equal rights for both

Unfortunately I think that would be very difficult in practice. How to ensure it remains secular?

Hezbollah should not care about Israel indiscriminately bombing Civilians in Gaza

Lots of people around the world care about what is happening to civilians in Gaza. That doesn’t mean they want to kill Israelis.

If Hezbollah wants to show how much it cares by launching rockets at Israel, then it will find out how much Israel cares about being attacked by rockets.