While waging the war against the U.S. penny, #CGPGrey has opened a new front against the nickel!
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Dazu hatte @cgpgrey@toast.ooo / @CGPGrey@mastodon.social / #CGPgrey mal nen Video gemacht.
#TLDW: Ein #Staat will #Steuereinnahmen maximieren und das geht halt langfristig nur dadurch indem das #BIP pro Kopf erhöht wird, und deshalb wird in #Infrastruktur wie #Bildung investiert!
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@T_X @Laburrini Und ist das im Panel darüber eine #CGPGrey-#BonnieBee vor einer «Haxagons are Bestagons»-Wand-Deko?
Is The Penny *Finally* Dead?
A nice video about the Penny that actually isn't about the Penny at all... 
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@WhiteCatTamer @generalhavok @QasimRashid since born citizens can't be forcibly made stateless or deported in almost all other countries in the world, I'd consider deportation to be a racist form of penalty.
- In return, I also believer everyone should have the freedom to change nationality and residence as convenient as any subscription, because when you think about it, basically all states act as capitalist entities (and not in the "Deutschland GmbH" conspiracy theory bs sense, but as a way to maximize tax per capita)...
There's this nice #CGPgrey video that explains it:
- States and Governments don't maintain or build things out of goodness of their hearts but because it increases tax revenue per capita.
I.e. #Germany does extremely-low tuition fees for higher education and universal healthcare not solely "because it's a good thing" or "because health is a human right" but because healthy double-earning academics with children generate way more taxable income, pay way more social security and also spend more money = pay more consumption taxes than illiterates who can barely survive and won't be able to afford good education for their children (which produce negligible tax revenue)...
https://blog.fixermark.com/posts/2024/recreating-the-cortex-theme-journal-in-emacs-org-mode/
Blog post: Recreating CGP Grey's Cortex Theme Journal in emacs org-mode.
blog.fixermark.com · Recreating the Cortex Theme Journal in Emacs Org ModeIt’s the New Years season again, and that means resolutions. Usually. This time around, I’m trying something a little new. Inspired by CGP Grey’s video on the topic, I’m trying “theme system journaling.” But since I’m not very good at keeping physical journals, I’ve recapitulated the system in emacs using org-mode, yasnippet, and some additional code. Here, I’ll go into detail on what I did and how it’s working so far.
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Thanks to the great #CGPGrey for raising the issue (and giving Virginia a B among the many Fs, sorry we did not get you demonetized) https://youtu.be/l4w6808wJcU
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Trust #CGPGrey to inform me that there is an upcoming referendum next week asking #Maine’s residents whether they should update their state flag to a variation of the original 1901 design instead of the current horrid seal-on-blue.
This follows on the heels of similar successful flag reform initiatives like #Mississippi (2021), #Utah (2023), and #Minnesota (2024).
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I have to say this is my new number one favorite explainer video about Proportional Representation and Single Transferable Voting:
https://www.vox.com/videos/24091275/why-us-elections-only-give-you-two-choices
(my previous go-to video was by the inimitable CGP Grey, and it's still great if you want more details about the mechanics of STV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI)
Vox · Why US elections only give you two choices
hyper-fixated on dogs now seems like a good time to remind people about cgp grey's excellent video on picking a yearly theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
Named 2024 as my Year of Accountability: https://lostletters.neocities.org/2023/12/07/year-of-accountability #YearlyTheme #CGPGrey #blogging
lostletters.neocities.orgLost Letters
As we are getting closer to the end of the year, remember… “new year’s resolutions suck”
Listen to #CGPGrey instead; pick a theme; and it doesn’t have to be for the year
So what’s your year/season theme?
If you're a #traffic or #standards nerd like I am, watch #cgpgrey 's latest video on airport codes.
#iata #icao
https://youtu.be/jfOUVYQnuhw
#cgpgrey has a new video out 
He is explaining Airport Codes like always an entertaining and educational video.
I don’t know how many of you are fans of #cgpgrey but when he gets deep into the technicalities of a subject, his vids just sing. Have a watch of this and be on the origins of airport codes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw