cordial
@cordial
Living a dream. By day, Freelance Full Stack dev. Also -Finance, Music. TWEETS not advice of any kind. Actual name - David Carter. http://cordial.bsky.social.
Damning chart showing the pass-through of tariffs to consumers, via @bencasselman.
When Trump announced sweeping tariffs in April, economists warned prices would jump and a recession was likely. Neither has happened -- yet. My latest story looks into why tariffs haven't hit the economic data yet, and why it's still too soon to conclude they won't.
Because Florida.
The Thump Thump Act will allow Americans to run over these Muslim Terrorists. They don’t try this in Florida because of the bill I helped pass in the Legislature to allow them to be run over. It’s time to take it national. Thump thump.
Facts beat fear: Denmark tracked 1,029,099 children for 21 years and found aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines linked to zero extra cases of autism, asthma, or 48 other chronic conditions. Decades of real-world data underscore vaccine safety and the power of science-driven public…
Just landed in Heathrow Airport T3. Went into M&S. Three staff working. I said to them “IRANU”. None of them responded with "UVAVU". I have a voice recording & their names to report to M&S. We must confront them every time.
Nominative determinism strikes again
Just landed in Heathrow Airport T3. Went into M&S. Three @marksandspencer staff speaking in another language. I asked them “What language are you speaking?” They responded “Hindi” I have a voice recording & their names to report to M&S. We must confront them every time.
Steroids have serious side effects kids. Don't do drugs.
Mike Piazza with blonde hair.
Amazon's Kiro is a bit of a mess currently. Endless 'heavy load/try again' messages, hanging and just pausing to think for long periods. Presumably due to it being free currently, but still not ideal.
Ai's biggest weakness so far in my dev usage? It seems obsessed with saying "You're absolutely right.".
re: tariff inflation discourse, it's worth mentioning again that if tariffs *don't* raise prices, then there's no way they "incentivize" domestic production The mechanism by which they're supposed to re-shore industry is by increasing prices for imported goods and reducing trade
It seems that Warsh and many others are betting that any major transformation of the Fed overseen by the Trump administration is bound to be for the better. Were I a gambling man, I’d take the other side of that wager in a heartbeat.
*FORMER FED OFFICIAL KEVIN WARSH: THE LAST THING WE NEED IS 'CONTINUITY' AT THE FED *WARSH: WE'RE AT A 'TRANSFORMATIONAL MOMENT' IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
Yeah what changed?
🚨BREAKING: A video is going viral showing JD Vance calling for the full Epstein list to be released - on Theo Von’s podcast. Hey JD, what changed? Let’s blast this everywhere before he tries to erase it.
BREAKING: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute," per WIRED
When you lie so often it eventually catches up with you.
If the files were made up by Comey, Obama, Biden, et al, why did so many MAGA Republicans want them made public?
BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell willing to reveal Jeffrey Epstein’s “client list," per DailyMail
Watch till the end. Listen to the outrage, despair, and yes, fear, in @PatinkinMandy's voice. That is the sound of a person with a conscious. All our voices should sound like this.
🚨BREAKING: Loud boos ERUPT the moment Donald Trump appears on the Jumbotron during the National Anthem at the World Cup Final. The camera cut away almost instantly. The world is watching and MAGA is crumbling.