This morning's sunrise. Sometimes I think that the most important thing I can do is expand my capacity to appreciate beauty

This is my favorite way to explain inflation to people: the folks measuring inflation count what you can afford to spend on dinner, not how much the food prices actually go up.

and when?

whoa - what is this?

His economic policies are kind of bonkers: free childcare, free public transportation, city-run grocery stores. As mayor, he doesn't have the ability to print money, so all of that would have to come from taxes but of course the policies will encourage wealthy folks and companies to flee the city. He had originally proposed some kind of exit tax, which is nuts.

I would be happy to know that this is true! It's not what I've seen from him but to be fair I've only seen headlines: city-run grocery stores, free childcare, rent control. He once proposed an exit tax for the rich, but I don't think that's enforceable so I'm assuming it was dropped from his platform. You have reason to believe that he wants to help businesses and reduce govt involvement? (I was so appalled by how support for Israel factored into the debates - and I think Cuomo is so awful - that I was half rooting for Mamdani despite what I saw of his policies.)

yes - same. I keep hearing how good he is but I find it hard to listen to him

Nice! Did you hear the recent expert podcast segment on cooking dear meat?

Everyone else knew that you were talking about Newsom's wife! Just ignore the crazies : )

yeah, she's not keen on that either

Absolutely, one should criticize the government - all the layers of it. Trump is one (temporary) layer. And of course, we are all free as individuals to focus where we want to focus. I wanted you - my Nostr friend - to know that from my perspective as someone in the US, Reich is not a good source of information. From what I can see, he is more interested in stirring up partisan outrage than he is in the actual issues that he claims to champion (freedom of speech). But admittedly I don't know his work well - I've only seen some recent snippets - so it's time for me to sign off on this thread! Best to you!