Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
I’m not even sure what you’re getting at if someone who,
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Was born in America,
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Is descended from an American,
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Speaks English with an American accent,
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Sports American fashion trends, and
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Represents Team USA on the international stage,
isn’t American?
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Are you alluding to the theory that Arthur Liu smuggled in bootleg eggs from Russian figure skaters in the mid-2000s? Because the official story is that her biological mother is a white American.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Idk man. This was probably the least controversial Olympics of my lifetime. A week later, 4chan of all places is still gushing over the woke alt hapa IVF skater chick. /sp/ jannies simply cannot delete the threads fast enough. World peace achieved.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
Tucker also asserts that the Iraq war was done on behalf of Israel.
I believe it was in "The Hundred Years War on Palestine" that Rashid Khalidi laments that the PLO hitched itself so tightly to Saddam's Iraq. I remember thinking, "wow, what colossally bad luck that the Palestinians would rely on the one country in the Middle East that just so happened to be invaded by the United Sta... OHHHHHHH"
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
The highest ranking Israeli person killed was minister of tourism 25 years ago.
Of course, what will get an Israeli prime minister killed is agreeing in principle to not ethnically clense the occupied territories.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
My grandparents didn't get the French beat out of them at school for me to have to learn two languages.
If every American only knows English, then the rest of the world will have to learn our language.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
The context is generic culture war slop you’ve heard a million times.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Someone said it looked like she was doing TikTok dances on the ice, and now I can't unsee it. I suppose it's well in keeping with the American character.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
The women's figure skating finals yesterday were a ton of fun. We definitely felt the absense of doped-up Russians this year. I'm glad that they raised the minimum age to 17. It no longer feels like you're in the Epstein Files to watch it.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
ROBERTS, C. J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II–A–1, and II–B, in which SOTOMAYOR, KAGAN, GORSUCH, BARRETT, and JACKSON, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts II–A–2 and III, in which GORSUCH and BARRETT, JJ., joined. GORSUCH, J., and BARRETT, J., filed concurring opinions. KAGAN, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, in which SOTOMAYOR and JACKSON, JJ., joined. JACKSON, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. THOMAS, J., filed a dissenting opinion. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., joined.
If you ever see an opinion announcement like that, you are about to read some grade-A incomprehensible giberish. I didn't even bother reading the opinion after that. Good luck to the lawyers of the future tasked with figuring out which parts are holdings and which parts are dicta.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
I was raised in a lukewarm Catholic household and we always had seafood on Fridays during lent. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized that these were supposed to be fast days. No idea how “fasting” became “fish frys and crawfish boils”.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
Once you've accepted that political and social realities require adopting a progressive taxation system and social safety net, the existence of some form of absurdity like this is assured. The question then becomes how to administer the absurdity, and I think EBT does a pretty good job of it. The purpose isn't to prevent people from wasting their benefits on mushroom superfoods, it's to prevent people from buying things that are actively harmful (drugs).
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
It seems a bit off, but what could she possibly be talking about that happens at night in the olympic village that isn’t related to competition?
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
Fun scissor clip has been going around of an 18-year-old figure skater vaguely describing her experience in the Olympic Village. Question: Is she or is she not referring to sex?
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
For context, this is what real history research looks like.
Quantumfreakonomics
13d ago
If you google legal cases on your personal computer on your personal time, then the prosecutor will put it on a powerpoint to show the jury as evidence of your guilt. If you pay $500 an hour for a lawyer to do it though, then you're fine.
PS: Watch the whole video. It's probably the greatest opening statement I've ever seen.
Quantumfreakonomics
13d ago
Are you really trying to lawyer lawyers out of their lawyer jobs? I am reminded of my favorite ACX comment:
Wow- I once worked for a US company that was shut down by the police for exploiting the sweepstakes loophole.
The company founders included a couple of lawyers with decades of experience in the gambling industry. They had these long company-wide legal compliance meetings twice a week, where every aspect of the company, from IT to customer support, was optimized to be as consistent with the letter of sweepstakes law as possible. The company had been fighting legal battles over their business model for years, and had actually won a string of cases in several states. At one point, they switched over from regular sweepstakes to charity sweepstakes under the theory that the courts were slightly more friendly to the latter. They were all extremely confident that they could beat any legal challenge.
Then, one day, I arrived at work to find the police loading office equipment into vans. When I asked what was happening, they led me to the company lobby, where all of the employees who hadn't immediately turned their cars around upon seeing the cops were waiting to be individually interrogated in a confiscated accountant's office. The police left after a couple of days- taking with them my personal laptop, which I never got back- and what followed was a week of showing up for half-days of "work" to a gutted office building where executives gave impassioned speeches about how proud they were of the company we'd built, and about how we'd followed the letter of the law perfectly and would definitely get our accounts unfrozen and be back in business soon. Then, a couple of those executives were arrested and the company was dissolved.
Apparently, what had happened was a local newspaper had written a hitpiece about the company which called out the DA by name for allowing such a degenerate law-skirting gambling operation to take root under their nose- a story which got picked up by a bunch of other papers. So, the DA got a judge to interpret the regulations in an entirely new way that our lawyers hadn't anticipated, and pressured the police to make an example of the company. Turns the legal system isn't like a computer that you can hack with the right exploit- if someone with power feels that you're skirting their authority, they will find a legal avenue to regain that authority, loophole be damned.
Until AGI takes over the world, all power comes from people. Lawyers have a lot of power. It's not that they're smarter than everyone else (though they are), it's that they have a license to lie and conspire.
Quantumfreakonomics
15d ago
It’s hardly even on Fox. They love to report on trans shooters. I don’t buy it.
Quantumfreakonomics
15d ago
Did you know that 10 people were killed by a (potentially transgender) school shooter in Canada yesterday?
There is hardly anything about this in the American media today. It’s the third-billed story at best, behind Nancy Guthrie kidnapping updates and the FAA closing airspace over El Paso. Right-wing influencers have mentioned it, but it almost seems as if they are going through the motions. It’s not even trending on Twitter. I don’t feel the raw anger and hatred from when the Catholic school in Minnesota was hit.
The only explanation I can think of is that the shooting happened in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, which is in the middle of nowhere. Nobody wants to send reporters to Yukon-lite in February, so we get no coverage.
No wonder Bezos laid these people off.
Quantumfreakonomics
16d ago
Female figure skating is irrelevent now because the Russians are essentially banned.
Quantumfreakonomics
16d ago
It might literally be climate change. Snow and ice aren't omnipresent in most of the country during the winter months anymore.
Quantumfreakonomics
17d ago
Open an E*Trade account and trade your own capital first. Show that you’re good at it.
Quantumfreakonomics
17d ago
Quantumfreakonomics
17d ago
There’s a great bit in the last Harry Potter book where Ron is absolutely dumbfounded that his muggle-raised friends don’t have an deep attachment to The Tales of Beetle the Bard.
It’s VeggieTales man! Everybody loves VeggieTales.
So when was the first American born? Did fighting in the revolution give you automatic American status? Were all state citizens in good standing grandfathered in at the ratification?
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