The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
New Star Wars sucks independently of being too woke, but it also sucks because it is too woke.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
The ice-free part of Greenland is almost as large as California.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
The simplest explanation is that Trump just wants it, because it looks big on the map.
It doesn't just look big, it is big. Not as big as it looks on a Mercator projection, but big enough.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
But it seems like Anti-ICE people are assuming this is their playbook because it's what they would do, and are now doing.
This is still too much of a mistake theory frame. The anti-ICE people don't care what ICEs playbook is. They oppose ICE and will do and say anything that they think helps their cause. They stubbornly deny the agent who shot Renee Good was hit by her car. They made up an Allentown grandfather. They post all sorts of stories, often claiming they're backed up by video... but the video doesn't back them up. Or they post videos which aren't even of ICE agents, such as this one. Yeah, that looks bad -- but those aren't ICE agents, those are Mobile, Alabama sheriff's deputies, and that particular incident isn't even an immigration arrest. And those filming likely KNEW those were sheriff's deputies because they (unlike the camera) could have seen what was written on the side of the police vehicle.
I don't know if they're anti-ICE because they're pro-open-borders or (more likely) they're just anti-Trump, but they're definitely by-any-means-necessary full conflict theory people.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
The most likely result of a 10% credit card interest limit is that poor people people who are bad credit risks stop getting credit cards. Note the difference between poor people and people who are bad credit risks is actually a major point in that first paper, which claims that credit card rewards to high-income people with good FICO scores are paid by high-income people with bad FICO scores, not low-income people. You can't perfectly segment people between subprime borrowers and rich people, because some rich people are bad with credit and the credit card companies are happy to charge them for it. And some low-income people are good with credit, and credit card companies will give them rewards.
One secondary result will be a curtailing of rewards programs. I suspect high-FICO-score customers will miss the rewards programs a lot less than the low-FICO-score people will miss their credit cards.
Another secondary result will be a drop in consumer spending, which no one but miserly paleoconservatives and neo-traditionalists will like.
Whether it would help the subprime people who lose access to credit is hard to say.
Edit: as a high income high fico. I would prefer we limit credit card fees. And rewards go to zero. Then the store I go to doesn’t pay a processing fee. So they cut prices. And it probably saves me more money than getting 2% cash back.
You should know better than that. Prices in stores are not cost-plus, and even if they were, the result of limiting credit card fees and rewards would not be limited to affecting those costs. Certainly discount fees would not go to zero. If as Ackman says, "classic" credit cards have about a 1.5% discount fee and top rewards cards have about 3.5%, then even if you recovered the entire difference from losing rewards cards, you'd break even.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Many such cases at Google. It's absolutely bizarre for a public school/public college alumnus seeing those prep school->Ivy League women argue that anyone else is privileged. What's that you're saying? I can't hear you around that silver spoon. Oh, it's platinum, my mistake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
In either case, I'd say there's currently an implicit assumption by many buyers that, when they're purchasing a book, say, they're buying something that an intelligent mind constructed using skill and artifice (with plot twists, character arcs, and so forth), and not something that reads beautifully on the first page but never builds up to anything or has anything to say.
That assumption (which was never true before AI) does not make the goods counterfeit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The AI spam doesn't work by creating equal or superior products, it works by simply existing in vast quantities and being hard to distinguish at a casual glance from legitimate products. It's a form of counterfeit goods when used this way.
It is a form of inferior goods, but not counterfeit goods unless it claims to be that which it is displacing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
You could probably see if there's signal by controlling for education level and seeing if the income outcomes still hold. I'm not sure if anyone's done that (or if there's enough data -- almost every recent study of this sort I've seen uses the SMPY cohorts, because there aren't too many other choices)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
FYI, Blåhaj isn't exactly a regular small stuffed toy (which would be decoration like any other) but a 100+ cm long stuffed shark that's the same size as a preschool kid.
Yeah, in software development offices they tend to get hung above the desks. The stuffed sharks, that is, the kids squirm too much and the wire won't hold them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Doctors used to be and top lawyers are OWNERS. Math professors are not. That's why math professors aren't upper class.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
You just need to get everyone else to take pills to move their IQ in a negative direction. In a world of idiots, the moron is king. Hence the push for cannabis legalization.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It is NOW, but back in G. H. Hardy's day...
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I've spent most of my life surrounded by cosmopolitan liberals and I've literally never heard an IRL person say this.
I have. Mostly cosmopolitan liberal Americans, but occasionally Europeans.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
It is not enough for there to be a reasonable belief of an offence which exposes the actor to great bodily harm or death. The killing must be "necessary in resisting or preventing the offence".
This is the special police officer use of force statute, not the regular self-defense one (which also applies). However, the conditions here are satisfied, since fleeing a peace officer (609.487) is an offense and shooting, while it may not have prevented him being hit, did stop that offense.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
A lot of the lists of virtues of the founders come from Ben Franklin, who was rather notoriously lacking in some of them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I live in the area. Though the line you are talking about is sometimes called the "Newark City Subway", it is above ground light rail most places, including in Bloomfield.
Bloomfield's form of government is for some reason sui generis, but it has a mayor and a Township Council.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I worked for a FAANG-adjacent company and we did have a programmer who wore a fursuit. Programming socks? Hadn't realized they were called that but I've seen them worn at Google. If "blahajs" refers to the Ikea stuffed shark, you'll definitely find those and similar in software engineering offices.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
· Edited 4d ago
So there’s five guys, but not the really nasty one
Vang: Sexual Assault, sodomy of a child under age 13, and procuring a child for prostitution
Vue: Strong-arm rape of a 12-year-old and kidnapping with intent to sexually assault
Yang: Strong-arm rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and strangulation
Xiong: Rape and child fondling
Lor: Rape, rape with a weapon, and sexual assault
Oh, and another Lor: Two counts of homicide.
All of these seem quite nasty enough. ICE seems to be going after them because they had deportation orders against them, not because they're Hmong (they also went after Phaivan and some Mexicans and Somalis and others)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The first perp is Phaivan, but there's a Vang, a Vue, a Yang, a Xiong, and a Lor also. So possibly 5 Hmong and one non-Hmong Laotian. I suppose Yang and Xiong are common non-Hmong surnames as well, though.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Are the Laotians here the Hmong you refer to?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Michael Bloomberg is real but a Republican in name only; he switched to the Democratic party partway through his mayorship and his most distinguishing feature was that he was all-in on government paternalism. Bloomfield, NJ is also real but lacks a subway, unless you mean the fast food chain, and has had only Democratic mayors in recent years.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Indeed, this is the major problem I have with the OPs comment. We're not looking for intelligence and using "performance of competence" as a proxy. We're looking for competence. It could be that intelligence is a better proxy for competence than our current tests, and almost certainly is true that an intelligence test is a better measure of intelligence than our current tests of competence are for competence (because competence is just harder to measure). But intelligence itself isn't usually what we're looking for.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
So, why then are there millions of Iranians calling for regime change?
I don't know how many there are. But it's a country of 90 million. There could be a discontented 10% calling for regime change, and that would be 9 million people, and still the vast majority of the country could support the regime. Muslims just seem to like fundamentalist Islamic rule.
Not "everyone" gets this impression because only sketchy right-wing sources like AlphaNews report it. You won't see it on the mainstream media, not even the local Fox affiliate (which appears to be fully anti-ICE).
Note on that Reddit thread of the Mobile Sheriff's deputies, not one person even questioned whether those WERE ICE agents. Probably because the mods would ban anyone who did.
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