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
It's funny, all the YIMBYs want this or claim to, but when there's complaints about the cost of housing, it's always a single-family detached home used as the benchmark for complaining.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
It appears about 3% of houses in the UK are second homes (not rented out).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
They have a lot less power to stop inflation. (yeah, they can vote for the other guy. It generally doesn't work, and when it does they notice the prices are still high and punish the guy they voted in for that by bringing the previous bunch back).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
A lot of people are genuinely too dumb or of poor impulse control to handle credit cards and banks quickly lock up all of their future disposable income. They would 100% have been better off without credit cards since they would simply be broke instead of six figures in debt.
They get a bunch of stuff, then they declare bankruptcy and never have to pay for it. This does ruin their credit, but because they're (by assumption) too dumb and/or have poor impulse control, they couldn't have taken advantage of good credit anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
Wage stickiness is a complication, but salaries still do go up and down. Instead of individual salaries going down, expensive individuals get laid off and/or juniors are hired at lower rates than previously. Though the general "solution" to wage stickiness has been inflation, and that's been around long enough to pass the fence.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
Not a bad summary, but it misses that men have been taught for decades, explicitly, that receiving "hints" is not reason to believe a woman wishes to be approached. Stuff like "Just because she smiles at you doesn't mean she likes you".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
(which, in worst case, would result in something like Hugo Chavez, not Lenin or Stalin, which would be indeed rather bad).
Uhh, Hugo Chavez would ALSO be rather bad.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Basically, you claim they're suicidal, but long-termist – their entire project is to last long enough to kill maximum Jews, ideally all Jews, on their way out?
They wish to destroy the State of Israel and the United States (the Little Satan and the Great Satan, as they put it), not necessarily kill maximum Jews.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Soccer is left-coded because it's Euro, and Europhilia is a left-coded thing. There have been many attempts to make US men's soccer happen, and none of them have really gotten anywhere, so soccer remains Euro.
FIFA is cuddly with Trump and Qatar because FIFA is utterly corrupt and therefore speaks Trump and Qatar's language.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Independent power or not, the fuel source has to come from somewhere, and these things have enormous power requirements; like, potentially more than your entire state currently generates.
They're industrial facilities. Yes, they use a lot of power. Though not more than "my entire state"; Google Lenoir, for instance, is estimated to have the capacity to use 133MW, compared to North Carolina's generating capacity of 36,000MW. This is about the same as a single line at an aluminum smelter. The Texas numbers you linked for are the total for 1800 separate projects.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Ah, the hot hot women with the cold cold eyes. I didn't realize that was Russian women in general rather than just the sort who associate with men to get access to their Goldman Sachs expense account.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Most notable thing about this story is the lack of anything from ICE or DHS, not even a "DHS refused to comment". Press isn't even trying any more.
Another strange thing: He wouldn't need asylum to stay in the US, he's a literally world-class soccer player and EB-1 visas from Argentina aren't oversubscribed. So why wouldn't he go that route?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
How is Iran going to rebuild their manufacturing when we can bomb it whenever we want and they are running out of money?
We can bomb things, we can't bomb everything.
Cute, but California’s GDP is ~10x Iran’s. There are military bases in San Diego with more military capacity than Iran.
The US has made building things 1000x more difficult than it needs to be. A US with the military efficiency of WWII US and modern weaponry would spank today's US. So a much poorer Iran can do quite well.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
War runs on economics, you actually can't continue fighting a war when your economic base runs out.
There's a lot of ruin in a nation of 90 million, and Iran seems quite capable of depleting it all. Their economic base will not run out fast enough.
resume killing officials until either the regime falls apart or whoever is on top has both the power and the will to make a deal they'll actually follow
This is currently America's strategy.
Which officials have been killed recently? The people we've been negotiating with don't seem to have changed in a while.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Hamas is not disarmed. Iran's leverage over the Straits is not discredited, though it is weakened. Iran's drone manufacturing industry will be up in a month; Iran's not California, they can rebuild and rebuild quickly.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Steak au poivre with strip loin is pretty good; that's how I typically do it. You can just grill up tenderloin (whether in the form of filet mignon or not) and it'll still be tender, but it doesn't have a lot of beefy taste. Note that if you have a porterhouse, one side of it is tenderloin.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The war is still going on. Iran obviously was pretty badly damaged, but the Iranian regime wins if the US gives up. If they toll the strait (with Oman's connivance or not), they win pretty big. If they just retain the HEU and keep the US from interfering in the future, they win; they'll start their nuclear program back up and nuke Tel Aviv if they can't restrain themselves... New York, D.C., Haifa, and Tel Aviv if they can hold out until they can get more bombs and some really long range ICBMs.
If they lose the HEU and the US gets to keep watching, they lose. If the regime falls, they obviously lose (the people of Iran will be materially best off in that case, though having bad leftist/modern Western values forced upon them is a danger). But Iran can still win this. I don't think they will -- the US demonstrating that commerce could be maintained (though degraded) regardless of their shooting at it took away their best card. But a big midterm Democratic win could see Trump forced to give up anyway.
Trump could also do something stupid like agree that Iran and Oman toll the strait in order to get a deal. He really likes deals.
Iran's economic situation almost doesn't matter. As long as they can keep the IRGC running, they can absorb a LOT of civilian hardship, and they've got 90 million civilians to feed into that fire. They have enough state capacity to keep the civilians from doing anything about it, too. Not giving a shit about your civilian population is a major advantage in the short term. So the US, to actually win, is going to have to do something -- either invade, or resume killing officials until either the regime falls apart or whoever is on top has both the power and the will to make a deal they'll actually follow. Trump can make as many deals as he wants with the people he's been negotiating with for months, they're going to break them all anyway. The previous MoA, though not a "US surrender" (because it had them turning over the HEU), was really good for Iran, but it wasn't good enough for them to follow. They're not getting better now unless Trump REALLY REALLY wants a deal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
So she came on a non-immigrant visa, was attempting to turn that into permanent residency, and the government at that point was okay with that.
According to her lawyer it was. Previously I was generally inclined to believe stories of the immigration bureaucracy screwing people, because they're known for it and have been for a long time (even pre-Trump). But having uncovered any number of immigration atrocities which didn't happen (Salvadoran grandpa), were justified (frog-smuggling Russian), or simply could not be substantiated, I'm not willing to give the NYT the benefit of the doubt here. It's certainly possible that the Trump administration is being overzealous and is arresting people who have work authorization and temporary reprieves despite their original visa being expired. But that case has not been made.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
You can do fajitas with top round, though I prefer sirloin (or occasionally prime-grade top round). Bottom round and eye round are so far as I can tell useless without more processing than I can do.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Yeah, I'm in the NYC area. Everything's more expensive. To be fair, the nearest cow is somewhere in central Pennsylvania.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Immigration from Europe -- including Western Europe -- never stopped. It's limited by visa availability, not desire to immigrate. However, it's generally not worth it for a European to become an illegal alien in the US.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Enough with the CCP propaganda; data centers don't triple your electric bill. In fact, if they're "loud", it certainly means they're on independent power.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Agree that beef prices massively surged, especially ground beef, but somehow pork and chicken are down. I think this points at a major habbeing in the beef industry in particular, rather than generalized massive inflation.
I suspect some sort of Biden era regulation or enforcement specifically aimed at this goal. Though in my area ground beef isn't particularly worse than other beef; it's sitting at $7.00/lb ($6.00/lb for the large pack) for 80/20. A whole brisket is $9.00/lb. Steaks are terrible, bone-in ribeye is at $20.00/lb -- they actually have a fancy boneless grass-fed ribeye for $13.99/lb, but I tried it and it's not very good (this is Australian beef, whereas the others are all US)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
my sense is that a lot of the new single family houses being built in the suburbs are very very far from the cities with the jobs
Yes, because the places closer in are already occupied. It's worse in places with Urban Growth Boundaries; you can't build closer in because it's occupied and you can't build further out because that's to be left as a playground for the planners. Then YIMBYs come in and want to replace single-family homes with apartments.
They happen to be the most recent decades, so I assume yes, but I don't know if the start coincided closely.
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