cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
4hr ago
I do tell the kids that they can call her Ms Richard if they want. The parents hear me and chuckle.
cjet79
7hr ago
First week of school is finishing up for my kids. One fun topic of conversation with the other adults at the bus stop: teacher names. There are often teacher names that can easily be mispronounced or misread to create funny sounds. But one teacher in particular has the winning name: Ms Dick. That is not a misspelling. I find it hard to believe someone with that last name has not changed it, or at least spared their children from carrying on the name.
Anyone else have fun teacher names they remember from growing up?
cjet79
2d ago
New york has been absorbing and integrating immigrant populations for a century and a half. Its current population is like a quarter immigrant.
Acculturation works when there is economic incentive for it to work, and the incentives to integrate and acculturate are still strong. Blue collar work and drudgery await those who refuse to learn the language. The sky is the limit for those who can learn the english language and get along with their customers and investors.
cjet79
4d ago
The game is much more oriented on the movie. There is power armor now. But it is kinda boring and doesn't fit the game. Its very powerful but very slow. Its more fun moving around the map though.
When the game first launched people loved doing the meme level stuff from the movie.
I play with a light milsim group on discord. Tons of fun
cjet79
6d ago
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I hate city permitting processes so much right now.
Just went to a neighborhood get together. Multiple people complaining about the difficulty of getting permit for simple additions to their house, like a screened in porch.
Yet down the street a homeless shelter is being erected in an area that already has multiple problems with homeless people being a fucking nuisance. This city only has like 25k voters and 50k population. I don't understand how they don't notice, or how they vote the way they do. I understand living in bubbles, but damn I know like 1-5% of the voting population, you'd think I'd know someone who likes this state of affairs.
cjet79
6d ago
I am a millennial! I can answer this cultural question!
Its obviously a term for "woman I'd still gladly have sex with"
"Aight" by wqnm is great.
"basic" is ok, but carries some negative connotations. Like she turned you down even though she is a "basic bitch".
I'd look for terms such as "I'd hit that" or a casually spoken "Nice" as she walks by.
cjet79
6d ago
I heavily agree that incentives matter. Its where I'd start.
A problem with the tunacat metaphor is that we still generally want some immigrants, whereas no one really wants feral cats eating in their yard. Its why I asked about the zero immigrants thing.
I am admittedly closer to the open borders side of things. I like lots of immigration. Heavy indoctrination into our ethics and morals. Restrictive voting and restrictive welfare benefits for immigrants.
If you want zero immigrants I'd like to know. It turns this discussion from something potentially productive to totally pointless. The zero immigrants position being a totally pointless discussion from my perspective. I'm not saying its an invalid position, just that the distance from my position is so far that it makes things pointless to discuss.
cjet79
6d ago
haha its just their personalities. My 7 year old refuses to watch basically all movies. Any amount of drama is too much. 5 year old loves super hero stuff, spiderman especially and the concept of "beating up" bad guys.
I've played all the way through stardew valley two or three times. I'll be their guide, but I want to see how much they develop and figure things out on their own. I want to enable them to make whatever is possible in the game, while just playing a supporting role. Being their wikipedia and tutorial of sorts.
If they don't figure out aspects of the game, I plan to just play them quietly until they notice.
cjet79
6d ago
I imagine my 7 year old will be terrified of the mines and my 5 year old will be upset if I dont let her go in them and fight enemies
cjet79
6d ago
If he is willing to play starship troopers with you and me let me know, I'll be having more free time during the day which translates to like 6pm-9pm uk time.
cjet79
7d ago
Video Game thread
I'm trying to setup a multiplayer stardew valley game to play with my 5 and 7 year old. Possibly convince the wife to join too, but that is unlikely.
cjet79
7d ago
Everyone has different preferences on this, but tagging me to just say the same thing twice is something I find annoying. I'm fine being referenced without being tagged.
cjet79
7d ago
I would define effective as accomplishing policy goals. I did not know border crossings were so low. But I'm not sure which Trump policy accomplished that. I'm tempted to think that the most impactful policy they've done there is just not doing what the Biden Admin did which was actively screw with CBP, and actively stopping Texas from doing effective enforcement.
If we are gonna use the silly tuna can metaphor, we have a fence, one of the room-mates has been tearing holes in the fence.
The spectrum matters because of what kind of immigrants you want over here. If you want zero immigrants while still being able to say you allow immigrants, then sure maximum enforcement and maximum Kafkaesque rule sets are the way to go. Is that the goal? I didn't think it was.
cjet79
7d ago
I am curious how this turns out and if you can find what you are looking for. I've been interested in doing something sorta similar. But have not bothered to try much.
I've read some ai generated stories on royal road before. And since I'm on royal road a bunch I am used to low quality stories. But I kept finding the AI stories kinda boring. I've thought that maybe getting the AI to imitate an authors' voice that you like might help with the boring ness of their style.
cjet79
7d ago
There is a spectrum of illegality. At one extreme are the fully illegals. They crossed illegally, they operate in the black market selling illegal things, or only do cash jobs. At the other extreme are the people who scrupulously followed the process every step of the way.
In the middle are people with lapses. Student visas that expired while they were looking for a job out of grad school. Green card delays that meant they were supposed to leave the country for a month or two while things got worked out. H1-Bs between jobs. Kids brought here by parents that messed up the process.
Our immigration system is not simple enough that you can just easily categorize everyone into either extreme of legality.
Far stricter immigration enforcement is targeting those people in the middle. And even if you have scrupulously followed all the rules up to this point it doesn't mean something might happen in the future that causes a lapse. So risk averse people still don't want that harsh enforcement on the people in the middle.
I've never gotten in trouble for paying my taxes wrong, but I'm not in favor of making tax payment mistakes more harshly penalized. Taxes and income can get messy enough that I could screw up one day. There are tax dodgers and their non payment is making my taxes higher so I'm not happy about them and its fine to punish them. Same situation for immigrants.
cjet79
8d ago
I think Trump is definitely attempting to put on a show for the base rather than doing things that might be effective.
This seems like the worst option of all policy worlds, because it's basically creating a selection effect for the worst types of immigrants.
It will scare off risk averse immigrants, and any immigrants that want a stable/predictable legal situation.
The easiest to find immigrants are ones that are trying to work within our legal system. They leave a paper trail. That paper trail might be from jobs, taxes, school enrollment, etc.
The hardest to find immigrants operate entirely in the black market.
cjet79
11d ago
Academic papers, but not a book. She has a friend in the DAR that has professionally published before and was giving her some advice.
cjet79
11d ago
My mom wrote a book. Its narrative non-fiction. About one of our ancestors that lived during the civil war and was one of the founders of the DAR. Told through a series of letters that she wrote and that people wrote to her. Very depressing. People die a lot, and the war was horrific.
I'm trying to read it and give feedback as an early editor.
cjet79
14d ago
I'm easily willing to bite that bullet, wokeism is Calvinism. And both of them have no place as being the US state religion.
I would like it if wokeism was labelled as a state religion. Someone would be doing everyone a massive favor if they went through the process of getting it recognized as a religion.
cjet79
20d ago
I've never played anything that could be described as "technical" with my daughters.
Travellers Rest and Stardew Valley were what I played with them. Mostly I played the game and they wandered around exploring and changing outfits.
cjet79
20d ago
A bit like Tropico for sure. Though I didn't think setting up zipline systems would be one of the funnest parts of this game.
cjet79
20d ago
I did play one anno game, but got a little overwhelmed with micro stuff. Something about the nature of this game discourages perfection.
cjet79
21d ago
New game that just came out Corsair Cove. It's a city builder but the city you are building is a pirate haven in the Caribbean.
The challenge comes from trying to balance production chains on the island, and create efficient pathways around your cliff city.
You send pirate ships off on missions.
Nguyen has got to be one of the more frustrating Asian names. I think it is pronounced like "win". But for so long I'd say it with a mouth spasming "nnnggooyen".
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