netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
11hr ago
it's not really Culture War Classic material.
What are you saying has changed? I’m having a hard time finding the Deomcratic Party line—I mostly get results from last summer—but Trump blustering is par for the course.
Look at George W. Plenty of tough talk, minimal actual intervention. There was no reward in the risk. It’s entirely possible that we’re in a similar scenario.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11hr ago
Maybe they’re being more efficient by getting high-earning jobs in America, then sending that money to fund guerillas?
Effective insurrectionists.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11hr ago
Any proposed amendment will immediately draw commentary from clout-chasing partisan hacks. Any such hacks will draw countersignals from their opposite numbers. I don’t believe any level of rationalist intent can deter this.
I’m not convinced that scaling down the Senate actually helps, either. We already form subcommittees of 15-30 members. They’re fine at getting stuff to a vote; the perverse incentives come after.
Returning to some form of indirect election is more plausible. If you can’t win a direct election as a moderate, maybe you can win it by getting along with your entire legislature. But isn’t this just as vulnerable to partisanship? If the Speaker of the House elections are any benchmark, asking a bunch of partisans to give you a leader doesn’t get a moderate.
It’s the change to voting rules that does all the work. As I understand it, that doesn’t require an amendment. The Senate can just adopt a different voting schema. I think that’s much more plausible than trying to get national support for a permanent structural change.
But then, I’m rather biased towards Literally Anything But FPTP. So if this gets more states to do STV, approval, anything, I’m in.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13hr ago
Come down to DFW. It sucks here but there’s a whole lot of STEM work. We’re basically trying to underbid California.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13hr ago
No, it’s a great example. It’s an inferior good. There’s no direct alternative to natto other than just…not.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Escaped from Duckov today. Cute game that makes for a good alternative to the strategy games I usually play. On that front, I keep getting sucked into Total Warhammer now that CA gave me the third game. It’s really the perfect set dressing for the series.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Yesterday I wanted to reserve judgment until I saw body cam footage. If ICE was conducting an “enforcement action,” their policy is supposedly to have cameras on. It should make the direction of the car obvious.
I think we started from similar assumptions about the role of the officers. ICE has the funding, the manpower, and the operational initiative. They ought to have a better plan than having some guy stand out on a frozen road. And if that really is the best they can do, they should at least be able to cover their asses. Do it by the book. Show us the book. Release the footage. Not this tight-mouthed bullshit.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I got the impression “legal observer” wasn’t a job title, but a claim that she was observing the protest legally.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I think it’s someone who bombs both child soldiers and suicides.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Leaving that qualifier implicit is like a cat puffing itself up. It’s a threat display. “So thinks Sulla…and some other people. How many? Guess. :3”
Rhetorically convenient. Not conducive to discussion.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I’m willing to bet that almost all of those citizens are, in fact, legal. Faking your way through naturalization is a lot harder than writing the wrong number on a welfare application.
But it’s beside the point! Roadblocks and manhunts aren’t “investigating” citizenship status. Those 3000 agents aren’t doing paperwork at City Hall. They’re showing the flag.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
You may be interested in the infamous Red Means No review from last year’s contest.
So you already know that at a typical orgy the median attendee doesn’t have sex, and the majority that do have sex only do so with the partner(s) they came with. You’re also aware that an RMN orgy averages 5+ sexual interactions per person, making it a breakthrough in modern orgy technology. Sounds great on paper, but what is it actually like to go to one of these?
If those are the stats for orgies, perhaps the bathhouse was pretty competitive.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Speak for yourself. You have been warned about this before.
Three day ban to cool off.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Mainstream media, Reddit, and various politicians have incited multiple assassination attempts on these officers
Unless I’m missing something huge, no, they didn’t.
citizen gunned down in ambiguous situation
Not the first. Won’t be the last. Law enforcement is hard.
conflicting federalizations
Either Trump invokes Title 10 or he doesn’t. If he does, the Guard is at his disposal. Otherwise it’s under Walz.
this is not good.
You don’t say?
I can’t currently watch the videos—Twitter delenda est—so this may be easy to answer.
Did the shooting officer have his body cam on per department policy?
I believe we should give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt proportional to their level of transparency. The state has the privilege of choosing its battles. If the officer made that shot knowing that he would be broadcast to the broader Internet, then he probably had a genuine fear for his life.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Every investment is uncertain. That doesn’t make them all lotteries or MLMs.
Prediction market “shares” are transferable contracts. They entitle the holder to a payment if and only if something turns out true. This makes them more like options. And like options, they’re a useful vehicle for gathering information. Sometimes that’s appropriate, sometimes it’s not.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
The tune is mentioned most of the way through the book, but I had no idea any Clancys were involved. TIL.
“We”?
There are two groups, split on unsurprising demographic lines. The young and unattached are more laissez-faire; parents are mysteriously less comfortable with legitimizing any sort of sex work. Progressive, conservative.
But that split is mostly about production. There’s broad, non-partisan agreement that porn consumption is low-status. That part’s the cultural default.
I’ll agree that romance novels sort of play by different rules, but I think you’re overselling it a bit. There’s a different generational gap, too. But I’m not really inclined to trawl the NYT bestsellers for proof.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Do you mean shifting an election market because your cabal knows Candidate A just had a stroke, or shifting an election to match your market?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I lost a perfectly good draft because I tried to tab over to the Billboard 100. Apparently the bloated modern web is too much for my phone. Whatever.
I think your model is extremely autistic (non-derogatory) and also useless (derogatory). I’m not sure how you could come to half of these conclusions. It’s as if your experience of women is drawn entirely from thinkpieces and dubious IRC roulette.
obviously all of this is freaking out the adult women who are red-pilled enough to realize how self-defeating this entire sexual competition is
Could you think of any other reasons why people might object to teenage nudes?
Culture-warring feminists look at all this with anger and naturally go on to loudly promote the exact opposite of all this by all means.
Could you think of any other reasons why feminists might actually want some of those opposite things?
where this is all simultaneously an act of female empowerment and a display of girlboss agency while at the same time some sort of critical commentary on the sad state of a shitty society that treats women like sex objects or whatever
Could you think of any other reasons why a mass-media product might hold contradictory, even trite messages?
Each time, you stop at whatever reason is most convenient for your thesis. This is a terrible way to build a model. Your examples—if you can call them such—aren’t very convincing, either.
all of this is pointedly not done for the purposes that average men would prefer it all to have
none of this is generating one ounce of male sympathy towards these women and their female fans.
it’s all seen as another expression of female empowerment
If the plural of anecdotes is not data, surely your own solitary anecdote isn’t.
Stats or GTFO!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7d ago
Ha. I don’t think you’re wrong. Even correcting for the autobiographical bias, he comes across as a real golden retriever.
My point is that 1. isn’t likely to motivate him. I figured your original explanation was more likely. He’s a loser, and he lost to the biggest bogeyman in the West. That’s career-limiting.
Describing Lovecraft as “conscientious” without mentioning neuroticism feels like burying the lede. You can’t separate his outlook from the absolutely miserable time he was having with his family and his finances.
I think Americans are the same way. Xenophobia comes from uncertainty. When times are good and people are optimistic, we’re all more willing to be cosmopolitan. As times get harsher, more people hit their personal neuroticism thresholds. Those with high conscientiousness are squeezed towards authoritarianism. Their less conscientious counterparts favor anarchy.
This is why Trump populism has outcompeted Tea Party libertarians. It’s why he keeps embarrassing neoliberals, whose radicals despise them, too. He is rewarded for playing the strongman in a way that a progressive cannot.
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