Ioper
3mo ago
I think that the ZIRP economy has not inflated the need for SWEs but the capacity for tech companies to magazine away tons of SWEs and having them essentially do no productive work.
The end of ZIRP will not mean SWEs will go without work but that some of them will filter out into the real economy, where there is both a need for them and where they can do real material good.
There will be some readjustment of compensation downwards and overall compensation will still be good but not astronomic.
AI as it exists today will increase productivity some but that will mostly just mean that more work is possible to do profitably, not unemployment.
Ioper
3mo ago
I doubt that much would change if they made tips tax exempt. Tax fraud in those lines business is rampant anyway and not dependant on tips. IRS enforcement would still focus on those businesses and find about as much fraud, just using marginally different methods.
Making tips tax exempt just seems like a handout to some demographic (Nevada?), and not any kind of real attempt at improving either the IRS or general tax compliance.
Ioper
3mo ago
"Sword hunts" was a fairly common occurrence in Japan as well.
Ioper
3mo ago
I see. In Sweden you have the explicit right to make private copies of publicly available material.
Ioper
3mo ago
Obviously they can't use trademarked stuff in the marketing but the model being able to produce trademarked characters isn't meaningfully different from Photoshop or internet browsers dreaded by NTF-fans feature "right-click save as" unless we consider the model to be agentic.
One thing that I've found to be very important, that isn't discussed very much, is that one of the most important parts of sex for women is to be desired. Women really want to be desired, to the point that it's often at least as important as physical pleasure. If you worry too much about how you're doing you're not going to be projecting desire of her, you're going to be projecting insecurity.
Women can be perfectly happy with sex ending prematurely (as long as there has been enough foreplay so that it isn't painful) if you clearly and visibly desired her and enjoyed having sex with her.
What I'm trying to say is that one of the most important parts of her enjoying having sex with you is you enjoying to have sex with her.
Lastly, it's really hard to give advice when you're not telling us what's going wrong. Is it painful for her? Do you come prematurely? Is she just bored? What is it that isn't working?
Ioper
3mo ago
Just the act of drawing something trademarked isn't illegal by itself though?
Ioper
3mo ago
Possibly not even the pension if people stop trusting the government to live up to it's long term financial obligations.
Ioper
3mo ago
Legible output selects for departments engaging in fake performance. Like health centrals that focus on dealing with non-sick people or police departments boosting numbers using speed traps instead of following up on rape cases. This shit is absolutely rampant and without an in-depth understanding of what the organisation does and what the "legible output" actually means, making cuts based on that is a godawful idea since most of the most important people don't have legible output and the least important and the actively parasititic often have large legible output.
Ioper
3mo ago
Russia isn't manpower constrained given current recruitment methods (at the moment anyway), they materiel constrianed, which is why I said it would mean greater manpower replacement sustainability.
They can't outfit, mechanize and give air support to another army in addition to what they already have. If they could, they would have already.
Ioper
3mo ago
Use of conscripts would technically mean a greater manpower replacement sustainability but at a cost of popularity.
As such, that is an explicit goal of Ukraine's. They want a greater use of conscripts by Russia. Would it be good or bad for the outcome of the war, who knows?
Since you're largely stuck with the human capital and natural resources you have the only thing you have control over is improving your institutions and create enough stability that people dare to invest.
Ioper
3mo ago
Having access to very cheap labour makes my life more comfortable even as it rots society.
Ioper
3mo ago
There are more:
- Trying to force troop rotations away from the front inside Ukraine
- Making the war less palatable to Russia by forcing conscripts to engage in battle
- Trying to force Russia to keep attacking as their offensive culminates in order to extract favourable attrition/prevent them from comfortably entrenching their gains in Ukraine.
- Hedging in case of a Trump victory by making a "ceasefire" unpalatable to Russia by holding russian territory.
- A combination of all of the above and seeing what sticks.
Ioper
3mo ago
Yes, but I have no advice. I decided to change, and over time I did.
Doing it this way was at least possible for me.
Ioper
3mo ago
What you say in no way counters what op said. Walz projects Midwestern good vibes, whether his policy positions back that up or not and I don't think your objections to him speaks negatively to swing voters anyway. Its not like its some hidden secret that he holds progressive views, its on the New York Times front page.
I doubt the intention was that he was going to appeal to rightwingers on theMotte.
Ioper
3mo ago
There is also the option of going for someone thats not a politician, i suppose.
Ioper
3mo ago
The issues with housing exist with or without competition from international capital. The issue is the combination lack of construction with massive credit expansion.
This has mostly benefited older people but that wealth is now starting to trickle down so it's more looking like big city house owning natives Vs everyone else division where the former have been handed an immense pile of wealth the last 30 years or so for no reason at all. Unless you're part of the housing owning class it's incredibly hard to compensate with a high salary (especially given the compressed wage distribution) but if you are, even a low salary is enough to live very well on.
In addition to the things other people have written i'd argue that there is an issue similar to that of main characters is in major movies, in that only white men (or maybe men) are allowed moral complexity and actually be characters. Women get pigeonholed into a particular cardboard cutout role and it's similar with minorities in politics. Since they are a minority their being a minority is what defines them politically (to a very large extent).
Choosing a white man isn't the same as choosing a "minority" because you're expecting something more than white man than merely being a white man, racist as that may be. Is there some form of representation thinking going on here in the choosing of the VP? Sure, but they're also choosing between popular politicians in key states that can help drag the ticket across the finish line. That their colour doesn't matter much is precisely because there already is a DEI pick on the ticket, IE. Kamala. They don't have to care about "representation" so they can pick whoever has the greatest political value, of which Kamala has none or even negative.
If there was a popular black or asian governer in Pennsylvania rather than a Jew I'm sure they would receive strong consideration but since Buttigieg isn't popular enough and Whitmer has stated numerous times that she doesn't want the position we're left with three (or four) people who are white, male and straight (although one is Jewish).
The Swedish equivalent and literal translation "fitthår" has seen frequent use at least as long as I've lived and we use the metric system.
Granted, fitta doesn't have exactly the same connotation as cunt. You generally don't call some a fitta and its not a gendered insult, its more of a general expletive, eg. you stub your toe and yell out fitta. Furthermore, its more of a comical extension/version of the expression "det var på håret" (that was a close one, literally "that was on the hair"), "det var på fitthåret".
When you say you "make" soup or pizza do you mean that you make them or do you heat prepared meals, like canned soup and frozen pizza? Just wondering what we're dealing with.
If it's the first I would say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with soup and pizza.
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