Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
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Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4d ago
A lot of these departments, even the ones that arent explicitly engineering, do work for industry as a sort of "expensive instruments for rent".
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
4d ago
Thats certainly the impression, but it has to come from somewhere, right? You dont keep ruling an area indefinitely without doing any work.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
5d ago
I think my comment on the original post is relevant here without editing:
I think a big part of this is that visual art is increasingly interpreted like narrative art. Narrative doesnt necessarily aim to be beautiful, and can be popular anyway. We wouldnt normally describe a novel as beautiful - its "good". Other narratives like are clearly not beautiful, like fairytales used to be brutal, but can still be good. We find the same in many artforms that contain a good bit of narrative: tragic plays, raunchy tavern songs, etc. In the West, this extends unusually far. I would guess that even for Scott, its normal to dress "cool" rather than "beautiful", where most societies would have only done that for certain occasions. Apple Inc design is... propably pretentious if youre super into it, but normies dont really object like they do with architecture. Etc.
The "higher" you get, the more everything becomes like this. That is why modern painting or architecture is often explained as references to earlier works, why it fells like "this should have been an essay", and also why it changes a lot. There is certainly an aspect of initiation to it, but its not just some snobs making stuff up for themselves - they are in fact "ahead of us" on a path we also go down collectively.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
5d ago
I’m surprised at your lack of vision here, 2rafa.
That seems totally in character. The best rafa posts are a window into the Id of the beancounter, and many heuristics that really really almost always work are found there.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
5d ago
If Im looking up the hours of a shop in another town, what do I see? If I drive east, do I time travel? What happens with all the non-internet-and-gps clocks?
Canadian Man Dies of Aneurysm After Giving Up on Hospital Wait
So this is making the rounds on the internet today. Comparisons to the accute discussion in America obviously suggest themselves and are even briefly mentioned in the article. Now a lot of this seems to be more typically discussion of the merits of prublic vs private healthcare, but my initial thought was, "Who could you shoot for this?".
Obviously, murder is bad. But assuming you accepted the idea that killing people for delivering insufficient healthcare is ok, and you thought Canada was bad enough to count, who would it even be? From what I understand healthcare is done on a provincial level there, so maybe theres some kind of health commissioner in the local executive? But then again, budget limitations are propably more to blame on the local parliament. And they implement what they ran for election on. Etc. I mean if youre lucky theres someone somewhere who lost metric fucktons of money and thats all there is to it, but propably not.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8d ago
By the time new money is accepted into the striver jobs, the kids are as accustomed to success and fat and lazy from it as everyone else.
Do you have a general presentation of the model here? What I see around me is a lot of people trying to prevent their kids from getting fat and lazy.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8d ago
It was not reasonable for other Democrats to go into the 2024 presidential election expecting only a single-digit percentage of Hispanics to vote for Trump
I guess Im not convinced they thought that. Like if you had that you could basically stop campaigning at all. Hillary at one point did seem to think she had won already, I dont think they did this time.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
8d ago
(While this is my third response to you in short order, I dont mean to pick on you)
Trump making historic inroads among Latino and black voters in 2016 may have come as a legitimate surprise to the DNC in 2016. No one should have been surprised by it last month.
If he had just repreated his old numbers, then Id agree. But he made gains again, and significantly bigger ones than last time. I think its pretty reasonable to expect at least diminishing returns.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
9d ago
Google Trends chart showing interest in the case over time. As usual, Google Trends bears out my gut feeling recollection of the period.
Does it? It looks to me like the whole affair happens within one data point, telling us nothing about the shape. You also cant tell where dates are exactly, and where are your 43%?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
9d ago
It looks like a trade-off, where in exchange for significant economic growth you get a marginal bump in crime rate.
The economic differences are a lot older than the ones in immigration, and the crime used to go the other way.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
12d ago
Why doesnt this already exist without the blockchain? Youve made some argument how blockchain would be helpful, but it seems more like the idea of using blockchain came first, rather than being something that came up as you tried to make the business model work.
The general answer to "Why isnt this a co-op, thereby removing the adversarial profit motive?" is that the people who want to buy the good dont want to tie up their capital in the co-op.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
12d ago
Thats all very interesting, but... my problem isnt a lack of thematic impact in the ending. I had my own theories about those, though not as good as yours. The problem is that it betrays the beginning. How does Neds death contribute to any of this? The original tone survives quite long in Daenerys arc, which is consistent with the machiavellian reading all the way until we see her suffering from insanity at home after burning Kings Landing. He doesnt end that story; he just starts telling a more traditional one and ends that.
Separately:
All Tywin's bluster about putting the House first was hypocrisy.
Really? This would require that the revealed bastard both counts as part of house Lannister, and takes priority over the legitimate Targaryen children in inheritance. Those seem unlikely even individually, and extremely unlikely simultanuously. Besides, he does eventually get Joffrey on the throne, who is just as related to him officially as Tyrion would have been, and more so biologically.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
12d ago
I was around for that, it just... didnt seem like people started using the real name after? ACX isnt even a google result for "Scott Siskind", just secondary sources.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
12d ago
I think test of judgement should generally say the base rate. Both to avoid having to guess the meta, and because otherwise you have really bad chances if you trained on a different one.
PS: I can read your flair without a custom theme, I saw the space where it should be and selected the text.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
12d ago
Ive been gone for a while, has something changed in how we act around His name?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
13d ago
But I don’t fault Martin for making the experimental effort to see just how far the deconstruction could be taken before it fell apart.
I guess I disagree? You absolutely can end a novel in the "real world" style. History books also end, and it often does seem like a fitting place to end them. And a more dramatic and interesting story thats still "realistic" could have artistic merit, but a lot of people would be disappointed. The way I see it, ASoIaF starts off promising cynical realism, and then moves back to a more traditional plot, until you get something like the TV ending, where even ignoring the loose ends, "Who has a better story than Bran", really? TF is this? Thats even more fantastical than some good guys winning.
And its an extremely predictable problem. You seem to think theres some marginally less deconstructive version of what hes doing that succeeds, and I dont see what that would be. If you dont ride out the "reality is cruel and unfair" thing till the end, then its not a weaker version of that, it becomes "hold out even when all hope seems lost".
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
14d ago
Thats way too straightforward. What would actually happen is that the law doesnt require McD specifically, cant play favourites like that, but just specifies some criteria for what jobs count, some committee in the executive branch gives more specific guidelines about when they will try to prosecute, and the people at Harvard who decide acceptance now would make the final decision on whether they accept something concretely in front of them as counting. Therell be plenty of already existing real jobs that get through but dont have the class cooties, and nothing really changes.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1yr ago
or some variety of psychopath
Can you say more about what those guys were like? Also, with all these violent dudes around, were you ever afraid of someone on your side?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1yr ago
There is but it's not particularly relevant to this discussion
I wasnt particularly disagreeing with you; I genuinely would like to know what you think is in there.
secular progressivism with at least two-scoops of Marx and Hegel
How much do you know of Hegel? My impression is that while he caused a lot of brainrot, you are closer to his object-level positions than to Hobbses.
Also Holy thread necromancy Batman.
Im here so rarely now, I pick out the pearls.
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1yr ago
If left and right are different versions of enlightenment philosophy, this leaves open the possibility of an opposition from outside the enlightenment. But you dont seem to think theres anything in that box. Anytime you argue that someone is not a real rightist, they are placed firmly in the "left" box. Why do you think that is?
Lykurg
We're all living in Amerika
1yr ago
The joke is saying theres this opinion that conservatives have thats getting censored, and they dont want to admit that opinion. Getting censored applies to all social conservatism pretty evenly. Progressives accusing conservatives of secretly holding some opinion can apply to all of it, but applies most commonly to race. The last line is saying that we should have enough information now to know which one was meant. So the author thinks only one thing meets the previous conditions sufficiently. And race meets them the most, so it can only be that.
Maybe this is "overly technical", but tens of millions across the US doesnt mean shit. Thompsons salary couldnt buy all his customers a coffee. Theres just no way someone will ever not feel exploited without understanding this unless they live under a rock.
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