I don't feel very bound by this meme format. If there is a strained analogy about leopards and eaten faces, then I would like to point out the predatory behavior of the Biden administration aimed at tech companies. To follow the format anyways: "When Biden said he would break up monopolies and trusts, I didn't think he was going to target my tech monopoly!"
These tech companies and their owners are historically big supporters of Democrats. They were extra big financial supporters of Biden in 2020. Their reward was the Biden administration attacking them. Saying they are monopolies to be broken up, blocking acquisitions so they don't grow bigger, threatening regulations intended to choke their businesses. It's a real scorpion and frog or "I didn't think the face eating leopard would regulate my industry" situation. And then of course Democrats acting betrayed when major tech companies and their owners donate a million dollars to the Trump inauguration. I listened to Pod Save America for a while, "how could they do this to us?" was a theme for a bit.
There was recently a face eating leopard unleashed upon the tech industry. Her name is Lena Khan and she was the FTC commissioner under Biden. Using novel legal theories she went after tech companies. Mostly trying to stop acquisitions. Rhetoric about breaking up monopolies before they start. She ultimately did not have a great track record in court battling major tech companies, but she sure tried to eat their faces.
There are other recent examples of Democrats unleashing the leopards on tech companies. And then of course the predictable horror and shock that "techbros" would (at the last moment before the election) be mildly hesitantly Trump-curious as an alternative to the outright predation of the Biden-Harris administration.
I would frame this as tech leaders being between a rock and a hard place. On one side Democrats pathologically opposed to big business to the point that they attack the largest American tech companies. Not seeming to care if they are breaking something important. Or realizing they are making enemies.
On the other hand: Donald Trump.
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1d ago
Henry Kissinger: "It's a pity both sides can't lose"
(commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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5d ago
For this one person, their job is to work on a laptop. Could be done remotely. Everyone had to show up in person.
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6d ago
The larger point being they could at any time pass a law removing or modifying this particular presidential power. Every day they chose not to.
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6d ago
Buy a Vanguard index fund. Don't worry about dips or peaks. The stock market was lower last September. People are making a very big deal about a small bump.
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7d ago
The "experts" in health had a collective point in the era of COVID lockdowns. Very long lockdowns good, enormous riots better. It reached the point of comedy with "racism is the real epidemic".
I'm sure the great majority of cancer and HIV researchers didn't sign some pro-lockdown (but not for riots) statement. They kept quiet while the loud ideologically motivated few spoke collectively for them and advocated for the most ruinous policies of the modern era.
And now, who could have forseen there would be a backlash against all of them collectively? Having so thoroughly burned their credibility and made such bitter enemies out of mainstream Americans.
I think medical research in particular and scientific research in general is valuable and important. That's one reason why it is so horrible that they almost all kept quiet while the experts speaking for them called for schools to be closed for years. They choose a controversial partisan side. And now the other side holds a Federal trifecta.
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7d ago
George Floyd was murdered and his murderer is currently in prison. The system worked, to the degree it does for handling murderers after the fact.
I would rather point to Michael Brown of "hands up, don't shoot" fame. He severely beat a cop with his bare hands. Fractured skull while in a car wearing a seat belt level beating. But Mr. Brown failed to take the cop's gun despite trying. Many cops have retention holsters and merely grabbing the grip of their gun and pulling won't get it out. Michael Brown then briefly ran away, but stopped, turned and charged the cop. It was then this cop defensively and justifiably shot an unarmed man to death.
Despite attempted railroading by the Obama administration, this cop escaped criminal punishment for his entirely justified defensive shooting of an unarmed man. Good thing Yudkowsky doesn't have some special veto power to punish this cop regardless. There's a reason we don't just cut knots. We need unruined un-carved-apart basic government institutions.
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7d ago
Yudkowsky who had a list of possible police reforms in the wake of the Death of George Floyd that included immediate and permanent removal of any police officer who is involved in the death of an unarmed person during an interaction
I remember seeing this from Yudkowsky and thinking it was ridiculous and yet another example of how unserious a person he is. Many ""unarmed"" people killed by the police attack a cop and try to take their gun. You cannot "unarmed" fight a cop. That's a fight with a gun involved.
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8d ago
Here's where the YIMBYs lecture us about how we have no right to veto ruinous forms of construction and zoning. Such as homeless shelters and safe injection sites anywhere near where I live.
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9d ago
what evidence is there that it rises to the severity of "an issue?"
None at all, obviously. Was this a serious request for "evidence" of common speech terms being applicable?
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9d ago
Google says some serious people claim that was real.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120511191600/http://www.cdi.org/blair/permissive-action-links.cfm
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10d ago
There's an issue with HBCUs not getting higher performing black students. Those people go to regular colleges. The ones who can't settle for HBCUs.
Many American government forms needlessly ask you for your race. Some have two categories of "white and Hispanic" and "white (not Hispanic)". Other forms have a yes or no Hispanic portion and a separate racial section. That is strictly speaking more correct since Hispanic is not a race. A Mexican whose ancestors immigrated from Japan are Hispanic and Asian.
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11d ago
think about Hansel and Gretel and their own parents just abandon them in the woods
Modern retellings make it a wicked step mother who abandons Hansel and Gretel in the woods.
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11d ago
I've been to martial arts gyms for which the only way to see updates, announcements and schedules is to go to their Facebook page.
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11d ago
You specifically can use house building and maintaining tools to dismantle all or part of a house. I've done major home renovation projects. I'm pretty clear on this.
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11d ago
We're putting a lot of weight on the subjective judgements of a magic mirror. Maybe the mirror is as muddled as real people and lacks a satisfying resolution to a "fair" vs "fair" conflict.
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14d ago
"Headshot your enemy. Doesn't matter how strong he is if his head is broken open."
Timeless wisdom.
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16d ago
We are on a few layers of speculation at this point, but I believe the issue is she may be an illegal maid or nanny. If she admits to past illegal work on a tourist visa then CBP may be skeptical of her story about staying for months with people she never met before and also ""helping"" out around their home.
I get that we don't want law enforcement dragging your European friend to a detention center because they helped clean up after hanging out with you. But we do want them identifying illegal nannies and deporting them. Such as probably this woman.
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16d ago
almost to the point of being a problem for things like FOIA
What a happy coincidence.
Are we damaging our international relations or putting a stop to low-life's trying to come here take 'Murican (comic book) Jerbs
If so, I am fine with this. Working on a visa that doesn't allow it? A few days in detention then deported with a ban on returning. Good riddance.
Overstaying a tourist visa to work and live in America indefinitely is a common method of illegal immigration. She's (presumably) doing the popular illegal activity of violating her visa terms.
Other than food.
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