TeknOShEeP
20d ago
Lol, I think No_one already made the point, but everything you just listed was literally part of Clinton's re-election platform. People keep saying it because it is very true- if you shut out the TDS-spawned commentary, you have to search very hard to find much difference between the policies espoused by Clinton and those favored by Trump. The parties are flipping again, 90s Dems are todays MAGA, early 2000s NeoCons are todays Dems.
TeknOShEeP
25d ago
Or he's multi-tasking, as in that wonderful leaked SpaceX call where we learned the Starship was one second from abort on the tower catch, while Musk was streaming his diablo run the whole time.
SBF also famously did this with league of legends, but was also notoriously bad at LoL, whereas Musk appears to be actually good at Diablo. Maybe we should start judging business leaders by their gaming chops.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Ahaha, hooo man, I forgot about that one. Has there ever been a less appropriate exclamation point?
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Hmm, now that you point it out i didnt realize how bad the macros are on black bean burgers specifically, like you say its majority carbohydrates. Well, good to know.
My usual choice of veggie burgers includes lots of nuts in the make-up, so its a pretty much even 33% carbs/fat/protein calorie distribution, for about 125 calories total, im pretty happy with that mix for my normal eating habits. Add 1 tablespoon of hummus, maybe twice that in feta with some chopped veggies in a whole wheat or spinnach tortilla overall works quite well, dont have the exact macros to hand but i did calculate them and was very satisfied with the results.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Veggie burgers, and the slightly more specific black bean burger, are fantastic little bites that give you protein without making you feel as heavy or full as a normal burger. Im not even a vegetarian and i love the things. Take a frozen veggie or black bean patty- throw it in the microwave for two minutes, then into a tortilla with some hummus, feta, and your choice of chopped veggies and you have a healthy high protein big snack or light meal that wont bloat you up. My go-to for busy evenings.
I think they succeed because they're not trying to be a meat substitute, they're something else delicious.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Why is it that Trump is rarely referred to by first name?
Virtually all presidential candidates are referred to by their last name (Gore v Bush, McCain/Romney v Obama, Biden v Trump). The outliers recently have been the two female democratic nominies, and while I have seen sexism suggested as a motive, as far as I am aware the first-name designation came from the campaigns themselves. "Hillary" was the obvious one, becuae "Clinton" would be associated with a former president who might have pissed off the sorts of demographics Democrats needed to win- ie NAFTA and the unions, that sort of thing. "Kamala" seems to be more of an affectionate branding designed to emphasize her non-whiteness, but most of her campaign signs that I've seen do read Harris/Walz.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
I find it annoying when people just cite LLM output, but the alternative is they still post LLM blather and lie about it being their own writing, so i will take the minor annoyance instead of the large integrity violation.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Well, speaking from personal experience, the management at Boeing spans quite a wide social demographic. And yes, they do have a history of solving difficult problems, but the current management is a different set of people than those problem solvers, being made up mostly of SoCal Defense industry or Jack Welch era GE castoffs who's primary competancy is spreadsheet optimization. The hard charging problem solvers were mostly made up of people like Musk or tech industry types- move fast and break things used to be a very valid approach to aerospace, as long as your breakage was confined to flight test only.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Reagan did some great things, and genuinely had a vision for the future. He also left office more than a third of a century ago. Bush Sr. is notable pretty much only for beating up on a couple of tinpot dictators and largely failing on the domestic front. Bush Jr is notable for being completely eclipsed by his VP, embracing the idiot wing of the GOP, finishing up his daddies work in the most expensive fashion possible, and entangling the nation in a festering quagmire of a war that wouldnt succeed in its objective of killing one guy until the next president and genrally being an enormous suck of lives and treasure; domestically he passed a terrible education bill and a few minor tax cuts while overseeing the regulatory idiocy that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
None of this is worth celebrating- good riddance to it.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
Counterpoint: Trump's proposed tarrifs on China (which he seems likely to attempt again) are the best piece of environmental action that could happen. As you say, Asia compensates for any reductions in the West. The Rationalist take is to use all means possible to force Asia to follow Western regulations, tarrifs on cheap Chinese good flooding Western markets are a very good way to force that change.
Credit where it is due: the Biden admins de minimis reforms are also a good step in this direction. Now if we could just renegotiate the UPU treaties that make it 400% more expensive to ship a brick across Smalltown USA than from mainland China, we'd really be making progress.
TeknOShEeP
1mo ago
But the old Movement is 100% gone.
Good? The old movement already lost twice to Obama, and then to Trump in the primary. It is non-viable in the current political environment, and any forseeable future environment, as the Republican party, at least. The National Review and David French can wail and gnash their teeth on the daily until the cows come home, but the world has changed, and they need to deal with that fact.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
$1400 a year... deep-pocketed anchor customer willing to guarantee the bills get paid
Airlines (United and Hawaiian air have deals), Starlink is $10k per month per airframe, and cruise lines at $5k per month. Combined with other corporate operators (biz jets, oil platforms, etc) all of whom are frigging starved for reliable high speed internet in-transit and on remote locations, frankly Starlink is going to be printing money in exponentially increasing volumes.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
No. The waste byproducts of nuclear energy are, by both volume and mass trivially small. You will see about 1/4 of the way down that link the waste products of 28 years of commercial reactor operation, this is immediately followed by the note that 97% of those waste products are recyclable. You can also see the lifespan of the remaining 3%, the truly nasty stuff that spews hard gamma radiation- 600 years. In 600 years, the nastiest, most lethal chunks of spent nuclear fuel have decayed to a sufficient degree that by current federal law you would require no protection to handle them, you could simply pick them up with your bare hands.
So, while 600 years is not nothing, its also not the "millenia and millenia" of danger that alarmist propaganda spews.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
The eternal struggle of the rich Marxist...
I dunno, this one is just one more on the list of "times FdB almost got it, but stopped just short of the obvious conclusion." The people being criticized here are, to a statistically significant degree, all rich, urban leftists. Freddy is also a rich, urban leftist who writes exellent articles taking 95% of the piss out of a group he knows very well, but that last 5% will not happen until he realizes the system he supports is the same one he criticizes.
I see a similar tone, though not so close to almost getting it, in many of Scotts SSC and ACT writings. I predict the "are we the baddies" meme has a bright future.
TeknOShEeP
2mo ago
The best description of Toronto I've heard is that its a city that "thinks its the equal of New York, but in reality is less then half of a Chicago". I would have judged this an unfair critique until I met a bunch of people from Toronto, all of whom thought that I should have been impressed by their status as denizens of the aforementioned metro area (in fairness, New Yorkers and Londoners do this too, and are just as mad when I do not ask for their recommendations for the most up to date and hip spots in town, but in theory there are places in NYC and LON that i would want to visit, Toronto has no such saving grace). I guess I don't connect with people who are boosters for their home city, and that seems to be a large percentage of Torontians.
TeknOShEeP
3mo ago
The loss ratio for title insurance includes all of the legal and administrative fees necessary to resolve the claim, up to and including straight up reimbursement. So yes, the sevarity of a valid claim is quite high, its just that claims are incredibly rare. I would also point out that compared to most other types of insurance, the overhead for title insurance is very, very low.
I dont think the argument is that title insurance shouldnt exist, its that the price has been spiked by absurb multiples due to effective collusion of the providers and their related industry contacts, and that property buyers are less aware of this price gouging due to the peculiar nature of real estate transactions.
No. Regardless, you will still have to purchase title insurance for any financed transaction, which is according to the numbers, the biggest scam in the insurance industry.
To save you a click, title insurance has a loss ratio of around 5%, which corresponds to a roughly 20x markup. Contrast this with say fire insurance, which has a 65% loss ratio (ie the insurer expects to pay out 65 cents in claims for every dollar they collect in premiums), automotive of 75%, and homeowners of 82%.
TeknOShEeP
4mo ago
After owning many expensive and high tech raincoats, I've concluded they are a scam. Waterproof + breatheable is simply a contradiction in terms, no matter how much fancy GoreTex you use in the construction. Better coats will last a bit longer before soaking through, but they all soak through eventually. Better coats will let your sweat out a bit better, for a bit longer, before becoming saturated and soaking you in your sweat. The single most important factor is how many vents the jacket has, and how well they work. There seems to be little correlation between price and vent quality.
If you dont want to get wet, bring an umbrella. If you dont want to get wet from rain, but dont mind getting sweaty, then a poncho or trash bag works great, as do cheap non-breatheable waterproof jackets that are basically just a solid plastic shell (like the traditional bright yellow ones).
TeknOShEeP
4mo ago
What would you have me do?
Be consistent. If you say you dont treat black people as a monolithic block, then don't. Recognize that those who shriek about the lack of cap on black are happily assuming they are all interchangeable persons who share exactly the same cultural experiences based solely on their skin color.
It would appear that this decision made by the AP wasn't just something they decided out-of-the-blue.
Correct, and if they hadn't omitted the four words "with our news room" after "consultation" it would be an entirely accurate and honest statement. That absense manages to suggest that this policy is something other than a lily-livered, vibe-checking, virtue signal without directly stating it, but if you are familiar with the particular dialect of urban leftoid journo-bullshit spoken by the AP its meaning is clear enough: "we can't be bothered to explore the nuances of African-American, or African-African" (fucking LOL to that!) "cultural, ethnic, tribal, or economic groupings, and hope our fellow guilt-ridden whiteys will reconize this noble gesture rids us of the need to actually clarify our identifiers, because frankly we're too cowardly and lazy to do that."
Race isn't a monolith... white people... Black people
Oh really?
I dont think I can recall a more transparently racist, or at least racially monolithic movement than this particular push by the swap creatures infesting the halls of Big Journalism than this particular quirk. We must always capitalize "Black" to denote their universally shared identity and experiences, but "white" people are normal, default, boring individualists who dont share a common identity? Thats not me exaggerating, thats straight from the AP Style guide. Its tranparently divisive and racist, and also hilariously ignorant of ethnic relations within Africa proper.
If you want me to believe you dont see race as a monolith, dont treat it like one. Assuming all black people share experiences because of their skin color is peak whitey guilt.
TeknOShEeP
4mo ago
Its a good line, but its completely sabotaged by being surrounded by the paragraphs upon paragraphs of racial and gender grievences her speechwriters love to use. If you are going to talk about unburdening America from what has been, then you have to actually do that.
I actually think Kamala could be a somewhat decent speaker if she immediately fires all of her current speechwriters and hires the most cynical, chain-smoking, philandering, mercenary, SOB writer she can find in DC. She can't do "starry-eyed idealist", she can do "jaded cop stepping into the top job when her city needs her".
TeknOShEeP
4mo ago
Not really- gangs work like armies in microcosm. Theres plenty of people who do things like logistical support (ie transporting narcotics, guns, and fellow gang members) and administrative work (even drug dealers need some sort of accountants, and babysitting offspring is a non-trivial challenge), and a relatively small number of infrantry/grunts/bangers who are on the "front lines". It may not be obvious to outsiders, but gang members and associates certainly know who is most likely to be involved in violence.
Plus Rolex is the poor man's idea of a high end watch brand. Their stuff is overpriced
Vicious propaganda spread by AP, Patek, and RM fans. It is perhaps more correct to say Rolex is a rich man's idea of a "blue collar" brand. In horology circles, Rolex is the Toyota Camry: economical, ubiquitous, not particularly flashy (compared to other options) or complicated (in the horological sense), and the high end models are mostly a silly joke and a waste of money. But your basic-bitch Submariners, Explorers, and GMT masters remain about the single most accurate, reliable, and abuse-tolerant mechanical watches sold today.
One of these things is not like the others.
In my very blue west coast city, the visible homeless are without exception all three of those things. We have a huge number of programs that will get anyone experiencing "homeless-by-misfortune" off the streets and into stable housing in under 24 hours. Those who decline such services do so because they do not allow you to commit numerous property crimes to fund your meth and fentanyl addiction and remain in your taxpayer-funded living situation.
The social safety net put in place to help fundamentally decent people who have been rendered destitute throughthe vaugeries of fate (God's Poor, to borrow the phrase of an earlier age) works. It really does. The problem is our bums are the Devil's Poor- complete shitheads who have burned every bridge in their lives and care only for their own sensations, fuck anyone else. They do not want help or redemption, and mistaking the latter for the former is the very simple answer for why the "homeless" problem has exploded recently. It's not a homeless problem, it's a shithead problem.
The opinion is monumentally dumb, departing from the three prior rulings which wisely declined not to tread in this shaky ground and "going boldly where no man has gone before" to absolutely violate the fuck out of federal labor law. The judge flat out admits this rescission leaves Musk uncompensated for five years of labor, cloaking it in the fig leave of "well he made a bunch of money on the stock he already owned." That's not how employment law works- employees, including CEOs, must be compensated for their labor, this is a bedrock principle of America, we even have a fucking constitutional ammendment about it.
The judge can rule it was an unfair agreement, but to abrogate responsibility to determine fairness (with a piss-poor cite to another case about bonus claw backs where employees were still paid salaries) and simply say "nope, actually slavery is fine" because she didn't like how Tesla argued the case is gross misconduct.
I get that Musk is not a sympathetic plaintiff, and I get that Tesla didnt take this seriously, but the fact that a judge can rescind a mutually agreed upon contract and leave an employee with zero dollars for five years of work and no one is making a bigger deal of it is fucking mind blowing to me. This is the kind of precedent that kills democracy. At the very least, Deleware suddenly became a very unattractive state to incorporate in.
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