The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
Democrats might unilaterally end the blockade and protection of ship traffic, abandoning the war. At which point Iran is in full control of the strait, a big win for them. They can continue attacking the pipelines at will. And without the threat of bombing and with all their nuclear material they can restart their nuclear weapons program. Another big win for them.
Whether that's better than taking Trump's deal depends on how much the Iranians value their nuclear material and their defiance. And this seems to be "quite high", compared to how much they weigh the welfare of their people.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Better than not mowing, which is what lead to the October 7 attack. But the US had an easier task -- we didn't need to convince people who considered us our sworn enemy to be destroyed at any and all costs not to attack us. We just had to convince people who hated us but mostly wanted to run Afghanistan not to attack us nor give shelter to those who would.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
A juror is certainly allowed to say during deliberations "I think that witness is lying, there's no way it could have happened that way" by relying on his or her experiences or expertise.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It turns out the EA people were wrong about their signature policy: they should have been funding malaria vaccines.
But yeah, Africa's problems can't be solved by throwing money at them. Because even if your target is good, when you throw money, there's always people happy to get between you and your target.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It couldn't be done by air. But the US could have invaded, killed Al Queda in Afghanistan, killed all the Taliban who protected them and their subordinates a few levels deep, and then left -- basically a punitive raid on a massive scale. The new Taliban that would take over after that would likely get the message, and if they didn't the lesson could be repeated. I think this is basically what we should have done, but only in hindsight.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
And they know that if they start trouble, the Americans will get involved, but if they keep allowing shipping through, the American's won't touch the conflict with a 10 foot pole.
I expect Trump has told them this in so many words.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
You're allowed to bring your expertise and life experience to the jury room.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
This is true but it does not allow you to interpret toxicology reports which some claim they did.
If the toxicology reports are in evidence, any consideration a juror makes of them is "interpretation". It would only be misconduct if they got the toxicology reports from outside the courtroom.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The punchline, if you can't read the Community Note, is that 9 of those were suicides. The 10th is unresolved but currently being treated as a homicide.
Doesn't matter. AOC isn't a conspiracy theorist, she's a liar, and she can get away with it because the mainstream Democratic press won't challenge her.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Correct; if the rowers are rowing us directly towards Scylla when we are not in danger from Charybdis, we are better off drinking than rowing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Something having been done is a pretty good indication of it being able to be done.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
That's what the election of Trump was. A mutiny against the shared consensus of the political class, one which is no longer (if it ever was) consensus among the electorate.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I expect we'll skip directly to Romulus Augustus. But no, Trump is not Caesar. Sure, he'd like to be, but he's still got way too much talk and way too little action to come close.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The practical obstacles to doing a Ken Thompson hack are immense, which is why it's never been done.
It was done, by Thompson. The talk wasn't theoretical.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It's work, of course. But it's not bringing external money into the family unit, so it functions as avoidance of consumption (external child care providers) rather than income. Perhaps we should impute the income of the SAHM and tax them on it, then we can call it work in the external sense. (I kid, I kid)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The wealthy are already taxed heavily from what I understand. It doesnt seem to deter them all that much from having kids, depending on how high up the ladder you go. I doubt people in Elon Musks bracket [snip]
Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. If you have to go up that high you've conceded the argument.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It's means tested; you wouldn't get it at all.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
· Edited 4d ago
Yeah, it's a dumb idea. You can't support families in general with redistribution, because for every dollar of help you're also committing at least a dollar of harm. This mostly applies even if you try to target the harm -- if you target the childless, you make their lives more difficult and thus discourage them from having children. Even if you target the old, you end up harming their children making them less likely to have children. There's the old-and-childless, but there just aren't enough of them (and if your policies were successful they'd be self-limiting). If you use a means-tested program (as this is), you're helping the poor have children but making it less likely the wealthier have children.
There are also, of course, the hazards of making people into government dependents. And while the proposal claims to be using existing funds, it seems rather likely that once it is funding both R and D clients it will grow. And it will be used for fraud at a massive scale, like "elder care" and "learing centers".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
If they think white people are a cash cow, they are not doing a good job optimizing milk production.
Well, that's the thing: if they were any good at farming, they wouldn't need the white people.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
There are long-standing political norms of giving opposition posts related to control of power.
The Brandmauer (German version of the "cordon sanitaire") says the AfD does not get the benefit of this. Which makes the system basically as if the AfD is one party and the other parties are all simply factions of another party.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Despite the German claim of being a multi-party parliamentary democracy, in effect there are two parties, "AfD" and "not AfD". Not-AfD won. Unless AfD gets a clear majority, they get no power.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Sure, bin Laden could have seen the connection. But I don't think a pre-9/11 translation of Asimov's "Foundation" would have called it "Al Queda" but the Arabic word for the kind of organization the Foundation was (Google is telling me "Mu'assasah").
But doesn't matter, the whole thing is just out-and-out speculation by the author of that article in The Guardian.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
No, thanks to the MADD mothers, drinking while driving is considered premeditation in itself in many states.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Sure, because you're supposed to not listen to the moon goblins. If the disease makes you believe the moon goblins are the source of moral truth, however, the defense does apply.
Your proposal works as well on the actually innocent as it does on the criminals released because the prosecutor likes certain sorts criminals, and for that reason among many others there is absolutely now way it would fly in the courts.
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