The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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1d ago
I'll be launching $NYBBLER next week. Its value is fixed at 0, but it'll get to be a deeper and deeper zero the longer it is held.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
Okay but we're putting the heavy drinker or the cat in the position of commander in chief of the United States military! That's bad.
Worked OK for Grant.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
What scam? As you say
For those who are unfamiliar, a 'shitcoin' or 'memecoin' is a term for a tradeable token that lives on a blockchain, like Ethereum or Solana, that doesn't make a claim to have value or future profits
If they aren't making claims of value or profits, there's no scam. It's no different than selling Trump baseball cards.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
How would he know?
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
Is he still using ACX grants to provide cash for the outgroup?
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
Going from 80% to 95% would save me something like $200 a year, so it’ll take 30+ years for the investment to beat bonds
And water heaters don't last 30 years.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
But I could be wrong.
In this thread the phrase "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" came up. And this is one of those cases where it applies. Were the ERA to pass, all sexes would be equal, but some sexes would be more equal than others. Through a combination of procedural trickery and sophistry, measures which favor women would remain legal, while measures which favor men would become Constitutionally illegal. Since neither conservatives nor leftists want to draft women, court cases requiring that would face impossible barriers.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
The court in Dr. Karsan's case based their judgement on 170A.002(b)(2), a different chapter entirely.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
Technically the Archivist of the United States has the final, non-reviewable, say on validity of amendments
Certainly not; if the Supreme Court says one thing and the Archivist says another, the Supreme Court is going to get its way.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
This is banana republic levels of absurdity.
It's bananas, but the last-minute cigarette-with-nicotine ban and the non-condensing gas water heater ban are worse. This is just bloviating.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
Asked and answered in previous threads. There are magic words the physician has to say, and by doing so they are putting their reputation on the line and subjecting themselves to the judgement of the Texas medical board. But as far as I can tell, they are not putting themselves at risk of criminal penalty; the law is quite deferential to their judgement.
I'm fairly sure discharging a patient with sepsis is far riskier. And not just for the patient.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
Once Israel is a 'pariah state', 'the US is forcing this peace on us' is no longer usable.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
The term "medical emergency" is not defined in the statute.
This is, to all intents and purposes, a lie. It is not defined in the heartbeat law itself, but it is defined in the chapter the heartbeat law is part of, and that definition explictly covers the whole chapter.
Anyway, this case has been discussed before
They identified several missed opportunities, which began when she arrived at the first hospital and was misdiagnosed with strep.
When she went to another hospital she screened positive for sepsis, but as her fetus still had a heartbeat, she was discharged.
If you're sending someone home with untreated sepsis, it isn't the heartbeat law that's the problem.
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3d ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-words-words-words/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/12/does-race-exist-does-culture/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-romanceless/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/
Or in general
https://slatestarcodex.com/tag/things-i-will-regret-writing/
https://slatestarcodex.com/tag/things-i-will-regret-writing/page/2/
Some of these were likely more controversial in their original than their current form.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
No, Scott was not at serious risk of being debanked; in the speech context, that was reserved for those who made a serious run at pre-Musk Twitter, and Scott was too niche for that. And all he had to do to vastly reduce the risk of being stripped of his professional license... was not to practice in the place most utterly under the control of the people who would do that. Scott never should have moved back to the Bay Area.
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3d ago
Right, Kolmogorov Complicity IS complicity. It's one thing to shut up, and to tell others they should shut up because otherwise the state will kill them. But Kolmogorov himself actively testified against his mentor. And Scott Aaronson suggests as part of the Kolmogorov Option that "You even seek out common ground with the local enforcers of orthodoxy." Sorry; at that point you're you're just one of their footsoldiers, and deserve contempt.
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4d ago
We heard about the Pakistani rape gangs before. It died down and nothing happened. Same with Cologne. When the wokeness wave recedes you can light a spark, but you can't get a fire going and you get smothered by the next incoming wave.
The_Nybbler
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4d ago
Mass coordinated dance is a black thing.
Quite a few cultures have it. Irish step dancing comes immediately to mind, for instance. Or the humble square dance.
The_Nybbler
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4d ago
It's a Firefly reference.
The_Nybbler
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4d ago
More likely they play nice until Hamas's sudden but inevitable betrayal.
The_Nybbler
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4d ago
If they become a pariah state they lose their peace with Jordan and Egypt, so that doesn't help.
The_Nybbler
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4d ago
People who continually talk about overturning or avenging a crime done against them almost a hundred years ago are not suffering some sort of cyclical memory wipe.
What they are forgetting is not the offense, but how badly they got whipped last time they tried "avenging" it.
The_Nybbler
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5d ago
The progressives did NOT dismantle the house; they skin-suited it. This may be almost as good or even better politically, but it's not the same as bringing on their postmodern utopia.
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5d ago
U.S. Patent #3258500
That's a patent for a particular manufacturing process. The chemicals were in use before that patent (as the patent's text states).
As often, the "unspoken conventions" are either applied selectively (Hello Human Resources), or wholly made up after the fact and imposed by the higher-status party.
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