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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
They're mostly not psychopaths, but the Cluster B personality disorders blend together and a lot of them look more like Anti-Social Personaity Disorder (ASPD) than plain narcissm. (you also see histrionic personality disorder, and plain old borderline)
(I am not a mental health professional, and so am not restricted by medical ethics from diagnosing these people :-) )
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I think what they actually believe is wealth is valid as long as you're on their side. They like to claim the wealth of those they oppose is undeserved inheritance which makes those people illegitimate (Musk in particular gets this, but they also tend to do less-specific broadsids).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
· Edited 2d ago
That the same word is sometimes used for computer nerds and theatre nerds does not mean there's any real confusion between the two.
Many left-wing nerds are, in fact, technically proficient and may even work for tech companies
The other-computer-nerd-hating computer nerds of the left do also come into it. Some of them are 'traitors' -- that is, they are cleaving to the socially more popular in an attempt to get themselves out of the despised nerd category, or at least out of the consequences of being in that category. A large category are feminists who hate only male computer nerds. Others are, to use the technical term, just 'cray-cray'.
while many right-wing nerds are well-acquainted with the humanities, art, and literature
That doesn't make them 'theatre nerds'. The theatre nerds are the ones who get into performing. Although I'm not sure the theatre nerds really are the largest category of computer-nerd hater; it's really journalist types.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I have not been able to read it yet - and I may not bother - but certainly the impression I get from the coverage of it is that its fundamental case is, well, that nerds are gross.
That's what it's always been. For a long time, nerds were kept in their place. Then with the dot-com boom and the rise of the FAANGs, some nerds had not only a lot of money (something always occasionally possible) but actual status. To be a software engineer at one of the top tech companies was to be someone respected. It drove the kind of people who use the word "nerd" with scorn absolutely nuts. They tried to tear it down. They mostly succeeded, but there's still those pesky execs (who liked their employees losing status) who are pretty nerdy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The "reasons you have listed" are just you assuming your own conclusion.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
So the dastardly plan here is that the frontier labs destroy their own leads on the theory that they'll be able to control the regulatory state so thoroughly as to choke out all other competition and avoid becoming a commodity.
That's kind of how regulatory capture works, yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Yes. There's a lot of money around. Getting a billion dollars, or 10 billion dollars, is much easier than getting past a regulator controlled by the firms you want to compete with.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
And a possible English translation of Al Qaeda is "The Foundation."
The book was translated into Arabic and called "القاعدة" (Al Qaeda), but not until 2022. I don't think "Qaeda" means that sort of foundation in Arabic -- it can mean a headquarters, or a basis for something, but not the sort of academic organization the original Foundation was supposed to have been (Of course, Asimov meant all three meanings, but if the wordplay wouldn't work, you'd expect the title of a translation to reflect the surface meaning)
The whole bin Laden/Foundation thing seems to have been an invention of The Guardian, which means "the fake news" in British English. The naming of the translation was likely influenced by that, rather than vice versa.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
No, he just has to worry about massive inflation, fuel shortages, and food scarcity pushing Irans already disgruntled populace into another round of mass protests.
Eh, he can just kill a bunch of them again. Works every time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
While actual complete 100% equality is probably impossible, it is still an ideal worth striving for.
Striving for "equality" in practice gets you female supremacy.
otherwise it will only become more dystopian with time.
Yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Cuba is a small island nation with no real industry. Iran is a real country with its own industrial base.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
A derivative of a word meaning "man" is in there, but it's "tor", not "his".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
It would also allow for an eventual drawdown of American forces in the region, similar to how America doesn't really feel a need to keep significant forces on standby in the Med or Caribbean
This would require regime change to something non-hostile to the US, which doesn't look like it's in the cards. If the Iranian regime folds without collapsing, the US will still need to keep significant presence in the area.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
The Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928 outlawed all war.
Article I
The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Article II
The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.
Of those involved in the 1948 war, however, only Egypt and Iraq had ratified the treaty. Israel had not (and still has not). The treaty is still technically in effect, but it is clear none of the parties (including the US) take it seriously.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Sure it's debatable. And part if it requires information that none of us have (or if we do we can't say). I disagree on (2); Iran was rather likely to nuke Tel Aviv as soon as they could. For multiple reasons. One, because destroying the Little Satan is one of their basic goals. Two, because the Israelis would certainly attempt to destroy any nuclear capability even after they got it by any means available; there would be pressure to use it or lose it. (3) seems unreasonable; Iran's capabilities to build anything have been very degraded and they can't start rebuilding until the US is no longer breathing down their necks, priorities or no.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
The releases were not just strait up releases. They were swaps. Meaning the US releases oil now and gets it back later. Except the amount they get back later is 26% higher than what they released.
Doesn't matter if the "later" doesn't come before the reserves are depleted.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
That's your black pill. The leftists were correct: fairness does not work. There will always be a thumb on the scale and the only real questions are whose thumb, which side of the scale, and just how heavy is it pushing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
We won a delay in the start of the next nuclear war.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
At this point in time, pretty much the US.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
This is the equivalent of saying, today, that Apple stock was an obvious buy in 2007. Easy to say in hindsight, isn't it?
Uh, I bought Apple stock in 2007.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
There is such a thing. It is not what the UNILC thinks it is. It is what the relevant nations agreed to and can and will accept and enforce.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
You really want the gloves to be entirely off?
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.
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