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.
3hr ago
The corporate types love to split the difference with new tech. First they'll ban it as a security risk or whatever. Then they'll allow (or mandate) some gimped version which may or may not still have the security/compliance flaws, but definitely lacks the advantages of the forbidden unrestricted version.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Most bullshit jobs exist because other bullshit jobs exist. You can see this in healthcare; you've got armies of healthcare admins whose job it is basically to make sure they get paid, and other armies of insurance people whose job it is to try not to pay. Or "compliance", where you've got people whose job it is to make sure all the paperwork is done right, and other people's job it is to punish the first set if they don't do it correctly.
A good project manager may be useful, but most of them IME were basically making sure the paperwork got done and the charts filled out, and were a net negative for actually getting the stuff done. The usual argument is they're needed for management to do their job, but I'm doubtful.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
All the LKW stans I've known have either been right-wing or (very confused) libertarians.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
You seem to think an AI economy would somehow eliminate the busywork. I think it more likely that we'll pay AI companies to write bullshit emails to each other while still generating enough bullshit work for humans to keep us employed. If ever we figure out how to eliminate the busywork, it'll be because we really did have a FOOM situation and the AI will have no further need for us.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Or a virus that's slightly harmful to humans could mutate to become more deadly. As has happened. If you worry about all of the possibilities, you'll never stop worrying.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
This isn't even a novel hantavirus. It's Andes strain.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Right; caning is merely draconian, not totalitarian. Totalitarianism is about scope of control, not so much the penalties for violating controls. Banning chewing gum is a more totalitarian than caning for vandalism.
Social conservatism can certainly be totalitarian; think of a stifling system where everyone's life is basically plotted out for them by others, everyone has a place and every place a person. Could be religious, could be patriarchical, could be feudal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
The alternative to all-in on identity politics is all-in on socialism, communism, redistribution -- the DSA, basically. Mandami won NYC handily, Katie Wilson has Seattle, Washington State has its new millionaire tax and California its proposed wealth tax which has already driven several billionaires out. At the national level this is mostly represented by fossils like Warren and Sanders, but AOC could make a return to relevance. They've got allies here with some of the anti-boomer right, which would like nothing more than to redistribute the spoils of dispossessing old people of their homes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Note that gas is still lower than it was under Biden.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Iran is a sovereign nation and can spend money on whatever it believes is in its strategic interest, as long as it abides by its international commitments.
From Iran's perspective, they are next door to a hostile nuclear power with illegal nuclear weapons.
Israel is also a sovereign nation, and NOT a member (unlike Iran) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Anything done by the allies was because the Americans enabled them.
And anything done by enemies was because the Americans provoked them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
If 1-2SD changes in intelligence don't require a "large" evolutionary change, then HBD can be true without requiring "large" evolutionary changes, and @magic9mushroom's skepticism of those is irrelevant.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Those protestors were not armed by the US, Israel, or anyone else.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Paying for the sick and elderly is similarly generally seen as the state's responsibility only when other options are unavailable.
Err, given Medicare, SSDI, and ordinary old age social security, this seems obviously false in the US. I believe it is even more false in Europe.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I don't think anyone even moderately interested in HBD would use "Arabs" as a shorthand which included Persians and Copts.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Right. You need Jensen Huang, plus all the various competent people he hires and who make up his customers. Plus you need a paucity of competent ultraparasites who make Bernie Sanders look like an Ayn Rand fan -- that's a thing lacking almost everywhere. Note that California, at least, is crossing a line on that latter point.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
And lactose tolerance. Not to mention the dead obvious one -- skin color.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
It's still Kafka-esque, it's just precedented Kafka instead of unprecedented.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I'm sure you've heard "don't stick your dick in crazy". These men proposed to crazy and went through with the wedding.
Courts and lawmakers look at them and aren't that eager to put a major effort into helping them clear up that mess.
Yet when said crazies divorce them and the men don't pay up, the courts are all over themselves clearing up that mess. You can't sanewash this by saying only bad people are affected; the who/whom cuts along sex lines.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
The best argument I can think of is that someone needs to pay for the kid.
How about Bill Gates? He's wealthy, and was just as involved in the kid's creation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
with some of the defeated later drifting right having found some safe harbor there
This is known as "having been thrown into the pit".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Also quite successful inside of organized crime.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Sicily is very poor for Europe and the DR is doing quite well for Latin America, but Sicily is still much richer than the DR.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Not the same genes. Haiti is ~90% sub-Saharan African, the DR closer to 40%.
I expect there's some genetic variance east to west across Germany as well, though Communism was obviously the larger influence.
It's also Andes virus, a strain known for human-to-human transmission, rather than the North American Sin Nombre virus, which is not. (It's called Sin Nombre because two proposed names based on where it was first found didn't pass political muster)
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