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.
8hr ago
There's a place in NJ (the Passaic River between Lyndhurst and Nutley) which is known for being full of such crap, including artillery shells. Even better, the area is full of people who look vaguely like Mangione. If he'd taken the time to dump the gun and silencer a little downstream of the bridge, they'd likely have never been found. Though honestly any river would have done; if they'd found no incriminating items on him he could have brazened it out.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Oregon, Washington, and Tennessee have state-mandated urban growth boundaries for all cities. California has growth boundaries in many areas. Even Florida does. Maryland has a state growth plan that prevents building in Western Maryland. Then there's things like affordable housing requirements, which mean you can't build market price SFH in any given town unless you build the requisite number of subsidized pods.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I'd add another requirement: the suburb must still be dependent on the city for many, if not most, infrastructure and amenities. A suburb has some schools and maybe a grocery store - but not much more. Otherwise, its not a suburb but a small town.
This doesn't really work in a fair number of places. There are a lot of places where the suburb is neither self-sufficient nor dependent on the city; instead it's dependent on other suburbs for some things.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The US has duplexes as well. They used to be more popular... when the US was much poorer, like in the first half of the 20th century.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There's approximately 0 veto-ing that prevents new suburban development
Incorrect. Central planning at the state and regional level does so, through urban growth boundaries and similar growth restrictions. This isn't NIMBYs (who mostly don't want you to build halfway houses for criminals and/or the mentally ill, or dense pod housing, next to them), it's New Urbanists and similar anti-sprawl types restricting single family development.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
But man, I don't want to get hit with the rare earth metals stick whenever the POTUS doesn't kowtow to the emperor. I'm still torn between whether the economists should be running the show or whether we should keep them as far away from the levers of power as possible.
A large part of the problem there is not with economists but with a different E-word. Cowen mentioned building datacenters... well, look what we have here!.
More than 230 organizations, including Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace signed a public letter urging members of Congress to support a national moratorium on the approval and construction of new data centers, citing rising electricity and water consumption.
The general problem of having engineers run a country is they're going to try to engineer things. And that's great for the public works department trying to build a sewer system, but sucks for an economy filled with independent agents. Central planning is terrible.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
An American in England told by police to apologize for an unspecified Facebook post
English blogger arrested for "Fuck Hamas" tweet
There's tons of these, to the point that the claim "whenever I look into it the people are being so offensive to the point of derangement or they're co-mingled with violent threats or slander." is just gaslighting.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
No. The defense's theory is that the wounded man was the aggressor; yelling the slurs afterwards was part of the evidence.
Transit cameras showed Edwards, a fixed-blade knife clasped at his side, approaching Howard from behind as he sat on a bench. The video has no sound, but Howard springs up and pushes Edwards as soon as he sees him. The duo scuffle against a wall for a brief moment, ending with Edwards stabbing Howard in the shoulder.
Edwards is the defendant, Howard is the man who was stabbed.
Note this wasn't "violent homeless guy attacking ordinary commuter", this was "two violent homeless guys get into a fight". So I can see there might be reasonable doubt, although based on the still in the article (I haven't seen the video) I think Edwards should have been convicted.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Speaking as an old person, motion smoothing sucks. Old people are the only people who remember why that's called the "soap opera effect".
The effect of 60p is not quite the same. I'm not sure about 24p on a 120p display, never having had one.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Traci Lords did. Not a great career, but definitely a career.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Their architectures may be behind the times, but their training data is uniquely comprehensive.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
You are basically whitewashing the TAs actions here. If the article was instead about how prayer helped coping with some aspects of adolescence, and an athiest student wrote a response essay which said this was ridiculous because there was no God, with the same rubric, and they were given a zero for it, this would be just as clearly religious discrimination.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
It seems to be partly a facebook thing. The comments on the actual article are more mixed.
But it shouldn't be a surprise, it's not about socialism or redistribution. It's about health insurance and their leadership specifically. Health insurance companies are known chiefly for two things -- hiking premiums and denying claims.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Because you could just be bad at math. Or finance.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Price increase in the very basics of American life - fast food - have apparently outpaced official inflation since 2014 by about a factor of 3.
Meanwhile, in California...
And minimum wages in general have been going up in urban areas.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
People are nostalgic for the times where you could get hired in the town you were raised and make a good life for yourself.
They're nostalgic, then, for a time their parents don't remember.
I don't even know where to buy a new CRT TV. Maybe they're cheaper now, but I don't have that option when I go to the electronics store.
You can't get a new CRT TV. But I see that Best Buy and Amazon have flat screen TVs (24") for $50. These are strictly superior to the old 20" CRT TVs. $300 gets you up to 50".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
It's a specific case of a general "argument" against a harsh policy -- "well, how about we apply this harsh policy to you and yours only, how do you like that?"
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
But clearly, the intellectual standards at the academy have been slipping broadly as to fall for such an trap.
It wouldn't have been a trap a year ago, it would have been a triumph. The student would have been failed (or perhaps kicked out of the class or even expelled) and the TA would have been lauded for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
My supposedly intelligent Gen X peers were buying houses like mad during the bubble, using ARMs. I'm looking at them doing this and thinking they're crazy, using an ARM when interest rates were at historic lows (about where they are today, in fact).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Manhattan
Manhattan's population is down a lot since the 1920s, but it's about equal to the 1960s population.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Sure, it's a terrible rubric. Most likely this class simply shouldn't exist. It's probably being used for political indoctrination.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
At this point you're insisting a vague term ('some aspect') means something very specific (there must be a citation to the specific part of the article being reacted to). I simply don't believe this.
The WSJ gives a number of 52% for "jobs that don’t make use of their skills or credentials"
https://archive.is/ZZ6le
This includes some younger Millennials as well.
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