The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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8hr ago
Do you have any reason to doubt? I couldn't, without significant effort, produce specific evidence of this. And my experience with "citation needed" is no citation will be accepted anyway. But here's something in the ballpark.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Elvis/comments/xhef68/on_december_31st_1975_elvis_performed_the_largest/
The_Nybbler
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10hr ago
I personally see this as net negative for society, others might see it as net positive, but I think it is hard to argue it is not happening.
It's not that it's not happening. It's that it's not new. Video games are kind of the exception, but the idea that they were ever just for children never really solidified; the Boomers (except the youngest) pretty much played them ONLY as adults if they played them, and every generation since never stopped playing.
The_Nybbler
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11hr ago
But that's actually my question - in the 1970s, were there actually any unmarried childless women in their thirties showing up to Elvis gigs and literally fainting with excitement?
In a word, yes.
The_Nybbler
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12hr ago
Elvis's rabid teenage fans grew up to be his rabid thirty-plus female fans (and his remaining rabid 80+ female fans who sustain SirusXM's Elvis channel). Same goes for Swift; she's not a teenybopper anymore; she was famously born in 1989 making her 35 years old.
The_Nybbler
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13hr ago
Declaring one's own aesthetic preferences to be moral precepts was supposed to be a conservative failing, not one of old-school commies.
Not dressing like shit.
"Proper business attire" wasn't handed down from the Gods, it didn't even become that until the earliest 20th century.
Varied and challenging artistic tastes.
C.S. Lewis answered that one:
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Valorization of ordinary lives and work.
Should be expected from a communist. His error here is he's taking "crypto bros or hustle bros or WallStreetBets types" as the mode. No, these people have always been with us. They're flashy but not the norm. Some of them hit it big, most of them fail. The idea of "going to college, getting a good job, working hard, and slowly building wealth for retirement." has rarely been more valorized.
Resistance to celebrity obsession.
Two words: Elvis Presley. Nothing's changed much here recently.
The prohibition against selling out.
There was this idea of “selling out” in the 1990s
1990s? Certainly it goes back at least to the 1960s. And as with the "crypto bros", most everyone DID sell out, usually sooner rather than later. Most of those who didn't had nothing to sell. Note the complaint here is rather in conflict with the complaint about insufficient valorization of ordinary lives and work.
The_Nybbler
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16hr ago
He was first Secretary of the Treasury, among his other accomplishments, so the connection with US money is clear.
The_Nybbler
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20hr ago
There's actually more than 2000 entrances. There are less than 1200 MTA police officers. And 36,000 in the NYPD. The cost of having enough of them to stop farebeating would be staggering.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
(And if Congress doesn't have the power they can't delegate it to the Executive either)
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
Primary threats only work for safe seats.
No, the MAGA people are willing to engage in spite, risking a seat to primary someone.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
Except the court will disallow it as having happened after the charged incident, so not relevant.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
If he were smart, Jeffries would get the Dems to go along with the new 116 page bill. The bill is fine. But instead, he is apparently fighting it. Now HE owns the shutdown.
No, the media decides who owns the shutdown. So when the National Christmas Tree goes dark, the Republicans will be to blame.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
My reasonably affluent suburban nieghborhood is easily 20% black and im not worried about my nieghbors.
So is mine, but they're pretty wealthy black people. Many of the older ones moved here to get away from shittier co-ethnics. Even then, though... there's a neighboring town which is also wealthy and also has a considerable number of black people, and the few murders there were disproportionately committed by black people (specifically black men, if it needs to be said), including wealthy ones.
The_Nybbler
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1d ago
For underground/metro/subway, you want barriers with card scanners.
They bypass them. By literally jumping the turnstiles, or entering through the exit gate when someone else is exiting. Passive enforcement won't cut it; you could use man-trap style doors in every entrance, but you're still going to need openable gates for handicapped, people with luggage, etc, and there aren't the personnel to operate those only manually. Also the man-trap doors are slower to use and will result in congestion.
I don't know about New York, but race does play a direct role in fare evasion in Philadelphia. A bus driver simply isn't going to give trouble to a co-racial free rider.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
The tradeoff between good-quality tested opioids and sketchy street drugs isn't real. I can't pull them up right now but throughought the 2010s the economist had like 4 studies cited that showed about 60% of people dependent on street drugs (from someone else's prescription to black tar heroin) started out on prescription pain killers like oxycontin.
Basically the drug warriors were pushing that line. But if you follow the references back, they end up at a study of street heroin users which determined that some large percentage started on prescription drugs.... but usually not their own.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
Fare evasion costs the MTA $600 million a year, according to the Post article. The ROI, of course, depends on how much evasion the enforcement stops, which is hard to know.
Also, not enforcing rules against fare evasion makes honest people into chumps. Why should Joe Commuter pay $116/month for the subway when Johnny Lowlife rides for free?
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
I doubt I would trust any actual "consensus" on this topic, I'm certainly not going to trust ChatGPT. If you'd found the points elsewhere, I could tell you exactly why the definition was not to be trusted, but since you used ChatGPT as your authority, there is no authority.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
And why should anyone care what a jumped-up matrix multiplier trained on the output of the Internet thinks?
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
Italy and Germany (#1 and #2 for Switzerland) are significantly higher than Mexico and India (#1 and #2 for the US) by that metric. Though that metric may be suspect; it has China higher than Switzerland, and there's at least plenty of anecdote pointing towards China being low-trust. Perhaps they don't trust the surveyors.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
getting a job at Samsung (that pays as well as an average white collar job in the US)
Less, I expect. I knew programmers at Samsung in Korea back when programming was an ordinary white-collar job, and they made a lot less than American programmers did.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
The largest groups are, in descending order: Italy, Germany, Portugal, France, former Yugoslavia, Albania and Turkey.
Maybe all these origin countries have higher-trust societies than the most common countries the US gets immigrants from. But my intuition says this isn't the case.
Number one origin for immigrants in the US by far is Mexico, number two is India, followed by the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Philippines, El Salvador, Brazil, Cuba, and South Korea.
I believe your intuition is bad. Mexico, India, the DR, El Salvador, and Brazil are notoriously low trust.
The_Nybbler
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2d ago
Yeah, the problem is "promptly". Nothing about the justice system is prompt, nor really can be; it can be faster, but not prompt enough for simple conditioning like I'm suggesting. That is, some fools start doing obviously stupid shit. Some of them are caught immediately by guards, who give them a thorough beating and are not punished. Word gets around. Trying to do this in a world where the guards can't be trusted either obviously has problems, and formalizing ways of verifying the guard's behavior will tend to make the system too slow.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
Drone shutting down airports like what happened at Gatwick a few years ago started with dickheads flying a drone for that sweet shot
There is to this day no evidence there was any drone at Gatwick that did not belong to law enforcement.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
I'm told the DJIs are quite hackable; if you're flying out of visual range you're already breaking the regs, what's a few more? But I don't think altitude should be a big issue; even if you're at half the legal altitude, distance to horizon is 17 miles.
The_Nybbler
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3d ago
Naa, none of my model helicopters even has lights. Model aircraft are mostly illegal* in NJ, wouldn't want to be noticed.
- everything's at least mostly illegal in NJ.
He'd definitely hit that.
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