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.
3d ago
But Trump wouldn't expend political capital to influence D&D. He doesn't give a shit. If you tried to make him notice, he'd probably call it a kid's game and insult the users or something. Same goes for D&Ds more traditional enemies, the religious who call it Satanic. They didn't want to take over D&D, they wanted to ban it. In a different world, perhaps Geek, MOP, sociopath could describe something other than part of the larger Culture War, but in the real world the entryist sociopaths ARE SJW/woke.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Right, the Ferengi were supposed to be Americans. (Presumably Outgroup-Americans, but Americans nevertheless)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
“Race” is a biologically fuzzy concept.
You can take an MRI or CT scan of someone, feed it into a neural network, and it can classify their race to a very high degree of consonance with their self-identification. It can even do this if you remove the low-spatial-frequency or high-spacial-frequency information. Everything in biology is fuzzy to some degree, even such concepts as "alive" and "dead". But race is reasonably solid.
Even population geneticists behind closed doors have admitted that you can talk about biology at the level of the gene itself without commitment to now outdated and pseudoscientific categories like comparing Nordics and Teutons and Alpines and Slavs, etc.
Sure, they can speak in coded language to avoid being canceled or just losing research funds. That doesn't make the reality go away.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The Chidi stereotype isn't just a paint-it-black version of a Jewish stereotype, it's been around before as black stereotype, notably Steve Urkel, and to a lesser degree Carlton on Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
And you're being a little unfair to Eleanor; she also had quite a few stereotypical female flaws, such as being vain and self-absorbed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I see what is happening to D&D more like a Geek, MOP, sociopath thing than a CW battleground.
Geek, MOP, sociopath IS Culture War. It is describing how the Culture War battle is lost by the geeks by the entryist sociopaths.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
At this point, Nybbler, I think all the waters are sufficiently muddied that we'll never know who actually did what
After entertaining various noxious allegations and then finding they are unsupported, it is at the very least discourteous to then fall back on invincible ignorance.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
If the US actually pursues going closed-borders-for-everyone, maybe it will be overtaken by China, given the slight national IQ advantage
China still has the strongest handicap that isn't genetic or physical. Communism.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Doesn't work that way. The credit card company can only write off the amount they paid, and any interest they recognized but didn't actually receive. The debtor, on the other hand, has to report all principal, interest, and fees as income. The IRS is the only winner.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
As an American, I have to say I don't give fuck about British royals. We knew they were degenerate retards in 1776, and a couple of popular Queens notwithstanding, why should we believe that has changed, or care?
The only Trump-related thing in the current meatgrinder is years-old nothingburger. Giuffre had a job at Mar-a-Lago; she was one of the girls that Epstein poached. She's talked about a lot of people, including Trump -- and said nothing bad about Trump. If the Democrats were trying to make some hay involving ex-Prince Andrew, they would have used her name. Instead they redacted it so some people wouldn't realize it was her they were talking about.
If you're going to hypothesize that she would have accused Trump if she were still alive, this is just making shit up out of whole cloth. Maybe Jimmy Hoffa would accuse Trump of putting out the hit on him if he were still alive too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
One of the pet theories I have is pure economics. It is a public knowledge that women make 85% of purchases and they account for 80% of consumer spending.
No, this is just a layer of the justification onion, it's not really a reason for woke media. You can see the justification fail with things like the Gillette me-too ad, female Ghostbusters and other properties that didn't appeal to women either, pushing all the trans stuff in, etc.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Yeah, so at best it's a femdom porno.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Trump is certainly unsuited for Grand Vizier. The Grand Vizier is the one who stays in the background, whispering things into the sultan's ear and manipulating the visible actors from behind the scenes. Like all administrations, Trump's is full of aspirants to that position, but Trump never seems to listen to any of them for long.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The ones I’d rather not credit are the Chris Rufo types, who are happy to crucify the College Board for anything and everything except the SAT.
Do they deserve such crucification? Even if not, if Rufo was right on this point, he deserves credit.
Oh, and I guess I expect the scientific racists to run with this result, too. Causation be damned.
Assuming you mean actual William Shockley style "color coded by nature" scientific racism and aren't just smearing around slurs towards anyone who believes in HBD... well, the DEI people pretty much handed this to them. They said the test was racist, they got rid of the test, the accepted applicants were dumber, racism works.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
In practice, I'm fairly sure a lot more people believe in polio vaccine than flu vaccine.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Doubt it. Voldemort and Umbridge were existing archetypes. Certainly in the next 500 years someone will write a more current version of them which will supplant them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I have no idea what exactly Virginia Giuffre was claiming happened
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
No, "Trump went to Epstein's island" and "Trump was on Epstein's plane" and "Trump was in the files" have all been said before. As far as I know the latter two are technically true and the first is outright false.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Apparently there will be a vote coming out to release even more, but the docs released so far have been negative for Trump's claims to be innocent of the whole matter.
Because the Democrats are releasing old nothingburgers with enough redacted to make them hard to identify, and people are falling for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Everyone here (minus the lizardman constant) thinks vaccines work.
There probably are few here who would claim that no vaccines work, but if referring to the COVID vaccine specifically, that's a lot of lizardmen.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I believe that in your rush to throw shade, you have confused rationalists with Objectivists and/or Social Darwinists.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Expect this to get wielded as a cudgel against anything that might possibly be called DEI.
A somewhat deserved one, as DEI advocates have often claimed standardized tests are racist and pushed for test-optional policies. For example this from the NEA, or Inside Higher Ed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
· Edited 6d ago
Already starting to happen -- see Figure 1 near the end. The top quintile will probably do fine, and the larger schools in the next quintile (which is so far unaffected) can probably "build down" by consolidating campuses and programs. Schools lower than that and not part of a system don't have a clear path to survival; it seems inevitable that many of them will not survive.
I know at least in New York State, community colleges are already in trouble. I don't think any have closed but at least one lost its campus and had to co-locate with the nearby SUNY school.
ETA: See here for about how I expect this to go with most state university systems.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
I find it unlikely the COVID generation has "banana brains". A low-quality 1 to 2 years of high school shouldn't knock the reasonably intelligent back THAT far. You'd expect some drop but not as bad as they're describing. They also note that "Beginning with the cohort entering in 2021, standardized test scores were no longer used in the admissions process." This is probably the major part of the problem -- note that MIT, which one would expect to be more sensitive to this stuff, was among the quickest to return to standardized testing.
Since I am indeed an HBD believer, I find it unlikely we're creating too many more stupid people; that would take serious miseducation at a much younger age, or more dropping of people on their head. Instead, the UC system is probably sorting more poorly, with too many stupid kids ending up in the better schools and some of the smarter kids probably being displaced elsewhere (e.g. lower down in the UC or Cal State system, or to other schools which did not drop standardized testing).
Assuming we don't get a DEI revival when President AOC takes over in 2028, I think what we'll see is less-efficient hiring for a few years, with more of the stupid having to be sorted out in the employment market rather than by college admissions. Or, if the colleges maintain their own standards (which I find less likely) a greater fail-out rate in college.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
The terrorists in Pakistan are, of themselves, Afghans who the Pakistanis paid to cause trouble. Now that the Americans are out, they go back into Pakistan to cause trouble. How wonderfully shortsighted of their government.
Yeah, after the whole Afghanistan thing it's really hard to feel anything but schadenfreude about the Taliban causing trouble in Pakistan.
Makes me wonder if Putin is thinking: "And come winter, the Arabs will freeze to death".
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