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.
7d ago
With no apologies to Alanis Morissette, I believe the term is "ironic".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
In this case we know for a fact the averages are not the same, the debate is over the causes.
By stubbornly insisting the averages are the same and there's just something wrong with measurements which show otherwise, the debate over causes can be avoided. As I said, a defense in depth. It's not happening and if it is it's due to racism and even if it's not, we should take from the able to subsidize the unable.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Sure. But "Democrats don't like this" is a very different claim than "the optics of this are bad".
The link is "Democrats control the optics".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I remember that companies canceling people for the OK sign went on for many months, and the New York Times posted breathless images swearing various figures were making OK signs in public.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Alice is 5' 2"/157 cm. Bob is 6' 3"/190 cm.
Expecting Bob to get something off a high shelf for Alice does not make Bob Alice's slave.
Sure it does. Bob's got his own things he'd prefer to do. Alice's need is no call on his ability. She can go find a ladder. Or offer Bob something of value.
Rejecting the notion that the more able ought to help the less able is rejecting civilisation itself.
No, it's just rejecting Communism ("From each according to his ability..."). And Margaret Mead, I suppose.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Could be, but it's false.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
The progressive tech weirdos purged all the other tech weirdos who didn't keep their head down, so the only ones you'll hear from are the progressives.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Every time someone says "The optics of this are good/bad!", they're manifesting their own claim.
Yes, but the claim is just that "Democrats do/don't like this".
Personally, I think Democrats really need to worry about their optics of "retarded, violent street crazies".
They don't, because control of the media means the normies will see the retarded, violent street crazies as good and normal and the people they are fighting as fascists.
Yes, we have two Hispanic agents who shot a white guy dead, but the narrative that ICE is going around rounding brown people is not hurt in one bit by this.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
You can set the threshold for rejecting the null hypothesis at any significance level you want. You have to set it quite high (by social science standards) to not reject it in this case, but if you're starting with the conclusion you want, that's what you do.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
You've certainly got your soldiers lined up in an impressive defense in depth. But reality does not care.
If You Have The Means At Hand, You Have The Responsibility To Help.
Rejected. The able are not the proper slaves of the needy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Normies don't read the anti-woke media.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
None of what you said is about "Knew Epstein was a pedophile and still palled around with him".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Epstein palled around with some of the richest amd most influential people in the world, and all their emails come across like they're written by insecure teenagers bragging about that one time they touched a boob.
To be fair, Elon Musk always comes across that way.
(Trump, of course, touched all the boobs, all the big ones that is, he doesn't bother with those small ones although yes, ladies, they're nice too, but Trump touched the biggest boobs)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Not to worry, it's one of those "category invalid" things that will be categorically invalid only when it's convenient for the side making the decision. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, for instance, will never have a similar problem.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Only if you accept the basic guilt-by-contagion premise of the left side of the Culture War.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Apparently directly antagonizing the left causes a small but significant fraction of their institutionally embedded partisans to lose control and let their masks slip.
Too bad for Trump that it doesn't matter. Similarly to when 4chan tricked the left into thinking the OK sign was a racist thing... it didn't knock the left out of power, it just mean now you could get canceled for the OK sign.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
"Knew Epstein was a pedophile and still palled around with him" is pretty bad in and of itself, making him an accessory through inaction.
No, that is not how being an accessory works in the slightest.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Trespassing law is state, and the state approves of these disruptions.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
It says "as an accomplice", not "as a conspirator". The super-broad federal conspiracy rules aren't generally adopted by states. Anyway, your subdivision 2(a) (in the part you elided after the "if") only covers dwellings, banks and pharmacies, or if the burglar "the burglar possesses a tool to gain access to money or property". Your subdivision 2(b) only covers 609.52 (theft) and 609.595 (damage to property, which I didn't see happen). And there's still the issue of "without consent". So no, still not burglary.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Arguably, knowing that they will face serious negative consequences for their actions would make it much easier to refrain.
It is even easier to refrain if you know you would face serious negative consequences for your actions. Which you would, of course -- were you to smack them, their behavior would not even be in question. It is all a matter of who and whom.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Much of the right has decided to switch tactics from the failing "No, they aren't jackbooted thugs" (which is defeated by the left's control of the media) to "YES, TRUMP STOMP!". I doubt this will work better politically but it does annoy the footsoldiers of the left.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
The Fifth Circuit reaffirmed, without any new argument, the summary dismissal on remand. Apparently they've been learning from the way the First, Second and Ninth circuits managed SCOTUS on gun cases. I imagine it will eventually go back to to the Supreme Court and (because this isn't a gun case) the Supreme Court will tell them that no, you do have to actually consider what we told you.
Officer-created jeopardy, on the other hand, is an untenable doctrine on its face... a similar thing doesn't even exist for civilians, and part of the job of police officers is sometimes to put themselves in jeopardy. Affirming that doctrine is basically making heroes of the Uvalde cops.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Churches are generally open to the public, which wipes out "with consent". Also what would the crime they intended to commit be? What they did was not burglary.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
That this is not just random Twitter psychopaths but otherwise normal friends of my wife becoming inhabited by Agent Smiths?
My wife noticed that phenomenon in 2020.
A house is not only an investment, houses have cash flows so large it burns the Treasury's butt that they can't tax them. Second largest "tax expenditure" after medical premiums and just before 401Ks is "Exclusion of net imputed rental income". Of course, you might object that these aren't real cash flows (which they aren't, hence "imputed")... but they are spending avoided. They also provide a one-time inflow when sold, of course.
But in fact houses generally gain real value with time. I expect this to change in 10-15 years, but for now, they gain, not because any intrinsic properties but because of good old supply and demand. Well, that, and the fact that people do tend to fight entropy by doing maintenance and sometimes upgrades, which you need to account for.
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