anti_dan
21hr ago
High income blacks are probably more likely to be doctors than high income whites, because there’s not a lot of black master plumbers and the like.
Because affirmative action has rarely been a driving force in hiring/education decisions in those occupations. If you are a shit doctor they just assign you the flu patients, if you are a shit plumber you get covered in shit and then your company never gets hired for another job.
anti_dan
21hr ago
I've seen Republican congressmen go after multiple DOJ officials including FBI directors for not going after the straw purchasers. The fact is that the DOJ and FBI are all filled with strivers (and more and more left of center strivers these days) that don't care about cases that won't get them in the news. They would rather spend 22 months building a shaky case against a state senator for taking a $5k gift from a friend who is also a donor who also might have benefited from some legislation the state senator was going to vote for based on ideology anyways than spend 2 months rolling up a crew of armed robbers who hit 7/11s in 5 states. Plus the arresting black women thing is a problem for many ideologically.
anti_dan
21hr ago
This being basic human psychology, police guidelines should account for this. Cops should be taught to ignore meaningless non-physical threats and irritations of that kind. If the guy isn't trying to make a run for it or otherwise physically resist arrest, let him talk, remain stone-faced, carry on with procedure. Demanding one-on-one submission should not be the way.
Cops are not taught to ignore "meaningless non-physical threats and irritations" because this concept as you've articulated it is nonsense. Cops have no reliable way to determine which guy whos getting verbally aggressive is going to escalate the situation to physical aggression. Sure there is some spectrum running from young black male to old asian lady where the threat level goes from high to low, but its still just probabilities not certainties. Verbal aggression commonly precedes physical aggression.
Anyways, its these bad apples that put the cops into the position where now they treat every traffic stop like they are pulling over Al Capone's hitman. Its not too much to ask fellow citizens (imo) to stop shitting in the commons and just take their speeding ticket and cross examine the officer in front of a judge in court.
anti_dan
23hr ago
There is a significant difference in the degree of difficulty in avoiding misconduct. One person's job is legalized kidnapping, it is within the nature of mistakes that someone could be seriously injured or killed. Teacher misconduct is almost always intentional actions. I dont think any teacher has ever been giving a lecture, slipped on a banana and fell serendipitously getting impregnated by one of her lonely male students.
anti_dan
1d ago
It can look like a luxury belief to you, but a better way to look at it is low time preference. Sure, tomorrow you might be better off if everyone was more complaint with police, but today you has a gun or drugs or both and doesn't want to be arrested.
anti_dan
2d ago
My sister's neighborhood has recently hit a 30% ish tipping point, and now is a constant hotbed of HOA litigation whereas before there were no issues that took more than a piece of mail to resolve.
anti_dan
2d ago
Regulations of workplace conditions being poorly implemented is so frequent that it is basically the iron law of workplace regulations. Your solution is akin to proposing amputation of a person's leg to solve their athlete's foot.
anti_dan
2d ago
This is also a key problem with the industry that would be solved if the market was less confounded by things like H1B visas. Very few people have to leave the car dealership they work at to get paid fairly.
anti_dan
2d ago
The low pay and bad conditions is one part, but solving that with regulation has proven to be worse than the problem in Europe. When there is an easy solution in front of us in America: Ban fake resume H1Bs and let Iowa State and Florida Atlantic grads with B averages actually get STEM jobs, it is not a hard tradeoff.
To be honest, I wasn't aware that the problem that H1B visa holders generally are not good at the jobs they are typically allegedly overqualified for was not a topic that could be brought up in polite society. But maybe that is because I work in the legal field now and only interact with engineers as part of my job. Where I work, time falsification is a huge point of discussion, for example.
anti_dan
2d ago
It is not just CS, this sort of issue exists across all of STEM. Engineering grads from the State U where I live (a top 20 undergrad program by basically every metric) are graduating with 1 or 2 industry offers IF they are top 20% in the class AND did a relevant industry internship/co-op. To reliably have multiple offers you need to be top 5%+ experience or be a minority candidate. Bottom half graduates (and this is an engineering school that still washes out about 1/3 of freshman, and is very competitive to enter) are receiving practically zero offers. In the business environment we have been in for at least 10 years now, the whole idea of a non-fraudulent H1B visa is silly. There are dozens of qualified people Americans for any job opening in white collar work, there are gluts of degree holders in every field from Math to Chemical Engineering to LGBT studies. There are also, by this point, millions of "retired" Americans who have 2-3 decades of industry experience and have been forced into retirement, long before age 65, because they got too expensive, but even if willing to take a 30% paycut cannot find work.
anti_dan
2d ago
Obvious in what way? The FBI's recent track record is not even mildly indicative that they are nonpartisan in their targets.
anti_dan
2d ago
I haven't seen the meat of this story yet. What is the bribe allegedly for? Allowing a terrorist to get a VISA? Given the FBI's recent track record I am highly skeptical that they did good enough police work to have actually made America safer via a sting operation against a Trump Cabinet Official.
anti_dan
2d ago
This seems like the worst possible example - “Are transwomen women?” seems to be a question where 90% or the disagreement about the meaning of the word “woman” and only 10% about ground truth.
Its not really a disagreement about the meaning of the word "woman" because if it was, the trans movement would have a consistent and coherent answer to the WIAW question.
anti_dan
3d ago
There are plenty of roles where demand exceeds supply, however -- essentially all the qualified Americans are already employed or don't care to be.
Unless you are talking about a very specific industry that I don't have any tangential relation to, this is simply not true. We are graduating more engineers and comp sci majors than are getting hired for those types of jobs, and the workforce is constantly in attrition at the other end as well in all relevant industries.
anti_dan
5d ago
Nah. They would win a case if Kimmel was popular and not just propagating lies without comedy on TV. It would be a huge win. Instead they abandoned the guy right after another company abandoned a similar guy who was revealed to be expensive and losing that company lots of money.
If Kimmel merely makes a crass joke he probably gets the Colbert plan. These expensive, bad, shows are clearly set for execution and have been since that weird Jay Leno situation where Conan took over sorta but they also sorta gave Leno his own earlier show then walked it all back. The point is, they all have been a waste of money since approximately then, and have been operating on inertia, and the inertia is breaking.
anti_dan
5d ago
Perhaps if your intent is to remain ignorant of how the Nazi's formed a winning coalition, but if you are interested in such things the genocide is more of an afterthought. Its obviously the most important thing when talking about their impact on world history, but when discussing domestic politics and drawing comparisons between the politics of various regimes it is very unimportant.
anti_dan
5d ago
But to give everyone money you either have to tax at such exorbitant rates that you are going to cripple the economy, or you are going to be giving out so little that it doesn't help anyone but the very poor anyways.
So unless you are the first politician in centuries to figure out a way to tax the underclass to give some extra money to private sector upper middle class families, your redistribution program is going to be bad for society.
anti_dan
5d ago
What leftist movement has been obsessed with concepts like purifying the racial makeup of the country?
This is central to the identity of Nazis for people on the left, but they had a menagerie of policies that frequently overlapped with the left.
anti_dan
6d ago
See, I think the politics are typically very similar when it is invoked. People quibbling over whether to nationalize the banks or the banks and the hospitals.
anti_dan
6d ago
What if giving him cash is just mathematically the most effective option?
I mean, it is theoretically possible if you have the rare case of a guy who was fired from his job for no fault of his own and needs some money for food and shelter until he gets another job. In that hypothetical you are preserving the theoretical productivity of a person just long enough until they return to productivity.
In practice even unemployment insurance as implemented is not even this. Last I checked, most users of UI are repeat users. The rest of the redistribution programs fail even harder. The problem with giving money to people to keep them alive is it doesn't wean them off. Its just a self licking ice cream cone in social program form. That is, unfortunately, the Achilles heel of EA as currently styled as well. You have to account for future expenses as well.
anti_dan
6d ago
Yeah. I've always understood horseshoe theory as an invention of necessity for socialists/communists to sanitize themselves of the obvious similarities they shared with the Nazis. In many ways, the Fascist is just a socialist who has realized they can do 99% of what they want to do without the burden of having to actually run the means of production (and get the blame when they inevitably fail at doing so) by just imposing regulations and mandates. Its not your fault the steel industry failed because it had to compete with foreign steel that didn't have to be made using gold dust, it was your stupid capitalists who failed the gold dust mandate.
anti_dan
6d ago
This whole thing seems semi-delusional in a delusions of grandeur sort of way. He has this whole theory of politics that elevates his quirky specialty to near-magical status, and then applies that theory is a way most flattering to his own political preferences. The right having a well funded and tightly organized right wing in 2011? Is he talking about Rush Limbaugh and Fox News? Two voices yelling into a hurricane of leftist media that was slowly ceding ground at the time to leftist social media?
Its all way too much and I don't find it accurate or prescient. Just kinda silly. It is after all basically the writings of a college professor in his elder years after several decades spent in a bubble of university leftism.
anti_dan
7d ago
No one knows or cares who that guy is. Maybe some frogs would be rude about it. Fox News certainly won't be platforming people who speculate he was killed by his own fan celebrating.
If he's executed at an "Appalachian outreach" event there'd be somber reaction from the right. Perhaps some jokes if he gets killed ironically. Like by a Palestinian
Getting a job as a plumber is easy if you consider being a minimum wage plumber's apprentice to be "being a plumber". Keeping it and building yourself into one that makes money is not, years invested or not.
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