campfire
2d ago
To everyone outside the subcontinent it is used as a generic racial slur against Indians and other subcontinentals. There is no distinction whatsoever between the ones who look and act a certain way or different castes/classes which makes your usage of the term risible. It’s like an Israeli from some small Jewish sect calling other Jewish sect kikes. “Ah those Neturei Karta KIKES are at it again! Not like us noble Breslov Hasidim! Don’t you know this slur has always referred to the BAD Jews?”
campfire
9d ago
Destabilization of the family (sexual revolution etc.) has destabilized society and culture.
Surely we can't extrapolate studies on the public to billionaires? Most single mothers had children with men who couldn't give them $10 million a child if they wanted. I'm only surprised more men don't go the Elon route. Most billionaires have conventional family structures.
campfire
10d ago
Learned behavior from the Reddit days when it was actively discouraged to not draw the ire of the site admins
campfire
10d ago
Yeah I agree with this, especially considering the Supreme Court ruling on the situation. There's issues with the Supreme Court as well of course, I don't think judges should serve for life, but Balance of Powers is still important.
campfire
11d ago
I'm not super informed on this but my impression is that I don't really like the American leftist habit of labeling working conditions they don't like as having "low labor standards" when the alternative is just those workers not being employed at all. I suspect most European countries have standards above this even if I wouldn't particularly like those jobs myself. It's easier for me to believe China doesn't have them given their track record on human rights in general and that they have labor that's much more accurately described as forced or coerced. So the US need not be the gold standard for what acceptable labor standards are. There is still no need for any tariffs at all on Europe and the other countries I mentioned (except maybe Israel but we can start by cutting off other sources of funding to them first).
campfire
11d ago
The forced labor concern don’t apply to Europr, Japan, South Korea, Israel, or New Zealand, which have all had tariffs raised.
campfire
13d ago
So now the components from China for a laptop are 125% more expensive if you wanted to make the laptop in America, but the laptop made in China is only 10% more expensive? Is anyone still claiming there's some 5D chess going on? This isn't even the Art of the Deal because no deal was made and it's antithetical to the initial goal of wanting to reshore manufacturing.
campfire
16d ago
They’d have to convincingly explain why he wouldn’t just say “we’re aligning the world away from China, let’s get tariffs between members of the Free World to 0% so we don’t subsidize the Chinese manufacturing industry that can be used against us” or any version of that, adding or subtracting important information.
campfire
16d ago
My concern is that he'll crash the economy then provide some form of long-term inflationary "relief" right before the midterms which enough voters will attribute to him actually knowing what he's doing that Republicans aren't totally screwed in the midterms.
campfire
17d ago
I mean my hunch is he lost in 2020 to Biden in large part because of Covid economic woes which were largely not his fault. In 2026 if we’re in a recession that’s directly attributable to him and the Republicans who enabled him, so the fallout will be much worse, and if Congress flips that will basically hamstring him until 2028.
But just a hunch and I don’t follow politics as closely as many of you so curious what people think of this.
campfire
17d ago
The US is under no existential threat from any other country barring a nuclear war.
AI could turn the tide here very quickly, but I'm not sure I trust Trump to understand the stakes involved or delegate to someone who does.
campfire
19d ago
Yeah, it's a perfect example of this hilarious early post from Scott:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/13/arguments-from-my-opponent-believes-something/
- Argument From My Opponent Believes Something, Which Is Kinda Like Believing It On Faith, Which Is Kinda Like Them Being A Religion: “The high priests of the economic orthodoxy take it on faith that anyone who doubts the market is a heretic who must be punished.”
- Argument From My Opponent Believes Something, Which Means They Believe It Is The Answer To One Question, Which Is Kinda Like Believing It Is The Answer To All Questions, But It Isn’t: “Statists believe government can solve all our problems. They need to understand the world doesn’t work that way.”
There's 8 more examples, Hanania is being criticized for having a belief he's been consistent on.
campfire
26d ago
Zegler isn’t ugly but next to Gadot Zegler looks like a soft 6
Is this the consensus opinion? Like, not just something people repeat online for ideological reasons? (More on Xitter/Insta, not accusing anyone in here necessarily). I prefer Zegler but I'm also ageist and like women with wide eye spacing. Zegler is definitely more attractive to me on a superficial level, like a more exotic Anya Taylor Joy, Gadot is very above average but is older and has a more masculine edge to her. Also their skin tones aren't even that different. Zegler could pass for Mediterranean to me though I'm not an Ethnoguesser pro.
campfire
30d ago
I got it to draw a glass of wine filled to the brim, which DallE couldn’t. However, it’s still seemingly incapable of drawing watches displaying a time other than 10:10.
campfire
1mo ago
As someone with mediocre rizz online dating is still the way to go. Met the current gf and every other girl I've been involved with there with two exceptions, and one of those was a coffee shop cold approach which involved me waiting 4 months for her "tAlKiNg sTaGe" to disappoint her until she used me as a rebound.
campfire
1mo ago
Related: I was complaining to a friend last week about the hollow worldbuilding in Star Wars, specifically about how automation should have eliminated most of the need for manual labor in this universe (but hasn't) and he sent me this surprisingly detailed Reddit post explaining how this could be explained by the story being set in a universe where P = NP: https://old.reddit.com/r/MawInstallation/comments/oysben/does_p_np_a_contemplation_of_electronic_security/
campfire
1mo ago
Ha, don’t really have the interest. I typically avoid learning about such scandals so they all sounds like he-said she-saids to me. The Daniel Greene situation was different because he’s a more niche e-celeb in a hobby of mine (reading/writing epic fantasy) and I was in the minority who saw through the accusations even as all his friends and collaborators condemned him. Was definitely not expecting my first Quality Contribution to be about Youtube Drama when I made this account, will post about more important issues on the future. But glad some of you were entertained and thanks to whoever nominated me.
campfire
1mo ago
Assuming self_made_human is as competent as the median American doctor
I meant "my analysis holds if you're as competent as the median American doctor" not that I already assume that.
An important addendum is that you don't have to be a median or better doctor to be a net value add!
This seems plausible but I'm unsure. I did realize my analysis depends on the belief that the median doctor is a net value add, which some people dispute.
campfire
1mo ago
This sounds like you mostly agree with my analysis, it's not exactly "I hate Indians" (though it might be) but "I think the presence of even competent Indians that benefit the economy is bad for my descendants" and you basically do think he's less competent than the median American doctor because you don't think psychiatry is all that useful (or that it's just saturated).
campfire
1mo ago
It is grossly unfair to Americans.
Assuming self_made_human is as competent as the median American doctor, it is obviously not "unfair to Americans" for them to get a new Doctor willing to charge less. Unless their hatred for Indians outweighs their desire for access to cheaper medical care. It is of course "unfavorable" (unfair is a loaded word) for the 0.3% of Americans who are already doctors if a doctor for any country, including America, enters the market, which is why labor unions take great steps to increase the barrier of entry for their industry.
It’s less effective as a joke when OP uses it unironically and when you consider he constantly mentions his caste and noble family connections in between (and sometimes even within) sad posts about his chronic unemployment and overall underachievement. He’s been doing this for years across various accounts with little self-awareness.
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