chooky
9d ago
I'm pretty much just here for the joke that "speaking" and "making a speech" are essentially synonymous.
chooky
10d ago
Giving a speech preventing someone from speaking seems like a tough argument to make!
chooky
10d ago
In my experience, economic and tourism centers are just fine. It seems to me like OP is interacting with a pretty low tier if it is literally everyone who can't function.
I mean, restaurants exist throughout WV. Some of what OP is saying would make operating a restaursnt just completely impossible.
chooky
12d ago
Earthsea just kept getting better and better for me, truly a gift of a series and especially the fourth and fifth books that came out many years later.
chooky
16d ago
To me, the complaint is very clearly with the doctor (or practice/hospital -whatever), not the executive! So I'm not sure why this would make people admire Luigi.
chooky
17d ago
These are still very short timelines that point to something else going on... maybe a return to office mandate for a department that had been remote?
chooky
19d ago
A major problem with this madlib is that the second one about being nice to "white neighbors" is somewhat nonsensical because it is now unclear who exactly "people" are. In the one about Muslims, "people" is clearly everyone non-Muslim (probably mostly presumed to be white); but in the one about whites, it is exactly these whites who are the main target audience, i.e., normal "people". A better madlib might be regarding Republicans in the aftermath of the Charlottesville riots or police officers in the aftermath of some shooting controversy. For me, it is ultimately glib rather than pithy.
chooky
21d ago
Man, I gotta say those Charles Johnson links were not very compelling. I was looking for an omnibus summation of the H1B kerfluffle with some focus, ideally better researched than the many comments/posts/anecdotes all over the place (these all ring pretty true but just looking for the data-y version). What I got from Johnson was just endless ad hominem.
chooky
25d ago
Yes, both of these are what I find funny! The anti-straight discrimination in high end consulting is very real, and it can be a good move in interviews to volunteer that you already have kids.
I wonder if some of the twitter posts about not hiring anyone over 30 (because they are probably aware of their value and will negotiate more aggressively) is also to do with the fact that so many professionals delay starting families until their 30s these days.
chooky
25d ago
It does perhaps create a career ceiling for high SES women until they are perceived as being "done" having children though. If you make a lot of money, you are at least somewhat indispensable, but your employer must consider that you will be out for a couple months 2 or 3 times over the next several years, so you can only become so indispensable. One solution to this is making paternity leave as robust as maternity, which has its own fun side effects of making 20-30 year olds of any gender who are likely to start families less attractive to employ.
chooky
27d ago
While I don't argue against your Christ-as-social-measure view of what successful Christianity looks like, I do have to say that this is a kind of Christianity I do not recognize as occurring very frequently. Perhaps we can say that Mormons and the Amish come pretty close and seem to leverage this into successful pro-social cycles within their communities. But I don't think that this is how very many Catholics/Protestants actually act or contemporary Evangelicals - the latter being what I see as the most influential (on society) Christian group in the US today.
chooky
1mo ago
Fair point on actual inflation, but 1/10th still seems like a major overstatement of what "will" happen (especially because 50 years is also a pretty long assumption for a career). More broadly, inflation is more or less inevitable for a healthy economy; someone keeping their money in cash under a mattress is just very foolish to not put it into an asset like bonds, stocks, gold, real estate, bitcoin, etc.
chooky
1mo ago
This math on inflation is super wrong. 1.02^50 is about 2.6. 1.03^50 is 4.4. What inflation rate do you suggest is normal?
chooky
1mo ago
I would say that it the eventual abandonment of this "no armor" stance is what made the books (and by extension, show) weaken so dramstically. By book 4, there is no one left to die: Bran, Arya, Tyrion, Jaime, and most of the other good characters could no longer be killed because they were needed for the end game, but the books continued to introduce an unending cast of disposable, boring POVs (e.g., everything to do with pirates, the stupid Lady Stoneheart plot). Even Jon Snow's resurrection was predictable.
chooky
1mo ago
Did you ever try the Malazan series? It seems to have the highest reputation for critical value in fantasy.
chooky
1mo ago
Thanks. I thought that the length of the blockchain was making transfer costs go up... has this issue been solved?
chooky
1mo ago
Why on earth would you need crypto to solve this rather than just a credit card?
chooky
1mo ago
I'm referring to the entire twitter saga, but probably mainly the additional value lost under Musk's ownership.
chooky
1mo ago
Why must a successful person have explicit strategies? I can think of a lot of works of literature with very coherent meaning that the author does not seem to have explicitly intended. Rather, the author seems to be so in tune with the fictional characters and world that the result cannot help but have depth. Why not also a gifted politician? To me, it seems more likely that the superficially haphazard approach to appointments is driven by Trump's talent for identifying and tapping into the zeitgeist, not a detailed dive into the specifics, though I don't doubt that some of the people close to Trump (eg Musk) do seem to have some sort of master plan.
chooky
1mo ago
I understand this - what is not clear to me is if OP would accept this definition of woman being given access to ladies' restrooms. They seem to want only "buologically female", but it is not clear to me if that means "female at birth" or more like "post-op".
chooky
1mo ago
This is getting at one of my questions for the OP - what exactly is meant by "biological" and "trans"?
To me, an MtF "woman" lacks a penis and testicles. Does the calculus change if that is what "trans" means? In general, I am pretty much of the opinion that this is not an area in which the government should get involved, thougb I am grateful for an effect of previous bathroom controversies being that most restaurants and bars changed to genderless bathrooms, making it more likely that there won't be a line. However, lacking a penis seems like a reasonable standard for someone being allowed entry into the women's bathroom regardless of sex at birth.
Yeah, but standing in a line to get the code for the bathroom is still annoying.
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