cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
13hr ago
I am a millennial! I can answer this cultural question!
Its obviously a term for "woman I'd still gladly have sex with"
"Aight" by wqnm is great.
"basic" is ok, but carries some negative connotations. Like she turned you down even though she is a "basic bitch".
I'd look for terms such as "I'd hit that" or a casually spoken "Nice" as she walks by.
cjet79
13hr ago
I heavily agree that incentives matter. Its where I'd start.
A problem with the tunacat metaphor is that we still generally want some immigrants, whereas no one really wants feral cats eating in their yard. Its why I asked about the zero immigrants thing.
I am admittedly closer to the open borders side of things. I like lots of immigration. Heavy indoctrination into our ethics and morals. Restrictive voting and restrictive welfare benefits for immigrants.
If you want zero immigrants I'd like to know. It turns this discussion from something potentially productive to totally pointless. The zero immigrants position being a totally pointless discussion from my perspective. I'm not saying its an invalid position, just that the distance from my position is so far that it makes things pointless to discuss.
cjet79
13hr ago
haha its just their personalities. My 7 year old refuses to watch basically all movies. Any amount of drama is too much. 5 year old loves super hero stuff, spiderman especially and the concept of "beating up" bad guys.
I've played all the way through stardew valley two or three times. I'll be their guide, but I want to see how much they develop and figure things out on their own. I want to enable them to make whatever is possible in the game, while just playing a supporting role. Being their wikipedia and tutorial of sorts.
If they don't figure out aspects of the game, I plan to just play them quietly until they notice.
cjet79
16hr ago
I imagine my 7 year old will be terrified of the mines and my 5 year old will be upset if I dont let her go in them and fight enemies
cjet79
17hr ago
If he is willing to play starship troopers with you and me let me know, I'll be having more free time during the day which translates to like 6pm-9pm uk time.
cjet79
1d ago
Video Game thread
I'm trying to setup a multiplayer stardew valley game to play with my 5 and 7 year old. Possibly convince the wife to join too, but that is unlikely.
cjet79
1d ago
Everyone has different preferences on this, but tagging me to just say the same thing twice is something I find annoying. I'm fine being referenced without being tagged.
cjet79
1d ago
I would define effective as accomplishing policy goals. I did not know border crossings were so low. But I'm not sure which Trump policy accomplished that. I'm tempted to think that the most impactful policy they've done there is just not doing what the Biden Admin did which was actively screw with CBP, and actively stopping Texas from doing effective enforcement.
If we are gonna use the silly tuna can metaphor, we have a fence, one of the room-mates has been tearing holes in the fence.
The spectrum matters because of what kind of immigrants you want over here. If you want zero immigrants while still being able to say you allow immigrants, then sure maximum enforcement and maximum Kafkaesque rule sets are the way to go. Is that the goal? I didn't think it was.
cjet79
1d ago
I am curious how this turns out and if you can find what you are looking for. I've been interested in doing something sorta similar. But have not bothered to try much.
I've read some ai generated stories on royal road before. And since I'm on royal road a bunch I am used to low quality stories. But I kept finding the AI stories kinda boring. I've thought that maybe getting the AI to imitate an authors' voice that you like might help with the boring ness of their style.
cjet79
1d ago
There is a spectrum of illegality. At one extreme are the fully illegals. They crossed illegally, they operate in the black market selling illegal things, or only do cash jobs. At the other extreme are the people who scrupulously followed the process every step of the way.
In the middle are people with lapses. Student visas that expired while they were looking for a job out of grad school. Green card delays that meant they were supposed to leave the country for a month or two while things got worked out. H1-Bs between jobs. Kids brought here by parents that messed up the process.
Our immigration system is not simple enough that you can just easily categorize everyone into either extreme of legality.
Far stricter immigration enforcement is targeting those people in the middle. And even if you have scrupulously followed all the rules up to this point it doesn't mean something might happen in the future that causes a lapse. So risk averse people still don't want that harsh enforcement on the people in the middle.
I've never gotten in trouble for paying my taxes wrong, but I'm not in favor of making tax payment mistakes more harshly penalized. Taxes and income can get messy enough that I could screw up one day. There are tax dodgers and their non payment is making my taxes higher so I'm not happy about them and its fine to punish them. Same situation for immigrants.
cjet79
2d ago
I think Trump is definitely attempting to put on a show for the base rather than doing things that might be effective.
This seems like the worst option of all policy worlds, because it's basically creating a selection effect for the worst types of immigrants.
It will scare off risk averse immigrants, and any immigrants that want a stable/predictable legal situation.
The easiest to find immigrants are ones that are trying to work within our legal system. They leave a paper trail. That paper trail might be from jobs, taxes, school enrollment, etc.
The hardest to find immigrants operate entirely in the black market.
cjet79
5d ago
Academic papers, but not a book. She has a friend in the DAR that has professionally published before and was giving her some advice.
cjet79
5d ago
My mom wrote a book. Its narrative non-fiction. About one of our ancestors that lived during the civil war and was one of the founders of the DAR. Told through a series of letters that she wrote and that people wrote to her. Very depressing. People die a lot, and the war was horrific.
I'm trying to read it and give feedback as an early editor.
cjet79
8d ago
I'm easily willing to bite that bullet, wokeism is Calvinism. And both of them have no place as being the US state religion.
I would like it if wokeism was labelled as a state religion. Someone would be doing everyone a massive favor if they went through the process of getting it recognized as a religion.
cjet79
13d ago
I've never played anything that could be described as "technical" with my daughters.
Travellers Rest and Stardew Valley were what I played with them. Mostly I played the game and they wandered around exploring and changing outfits.
cjet79
14d ago
A bit like Tropico for sure. Though I didn't think setting up zipline systems would be one of the funnest parts of this game.
cjet79
14d ago
I did play one anno game, but got a little overwhelmed with micro stuff. Something about the nature of this game discourages perfection.
cjet79
14d ago
New game that just came out Corsair Cove. It's a city builder but the city you are building is a pirate haven in the Caribbean.
The challenge comes from trying to balance production chains on the island, and create efficient pathways around your cliff city.
You send pirate ships off on missions.
cjet79
17d ago
My single favourite genre of non-fiction is stories about liars getting exposed as such.
You might enjoy Good on Paper if you haven't seen it already.
I do remember encountering serial liars in my life. It usually only takes a few months of exposure for everyone to realize whats going on. That doesn't mean they get punished for their lies, usually its just social ostracization. But institutions are terrible at catching and exposing them. The liars excel at interview format, and there is no limit to what they will put on their resume. That gets them in the door at institutions, especially ones where the interviewer/acceptor isn't really responsible for how the person is after they get in.
I'm pretty sure the claims you've collected here are only the tip of the ice berg. Serial liars tend to lie about everything. Its a game to them, and they do it constantly. Being around them too long creates this weird cognitive effect where you start feeling unmoored from reality. They'll lie to your face about events that you were at, and sometimes even things you did. I remember being angry originally, but then I switched to going along with it and egging her on. We made it a game to get her to tell the biggest lies to us and would laugh about her behind her back. She might have caught on to what we were doing eventually because she started avoiding us. We probably should have stuck with angry, because she was on a full ride scholarship to the college, and I don't ever remember her losing that scholarship.
cjet79
17d ago
No I think you are missing the whole point of the comparison I'm making.
To compare any meal you can make to a restaurant or fast food meal is not a good comparison. Sure you can make rice, chicken, and pop a vitamin on the side for pretty damn cheap. But its not the fact that you cooked it that is saving you money, its mainly the austerity of the meal itself that is saving you money. This would be like saying "I saved hundreds of dollars each meal, instead of getting a steak at a really good steakhouse, I instead made chicken and rice at home"
To make a fair comparison we need to do either one of two things:
- Find places that serve austerity meals and compare their cost to home cooking.
- Upgrade the home cooked meal to match a restaurant.
I didn't do the 1st option because it would be completely unfair, and not to me. There are places that serve austerity meals in America: soup kitchens. And they give away the food for free. So obviously home cooking loses on that metric.
I did the second option where you upgrade the home cooked meal to match an option from a place that is just above the bottom tier of food. I like Wendys, so that is what I picked. On this metric home cooking wins if you enjoy shopping, cooking, and cleaning or you work a minimum wage job.
cjet79
17d ago
Corporal punishment against my kids for not eating food feels wrong to me.
I remember having food arguments with my parents as a kid. I went to bed hungry a few nights, but I still never learned to like broccoli.
cjet79
17d ago
I handed the question over to Gemini AI.
It came up with $45 minimum for 4 sandwiches and 2 salads from Wendy's. And $30 minimum for buying all the stuff to make it yourself. Let's say that is three meals, and it comes out to $10 for making it yourself or $15 for getting it at Wendy's.
Yes, you can make cheaper meals by cutting corners and having fewer ingredients, but Wendy's could do the same thing! So you've stopped comparing like to like. And that is also part of my whole point that the food served by restaurants is often better.
This also assumes that your time/labor is free. Which is an ok assumption if you like grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning. But most people don't like all three of those. If you value your time above minimum wage it quickly stops being worth it to cook for yourself.
I hate city permitting processes so much right now.
Just went to a neighborhood get together. Multiple people complaining about the difficulty of getting permit for simple additions to their house, like a screened in porch.
Yet down the street a homeless shelter is being erected in an area that already has multiple problems with homeless people being a fucking nuisance. This city only has like 25k voters and 50k population. I don't understand how they don't notice, or how they vote the way they do. I understand living in bubbles, but damn I know like 1-5% of the voting population, you'd think I'd know someone who likes this state of affairs.
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