hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
10m ago
I read him as saying he is an immigrant to Canada of red Chinese origin. This does, in the Chinese way of seeing things, make him Chinese and not Canadian.
I mean I would count him as Canadian given his demonstrated opinions. But that is not how the Chinese see things.
hydroacetylene
13m ago
Isn't China actually trying harder with the birthrate crisis than most of its neighbors? I mean in a stupid way that won't work at best and might be counterproductive at worst, sure, but they're discouraging condom use and offering giant subsidies. This stuff probably won't raise the birthrate(for what its worth, free childcare doesn't either) but they are at least trying something.
hydroacetylene
18m ago
But ten of those movements would be noted, because they weren't updating the logs when it moved 1/16 inch.
hydroacetylene
20m ago
Relevantly, 1/8 inch is the threshold below which it becomes very difficult to measure without specialized equipment. If these guys are measuring stuff with tape measures ordinary human error would make a ridiculous number of changes to the logs.
hydroacetylene
35m ago
He wasn't 'bad at his job' he didn't do it in the first place. We punish people for criminal negligence all the time.
hydroacetylene
37m ago
No, this guy was a police officer. If he didn't want to risk his life in that situation he shouldn't have become a cop- there's tons of other careers available. Notably, they don't involve carrying guns.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The U.S. is entirely capable of having nice(albeit low affordability) low crime urban core neighborhoods in major cities. There’s several. The U.S. economy just doesn’t mandate rich people live in urban cores.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The measurements were almost certainly intended to make sure that technicians caught stuff proactively rather than reactively; that technicians just photocopied it for decades because eh good enough is what the bureaucrats were trying to prevent.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
That chart shows something, but one of those things is that conservative families put making donations as the wife’s responsibility.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Argentina isn’t really a low crime society compared to the vast majority of America, where rich people actually live(not a lot of the Uber wealthy in St. Louis, detroit, Baltimore).
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
There’s always been a few boomercons who hate Europe for not actually being free, for being effeminate and lazy, or for their arrogance. It’s usually been a cautionary tale and most normiecons are shocked to learn about Europe’s employment laws, homeschooling bans, etc.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
…No? Early America was not a clan based society in any way.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I mean, I’m in favor of the U.S. military overthrowing any left wing elected officials, Latin America style. Don’t think it would make much difference in governance though.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
I think he’s pointing to two different kinds of users.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Argentine governance has been very very bad historically, although ‘communist’ is probably not a good word.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Factually there were plenty of Greeks who preferred the Turks to cooperating with the west in the waning days of the Byzantine empire, of course.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
France is likely to be the last euro country standing.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
had a technician's mindset and pride in his/her work that would lead them to think "You know, if these rails are always a little off, that's probably a bad thing, even if 1/8th of an inch isn't Big Bad on its own."
Technicians are all about tolerances and making things work. That’s bureaucrats demanding measurements.
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
California can’t do HSR- it’s one of those statements which is kinda sort a true. California can’t stick to a plan is why they can’t build HSR.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
There probably isn’t an easy way to do it. I doubt bukelism would work well there, because the cartels are too sophisticated and too entrenched in local power structures(there’s also lots of eg corrupt unions and normal nominally legal companies and the like). It’ll probably get better over time just due to inertia; non-cartel economic opportunities(and the cartels operate a huge grey market economy- everything from pirated movies to groceries) are much more common and much better than they used to be, thanks to US investment, and cartels are starting to realize that random directionless terror violence doesn’t actually benefit them. But they still operate under a logic(often insane troll logic, with stuff like human sacrifices and witchcraft) that rewards violence and terror, thé Mexican army has a 50% desertion rate and corrupt officers who sell equipment to them, and public appetite for a sustained counter insurgency campaign is pretty low due to the casualties involved.
It’s possible that if the U.S. decided to kill every hard drug user in our borders, thé cartels would see a permanent decline in revenue and thus influence. But the cartels also operate like standard organized crime syndicates and control 40% of the country(thats leaving out the parts controlled by auto defensas or folk socialist movements- thé Mexican government prefers the cartels to either but lacks the ability to really stop any of the three). They’re not totally dependent on US drug revenue, and the Mexican police are shitty, incompetent, and corrupt so they aren’t really a replacement for cartel rule.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The left believes the US is broke because they pursue PPP minimizing lifestyles(living in NYC, grad school, etc).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Very high crime rates and an ongoing insurgency driven by organized crime using terror tactics are one of its many problems, yes. It's still far preferred to other parts of Latin America, going by revealed preferences.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'Lieber Turk als Papst'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
In conventional use, second world country refers to an industrialized middle income country.
Bollywood has a western fan club- the same people who really like fifties blockbuster productions. In other words, the feature length singing and dancing is just genuinely a lot less popular than Japanese exports or mass produced slop music and soap operas.
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