netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
My Texan mind simply can’t comprehend the prospect of hundreds of pounds of snow sitting on my roof.
As for controllers—do you actually like them lighter? I feel like the heft of a Switch pro controller is much nicer.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
No, not that one. I was talking about the clock with 20 comments, literally all of which are praising Donald Trump.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
No, no, there’s definitely a beast keeping her in the castle.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Okay, but what if Bob is a Christian baby…?
Maybe it’s the fact that it’s the end of a long day, or because I dealt with an AI-psychotic crackpot earlier, but I can’t follow this at all. Surely there’s a more elegant framing.
I definitely don’t see why it’s culture war. Not unless this is a devious way to criticize the woke left.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Isn’t that fully generalizable?
Time and money spent on elder care isn’t spent on roads, farms, or a warm campfire. How far down should our current course take us?
I find it far more likely that there’s a control loop. Negative feedback. At the extreme end, it’s “I won’t starve to keep Grandpa alive,” but it doesn’t have to get that far.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
While I get the impression you’d say this no matter what was in these files, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
The indentured servitude pact still doesn’t account for Earth’s inevitable immolation in the expanding Sun.
If you want to write something off for failing “eventually,” you’ve got to be more specific.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Community college has cheaper tuition, and it’s more compatible with an existing house/kids/job. So you’ll get people who could have gotten into state schools, but couldn’t or wouldn’t go. Not sure how the percentages stack up.
I’d like to see the pre-COVID numbers for two-year colleges. I suspect the pivot to online offerings closed some of the gap. Less reason to settle for the shorter degree if they’re both being run from your guest room.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
OotP was my favorite at the time. In hindsight, I suspect that was entirely due to the Department of Mysteries.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Agreed. I should have elaborated.
When UC and others decided to cancel standardized tests in the wake of COVID and/or Floyd, various people said it was going to harm math ability in the incoming classes. They were right, of course, and should be recognized as such.
The ones I’d rather not credit are the Chris Rufo types, who are happy to crucify the College Board for anything and everything except the SAT. Same for the overlapping group of anti-credentialists. Really, this is a big win for one of the pillars of the college application industry.
Oh, and I guess I expect the scientific racists to run with this result, too. Causation be damned.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
#2 seems obvious to me. The committee seems to agree, judging by their recommendations. Giving up their best predictor of math ability had consequences.
Expect this to get wielded as a cudgel against anything that might possibly be called DEI.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Wait, 15 years? Was there a sea change after the recession, or something?
Anyway. I was putting together a response about supply vs. demand shocks, and how the change in student population really doesn’t have to represent a change in the overall one. Then I read the recommendations section of the actual report.
The majority of our workgroup recommends…a systemwide reexamination of the possible return to standardized testing.
Guess what year UCSD dropped their SAT/ACT requirements?
If you throw out the single best metric you’ve got to measure math ability, you are going to get more variance. Doesn’t matter if the population got worse or even better, you are giving up your ability to find them. You’ll have to use proxies like (inflated!) grades and made-up clubs. The workgroup was quite unsatisfied with their options.
This is rather frustrating. The SAT and ACT genuinely do have a host of systemic problems thanks to their effective duopoly on standardized testing. Apparently Goodhart’s law wasn’t one of them. But it’s not for lack of trying—you can’t drive a block in my town without hitting a Karen Dillard. Too many suburban strivers racing to the bottom. That whole ecosystem is only going to be boosted by all the dissident rightists looking to score points against DEI. Big win for credentialism.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
There’s a squeaky fan or something at my office. It sounds exactly like the ostinato strings in a certain track from Halo.
If I don’t comment in the next couple days, grab your shotguns.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
See, they also give the same training and the same name to every technician and accountant.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
I adored Sins 1’s concept, but was let down by certain aspects. Stances, squadrons, the rather important “hero” capital ships…I’d have rather delegated those choices to an empire-wide doctrine or something. Same for parts of the economy. Felt like they hit a similar pitfall to a lot of RTS in that era and included stuff because SC2 had it.
How does Sins 2 approach that?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
Meaning no diacritics. I’m not gonna be upset if someone drops an umlaut.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
Unfortunately, yes.
I picked this name back in the Xbox live days. My mother had seen my existing handle and asked “isn’t that kind of…gay?” Since I’d been playing (and honestly, reading about) the roguelike NetHack, I swapped out the H and damned myself to a career of scrotal comments. How ironic.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
I think you only trust DHS because they’re more obviously polishing Trump’s knob. I think “we had an election” is an excuse, because this is a stupid way to establish trust.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
I do actually think this is true.
It also makes “we had an election” into a fig leaf.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
So the 2024 election counts as a physical change in personnel, and since Trump purged his enemies, you can totally trust DHS.
But the 2016 one didn’t, because…?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
I have noticed a pattern where there is a horrible story that comes out. [Team A] passes around the horrible story…[Team B] waits for the [relevant department’s] X account to post a rebuttal, and then that becomes the [Team B] story.
Isn’t this normal? An official statement makes for an easy rallying cry.
What would you change?
The government outsources quality control by letting each guild collect its rent. There’s deadweight loss, but that’s the price you pay for hedging out some of the worst outcomes.
Maybe we have the capacity to do a more laissez-faire model based on reputation? It’s more plausible now than in the Yellow Pages era.
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