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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion

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Royalty is a continuous selling-out motion

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Coming through for the USA once again.

Meh. Lovecraft did it better. 0HP Lovecraft also did it better.

There’s not even an obvious connection between giving women octopus the vote and, uh, erasing all social constraints. You just sort of import the talking point.

Then when everything goes to shit, it’s taken for granted that preserving the white North Sea race is totally worth killing the women females. Why? Is the right to life, to self-determination, actually worth less than the need to control future generations?

3/10, maybe stick to reporting on your hobbyhorse.

If he plays his cards right, maybe he can secure the Republican nomination in twenty years?

Antipope is right. Most of those are “partisan facts [claims?] I disagree with.”

Trump is a Russian asset.

Anti-Trump motte: dude is too friendly with Putin and/or too soft on Russia. Not a conspiracy.

Anti-Trump bailey: he or at least his administration take covert orders from Russians, perhaps as quid pro quo for stealing the 2016 election. Conspiracy.

I’m reasonably sure that the bailey is no longer popular. Trump supporters continue to act like it is, since it’s pretty easy to fight. I wasn’t able to find much in the way of recent polling.

Be polite.

I have seen Florida subdivisions built around drainage (alligator storage) systems about the size of a lot. It’s a possibility.

Finally, a fitting companion to Ben Franklin’s Letter to the Royal Academy.

>X AI
>does nothing

Well, I guess this checks out at least

This particular treasure chest was last filled during a rather popular administration. “A rising tide” and all that. We still teach Keynesian economics in high school; the government is expected to run a surplus in good times and mitigate the bad ones with deficit spending.

That cycle has been more or less pretextual since 2008. The opposition got hijacked by a populist before they could really pull back on spending, and the next crisis hit right before an election. I suspect we can still put the toothpaste back in the tube, but it would take a level of economic optimism which hasn’t yet appeared.

I thought the trap was legible vs. illegible value. Your non-economic labor had value but you didn’t realize how much.

This is going off Scott’s review. I haven’t read the book.

This is definitely not true. Schools care about volume and general reputation. If nothing else, state colleges usually target that market.

Yes, but the money would come out of a fund for parents who don’t stay home.

California tends to be one giant outlier, so I’m not sure it’s representative.

But also, what are you talking about? All I could find with a casual search were teacher:child ratios.

Yes, the current system is messy and perverse. Elizabeth Warren was right about some stuff.

I’m saying that this kind of subsidy for single-income families will not get them to pull their kids out of public school. They will mostly take the payout and keep collecting the $24k of public daycare.

Worse, the proposed funding source is currently earmarked for two-income families. Some of them will lose benefits, quit their jobs, pay less in taxes, and keep their kids in public school. Lose-lose.

If the Republicans conditioned this payout on homeschooling, and combined it with sweeping cuts to make public school even less appealing, you would get more people out of the system. But they aren’t doing that. The President has approximately zero incentive to court the small government faction, which is why he’s bombing Iran and subsidizing his cronies.

It turns out that poor but physically-fit 20somethings don’t make the best decisions about women.

Something like 6% of Americans are homeschooled now. 30% of moms are stay-at-home. Assuming all homeschoolers have one of those moms, that’s still only 1 in 5 who are getting out of the public school system. Incentivizing more births will mostly add more kids to public schools.

Now, I think this is going to incentivize stay-at-home parents before it actually incentivizes more kids, since the money is coming from subsidies for working parents. So out of every 5 parents it takes out of the workforce, maybe 1 of them will put in the effort to homeschool.

On the gripping hand, a flat payout is regressive. Do you think homeschooling is more popular amongst high-powered corporate types or part-time convenience-store clerks?

It’s certainly on-brand.

This board has more than a few users who never question the President on anything, so no, you can’t be the only one.

I notice that the money is coming out of an existing appropriation which subsidizes working parents. The most likely effect is encouraging some of those dual-income parents to quit.

I think this is stupid. At least the Trump Accounts were directly tied to the kid.

U.S.: 2.7 million soldiers and 60,000 casualties against a country of 210 million.

German Empire: 14 million soldiers, 1.7 million dead, total population 60-65 million.

Totally different ballgame, and that’s before you compare the economic situations.

Anyway, I always got the impression that true crime’s fascination with nubile innocent young women was aimed at a male audience. But then, most of my exposure to the genre is through bodycam channels or otherwise very red-tribe sources. Maybe I don’t have my finger on the pulse. Do you have examples in mind?

Wrong subthread?

Why do you think mathematics is supported at its current scale today?

(Bonus question: what is that actual level compared to, say, materials science? Pharmaceuticals?)

The goal is construction of useful maps which can then be applied to weirder and weirder situations. Sometimes those situations spit out a new branch of engineering, like cryptography or transformers. Proofs are a byproduct of this exploration.

Neither art nor chess is known for spinning off new fields of science. The effects of automating them are going to be pretty different.

Edit: I see your other response. You’re putting the cutoff around 1800? Before Galton, Kelvin or Maxwell?? My friend, I don’t think you have a good grasp on the timeline here. Don’t even get me started on the math of solid-state electronics, most of which is less than 100 years old.

Sorry, that would be following America’s lead.

Do you actually think Russia’s special operations have been a good thing? I personally think they’re stupid and destabilizing enough to outweigh any benefits.

I do still see a little “zine” publication in the OSR RPG space. It’s more than a couple steps removed from its predecessors.

Part of that is the lack of peer conflicts.

When I was reading up on this for an immigration thread, a lot of the citizenship cases were about the rights and obligations of dual citizens when at war with the second country. It was particularly contentious in the Civil War, since we initially flip-flopped on rebellion vs. war.

Part and parcel.

Irredentism was table stakes for anti-Weimar groups in the interwar period. You couldn’t shake a stick without repudiating Versailles.

Today the equivalent would be opposing the EU, which is exactly how AfD got their start. Anti-Islam was something of a pivot once the debt crisis had passed.

They’ve also been rather supportive of Russia’s regional foreign policy.