netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
17hr ago
Countries like Germany faced the same global pressures
Is this true? Germany spent most of that blue-collar period partitioned, demilitarized, and stripped of human capital. It’s probably the worst comparison in Western Europe.
and came out intact.
Is this true? I definitely recall some of our European users expressing their disgust with the absolute state of German politics. And industry. And entertainment, etc. etc… If you want to make the case, you should probably bring some receipts. My guess would be that Germany imported all the soundbites and “learn 2 code” dismissals of the American consensus when it imported all our fintech and communications advances.
Instead, they built protected, respected, cottage industries and stable vocational tracks with early sorting
Here’s the part with legs. I want to see more about the proposed alternative, because that’s where a lot of critiques of neoliberalism stumble. How does it get around the supply/demand curves? How well can it generalize to larger players in the market?
I have a lot more to say about this, which is a good sign for a top level.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2d ago
"Intestate" meaning "without testament"? Learned a new word today.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Are you serious?
I think this is the first time I've seem someone suggest that Democrats don't hate Trump enough.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I could imagine a feedback loop where anything that boosts wages boosts housing prices, as sellers and landlords try to capture that value. So a labor shortage, a minimum wage hike, that kind of thing. Then the labor shortage ends and wages slow down, but housing stays expensive.
What I don’t get is what actually triggers an asset price correction. How does the market stay, apparently, uncorrected, and why does it stop? Why can’t houses depreciate without an apocalyptic event?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I was going to make this a top-level, but since it’s apparently topical…I was digging through my post history for something and ran into this based on a different @2rafa comment.
Enlisting is an employer of last resort. There were a lot more people at their last resorts in 2008-2012, a lot of people who really needed a competitive paycheck and a comprehensive insurance policy. In 2024, that’s not necessarily the case. We’re coming off a couple years of COVID distortions and zero-interest-rate phenomena. That has a way of making boot camp less appealing.
So, Conspiracy Theory of the Week: Trump is intentionally trying to trigger a recession to bolster U.S. military recruitment.
If the economy crashes, more young American men will choose the military. If it crashes faster than the housing market, even more so. And if it crashes in the midst of a publicized house-cleaning session, well, the new recruits are more likely to endorse the Trump party line.
HHS has already lost more employees than the DoD despite the latter being 10x larger. (Numbers could be off; it’s hard to find coverage that isn’t hysterical about the whole process.) Meanwhile, USMEPCOM is one of the few exemptions to the DoD hiring freeze. Can’t recruit new troops if there’s no one running the stations!
There’s the whole bit where he’s slashing the VA, but this doesn’t actually disprove anything. After all, who hates the VA more than veterans?
This is stupid and I don’t actually believe it. There’s no advantage over simpler theories which don’t assume a 5D mastermind.
To wit, Trump policy is governed almost exclusively by his aesthetic sensibilities, and he’s mashing whichever buttons look like they might steer us in that direction. Military reform is somewhere in the pile. High enough to give the DoD a better deal than DEd or HHS; not nearly enough to intentionally tank the stock market.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
3d ago
I’d warn you for being antagonistic, but I looked back at the last time I did so. I’m pretty sure it was for responding to the same (ban-evading) guy.
So I guess I’ll just remind everyone not to feed the trolls.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I don’t have a specific recommendation, but you could consider gun range bags? The ones designed for multiple pistols. They’re vaguely cubic (if you can remove the dividers) and tend to have more padding.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Baby, bathwater.
Almost none of our legal system relies on that sort of chicanery. Rewarding any administration for doing more of it is a terrible idea.
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4d ago
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Texas is freedom land
4d ago
You might get something out of Annals of a Fortress, a fictional history of one particular site in eastern France. It alternates between fortifying and besieging the fortress. Characters on both sides are usually extremely capable. They’d have to be, to get hundreds or thousands of men in position for a siege!
The author was a renowned architect with a strong historical basis. He was also really bitter about the Franco-Prussian war. Understandable, given that he was involved in organizing the final defense of Paris. The last section of the book lays out his theory of the current (circa 1880) state of the art. It’s basically a manual for the kind of strategies which would lead, inevitably, to trench warfare.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Not for people who were already pointedly ignoring that narrative, no.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Funny how these TIL posts always seem to update in favor of Russia, isn’t it? No one ever comments “I revisited my strategic assumptions, and it turns out Putin is a huge bitch. Like, tinpot-dictator paranoia. Now I’m more sympathetic to the Ukrainians.” There’s no alpha in agreeing with the mainstream narrative.
But I digress.
Russia’s actions don’t generally look like existential terror. Pushing Finland into NATO? Withdrawing from the INF treaty? (Possibly Trump’s fault, I guess.) Threatening tactical nukes?! That’s not how you deescalate the situation.
Keeping NATO missiles out of Ukraine is a tiny benefit compared to the other consequences.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
I want to go with “false impression.” It’s hard to see the BLR-era Motte as a bastion of law and order. People were furious about Floyd, Rittenhouse, COVID, etc. On the other hand, I sampled a random thread and was pleasantly surprised. So I don’t really trust my intuition here.
There is one big source of tension for me. I only want to ban people for flagrant offenses, but I also only want to warn them for rare ones. That kind of ties my hands when a user constantly shits out low-grade violations.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
With all the caveats of our discussion a couple days back…I really don’t think this is true? If only because androgen insensitivities and intersex conditions make a really secure motte. They more or less defuse the “is it a choice/contagious?” step of the argument.
See also the confusion over whether Imane Khelif was an icon of trans resistance.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
I think you should be more specific about the subset you have in mind.
My first thought was “Civil Rights era Southern Democrats,” a group which unapologetically grounded their racism in conservative thought. But those people are mostly dead now, and their legacy is a good bit more complicated.
If you’re accusing Bob Jones fundamentalists or scientific racists or based post-Christian vitalists of confusing prejudice for conservatism, you’ve got to do more work to establish it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
https://www.themotte.org/post/1794/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/311661?context=8#context
TL;DR we aren’t there yet, but once we are, he’s not going to complain.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
I’m sure you do.
This is still not the place for your Two Minute Hate. Put some more substance into it or keep it to yourself; I don’t care which.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11d ago
do you believe false things
Yeah, probably. The important thing is to admit when you’re wrong and change your mind. Easier said than done, especially when any such admission attracts douchebags who want to score Internet points.
bedrock of your beliefs
Don’t worry, I make sure to ground my beliefs on surveys. How else am I supposed to generalize from “very liberal people”?
“No, it cannot happen to me…Ayrabs.”
If you have to resort to scare quotes, consider whether you’re fighting a strawman.
viral
Is that viral agreement or viral outrage? Downsides of a unified measure of engagement. Twitter delenda est.
trusted them all
It sure is a shame. Maybe someone should start a community, try to find people who want to overcome those biases. They might end up wrong less often.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
Empirically, yes.
The number of man-hours put into those categories dwarfs anything related to puberty blockers, or to medical intervention at all.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
I’m glad that you took it as saintly curiosity, because I felt like I was risking Reddit atheism. “That’s a noncentral fallacy, baby!” So…thanks for being a good sport. I wish every terminology debate could go this cleanly.
It’s a difficult subject for me. I have close friends who take their transitions very seriously, who are clearly perceiving something that you or I fundamentally don’t. I refuse to hold that against them. I feel like that’s what the average trans debate demands: condemning my friends wholesale on the basis of the craziest nut someone can pick.
You avoided that entirely, and I think I learned something for it. By all accounts, you were right, and “chemical castration” applies to all uses of both (D)MPA and the GnRH drugs. Cancer, criminal justice, gender. The medical terminology has been around since before gender identity was a flagship issue. Even the distinction between “castration” and “sterilization” probably dates back to the California bill.
I want to believe true things. This isn’t the first time you’ve convinced me that my reflexive reaction was wrong. I really appreciate that.
It's so your competitors can't catch a free ride on your product's reputation. E.g. copying your label and slapping it on a can of lighter fluid. Makes you look bad.
This was probably more important pre-Internet and pre-international-shipping.
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