netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
4hr ago
I like it.
Specifically, I like it a lot better than the pseudo-stratification that we’re getting by relying on high deductible health plans.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4hr ago
That…isn’t that how it already works? It’s definitely true for speeding and vehicular manslaughter sentencing. I don’t really want to spend my afternoon looking for overpass suicides, but I would not expect the truck to be blamed in that scenario, either.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4hr ago
And people say the U.S. is too car-centric!
This would be a terrible policy. People already burn their cars for insurance fraud. This adds an obvious incentive to cause personal injuries while you’re at it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4hr ago
Maybe there’s a problem with repatriation? I don’t actually know if countries have to accept criminals if they’re originally citizens.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5hr ago
Wait, really?
Maybe I’m just making assumptions from my time in the schools here.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
Please tone down the outgroup-booing. This is waging the culture war, not discussing it.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
Yeah.
Hell, we saw it with Queen Elizabeth, who’s got a much better reputation in the U.S. than either of those.
I’ve got a theory that one of the signs of a…good? healthy? site is people willing to say the boring thing. Small talk. Socially acceptable responses. Stuff that real humans would say to other real humans’ faces. Those make it more like a community and less like performance art.
Sometimes we do a good job of it. I like that.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
What do those numbers look like for white-collar work?
Cause I don’t think the pool of immigrants picking fruit in the Central Valley (or cleaning toilets in Google HQ) are really driving prices, no. In a supply-choked market, the wealthier buyer is more important.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
Our high property taxes are also correlated with—if not the cause of—our unusually good schools.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
There’s a few confounders. It’s not a coincidence that conservation gained prominence as the American frontier closed. And it was part and parcel of the Progressive reforms which gained ground in that era. Frankly, I think that spirit beats the alternatives.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
Yeah, being a rich foreign tourist is a very different position than being a permanent resident.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
Wait. How?
I’m willing to believe that they’re so much more dense, but I want to understand the mechanism. Is it heavily mid-rise? Is it the reduced car infrastructure? Has their density trended up or down in the postwar era?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
Good law is a moving target, too. At least in our world of imperfect information.
And current AI does not care about logical consistency. It may usually say something consistent, because the humans who generated its training data usually tried to make their statements flow from one to the next. Unless they were being sarcastic or subversive.
Nor is there a guarantee that they were correct in their own logic. For example, they could have been starting from the assumption that things they don’t like are logically incoherent! Then, even if the AI decided to replicate their beliefs perfectly, it too would be swinging at strawmen.
That’s not a recipe for good law.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7hr ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8hr ago
How does SG’s healthcare work?
If there’s ever a country I’d expect to have the dreaded “death panels”, it’d be this one, I guess.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22hr ago
That’s actually close to a phrasing we’ve considered. Our dear departed @ymeskhout was interested in some sort of formal challenge system—see a ridiculous, unsupported claim? Demand a defense. He was particularly frustrated with (what he saw as) isolated demands for rigor.
Anyway. There’s no time limit. The faster a controversial claim is defended, the better.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22hr ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
It’s SecureSignals. The JQ has always been his single thing that matters.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Damn. I’ve seen a couple memes with this painting, and now I know why.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
@mcjunker and @AshLael come to mind. Others who made the jump to /r/theschism.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
That’s not it at all!
The only one of those which even suggests why we’d avoid the subject is 1. I guess some people probably don’t want to talk about a losing team? But I can’t say I ever expected Ukraine to come out on top.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
Agreed. There are two core constituencies to the Motte: culture-war connoisseurs and policy wonks.
The former are interested in understanding the culture war, predicting it, if not outright waging it. Topics are valued accordingly. This group tends to like sweeping theories, too. There is a lot of demand for sensemaking. Here’s how ivermectin got right-coded. Here’s why such-and-such is memetically fit.
On the other hand, wonks put a narrow topic first. Any CW angle is secondary. A lot of our most narrative authors in this category, even if they don’t care about a specific policy, because the style is so different. You get a long narrative about life in Japan or a Civil War battle without any expectation of, I dunno, solving TFR.
Law, especially political law, bridges the gap, so it’s usually good stuff.
Generally agreed. We certainly have the ability. I assume there is some sort of treaty with each (functional) country. It’s devilishly hard to search, though.
Good story, by the way.
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