sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
As far as I'm aware, there's no union for fake email job havers extracting six figure salaries for them. They could be fired all tomorrow if they are truly useless and automatable. It would seem that the same does not go for the longshoremen.
sarker
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1mo ago
"rent seeking bullshit jobs until the sun swallows the earth" is maybe not the worst fate for humanity but it's gotta be up there.
sarker
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1mo ago
I kind of doubt they are packed like sardines on those piers either.
sarker
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1mo ago
Are we really sure about this?
I mean are we even sure that Buttigieg was not grown in a vat? I wasn't present at his birth, personally. There's very little that we're sure of once we get right down to it.
sarker
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1mo ago
Or a "technically I was in the Navy!" gay dude.
What's technical about it? He was in the navy, he was even deployed. Sure, he was only deployed for seven months. But it's not like he exclusively sat on the base. Maybe you can say that driving around kabul is not that dangerous. And since it's the navy, we shouldn't hold his homosexuality against him.
sarker
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1mo ago
Are we just making tangentially related, dubiously true assertions now?
sarker
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1mo ago
any serious virus with an animal reservoir is impossible to globally eradicate without several orders of magnitude more political will or state capacity than has ever existed
Yes, obviously. This has nothing to do with my point, which is that the only virus considered serious enough and feasible enough to fully eradicate had a fatality rate under 5%.
sarker
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1mo ago
Jews dumb
Interesting argument. Let's see if it bears relation to reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_Nobel_laureates#Laureates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Turkish_Nobel_laureates
Keep in mind turkey has 10x the population.
Hmm, maybe there's more to the story.
Also, note how smoothly criticism of Israel has become criticism of Jews instead.
sarker
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1mo ago
Hispanics are already moving towards Trump.
sarker
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1mo ago
The typical situation is that immigrants come to the west because they want to be (on the margin) in a more western society. Obviously they don't fully assimilate, but they make some effort. Their kids face an identity crisis and become even more doctrinaire than their parents as a means of constructing a personality. Then they go off to Syria.
sarker
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1mo ago
You're mistaken, many jihadis are native born citizens.
I couldn't find any official stats, but here's a laundry list: https://www.aei.org/articles/what-to-do-about-second-generation-terrorists/
There's also native born women who join isis as jihadist's wives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green_trio
sarker
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1mo ago
Isn't Britain a big source of jihadis? There must be some English literature.
sarker
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1mo ago
What's so interesting about Venus vs e.g. Enceladus?
sarker
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1mo ago
We can quibble about who benefits the most from self checkout. The point I'm making is that the reason you scan stuff at self checkout is not to prove that you are honest, it's because that's the simplest way to implement self checkout.
Now, the guy at Sam's club who checks your cart and your receipt - that's obviously a compliance mechanism. It's probably not feasible to stop and frisk every shopper in a normal store, especially since in normal stores you bag your groceries and at Sam's club you don't.
sarker
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1mo ago
yet still making you go through the motions to 'prove' your honesty by scanning everything
As opposed to what? Tallying everything in my head? "Oh, how much was this carrot again? Let me go back to the carrots to check."
Barcodes are a labor saving device, not a compliance mechanism. It's absolutely trivial to circumvent.
sarker
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1mo ago
You're looking at it the wrong way. The question is not "do eliminated diseases have animal reservoirs", it's "are diseases with animal reservoirs eliminated". And there are plenty that are not. It took decades or even centuries depending on when you start counting to eliminate smallpox.
sarker
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1mo ago
There's plenty of diseases without animal reservoirs. We drove it extinct rather than another because of its deadliness.
sarker
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1mo ago
5% is an enormous fatality rate. There's 140 million people under 25 in the country. If we assume they ~all get infected (as they did with covid) that's seven million dead. The real number would be way worse because of obesity.
Smallpox fatality rate was 3% and it was so bad that we literally drove it extinct in the wild.
sarker
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1mo ago
Unlike other cities, where there's a 'ghetto', separated from 'a decent neighborhood' by industrial zones or housing for salt of the earth types, and functionally all the crime is in the former,
There's plenty of cities where the ghetto is separated from decent neighborhoods by perhaps one city block or even less. Crucially, you can't ensure that an area becomes a ghetto by building an apartment there, and you can't guarantee an area is high income by zoning it for SFH. There's plenty of single family crack houses in Detroit on sale for about tree fiddy.
sarker
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1mo ago
You have actually seen the post we are discussing, correct?
sarker
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1mo ago
So yes, you have correctly noticed that Israel is not in fact a homogeneous country.
Cool, sounds like we agree that at best the homogeneity /happiness relationship is not entirely straightforward.
sarker
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1mo ago
yes there are other measures of unemployment, no they don't show a crisis of unemployment
Gig economy
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/12/08/the-state-of-gig-work-in-2021/
4% are currently doing these types of jobs, while an additional 5% are not currently doing this but have done so in the past year. In total, 9% of U.S. adults are current or recent gig workers, meaning they have earned money through an online gig platform in the past 12 months.
I don't consider this to hugely move the needle.
Working Amazon
There's always been jobs that people look down on but still need doing.
I wish you would at least have read the parenthetical intended to head off criticisms of this type and engaged more substantively rather than gesturing at two things you don't like.
sarker
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1mo ago
I admit I put my foot in it re: Afghanistan but I don't think Lebanon is a slam dunk. We're talking about ethnic differences here, so we have to look beyond "well Israel is 75% Jewish so it's homogenous". Those Jews come from all kinds of places with all kinds of ethnic backgrounds.
I agree. I put forth the following modest proposal: require by law that every American send me (personally) a dollar. It's hardly any money at all, it can't matter to just about anyone. I'm even more generous than the longshoremen - I don't demand it in perpetuity, just a single lump sum.
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