stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
Christ, I miss the Cold War
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
both locked in a sort of hostile symbiotic relationship where their actions keep entrenching their ostensible opponent, who in turn further cement the other's legitimacy.
I believe Scott (PBUH) coined the term “toxoplasmosis of rage” to describe exactly this sort of escalatory spiral
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
It was cracked down on in the US in the late 90s due to adjacency with organized crime.
Big, if true. Can you provide a source?
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Therefore fail rates jumping is a huge huge black mark.
So to speak
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Try Yandex?
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
You know what they say about one man’s modus ponens …
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Specifically about Queen Elizabeth I was in a discord server about a video game where when it happened
Had to read this twice. At first I was baffled as to how you were alive in 1603, let alone chatting on Discord
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
How distant a runner-up is St. Petersburg?
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Fair enough, I did know that the New Testament claims very explicitly that there is no salvation outside Jesus Christ.
Thanks for the cite.
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
The irony that the bible could not be more explicit that Christ-denying Jews were not grafted into the Tree of the Covenant is just the cherry on top
This is news to me; in fact I’ve never heard the term “Tree of the Covenant” before. Can you please cite chapter and verse?
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
Less flippantly, my imagined progressive would say that there's no avoiding (at least some) zero-sum games in this world. Thus, the only question is who must win at the expense of whom. And since there must always be an oppressor and an oppressed in every such game, the only political question is how to decide who is oppressing whom in a given situation: to do so clear-sightedly, taking into account the relevant history and particular context, or to bury our heads in the sand and cling to the fiction of "universal principles" -- which is to say, to side with the oppressor?
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Far be it from me to pass for an idpol-progressive under ITT conditions, but if I had to steel-man the progressive position here, I would say that disparate impact that harms an oppressed group is sufficient to define an act as racist (intention notwithstanding, as you say). Actions to redress oppression, to equalize the conditions of oppressor and oppressed are definitionally not racist; “when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression” and all that.
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
because apparently the Karen National Army and the Karen National Liberation Army don't get along.
Did one of them demand to speak to the manager of the other? Or is this more of a Judean People’s Front vs. People’s Front of Judea type of feud?
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
G’day, mate!
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
It's fallen out of favour here now, but in my own town there used to be people going out on the harbour or out to the beaches when the tide went out so they could gather mussels etc. for sale.
Molly Malone?
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
Alas, a Dunkin’ lover can dream
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
Breaking news: Uri Berliner has since resigned. I have to assume that "resigned" here is the usual thing where bigshots are allowed to resign to save face and avoid the public spectacle of being fired that any normal employee would face.
I sincerely hope this leads to a wave of resignations within NPR, with everyone saying “Ich bin ein Berliner” as their parting words.
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
they kicked us off the orange website
I must be out of the loop; when did “we” get banned from Hacker News?
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
If she violates the law and is convicted there is no higher court to appeal to, there is no British constitution.
Actually I’m curious about this. If she loses at the trial court level in Scotland, is there no Scottish court of appeals?
Regardless of the answer to the previous question, if she were to lose both the initial trial and any available appeals within Scotland, could she appeal to an appellate court of the United Kingdom? If not, we are a heartbeat away from nullification being fair game for any devolved legislature within the UK, and bizarrely, the ECHR would have more power than “domestic” British courts, at least in Scotland!
In general the interplay of devolution and the judiciary is fascinating. It’s like the UK is cherry-picking bits and pieces of US- or Canadian-style federalism without a real guiding principle of who exactly has authority over what. No British constitution indeed.
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
There are many, many fucked up things about the American medical system, as has been pointed out by others in this thread, but the silver (well, maybe aluminum) lining here is that the massive debt incurred by a medical education does incentivize graduates to monetize their skills, instead of just treating the MD as a vanity/MRS degree.
Unfortunately, as someone pointed out downthread, "monetizing their skills" these days increasingly means going into tech or pharma, rather than actually, y'know, treating patients.
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
Fair enough, I should have said “unusual among the founding principles/origin myths/civic religions of modern nation-states”, and I think it’s accurate to characterize Judaism as the founding principle and raison d’etre of modern Israel.
I would completely agree with the assessment that a rational observer should be extra vigilant re: genocidal intent or actions from explicitly Islamic nation-states; indeed 20th and 21st century history provides us with examples of such. As for explicitly Christian nation-states, I would say less so, both because they are almost invariably Christian-in-name-only (cf. regular attendance rates at any of the established churches in Europe), and because modern Western Christianity has memetically shed its attachments to the wanton bloodlust of the Old Testament.
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
If it were merely that the ancient Israelites committed genocide, I would agree with you; basically all ancient peoples did at one point or another, and indeed a statute of limitations is in order. But as OP mentioned, Judaism today teaches Jews to delight in the genocidal slaughter perpetrated by their forebears. That is, to say the least, unusual among modern ethnoreligious memes.
stuckinbathroom
8mo ago
The supply of loanable funds (a nominal quantity) does not necessarily represent the full production possibilities of the underlying economy (a real one). That is, there are 'real' savings that are not represented by nominal savings at a given price level/quantity of money.
From within the Austrian framework, I think this claim does not hold. I think what you are saying—and please correct me if I’m wrong—is that there may exist savings held (e.g.) in the form of dollar bills in a deposit box at a bank. These bills cannot be lent out as part of the bank’s operations, and hence the real wealth which they represent can never participate in the economy as “investment”.
However, an Austrian would say that those dollar bills are not savings in the sense of forming part of the supply of loanable funds. Savings-as-loanable-funds are a subset of savings-as-deferred-consumption; the former entails the assumption of some risk, while the latter (as in the case of bills in a deposit box) need not.
If you like, holding money qua money, rather than allowing it to be lent out for investment purposes, could be called “exercising demand for money” or less charitably, “hoarding money”, as distinguished from “saving”. An Austrian would say that such hoarding is economically no different from exercising demand in any other way (e.g., through consumption of real goods/services).
stuckinbathroom
8mo ago
C++ is no exception
Actually it’s C which is no exceptions, necessitating the use of return codes to indicate success or error
Legislative lawfare is prohibited (or at least made difficult) by Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 of the US Constitution: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”
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