The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4hr ago
Nor does your hypersensitivity.
You don't need to be hypersensitive to understand that "As a white male, you are a member of a harmful group" is indeed something bad directed at you for being a white male.
The world is not that bad out here.
We've been through this since ~2014. No, it is not just a few college kids on Tumblr, or whatever.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4hr ago
I mean, maybe just make her an obese, frumpy, obnoxious chavette. Maybe also a single mother and a smoker to boot. There’s no way such a character will compel thirsty dudebros to create piles of fanart of her.
Right-wing Amelia smokes now (imitating the Iranian women burning Khameni photos), so no, smoking wouldn't help.
But probably none of that would work if they really wanted to meme her. They'd thin her down and pretty her up (as indeed was done with actual Amelia). They'd drop the kid or create a backstory where her husband was killed by a Pakistani immigrant or something.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4hr ago
The left is made mostly of white people and I’ve never felt anything bad directed at me for being one
Your insensitivity doesn't make it not exist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
The current atrocity going around X is that a mob stormed a church because the pastor had the same name as one of the higher-ups at ICE. They are not the same person.
This random site has pictures seeming to show that they are.
That makes prosecution more likely, I suppose.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
Everyone in the justice system knows the FACE act was about abortion and the church part was a sop thrown to the right that was never intended to be used. I believe prior to Trump II it was never used for that. I don't think judges are going to be willing to apply the dead half of the law.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
The Fed paper you cited does not say poor people subsidize rich people benefits. It says people with poor credit subsidize people with good credit at similar income levels. It's still a bad paper, but it doesn't come to the conclusion you object to.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Credit cards are a lot more popular in the US than Europe, making up 42% of point of sale purchases in the North American and only 18% in Europe. So Europe is doing something that's hurting credit card uptake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
You've got your idea of how things should turn out, you've declared that since the way they have turned out doesn't match that they're a monopoly (they're not), and have a government solution (treat them as a utility) which you swear will work fine based on a "test" that you've executed only in your head.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
These are the type of businesses we want to create in society.
You haven't solved the planning problem.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
But is it really helpful to their cause to (apparently) give everyone the impression that they are a bunch of unhinged lunatics?
Not "everyone" gets this impression because only sketchy right-wing sources like AlphaNews report it. You won't see it on the mainstream media, not even the local Fox affiliate (which appears to be fully anti-ICE).
Note on that Reddit thread of the Mobile Sheriff's deputies, not one person even questioned whether those WERE ICE agents. Probably because the mods would ban anyone who did.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
New Star Wars sucks independently of being too woke, but it also sucks because it is too woke.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The ice-free part of Greenland is almost as large as California.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The simplest explanation is that Trump just wants it, because it looks big on the map.
It doesn't just look big, it is big. Not as big as it looks on a Mercator projection, but big enough.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
But it seems like Anti-ICE people are assuming this is their playbook because it's what they would do, and are now doing.
This is still too much of a mistake theory frame. The anti-ICE people don't care what ICEs playbook is. They oppose ICE and will do and say anything that they think helps their cause. They stubbornly deny the agent who shot Renee Good was hit by her car. They made up an Allentown grandfather. They post all sorts of stories, often claiming they're backed up by video... but the video doesn't back them up. Or they post videos which aren't even of ICE agents, such as this one. Yeah, that looks bad -- but those aren't ICE agents, those are Mobile, Alabama sheriff's deputies, and that particular incident isn't even an immigration arrest. And those filming likely KNEW those were sheriff's deputies because they (unlike the camera) could have seen what was written on the side of the police vehicle.
I don't know if they're anti-ICE because they're pro-open-borders or (more likely) they're just anti-Trump, but they're definitely by-any-means-necessary full conflict theory people.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The most likely result of a 10% credit card interest limit is that poor people people who are bad credit risks stop getting credit cards. Note the difference between poor people and people who are bad credit risks is actually a major point in that first paper, which claims that credit card rewards to high-income people with good FICO scores are paid by high-income people with bad FICO scores, not low-income people. You can't perfectly segment people between subprime borrowers and rich people, because some rich people are bad with credit and the credit card companies are happy to charge them for it. And some low-income people are good with credit, and credit card companies will give them rewards.
One secondary result will be a curtailing of rewards programs. I suspect high-FICO-score customers will miss the rewards programs a lot less than the low-FICO-score people will miss their credit cards.
Another secondary result will be a drop in consumer spending, which no one but miserly paleoconservatives and neo-traditionalists will like.
Whether it would help the subprime people who lose access to credit is hard to say.
Edit: as a high income high fico. I would prefer we limit credit card fees. And rewards go to zero. Then the store I go to doesn’t pay a processing fee. So they cut prices. And it probably saves me more money than getting 2% cash back.
You should know better than that. Prices in stores are not cost-plus, and even if they were, the result of limiting credit card fees and rewards would not be limited to affecting those costs. Certainly discount fees would not go to zero. If as Ackman says, "classic" credit cards have about a 1.5% discount fee and top rewards cards have about 3.5%, then even if you recovered the entire difference from losing rewards cards, you'd break even.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Many such cases at Google. It's absolutely bizarre for a public school/public college alumnus seeing those prep school->Ivy League women argue that anyone else is privileged. What's that you're saying? I can't hear you around that silver spoon. Oh, it's platinum, my mistake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
In either case, I'd say there's currently an implicit assumption by many buyers that, when they're purchasing a book, say, they're buying something that an intelligent mind constructed using skill and artifice (with plot twists, character arcs, and so forth), and not something that reads beautifully on the first page but never builds up to anything or has anything to say.
That assumption (which was never true before AI) does not make the goods counterfeit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The AI spam doesn't work by creating equal or superior products, it works by simply existing in vast quantities and being hard to distinguish at a casual glance from legitimate products. It's a form of counterfeit goods when used this way.
It is a form of inferior goods, but not counterfeit goods unless it claims to be that which it is displacing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
You could probably see if there's signal by controlling for education level and seeing if the income outcomes still hold. I'm not sure if anyone's done that (or if there's enough data -- almost every recent study of this sort I've seen uses the SMPY cohorts, because there aren't too many other choices)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
FYI, Blåhaj isn't exactly a regular small stuffed toy (which would be decoration like any other) but a 100+ cm long stuffed shark that's the same size as a preschool kid.
Yeah, in software development offices they tend to get hung above the desks. The stuffed sharks, that is, the kids squirm too much and the wire won't hold them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Doctors used to be and top lawyers are OWNERS. Math professors are not. That's why math professors aren't upper class.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
You just need to get everyone else to take pills to move their IQ in a negative direction. In a world of idiots, the moron is king. Hence the push for cannabis legalization.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It is NOW, but back in G. H. Hardy's day...
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I've spent most of my life surrounded by cosmopolitan liberals and I've literally never heard an IRL person say this.
I have. Mostly cosmopolitan liberal Americans, but occasionally Europeans.
They definitely do, but they do it in Mandarin, which they are certain you will never understand.
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