ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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4hr ago
though I'd hope that no one on this forum would do so (and I'd honestly guess none of the regulars would do so).
While we have quite a few good eggs around here, a brief look at the past 8-9 years should be enough to dispelled most of this hope. We've had regulars argue against Damore, against Nick Sandman, in defense of BLM burning down that police precinct, that Kavanaugh was a rapist, and I don't recall more than a handful of progressive/liberal-leaning posters saying anything about it (and the ones that did probably wouldn't be recognized as progressive/liberals by other progressives/liberals).
ArjinFerman
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11hr ago
Getting food from America might be the cheapest way to do so, but there's no shortage of countries they could import it from.
ArjinFerman
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14hr ago
I think the bendy ones are supposed o be higher quality.
ArjinFerman
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15hr ago
No, it's exactly as ridiculous as the memes say. I grew up under a lack of EU regulations on the matter, and for some mysterious reason there was no deluge of mislabeled poor quality food (in fact I'm prettty sure the general quality was better).
ensuing backlash could create the environment for New Deal-era levels of political dominance.
I doubt you're going to get that. It's much more likely you'll get an equivalent to what's going on in the UK right now.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
But France can, and only France can, and thus it remains a form of European protectionism even if it privileges part of the EU over others.
Not France, only Champagne can.
I dunno, think what you want about the regulation, I heard a few cases of it backfiring against those it was supposedly meant to protect, but I don't see it as fundamentally different from expecting other countries to respect trademark regulations. Or is it protectionism that China can't flood the US market with "Apple" products that were produced by companies who weren't authorized by Apple to do so?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Didn't have a lot of free time last week, but I added retrieving link info from Twitter, so I don't have to scrape with a crawler (which I do want to keep as fallback, but as mentioned before, it causes quite a few headaches), and started working on the UI.
Don't know if you want to keep getting these pings given your situation @Southkraut, but since you haven't called them off, how have you been doing?
The geographical indicator row is not primarily a protectionist one - the EU is demanding that other countries protect geographical names so that (for example) American winemakers can't call their Champagne-style sparkling wines "Champagne" in the US domestic market.
This sounds exactly backwards to me, though maybe I missed something. As far as I know the EU doesn't give a flying fuck what you call sparkling wine in the US, it just won't let you sell it as "champagne" in Europe. Though you're right it's not particularly protectionist, or if it is, it's regional protectionism, because European sparkling-wine producers are subject to the same rules (you can't make sparkling wine in Spain, or even other regions of France, and call it "champagne").
Just because money is changing hands, it doesn't follow that it's a good thing. Fentanyl raises the GDP after all. Metrics of production should be prioritized over financial flows.
I don't know if I'll be able to find it, but I saw a clip of an interview (edit: or speech I guess) with Bukele, where he recounts how the world's (or El Salvador's) top economists' told him "nooo! you can't just arrest all the gangs, that will tank the GDP!".
EDIT: Found it
Broadly I have concluded that the main problem the US faces is racism towards the Chinese; the ill-earned sense of centrality and irreplaceability.
I might have missed an update, but have you changed your mind on this recently? A boiled-downed version of your opinion on the topic, that seems to be stored in my memory, is something to the effect of: China is doomed to be at the mercy of hypercompetent Anglo boomers who will rule the Earth for the foreseeable future. Or am I misremembering something?
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
their resume won't get past mindless filters. In good times they'll be underpaid for their skill level, in bad times unemployed.
N=1, but it's not all that bad. I probably got stuck in some filters, but I was never unemployed, and if these "average salary stats" websites are to be trusted, I wasn't underpaid either.
Right, but I think "they would have done well regardless" implies that whatever value lies in a degree comes from filtering, so there is something to the original claim "so off we go to college and unless you are super talented, you don’t get much for it except the loan you’re paying off".
Though I suppose to get a proper answer to the question, he should have randomly denied, but kept track of, half of them.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Not so; if you actually graduate, college makes financial sense for most degrees. It is perhaps true that there is some counterfactual world where you could get all the benefit and none of the cost, but we don't live there.
Does anyone know what ended up happening to the kids Peter Thiel paid off to not go to college?
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
I think gattsuru's response might have been meant for jkf's comment next to your's.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
It's more than the character writing that's good, it's how all the little tangents in the game end up contributing to the outcome of the final battle that made it interesting / satisfying. Though I agree they dropped the ball with the main storyline, and the fact that they had to make a DLC just to connect it to part 3 is proof positive that they screwed up.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
No, but 2rafa was making the argument that European right wingers shouldn't be bothered by this, because they won't be affected. That's the perspective I was addressing this from, not that of the politician.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Funny how they don't seem to be able to do that with unrepentant rapists.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
As much as I don't like it, international treaties are already treated as equal to the constitution, and Schengen is indeed such a treaty. I'm not against jettisoning it, but doing it for Israel is, like I said, an act of utter cuckoldry,
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
Wow, somehow I thought DA:O happened after ME3. I suppose what you say makes sense.
ArjinFerman
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5d ago
I continue to wonder when the inflection point was, between the ascending art form, and it's degenerate form we see today.
It was Mass Effect 3. Or the point between it and Andromeda.
You are welcome.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
Essentially nobody on the right is caught up in this
So? It's still an act of absolute cuckoldry to let it happen.
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
What does that have to do with whether or not you believe in the argument you put forward?
Though he's being held in prison in El Salvador? Because the US said so?
Oh god, now I can't get the image out of my head, where he's getting locked up, and then hears a familiar voice from inside the cell saying "welly, welly, well... look who's here!".
ArjinFerman
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6d ago
Yeah, that's why everyone was reluctant to trust him.
As an anecdote, I remember a story about someone setting up a paintball match between the national paintball champions and an elite spec ops unit of my country. The spec ops guys got BTFO'd, and their response was "they won because they were absolutely reckless".
I'm pretty sure high ranking officers take advantage of this for a living, and once they have troops with high enough morale that they'll willingly march to their deaths, it unlocks strategies that minimize casualties in the long term.
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