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CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1hr ago
I picked up Return to Moria a while ago for free on Epic Games Store (who are still giving away free games weekly btw).
I first played it a bit solo (up until the tentacled lake lurker or whatever it was) and then restarted to play with a friend. While it was kind of fun to explore Moria alone and gave me a feeling of isolation, the game seems to be designed for Multiplayer. I eventually dropped the game because it didn't hold my interest. I don't think I'd go back unless I could play it with friends as the content itself feels kind of samey after a while.
Imaginary_Knowledge
1hr ago
Even if it gets reversed, the beneficial uncertainty it's introduced will remain and chill immigration a bit. It's still a good thing. The revolt of the public continues apace.
Goodguy
1hr ago
I don't see any reason to have a feeling of fellowship with my fellow citizens, specifically, as opposed to having a feeling of fellowship with groups defined in other ways. But I do see that in certain situations, it is best for society in general to at least pretend to have a feeling of citizenship.
So I think you do have a point about the woke madness.
For me one of the interesting things about immigration is that, I think that for the most part, neither wokes nor right-wingers have any real principles about it.
If most people illegally crossing the US border were white conservative Christians, the wokes would be demanding to build a border wall and the right-wingers would be setting up sanctuary cities.
ChickenOverlord
1hr ago
You really ought to try to have some feeling of fellowship with your fellow citizens. At a minimum, pretending that citizenship means nothing is a big part of what allowed the woke madness (especially in regards to immigration) to take hold in the first place. But this (surprisingly coherent) video from Sam Hyde might help convince you for other reasons: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YvcUQI6gAaI?si=yIqiiZSn1C4nAos9
Goodguy
1hr ago
"I really don't want to have to have to compete against a billion Indians" isn't an argument, it's an expression of a preference.
@TheAntipopulist might have some kind of political principle behind his statement, but if he does, he hasn't expressed it. He's just expressed a preference to face less competition from Indians. As for me, personally, I just want to face less economic competition from people in general, it doesn't matter to me whether they're US citizens or foreigners.
Goodguy
1hr ago
Citizenship means nothing to me. I just want to have less economic competition, whether it's from other US citizens or from foreigners.
phailyoor
1hr ago
Good on them for building it, but if you read the article you would see that the DUV tech they are testing is years behind the latest EUV stuff, and it will still be years before it is up and running.
EUV is a whole different beast from DUV and who knows when China will have one ready.
ChickenOverlord
1hr ago
because them trying to supply labour is little different than Indians trying to supply labour?
Objection, facts not in evidence.
ChickenOverlord
1hr ago
but do you equally accept the arguments of liberal elites who want to exclude US citizen conservatives from being able to compete for elite jobs for the same reason
No, because citizenship actually means something. Which means that, in spite of the countless issues I have with our black underclass, I prioritize them over illegal Mexicans competing for their same jobs.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1hr ago
Okay, that's fair. I suppose I might be typical minding. I think I am considerably less nerdy/autistic than many users here (no offense meant, I just mean that I'm a socially integrated normalfag) and even I based my choice of college mainly on (1) the fact that it had the field I was interested in, (2) that it wasn't located in an inner city shithole, and (3) that they gave me a fat scholarship.
I've often heard hat new stadiums/cafeterias/fancy dorms are built to "attract students" but I do not personally know anyone who compared universities in this way. Even the 100 IQ normies at my HS who you would expect might care about that stuff were much more interested in whether a particular school had a good "party school" rep, whether their bf/gf was going there, or whether it was the "correct" school for their family sports fan dynasty (I lived in the southeast). I do not recall once ever hearing about the quality of the dorms or gyms.
However! If I were an unscrupulous admin trying to expand my bureaucratic power, this seems like a really convenient argument to make. "We need 50 million dollars for a new gym to attract students to Foobar State! If we don't build it, students will choose University of Foobar instead! We can't fall behind!" And all the other admins have grifts of their own and know how to play the game, so I doubt anyone would stand in the way except to try to grab those funds for their own power expansion ("We don't need a gym, we need to expand and renovate student housing!")
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
2hr ago
I didn't say international students were demanding shiny facilities and more administrators, I'm just saying that the money from international students most likely goes towards increasing bloat and add more irrelevant facilities. Does a university actually NEED a state of the art massive gym complex or sprawling student union center? These always seemed like make-work bureaucracy expansion projects to me. More facilities = more employees = more admin. At least football can be justified as pulling donations from alumni. Certainly none of the money goes to making education cheaper or better (cheaper books, higher prof salaries, more profs to decrease class sizes, etc).
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
2hr ago
They're not "demanding" it by protesting, they're demanding it by choosing to attend one university over another and therefore sending tuition dollars to one university instead of the other one. It's demand in the economic sense, not the political sense.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
2hr ago
No? I don't think I said that? I'm sure the admins, like all useless bureaucrats, will cling to their gibs until the bitter end, even if it means completely hollowing out the educational mission of the university.
phailyoor
2hr ago
If China has the ability to leapfrog Nvidia and other western AI tech, they're gonna do it irregardless of any sanctions on chips. Like of course they are going to try.
Huawei is superior in networking equipment
What networking equipment? 5g or something else?
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
2hr ago
I really don't want to have to have to compete against a billion Indians
Sure, that's a valid way to feel, but do you equally accept the arguments of liberal elites who want to exclude US citizen conservatives from being able to compete for elite jobs for the same reason, especially when elite overproduction means their children now have to work harder than they themselves had to for these sorts of positions?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
2hr ago
Tell me more about that, because when I was in college I didn't demand any of that. I wanted cheaper textbooks and affordable housing close to campus. I went to local restaurants or cooked at home. Our gym was a little old, but it was fine. I don't recall any student protests demanding fancies facilities. Maybe that's a common thing at other universities that I'm just not aware of?
Goodguy
2hr ago
Sorry, I misread your comment. See my other reply. But to your question, yeah I'd be fine with it if it seemed like the motivation was just a global desire to avoid competition, not some particular hatred of conservatives.
By the way, I'm not a conservative, so your example might be a bit mis-targeted.
They might be called a terrible person on social media, but it's not a statement I would be worried about making in polite company in person, like at a party or something, as long as I said it in such a phrasing and tone of voice as to make it clear that what makes me happy about having less competition is the having less competition part, not hurting others.
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
2hr ago
I'm not specifying a particular group any more than you're specifying H-1B workers in your example. Would you be just as OK with someone who is a liberal elite and wanted to prevent conservatives (amongst others, like the poor) from being able to compete for elite jobs because that way there's less competition for them and their kids to overcome to get these elite jobs?
Goodguy
2hr ago
Ah, you're critiquing the details of the policy, not the idea of the policy.
Well yes, as with so many things Trump, the implementation concept is strange, the members of administration seem to not be on the same page about what it entails, and it's likely to be walked back.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
2hr ago
I'm not entirely opposed to the things you advocate for, but for me this is more of an object-level issue. I really don't want to have to have to compete against a billion Indians, especially when the field has relatively high unemployment at the moment.
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
2hr ago
What makes you believe it's the Indians causing poor employer behaviour rather than say pretentious US citizen rurals (or conservatives or whatever) who at the moment can also compete freely for these good jobs? Would you be OK with explicit policies that tried to limit their access to "elite" jobs because them trying to supply labour is little different than Indians trying to supply labour?
BurdensomeCount
Unable to escape TheMotte's cycle of Samsara...
2hr ago
Your comment is analogous to "I don't want increased opportunities for US rurals because I would prefer, as much as possible, not to compete with other people for jobs which US rurals will do if they are given the same opportunities as me". If a liberal elite made such a comment in regards to elite jobs they'd be raked over the coals in the current zeitgeist and absolutely get called a terrible person.
A lot of it is cultural. I really don’t mind third world elites, probably 85% of my apartment building consists of them and they are generally polite, comparatively well dressed, keep to themselves and keep communal spaces clean. Having grown up around rich Americans I can’t really say they are any less pleasant to be around.
But the last 30 years have seen large numbers of peasants come in, in addition to existing third world peasant populations like the Mirpuris in England, rural Anatolians in Germany and so on.
A few very rich westernized Bangladeshis in Mayfair and Chelsea doesn’t bother (almost) anyone. Tower Hamlets becoming a Sylheti Islamist ethnostate does. This is pretty simple stuff.
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