Walterodim
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Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2d ago
Start the day with three eggs and a cup of Greek yogurt will get you to 350 calories and 40 grams of protein.
A 12-ounce skirt steak cut has 750 calories and 88 grams of protein. That's a pretty good start for a TexMex meal. Roughly 250 calories worth of black beans is ~16 grams of protein. Fill in the remainder with rice and you're good to go. Avocado if desired.
Chicken breast is obviously a famous choice for protein enthusiast that are cutting. Personally, I like them pounded flat, marinated, and grilled pretty well. Make a sandwich with rolls and cheese to round up carbs and fat. Mixing up the marinades and going with rice and veggies can add some variety here.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
2d ago
Fearing judgment to some extent is good and healthy. If you behave poorly and show low character, people should judge you for it and you should change your ways. Any breakdown in that outcome is quite bad. On the flip side, you should reject incorrect judgments. The best way to do this it to build yourself into the kind of person that you want to be. Nonetheless, you should still be open to judgment and fear doing the things that would make people think worse of you. As with so many personality traits and emotions (anger, empathy, ambition) these drives must exist in tension and balance. People that either can't judge or fear no judgement usually suck.
Walterodim
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2d ago
If the government of Israel either were told, or said, there will be a state of Palestine, and we will live peacefully side by side, the fighting would stop today. These are basic facts, basic matters of truth that if we actually spoke them, if we actually treated each other like grown-ups we would resolve to seem to be these insurmountable crises. They're not at all insurmountable, they just require a measure of truth.
Yeah, the fighting would stop today, but then resume as soon as the newly empower Hamas government rebuilt its capacity to lob rockets into Israel. I enjoy listening to Sachs on podcasts, but the consistency with which he believes that shithole countries and murderous Islamists just need a nice little nudge in the right direction is absurd and fails to predict much of anything about the world. Yeah, fighting an endless holy war sucks for Israel and is a suboptimal outcome, but the alternative is not actually just recognizing a nice Palestinian neighbor.
Are there any major issues where Sachs basic position isn't the US sucks and should stop being such meanies? I did a cursory search and these are what I find:
- China should gain power and dismantle US hegemony. Also, everyone should stop being such jerks to them about the Uyghurs.
- The US shouldn't intervene in Syria.
- Venezuela sucks because of American sanctions.
- Covid was a US government conspiracy.
- The US is pretty much solely to blame for Ukraine.
I even partially agree with some of these, but when someone's solution to everything is anti-American, it might be best to just consider them anti-American and respond accordingly.
Walterodim
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2d ago
If you enjoy being pedantic, you can simply reply, "what's the exponent?".
Walterodim
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4d ago
Canada! Rockies are the start of the true West, Canada is the start of the true North.
Walterodim
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4d ago
Just normal upper Midwest United States stuff! These are admittedly not the most common days, which is why I said my ideal days are hard to pick. When we do get these lows in the morning and highs in the afternoon, it's great. Here's May so far. On May 17, we had an overnight low of 49 and an afternoon high of 79. On May 12 it was 47 in the morning and 83 in the afternoon.
Despite the rough winters the late spring and early summer in the Midwest are super underrated for delightful weather.
Walterodim
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4d ago
I struggle to see what the point of Supersize Me was, other than being an anti-corporate applause light.
He was also a vegetarian, so was an anti-meat applause light. But really, more important than either of those by a wide margin was pwning the chuds. Morgan Spurlock absolutely hated the chuds with a burning contempt, so showing how they're so stupid and destroying their bodies while he garnered applause and profit was just the perfect project for the early 2000s style of smug liberal.
Eating a tolerably decent diet that includes lunch at McDonald's isn't hard and doesn't require doing anything weird. A McDouble and a medium fry is about 700 calories. If you're a hungry boy and must have the Big Mac and large fry, you're looking at 1100 calories.
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
4d ago
I would swear I saw that clip months ago. Am I misremembering or is this being misreported by 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 @ ℝ𝕖𝕡𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 | ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ-ʜᴇᴀᴅᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪʙʟᴇ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ || འབྲུག་?
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
4d ago
I have trouble picking a single perfect weather because I enjoy outdoor activities that have a wide variance. I love sitting in the sun on a hot day doing nothing, but if I wake up to that kind of weather when I'm trying to run in a race, I'm not going to be very happy. For the modal day though, I like chilly morning (call it high 40s) and a sunny, moderate temperature afternoon (call it mid 70s).
Walterodim
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4d ago
I'm fine with speaking ill of that guy. He absolutely typifies the peak of crass, smug leftist from his era. He knew pretty much nothing about the topics he was speaking on, hated corporations with a stupid and jealous passion, lied constantly, and was personally degenerate. It's not just Supersize Me, go look at the episode rundown for 30 Days and tell me this guy isn't just an asshole.
At least when Gladwell speaks to running, he's actually good at the sport and cares about it.
Walterodim
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5d ago
I saw Chris Murphy speaking on the matter yesterday and he seemed very comfortable framing the issue as needing solving, but from a different angle than where you're coming at - he's selling the idea that the real problem is that the system is so jammed up that these people can't even get a fair hearing on their asylum claims. Let's get something done, get some more judges and lawyers to make sure people get admitted legally, that kind of thing. Basically, illegal immigration is a problem and the solution is to make all of these people legal immigrants. This is easy enough to sell to his constituents, particularly when he can point to those dastardly Republicans that just want to keep these innocent asylum seekers illegal for purely political reasons.
Walterodim
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5d ago
This doesn't suffice to limit the liabilities of diversity. It's very hard to overstate how much self-inflicted damage the United States has accepted in the name of refusing to discriminate between migrant populations on the basis of their cultural backgrounds. People are obviously aware of major incidents like 9/11, but dealing with petty intrusions like not being able to check a backpack at a race because an Islamic extremist bombed the Boston Marathon are just everywhere. We also get the low-level annoyances of antisemitic losers on college campuses and women in beekeeper outfits. There is no plausible case that the benefits of Muslim immigration have outstripped the costs.
Walterodim
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5d ago
On the flip side, Titanic Belfast opened in 2012 and it's a really well done museum. Maybe it's not as broad of a cultural touchstone, but it's still fascinating history.
Walterodim
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7d ago
What are you withholding judgment on? He seems like a pretty garden variety hotep logician, the kind of guy that believes a lot of incredibly dumb shit and says it smugly because it makes him feel like he's actually very smart.
Walterodim
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7d ago
More or less, yes. Despite my position above that I don't think of there being much of a crisis of competence in medicine, that's precisely because there are standards that everyone has to meet. Some professions are basically fake in terms of actual technical knowledge and people can get by with a combination of improvisation and charisma; my impression is that people in these jobs sometimes mistakenly believe that all jobs work that way, and it just ain't so. Things like medicine and engineering have irreducible complexity, where you actually have to know each part of it and be able to use that understanding in practice. Physicians require more actual knowledge than marketing executives.
Walterodim
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8d ago
Yeah, that's what I was asking. Thanks for the link.
With regard to bottleneck, residency. Schools can't plausibly increase the number of students because they won't be able to place them.
Walterodim
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8d ago
What's your epistemic certainty on this?
Low, although I'll note that my exposure to the field is much more extensive than you're thinking (although I'm not inclined to provide details). I'd definitely be interested in the data you're referring to - do you have any summaries I can take a look at?
Walterodim
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8d ago
The profession has a deliberately bottlenecked profession that makes it unnecessarily selective. Even if the average black doctor has lower MCATs than other doctors, they're still going to be plenty good to do basic medical procedures. I suppose part of the reason that I think this is that I generally think big chunks of medicine are significantly overrated, with only a few classes of medicine being consistently effective, and those not generally be all that hard to do. Antibiotics and vaccines work great, but they don't really take a genius to prescribe. Trauma surgery is very effective, but you're probably not going to have much time to pick who you want to fix your shattered body when you're brought in from a car accident. Without considering race, I just generally don't think I'm going to get much out of a physician with a higher MCAT.
There are a couple areas where I would want to get the absolute best. If I had cancer, I would want top-notch pathologists and oncologists working on the problem and would seek out an elite hospital. I probably wouldn't care about race in that context because the bar for being specialists working on bone marrow transplants at MD Anderson is pretty damned high. On the opposite end, if I had something that required sports medicine, I would be insistent on people that are actually knowledgeable int he field, but on this one, the intellect level shouldn't be much of a barrier.
Relatedly, I can't believe how many people that have nothing wrong with them just go to the doctor all the time for checkups, as though a physical is going to provide you any useful information about yourself. What a silly, shamanistic ritual. I'm especially amazed that people who pretty obviously don't care much about their health go through the debasement of being told annually that yep, you're still fat and should lose weight.
Walterodim
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9d ago
Not to be a dick, but surely you can see why Is Wine Fake is a more relatable topic for even the typical Mottizen than a hilarious and insightful look at medieval Icelandic literature and law!
Walterodim
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9d ago
America does not really seem to have a coherent philosophy
Of note - "America" isn't a person and can't have a coherent philosophy. Many individuals are equally incoherent to what you posit here, but others really aren't. There are plenty of police-state enthusiasts that think people shouldn't own firearms. There are plenty of firearm enthusiasts that want to eliminate no-knock raids (outside of rare, extreme circumstances).
Foster was allowed to open carry a rifle.
Again, many individuals may have an incoherent stance, but mine is fairly clear - blocking streets is a crime, using a firearm to do so is an escalator, and the government should have cracked down on BLM intimidation tactics. They didn't in Austin because Austin is a left-wing city and the city leadership offered tacit or explicit endorsement of BLM and its tactics.
Walterodim
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9d ago
OK, I think I've shown that this is obviously false and repeating back at me mostly convinces me that you're not willing to deal with reality. Thanks for the Heritage link though, very official, very trustworthy.
Walterodim
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9d ago
I hate to do this but you did the math wrong in the earlier post.
I actually very much appreciate it. I've referenced this a few times and haven't had anyone point out the error, which was going to result in me continuing to reference it. That this goes back to 2008 rather than being a single year count probably makes the per election frequency roughly an order of magnitude lower. So, duly noted, and thanks for that.
With regard to the second paragraph - yeah, I know, and I've tried to be pretty consistent about stating that none of these numeric estimates are intended to prove that 2020 was "stolen" since they don't even provide evidence on the direction of fraud and error. The point here isn't that each instance is a vote that should have gone the other way or that I think all of these people are criminals (in fact, I'd bet almost none of them intended to do anything illegal), but that the system is so shoddy that it allows a whole bunch of illegal voting that everyone shrugs at. I don't think we need to go track down a bunch of illegal votes from 2012 or something, we can just implement a system going forward that makes a reasonable attempt to have clean databases and require identification. Personally, I would prefer elimination of absentee balloting, but I know this isn't politically tenable. My offer to opponents would be replacing it with excellent early in-person balloting and making election day itself a holiday; I still know that's not getting done, but I do believe that it's a good-faith position to hold for someone that cares about security but isn't actually trying to engage in nefarious voter suppression.
Finally, while these numbers don't give any definitive data on fraud, I strongly believe they bring the lie to the ridiculous claims that there is basically no illegal voting. When we literally can't stop mentally incompetent people that are explicitly ineligible to vote from doing so, it seems pretty obvious that there are going to be at least a few other categories of illegal voting. The core of my position is that we should make a good effort to stop illegal voting and that we're obviously not doing that right now.
To what degree did the protestors' tactics of illegally barricading streets, widespread throughout the Floyd riots and a recurring prelude to tragedy, bear responsibility for the outcome?
Close to one hundred percent. The tactic is classic dilemma action, penning people into a position where they must either submit to the intimidation tactics of the mob or become violent against the mob. In either case, the mob organizers like the optics of the outcome - heads they have shut things down and flexed their might, tails and they're the poor innocent victims. No one should ever treat these tactics as "peaceful".
How should we interpret Perry's comments prior to the shooting, or Foster's for that matter?
As I wrote elsewhere:
Allow us, for a moment, to consider that everyone involved here is telling their truth to the best of their ability. Garrett Foster was a good and decent man that lovingly cared for his tragically quadriplegic fiancée. He was at these protests due to a deeply felt conviction that black people are oppressed by the police and was personally invested in the matter because the love of his life is a black woman. He carried a firearm at the protests because this is his constitutional right and he wanted to protect his ingroup from agitators. Daniel Perry was just an Uber driver trying to go about his business. He got confused because BLM protests occupy streets that one can normally drive down, he made a mistake in traffic, and found himself surrounded by protestors. The protestors were panicky because they're familiar with the widely broadcast Charlottesville story. Perry was frightened because many protests have turned violent. Foster attempted to defuse the situation and move Perry along.
If all of that were true (and I don't accept that it is, but let's run the thought experiment), this highlights why I was so goddamned angry at the people that allowed BLM riots to happen. The above all could be true and we would wind up with one good man's life ended and another good man's life ruined because these absolute donkeys running the show couldn't be bothered to stop BLM from rioting. Take away the riots and there's no need for Foster to arm up. Take away the riots and there is no plausible reason for Perry to be genuinely fearful. But no, we got tacit support from leftist mayors and governors around the country and a bunch of people died because of it. I am never, ever going to forgive these people.
Note - I don't really believe that this charitable view of the two men is accurate, but the point is that it could be and the same thing could have happened because of the context.
In explaining what I don't believe:
I don't buy that either man was basically an innocent bystander sucked into an unfortunate vortex. They could have been, but I doubt it. I think the evidence that Perry really, really hated protestors is compelling evidence that he embraced the confrontation. On the flip side, I have an extremely negative view of BLM and basically just don't believe anyone that says they're peaceful - I think all BLM marches are intimidation tactics and are only peaceful to the extent that people are effectively cowed into submission. Doing anything other than submitting will tend to result in very unpleasant outcomes. My model of these clashes is much more of communist-fascist streetfighting in the 1930s than it is sincere misunderstandings between well-meaning people. I think BLM rioters relish the fight and Perry enjoyed killing one of them.
Nonetheless, like I said, I think someone could take the maximally charitable view and have that be consistent with the known facts of this incident.
The answer to, "so now what" is to aggressively enforce laws for blocking streets, for false imprisonment, and so on. These aren't legitimate protest tactics and allowing them gets people killed. I don't care whether Perry was a cold-hearted murderer or an innocent victim of the system, the result was an entirely predictable consequence of BLM tactics that have little to do with the individuals in any specific altercation.
I've written on this at some length in the past, but the evidence is much stronger than "I don't like the looks of this". I'll accept that the elections are free and fair when there aren't thousands of people mentally adjudicated incompetent voting in my state. If the clerk's office admits it's not capable of running a cross-check that prevents that subset, specifically covered as ineligible to vote, I have no idea why anyone would believe it's capable of preventing the myriad of other ineligible voting that occurs.
Late 30s, very fit, I don't get exhausted without some truly difficult effort. If I work very hard at a difficult mental problem, I'll experience mental fatigue after a couple hours and need to go take a walk. If I go for a hard run, I'll grab a shower and a beer when I get in and flip on something easy to watch, but I wouldn't go so far as calling it exhaustion.
On the flip side, I do take quite a few mental breaks, walk around, take five minutes to go play a quick mini-game, and so on. This isn't really a conscious effort, just habit.
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