ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
Minor point of contention: "The payroll tax is actually regressive, exempting incomes over $160,200."
It's only regressive if you ignore actual retirement payouts. SS payouts scale with how much you put in, and stop scaling up at, you guessed it, $160,200.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
But in any case, the loan is also guaranteed by the house, and so the bank will give out such mortgages to the elderly, even if, as I recommend, people have no power after death.
Why does the bank get the house instead of the government via inheritance taxes?
ChickenOverlord
8mo ago
If the Plantation of Ulster (where my ancestors on my Dad's side were sent to settle North Ireland to displace my ancestors on my mother's side) is widely considered ethnic cleansing then this sure as hell is. Unless you think the Paddies were just being a bunch of whiny babies.
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
Eh Carmack probably isn't a super good role model of conservative values outside of a role model for the value of hard work and education, I agree. Though he is anti-woke to some extent (good friends with Musk, guest speaker at an explicitly anti-woke sci fi convention, etc.).
Richard Hipp on the other hand would probably be a good conservative role model. Devout Catholic, family man, hard worker and successful. Also massively impactful worldwide (you probably have a few dozen instances of SQLite running on your phone or desktop as we speak). And appears to be very humble in spite of that.
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
£250/month, especially when it's for what I assume is some sort of gap insurance to cover what the NHS can't, sounds really high to me. That's ~$320 a month. Here in the US, at my last 3 or 4 employers, the monthly premium for the nicer plans has never been more than about $200/month after my employer's contribution. And there are always high deductible plans that are significantly cheaper than that.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
I haven't read the book (though you've piqued my interest) but I have this to add: in my time as a missionary in the Czech Republic (one of the most atheistic countries on earth) I'd estimate that a majority of the atheists I met there still believed in all sorts of new age mysticism and general woo.
ChickenOverlord
5mo ago
I didn't like it because he clearly isn't actually very familiar with Tolkien but insisted on making a tortured analogy put of it anyways. "Dark elves" are a Norse mythology thing, not a Tolkien thing.
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
This actually points to a something I've never heard a great answer on. How, in a world with ubiquitous condoms and the pill are we hitting 1 million abortions a year.
I genuinely can't think of an answer to this other than "a lot of people really like raw-dogging, and a lot of women really hate the side effects of the pill, and a lot of people are just really fucking stupid and don't know how pregnancy works."
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
I guess one possibility is powerful women rule over men backed by T-3000 terminators and a matriarchy that provides women with government sponsored AI husbandos.
I don't see that happening without a large number of tech savvy simps making them, there simply isn't a high enough quantity of women with the capabilities (software engineering, hardware/weapons engineering, and manufacturing) to ever make that a reality.
ChickenOverlord
11mo ago
And with the exception of a few institutions like Notre Dame, I can't imagine a scenario where a person applies to various institutions and the least expensive or most prestigious option, or even the option with the best cost-to-benefit ratio, is a religious college.
BYU is both highly ranked and quite affordable
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
But in a scenario where conscription is already occurring, do you think it is proper to only require males to stay in the country?
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
Finland? If we're limited to countries sharing land borders with Russia
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
Given that "UFO" simply means "Unidentified Flying Object" and not "alien spacecraft" it makes sense that major governments would investigate them. Not because of aliens, but because UFOs most likely mean "advanced aerospace tech made by our enemies that we want to know more about."
ChickenOverlord
2yr ago
Piracy is fundamentally different from theft. If I steal a loaf of bread from a store, the store has one fewer loaves of bread to sell. If I pirate a song, the record label doesn't have reduced stock.
Additionally, copyright (and intellectual property in general) is a legal fiction created by the state. Meanwhile physical property rights, while largely enforced by the state, are near universally recognized across all cultures in the world throughout the entirety of history. Copyright has only existed for a few hundred years in western countries, and for even shorter periods in the rest of the world (and even then only due to globalization of trade, cultural exports from the west, etc.).
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Ideally the democrats can have their version of joe rogan.
I realize your whole post was sarcastic, but I'm reminded of something someone said here a week or two ago: Joe Rogan was the Democrats' Joe Rogan, they drove him and people like him away.
That said I'd love to see the dems put major support behind Hasan, the backfire would be hilarious and it would probably give Roach King Asmongold a year's worth of content from that alone.
Honestly I'm surprised the left hasn't tried to figure out Asmongold 's popularity with young men. He's a midwit at best on his good days, but his takes come across to audiences as "common sense" (regardless of if they actually are). He just has a disarming way of talking and presenting himself, and I think that's something shrieking feminist harpies are constitutionally incapable of.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
They have the greater claim to the estate
Why? Their contract was with a dead man, it should no longer be in force. Are only banks allowed to enter into these contracts that extend past the death of the counterparty, or could a living man make a contract with his children and have that take precedence over the state when he dies? Maybe we could call it something like a "will"?
A hacker hacked NYU (both some of their internal databases and their public website) to show that NYU is still practicing affirmative action in spite of the supreme court ruling that was supposed to end the practice:
What would be the way for the courts to actually make sure this ruling gets enforced? Would some sort of federal commission like the ones that were put in place to monitor black voting rights in the south work?
ChickenOverlord
9mo ago
I think people drastically overestimate the competence of software developers. There is far, far, far greater demand for software development than there are competent developers able to meet it. And even the best of the best devs make security fuckups periodically, so if the median dev is below basic competence then the enterprise dev fuckwads and/or criminally incompetent offshore Pajeets that would be tasked with writing an online voting system would make orders of magnitude more security mistakes.
As far as I’m aware, there are only a handful of countries on earth with compulsory military service, and most of those impose the same requirement on women!
Objection, arguing facts not in evidence. Only seven countries conscript women, and even then they aren't put in roles that are likely to see combat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription#Drafting_of_women
Also almost every single country on earth has conscription or a draft.
ChickenOverlord
10mo ago
Though to be fair a good chunk of those fled to Hong Kong, Taiwan, immigrated to the US, etc. Anecdotally I have a friend of Chinese descent whose grandfather was a banker (and a personal friend of Chiang Kai-shek). He supposedly escaped on a fishing boat to Hong Kong under a pile of dead fish.
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
And the baron specifically wanted to rape 15-year-old Paul, and even had a drugged up slave boy who looked similar to Paul. They definitely toned down how truly terrible the Harkonnens were in the movies (both 80's and new).
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
Congress has subpoena power and you can land a contempt charge for ignoring them.
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
I'd make a physical version of a relational database, actually pretty easy to accomplish with filing cabinets and folders.
ChickenOverlord
1yr ago
given that community used to be significantly more supportive of pedophilia and has been backpedaling on it for decades.
The usual argument is that they kicked out NAMBLA et al from the movement in order to gain mainstream acceptance, amd now that they have it and homosexuality has been normalized they are returning to their original goals (and more).
Only if you assume first that free will doesn't exist (and if it doesn't then this discussion doesn't even matter but it's not like I could stop us from having it).
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