ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2d ago
I mean the big one that sticks out to me for Obama crossing lines is when he put out a hit list that included American citizens, and then actually killed said American citizen in a targeted strike (also killing said American citizen's teenage American citizen son). He was a terrorist shitbag who deserved to die, mind you, but the right way to do it would have been in a plausibly deniable way through one of our allies like the Brits, not straight up saying "We're going to assasinate this American citizen" and then actually following through.
Anwar al-Awlaki is the American citizen terrorist shitbag in question, by the way:
https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2010/08/aclu-anwar-al-awlaki/
The only significant leftwing criticism of this came from the ACLU, I don't recall any democrats in congress voicing opposition. Republicans were also generally supportive as well, for shitbag Muslim terrorist reasons.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
I have nothing against older men who would like to recoup their deferred compensation.
If that's all it was, sure. The problem is that Social Security is effectively a ponzi scheme. Total payouts are far greater than total contributions, with many retirees able to claim roughly 250% of what they paid in as benefits. Social Security was (and is) dependent on population growth because there need to be more people paying into it than receiving it. The only way to fix this is to dramatically lower the amount that retirees get from SS, and that's a political non-starter even after all the boomers die because that means gen x and millennials will be the ones who paid in significant amounts that they won't ever get back.
https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/lifetime-social-security-benefits-and-taxes-2023-update
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
I was hoping the Mormons would be it, but apparently their fertility has collapsed as well?
It's still above replacement, but yes it is dropping as well. Our new prophet (Dallin H. Oaks) mentioned the dropping fertility issues in both society as a whole and among members of the church in our most recent General Conference (back in October), so it's very possible the church will be trying to enact some changes (both culturally and policy-wise) to counteract this. We'll see what happens I suppose.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Then the Amish and breeding fetishists will inherit the earth.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
That's still a lot of fucking going on in those charts, just comparatively less
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Uv has only been available for a year or two, but it is being adopted extremely quickly (because pip was just that bad): https://wagtail.org/blog/uv-overtakes-pip-in-ci/
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
The Haredi also commit massive welfare fraud, and even if they weren't committing such fraud would still be highly dependent on non-fraudulent welfare. The Amish are probably the better example to emulate here as they do far more to support themselves and to limit reliance on the rest of society. Unfortunately that leads to some rather anarcho-primitivist conclusions.
C# added nullable reference type annotations a few years ago, and if you're strict about actually using them (my Indian coworkers are not, sadly) then you can reliably eliminate 99% of null reference exceptions. When the C# team finally gets around to implementing discriminated unions (in the next decade or three) and we finally have Option<T> there will be actual null safety in C#.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
I'd guess 30 to 50 percent
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Python also lets you commit crimes against humanity and good taste like this with ease: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc/
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Also look at the performance improvements that Microsoft announces with every new version of .NET. Where speed is absolutely critical, there is still usually no beating C/C++/Rust, but C# has become blazing fast compared to how it used to be, and is actually competitive with lower level languages in some cases.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Romania's Decree 770, making abortion illegal in all but a few rare instances, and higher income taxes for the childless, did lead to a temporary baby boom, but the consequences were not positive with high maternal and infant mortality, and the birthrate started to decline again anyway.
Romania's attempt failed because they lacked the will to actually continue enforcing it, not because the policy itself didn't work.
How you solve for lack of will to enforce such policies is a whole other problem, but the policies themselves work. People still fuck, a lot, and if there is little to no access to birth control and abortion that fucking is going to result in children.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
My own experience as a missionary who did door to door tracting in apartment buildings: just start ringing random apartments and you'll find someone who will buzz you in without even talking to you
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Spoke with a recruiter for Boeing back in about 2013 and she told me that the recruiting process was already super biased and discriminatory by that point (she was opposed to it but the pressure to do it this way was coming from higher ups)
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Yawn
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
US policy was quite literally the opposite, creating the infamous Banana Republics.
Sure, but without US intervention Latin America would have instituted Communism in a bunch of places, and it's extremely difficult to imagine they would have been any more economically prosperous under Communism.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
One very simple one, because many illegals either work under the table or with a stolen identity: If you don't have any reported income you can still get welfare while having a job.
The amount of ways to do it are boundless though, that's just one of the more common ways.
ChickenOverlord
12d ago
always will be our friend
That's definitely in doubt. Demographic forces will make them more friendly to third world shitholes in the Middle East and Africa, and economic forces may well push them away from the US and towards China or other potential up and comers (BRICS?).
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
The vast majority of female OF whores don't make any real money on the platform. The lower demand and greater competition for male whores on OF means even fewer of them make any real money. This was already the case before OF, with male porn actors making way less per shoot than females.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
A society doesn't become low trust overnight, but the vibes basically shifted overnight (and remain low despite the end of covid).
Sure, but preference cascades from the long term deterioration of trust can happen overnight, especially if there's a big inciting incident like COVID to trigger the cascade.
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
For me the strongest indicator will be whether or not Kerkhoff decides to sue Glenn Beck et al for defamation or not. A refusal to sue in what should be a slam dunk easy payday means they're afraid of what discovery will turn up.
We don't really have too many datapoints for the Russia starting out incompetent then getting better meme outside of WW2 though. In WW1 it was Russia starting out incompetent, and ending with Russia ripped apart by a civil war and regime change that devastated them economically for 70 years.
Has any neutral third party actually confirmed who committed the Bucha massacre? From what I can find, NATO affiliated sources claim it was done by the Russians, while Russian affiliated sources (most notably Sergey Lavrov) seem to be claiming that it was a false flag committed by Ukrainian forces. Now I'm inclined to believe that all sides of this conflict are lying about whatever is convenient for them, as one does in war since truth is the first casualty. But it looks like the bodies were visible in satellite images taken when Russia still controlled the city, if the sources of those images are to be believed of course:
https://www.bbc.com/news/60981238
Just to establish my priors about the whole war for objectivity's sake: I think the Ukrainian government is horribly corrupt and mismanaging the war, and their only saving grace is that the other side is even more corrupt and dysfunctional, but even that won't save them long term due to Russian advantages in manpower and materiel. I do think Russia is likely to win the war, but it will be a Phyrric victory consisting of control of Donetsk, Luhansk, and enough land to connect to Crimea, or something roughly along those lines (basically the current frontlines more or less). This has been more or less my position on the war since the failed attack on Kiev at the start of the war, which made me adjust many of my priors about the competence of the Russian military.
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
My own mental model of people who are very smart in STEM fields is that they will have ridiculous crank-tier beliefs about other topics. Isaac Newton's obsession with hidden codes in the Bible is basically the Ur example of this.
Python is still shit, but less shit than it was. And still less shit than JavaScript, of course.
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