Chrisprattalpharaptr
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Chrisprattalpharaptr
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20hr ago
During medical school I once got covered in my supervisor’s blood, and on another occasion, I had to carry away a chunk of somebody’s scalp. A guy I know from medical school once responded to a code in the middle of the night and found two patients and a nurse wrestling in the nursing station while another nurse slowly bled out from a neck wound.
I’ve been swept by a gun during a trauma (fucking search the bangers before, thanks), and handed a knife by a guy who was already searched while alone in a room. Yesterday, a nurse at another hospital in my region almost had their finger bitten off while restraining a patient, which is why I decided to write this.
Do you think these situations would have been improved by you being armed with a gun? And given that many doctors suffer a...size disparity from your average trauma patient, and fists can easily be a deadly weapon, should the doctor have shot the patients in any of the stories you list above?
Where do the NRA and courts land on arming doctors/self-defense in hospitals, anyways?
The groypers/tankies/islamists would kill/expel/rape/torture/imprison me anyway, so I’m unclear as to why I owe them any empathy.
Pretty small subsets of society, but sure, you can have a pass on people whose platform is explicitly kill/torture Jews. The woman who got shot in the head was presumably none of those things, although I doubt she had warm feelings for [edit] Israel.
But the episode taught me one thing. If you give the left an inch, they take a mile. If you agree that a single cop did something dumb, you get the police defunded, a wave of ridiculous and damaging woke in the private and public sector, and the greatest crime wave in decades. So while I don’t defend this, I know the only thing for it is to say “OK, what about it?”, to give not one inch.
And if you give the right an inch, they take Venezuela. Compromise is for suckers, smart people hit defect, right?
But regardless, you learned the wrong lesson. Defund the police didn't happen because you gave an inch to extreme leftists, it happened because broad segments of the population across the political spectrum were disgusted by what happened to Floyd. COVID lockdowns didn't happen because you ceded ground to some tiny fraction of hypochondriacs; they were supported by the majority of Americans, particularly early on in the pandemic.
You can be as callous as you like when you're in power, but a majority of Americans disapprove of ICE. And when they're back in power and you trumpet the latest MS13 murder, what's to stop them from smiling and saying 'why should I care?'
There was a moment at the end of the Biden administration where I thought there was relatively broad bipartisan agreement that something needed to be done about immigration. The left knew it was a losing issue, all the talking heads on the center left agreed something needed to be done, etc. The right (well, Trump really) chose to score political points instead and unilaterally take a bunch of actions that will be reversed three years from now.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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6d ago
Jeez, how many people can report a comment in 45 minutes? Are they just sitting there refreshing the new comment feed?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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6d ago
How full is the water bottle? And it's a normal person throwing it with a predictable windup or it's just magically headed directly towards my center of mass and it's a question of reflexes to get out of the way? I feel like a childhood of playing suicide (apparently called butts up in the US of A) gives me pretty good odds.
But also, without caring that much about the underlying specifics, the cop did 'just dodge the car.' He wasn't meaningfully hit. And even if he had been hit head on and still shot and killed the driver, it didn't stop the car from accelerating and crashing into the other parked car. If anything, shooting her probably made him less safe than jumping on the hood of the car or something.
Not to mention, if you shoot me in the chest or something I'm 100% going to do my best to run you over even if that wasn't my intention before.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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6d ago
What a childish argument.
When you stand against immigration enforcement you stand against the future of the entire civilization we share. You are saying that you want your descendants and mine to live in a dirtier, poorer, more squalid, more corrupt, more unequal, more violent country, forever.
If you obstruct ICE in any capacity, why should I care what happens to you, when by your very action you are saying you don’t care about what happens to me?
Why should I care that Charlie Kirk was shot? Trump? Should I care when the Sandistas drag your rich family from their Manhattan penthouse, given that I suspect I'd take a dim view of how you acquired your wealth if I knew the details? Should I cheer for cops to shoot people violating COVID lockdowns because they obviously don't care about what happens to me?
Have you met your quota of 8 white/Jewish babies? Do you support my policy of sterilizing the genetic undesirables? Have you donated to my paramilitary group going door to door administering rapid-SNP tests and euthanizing people with below-average IQ PGS? No? By failing to out-reproduce the blacks and latinos and borderlander dysgenic trash you're dooming my descendants to squalor! Why should I care what happens to you?
Have some empathy and respect for your country(wo)men because the alternative is worse. Even if you're acutely self-interested and lack any altruistic impulses whatsoever, the alternative is worse for you as well.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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7d ago
From DHS twitter:
Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.
Was, uh, a riot going on down the street or something? Or do the videos you linked capture the totality of the violent riot?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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9d ago
It's a different world man. I checked the FBI crime statistics, and in my home town, when I was allowed to bike 30 minutes as google map says, probably 60 minutes as a kid bikes, down the bike path on the parkway to the nearest shopping center for a slushy, the murder rate in my county was 0-1 per year. Entirely domestics. In the year 2025 it's closer to 50, and lots of gang deaths.
I'm really baffled as to where you grew up, Petersburg? As far as my experiences in Virginia, it's overwhelmingly been one of gentrification - admittedly limited to NoVA and Richmond. I can't speak to Norfolk or Charlottesville. In DC, the majority of the city is unaffordable to anyone but wealthy professionals and the politicos, with the poors being pushed across the Anacostia. H street is a filthy den of hipsters (or may have progressed to a fully upscale neighborhood since I left, I don't know) and you have to go pretty far to the northeast to get anywhere grungy. NoVA is a gleaming mass of towers full of consultants milking the feds (where you possibly work making useless software?) and I'm not even sure how far you have to drive outside the city before you stop seeing Mcmansions and nice suburbs.
I don't know Richmond as well but The Fan and Jackson Ward both gentrified pretty heavily. Nice downtown core, UVA seems to be metastasizing, lots of mcmansions and farmers markets.
Are you confident that your quiet suburbia was invaded by illegals rather than most of the successful, law-abiding people being siphoned off by the gentrifying cities? Brain drain to the city cores will hollow out the suburbs and revitalize the downtowns which seems to be what's happening (although I haven't noticed the apocalyptic degradation of the suburbs you write about extensively). It's surprising that I lived in fairly similar areas to you without ever hearing about Teen Dismemberment Tuesdays. Why do you think we had such different experiences?
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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14d ago
Being top DPS on your MMO raiding guild is competitive and zero-sum, but unlikely to attract many girls (though not zero)
Every guild has a female tauren druid who ends up getting involved with the GM...
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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21d ago
He was, for some reason, a big fan of Perplexity -- an AI tool that I’ve heard very little positive feedback about from anyone else.
For a long time (and possibly this is still the case) perplexity was the only tool that would give me actual papers as references. If i said i wanted protocols for x in cell type y chatgpt would hallucinate a bunch of papers with chinese surnames that didn’t exist.
Chatgpt is a lot more interesting these days (for my work) but even as recently as a few weeks ago it made up papers instead of giving me real references.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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27d ago
And black/hispanic men over white/asian men.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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27d ago
In the first case, we can make the economy much more dynamic and worthwhile by reducing DEI.
In the first case, the jobs aren't fake and gay, people are just bad at them. You're arguing that people could be creating value for the company, but the slots taken up by women and black men are wasted.
Perhaps my experience is colored by being in STEM (as I suspect OP's is colored by being in finance), but my department of 100 something people has literally zero black employees. Maybe HR is majority female? Most other departments are fairly evenly split along gender lines and overwhelmingly white/east asian/Indian. Are these jobs all fake and gay? And if so, they are overwhelmingly held by white men and women - couldn't they easily be balanced to reflect the general population?
In the second case, the economy is unsustainable and any "solution" would fundamentally change the nature of the economy. Even fake and gay jobs can inculcate leadership and administrative skills that will be invaluable during such an upheaval. Society would benefit from putting the best and brightest into these positions to better prepare itself for the transition.
OP's entire point is that the economy is unsustainable, and fake and gay jobs are the path to sustainability. Our society produces a huge excess of wealth, but increasingly less-talented individuals can't productively contribute to the economy. Again, I see no problem with DEI.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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27d ago
And black and hispanic men are incarcerated more frequently, right? So you favor a worldview where corporations hire black men > hispanic men > white men > asian men > black women and so on and so forth? At least for their fake and gay jobs, anyways (which is most of them outside of software development and engineering).
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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28d ago
Exactly, we just have to make sure we discriminate against the white and asian ones.
Chrisprattalpharaptr
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28d ago
It makes sense, in this scenario, to pursue a more aggressive version of the program that has been ongoing now for many decades. To manufacture employment. To have people do, perhaps ever more overtly, ever more ridiculously, what everyone knows is unnecessary.
I must confess that I'm confused by the apparently broad overlap between people who believe:
- DEI is net negative for society because more competent white and asian men are discriminated against in favor of less competent blacks/women
- The vast majority of modern jobs are fake and gay
Everything you just laid out is a nearly fully generalizable argument in favor of turbo-DEI. If you're paying people to stay out of jail, pay the people who disproportionately go to jail.
Perhaps the way I wrote my comment misled you, but I wasn't specifically referring to that bill. The majority of Trump's agenda has been through executive orders that will be reversed the day after he leaves office, particularly since the center and center-left have soured on immigration enforcement after the last year.
I'd rather not block you because I sometimes enjoy reading your writing, but I'd also appreciate it if you stopped dropping by now and then with a 'you're wrong about everything, actually.' I respect and admire you, but I'm also at a loss as to how to interact with you in any kind of mutually beneficial way.
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