Corvos
6hr ago
Clearly there are people who think it will benefit them. People who feel strongly that things should be manufactured in America. People who think they're in a position to make things in America and would get satisfaction from that even if they had a salary cut. People who find being global hegemon ideologically distasteful or believe it has unwanted secondary effects.
I think that 'I understand why politicians are lying about this, but why are you?' is not a good starting point for understanding this perspective.
Corvos
7hr ago
No, of course not. That’s why everyone likes a convert - somebody who benefits from or was attached to position A telling you that B is true instead.
Corvos
8hr ago
In the UK we have inheritance tax at 40% and the Left is indeed hugely against inheritance. The main reason people hate it is because it double-dips: you get taxed when you earn money and you get taxed again on the same money when you pass it to your children. VAT also double-dips of course but it's smaller and built into the price so people don't notice, whereas inheritance tax hits you with a huge bill plus interest when you're grieving the loss of a parent.
People work hard to try and pass on as much as they can before inheritance tax kicks in.
Corvos
20hr ago
The wording on that is kind of ambiguous. One could perfectly well read it as, “God brought about civilised man (through his control of natural processes) about 10,000 years ago when the first civilisations started appearing” and I would agree despite definitely not being a creationist.
Capitalism makes sense to the paranoid who don't understand the concept of sharing
What is your definition of sharing? Or to put it another way, let's say you find a nice thing. A pretty rock, a fruit, a Galacta 9000 Zappa war fleet. Given that you have no right of ownership over it, if I march over and take it from you even though you like it and want to hold it / eat it / use it, have you meaningfully 'shared' it with me?
It flags a very obvious conflict of interest.
"Discriminating in favor of black people is good and popular, says study by black man" naturally invokes suspicion.
Yes, it's an ad-hominem argument and not a replacement for drilling carefully down into the details of the study (assuming it's not one of those surveys where they just make up the results, which are rare but do exist). But the prior for this study's rigor and truthfulness should be set lower than would otherwise be the case.
Corvos
1d ago
But doesn’t that also interfere with the mechanisms that cause healing and adaptation?
Corvos
1d ago
The Garmin Vivosmart 5 is a cheapish band that’s pretty good.
Pros: price, tracking basically works, no subscription, battery life VERY good - about a week. Cons: no integrated GPS, lacks the kind of coaching features other watches have, HR sensor can be sticky and takes a while to adjust to sudden changes in rate.
FWIW I’ve had mine for years and got a lot out of it but I’m considering buying something more expensive like an Apple Watch that maybe has better sensors and does more with them. Interested to hear recommendations.
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/04/garmin-vivosmart-review.html
Corvos
1d ago
In the UK we sort of did that (city Mayors, Scottish/Welsh/NI governments) but the result always seems to be hard left nonentities who have very little history of practical achievement (even less than our top-level MPs). I’m not sure if that’s a structural problem or simply what the regions prefer, but implementing localism in a way that doesn’t end up with virtue-signalling parasites constantly invoking ethnic grievances for more money seems like a serious problem.
Corvos
2d ago
Not a clue, sorry, I've never done it. Perplexity AI is a name I've heard but no idea if it's any good.
Corvos
2d ago
To be fair, the reason aristocrats/ECH don't own it is because we've just come out of a century where it was pretty dangerous to be an aristocrat and to owns that. I've said before but both of my parents were actually physically accosted at various points - one had a brick thrown at them, the other was spat on and nearly beaten. When I was growing up in the 90s, pre-woke, being white was fine but being upper-class painted a target on your back. You were expected to accept being the butt of every joke and take blame for everything wrong with the country while everything you owned was siphoned away by socialist tax policy.
One of the odd ironies of the last couple of decades for me is that while the level of identity-based abuse I'm subject to has risen, in a way it's a lot easier to deal with because there are so many more people to share it. There are a lot more white people than aristocrats! I think this is why people have started to be more open about considering themselves EHC - they have successfully diverted the inverse snobbery of the intellectual population onto ethnic and sexual identities rather than class ones.
Corvos
2d ago
That's perfectly compatible with @quiet_NaN's point, though. If we're going to force the moron in question to take on the duties of parenthood, he should take on ALL of them, and the rights and privileges thereby.* Which is pretty similar to the old remedy of the shotgun wedding. It's the non-reciprocity of it that repels.
*Unless he's clearly unsuited, which would presumably be decided by social services.
Corvos
3d ago
It’s possible that mores were different for a young Brit of my grandfather’s (old-fashioned) class. He was later nearly disowned for marrying a girl at university (rare but they did exist) who didn’t have what was considered an appropriate background.
It’s also possible I made up the chaperone. I’m afraid it’s been a long time since I heard the story.
Corvos
3d ago
The humour is that the instinctive/heuristic response of Joe Sixpack is often in line with the ultimate response of a very high IQ guy because JS I’d drawing on correct evolved heuristics. It’s the midair who tries to be contrarian and puts together a cool ‘akshually’ response that both JS and the genius wizard can see isn’t viable.
Corvos
4d ago
That’s what I mean. It’s sad in the broader sense of ‘it would be nice if things weren’t this way’ not ‘loser’.
Good to hear from someone with actual experience!
They were clearly acting out roles assigned to them by others and by media.
By this media! There is no reason for young children to know about strapons or blowjobs. This is a self-licking ice cream cone - teaching children about explicit sex acts and then saying ‘well, children these days encounter sex early, they need to be taught about this stuff’.
When my grandfather was sixteen going on a picnic with a girl and her chaperone was considered risqué. Now they’re teaching pre-pubescents about blowjobs.
Corvos
4d ago
AFAIK this is (sadly) standard political interview technique. Open live debate with a hostile interview can go wrong in too many ways, so you don’t do it unless you’re desperate. The standard technique is to totally ignore anything the interviewer says and repeat your talking points until they give up.
Even if the interviewer gives you a jumping off point for what you want to say you still shouldn’t take it because there’s too much chance they've booby-trapped the framing.
Sad but true.
Interesting to know, and thanks for your thoughts. I thought you were in the mainland for some reason - oddly enough the Motte is available through the firewall, presumably because half the posters are CCP plants the site is too small to be blocked explicitly.
Corvos
5d ago
If you find 地球の放課後 nicely drawn but too ecchi you could also try YKK. If you haven’t figured it out I have a weakness for pen and ink ;)
Fundamentally I think pithiness is overrated.
For example, the previous sentence could be cut down to ‘pithiness is overrated’. But this loses information! My constant usage of ‘I think’ on this forum isn’t for filling space, it’s for making it explicit that I am taking ownership of my sentiments and I’m not trying to assert the following statement as an absolute truth. ‘Fundamentally’ should make it clear that I am trying to make a deep point rather than just an aesthetic preference.
Two well-written paragraphs can be distilled into one sentence but they cannot be losslessly compressed into it. The use of examples, the use of caveats, approaching the same point from multiple angles all help to make communication clearer. Especially here where we are arguing emotional points across multiple continents and cultures.
Words, words, words generally lead to shorter and fewer bans IMO because the extra verbiage gives space for softeners and clarifiers.
Serious question: have you known any trans people personally? I used to work with an FtM and not all the testosterone jabs and clipped hair in the world makes up for being 5 foot 4 max and having a voice like a flute. There’s also just the fact that the body shape is wrong, the movements are wrong. After only a few moments your brain is screaming at you, “This person is not what they say they are.” That’s why it’s so insulting and damaging to be forced to ignore the evidence of your own eyes.
It’ll be caught by capital gains tax later, I think?
EDIT: perhaps not, Capital Gains apparently only applies to the appreciation of value post-inheritance.
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