DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
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DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11mo ago
It does sorta go off the rails because he went off his rocker, and meanders while he parodies genres, but the arc prior to 200 is a solid run and 200-250 are fantastic, some of his most memorable. The third- and second-to-last phone books are heartbreaking. The final one is 60% text, but worth it for the self-reflective nature of Dave losing it once more vs Cerebus losing it. The final issue is stupendous.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11mo ago
Here’s better sound. https://www.themotte.org/post/1070/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/229040
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
11mo ago
From a discussion I had with Bing combining Triessentialism and the writings of Ayn Rand:
"Attention, government officials and citizens alike. This is Ragnar Danneskjöld, speaking to you from the high seas. You may label me a pirate, but I stand as a defender of justice and reason.
You, the government, have taken it upon yourselves to redistribute wealth under the guise of foreign aid, claiming to help those in need. But in truth, you are robbing the productive to reward the unproductive, perpetuating a cycle of dependency and stagnation.
Opportunity (What): You seize the fruits of others' labor, the tangible wealth created by the minds and hands of the industrious. I reappropriate these shipments not out of greed, but to return opportunity to its rightful owners. The wealth you confiscate is the physical essence of choice, the 'What' that drives innovation and progress.
Means (How): Your methods are those of coercion and force, devoid of logic and reason. I, on the other hand, employ means that are rational and just. By intercepting your shipments, I disrupt your illogical processes and highlight the importance of rational means in achieving true prosperity.
Motive (Why): You claim noble motives, but your actions betray a deeper truth: a desire to control and manipulate. My motive is clear and unwavering: I fight for myself, to see a just world free of governmental parasites. The emotional essence of choice, the 'Why,' is what fuels my actions. I fight not only for the sanctity of human potential but for my own vision of a world where individuals are free to pursue their own happiness.
To those who understand the true nature of choice, I say this: stand with me in reclaiming our world from those who seek to diminish it. To the government, I offer this warning: your days of unchecked power are numbered. The tide is turning, and justice will prevail."
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6d ago
- Voraciously, from age 3, whatever I could get my hands on that looked interesting but focusing on sci-fi almost exclusively from my teenage years onward.
- One best friend, serially, and I lost touch with each as he or I moved on. My oldest friend I've known for fourteen years.
- Yes, teen years.
- I watch anime when the show suited me, including shoujo series Sailor Moon in the mornings before high school and Tenchi Muyo! on Toonami in the decades before MLP. I'd also watched MLP G1 in the 80's for the adventure fantasy stories but shunned the song segments.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
19d ago
It turns out I’d already read Just An Assistant (which explicitly defends bondservanthood, not chattel slavery) and up-thumbed it a while back.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
25d ago
they really ought to be throwing themselves at the much easier problem of verifying prayer. It would be super cheap and testable anywhere
All that tells you is whether the prayer answerer is a deterministic system, or imitating one, or something which isn’t either, and whether the person praying “has the password” for getting the result they want.
(One problem often pointed out in schools is how much of schooling is essentially guessing what the teacher wants to hear.)
Biblical Christianity on the other hand is about being so different after being saved from sin that one might as well be a new person, “born again” as a new creation with God’s law written on one’s heart and the Holy Spirit urging loving choices toward any and all, even one’s enemies.
People with autism, like me, often have trouble understanding non-transactional relationships, as well as where duty and authority come into play without resentment in a loving relationship between unequals. God is not a system or a tricky genie.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
2mo ago
It’s more along the general theme of Galt’s pirate radio speech in Atlas Shrugged.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
2mo ago
Being confusing on accident isn’t a reason to kick you off.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
3mo ago
The giant tripped in 2008, and fell to his knees during coronavirus. He’s still trying to absorb all that momentum with his arms, but we will hear a thud at some point.
I’m guessing when the Boomers hit Social Security full-tilt while their kids and grandkids don’t have replacement payees.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4mo ago
I gknew I was right!
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4mo ago
How does Georgism avoid the nightmare scenario of giving no rest and pushing everyone to a higher and higher level of efficiency which results in a Malthusian state for all who cannot keep up?
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
4mo ago
Yes, assuming neither salon has an exclusivity clause in their contract.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6mo ago
Ironic for all the talk of postmodernity that we’re coming into our best scientific (modern) understandings yet of these neural modalities and structural differences at the same time people are primed to believe them a coincidental set of symptoms overhyped by the sellers of snake oil.
On a side note, there are still battles over the reputation of Doctor Asperger: in 2015, it was believed he heroically kept the Gestapo from taking his clinic’s young patients, but as of 2023 it’s believed he himself sent low-functioning kids to extermination.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6mo ago
I know the guy who developed the gravity bomb concept. Want a miles-wide chunk of Earth gone? I know which book to point you to.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
6mo ago
Avacado, Bacon, Cheese, and the third M, Mushrooms, would make it ABC KLMMMNOP.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
7mo ago
I didn’t bat an eye at the “bloody altar” or “evil [god]” comments, misunderstandings of my faith I expect from unbelievers, but it’s fascinating how much I bristled at the “gnostic” comment.
I’ll return to this thread later, just wanted to post first thoughts.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
7mo ago
My personal definition of GenX:
- if you remember the Kennedy assassination, you’re too old.
- if you don’t remember the Challenger explosion, you’re too young.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Let's look at the moral math on that: "If the state kills/jails/bankrupts me and takes my kids, my courage has no protective effect. Only if I survive/am free/am financially capable can I continue to protect my kids. Therefore I will appear to acquiesce but plan to renew the fight."
Never underestimate the lengths a parent will go to. Thousands of years of evolution in societies has ensured that humans will fight every arm of the state in every way possible to ensure that their kids are safe.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Go ahead and watch at 1.25 speed. I’m glad I did.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Do you know any papers describing the state of the art in the latter? My access is basically what my city library pays for access to.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
Yes, for non-trivial composite integers. (The powers of two are trivially composite to this algorithm.)
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
8mo ago
I’ve got my new method of factoring working as a damn elegant Python function. Time to turn it into a science paper. A co-worker made a remark and I realized I’ve also created a division table.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
9mo ago
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” - Gen. Ripper
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
9mo ago
I remember an episode of CSI where someone mounted an ammo box’s worth of rounds to a plastic printed sheet on a wood board, connected all the rounds to electric triggers, and used these ammo-board guns to turn people into goop in a single moment. Still using existing ammo but it opened my eyes to what makes a “gun”.
Any thoughts on the “secret service agent accidentally delivered the kill shot” theory? It’s the most interesting one I’ve recently heard.
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