HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Okay, so you are applying this logic to, say, tax loopholes and environmental regulations, and not, say, production targets or reporting to Comrade General. That makes more sense.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I am not a qualified expert on the topic of "trade as a force for peace," but I will say that it sure has seemed like China has always wanted to take Taiwan by hook or by crook, completely orthogonally to their entanglement in global trade. If anything, global trade has seemingly helped China conclude that taking Taiwan is in the possibility space thanks to the benefits they have reaped from it, and now that they are in a position of strength, they can happily abandon the power of trade in the name of taking Taiwan if they need to.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Yeah, my hyphenation was done intentionally, but I was afraid it might be missed.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Sorry, I meant my comment more as "does driving the garbage truck not open up opportunities for truck driving in general?"
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I meant my comment as "does driving the garbage truck not open up opportunities for truck driving in general?"
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
They don't make it easy, that's for sure. On top of that, if you have a lot to grab, it's better to use a bulk downloader/scraper program.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
The other parent presumably believes that going without butter will force the first parent to work towards actualizing responsibility instead of whinging when told to do what they need to do.
Do I think this is realistic or practical? Not really, but that is the framing you are fighting.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I'd consider "two-year-old child in India" to be an edge case. I wonder if the other human deaths from H5N1 were similarly debuffed immunity-wise.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
The sales decline in Europe is at least potentially explainable by the backlash to Musk, what explains China? Preference for domestically-made EVs?
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I think you replied to the wrong comment (at least, I see you replying to yourself).
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Yeah, I think conventional explosions could still cause blindness, assuming sufficient yield, no neutrons necessary.
I get to use my taxes to (indirectly) pay for the gun the Camden gangbanger uses, a gun I'm not permitted to have.
What, exactly, is the mechanism by which this happens? I'm genuinely curious as to how this "also my tax dollars somehow" thing works, as you allege.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Huh.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
As far as I can see it, the efforts required by the frustrated and resourceful people of places like Venezuela are "demonstrate and coordinate sufficient violence to force the Maduro regime to either step down or be thrown down." This is a tall ask, but it is the bar that the Maduro regime has set, given the multiple rigged elections, suppression of political opposition, and militaristic displays of tyranny. Peacefully forcing change looks very unlikely over there nowadays, unless Maduro dies in office and his successor forgets to rig the election that's supposed to let them take over in his place.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I think the disagreement here is that YFR and others see the spending-versus-results conundrum as a matter of cost disease/"the dose makes the poison," where the cost-benefit ratio is so miserable that no increase in spending can be stomached, whereas you seem to see the problem as a "more dakka" one, where we could actually do better if we just invested more.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
Is this supposing that the inflows of immigrants are high enough that, if one were to indoctrinate, train, arm, and organize them, that they could be a force large and powerful enough to overthrow Maduro and suppress Chavismo into oblivion? This might be true, but I would like a reminder on the numbers involved.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Yeah, this is the sort of thing I'm referencing, there's going to be a few political seats up for grabs in the near future.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
This is a very fair point to raise, I'm just wanting to point out that the "what about the Ukrainians?" line of argument ignores all the ways that Russia can keep reducing the Ukrainian population even in the event of capitulation and surrender.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Also my resume is mostly a bunch of crappy audio games that are not on Github.
Are they on Itch, at least?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I am one of those people against the treatment Matt Taylor was given in 2014, and even so, I don't think "reduce obnoxious wokeishness in science" is worth a lazily-indiscriminate defunding campaign.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Eh, I think irony and detachment was the thing that took over around 2010, though that too may be passing.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
I'd argue that Japan is already in a pretty good place in most respects. Trapped in a local maximum, perhaps, but it's not the worst local maximum to be in.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Gmails "Promotions" tab annihilated mass market email advertising well before LLMs.
I do still get a lot of ad-type emails in my main inbox, but then, I haven't "trained" Gmail to move some types to Promotions.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
That's why the party hasn't moved left as much as the very-online contingent of progressives want it to. Those Black women are a lot more conservative (both in the "further right politics" sense and in the "less willing to shake up the status quo" sense).
This is news to me, I thought it would have been Black men who'd be the more conservative type.
It's apparent from the pro-CICO arguments here that the usual conclusion is "CICO is obviously right, people just don't have the willpower to follow it." The argument path here is so well-beaten that a 4x4 could drive down it in high-range mode.
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