HalloweenSnarry
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HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
I have to wonder if it only started running out of battery in that clip.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Thing is, the problem with this view is that "trans women are not women" is not a universally-accepted truth--if anything, it is a matter of fundamental values conflict. To you, it is truth, but to trans women, it is the opposite. The only thing that points to objective reality is a trans person's birth identity--but the entire point of being transgender is to leave said identity behind as thoroughly and quickly as possible. You're not going to be able to do more than keep referring to The Artist Formerly Known As Prince as just "Prince."
The time to not get involved was generations ago, you must realize. There is little will to become uninvolved; therefore, one must either live with the current level of involvement (mild, but still causes issues here at home), or get more involved (painful and intense, but has the potential to end the issue for good).
I would contend that it actually does serve US interests because the status quo keeps causing issues for us. Downstream effects, the flap of a butterfly's wings, and so on. I made a similar point in response to 2rafa about the desire to just ignore Chinese aspirations to hegemony in favor of trying to focus on domestic issues: ignoring the outside world may actually make it harder to fix problems at home. If you let chaos fester far away, it will probably find you at home.
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Most likely not, I guess I just wanted to point out that your ideal world is even further away than you thought (sorry).
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
What bones did Scott have to pick with authority back in 2017 outside of stuff like "unfuck the FDA somehow"?
HalloweenSnarry
6mo ago
I don't have the link to it, but I did once read an article detailing just how extensively prison labor is used. I think ConAgra Foods was one of the users of prison labor mentioned in the article.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Food is to survive, what makes life worth living are other things that is not food.
Yes, but some might argue that numbers on a graph are not what makes life worth living.
I think using the example of a formerly-communist country is misleading, and that there is a minimum level of prosperity in absolute terms, not relative, wherein people can be satisfied. Did Latvians suffer in the post-Soviet scenario you described, or were they still happy despite a lack of industrial capacity?
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
But allowing tariffs destroying economy? That is borderline to treason against the USA.
Is the economy that central to the American nation? I understand that market freedom has been an important component of our political strength, but at the same time, this feels like preparing for the last Cold War right as we are in the midst of a new one.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
If they can not support a semiconductor production chain, they shall not have computers.
We have already produced and imported so many electronics, there is most likely a decent amount of perfectly-good computing power that is just rotting away in landfills right now. If we lost the ability to make more microchips, it would certainly suck, but also, we're probably already drowning in chips that are powerful enough to run Half-Life 2. Your smartphone is powerful enough to run at least 50 copies of Microsoft Excel. It won't be the end of the world.
HalloweenSnarry
3mo ago
HalloweenSnarry
5mo ago
Unfortunately for you, you can still absolutely wring a "compentency crisis" headline from this, assuming the plane in question was a Boeing.
HalloweenSnarry
11mo ago
Yet, there are those who wish to cross the Rubicon, to feed the flames and let the last cinders burn, until nothing remains.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
nobody gets more than 1/220 of the fault if nothing happens, which isn't a lot of fault.
Eh, I think the more that a bill's vote becomes a close thing (or is forecasted to be a close thing), the proportion of fault for a given congressperson can rise in accordance with how decisive their vote could be. At least, this is how it works with both legacy and social media.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
My possibly-naive guess: those clusters were being used for crypto-mining before that took a nosedive a few years ago, and weren't just sold off.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Oh man, I think I saw the trailer for that, and it looked like the kind of crappy 80's cheese I love.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
I imagine this is likely to come from OnlyFans-type sex workers, who have a different dynamic to brothel employees and club dancers.
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
Wait, really, everyone just changed their tune about this? When did that happen, and how?
HalloweenSnarry
1mo ago
So, the difference is pretty much down to how much a state is considered to be contiguous/coterminous with its people, rather than being in a separate and implicitly-adversarial relationship?
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
I think the wrinkle in your model here is that the ones in power in Ukraine don't have much to gain from escaping. Unlike Russian oligarchs or Chinese millionaires, they probably lack in things like Swiss bank accounts, American anchor babies, or British summer homes (or what-have-you).
This whole framing of "elites choosing to wipe out their own population" is so bizarre to me. Maybe it makes sense if one imagines oneself as a dictator wanting to knock out two birds with one stone (ridding oneself of troublesome populations and killing as many of the enemy as possible), but I imagine that no leader truly views things in such cynical calculations. Sure, every medal on a general's lapel is someone's son, but at the same time, it probably gives no leader any great pleasure to know that their constituents' lives are spent doing something necessary.
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
Yeah, I suppose this probably does describe, say, the A-10.
(And now to wait for the shitstorm to hit...)
HalloweenSnarry
2mo ago
That is not a control on willpower. It's not saying anything about willpower. I've said nothing about willpower. It is not apparent how willpower is supposed to come into anything or what straw man you think you're arguing against.
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.
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
2mo 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
2mo ago
Yeah, my hyphenation was done intentionally, but I was afraid it might be missed.
I dunno, I think both left and right have been directionally-correct in that the economy is not the end-all-be-all of civilization. Plenty of societies in the past didn't give as much consideration to economic growth, yes, but they seemingly didn't really need it.
The way you wrote this post, I genuinely cannot tell if you are being sincere, because, at risk of mod intervention, it sounds like an alien value. If anything, I think it's the opposite: there are other values that allow us to have economic power, they are what lead to an economy and not strictly the other way around.
We are at this point, and you are concerned, because some of the very values that enable the economy are themselves weakened and endangered.
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