Better land (and climate) per farmer. Land farmed in the old world was either owned by aristocracy or very marginal.
Going to the new world was like being handed the best farmland the richest nobles had, literally for free. Of course the farms were productive.
Imagine everyone in Italy died from the black death and you could set up shop in the Po valley for free, would you be more productive than in some cold German marsh, the Scottish highlands or the Scandinavian inland?
Game writers can’t write. That’s because studios hire DnD nerds who have no interest or knowledge of actual literature, have either never read the greats or dismiss them out of hand, and basically don’t understand what makes storytelling good or powerful in any way.
But isn't this the opposite of what happened? Writing started going downhill the moment they stopped hiring nerds for writing positions and started hiring creative writing and English graduates with "geeky" popular culture interests.
To me it seems like there is an issue of people being hired who don't have interests outside of videogames/anime/etc, which makes the writing and it's influences very incestous. The influences aren't history or literary greats but previous videogames and TV shows, which makes everything extremely shallow and derivative.
Ioper
10mo ago
It still exists, but it's filled by illegal immigrants getting paid scraps under the table.
Ioper
11mo ago
What you say in no way counters what op said. Walz projects Midwestern good vibes, whether his policy positions back that up or not and I don't think your objections to him speaks negatively to swing voters anyway. Its not like its some hidden secret that he holds progressive views, its on the New York Times front page.
I doubt the intention was that he was going to appeal to rightwingers on theMotte.
I'm not convinced that the SWEs they hire in the video game industry actually are all that woke, that's at least not my experience with swedish video game developers. They're not anti-woke but they aren't really woke either.
The people that are woke and who are able to insert woke inte video games are the writers, artists and designers (and game journalists but that's outside of the developers), and i believe its that pipeline thats really rotten if any. What percentage of writers with a "relevant degree" are even non-woke? Anti-woke?
Furthermore even if you're non-woke, if the only acceptable culture in your industry is woke what are you going to do? You'll at the very least put in performative nods towards wokeness like "body type a/b" and inserting a girlboss here and there.
Ioper
8mo ago
I'd say it's pretty great but some people seem to think it's like being able to fly, which it's clearly not.
It's a positive attribute in most circumstances buts it's only *one* attribute.
The obvious one is China:
Political - Beijing
Financial - Shanghai
Tech - Shenzhen
Media - Dongyang or Shanghai
I think there is also a case to be made for Germany:
Political - Berlin
Financial - Frankfurt
"Tech" - There are arguments for both Berlin and Munich here
Media - Cologne or Hamburg
Or she was about to say, "on the recovery[...]", or "on the record[...]" and either changed her mind or blended two sentences together.
Regardless, I very much doubt he is dead, it makes no sense to hide that. If anything I think it's much more likely that he is being isolated because he doesn't really want to resign from the 2024 candidacy, and this is more or less a palace coup, either explicitly (he never said that he is resigning) or that they don't trust I'm to not say something ambiguous (or forget that he's resigned) during a live press conference.
Ioper
1mo ago
This also 100% applies to this forum's rule effectively banning AI. It's a bad rule overall.
While I agree in general, this forum relies on people engaging with long posts in a thread sorted by new. If long posts are easy to generate but costly in time to evaluate then this forum can't really function.
I don't think they really care as long as the immigrants aren't MENA/Muslims since the rest seem to integrate well, which is usually the primary concern outside of really far right circles.
I don't think anyone cares about Polish or Ukrainian immigrants for instance (outside of some unionist concerns).
Ioper
9mo ago
He also made the point that prediction markets are vulnerable to whale movements such that they cannot sufficiently clear in the short term, meaning you shouldn't weigh drastic short term movements of these markets very highly as indications of market consensus.
If the prediction markets are onto something it'll show up in the polls, otherwise things will reverse to the mean as the market clears.
155mm artillery rounds (especially in Europe)
This has nothing to do with state capacity and everything to do with states not placing longterm orders for 155 shells. Expansions in capacity won't magically appear unless customers place orders. The industry has communicated that it stands ready to expand and that the states only have to say the word, the states aren't and not because they lack the financial capacity.
The problem isn't state capacity, it's political will.
One thing that I've found to be very important, that isn't discussed very much, is that one of the most important parts of sex for women is to be desired. Women really want to be desired, to the point that it's often at least as important as physical pleasure. If you worry too much about how you're doing you're not going to be projecting desire of her, you're going to be projecting insecurity.
Women can be perfectly happy with sex ending prematurely (as long as there has been enough foreplay so that it isn't painful) if you clearly and visibly desired her and enjoyed having sex with her.
What I'm trying to say is that one of the most important parts of her enjoying having sex with you is you enjoying to have sex with her.
Lastly, it's really hard to give advice when you're not telling us what's going wrong. Is it painful for her? Do you come prematurely? Is she just bored? What is it that isn't working?
Ioper
11mo ago
The fact that local PD was stationed in the building actually makes this narrative more plausible that maybe one of their guys would go out on the roof.
Not only would but quite possibly should have been on the roof.
One has to wonder how often it happens that the local cops don't behave remotely as they're supposed to.
Ioper
1mo ago
You're not boned but it sounds to me like something has to change. Being 'badly burned out" and collapsing after every work day isn't sustainable. You shouldn't worry about being fired, you can always find a new job, you should be worried about actually severe burn out. Burnout where you can't work at all for a long time and possibly never being able to work full time in your current position again.
I don't know what you need to change but something clearly has to. You only have one body. Don't break it.
Ioper
3mo ago
Looking at the metropolitan area, which has a largely unchanged population, the murder rate per 100k is down from some 13-14 to 6.6.
Ioper
3mo ago
Same. The more new models come out and i test them the less worried i get. It seems to me that the current types of models will lead to modest to moderate productivity increases for most sectors and radical improvements for a few, having possibly catastrophic effects on in employment, like commercial art production and lowish level offshoring.
Perhaps I'm wrong or things will change but this is where my thoughts are converging. If things don't change then I don't think this will be the society wide transformation people hope/fear.
resource extraction (as is the case with the economies of the Scandinavian countries)
No, it isn't. While Alaska has at points had over 50% of their economy be resource extraction that isn't true for any Scandinavian country. Norway, being an outlier with more than 100% more resource extraction than the next in line is only at about 20% resource extraction.
I have kids and feel like they are the best decision of my life.
I would say that you should prepare as much as you reasonably can beforehand if you don't expect to get any support. Alternatively, is it at all possible to move closer to your wife's family if they're nice and supportive? Would that solve the house situation as well maybe? Is the lack of support that makes your wife apprehensive?
Ioper
3mo ago
Probably instantly because males gravitate towards tools and machines in general as toddlers, weapons of war is a subcategory of that.
Ioper
4mo ago
Not that big a premium. I'd have to buy groceries in excess of $5000 a month for car to just break even with home delivery.
You need other frequent or important uses of the car for it to be remotely economical.
Ioper
4mo ago
Not if a cardinal value is that following rules is very important, more so than the object level on any individual case.
Ioper
6mo ago
On the other hand, Italy had higher urbanization than Great Britain during the Middle Ages. Cities, then as now, acted as IQ shredders. Smart people moved to the city where, due to pestilence, they had sub-replacement fertility.
Except, northern Italy, where the big attractive cities are and have been for at least a thousand years, have a higher average iq than Britain and England.
I hope you realise that catching this fraud entails a massive expansion of the state. America likely has plenty of low-hanging fruit to pick here given how undersized the relevant governmental bodies are but it's hardly free and the benefits won't necessarily be quick, while the PR downsides will be.
Catching and preventing this fraud will be a hard long-term project with both up- and downsides.
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