PreformancePertension
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PreformancePertension
4mo ago
Which safety measures cause the most driver resistance?
PreformancePertension
7mo ago
The recent Chinese TV series from 2010 used to be available on Youtube with subtitles - it looks like it isn't for me anymore, but it may in your region. Needless to say, it's comically long but has entertainingly cheesy and mid-budget acting, and that gets the 'vibe' across well even if it's not the most artistically accomplished.
PreformancePertension
7mo ago
Maybe it's a LARP, but if a future liberal administration massively expanded the ATF and descended on Jacksonville doing intensive searches, do you think the right could come up with any kind of effective organization on this level? The LARP lets them push a counter-narrative quite strongly.
PreformancePertension
8mo ago
Vance did make an odd comment a few weeks ago on 12/22:
"Consider this hypothetical: If an opportunity is presented that would make Marco Rubio look good, be great for the administration, and wouldn't really involve me (at least publicly), what do I do?" Vance continued. "If I'm optimizing for 2028, I try to kill the opportunity. If I'm optimizing for the country, for the administration, and to be a good human being, we do it."
And it seems hard to imagine that this comment isn't about the Venezuela operation, considering that some reporting has claimed it was scheduled to launch on Christmas Day before the Nigeria strikes distracted everyone. Maybe Vance wants to claim he chose not to fight instead of having no influence? But Vance was in the Houthi strikes Signal group and actively talking, where Marco seemed to just be there pro forma, and Vance is clearly more aligned with a number of the other defense policy principals like Colby and Caldwell.
PreformancePertension
8mo ago
The Minnesota fraud is something that was starting to be reported in legacy media and investigated by both state and federal, which the video even admits; all it did is get the administration going. The administration's staffers all seem terminally On Twitter, so a video blowing up on Twitter gets stuff done - I can't imagine it's more complicated than that.
And maybe this would be good for the right, but outside of this recent win from Shirley, they're more interested in commenting on things than going out and doing things.
PreformancePertension
9mo ago
Graeber, to be clear, was a shit academic when he reached outside his field (I have no way to vouch for his anthropological work). 'Debt' is riddled with sloppy work and treats 1800s economics as the state of the art to beat up on.
PreformancePertension
9mo ago
I believe the terrorism charges have already been dismissed due to the govt not introducing sufficient evidence.
PreformancePertension
9mo ago
But two big factors here seem to describe only a portion of the economy for a portion period of time. College? It was only since the mid teens that the US got over 1/3rd college degree attainment. Now it's pushing toward 40%, but college as a social norm is relatively new. Truly cheap credit is a post-2008 phenomena; a lot of the politics of the 90s were about how the cost of credit was quite high and was a push behind the Clinton deficit reduction - the average mortgage interest rate was in the 8s as recent as 2000, hanging out in the 5s and 6s during the 2000s before 08. Inflation and rapidly improving consumer goods I will definitely grant have been good since the early 90s, but half of this western social life package being suggested is really about the post-Great Recession period, so I'm not really convinced this is the core of economic sentiment for people in their 40s and 50s.
PreformancePertension
9mo ago
I'm not really sure what this proves though - once they have his license plate, there are enough security cameras or automatic license plate readers in Northern Virginia that a sufficiently determined federal agency can look through footage to figure out where you were driving, and large companies have had video footage of the registers for ages. Court decisions on using license plate readers to track movements are a decade old at this point.
PreformancePertension
10mo ago
I know exactly what you mean, and I'd like to say I've moved past it, but I completely haven't.
PreformancePertension
11mo ago
Well that's fine, but I don't see how you end up anywhere but the exact situation as today, less some Israeli military hardware. Fine, so our hands are clean. If Israel can't fight without our support, they end up in 2rafa's 3rd resolution, which will collapse immediately on the next attack; if they can, maybe they just accept being a pariah and just go to war as they need to for their security, cut a deal with China or what have you. Doesn't seem likely to produce an ethical improvement outside of American feelings.
PreformancePertension
11mo ago
Freddie de Boer has this as his preferred solution, but the 'well the Israelis should all become Americans' is a nice logical solution that's completely useless. It's just as unlikely as the right wing version of this ('give all the Palestinians Jordanian/Egyptian citizenship') - a solution you come up with when you realize that neither the Israelis nor Palestinians are going to give up anytime soon, but that you're ethically sensitive enough to still want a solution. But even if President Woke threatened Israel at gunpoint to concede to a maximalist version of the 2SS, we're just going to end up where we are now after the next attack from State-Palestine, whether or not the recognized government attacks, allows an attack, or is too weak to stop one. There's no point in any of this so long as a significant proportion of Palestinian society is willing to beat their own brains out on the border wall.
PreformancePertension
11mo ago
One sort of odd thing is that the $2 bill is not actually that uncommon, objectively: https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircvolume.htm There are about half as many of them as the $5, and nobody would be especially surprised to see a $5. But people don't spend/circulate them for what I can only assume are reasons related to business cash drawers not having a dedicated slot, so you'll never get them as change.
PreformancePertension
11mo ago
Also, this is not a website that I expect anyone to particularly like this line of reasoning (I don't myself), but the reason we don't have bills higher than $100 is that law enforcement and governments in general dislike high value bills due to their use in crime - untraceable cash and all that. The ECB massively regrets putting out a 500EUR note and only printed them for a decade before stopping and trying to take them out of circulation.
PreformancePertension
11mo ago
Sounds like we're creating a lot of new jobs at Google figuring out how to automatically track a user's tax jurisdiction before they get shown an ad. I only vaguely remembered that there were a lot, but now that I look, I find out that Missouri has ~1,400 individual tax jurisdictions. Completely bananas.
PreformancePertension
11mo ago
(Source: some shit I saw on twitter but don't remember the exact account anymore)
I saw someone float the idea that gays now understand straight men much less well since it's easy to be out. A lot of gay men who work in Democratic politics have probably grown up in costal cities where being out has always been ok among everyone they interact with, and their social circles are either progressive men or other gay men. It seems fairly plausible at a glance but I wouldn't have much input beyond that.
I'm pretty sure I saw Trump do his own Trump-brand watches, which look, you know, how you would expect. The more reputable Chinese watch brand names in the single-digit-hundreds range generally have quite high quality like you've discovered. Right now for big-name Western brands, subjectively, you get what you pay for up to about 3-5k MSRP and after that you're paying for soft factors (such as willingness to put up with Rolex bullshit)
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