Pynewacket
1yr ago
The attitude "fuck, why not" goes completely against how the medical profession ought to operate and if followed by doctors in practice, it should come with professional penalties.
I think this is what happens when status and money is highly placed on a profession. After a certain amount of time there will be people that just want the associated benefits and resources that lack the mentalscape desired for the profession. Add to that societies of very low trust like India or Latin America and its a recipe for disaster unless you thoroughly vet your doc.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
it's just that I already had an example in mind for one of the points of your so called "illuminati theory", for the one that is the most outlandish at that. The others are results from the functions of the government, so I don't know why you think they aren't controlled by it, reports of WMD for war and lowering or rising interest rates through the federal reserve for the stock market and inflation. The only tricky one would be Pandemics, but as COVID19 shows, you can fund your illnesses abroad if the local laws prevent gain of function research where you are.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
The idea that "TPTB" can control literally everything, including ... social unrest,
well, according with that article, with the magic of a Zoom call they can. No idea why would you ask about it, unless you forgot that article.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
hmmm, my ingroup may consist only of me then.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
The only saving grace (excuse the expression) is that the internet has led to an explosion of amateur erotic writing, most of which is terrible, but which is at least more creative than most of the soft core era.
You may want to know that all the major platforms are clamping down on anything horny:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4P9yCMNpV-I
Sorry it is a link to a youtube video, but it looks like this more recent push isn't being reported on the news.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
thanks for the heads up, added another link.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
One of the big complaints about the modern trends in gaming is the disappearance of the "AA" game. That sort of middle-ground between budget/indie and AAA. I think Alan Wake 2 should have been an AA game.
I think that is more the realm of the Japanese and other Asian devs. Things for example like the recent Unicorn Overlord.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
interesting that they gave her rosacea, or at least it is more pronounced in your link. At 3:21 she still looks like Nicado, at 3:23 not so much, so lighting may be a contributing factor to the imitation.
from the first one to the second one, yeah, she got fat
EDIT.- Alternate link because the other one got mangled. Sorry that its to iFunny.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
And considering that Alan Wake 2, IMO was actually pretty good,
that may be your (and game Journos) own bias, it looks like thought it is Remedy's fastest Selling Game (at least according to estimates), the last news about the topic is that it still didn't turn a profit.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
2 points:
it's uglyer, if the word was ugly you would have a point.
she now looks like a wester Muk Bang Youtuber
Pynewacket
1yr ago
translation to English by professional translators who also do books and TV scripts usually improves the writing quality of bad game writers
except that they aren't translators, they are localizers, and they proudly declare themselves as such. Jelly Donuts is their work's infancy. You may be interested in the current Unicorn Overlord drama brewing on X.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Your theory is that the pretty women in the google images for characters like M.J. in the recent Spiderman II or Alloy in the Horizon Forbidden West games are just fat with good fashion sense? How does that square with Stellar Blade?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes, or his prints of Marilyn Monroe - turning the concept of mass production itself into an aesthetic phenomenon.
is modern art really art?, or is it just a Banana taped to the wall?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
you think Random meant that they were reactionary conservatives instead of only conservatives?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
godamn if that wasn't entertaining. have you ever had repeat customers? if yes, what was the situation like?.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
I wonder which part of the incline belongs to the different Intersectional consulting services so ubiquitous now a days.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
nowhere is this more prevalent that with the Doomers obsession with Skynet.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
maybe they are in the closet? wouldn't surprise me, with the vitriol any whiff of right wing gets among lefties.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
would you say that she adopts the opinions of the environment she see herself in regardless of what they are?
Pynewacket
1yr ago
who also mentions the points that immigrants tend to take jobs we citizens don’t want
the part not mentioned at that point is "with those wages", always find it disingenuous when economists et al treat the situation as if economic incentives doesn't exist for this specific situation and the only way to have your toilet unclogged or burgers in your McDonald is by bringing more immigration, which is how you keep wages stagnant.
The second critique is that his model assumes that there is perfect substitutability between natives and immigrants within each skill cell. There are many reasons that immigrants and natives might not be perfect substitutes even if they have the same level of skill and education—for example, language ability (Lewis 2013)
What I think they are missing in this excerpt, that the common man perfectly understands, is that they don't need to be perfect substitutes, they just need to be good enough. With languages as similar as english and spanish are is not all that difficult to understand each other, after all spanglish is a thing.
If the assumptions behind Borjas’s model are appropriate for immigrants, in this case, implying that within education-experience cells men and women are perfect substitutes
this is the Damore Memo all over again, and even in the same career path Peterson mentions that women are less likely to ask for a raise.
Scarcity of labor only drives up wages to the point a firm can afford.
Really sure what does it matter with respect to "While it’s possible for an influx of new labor to drive down wages for a short time or in a particular field without much of a barrier to entry"? the level of elasticity of wages isn't in contention here.
Remittances aren’t a major variable and also foreigners buy US products.
why aren't they a major variable?, and foreigners may buy US products too, but if part of their wage goes to Mexico they will buy less than natives.
Empowering China was not a problem in pure economic terms, it was a problem in geopolitical ones.
And we aren't living only in a economic world, but one with geopolitical considerations too.
the Rust Belt can still get fucked for not being a competitive place to run a factory. Whining about it and trying to use government intervention to prevent the outcomes of markets, instead of doing a good job of competing for new industries,
It was shortsighted and a perfect representation of everything wrong with the "Line goes up" Meme mentality that economists et al are so fond of. Now we have a hollowed up Rust belt, a Nuclear power hostile to every value you hold dear and Cartels in your backyard. All of this with far reaching consequences like the fentanyl and homeless crisis.
If you don’t let labor come to the US sufficient to keep up with hiring demands, you drive up the incentive to outsource production to where there is available labor.
the hollowing out of the rust belt proves this isn't true. Outsourcing is a product of dramatically cheaper labor costs outweighing transportation costs and import taxes.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
While it’s possible for an influx of new labor to drive down wages for a short time or in a particular field without much of a barrier to entry, you’re just wrong, theoretically and empirically.
Do you have anything to back this?
Except, workers are also consumers. So they work to earn money and then spend that money, which creates a demand for other people to have jobs.
A country with a high population growth rate from fertility has a very similar labor economics situation with one having the same from immigration.
Does remittances factor in this hypothetical?
People get pissy over immigrants and over outsourcing, but ultimately it’s mostly just hating the necessary dynamism and creative destruction that makes the American economy so much better than any peer.
So line goes up Meme and to hell with the rust belt. Without taking into account that that was the reason that empowered China and made it the menace that it is today.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
If Nibbler is anything to go by, I would say they do.
Pynewacket
1yr ago
god no. Can you imagine a bunch of quokkas going about EA and Skynet every two days on the forum?. The place is better served by users grounded in reality, be they lefties or righties.
pre op. Post Op he would have a clear and visible signifier of his weakness(Virtue), easier to grind with costly signals than with just bend fingers and a grumpy disposition.
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