SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
What do you mean unfortunately?
All he has to do is start a black metal band and become a true legend.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
STOP RIGHT THERE YOU CRIMINAL SCUM!
Them’s fighting words!
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
One can't require merit-based admissions and hiring while also requiring viewpoint-diversity admissions and hiring
Once again I'm glad that over here university admissions are based purely on matriculation exam / entrance exam scores (barring a few small arts institutes) and the universities couldn't favor some groups even if they wanted to.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
It could prevent someone from doing something stupid because they got a form in the mail that they assumed they'd just fill out and mail back, only to find out later that they totally fucked something up.
Which it should be noted is an extremely common attack vector in all sorts of phishing and credit card fraud scams so we know for a fact that a lot of people absolutely will react to an email that looks threatening enough without using enough caution.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
.5. Fuck up many US manufacturers who rely on parts / subassemblies / materials that don't have alternative sources outside China.
I'm sure this is all just some 6D chess...
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Just by imposing and exempting he promotes the desired diversification from China
But he isn’t doing that. What he’s doing is making it (even) more expensive to manufacture a phone in US instead of doing the whole thing in China because all the subassemblies and components still get tariffed to death.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Thanks!
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Is there a collated list of all of these shortcuts somewhere?
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
ASML.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
whether one party thinks regulation X is pointless isn't really material, the question is are they willing to endanger a trade deal to ditch the bendy bananas regulation
Considering what said bendy bananas regulation actually says, it's a good example of something the EU should insist on having as it's all about labeling standards, ie. not trying to pass subpar produce as prime quality.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
I think she was a member of a board of the local Mensa subchapter.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
I’m getting flashbacks to a brief fling I had two decades ago with a Mensa activist. A not insignificant reason for it being so brief was that I very quickly got fed up with having to spell out so much trivial stuff.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
So unless the politician or his aides copypasted slop into the policy document
A certain recent tariff policy does come to mind.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Fucking hell. I knew there was something suspicious about
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Make Men Great Again?
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
You know how depressions and such almost always have multiple factors with any one causative event just being the last straw? It’ll be something new for historians to point to one that was caused by a single person’s obsession with mercantilism.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
What would you prefer? That updates and announcements are given only in a Whatsapp group chat?
That's the alternative I see millennials going for.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
I have to say that carrying 50 lbs sacks of dirt for my mom's gardening projects when I was a teenager did infinitely more to drive that home than any sex I had a couple of years later. Not that I needed any of that given that "men are stronger than women" was and still is a universally accepted fact here the same way as "men are taller than women" is.
I still don't see how bringing having sex into it is anything other than a way to make fun of nerdy guys for not being lucky with girls.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
But there's an identifiable cluster there, where a Cajun and an eastern Oregon rancher and a UAW worker and a snake-handler all would rather socialize with each of each other rather than a professor of gender studies, despite their vast differences.
Would this apply also to socializing with an academic in a field that is more neutral but still without practical applications, such as for example a professor of theoretical astrophysics? I suspect it very much would but I'm not an American so I won't outright make such a claim.
Here in Finland there is a similar contingent who see non-practical work as "useless" but it's smaller due to historical reasons (education was seen as an important factor in increasing national consciousness in the 19th century as well as a way to improve the next generation's social standing). More importantly the lack of a two party system means it never got coupled to the broader left vs right political orientation. It's easy to see the difference even in looking at who people consider to be academic compared to the discussions here on The Motte where The Motte definition of an "academic" has a large bias towards social sciences and other left dominated fields (whereas locally people would consider a professor of Electrical Engineering very much an academic).
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
What does having had sex have to do with having physically struggle against a woman anyway?
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Ah, the good old drawing the rest of the owl-method.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
No, I’m explaining why people in Germany and Europe overall consider that state as ”Abortion is legal.”. There is no meaningful group trying to ban abortion and thus no opposite group pushing for equally ridiculous policy in the other direction. Then it becomes a boring matter for medical professionals and ethics theoreticists to debate over 12 vs 16 weeks. You can’t run up furor over those sorts of numbers, particularly when people are just going to look at neighbouring countries with very similar rules.
That's because Europe hasn't had a US style batshit insane anti-abortion movement outside small rare niches. Meaningful opposition to abortion has been almost purely from catholic conservatives where the dynamics have been different and that faction has fairly decisively lost the battle. The result is that abortion is viewed as a practical health issue where the de facto status is what matters instead of what the official wording is. So you have things like Germany's "prohibited in theory but in practise entirely legal" where the nominal prohibition is kept due to a technicality and as a way to allow conservatives to signal "morally appropriate behavior".
SkoomaDentist
5mo ago
I should clarify that I misspoke in my prior comment - I'm talking more about a national identification system rather than merely a list of people with citizenship. A list that tells you John Smith, Fictional Nation ID# 123-456-789, is a citizen isn't much use for identification purposes (immigration enforcement or otherwise) unless it also tells you how to identify John Smith.
As soon as you have a database that assigns a unique ID to every person, other databases can (and should) use that ID as the person identifier. John Smith uses a bank account? That ID is in the bank's database. Phone number? Same thing. IRS records? Again, same ID. Drivers license? Same deal.
As long as John Smith has had any ID at all, the national ID is inherently linked to it and the ID number now tells how to identify John Smith (even if the information is outdated assuming John Smith goes off grid).
Well, we already had Palpatine as the pope 15 years ago.
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