Tacherus
1yr ago
Thanks for the links. I’d assumed he was just saying as many bad things as possible in a sentence.
Tacherus
1yr ago
You’re spot on with the drifting of parties. I was just reading
The other day—the gist is that Trump and Kamala are both talking about tariffs, but they’re “different.”
We don’t know what Kamala’s proposals are but obviously we don’t need to know to conclude they’re better /s.
But Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign, said in a statement that Ms. Harris would “employ targeted and strategic tariffs to support American workers, strengthen our economy, and hold our adversaries accountable.”
Tacherus
1yr ago
Thank you for the link, it is an excellent pointer to further reading about "what happened to the Marxists."
Tacherus
1yr ago
Well that consumed my entire evening but jujutsu seems pretty cool. I did the tutorials and am excited to try it at work tomorrow!
When you say “under wraps” you make it sound like this is established but not widely known. What leads you to call it a fact? I’m open to her being crazy but can’t seem to get any deeper than “I want to create an opportunity economy.”
Do you have a link handy to this Salier description? It sounds interesting.
Tacherus
1yr ago
I did not, and I accept that nearly none of the “he’s the end of civilization” rhetoric was right. In 2016 I was all in on Bernie. I honestly don’t recall if I was alarmed about Trump. I think I wasn’t, more just very put off and pretty committed at that point to lefty policies.
But This Time Might Be Different.
I only started paying attention in 2012 or so, so I’ve had two occurrences now of seeing the anti-Christ turn out to not be that bad.
As I said, I struggle with it. Maybe I’m deluding myself but absent the election stuff I probably wouldn’t care at all about this election. As it stands I feel some unease about Trump.
I can’t see myself voting for him this time largely because 2016-2020 was so anti-climactic. There’s a real chance I will just make a protest vote.
Tacherus
1yr ago
I suppose it will depend on the next candidate’s relationship to Trump and his relationship to the party. If someone who disavows Trump can get to the general maybe it won’t work. Otherwise it seems an easy enough attack.
Tacherus
1yr ago
How can he not? The dynamic seems less driven by re-evaluation and calming down and more due to needing to paint the current opponent as the end of the world. Whoever the 2028 republican candidate is will need to be portrayed as the worst yet, which necessitates “Trump wasn’t actually so bad.” It’s inevitable I think.
Tacherus
1yr ago
A couple things stand out to me, in no particular order.
Friends of mine saying that Kamala’s lack of policy proposals is good, actually, because whatever she said would just get attacked. I guess the idea is nothing she could possibly say or do is worse than Trump so gotta get her in by any means necessary, including vibes.
I watched Kamala’s speech at the DNC and it honestly reminded me of 2012 republicans. Lots of talk about how great the country is and framing things in terms of freedoms.
I remember distinctly in 2016 some mixed wires with BLM and so on as to whether things looks bad for black Americans. I remember getting that vibe from the Dems but then Trump also said that and suddenly Hillary starts going on about how tone deaf that is and using the word “vibrant” a lot.
I’m not sure if it’s just about who is incumbent now, but I suspect it’s part of a larger shift towards Democrats wielding a cultural majority, or at least acting like it.
Out of favor, Democrats were the party of misfits, the marginalized, and dare I say it, the weird.
Tacherus
1yr ago
I think about that a lot, for what it’s worth. Asking Pence not to certify the election seems like a bright line though.
If not for the 2020 election shenanigans I’d probably agree that he’s just like the prior republican candidates and we’ll see him as tame in ten years compared to the New Threat.
Tacherus
1yr ago
Read a little further:
In one study it was found that he used patient data without written permission, used fictitious data and that two reports were submitted to conferences which included knowingly unreliable data.
Regret
The professor agrees with the committee’s conclusions and expressed his regret for his actions. Poldermans feels that as experienced researcher he should have been more accurate but states that his actions were unintentional.
Tacherus
1yr ago
I basically never get past 1/3 of non-fiction books, but I often feel slightly guilty about it. It seems arrogant to say the last 2/3 is filler or stuff I can work out myself but…
Tacherus
1yr ago
Based on this and other high profile cases it seems we could have a high standard for proving fraud.
On the other hand in these cases of fraud maybe we wouldn’t have confessions if there were more serious consequences.
The thing I think certainly I have been catching up on the last eight years is how important culture is for plugging in the gaps of laws. It’s like this type of fraud should be a career-ending scandal, not necessarily illegal. The law is too blunt an instrument I think.
Tacherus
1yr ago
Thanks for the article. It exhibits a pattern I’ve noticed of wanting to signal sophistication and subtlety by injecting confusion and the resolving it.
Here we have an article about a guy who has acknowledged using fake data.
Why does the article waste time discussing accidentally incorrectly performed research?
It’s so the author can navigate the murky waters created by introducing a fairly unrelated topic, then sieving out the original point which anyone could have made in two paragraphs.
Between this, the Alzheimer’s stuff, and many others it seems pretty dire for the trust the scientists crowd.
Tacherus
1yr ago
I’m not sure how to resolve the disagreement. Publicly disavowing something seems categorically different from drawing a line in the sand and saying “join me or I block you” or whatever. Drawing the line is what creates sides out of people with different opinions.
I don’t like when the left “swings too hard in the opposite direction” and over corrects and I don’t like that approach here. I think it’s short sighted and self-defeating.
Tacherus
1yr ago
In the interests of discussion I’ll say I think A7 is not cancel culture. I’m not even sure A8 is.
Is it cancel culture to post that I simply think an inoffensive podcast, say, has declined in quality and I don’t think it’s worth people’s time?
I think the line is crossed at A9 where I start imposing sanctions on people who disagree. Forcing people to pick a side is how you get people who don’t actually care that much to join a mob.
Tacherus
1yr ago
Ah! Japanese has an official proficiency exam called the Japanese Language Proficiency Test or JLPT. There are five levels, N5-N1. N1 is the hardest.
Tacherus
1yr ago
I’m officially registered for JLPT N4. I was nervous about getting because I decided last minute to try the N5 last year but it was sold out. It’s December 1 so I’m trying to buckle down on learning the rest of the grammar and clocking time listening to native speakers.
Having a blast with the piano, started some ear training for hearing intervals. My practice regimen right now is working on finishing a song, I’m transcribing a song I like so I can play along, and doing some technique and scales practice.
The running training is hard but I wanted to get faster so it’s to be expected. Was a little worried I wouldn’t be able to match the pace requirements for each workout but so far so good!
Tacherus
1yr ago
Is the value really necessarily diluted by handing out more? I would think the value isn’t exclusively about exclusivity, it’s about who’s in the group.
Tacherus
1yr ago
It depends on the heating system I think. Heat pumps rival gas furnaces in overall efficiency because they move the heat rather than create it.
Tacherus
1yr ago
Nice. I need to explore controllers more, all my stuff is keyboard/mouse. What are you using to make it?
Tacherus
1yr ago
90+% of “news” articles I see are of this form. Someone somewhere said something and now I’m gonna ramble about it a bit and cross-link a bunch of other ramblings.
No wonder ChatGPT seems like it will displace these jobs.
I was wrong about what people are like and what they want.
At my first corporate job after grad school I was unchallenged, frustrated with the slow pace, and eager to make more aggressive plays.
I left for an AI startup after a couple years and it totally changed the trajectory of my career and my life.
What blew my mind was trying to recruit people and seeing how risk averse they were. I left 6 years ago and most of them still work at a 200-year old company.
I completely reworked my model of what people get out of “wage slavery” and realized that many, many people will trade 20%+ of their earning potential for stability and security.
My dreams of democratic workplaces with profit sharing and so on fell apart because I realized, as much as the left might insist otherwise, that’s not actually what most people want.
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