TeknOShEeP
4d ago
Catholics are not allowed to ignore the pope. A Catholic potus has an obligation to obey the pope or they are not Catholic.
Billions of Catholics ignore the pope's directives every day. You may feel this is some sort of contradiction of the religion, but you are grossly, vastly outvoted.
Insert Ex Cathedra explanation here
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
Nothing fancy, I do most of the cooking in our house and just try to keep things simple and relatively quick. I used to go more all out and do more sophisticated stuff, but nowadays I just shoot for quick, relatively cheap, and tasty. This is just one of about a dozen or so casserole variations I do, none of them take very long, and you basically just throw whatever ingredients you have into an AI and it will come up with good suggestions.
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
Cheeseburger casserole with heavy cream
2 lb ground beef 1 lb bacon 8 eggs 1 cup heavy whipping cream 12 oz. Cheddar cheese 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepper (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Cook beef and bacon separately over medium heat until brown. Place beef in a casserole pan, add the bacon, mix well, and spread in an even layer. Mix eggs, cream, salt, (and pepper) well. Add 3/4 of the Cheddar cheese. Pour the batter over the beef and bacon and sprinkle the remaining Cheddar on its top. Bake in the preheated oven for about 30 minutes until golden brown.
Its a carnivore recipe, so extremely calorie dense, and easy to digest. How health it is depends on your personal level of trust with nutritional science.
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
Correct. At this point the majority of what the US government does is redirect money from people who have earned it with productive labor to those with the right political connections and ability to game the system. The fact that anything gets done at all is a testament to the durabilty of the inital arrangements.
TeknOShEeP
8d ago
The cuts it involves are insane IMO and not worth it unless you think out of all that excess spending, benefits will fall out of it and accrue to other industries and subsectors
Defense spending is only about 50% fraud and mismanagment. Social spending, at this point, is 100% fraud and mismanagement. Basic infrastructure is about 50% F&M. Any government speding cuts at this point are a good thing.
TeknOShEeP
10d ago
If you're getting into arguments about politics with your therapist, you need a different therapist.
TeknOShEeP
12d ago
Yes. I hire for technical roles (actual science and engineering, not programming) on occasion, look at resumes and do interviews more that occasionally, and it cannot be overstated how little a prestigious institution for a Bachelor's degree matters. Actually, its probably a counter signal, especially if BS from Prestigious Institution is followed by Graduate Degree from Less Prestigious Institution. That pretty much screams "DEI pick, lawsuit waiting to happen, do not hire."
Best results? BS from a good state school or Jesuit college, followed up with a worthwhile grad degree from a school thats respected in the field. Shows personal growth, not coasting.
The value of an Ivy undergrad degree is the networking, that's it (other than maybe Math at Harvard or Princeton). Want a rigorous education? Go to big state U and pick the hardest major, or a Jesuit school and argue philosphy against people with a 500 years worth of cliff notes.
TeknOShEeP
22d ago
Lol what? He is absolutely offering very specific criticism of specific actions. Specific cops raided his place based on an anonymous tip, caused $20k in damage that they did not compensate him for, and so, understandably pissed, he made a bunch of music videos using security footage of the incident and yes, ascribing certain negative aspects to the cops who raided his home in the context of thst criticism. Textbook free speech, and happily the jury agreed.
The idea that you can't insult agents of the state for doing their jobs poorly is how you get dictatorships.
TeknOShEeP
24d ago
The difference is that the cop, acting in their official capacity as an agent of the state, performed what appears to be a bunch of unjust and legally actionable violations of his civil rights. Afroman is offering criticism to specifc agents of the state for their specific actions that in his eyes, warrant such criticism.
A barista doing her job for Starbucks is in both a socially and leglly different position. It has been long established in case law that defamation of public figures or state actors has a much higher bar than private figures.
TeknOShEeP
24d ago
Hmmm... have they ever been seen in the same room together? Allegedly theres a 7 year age gap, but I feel living a double life as a famous kung-fu actor is exactly the sort of thing Papa Illia would do.
For some subset of g, where g is pure logic. For other subsets of g, especially those related to mechanical reasoning and 2nd order effects, I have a large pile of former FAANG resumes that have failed the conversion to nuts, bolts, and actual atoms engineering that argues otherwise. Not to say they arent intelligent, but a "pure generalist" is not a hard requirement.
I think this is one of those "theory vs practice" things. In theory, programming is an extremely intellectually straining endevour, and the academic pipline in the West is set up with some pretty fine filters. In practice though with the way big companies PM the development, deployment, and maintenence of most software today you dont actually need an above-average IQ to excel (this is a feature, not a bug). I agree with badger that the market rate for programming salaries has probably overstated the relative intellectual demand compared to other professions of similar educational requirements.
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