Templexious
Stuck in time
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Templexious
7mo ago
Optimizing for defection by caving to the demands of defectors is bad.
Templexious
7mo ago
This got a good chuckle. Well played.
Templexious
7mo ago
American unemployment is at something like 4%
Only due to the way we collect these statistics, which is suspect at best in order to make the party in power look good. Working Amazon or gig economy is often considered "employed", but it's not really living, either. Might as well be a slave.
Templexious
8mo ago
Outside of the current Overton Window:
Crush zoning laws. We take it as a given that everyone will commute, but these are largely from zoning laws. Housing should have close access to groceries and cheap local services - ie, within walking or bike distance. If you have a pseudo-communal housing area, the community can hire maids to come clean houses and assist in the most labor-intense aspects of kids without significantly increasing the cost of living. Additionally, if fathers live less than 20 minutes from their places of work, then women will be more likely to discount the cost of having kids because their partners will be nearby in the event of emergency, et cetera.
Templexious
9mo ago
Sounds like you're strung up on is/ought.
The Supreme Court is an inherently political institution, therefore it is good to ensure that we cycle through members of our highest tiers of government on a regular basis to prevent too much power creep.
Templexious
9mo ago
The severability section at the end amuses me greatly.
Templexious
9mo ago
That is, in fact, the premise of both democracy and republicanism. Until some other form of governance appears, it is what the USA operates under.
Templexious
9mo ago
Catastrophizing over a long-ass shot like this is unwarranted. This SCOTUS reform bullshit is less likely to happen than Trump being elected for a second term. Additionally, this catastrophozing has the exact same crunch as the people who cried over Jan 6th, calling the participants traitors.
Therefore, until we have a text that actually states how it would work, there is really no point in debating exactly what would happen.
Additionally, if I was so concerned about this, the solution would simply be to make sure to win and get justices in that will give rulings I want on a consistent basis. That would necessarily require making sure my party continues to get elected.
Similar to how the "fix" to project 2025 for Democrats, should it succeed, is to make sure you win the follow-up elections.
Templexious
9mo ago
Mild aside: whenever it's discussed if Google is censoring things, an old litmus test was to search for the documentary Demographic Winter.
It's a pretty banal HBD documentary all in all. They even stay out of discussing IQ! However, for a while there the entire thing had gone down the "we're definitely not censoring anything" memoryhole. It's only been un-search-holed in the last year or so.
Templexious
9mo ago
There was a similar pro-abortion style of ad that was run back during the McCain v Obama era, so at the very least, it's not a new style of Ad.
Templexious
9mo ago
Does it matter?
Trump flops on all the hard questions in a way that asks whether or not there is anything deeper in there than making the liberals cry. Of course there is, and of course he understands but he and every supporter of his don't actually care about that.
Getting dragged into the harder questions is a sign of weakness.
Templexious
10mo ago
fabricating
Not having read your article, and in isolation of whether or not this is actually a "problem", per se, this seems like a bad-faith article. If you go back and read old lesswrong articles and their comments, you will find now-known neoreactionaries like hanson posting on lesswrong, including roko.
Additionally, breitbart in 2016: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
In your defense, even lesswrong somewhat disagreed
If it came with a total nuke of common core, most americans would consider the swap of the guard a success.
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