The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
34m ago
To give a red-colored example, only obscenely large magazines in California or publicly announcing every time you fill in a ditch on your own property that you won't even ask for EPA approval and then getting arrested for it are forms of peaceful protest, even if you the police have to taze you until you soil your pants to get you into the cruiser or if your friends block them from leaving the scene by handcuffing themselves to their bumper.
And the thing to note about these red-colored examples is they don't work. If you're arrested and put in prison for a long time for having an "obscenely large magazine", you will simply disappear and be completely forgotten except as a cautionary tale on ar15.com. Same for the ditch example except no ar15.com fame.
People are posting videos of perfectly normal looking, no brutality, ICE arrests and having them treated as atrocities by all who matter. And the protestors are doing things that are neither legal nor moral (e.g. smashing the taillight of an ICE truck) and this is accepted. People actually shooting at ICE are downplayed. It's all about control of the media, not the actual actions taken.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
53m ago
If you use a cylindrical projection and follow true rhumb lines, you'll end up west of your original course. If you follow magnetic rhumb lines (that is, you keep your compass bearing constant) you still do but with some south or north deviation as well. The reason is that the north-south rhumb lines are closer together as you go north, no matter which datum you choose. I think you'll end up in New Jersey regardless of your choice.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
It's not a matter of a "competent regime", it's a matter of having the media entirely on the protestor's side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
The stuff in 30 Rock was inside baseball, nothing to do with the average person.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
But your complaint seems different to @SubstantialFrivolity 's you seem to think your previous place's management wasn't pushing the tools enough, at least to the people provisioning them.]
It's not that they weren't pushing them, but that they were simultaneously pushing and crippling them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Last place I worked, they insisted we use AI to do something. The tools had all sorts of claimed cool features... half of which didn't work at all, most of what remained were locked down due to various security policies, and the rest of which required interaction with someone to get permission to use. Said someone was naturally a bottleneck. I have no doubt that people using the tools on their own (and if with work stuff, against the explicit directive of management) had a better experience, but I expect it's likely true that more experienced developers are less willing to do that. More to lose and more experience with getting nothing but blame for violating policy to get the job done.
What would it take for you to believe that the managers have actually done some reasoning here?
LOL, as a career-long IC, "A goddamned miracle" is what it would take.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I suspect a good deal of manipulation -- try to drive down the price to get in lower. We saw similar articles right before Nvidia released its last set of results.
Doesn't mean it's not true, it just means I don't believe these people have any real insight or information.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If you're the kind of black man who wants to do whatever, the cost of getting shot dead by police while unarmed is extremely high.
The chance of a black man getting shot dead by police is higher than that of a white man or black woman, but it is still extremely small -- certainly smaller than the chance of having your kids taken away by CPS.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
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Might have been, but class consciousness has been part of the human experience for a long time, so it could have been just that with a racial class marker.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Well, and yet none of the other countries with more broad-based usage of public transport physically segregate minority riders. If you want to argue that the US is unique because segregated seating became a civil rights issue and this resulted in an overcorrection preventing more justified action against minorities on public transport
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Though obviously it wasn't just segregated seating; it was segregated everything, voting rights, etc.
If you want to argue that the US is unique because segregated seating became a civil rights issue and this resulted in an overcorrection preventing more justified action against minorities on public transport, then it seems as fair to say that "Rosa Parks made public transport a last resort option" as it is to go one step up the causal chain and say "segregation made public transport a last resort option".
No, because that's attributing actions done by the civil rights activists (enshrining black people as a privileged group) to actions done by their opponents. It's basically the bully's "Look what you made me do".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Sure, but they were segregationists; it wasn't about crime.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The problem is you're arguing against a real-life Pascal's Wager, or at least Pascal's Mugging. If you're the kind of parent who wants to buck CPS so your kids can have a better life, the cost of having your kids taken away from you is extremely high. The cost of having to stop doing it (that is, comply with "reasonable requests to stop") under (individual, not general) threat of having the kids taken away is also high. If you want good parents to find it reasonable to parent their own kids less strictly, then the chance of that has to be infinitesimal, not merely a few percent or tenths of a percent.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Waitress is a mostly female job in the US, but they aren't selected for attractiveness.
Depends on where you go. It's no coincidence there aren't any fat ugly waitresses at good restaurants. (Nor fat ugly waiters) They're not solely selected for attractiveness, but they're definitely selected for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
In the better Red Tribe schools, of course. In Blue Tribe schools, maybe but not because of anything they learned in schools (maybe videogames). In underclass schools, oh yes, definitely, it's of practical importance.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It's kinda connected. The particular regulation isn't, but the practice that ultimately developed that having and enforcing a policy of removing disruptive people who are minority members would result in painful legal action whereas just letting shit happen wouldn't, was.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Because it didn't really have consequences last time. MLK Jr. spent maybe a few weeks in jail, total, right? Civil disobedience in the US wasn't like in South Africa where they actually imprisoned Mandela for a long time -- it was just a show.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
it was only when the real holes in the story became too big to ignore
And that only happened because a cranky old white guy at the Washington Post was willing to call BS.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
You know who WAS able to produce the dress? Monica Lewinsky.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The statute of limitations has run.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The fact that the Supreme Court can lay down very clear precedent and lower courts are free to plug their ears and say "lalala I can't hear you" is bordering on a constitutional crisis.
It's only a crisis if the Supreme Court does not yield, and they have.
It just means the Second Amendment has been replaced with the anti-Second Amendment: "None of your other rights apply when guns are involved".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I believe the standard darwinian playbook is that you draw the line so it encompasses the cases that support the things you are trying to prove, and does not encompass cases which do not. And the line applies only in the instant discussion and not to any other discussions involving the same evidence.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I describe our current situation as a K-selection spiral. We put a lot of effort into protect and raising each individual child, which results in fewer children. Fewer children results in making each child more precious, and thus demanding of more effort to protect and raise, etc.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Does such a person exist in reality, or is this a hypothetical?
Caster Semanya comes close, but does not have ovaries. I'm not aware of an 46,XY DSD condition which results in ovary development -- all I know of result in either testes (as with 5-alpha reductase deficiency, which Semanya has) or non-functional undifferentiated gonads.
Doesn't matter, though; those are intersex conditions, and are rare enough to simply be taken as exceptional cases. That there are a few edge cases that blur the lines doesn't mean the lines don't exist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
You'll just think you're in Camden.
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