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.
7hr ago
The Somali parents in Minnesota in 2006 were a different group than the Somali parents in 2025. Once a foothold had been obtained and a Somalia-to-Minnesota pipeline had been set up, it was much easier for the less functional to migrate.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
Men's contests often don't look like rock climbing or sailing; they look like war.
But I don't think we'll get the sci-fi world. Scarcity will be with us always. Even if someone has to create it (by violently taking control or destroying the means of production), though I don't in fact think that will be necessary.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
Most art was already commodified, and it was commodity artists, not creative artists who got the most brutal axe.
Because creative artists got the axe a very long time ago. I expect the modal net earnings for a creative artist is already quite negative.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
You do realize how unconvincing it is to cite the top 5% of students as not really being all that useful?
When I worked at Google, about 5% of applicants got through the phone screen. A lot of them weren't all that useful.
Regardless of any unwarranted sense of self-worth, if they're doomed, then what hope is there for anyone?
Welcome to the black pill.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
· Edited 10hr ago
This is much more emotionally healthy than the nerd’s response.
Emotional health isn't what it's about. You've got people who work with physical things, people who do intellectual work, and people who play monkey dominance games at a high level. The latter are almost always indisputably on top, but that hasn't been entirely true in recent years; there's been significant status overlap between the intellectual workers and the monkey dominance people. AI threatens to throw the intellectual workers all the way down to the bottom -- not even so high as the privileged slave levels they had in ancient Athens, but all the way down to utter uselessness, like drug addicted alcoholic bums but not as sympathetic. The monkey dominance people are of course overjoyed at this, putting these interlopers in their place has been a nagging goal for a long while now. Nerds are more threatened by AI than normies because AI is vastly more of a threat to them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
It's your metaphor, you don't get to abandon it as soon as it turns out it doesn't actually support your case.
There's no limit to your principle; you can dress it up as a "slightly higher marginal tax rate" but nothing in your principle says it ends there. It can be a 100% marginal rate; more, it can require Bob to draw down his wealth to help all the Alice's in the world until he's got nothing left to help with. Or (as in your metaphor) it can require Bob's personal service with no limits to that either.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The STS (shuttle) was also a slow-motion dumpster fire. At least until Challenger exploded, at which point its pace increased.
I don't think it's a matter of time or talent, but just incentives. The public and the politicians were very interested in the moon program, and cared a great deal about results in the form of putting Americans on the moon (and getting them back!). Later programs didn't have either that mandate or that pressure.
Possibly almost as important was Werner von Braun's retirement, but that couldn't be the full story because there were a lot of things to the moon program besides the rockets themselves.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
NASAs competency has been consistently lousy since the end of the Apollo program, no?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
They aren't the same Somalis.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It's a procedural remedy to a mistake ICE has been repeatedly caught making.
It isn't. Currently they sometimes arrest people believing they are not citizens, then they verify their citizenship, and they let them go. The "remedy" would be they somehow have to prove they are not citizens before arresting them. Which is like saying you have to convict someone before arresting them, which is entirely backwards.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sure. A standard. Not these unreasonable-on-their-face ones, which have obvious failure modes which you're trying to pooh-pooh away as if the anti-ICE side will be at all reasonable, which it is clear from their behavior they will not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
A "15-year-old girl who loves her 20-year-old boyfriend" is not the same as "a 15-year-old victim of statutory rape".
A 15-year-old who has sex with her 20-year-old boyfriend is, however, in most US jurisdictions ("Romeo and Juliet" laws tend to allow 4 years or less)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Problem is, most people don't distinguish between individual experts and instead just see the scientific community as a big undifferentiated blob.
During COVID, the scientific and medical communities enforced conformity, by ostracizing those like Bhattacharya and calling his ideas "unethical", and pulling the licenses of dissident doctors. They intended to be seen as a solid front.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Even accounting for these statistics being fudged to draw headlines
This is key. The stats are based on a survey from a company called Clever Real Estate, whose thing is a discounted commission. They appear to have literally called it "Reckless Spending Habits 2024". The range of reliability for these numbers is "entirely made up" to "bogus".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Some people will never figure out that no, it's not just a few kids on college campuses. Even when they make a podcast about how they're teaching it all in elementary schools.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
South Carolina requires measles vaccination for kindergarten students; they allow both medical and religious exemptions. Texas requires it for pre-K students, and allows medical, religious, and personal belief exemptions. Arizona requires it for daycare and kindergarten and allows medical, religious, and personal belief exemptions. As I understand it, these particular Mennonite communities have their own schools which are simply not covered by any of this.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It seems like a tragedy that our society is rejecting the measles vaccine. What am I missing?'
There has been a marginal change, likely due to the reasons @ABigGuy4U gives -- backlash from all that pushing of the COVID vaccine, which seemed to work about as well as the flu vaccine. Especially the pushing of it on children, who were at very low risk from COVID.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
In 1964 there were 458,000 measles cases, and 421 deaths, over a smaller population, no lockdowns.
How barbaric. Our ancestors were truly uncivilized.
"Ancestors" is rather an odd term since 1964 is well within living memory (not mine, but that of many actual Boomers). They just realized the world couldn't come to a stop because of a disease.
It's...not? I mean, I guess I don't have healthcare records for every measles patient, but are you genuinely going to make the argument that a nearly 100x increase in measles cases, centered around political strongholds for the vaccine-skeptical party and away from population centers, is due to some other factor? What would that be?
Already answered. It is spreading among particular religious communities who, while they are not religiously scrupulous of vaccination, intentionally don't have a lot of contact with the public health system. This includes having their own schools. Since those communities have contact with each other, it has also been spreading between them, both within the US and internationally. This has been going on for a few years now.
The general drop you can blame on government overreaction to COVID.
No, I think I'll blame the people who choose to not get vaccinated instead.
You can do that if you want to be hardheaded, but burning the credibility of the CDC had a cost nevertheless. But as far as I know it has nothing to do with the current outbreak.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
That's certainly what you seem to be saying. You make some law that outlaws a normal thing like carrying a pocketknife, then you only enforce it against 16-year-olds and not grandpas.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Measles makes a comeback in the US - who wants some lockdowns?
In 1964 there were 458,000 measles cases, and 421 deaths, over a smaller population, no lockdowns. Lockdowns are just a bad idea.
As far as I can tell, the outbreak is mostly among religious communities who have low vaccination rates (though apparently not actually for religious reasons). There has been a small general drop in vaccination, but it's not clear if it has had a significant effect. The general drop you can blame on government overreaction to COVID.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I'll be shocked if authorities identified the man that bit the agent's finger off and did not charge him.
Woman. She's facing Federal charges only, and a local Democratic official has called for activists to lie their way onto the jury and acquit her.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Term limits are in opposition to democracy, so Trump 2028 hats are actually in support of democracy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Instead, the SJ left has plenty of ways to ostracize people which they do not like which are legal.
Or which is not legal but does not actually cause grevious bodily harm, and for which local law enforcement can look the other way.
When ICE shoots someone, the Trump administration declares that shooting justified and praiseworthy within hours.
The public now knows the names of the three shooters; the masks made no difference.
ICE will not help with any state investigation because federal forces enjoy immunity.
ICE will not help with any state investigation because the state is actively resisting them and cannot be trusted. There is in fact no neutral arbiter possible under the circumstances. Certainly there is no John Adams type in Minnesota willing to ensure the ICE agents would get a fair trial there.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
No, no, what happened in 2020/2021 was a peaceful transfer of power happened unlawfully. Easy mistake to make, I suppose.
Don't be too jealous, if AI meets its promise they'll all be... well, they won't be saying "would you like fries with that" because the AI will do that too. But they might be delivering the fries until the robotics catches up.
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