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.
4hr ago
At least in private, I don't think even the most based Trump supporters will claim that the rank and file ICE are some fit and well-trained force with high tactical acumen.
With the exception of the Pretti shooting, all the atrocity videos I've seen with them have been very much less atrocious than the kind of normal police arrest videos you can find all over the Internet. Which is probably why some of the ICE atrocity videos are actually other police forces doing some actual beatings that are then attributed to ICE.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16hr ago
Yes, the exact distance would depend on the line of latitude of course.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16hr ago
Normies are all over the place, but they're not undecided voters. They're Democrats-by-default.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
I interpret them as "flies [to a point which is] 300 miles [to the] North [along the most-direct route]..." and "travels [along a path continuously facing] north for [a path length of] 300 miles".
These are the same. For North and South, all meridians are great circles anyway. For East and West, following a rhumb line (keeping your bearing constant) 300 miles East or West gets you to a point that is 300 miles East or West. There's a shorter way to get to that point but that doesn't matter.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Lol. Lmao. I suppose Google or Bing has very fast crawlers?
Indeed. I would explain the team I once worked at Google to people sometimes as "Did you ever post on some forum looking for the answer to a question, and then decide to search for it, and the first result that came up was your own question? That's us."
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
We have all the video in every direction. The propaganda works anyway; the left-wing "ICE IS EVIL" message gets across to normies, the right-wing "The protestors are violent and obstructive and ICE is arresting people they are supposed to arrest" does not, it's dismissed as Fox News (which, even if it were reported as such, doesn't count, because the other side controls the credibility of any given media organ) propaganda.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The media is not an independent actor at this point; it is part of the other side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think by "north," most people would interpret this to mean "in the direction of the north pole" which seems to be in agreement with your assumption.
There's two reasonable choices for North -- in the direction of the north magnetic pole, and in the direction of the geographic north pole. These are significantly offset (about 12 degrees) at the ESB, but not enough to change the answer I don't think.
Anyway, to answer your question, it looks to me like the puzzle depends heavily on definitions and assumptions just as every puzzle depends heavily on definitions and assumptions.
Sure, but any answer that would make sense to a helicopter pilot is going to put the landing point west of the starting point. Except the even more pedantic answer that there's no helipad on the ESB, so it can't happen. Or the point that very few helicopters can go 1200 miles without refueling.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You'll just think you're in Camden.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d 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.
1d 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.
1d 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.
1d 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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
86 degrees north is only 277 miles from the pole; going 850 miles in a wide range of northerly directions isn't well-defined there. That is, if I asked you from that point, "Where is a point 850 miles North?", there simply is no good answer, since there is by definition no point north of the pole.
Pick a better-behaved set of numbers and the "rhumb ring" (which doesn't seem to be a standard term) will touch the great circle ring in both the North and South directions. Every point on the "rhumb ring" will be the same distance from the origin in one particular compass direction.
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