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.
5hr ago
Ah, yes, right, over a year. If you're not tracking everything, how do you track that?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
Criminals. I mean, if I were building and planting a bomb I'd make use of salvaged stuff as much as possible, anything I couldn't would be bought with cash (thought that didn't help here), the cell phone would stay at home, I'd try to note the location of CCTV cameras and such and at least try to make me and my car get lost in the noise if I couldn't avoid them, etc. I also would NOT do Google, Bing, or even DDG searches of bomb-making and stuff from devices that could be associated with me (including other people's phones at my house). But
a) I'm also not going to build or plant a bomb.
and
b) Blowing shit up is fun, but this would be a lot of work and who goes into crime to do a lot of work?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
Not the cash part.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
That 4% could be the difference between a track leading to a seat on the Supreme Court and one leading to handling divorce cases day in and day out until you drink yourself to death.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
Well if that isn't proof we're living in a panopticon, nothing is. They were able to trace his month-old purchases of 9V battery connectors that he made with cash:
COLE purchased five of the Nine Volt Distributor’s nine-volt battery connectors from Micro Center in northern Virginia on or about November 12 and December 28, 2019, including cash purchases made during the December transaction.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
RNs typically only needed a certificate program. Requirements in many places that they get a full Bachelors are recent.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
Note that the order to make full payment was stayed by the Supreme Court... in the person of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The stay was later extended 8-1 by the Supreme Court... oddly enough, the dissenter was Jackson.
It as apparent, as @FCfromSSC often points out, that the court system is broken. The Constitution is pretty clear about not spending funds which have not been appropriated.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
Yet not only did at least two District judges, but the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, rule that the administration has to "find the money". Yes, including from the school lunch program.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
As with the healthcare systems, those Japanese or Korean schooling methods have some pretty nasty drawbacks of their own (as you note). And I think historically when the US attempts to copy them we end up (temporarily) with the worst of both worlds -- kids grind but learn nothing. The Sputnik Shock worked better for primary and secondary education, but the resulting National Defense Education Act also set us up for the student loan crisis.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
But if, de facto, the opinions of judicial clerk genuinely shape the law of the land, then it's clearly unjust for able-bodied fast workers to be over-represented among them. Accommodations that allow for disabled lawyers to work those jobs will lead to kinder, better laws where disability accommodations are concerned.
This is not, in fact, clearly the more just outcome. Your argument is circular; you're assuming that "kinder" disability accommodations are desirable and using that to argue that judicial clerks should obtain those accommodations.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
What you say is true of whoever was running the Biden administration, certainly.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
Saying you have street smarts just means you're willing to do things that smart, sensitive people are too decent to do.
That's not really what street smarts is supposed to mean. Street smarts is things like knowing when someone's trying to con you, being able to tell what strangers you should to be civil to and who you shouldn't, knowing how to avoid getting robbed or caught in the middle of a fight, how to project dangerousness without aggressiveness so people will leave you alone, things like that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
Yes, and the "World" system is left over from that time. As is Trump.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
No it's not. Most politicians do want to win again,Trump is unique in that 1) he literally cannot
There is nothing unique about a term-limited president.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Schrödinger's whites are the exception that proves the rule.
Reminds me of the prime number joke.
A mathematician, physicist, and engineer are taking a math test. One question asks "Are all odd numbers prime?"
The mathematician thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime -- nope, not all odd numbers are prime."
The physicist thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 ... experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, yes, they're all prime."
The engineer thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, ..."
No, they're not the exception that prove the rule. They're the exception that blow the "rule" out of the water.
Most of the rest of the world in non-white. It's no surprise that most immigrant groups being objected to are non-white. And, in England, the same sort of people objected to Poles. Are they Schroedinger's White too?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I'm aware of that interpretation, but as far as I know, it does not hold; complete jurisdiction-stripping isn't allowed. Congress could create a special Article III court for these cases whose decision was final, but could not take the case out of the judicial branch entirely.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Weren't drumhead trials for pirates pretty common (if officially disallowed) also?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
When the First/Second/Third world system was non-vestigal, places like that often got split off into a "fourth world".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Personally, I'm sick of white supremacists using motte-and-baileys to criticize immigrants.
"That's racist" is pretty much worn out as an argument anywhere to the right of Kamala Harris.
It's revealing that Indians, Mexicans and Filipinos are the main groups they have issues with.
You forgot Jews. Perhaps because most Jews are in fact white?
Indians are a model minority, speak English, from a pluralistic democracy and uniquely economically productive.
Had much experience with the bottom half of Indian H-1Bs? I'm guessing not.
Mexicans are devout Christians, take all the 'shit' jobs, have a fair claim to the land and work harder than any 'sanctity of work' protestant I've seen. There are valid concerns about criminals and cartel members. But, as we covered before, Americans and Trump are already aligned on their deportation.
Are they? Because I keep seeing horror stories about some poor hardworking illegal immigrant being deported, and then it turns out they committed rape or homicide or at least a shitload of DUIs. And then there's the groypers complaining about not enough being deported and various leftists saying Trump is being hypocritical by not deporting enough farmworkers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think this is representative of a general societal movement that holds, basically, that discipline should be done away with and replaced with more nurturing. The stick is just sadistic cruelty, and does much more harm than good, and whatever good it does do can be done all the better with extra carrots.
Indeed. Except the second you suggest otherwise, they're happy to "give you what you want" by using the stick on you and people like you while continuing to "nurture" people they like.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think that's a case of constitutional law and not statute; there has to be some method of Article III review, but it can be absurdly deferential to the Article I court and can come only after all administrative remedies are exhausted.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Special elections are weird; I don't think this changes the already bad outlook for Republicans. Still, at the end of the day, it's the economy. If we're still in this zombie economy where the numbers don't look so bad but no one is happy, it'll be a bloodbath. If things get worse, obviously a worse bloodbath. If things improve, the Republicans only lose by a little.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Has Trump even asked congress to strip Article III courts of jurisdiction over immigration claims from noncitizens?
Why would he need to? Immigration claims are already handled in Article I administrative "courts".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Arguably Hegsegh is stupid and he should have done Obama style duble-tap operation, where the military waits for rescue vessel picking up the drowning terrorists only to bomb them again
I'm pretty sure no one was coming to pick up the drowning drug dealers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I suppose this is better than the Rick and Morty copypasta. In any case, this article is definitely not operating on that level. If it were, it would at least have to get into mortgage-backed securities, FNMA, and Freddie Mac, none of which it mentions. No actual sophisticated financier is going to give this article two seconds of their time; it is, in fact, directed at the layman.
You should have known better than to go to engineering school. Stick with CS, if you must take physics, take physics for physics majors where the problems will all have round numbers, and whatever you do, DON'T TAKE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, and you can get by with much less effort.
(I took differential equations. It left scars)
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