The_Nybbler
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The_Nybbler
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8mo ago
I heard that once, superstar researchers in physics even invented a new type of bomb.
That was over 75 years ago. What have they done for us lately?
The_Nybbler
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9mo ago
If you get on the wrong side of the IRS (there are ways with stock options that you can end up owing far more than you ever had in spendable money, for instance) they don't make you unemployed; they take all your assets and garnish any wages down to near-nothing. You can of course beg the tax court for relief, but if you're not sympathetic (e.g. you're male) you won't get any.
The_Nybbler
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9mo ago
Basically no one who isn't severely mentally ill and/or addicted to hard drugs ends up homeless long-term. It's not like the majority, or even a significant minority, of men are living on the knife's edge of homelessness.
Any man without a greatly above average social network is one bad tax mistake away from homelessness.
The_Nybbler
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11mo ago
Not clear why the flip-side, a dozen or so cops getting capped in the process of serving warrants during the initial weeks of the confiscation effort wouldn't also demoralize their side.
There won't be a dozen or so. There might be one. They would respond with overwhelming force, and further confiscation would be done by cops in full riot/stormtrooper gear, and that would be the end of that.
Why do we assume the unshakeable will of LEOs vs. the meek compliance of the American citizenry?
It's not the will of the LEOs, it's the will of the confiscators giving them orders. There will be enough LEOs who won't push back on their orders.
The_Nybbler
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11mo ago
Estimate about 50 million gun owners in the U.S., conservatively estimate 1% of them decide to put up a fight rather than comply.
It will be much closer to zero than that. Especially after they shoot the first one who gets physical with them (without even using the gun). And destroy the houses of the first few who give "boating accident" lines.
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
I don't think this says anything about the factual HBDers, other than that they're relatively invisible in most conversations where HBD comes up, so they aren't the central example of an HBDer that comes immediately to mind.
Didn't used to be, then there was that HBD moratorium back in the old place and a bunch of bans, so...
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
There certainly is a limiting principle - it's when the marginal value of additional housing ~= marginal cost of providing it.
So, Kowloon it is.
If we turn Silicon Valley into a 266M person megalopolis by increasing density to Brooklyn levels, that leaves 67M people spread throughout the rest of a depopulated US.
Which means the people already IN Silicon Valley either have to move or to put up with living in Brooklyn West, and they'd rather not. Which is why NIMBY. And quite possibly moving might not be an option, because of other things the same people who support YIMBY support -- "open space" preservation, anti-sprawl legislation, urban growth boundaries, and the like.
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
It was self-sabotage in the same way a bully's victim hits themself when the bully grabs their arm and uses it to hit them, then says "Stop hitting yourself".
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
He can't really fight. The US Supreme Court already turned him down without comment in the Texas case, and the Connecticut Supreme Court has shot down all his motions pretty quickly. If he actually wants to appeal he'd need to post an appeal bond, and the amount of the bond is likely to be very large so he won't be able to post it. (also, I'm not sure default judgements are appealable in CT.). If he were allowed to appeal the appeal would go nowhere, as there's nothing to base it on as there was no trial in the first place. So the next step is collecting the judgement, which will put him in bankruptcy court, where the usual bankruptcy protections (e.g. homestead exemption) will mysteriously be mostly inapplicable to him.
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with both-sidesism (often called "centrism", "moderation" or "nuance")
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
To be fair to German society, this is a trend affecting pretty much the entire developed world, and nobody has ever managed to find a solution to it, not even in Singapore.
Repeal Luke 12:48.
The_Nybbler
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1mo ago
Fentanyl is only lethal because illegal manufacturers and distributors can't control the dose well enough. In terms of therapeutic index, it's safer than other opiates -- that is, the ratio of a lethal dose to an effective dose is high. The problem is that the absolute amounts of both are low.
The_Nybbler
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2mo ago
Which makes it about 112% THC now, right? If people really did usually smoke low-potency ditchweed, it was before most current smokers were born.
The_Nybbler
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3mo ago
When you see grassroots, suspect astroturf. Someone's propagandizing, organizing, and funding those marches. You'll likely find a web of NGOs behind them, but maybe it won't be opaque enough to hide the (Middle Eastern) state funding.
The_Nybbler
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4mo ago
When Red Tribe starts bombing things and murdering judges, no Blue is going to point to Ayers and Davis and say "well shucks, you got us there". It's going to be different, because it's always different when the outgroup does it. And likewise for Red Tribe, of course.
They won't, though. Red Tribe is just going to quietly go extinct.
The_Nybbler
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4mo ago
Most of these people weren't politically active (if they were even born) when apartheid South Africa existed. And I reiterate oing the whole "a pox on both your houses" thing when one house is clearly more pox-deserving than the other is to support the cause of injustice. I do not believe for a minute the people you refer to are "tired of America being the world police"; those are the isolationists, and they're not the ones who "find some of Israel’s actions and foreign influence questionable at best".
Or, to put it more clearly, you're not fooling anyone.
The_Nybbler
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6mo ago
The entire art world, root and branch, all the institutions and nearly all the artists, is left wing. There's nothing on the right to subsidize.
The_Nybbler
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7mo ago
I don't have a crystal ball. I don't even have the text of the demand sent from the government to the dating sites. But I am certain that if this comes to pass, those who say this won't happen now will be at the forefront of saying the defendant deserves it then.
The_Nybbler
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7mo ago
Are you sure? Because I can easily see this "voluntary" code including mandatory reporting to the government, so after Mr. short-pasty-and-ugly gets shot down (by different women) for the thirteenth time, he ends up facing cyberstalking charges.
The_Nybbler
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11mo ago
The post said:
I want everyone raised up to as close to equality as possible
It's ambiguous as to whether equality is the goal and raising up the desired method, or not. But if it is, then the unsuitability of the method quickly leads to other methods of fulfilling the goal.
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
They could just stop biting the big dog. Except that it seems they can't... but the big dog is not to blame for that.
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
Why do NIMBYs constantly apply an excluded middle fallacy, thinking that the only possibilities are San Jose (population density 1.5k/sq mi) or Kowloon?
Because there are no limiting principles, no Schelling fences. Once you've turned San Jose into San Francisco, there's no reason not to go on to make it London, Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Kowloon.
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
There are people who will tell you on a survey they doubt the credibility of the NYT. The next day they'll be credulously repeating whatever it is they read in the NYT and sneering at "Faux News".
The_Nybbler
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1yr ago
If the result doesn't come out how he wants, he'll rig it or change it and cry "bots".
There is plenty of precedent to throw people in jail for contempt on the word of the judge who claimed the contempt. That's how contempt works.
The precedents are now in place; no need to wait. The Insurrection Act exists, and the National Guard can be federalized at the word of the President.
Steamrollering Cliven Bundy doesn't politically benefit anyone; the bureaucracy might do it on its own but it doesn't help the political set. Steamrolling Abbott with a sufficient legal fig leaf is like steamrolling Wallace back in the day -- it shows who is in charge.
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