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.
6d ago
The facilitator speaks like chatGPT
Where do you think ChatGPT picked this stuff up? It was trained on (the worst of) reddit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Except that Southern Europeans and Jews (usually) count as white no matter how dark they actually are. Middle Eastern Christians also count as white.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Correct; the US (not just Trump, this is an existing pattern) will almost never "rule out" the use of military force in any dispute ahead of time. That's why they asked Trump to do so -- they knew he would give the standard answer and then they could beat him up for it. But he eventually did rule out the use of force in Greenland.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
It's suburban. It's a central example of "suburban". But it does have a live theatre (at the edge of the park, in fact) that can be walked to by many residents in clearly suburban spots. My point is that being able to walk to a live theatre is a bad criterion.
The park resembles wilderness but is not; the original wilderness was cut for timber hundreds of years ago. It was actually designed by Frederick Law Olmstead (designer of Central Park) and his sons and stepsons.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Greenland would like to go independent but if they do there's no way to fund all that welfare, so they probably aren't going to do it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Lancaster, Pennsylvania has several live theaters within 5-10 minutes of the nearest farm. I don't know if they're Amish but given it's Lancaster that's the way to bet.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Someone made maps for that here. This makes a large part of the NY metro area one enormous city of 14M. Edison is near the bottom left but I can't tell for sure if it's in or out. Might be useful for some purposes but definitely doesn't map to what Americans would consider 'a city'. (Then again, NYC itself doesn't either)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I'm reliably told that Majority of NYC residents do not own a car.
NYC, however, is the only major city in the country where this is true.
So really its a ruralish area attached to an urbanized one? So my guess is the majority of residents can't walk to the theater.
Nothing rural about it; the "swathes of nature" are a large park and a few (closed to the public) reservoirs. Certainly a majority of residents can't walk to the theatre, but the same is true in Manhattan. It's suburban.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
This is even worse, especially in New Jersey, where we've got weird stuff like Metutchen (pop 15,000) entirely surrounded by Edison (pop 110,000). Edison is just dense suburbia.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
NJ townships are also incorporated (and are by far the most common form of municipal government), but a few of the borough/township splits have joined in the past few years, notably Princeton (home of the eponymous university)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Likewise, 'how far' do you have to travel to get to the nearest live theater? If you live in an area that is technically sparsely populated but you can drive <20 minutes and see a live production, that's gotta be suburban. If you can walk to see one, OBVIOUSLY Urban.
Millburn, NJ is clearly suburban, despite a live theatre being right there. Density 900/km^2.
My own adjoining town is just barely over 1500/km^2, but it, too, is clearly suburban. There's also a live theatre in our downtown, such as it is.
The car thing doesn't work for the opposite reason. Philadelphia is full of cars. So is Chicago. So is New York, for that matter. No American city has a transit share of commutes above 50%, though NYC has been above that. Next closest city outside the NY metro is D.C at 26.6%.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
· Edited 8d ago
You are really supporting the people of my X bubble, who when presented with a tweet suggesting we pay teachers what they were worth, mostly responded about how much money we would save or how minimum wage laws make it illegal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Certainly he was wrong scientifically. But not a fool; he knew that actual reality was of far lesser practical significance than political reality.
"A black woman invented the telescope. You might disagree. You might even have evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth losing my job over? A black woman invented the telescope."
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Proving P=NP doesn't break all asymmetric crypto. Factoring probably isn't even NP-hard, nor is discrete log on a Galois field or an elliptic curve. You need both more and less to break asymmetric crypto. More, in that you need a practical break; if you can factor numbers or extract discrete logs in polynomial time but the minimum exponent is 1000, you've got nothing useful. Less, in that you could theoretically come up with a polynomial-time solution while leaving NP-complete problems without them.
If you do find a practical break, obtaining a few "orphaned" bitcoins and selling them might be the best thing to do. But the NSA might be watching for that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
If they were such fools, they wouldn't have won so totally.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Not necessarily. I could see a strong argument that proper exposure and socialization with the normies is actually good for the supergeniuses.
It's an argument, but when the 'supergeniuses' are getting beaten up and their 'socialization' is to the role of pariah, then if you don't reconsider you're doing the same thing progressives do when they swear that not disciplining the violent will improve the system.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
I know society has started to wake up from this, but it's still so shocking to see how much political capital was burnt on the left over the past generation over this bizarre ideology, and how everyone that dared to question it was scolded, chided, or threatened off as some heretic.
Thing is, society has NOT started to wake up from this. Originally there was some pretense that there was a debate over whether schools would work better (for black kids, anyway) with the leftist policies or the traditional ones. The lefties won, implemented their policies, they didn't work... and they still cleave to them. There's nearly no backlash. Not only isn't it about the outcomes, it never was; the desire for the policies themselves is a first principle. This also holds in other areas such as crime.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
You gotta teach them about anarcho-tyranny when they're young, they'll be seeing a lot of it in the real world.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
UBI, for those who pledge to do too many drugs to seek societal change
We already have that, but it doesn't work because those seeking certain sorts of societal change get to use them as foot soldiers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
US and Denmark and Greenland. So if Greenland leaves Denmark (which is somewhat more likely than NATO falling apart, I suspect), the deal still holds.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Greenland just ceded sovereignty to the United States.
Not sovereignty; suzerainity.
SpaceX will announce a massive deal to connect Greenland up to Starlink. (Actually it will probably be pretty cheap and derided even as “small”.)
Starlink already works in Greenland (it didn't originally because it was too far north, but the constellation has been expanded). However, it is illegal due to the actions of the Greenland government. Because Greenland retains self-government, that ban will remain (though it obviously does not apply to US bases)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Correct, the IRS traditionally starts by hanging you upside down and shaking you until the money comes out of your pockets. Then they start on your toenails.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
How many software engineers [or others directly threatened by AI] are not Blue-no-matter-who, though?
More than there would appear. Many were purged during the height of woke, but most of those ended up somewhere else and hid their power levels better. Some managed to hide their power level the whole time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Greenland has some degree of self-government. The native communist eskimos might invite Russia or China in just out of fit of pique, or in a corrupt bargain.
After the 2024 eclipse, the Adirondack Northway was stop-and-go from just south of Plattsburgh all the way to Albany, almost 150 miles. To call most of that area rural is to overstate the population. Possibly not the worst traffic jam in generations, but certainly the worst without a snowstorm involved.
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