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.
5d 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.
5d 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.
5d 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.
5d 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.
6d ago
· Edited 6d 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.
6d 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.
6d 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.
6d 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.
6d 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.
6d 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.
6d 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.
6d 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.
8d 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.
9d 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.
9d 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.
9d 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.
9d 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.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
The hallucination argument is losing power.
No, it most definitely is not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
Nevertheless, I think the complexity argument might fail for accountants. Complexity actually favors AI. They are good at it.
AI fails for accounting not because of complexity but because of care. Accountants have to get the numbers right, and occasionally hallucinating shit isn't going to cut it. Maybe it would work for mob accounting, but I suspect the mob wants their made-up shit to be less random.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
If at the end of the day Trump is in the dustbin of history, the Democrats hand the strait to the Ayatollahs, and then Iran gets a nuke, Iran has won. By restricting the flow of oil, Iran makes that outcome more likely, therefore Iran is winning. Unless they die first, but like I said, they have 90 million citizens they can use up to survive.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
Dog whistles are meant to be un-noticed by those not their targets. The term "anti-Zionist" is merely the thinnest veil of plausible deniability in most cases.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Ah, it's not because he waged the culture war. It's because he waged the culture war against an enemy that had resources.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Texas looks to be turning blue this term. I expect once Desantis is gone, Florida will go back to blue also.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Conservatives are also racking up wins on gun rights.
Only fake ones, like pot users getting to buy guns in states where others can. This year another state (Washington) moves to a permit-to-purchase system, and the states which didn't issue carry permits before are now issuing carry permits which don't let you carry. The AR-15 and the Glock are being subject to bans in blue states across the country.
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)
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