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.
17d ago
which will potentially prevent Iran from making Nukes.
Yeah, that's the only goal potentially making the war worth fighting. But it IS a rather big deal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
The open daytime transits in the past few weeks were more of a show of force rather than a necessity to transport oil.
And also a chance to give Iran a chance to prove that it would adhere to a settlement by not shooting at them. Iran proved the opposite.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
The margarine I use definitely claims it's butter. (It's not butter. It contains butter. I don't care what the USDA says)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
I don't know much about Ocean County (though I assume you're referring to Lakewood), but I'd expect any such law to be taken advantage of by local networks of corrupt people, whether that was intended or not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
Central Command was playing word games in that tweet, as the operation was supposed to be a secret. They were not literally escorting ships through. They later said, according to the New York Times on May 31s.
“Though U.S. forces are not escorting, we continue to communicate and coordinate with commercial ships seeking to freely and safely transit the Strait of Hormuz, a critical international corridor for regional and global economies,” Capt. Tim Hawkins, a Central Command spokesman, said in a statement on Saturday.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
I think the actual point of the law was to allow lefty NGOs to get homes, though whether they'd move Democrats into them in a reverse-gerrymandering maneuver or just resell them for profit in an ordinary corruption maneuver could go either way in New Jersey.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
The US accepted an MOU that people swore amounted to total victory for Iran. Then [B]Iran[/B] through its actions demonstrated it didn't think the MOU was total victory. Iran still thinks it can get unconditional surrender -- the US goes away, Iran tolls the straits, Iranian proxies attack Israel and Israel just takes it, and Iran gets back to the job of building a nuke for Tel Aviv. The US does not appear to be interested in this deal, but neither is it interested in invading Iran. So we've got this dynamic stalemate. Iran can't keep the straits closed, but the US can't keep them 100% safe either. Every time Iran attacks shipped, they get bombed more.
Iran can still win, though. They can simply outlast Trump, and then President AOC or Al-Sayed gives them everything they want. This does assume Trump doesn't decide to do a decisive attack, or if he tries Congress and the courts stop them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
The straits are open, but at higher risk than they were before the war. Iran can hit ships, and occasionally does. I don't think anyone's paying tolls except those using the Iran route to pick up Iranian oil, and I'm not sure about them. Not sure about insurance; most of the non-Iran traffic seems to be Gulf-owned ships which are presumably locally insured, though the Greeks still seem to be in there too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19d ago
Denying that "chicks dig jerks" has been a feminist staple for decades, yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20d ago
You can't hedge against total financial catastrophe unless you have at least Larry Ellison "make my own self-sufficient villain lair" money and ability; you have to do it in the physical world, not the world of finance. So there's no point in trying. If some less-than-catastrophic event where Anthropic is successful happens, those SWEs get rich just like in earlier tech booms.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20d ago
Wouldn't the pursuit of a judgment from the second mortgage (or bankruptcy proceedings, if they're taking that route) just lead to the house being sold?
Primary residences have some protection against bankruptcy, though this trick probably works better if you have a relative exercise the right of first refusal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20d ago
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that rent control is not an unconstitutional taking because the owner is renting voluntarily. He can just stop renting and sell the property if he wants to.
Not in NYC he can't. He has to buy out the existing tenants.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20d ago
SCOTUS does not want to go down the path of acknowledging regulatory takings.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20d ago
Yeah, the way the law was written, it appears a homeonwer could get a second mortgage, default on the first mortgage, exercise the right of first refusal on the sale, and get the property free and clear of the second mortgage. They'd still owe the second mortgage but they could default on it or even declare bankruptcy (if they dumped all their assets into paying the upset price).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22d ago
It's an Iron Cross. She probably got it because she wanted something edgy but didn't have the chutzpah to go for a swastika.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22d ago
My paternal grandparents, who did not in any way, shape, or form, consider themselves subordinate to their own children, had six children.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22d ago
We already know how to fluid-cool chips and get the heat to a radiator.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22d ago
I'm sure they've told Platner that if he stays in they'll destroy him, and if he drops out they'll find some place (less than Senator) for him. I'm also sure they're lying and if Platner drops out they'll bury him. From Platner's point of view, if he believes this, his only winning move is to beat Collins, at which point the Democrats will have to deal with him as Senator.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22d ago
Yes, that's why I called it a "sort of primitive fascism" rather than actual fascism. Of course, sweep away the high-sounding language and everyone being expected to act as a cell in the body (or a cog in the wheel) isn't really such a good thing. And if you were to look at such a society, you'd probably find, as always, that there were a few people who were doing the directing of what the rest were doing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23d ago
A sort of primitive fascism, where everyone is basically a cell in the communal body. As E.O. Wilson said in a slightly different context, "Wrong Species".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23d ago
Sure, when you're a child you're subordinate to your parents and your teachers, then in college you're supposed to be subordinate to your instructors and subordinate yourself to the goal of finding work post college. Then when you're working you've still got to be subordinate to your bosses, but at least that's part time... then someone comes along and tells you you have to also subordinate yourself to your children. When do you get to be you? Never.
This attitude, despite being a 'conservative' one, seems to be new to the generations which grew up after WWII. Earlier generations did not maintain that the parents lived for the children.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23d ago
The Democratic Party will simply be supplanted by the Democratic Socialists of America, which will inherit all its NPCs but none of its scandals.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
24d ago
OK, so we take the median income at 145 to follow the linear trend at $50,850 (2011) above the expected value at 100, which is $32,730 (2011). This seems pretty good. Note that personal income doesn't follow a gaussian distribution at all.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
24d ago
Five years is five years, it doesn't matter if I have a younger sibling of that age. "Peers of my siblings" aren't somehow off limits. I'm pretty sure they aren't for women either, the issue is that young women prefer older men -- they'd have no problem dating their older sibling's peers.
With or without a nuke, Iran is not an existential threat to the United States. However, the fallout (more figurative than literal, but some literal) from the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv would be rather ugly, compared to the current war.
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