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.
24d ago
He's just using a different normalization of the same scores, that apparently gives slightly higher equivalent IQs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
24d ago
How would you know?
Reading your comments is sufficient.
The solution I think is to go form a small competitive intelligence hierarchy civ somewhere else and to have it outcompete the equality civs over time.
It doesn't work. The people with the high leadership-quotient take over these groups, if they become significant, every time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
25d ago
Amazon has built a logistics system that is one of the best in the world, and computing infrastructure that probably IS the best in the world (at least of that available to outsiders). They also have a really nice retail website which sells a lot of useful things, and a video entertainment system which is pretty nice.
Microsoft, stodgy old dinosaur that it is, still underlies almost everything corporate, and they, too, have a significant player in computing infrastructure.
Apple, of course, makes the iPhone and the Mac and everything associated. And they have a video entertainment group too.
Alphabet does a lot of useless crap, but they still do Google search. And maps. And another significant computing infrastructure offering. And YouTube. And Waymo.
NVidia makes hardware that makes a lot of computing possible.
Tesla is for some reason considered a tech company; they make cars.
And then rounding off the Magnificent 7 is Meta. Oh well, they can't all be useful.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
25d ago
Your lack of consistency is your problem, not your interlocutor's problem.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
25d ago
There's a relatively small but significant set of whites in the foreign-born tech set.
Google's 2024 diversity report has them at about 45% white and 46% Asian in the Americas. Hiring is about 40% white and 43% Asian; tech hiring is 48% Asian and 37% white. Still a lot more than 10% white.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
25d ago
Aristocracy is when a group of people get together to declare themselves the elite and give themselves special privileges. It requires some intelligence, yes, but far more important is a particular social skill, which you might call 'leadership' or 'douchebaggery'. If you don't have it --- and you don't -- then you won't be among the aristocratic class when it forms. And if you inherit the position, you'll be shuffled off to somewhere you don't like.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
25d ago
The most robust IQ-income correlations I've seen stop at 130, because they're based on the ASVAB.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
25d ago
Amazing how much "dignity" coincides with shutting up and accepting what your betters give you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
25d ago
The President of the United States getting a soccer decision overturned demonstrates that yes, you can effectively use a bazooka to kill a mosquito.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
It hasn't been bred out; it's been memed out. Earlier waves of immigration to the US were ultimately fairly well integrated. Problem was there were some lessons learned -- that one should never be suspicious of and 'racist' against immigrants -- that weren't so. I suspect such 'racism' (both real racism and objections to parts of the immigrants' cultures) was load-bearing in integrating them. And in protecting the country from them -- it wasn't breeding that resulted in an America-hating Ethiopian anchor baby winning in Colorado. There haven't been enough generations to breed that out (especially since the last group of integrated immigrants themselves wouldn't have had it bred out at all).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
Instead, he received a nameless memorial. I wonder sometimes if that wouldn't have been a decent enough compromise to deal with the Confederate legacy, but I think everything is so poisoned that neither side would accept it anymore.
The settlement was already made. Attempting to renegotiate it now is bad faith.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
For some reason we have had BOTH 500ml and 20oz soda bottles, though I haven't seen the 500ml in a while. The 2-liter (67.6 fl oz) plastic bottles replaced older ounce-denominated glass bottles when metric was being pushed (by Carter, I think) in the US, which is probably what started that mess.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
MAGAs must make up their minds about whom they dislike first.
Are you worried about demographic replacement, elite takeover or unintegrated criminals ?
I see no particular reason 'MAGAs' have to choose.
Visa holders don't get federal benefits anyway.
There are rules to that effect. Some of them are relatively new, and various pro-immigration jurisdictions have figured out how to even get those illegally present benefits.
Apart from criminality, How does Trump define 'incompatible with western civilization' ? Maybe he means the Amish, the native Americans, the Mormon or the Scientologists ? Does he mean pluralist, liberal & tolerant ? Does he mean white, protestant and english speaking ? IMO, it's a whole lot of words that mean nothing. Trump 101.
The Amish are deliberately separate from western civilization, but they are not incompatible with it (though there is some friction). The Mormons are part of Western Civilization (and an American group at that). Same for the Scientologists. The Native Americans are an obvious special case; they're not immigrants by any stretch of imagination. But they're also not incompatible with western civilization, because those who were have been killed in various wars. This is all smoke. Trump is a politician, of course he says a lot of words with little meaning. But in the context of a terrorist attack, you can at least point to a general idea of "incompatible with western civilization", and it's not the Amish -- that's being deliberately obtuse.
Personally, I'm sick of white supremacists using motte-and-baileys to criticize immigrants.
It's revealing that Indians, Mexicans and Filipinos are the main groups they have issues with.
Eh, no. Nowadays it seems to be Haitians and Somalians that the more strident anti-immigration types oppose most. No worries, they can have as much hate as they need, it's not a conserved quantity.
If every illegal immigrant and every Mexican criminal is deported, Mexicans will still continue immigration in large numbers through legal family based migration and birthright citizenship for children of legal workers.
OK, do that. Then we'll see, first, if these immigrants are problems and second, if they're not, if anti-immigration sentiment remains as strong. Because during Trump 45, I wasn't convinced immigrants were a big problem. But Trump 47 managed to get his opponents to reveal a lot of it, by protecting and attempting to protect so many criminal immigrants from him, and going nuts about termination of Temporary Protected Status instituted for events long past. So now I've got a lot of sympathy for "shut this down until we can figure out what's going on". Tim Walz just pardoned a child-rapist to try to keep him from getting deported; this is nutty behavior. Note that's "child" as in 10 years old, not "child" as in 17 years old.
There is no venn diagram that fits all 3 groups except - "not white". If you want fewer non-whites. Just say that.
Obviously there is; they're all immigrants. They're also all from the third world. Most actual white supremacists will just say they don't want non-whites. Trying to tar all anti-immigrant people with the same brush just because the immigrants they're objecting to most are non-white is a transparent rhetorical tactic. Most illegal immigrants are non-white, and the ones causing the most problems are definitely non-white; there's not a lot of violent crime from German visa-overstayers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
20oz (~600ml) soda bottles are reasonably common.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
I think Trump is disastrous, but on the fourth of July you should probably not publish the Declaration of Independence annotated with "by the way, Republicans are evil" after every paragraph.
That's fine to do as a foreigner, as long as you understand you're declaring yourself an enemy. That one seems extremely bad; they start by bitching about separation of church and state which simply isn't in the Declaration. They go on to bitch about slavery vs consent of the governed (a point, and one that Jefferson would agree with), but then add irrelevancies about ballot access, wealth gaps, and sentencing disparities. It doesn't get better from there; using the veto is not the same as the king refusing assent, as refusing assent was an absolute power whereas vetos can be overridden. And to hostilely annotate the Declaration but fail to do anything with this grievance:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
is to expose yourself as a totalitarian. Hello, regulatory state!
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
If you live in an anarcho-tyranny where the police are more likely to side with criminals than victims, then ordinary people will be incentivized to form and join gangs for mutual protection and avoid police intervention.
Except that ordinary people have been conditioned over the centuries to just not DO that. They'll keep going to the police even when it's futile or counterproductive, and they'll be horrified if any of their fellows attempts to start a gang.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
Was. Teens aren't drinking, partying, or having relationships much any more.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
That's one reason. But usually that's aimed at out of towners. Getting busted for such by local cops is because the locals are the "respect my authority" type, or because they sincerely believe they're making the town safer. Either way, social interaction later on is going to be either awkward or humiliating (for you)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
Those small town cops that conservatives favor love busting teen boys for such things; this effectively ends their chance at a good life with a sex offender conviction. "Romeo and Juliet" statutes were made to make that a little harder, though there's still edge cases.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
You might have younger siblings that age, and the idea of "I'm dating the peer of my younger brother" just feels off.
This is just silliness.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
The problem is we have this concept 'consent', which means something. And we have 'legal consent' which means something else. In theory, 'legal consent' could capture something like 'consent by someone who cannot understand what they are consenting to', but in fact it does not, but we still want a word for that concept.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
If they couldn't mooch off the government, the Haredim (if they continued to exist) would have to change in significant ways; we cannot know if those changes would also result in blunting their fertility.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
The Haredim are not a useful model; they are parasites. Perhaps you could set up another society which as efficiently exploits a welfare system made for the bottom 10% and the 50th-percentile social workers who administer it, but even if you could, it would be ipso facto dysfunctional.
(and the apocalypse grows ever closer, as I agree with @MadMonzer again)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
In fact, the three networks all leaned left (if not as obviously as CNN and MSNBC do today). They were all basically in tune with the urban Democratic mainstream. Then came Fox, which captured an enormous untapped market consisting basically of the right half of the country.
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.
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