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.
1mo ago
Then the "system" that you're referring to dismantling entirely here is the government, right?
The science-funding part of the government, anyway. The rest can wait for another subthread.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
The leadership of the Gulf States are happy with Israel now on the "my enemy's enemy" principle. The people of those states (including people in their military) still hate the Jews as much as ever.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Banning mere possession (with no before-the-fact knowledge of production) is already on shaky ground, free-speech-absolutist-wise. As soon as you cross into "This should be illegal because it resembles actual CSAM" you have to turn in your absolutist card.
Actually, you've probably already lost your card when you ban production, because CSAM includes material produced by sexting teens.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
You're going to exclude single-vehicle accidents?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Best I can do is https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2024/table10
There's a lot more from the third world, but there's still a significant number from Europe.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Hot take: Talented nepo babies in Hollywood are vindication of HBD.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Sampling non-fatal accidents is impossible; you'd get into too many arguments about what constitutes an accident. If you include every fender-bender and aviation "incident", the number will be close to zero in both.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Were those a requirement of the funding agency?
Yes. And the funding agencies were (and maybe still are) routinely including this stuff. Maybe the government ones aren't now, but they will again as soon as a Democrat is in charge. There's no way to keep that from happening without dismantling the system entirely.
Most of the ones I've read were fed to me... by people outraged at their being canceled because there was clearly no DEI in there. But there was.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
The press and special interest groups do not produce the data themself though.
The people who fund them do. They produce studies which just happen to support what they are advocating through the press and the special interest groups.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
How many engineering/math grant proposals or papers have you read?
Enough to see the ideology. When supposedly pure math grant proposals contain various DEI goals, it's pretty clear the system is broken.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
It's occupying the niche while not satisfying it. It has to be burned down for another institution to arise.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Undergraduate is a proxy for IQ and conscientiousness, so replacing it with pure IQ loses something.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Postgrad, lowercase-a academia
Kill it with fire. This system is entirely broken. The grants are politically or ideologically written, peer review is largely logrolling, papers are nonsense (Replication Crisis). The PIs are there to take in money and build fiefdoms, the PhD students are highly-educated grunts to actually write the papers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
DeSantis is term limited out in Florida in January; that'll end his attacks on Florida college woke. Abbott's haven't been nearly as effective.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
I expect that the number would be between 1 and 2 in both cases (if you sampled only fatal accidents).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
A major difference between woke and the other identity-based tribalisms is that it is adopted and promulgated by members of the hated tribe. Big difference between "Whitey is the enemy" coming from Stokely Carmichaeel and "Whitey is the enemy" coming from e.g. Stephen King.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Trump is unique, and even if he wasn't, administrations tend to change parties and it's likely a Democrat will be elected as the next US President.
He's not unique in this particular aspect, but unfortunately his match is DeSantis who right now seems very unlikely as a Presidential contender.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
AOC is an attractive woman even on a normal scale, not even the DC scale. But there are definitely pics of her not at her best. Zendaya is also attractive (though not a Hollywood-scale 10), but for some reason has top Hollywood talent uglying her up for movies.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Margaret Qualley is a classically trained ballet dancer and at least at 22 had the body to go with it. Which is to say doing attractive "silly walks" is not an 'easy' superweapon at all. I assure you that women with dance training DO do it though.
The faces don't do anything for me.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
The march through the institutions has been going on a LONG time, yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
The other big reversal is X/Twitter, because Elon.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
And a single wrong turn (off a cliff) can lead to the death of an entire busload, too. That doesn't make driving a bus particularly unforgiving.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
And that's still ideology, not "capitalism".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Alaska Air, which owns Horizon, does have lots of DEI programs open to non-white-guys. Which Russell likely knew about. But there's no evidence Russell actually made the attempt.
It's hard to reconcile on purity grounds, which 'ghoulish' evokes. But it's not hard on more practical grounds, like "It's bad to euthanise terminally ill grandma, because that sets us on a slippery slope where we're euthanizing Mom because she's got killer migraines and Sis because feeling depressed"
(all the MAID horror stories I've seen are women, but that may just be reporting bias; almost no one cares if a mostly healthy guy offs himself, with help or without)
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