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.
1hr ago
but would abolishing qualified immunity in the US not just result in unlimited lawfare against any government officials enforcing anything with a political dimension, which would presumably lead to said government officials becoming reluctant to do so?
If so, mission accomplished.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
That's a politicized-looking source
Your source just pulled a figure from the air.
Now WWII... WWII had at least a 17% military death rate. Not for the US, but overall for all soldiers. WWI, 12%
Comparing fighting in any of these wars with pregnancy (noting we are not, in fact in pre-modern times) and finding the fighting to be less onerous is not reasonable.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
Apparently soldiers had a 1.8% chance of being killed in WWII, 0.5% in the Vietnam War.
No, 2.7% Rather higher than maternal mortality rates, even pre-industrial.
As for the rest, how about existing for years in, well, the jungles of Vietnam? Or some godforsaken island in the Pacific? How about the whole military training process, designed to break your spirit and break down your personality so you can be rebuilt into the military mold? Unwilling emotional bond with your squadmates? Yep, that too.
And you think Band of Brothers wasn't terrible enough? The original Easy Company had almost 47% killed in action.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
The final recalcitrant juror is induced to change his mind not by the others successfully convincing him, but by the others socially ostracising and refusing to talk to him.
This is just reality. Argument rarely convinces anyone, unless you count the argument from authority and argument from force.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16hr ago
Or he's just saying that because it makes Trump happy. A happy Trump is a Trump more willing to provide sanction relief.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
It's very painful, and it's not likely to actually work; more likely it'll just make you look like you got the shit beat out of you. If you want to reshape your jawline to be more chaddish, find an actual plastic surgeon.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
You can't, if they have the social standing, "they'll kick you and they'll beat you and they'll tell you it’s fair", and everyone will believe them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Women also get btfo'd in hand-eye coordination contests
Yeah, it's pretty much a meme that if you see a female name on an e-sports leaderboard, the person attached still has a Y chromosome.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
And if massive fraud by and benefiting their client groups is discovered.... move to cover it up
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The easiest win is probably to re-normalize families with 3 - 4 kids.
Nobody wants to lower the cost of that. Not just child seats as suggested above, but all the non-delegable (or extremely costly to delegate) labor that attitudes of child safety and enrichment has brought upon us. You can't just wish the K-selection spiral away.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Communists to the left, communitarians to the right, pretty much no place for an individualist in this fallen world.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There was an old 4chan post about how if you need to consciously devise and work towards a strategy to “get women”, you’re already fucked. Normal men don’t have to do that. They just go about their lives and socialize with people naturally and meet women who are attracted to them. I think that’s basically true.
You're supposed to let women believe this, even if it's not true, and even if it is obviously not true. And it's usually not true.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
If it were 30, I could almost believe they reversed the gender-coding. But at 40.. naa, that's just BS.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The original way of doing this was to draw from your own peer group.
This is now considered a form of shitting where you eat.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
That applies to all of Russia's allies and most allies in general. Doesn't make them not allies.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The only thing that is new is that Trump is doing it on the Republican side, rather than this being a one-party thing due to the control of major cities.
Yes, and that he's doing it with no real fig leaf at all. Rov_Scam above described how the Democrats could get revenge ("settling by paying a large amount of their meagure fortune to the Preschooler's Trans Education Fund")... by just doing the thing they do anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Eventually the Dems will be back in power and all of these people (and especially the Trump family, and lol if they think a pardon will save them) are going to be the subject of extreme, unrestricted nuclear lawfare, whether or not it’s justified.
Thus, if they are going to get the penalty, they may as well commit the offense.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There's always that feminist argument that medications are not sufficiently tested on women. Probably because there is too much variability on hormonal profiles and so on
More likely that if the woman later gets pregnant, or turns out to be pregnant despite you not allowing pregnant women in your study, the child, who signed no waivers, has an unlimited right to sue.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
One finance bro can fund an artist. Probably multiple. In fact, there may be any number of wealthy people actually doing so. But that art would be lost in the sea of utter shit that is the art world. If you wanted to make a visible movement, you'd need a lot more money and you'd need marketing bros.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
There is so little of "better" arts because the finance bros and other medium-to-super rich have a revealed preference of complaining about modern art on Xitter rather than patronizing the arts they supposedly like.
Who claims finance bros have any sort of taste for "better" arts?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Over on X, someone pointed out that they bought perpetual rights to all the songs involved, and this would cost a fortune. Meaning there's a lot of money behind the game. So those 10/10s may simply be purchased (as is traditional).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I'm suggesting that the most likely reason someone is calling out writing as AI "when it's not" is that the person saying it is not is not telling the truth. How many times has one particular poster here been accused of using AI, denying it, and then sheepishly admitting that he "polished" it with AI? And yes, I'm making a little joke by doing it with one of the most obvious AI patterns.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I meant if they were the only people in the world.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Literally everyone is dependent on the people around them not ganging up on them.
Every individual is. But, e.g., the United States is not dependent on that the way the Amish are.
Unfortunately Karens, by definition, are the arbiters of shame.
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