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.
18hr 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.
18hr 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.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
The aesthetics of the Empire in SW:ANH were definitely Nazi; of course, that was (and remains) an American's conception of "generic evil". What they didn't have is the Nazi's signature Jew thing; the Empire was human-supremacist but they didn't really play that up.
Democracy isn't really a big thing in ANH either. We hear the Empire dissolved the Senate, but the Senate contains aristocrats and royalty (like Princess Leia). The whole elective royalty thing in the prequels is a total retcon.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
I would have to disagree, I think traditionalism is working reasonably well among groups such as the Amish and the ultra-orthodox Jews.
Not really, no. Both groups are dependent on being embedded in modern cultures which tolerate (and in some cases, support) them. Yes, the Amish would do fine if they were the only ones around, but the fact is they are not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
There are multiple ways of getting the human eye to see yellow. Cadmium yellow and chrome yellow (which Monet used) are yellow mostly because they absorb strongly in the shorter (bluer) wavelengths. Natural yellow pigments have a more complicated multi-peak spectrum. So cataracts (which also absorb strongly in the shorter wavelengths) wouldn't much change the appearance of his paints, but would change the appearance of the flowers much more.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
It's not just art, people are very quick to call out writing as AI when it's not.
People are quick to call out writing as AI when the writer won't admit it is AI. This isn't apophenia — it's distrust.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The gay marriage people were part of the juggernaut that held the institutions. The Second Amendment people do not; in fact, the institutions oppose them. Even conservative institutions (aside from specifically 2nd amendment ones) aren't pro-gun.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
This is because of our MADD DUI thresholds. Get someone to 0.08 and maybe they're a little less alert and a little less cautious, but not really out of the range of sober drivers. Most fatal alcohol-involved collisions are at twice that, though.
The caricature of stoned drivers is they wait for the stop sign to turn green. Based on the drivers I've seen in cars stinking of weed (that I could smell from my own car), they drive very erratically but not fast. I wouldn't be surprised if their most common accident was just driving off the road with no or minor injuries, but I'm not aware of any studies.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Instead of getting Trump to sign meaningless promises on data center investment in the UK when he visited Starmer would have been much better advised to get him to make promises on forcing American VCs to invest in UK startups that aren't looking to enter the US market in the short to medium term.
American VCs aren't going to do that, because UK startups that aren't looking to enter the US market in the short to medium term are guaranteed not to make money. Although perhaps it wouldn't be worth fighting with Trump over it if they could do it with pocket change like £200K. Still, Trump knows these are losers as much as UK investors and US investors do, so he's not going to do it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The Supreme Court is not providing cover of any sort to prospective gun owners in blue states.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
A letter of marque and reprisal is an authorization to engage in commerce raiding, not to arm one's merchant ship.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The steelman of the next argument is not telos, but impact: advocates of this position believe the firearms are unnecessary for normal (or sometimes all non-military, or even all) users in ways that's not applicable to pocket knives or kitchen knives.
But see here and here; they'll also advocate for kitchen knives without sharp tips for the same reason. Steelman, meet slippery slope.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
They didn't try in that case either. Instead of finding that "No, the states may not force a baker to bake a trans cake", they found that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was too obviously biased when it did the forcing. That's just asking for a repeat.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The Supreme Court isn't even trying. And they were able to solve segregation, I noticed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Precisely. So if you get rid of that middle ground, you reduce the number of students considered in need of accommodation, which works into all those formulas for the amount of resources needed for that crap.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I felt in my 20s when I learned, through experience, that people who actually obeyed rules and put in honest effort into improving oneself was a rarity, rather than semi-common
Quite often the rules are set up to make those mutually exclusive.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
You need a special ed teacher for the special ed kids.
Schools already have special ed teachers, even when the kids are put in mainstream classes, but the win I'd expect is the drop in the number of special ed kids -- once you start segregating them and not trying to teach them the regular stuff, you end the phenomenon of parents of ordinary kids getting a leg up by claiming their kid is special ed. In fact, they'll be incentivized to keep their kids OUT of the special ed system.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I imagine "kicking out the kids" would in practice mean "moving them to special ed" or something similar where they can stay for the day (so the parents have time to work) and hopefully learn the skills they need to function in a classroom (or at least not make the day a nightmare for the other kids). In that case money would not be saved, merely moved around.
I would expect it to be cheaper to move the unteachable kids to a separate classroom and not bother try to teach them what the normal kids are learning than to keep them in the regular classroom, attempting to teach them, and allowing parents to exploit the system by pretending their ordinarily dull kids are special ed, driving costs up for all.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Or, framed slightly differently, SCOTUS interprets the second amendment as permitting states to broadly regulate citizen ownership and use of firearms as they see fit, much like they now do with, say, abortion.
A Texas resident can go to New Jersey and lawfully purchase an abortion. A New Jersey resident cannot go to Texas and lawfully purchase a gun. Not even if they don't take it back to New Jersey.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
couldn't you argue there's a difference between the right to own firearms and the right to carry firearms?
You could, but the Second Amendment says "keep and bear arms". Almost like they anticipated this sort of thing. Anyway, in New Jersey I am allowed neither, and SCOTUS is OK with that, as they have been with Glock and AR-15 and magazine bans.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I don't know if you've noticed, but the blue states are getting worse. Even the already-awful New Jersey. And Virginia shows that as soon as a state turns blue, you get ALL the gun control.
Crime isn't really relevant. The issues aren't even connected for the anti-gun side; they never really have been, crime was always an excuse to ban guns for them. But now they barely pretend.
The problem for the pro-gun side is there isn't much of a pro-gun constituency. You've got the 40% hard-core anti-gunners. And then you've got the squishy reasonable-gun-control conservatives, who will never find a bit of gun control they find unreasonable. The Second Amendment people are loud but a distinct minority.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I think you're missing my go-to explanation. The conservatives on the Supreme Court want there to be a right to keep and bear arms for legal debating society reasons; it fits their judicial philosophy. However, except Thomas, none of the justices actually want people to be able to own and carry weapons. They are perfectly happy to let anti-gun circuit courts do the dirty work of reinterpreting Bruen into nothingness, and to not correct them (though they do correct the Fifth Circuit when it takes gun rights seriously)
In fact, the law of the land now is not Bruen but Rahimi, specifically the part of Rahimi which noted that there was historical precedent for laws against going armed to the terror of the public. And what "going armed to the terror of the public" is, is entirely up to the several states. Combine that with the 3D printing cases, and what the 2nd Amendment effectively says is "Notwithstanding any other part of this Constitution, the power of Congress and the several States to regulate anything to do with arms shall not be questioned." And this is as pro-gun a court as we're likely to ever get ever get. The Second Amendment is done; that's all folks.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
We're already banging up against speed of light limitations, which is one reason we try to make chips smaller. Light moves at 0.3 microns per femtosecond.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It's also Andes virus, a strain known for human-to-human transmission, rather than the North American Sin Nombre virus, which is not. (It's called Sin Nombre because two proposed names based on where it was first found didn't pass political muster)
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.
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