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.
15hr ago
The 1% don't get power; maybe the 0.01%.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
If it's truly post-scarcity, you just make a tiered society. The only difference between them is access to other humans. The violent addicts get all the drugs, food, and medical care (provided by robots and/or masochists, presumably) they desire, and the normal people don't ever have to see them or their effects. The beautiful people live in their own mirror-covered world away from the depredations of the glance of uggles, etc.
Of course, we'll never actually GET post-scarcity, but if we did the problem would be solved.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
The "weak men" aren't skinny nerds designing weapons. Skinny nerds designing Juiceros maybe; skinny nerd NEETs playing videogames definitely.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Are you getting some government benefits that could be gatekept in this way?
It doesn't matter; they'll make something up that might rhyme if you stretch it, and insist that it's the same but worse. Much as when trying to discuss robbery and burglarly someone will chime in and say that no really "wage theft" is the real problem, or as in this discussion this
Typical things used might be the mortgage-interest tax deduction, or policing (a "subsidy" to the wealthy and safe areas -- no, this doesn't make sense on a number of levels), or schools (also doesn't make sense on a number of levels, but doesn't matter), etc.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
No, what the environmentalists want is for none of this to happen. Whatever means you come up with, they will find a reason to object.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
It doesn't matter, because the reason you can't build reservoirs is the same reason you can't build desalination plants: environmentalists.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
If you've got fallen comrades in software development
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Probably you need better electricians or
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Maybe you actually ARE warriors.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
If you're not going to be following Leviticus, there's no point in worrying about Ezekiel.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Once you've accepted that political and social realities require adopting a progressive taxation system and social safety net, the existence of some form of absurdity like this is assured.
Modus ponens, modus tollens.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I see you throwing up a big wall of text
Yeah, there's a reason for that, and it involves matrix multiplication.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Interesting military history question - who were the last warriors not to get their arses kicked by soldiers?
The Taliban.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Did they object because the person was a trans woman or because they were arguing for proto-SJW/woke ideas?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It's an Italian surname, but it's common in Argentina and Brazil also. Of course whether a guy named "Dorgan" is appropriating an Italian-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, or Spanish (well, Rioplatenese) speaking "Esposito" is hard to determine.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I'm taking decadence as being 'population are relatively wealthy with few material concerns'.
That's "good times". Decadence, in the meme, follows that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
That's okay, those points don't appear on the curve.
Yes, they do, that's why there's that silly loop.
Nah. You pick a better-behaved function, and it won't be an issue.
Spherical geometry is what it is.
The same distortion that causes you to measure a 300 mile distance as a 302 mile arc causes you to measure a 250 mile distance as an 850 mile spiral.
These are different effects. One is the distortion caused by curvature, and the other is the fact that the surface is finite. You get silly answers if you ask for great circle distances longer than the circumference, too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Sure you can patiently explain to boomercons/MAGAs that, really, it’s an understandable if cynical business decision. But that is not the root of the tension. They will still be mad and you’ll still assume they’re simply not understanding business incentives.
They will not believe it's an understandable if cynical business decision. And they will be right.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
86 degrees north is only 277 miles from the pole; going 850 miles in a wide range of northerly directions isn't well-defined there. That is, if I asked you from that point, "Where is a point 850 miles North?", there simply is no good answer, since there is by definition no point north of the pole.
Pick a better-behaved set of numbers and the "rhumb ring" (which doesn't seem to be a standard term) will touch the great circle ring in both the North and South directions. Every point on the "rhumb ring" will be the same distance from the origin in one particular compass direction.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
At least in private, I don't think even the most based Trump supporters will claim that the rank and file ICE are some fit and well-trained force with high tactical acumen.
With the exception of the Pretti shooting, all the atrocity videos I've seen with them have been very much less atrocious than the kind of normal police arrest videos you can find all over the Internet. Which is probably why some of the ICE atrocity videos are actually other police forces doing some actual beatings that are then attributed to ICE.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Yes, the exact distance would depend on the line of latitude of course.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Normies are all over the place, but they're not undecided voters. They're Democrats-by-default.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I interpret them as "flies [to a point which is] 300 miles [to the] North [along the most-direct route]..." and "travels [along a path continuously facing] north for [a path length of] 300 miles".
These are the same. For North and South, all meridians are great circles anyway. For East and West, following a rhumb line (keeping your bearing constant) 300 miles East or West gets you to a point that is 300 miles East or West. There's a shorter way to get to that point but that doesn't matter.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Lol. Lmao. I suppose Google or Bing has very fast crawlers?
Indeed. I would explain the team I once worked at Google to people sometimes as "Did you ever post on some forum looking for the answer to a question, and then decide to search for it, and the first result that came up was your own question? That's us."
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
We have all the video in every direction. The propaganda works anyway; the left-wing "ICE IS EVIL" message gets across to normies, the right-wing "The protestors are violent and obstructive and ICE is arresting people they are supposed to arrest" does not, it's dismissed as Fox News (which, even if it were reported as such, doesn't count, because the other side controls the credibility of any given media organ) propaganda.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The media is not an independent actor at this point; it is part of the other side.
Definitely. It's been a long time but when I was in the industry we had quite a few retired military. Some were doing a second career in nerding and nerd-wrangling, others had always been nerds (e.g. one had also been a NASA mission control specialist) and were now on the civilian side. I've run into far fewer since I got out of defense.
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