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.
15m ago
I don't think we're using "the floor" in the same sense - I mean "the floor" in the sense of how badly off the least fortunate members of society can get, and that can clearly be altered.
It can be altered in that it can be made worse that the natural floor by instituting torture camps or something similar. But as many cities have demonstrated, some people are bottomless pits of need, and cannot be raised above that natural floor.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Don't most rights imply a corresponding duty?
No. This idea is generally a way for tyrants to vitiate rights, with the formula "You have the right to X, you have the duty to only employ X in the way I tell you to"
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Next link is Mattia Ferraresi, an Italian journalist. After that it vanishes into unnamed sources. Since the Avignon Papacy is something that would be a much bigger thing at the Vatican than in the US, I rather suspect it was fabricated there.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Interesting if true
Yeah, and the "if true" is the important part. This has all the credibility of a Catholic Steele Dossier.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
The problem isn't TheMotte. The problem is the information environment is atrocious generally. Not only are the terms to the ceasefire not known and agreed on, the parties to them aren't either. The French are sure Israel broke the ceasefire by bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Israelis deny this... and so do the Lebanese. Or so it seems. And that's pretty much how every bit of factual information is.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
And since the floor never changes, this means the left-wing view results in everyone in poverty forever.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
As I said, it isn't any better on that side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If the Iranian people could revolt, they would have. The regime has taken all their weapons and killed all their leaders, over the past 47 years; they are utterly defanged. The diaspora has been hanging out in nice countries enjoying themselves, not training up for military action in third-world shitholes. The dissidents are waiting for the West to save them. Spoiler: we won't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If either party could stop being idiotic and start actually dealing with our domestic crises like adults, that would be great.
The adults in the room on the Republican side are Mitt Romney, Robert Dole and John McCain, and the latter two are starting to smell a bit. The adults in the room on the Democratic side are Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, which isn't any better.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It's a 2-week ceasefire. Don't get ahead of yourself.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Democrats are currently polling worse than anyone except Iran itself.
Well, either the pollsters are delusional or the Democrats are, because they're already counting the money from the wealth tax and all the other taxes they're going to put in after their landslide.
Also, Iran seems to be winning if you read the NYT, Economist, Free Press, etc.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
They are two entirely different entities.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Ideally, perhaps. But in practice if I give out a lever -- for example, suppose I say I'd change my mind if Trump used nuclear weapons -- that lever will be used to abuse me. For what should be a silly example but is actually similar a discussion I've been part of, someone will say I SHOULD change my mind or be foresworn because depleted uranium penetrators were used.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
And for something like reverse engineering firmware, I'd venture a guess that somewhere in the range of 50 to 75 percent of the qualified candidates are catboys (or aesthetically similar).
Doubt it; I've known quite a few people good at that kind of thing (including myself) and none of them have been catboys or anything similar. Even SREs, who seem to have more than their share, don't reach 50% catboy. Maybe if you include bronies, but you can't tell all of them by looking.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
No, if you want to change my mind it's your job to convince me, not my job to hand you levers with which do to so.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It wasn't Twitter, it was Truth Social. Which is where Trump rants.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Obviously not, since they still have the enriched uranium, a nuclear reactor, and other parts of said program.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
That one was the first, but it's not the only suicide bombing by Iranian proxies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Buenos_Aires_Israeli_embassy_bombing
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Trump is uncouth. He's more uncouth than any president since Lyndon Baines Johnson. But that is all that it is.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Iran cannot credibly threaten death to America, or even Israel, for it has no means to inflict such death.
Which is why it was working on nuclear weapons.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sure it is; in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is... err, there's that word again.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
He is a gross capering clown who leads a populist interregnum
LOL. Nice choice of words for someone who has been protested by a group called "No Kings".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
But the hit of the primary school retroactively justifies and explains all the bad things the Iranian regime has ever said or done to the US.
Because the US lost. The Islamic Republic survived the worst we could do without invading, and closed the strait too. And the US isn't willing to invade to force the strait. So now the US has to give up something to get the strait back open. And Iran rebuilds everything including its navy and nuclear program in a few months, because without California-inspired regulation, that can actually be done very quickly.
Or, at least, that's how it will be if Iran gets its 10-point program.
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