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.
2hr 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.
2hr 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.
2hr 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.
5hr 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.
5hr 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.
5hr 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.
5hr 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.
5hr 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.
5hr 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.
5hr 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.
6hr ago
Yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr 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.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
They don't do suicide bombings like Sunnis
No, they get others (including Hezbollah) to do them for them.
they don't deal in over-the-top theatrics
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
We're not in Kansas any more, this isn't about stutters or being uncouth
Yeah, that's the kind of thing people said when Dubya was compared to his father, whether it be the vomiting incident or the broccoli one. Yes, each Republican will be worse than the last, I understand.
Trump 2.0 is a sui generis in American history, whether in his ineptitude, corruption, or malice (or, yes, aesthetics).
He's not inept at all, but if he were, there's always Herbert Hoover to compare. Corrupt? Warren G. Harding, Nixon, Clinton. Malice? Gonna have to go with Obama and Biden for domestic malice, and FDR for foreign.
And until MAGA people start raping (eww) and killing the libs, I believe Palestinian comparisons are extreme hyperbole.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
He actually can't kill the civilization. Islam did that already.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
Honestly, the 4d chess argument I can come up with for this is that Trump is actively trying to make sure the war does not come to a diplomatic conclusion, and as such is utilizing a mix of insults and obvious bluffs to convince the Iranians to stay in it.
Agreed, but I don't think it's really 4d chess; it's not a really sophisticated strategy. He doesn't want them to make an offer that sounds reasonable.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
The guy who chanted "Bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann"?
To be fair, just about everyone of a certain age has to be tempted to do that when the subject of Iran comes up. If the regime falls, the new regime would be well-advised to ask the country be called "Persia" again just to break that association.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Some things really are difficult. And it's often not all about building knowledge and skills; some, or most, people just won't get it.
With trading it's also true that learning is absolutely punishing; you can only get so far learning by "play" trading, because of your own psychology, and real trading means losing real money.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The models are not mostly correct. The IPCC report includes out a whole bunch of estimates... which have on some occasions ALL been high, but just the fact that there are a lot of them suggests chicanery. Unless the same model consistently hits, which is not the case.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I've never seen an earnest accounting of solar with storage accounting for (1) seasonal variation and (2) a full transition to heat-pump heating.
And electric cars. (and ranges and water heaters, though those are likely insignficant) "Get an electric car, bro, you can just charge it at night when demand is low, bro." "Now with solar power electric supply is low at night too bro, you can't charge your car bro".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Certainly solar can provide power at scale. But unless your demand is variable-on-demand, or you have truly massive amounts of storage, it's not adding capacity, it's just reducing fuel costs. Because not only does solar only work part of the time, those parts of the time are well-correlated.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There's one particular plastic -- clear polyethylene -- for which recycling makes sense, and recycled material costs MORE than virgin (presumably because of government incentives to recycle).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
And there are the obvious ones like not being reliable when the sun don't shine or the wind don't blow, which are real but have had engineers and scientists working on them for decades now with some good work arounds.
They still get handwaved and/or completely ignored in most treatments of the subject outside the trade press. Don't play a drinking game with a rule of "take a drink every time they compare fossil and solar nameplate capacity as if they're equivalent" if you value your liver.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Much like in comedy, timing is everything. That's a thing most people think can't be done. They'll parrot platitudes like "time in the market beats timing the market" and talk about how it's basically impossible to do it.
And much like comedy, most of them are right that they can't do it and neither can their audience. Timing is difficult. I don't think I could do it consistently, which is why I don't day trade. I DID buy as much as I could scrape up (which wasn't much) during the 2008 crash, but that was kinda playing on easy mode.
They are two entirely different entities.
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