campfire
11mo ago
It’s less effective as a joke when OP uses it unironically and when you consider he constantly mentions his caste and noble family connections in between (and sometimes even within) sad posts about his chronic unemployment and overall underachievement. He’s been doing this for years across various accounts with little self-awareness.
campfire
11mo ago
To everyone outside the subcontinent it is used as a generic racial slur against Indians and other subcontinentals. There is no distinction whatsoever between the ones who look and act a certain way or different castes/classes which makes your usage of the term risible. It’s like an Israeli from some small Jewish sect calling other Jewish sect kikes. “Ah those Neturei Karta KIKES are at it again! Not like us noble Breslov Hasidim! Don’t you know this slur has always referred to the BAD Jews?”
campfire
11mo ago
Destabilization of the family (sexual revolution etc.) has destabilized society and culture.
Surely we can't extrapolate studies on the public to billionaires? Most single mothers had children with men who couldn't give them $10 million a child if they wanted. I'm only surprised more men don't go the Elon route. Most billionaires have conventional family structures.
campfire
11mo ago
Learned behavior from the Reddit days when it was actively discouraged to not draw the ire of the site admins
campfire
11mo ago
Yeah I agree with this, especially considering the Supreme Court ruling on the situation. There's issues with the Supreme Court as well of course, I don't think judges should serve for life, but Balance of Powers is still important.
campfire
11mo ago
I'm not super informed on this but my impression is that I don't really like the American leftist habit of labeling working conditions they don't like as having "low labor standards" when the alternative is just those workers not being employed at all. I suspect most European countries have standards above this even if I wouldn't particularly like those jobs myself. It's easier for me to believe China doesn't have them given their track record on human rights in general and that they have labor that's much more accurately described as forced or coerced. So the US need not be the gold standard for what acceptable labor standards are. There is still no need for any tariffs at all on Europe and the other countries I mentioned (except maybe Israel but we can start by cutting off other sources of funding to them first).
campfire
11mo ago
The forced labor concern don’t apply to Europr, Japan, South Korea, Israel, or New Zealand, which have all had tariffs raised.
campfire
11mo ago
So now the components from China for a laptop are 125% more expensive if you wanted to make the laptop in America, but the laptop made in China is only 10% more expensive? Is anyone still claiming there's some 5D chess going on? This isn't even the Art of the Deal because no deal was made and it's antithetical to the initial goal of wanting to reshore manufacturing.
It genuinely does boost creativity by helping you see your own projects from different angles, helps you sleep, and is an amazing aphrodisiac.
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