cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
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cjet79
1d ago
I'd go back in time to pre Disney acquisition of Star wars with all the scripts of the worst Disney era star wars movies.
I'd do something to try and stop them from getting made. I don't know enough about movie script copyright to know the exact details. Or maybe I just mail them to George Lucas.
cjet79
3d ago
To me, it seems wild to look at this and not want to shut all eonomic immigration down hard, (H1-Bs, etc).
Economics is often not intuitive, and this is not likely to actually help the situation.
There are basically two economic tracks that anyone can take. They can either offer services to the global market or the local market. The global market pays really well, but its also competitive as hell. The local market pay is dependent on how many rich global market people you have living nearby. Local market pay is often going to be heavily tied with local cost of living, but generally the local market pay outpaces the cost of living (or when it stops doing that people to leave).
An immigrant moving to your country can either work in the global market, in which case there is more money and resources flowing into your local area. Or they can work in the local market, in which case they are slightly lowering the cost of living for you. If they stay where they are they can still compete with you on the global market, its just that none of the money/resources is flowing to your area.
cjet79
3d ago
For sure, and for Eric Swalwell having someone interested in his political career was probably an important variable as well.
cjet79
3d ago
True, I more meant recent human culture would get crushed under the weight of those two things.
cjet79
4d ago
Had a sexual relationship with someone in HR at a workplace.
Now here's a man who likes to live life on the edge.
It was a terrible idea, but had way more to do with the woman than her job at the company.
Regarding the double reality thing, do you think there might be a partisan element to it?
There is maybe different partisan expression of it, but it crosses political boundaries. Humans have some base urges and evolutionary desires. A couple dozen years of culture isn't enough to erase a billion years of evolution.
Its kind of funny in some ways. Two amoral optimization systems butting heads. Evolution vs Markets. Who will win? Not humans thats for sure.
cjet79
4d ago
Professional life in America has a weird double reality happening.
One where sex exists, men are horny, and women are using their bodies to advance.
And one where we act like sexless automotons in the workplace and things are determined on merit and skill.
I call it a double reality because both are true, but they are also obviously contradictory to each other and reality at the same time. The sex realism reality is at odds with having a functional workplace. And the merit matters reality is at odds with human nature and behavior.
There are three groups that matter in most organizations (and their comparative name at a national level in parenthesis). Managers (politicians), Employees (staff), and Owners (voters).
Managers tend to like the sex reality, owners tend to hate it, and employees have mixed feelings depending on how much it benefits them.
Owners tend to like the merit reality, managers tend to hate it, and employees have mixed feelings depending on how much it benefits them.
This has served me well for understanding job shit that happens, big government, small government, big corporations, or mom and pop stores. Some things that result:
- If owners are also managers, you'll find out what their priorities are pretty quickly. Either they are fucking their employees, or hiring a bunch of uggos. Its not fully that bad, but in small business it can feel that bad.
- Managers try to obfuscate everything happening to the owners. They dislike oversight from owners. But need maximal oversight on employees.
- Owners are addicted to hard performance metrics. 'Are you making money?' is hard to fake. When hard performance metrics aren't possible like in government orgs, sometimes owners will resort to a byzantine set of rules making or a catch all "if i dont like what you are doing you are fired, and no I won't tell you all the things i dislike".
- As an employee beware of other employees when complaining about the reality you dislike. You don't know if they are part of the other one.
- As a male manager you need to be very clear about not wanting to fuck your employees. It will probably be the default assumption about you for anyone living in the "sex reality". As a female manager, you don't need to be clear, we get it.
- Anyone married and with kids has bonus points towards the "merit reality". The exceptions, hos and horn dogs, will be obvious for the non-autistic. Trust your instincts.
- Barriers come down outside of work. You can find out many details about your organization over some drinks. Helpful for gathering information and not making stupid mistakes. But also a bad place for you to make stupid mistakes and lay your hand out too early.
I wish I could say "if you want to fuck people at work, you are bad and shouldn't do that" but I'd be gigantic hypocrite. I dated a girl from work in high school. Met women at work parties for one night stands in college (I was working on capital hill at the time). Had a sexual relationship with someone in HR at a workplace. Later at that same workplace I met my wife, dated her secretly for a while, and then openly dated before getting married. Can happily say I stopped 'shitting where I eat' after that.
All of that to say I also have no idea what reality looks like in Washington. But "both of the realities are true" doesn't feel wrong to me. There are probably weird sex orgies, there are probably high level government employees cheating on their spouses, fucking hookers, and hitting on underage girls. At the same time it doesn't mean these sexual escapades are running Washington. I'd bet good money that all of the supreme court justices are faithful to their spouses and not getting sexually tricked into supreme court rulings one way or the other. There is probably a large amount of "meritocracy" within agencies. I put that in quotation marks, because it is merit that the agency cares about. But its not so bad to be merit in the sense of "how good is your blowjob technique".
cjet79
4d ago
I see your point, I think it is interesting, but ultimately wrong. I do agree that they have changed, but I don't believe the change is bad. Digital distribution has been absolute boon for video game lovers.
I mostly have to go to various poorly publicized indie corners to find what I want
This is not hard? In fact it is often fun and entertaining. The gaming subreddits that follow a niche genre or specific indie game are one of the few places on reddit I still enjoy visiting.
Steam has also made discoverability very simple. They have every imaginable way to discover and filter games on their platform. You can listen to curators who care about the same thing as you, use game tags, look up "games similar to what you already play", see sales, get bestsellers in your country, or best sellers internationally, user ratings, price, etc etc etc.
cjet79
4d ago
First, because he got caught up in a Chinese Honeypot, then because he obliquely threatened to nuke me.
Same two links for me, but I do remember the second one
cjet79
4d ago
Endless jugs of fermented grain, huge buns of bread in reserve, the nile delta spread out in an inviting welcome, and countless hard obelisks and pyramids erected all long that river. Egypt is such a slut.
cjet79
4d ago
I'll second your take. I think it was maybe more that he had a lack of options rather than having some particular thing for this woman.
cjet79
4d ago
I feel the same way looking at photos of the Chinese honeypot in question. I'm not saying she's ugly or anything, but she seems decidedly... mid? And this is coming from someone who has a thing for Asian women! There are plenty of Asian women who aren't even famous for their looks who are more attractive e.g. Tiffany Fong, Yvette Young, Jia Tolentino. I've personally met Chinese women who were hotter than her.
Arnold's wife Maria Shriver and the woman he cheated on her with Mildred Baena. I feel confident in saying that I'd choose Maria over Mildred.
But I do wonder if the choices for Arnold and the choices for weren't actually as good as you'd think. Arnold might have been in a sexless marriage. And Eric might have been a creepy politician with weird power fantasies that turned lots of women off.
The choice between "will you have sex with an ugly/mid woman or no woman at all" is a lot easier for most guys to understand, and I think that might describe their situations more accurately.
cjet79
4d ago
It would be a conflict of interest to put someone in jail and also profit from it. We shouldn't be getting anything of value from prisoners except the fact that they're off the streets so they aren't committing crime any more.
Well said, its why the Kids for cash thing was so horrifying.
cjet79
4d ago
I think they are correct to fight it. Any sort of seemingly soft barrier can be turned into a hard barrier.
"You must look at an ultrasound of the baby before abortion" is how it starts. And then suddenly the state also makes it very difficult to get ultrasounds at abortion clinics. Or restricts and regulates who can give ultrasounds.
Similar things play out in other areas of regulation. "You need to make sure this building isn't harming the environment" becomes 'you need a specialist environmental inspector that we license and regulate into obscurity and the waiting list is years long to see one'. Or "You need to have firearms training before you are allowed to own one" ... and only police or police in training can actually visit the firing ranges where they do firearms training.
The power to tax and regulate is the power to destroy. When the goal of your political opponents is to fully ban a thing it is correct to be suspicious of them proposing a "small" barrier.
cjet79
6d ago
I totally agree with your point about it being a great game and a great narrative.
My dislike of the flood is a personal preference. I just don't like horror games.
cjet79
6d ago
That is the oldest good thing I could easily find. Because it was posted above.
Started TheMotte factorio server with krastorio and additional planets. Let me know if you want to join. Weird time zones welcome. We don't have to all play at the same time.
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