faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
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Sure. I support efforts to prosecute people who are actively trying to incite violence against ICE agents who plausibly could succeed at inciting said violence. I don't think I'm unusual in that opinion, even for people on the left.
I don't see much evidence that anyone is even attempting to prosecute the people breaking those laws, though. It feels like one of those "we've tried nothing and now we're all out of ideas" situations.
I don't support ICE intentionally saying "well, normal legal channels didn't work so we have to go full stormtrooper" when they haven't even tried normal legal channels. Having masked people in unmarked vehicles who refuse to identify themselves snatching people off the street should not be the first resort.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Wait I thought the bullet had an anti-ICE message on it. The message was literally "anti-ICE"? I think I might be a conspiracy theorist too now.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Your terms are acceptable. Doxing which is directed to inciting imminent lawless action and is likely to produce such action is already unlawful. We do not need new laws here, we need to enforce the ones we already have.
Effectively doing their jobs however includes an appropriate use of force against those they are arresting and also those attempting to disrupt law enforcement activities.
Yes. Emphasis on "appropriate" of course.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
perhaps by offering some concessions?
Do not negotiate with terrorists. If someone threatens you, and you visibly give in to their threat, you are incentivizing that behavior in the future.
Unfortunately, we really don't have a good way to deal with people who want to cause a lot of damage, are willing to give their own lives to do it, and don't have any prior history of violence. I don't think we can have a way of dealing with that while maintaining a free society.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
bullets with the phrase "ANTI ICE" written on them
God dammit "bullets with political slogans written on them" are going to be the new thing for attention-seeking crazies, aren't they.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Unrelated note - it might be fun at some point for us to do an adversarial collaboration on covid vaccines, because I hold the position that the mRNA vaccines (the speed of development and production scaling) were actually a bright spot in the covid pandemic and gave us some tools which we should be investing a bunch more into. Pretty much everything the public health policy makers did during covid in the US was stupid but the vaccines themselves are a medical miracle.
The joke was "covid vaccination status fades into noise by the annual renewable term life insurance premium metric". It's similar in spirit to proposing that we keep plastic straws, but charge consumers a carbon tax for the carbon that goes into its production (i.e. proposing to keep plastic straws but tax them at $0.0002 each), except my proposal is also "let's spend lots of time getting price quotes on term life insurance for people in medical triage, trying to address equity concerns in a triage situation is definitely a good use of resources so we should make sure to do it right".
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
To clarify, I think Trump does not have enough trusted people to delegate to that he could be as absent as Biden was, towards the end of his term. Trump is many things in this administration, but "inactive" is not one of them.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Proposal: triage based on available annual renewable term life insurance premium for each patient conditional only on those attributes predictably downstream of a patient's choices. This plan would ensure that foregoing the covid vaccine resulted in a difference in triage ordering that was correct. This plan has no downsides. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Biden wasn't yet that far gone in the first year of his term either. Trump still has 3 more years left in his term.
Trump also seems like he wouldn't make a very good absentee president.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
As a midwit funko pop collector who usually wants his hand held when reading for pleasure and particularly enjoys reading Sanderson when his brain is fried, I agree with this take.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
I agree. That means that strength is not the main bottleneck to murder though.
I guess unless we define strength using the edgelord xianxia "absence of scruples and willingness to do anything to anyone to advance your own interests" definiton.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
A slow news week feels nice after the last while. I for one am happy that this is the controversy of the week.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Your most downvoted comment ever was this one, which as far as I can tell is trying to say that intelligence is a bad trait because being intelligent increases your ability to do things and some of those things are bad? Not really sure, some of the context is deleted comments.
Your second most downvoted comment ever is the comment I'm replying to right now, complaining that people downvote you for bad reasons.
It does seem like your takes on Ukraine in particular don't land with this audience. Aside from that it seems like you mostly get downvoted when you make low-effort dunks. And you just genuinely don't have that many downvoted comments.
All that said it seems like you genuinely do have different perspectives. I don't know that we have very many people who are fully immersed in Russian culture on here. I bet a lot of your stuff would land better if you expanded a bit on the things that seem obvious to you but which the rest of the people here seem not to be taking into account, particularly the things where mottizens are pushing for policies where there's common-knowledge russian history of how that went horribly wrong.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Ultimately the left is killing their enemies and celebrating it, that seems like strength to me.
To a first approximation, anyone can kill anyone. Doing so doesn't meaningfully require strength. Doing so without repercussions, sure, but that's not what happened here.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Assuming it gets you into a better attractor
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
What is the executive even allowed to do here? Does the law let the president turn off the tap?
The executive didn't seem very concerned with this with the Tariffs or with DOGE. Why start now?
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Car sales jobs have some of the highest turnover rates of any job in the US. North American Dealership Association says 7% monthly turnover in 2019 on page 5 which works out to about 60% / year turnover.
It would be hard to come up with a worse example to demonstrate your point. I think you could rescue it by talking about defense companies, particularly aerospace, instead. Employees of those companies genuinely don't have to deal with pressure to be competitive in the global market, and those jobs are famously highly paid and offer great job security.
Yeah, there are a lot of people criticizing Trump for always chickening out but I think "chickening out" when he starts doing something disastrous is one of his best attributes.
I still wish he would think a little before doing things, but at least he's not afraid to reverse course.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
Building credibility so you can make the same offer to the next set of influential legislators
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
The same way if I try to find anything with search, I have to add "before:2026" or within a page or two the results are polluted by clickbait shit.
Wait wtf why does this have any effect? Not doubting that it does, I just struggle to think of a mechanism.
faul_sname
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9mo ago
"Everybody knows" weirdly doesn't seem to include anybody I know in the tech industry.
Does anyone you know work for Infosys / Tata / Wipro, or work closely with anyone who works for that cluster of companies? My third hand impression is that those particular companies are the main problem, and that the venn diagrsm of (people working at serious tech companies) and (people with experience with infosys) is two non overlapping circles.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
And as with FFL licensing under the previous administration, the issue is that the regulatory goals should be achieved by laws but are not popular enough to achieve the necessary support among elected legislators.
In any case I don’t know how saying "any h1bs who were abroad must pay $100k to reenter effective basically immediately" serves any non-applause-light purpose.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9mo ago
I don’t think we're at war with legal immigrants who came here to work. H1Bs tend to integrate pretty well, follow the rules, and just generally are productive members of society. You can reasonably make the case that 700,000 is not the right number of H1Bs to have in the US. I don't think you can reasonably make the case that we should consider ourselves at war with them.
I think this is a case of "if your risk tolerance is literally zero you can't do anything".
We should take reasonable efforts to ensure the security of federal employees like those at ICE. Such as prosecuting people who actually break existing laws of the land in ways that endanger those employees.
There are limits, though. If the risks are higher than people are willing to deal with for the $50k / year we pay ICE agents, we should first try paying more. There are quite a few jobs that expose you to more risk than ICE agents face, and we are able to find people for those jobs. We're a rich country, we can afford to pay people. For a baseline, cops in San Francisco make $115 - $165k / year in base salary, often much more with overtime. If we're not paying at least that much for the apparently 4 digit number of people securing our borders, we shouldn't complain that we can't find people who will tolerate the risk.
What we should not do, before we have seriously attempted "prosecute people who break the law" and "pay people what they're worth", is shred the constitution. And "pass federal laws against stochastic support of crime", if I'm understanding your proposal correctly, amounts to shredding the constitution.
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