netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
4hr ago
That’s why it’s foolish to present UK policy in a screed against the EU.
I agree that institutions may be judged by their works. I don’t believe the OP is talking about a coherent institution. The consumers of Russian gas are probably not steretypical Brussels bureaucrats; the safetyists in government are not upset about fining Twitter; the people who are upset are largely separate from the Musk haters.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6hr ago
effortposting on x
I’ll believe it when I see it. Wait, no. We have rules against nutpicking, so I can’t exactly ask you to dig up an example.
Xitter is possibly the worst medium for estimating public sentiment. Even wild support might be real and representative, or it might be astroturf. Something as relatively subtle as “trust the experts” is only going to be harder to measure. How would one know that the people bitching about Musk are the same ones who have suddenly discovered a libertarian streak?
they’ve effectively driven investment out
they’re still buying endless amounts of Russian oil
importing their safetyism
Who? I think you’ll find that the subjects in each of these sentences are actually different people with different incentives. For example, did you know that neither Scotland nor the UK are actually in the EU?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
21hr ago
Ah, a modern classic.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
21hr ago
It’s really not a good post.
More like a window into a bizarro-verse where economics don’t exist, “everyone knows” that the OP’s views are the only moral ones, but “we” won’t risk offending our ruling feminist cabal.
I appreciate your willingness to write a more sane version.
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Texas is freedom land
21hr ago
Ah, the famously feminist political bloc of “loser chumps.”
This is like seeing the sales figures for Modelo and acting shocked that “we” aren’t prepared to jettison Mexicans.
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Texas is freedom land
1d ago
group activity
Is that…Trek?
advocacy organizations
Not exactly unusual—didn’t Scott write about ADA enforcement in these terms? The main limiting factor is the difficulty of bringing a case. Technology has to have reduced that cost, so a given org can target smaller companies.
I dislike this class of law for other reasons, but I think we’re seeing a difference in degree, not in kind.
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Texas is freedom land
1d ago
That…doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Spiky benches are chosen for deterrence, and deterrence is at odds with reeducation. Conversely, if you imprisoned every homeless person, it would do approximately nothing to the demand for ugly art.
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Texas is freedom land
2d ago
What’s the last statement you remember hearing from a VP? Not a prospective on the campaign trail—a seated VP.
I can’t even remember what Pence was saying when he broke with Trump.
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Texas is freedom land
2d ago
Place your bets on which host country will have a worker exploitation scandal first!
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Texas is freedom land
3d ago
Have you gotten to the part with a bunch of West Coast intellectuals sitting around in an earthquake-proofed house?
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Texas is freedom land
4d ago
It assumes that they are, in fact, in position to arrest the decline.
My experience with teachers is that they may be powerless, but are rarely cowardly.
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Texas is freedom land
4d ago
See, I don’t think most people have confused the metric and the reward. A college degree gives you some combination of skills and prestige. Gaming a disability policy decouples your degree from your skills, but it doesn’t stop you from claiming some of the prestige. Maybe even a lot of it, depending on your field. Connections, investment, political backing, all sorts of benefits.
If what you most value is skill, you suck it up and go to a non-elite school. You’ll get most of the skill and none of the prestige. If you crave the latter, though, gaming the system is a rational choice.
The emperor’s sycophants complimented his new clothes because they were afraid of his anger. In your model, why are the universities going along with it? Are they stupid?
I think the narcissism label is a way to sneer at people one thinks are delusional. If they’re actually making a rational decision, it’s not a useful framing.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Oh, it’s much higher than that. The guy who ran the analysis thinks it’s closer to 98%.
What does that mean? It probably means he pulled the numbers out of his ass.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
How often is someone convicted off “gait evidence”?
I read “The program struggles with certain visual cues, so I’d peg it as closer to 98%” with about as much skepticism as “the software says you’re 85% racist.” People can say whatever they want. Besides, why did Mr. Seraphin wait four years to blow the whistle?
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Texas is freedom land
5d ago
I’ll take that bet.
Maybe not the lapses. There are plenty of reasons a guy like this would fail to hold down a job. But I bet he makes it to sentencing and jail (prison?)
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
I’ll admit that I took the 18M estimate for partition as gospel, and didn’t realize there were lower ones.
Biden numbers are still crazy, either way.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Outside of the 21M claim, I was seeing things like this House committee, claiming 8M encounters and 1.7M “gotaways.” Newsweek gives the 2023 illegal population at 14M, including any who were already present; it also cites a Cato Institute denial of the 20+M figures. And the CIS blasts Biden for somewhere between 7M and 12M.
I’m also surprised the BBC didn’t go all “no evidence.” Still, I see a general consensus against Miller’s numbers.
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Texas is freedom land
5d ago
AP testing technically dates back to the 50s, but I don’t believe it really took off until the 90s. They certainly have their own problems.
I’m actually having a hard time naming any pedagogy newer than the 1950s. There’s the common core math, which sucks. Different learning types (kinesthetic, visual…) were introduced in ‘83; they’re still popular, maybe even useful.
Best I could find was immersion learning for languages, which spread through schools some time after 1971.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
How much of this is…well…real?
- 20+% of students at elite U.S. universities are getting some sort of accommodation.
- Such accommodations are less common in less selective schools.
- TLP says a bunch of stuff about narcissism.
I think everything else in your comment is either anecdotal or outright speculation. I was going to ask for sources on a couple of the claims, but there were just too many. Who’s muttering about how they’ll get the wake-up call? How is failure to “fight the decline” cowardly? Why do you think TLP’s model is reasonable?
Actually, let’s go into that one. “Insecure narcissists demand omnipotence from others and detest omniscience” is vacuous. It’s a fully general argument. Any time you want me to do something, you’re demanding omnipotence, and any time I dare to disagree with you, I’m just mad about your omniscience. “They hated Him because He told the truth,” huh?
Goodhart’s law is not narcissism. It is a race to the bottom brought on by normal, familiar self-interest. People game metrics when they value the rewards more than the integrity of the system. No psychoanalysis necessary.
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Texas is freedom land
5d ago
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Texas is freedom land
5d ago
What are you talking about?
No, seriously, what number do you have in mind?
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Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Which of those things applies to bombing lifeboats, though?
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Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Social change has nothing to do with it.
When we signed the CWC, we were binding our hands with respect to chemical weapons. We’d decided that was a fair price for binding all the other signatories. Cooperate-cooperate.
We don’t bomb lifeboats so that other states don’t bomb ours. Even though narcos will never be in that position, bombing their lifeboats would set a bad precedent for our relations with other states. They might reasonably assume that we will, in fact, ignore the rules we’ve supposedly endorsed.
Quite. That’s why it’s a bad example of EU failures. Guilt by non-association.
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