non_radical_centrist
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non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
Interestingly there are a handful of subreddits like arr FauxMoi that can be quite large(3 mil subs!) that I get the impression are overwhelmingly female.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
You also likely want to attract immigrants who are elite human capital but don't want to pay $100 000. It makes alternatives like Canada or Australia a lot more appealing for the most skilled workers if your proposal was a complete replacement instead of an augmentation.
But over all, yes, I think a pay-to-play model probably is a good idea. Maybe do it through an auction system too. Let the federal government set an exact number of immigrants it wants to let in each year, and let people bid for green cards.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
Grilled cheese sandwich, sometimes with chicken, usually with some quick spices and sauces, was my go to in university.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
Personally, I'm usually on instagram, twitter, substack, reddit, or reading a book on my phone. I think most of my friends are usually on reddit or instagram. Reddit is still more male coded but I have a vague sense it's become more gender neutral over the years.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I've never tried that sort of midday break. But I have noticed there have been times I've worked for hard and been unable to concentrate on activities like reading or video games, and TV is much easier to relax with until I've recovered a bit.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I expect it's both anti-nepotism and anti-tall poppy. The public sector workers don't want any coworkers to be working hard so they're revealed to be lazy/incompetent. Just busting unions I expect will have large ripple effects. And I'm still a big fan of chesterton's fence; no need to make bigger changes than necessary. Just getting rid of the unions and slowly reworking contracts is much safer than trying to jump in and firing tons of the pubic sector.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
It wouldn't be a perfect system still, but the unions are the biggest barrier to improving.
Bigger budget is one incentive of managers, but they're also incentivized to do a good job to get promoted, and also most people just want to do a good job in general. Getting rid of unions will remove a lot of the worst distortions.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I think what makes this impossible is unions. If you just broke all the public sector unions, then allowed public sector managers to hire and fired as they wished without union interference, that'd solve a lot of the worst issues without even needing a business genius to step in and try to optimize.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
Probably you'd want to look at the writing of black conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, particularly autobiographies. Anything by someone left would be filled with blaming white people, and anything by someone white would probably be of limited trustworthiness since it'd be more speculation than true experience.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I personally wouldn't rely particularly hard on either LOTT or CNN for my news. I don't know enough about either to judge which is worse.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
And CNN deserves criticism for those sorts of stories, and that's exactly why many people don't trust it anymore. The fact that society doesn't hold it against CNN means that society is making a mistake and is being too lax on CNN, not that society should be more lax on LOTT.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I haven't discussed this incident before.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
There's an argument that people should only publish if multiple unrelated sources for a claim can be identified (again, ignoring Corvus in Trace's hoax), but that's not a convention we hold anyone else toward.
One source that's trusted is fine. One source who's just some random email isn't. If CNN published a controversial story, and their only source was one person who emailed in with vague details, I absolutely would consider that that was a major deriliction of journalistic duty.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
LOTT's whole job basically is editorial overview. If someone just wanted to see lots of cringe lib stuff they could browse the subreddits for it. If they want the privileges and respect from conservatives that comes with being a conservative journalist, they have the responsibility to do fact checking.
The whole reason the hoax tarnished their reputation is that it shows they don't fact check. How do you know other cases LOTT highlighted as real weren't fake, but faked by someone who hid their steps a bit more carefully?
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
Probably what will happen. But if either felt they were at a big advantage from more debates, they'd just demand multiple debates under a variety of conditions
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
LOTT wouldn't have been harmed if they did some basic fact checking to check if the story was real. The hoax wasn't that elaborate. And good journalistic practice really would be to not publish anything that hasn't been reasonably confirmed, not just not publish anything that has holes in it
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
If females want to use the boys bathroom, no one really has an issue with it. They're using it at their own risk. The danger comes from males using girl's bathrooms.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I don't think Trump has an obligation to stick to the planned debate. But I don't think you can say Kamala's the one trying to stay out of the spotlight either. If Republicans want a spotlight on Kamala to put the screws to her, all they'd have to do is stick to the original planned debate.
This is a simple "Only Nixon can go to China" moment. White people have plenty in common with each other groups don't, and America is diverse enough today that if you were to hold a generic "Men for Harris", a very large portion wouldn't be white. White men organizing with each other and enjoying each other's company is a natural organizational unit. But I agree it was held down until now because of progressivism- white men organizing together, even for a progressive cause, would've been too reminiscent of persona non grata groups like the Nazis and KKK.
Today, peak wokeness has passed, and it's now possible for white men to organize. But only for progressive causes, otherwise again it'd invoke too many parallels with some of the most hated groups in American history. Like how no one else but Nixon could go to China, or it'd be too suspicious they could be a commie sympathizer.
I expect wokeness will continue to decline, as people who were willing to give critical race theory the benefit of the doubt see with their own eyes that it's bunk.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
You can look up "war communism", Trotsky had basically that exist idea and it failed miserably.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
From my half-rigorous polling, about 20% of women are slutty and largely motivated by looks and aren't really that ashamed to admit it. 80% of women are more selective about their partners, and while looks do still play a large role for them, personality/beliefs do play a large role. It's that 20% who are slutty who make up the majority of hook up participants- at 25 they may have had roughly 30 partners where a member of the 80% has had roughly 5(most of whom were long term partners, not hook ups), as estimates.
I think the hypocrisy comes more in that the 80% don't acknowledge/aren't aware of the 20%. So they act like of course a hot man with a terrible personality would have some difficulties getting a girlfriend, since if all women were like them, the hot nazi would have some difficulties. Part of it is just virtue signalling too, a hot nazi would still do better with them than they'd admit, but most of the incredible success of hot nazis would come from the slutty 20%.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
What's your point?
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I absolutely don't think the swastika lady would be mostly pulling men who see it as a feature. There are an incredible amount of men who'd be eager to stick their dick in a tight pussy, no matter how horrid that woman is. She could be a murderer, racist, liar, etc. and men will still be falling over themselves if she's hot enough.
Women will fall over themselves for a hot enough man too. But like only 20% of women would, is my estimate. If it was consequence free, like at least 60% of men would abandon any morals to hook up with a hot enough woman.
non_radical_centrist
1yr ago
I think it's completely possible the West keeps funding Ukraine, maybe pays for some private military companies to help it too to make up for the manpower shortage. Russia goes deeper into debt, eventually their economy collapses, Ukraine wins by default. I don't know what exact number I'd put on that, but if the West doesn't give up on Ukraine, I'd maybe give it a 20% chance?
Trump's pretty bad at debate too. People considered him to have lost most of the debates he was in.
I think as long as Kamala keeps tacking to center she'll be fine. People are taking Trump seriously as a threat. There's little sense of "Ugh we're stuck with a centrist when we wanted Bernie" this year because no primary meant Kamala felt inevitable. That means the left wing of the party has less influence, and Kamala's free to appeal to the swing voters who really matter without risking mutiny.
But ultimately I agree, I feel like this debate will be consequential. I'm holding all my prediction market bets until the debate happens.
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