sarker
competency crisis actor
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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I'm not aware of any range weapons which work on projectiles thrown at you by the enemy. In fact, I'm not aware of any range weapons that are used with bat or racket like implements at all. Perhaps you can enlighten me.
The purpose of sports is to practice war.
Citation, uh, needed.
sarker
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4hr ago
It's quite unclear how bat and racket sports mimic war, or why we should care either way.
sarker
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7hr ago
Are you my wife? She'd rather spend five minutes futzing with scissors to open a package rather than five seconds with a knife.
sarker
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8hr ago
What if they keep a swiss army knife in the car or in their backpack?
sarker
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8hr ago
Such covenants are not so solid depending on the covenant in question.
sarker
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10hr ago
In the vein of the famous comic: (1) You signed a contract. (2) Obey the contract. Whining that the contract is "weird" and (in the linked tweet) "HOAs have too much power" will not garner any sympathy when you agreed to the contract's provisions and you are free to just live somewhere else.
Did the daughter ever agree to the contract's provisions?
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
I don't know how much more verification you need at this point.
sarker
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2d ago
No, I want to know who is going to be the court of last resort.
Typically, SCOTUS is the court of last resort.
We'll tell you who the experts area and what the standards should be, and by total coincidence we are one of the very few who meet those standards and have those experts.
This is still a general argument against regulation. In any subject, people who do it professionally are disproportionately likely to be the ones with expertise to advise the government.
I am not sure what you think is an alternative to people who study and work on AI advising the government about AI regulation.
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
Everyone knows someone in their job who doesn't seem to do anything and skates by, homemaking is no different.
Seems uncalled for to imply that my mother "didn't seem to do anything".
Men's social fabric will fall apart when women's stop socializing. Who do you think gets to meet up at these parties and picnics the women organized?
I do not take the view that men are entirely dependent on their wives and mothers to make and meet up with friends.
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
What do you do if the owners of the models refuse to submit to that party for testing?
What happens when you break the law? I think there are a few techniques for dealing with that.
sarker
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2d ago
There is a point in teaching children to read before they go into a school that teaches them the wrong way.
Sure, I concede that if you live in whole language country you have to take things into your own hands. This is fairly time limited to the first few years of a kid's life though.
The social fabric is falling apart and no one thinks it has anything to do with the decline of people who went out to coffee every Monday after dropping off the kids and made strong and weak social ties across the local area?
For me, it's simply that:
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My own mother (a SAHM) did none of these things, so I'm not sure how common this was to begin with
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Men's social fabric has also fallen apart (Bowling Alone) and I think it's difficult to blame this on women
So I find it difficult to feel strongly about the social contributions of SAHMs.
sarker
competency crisis actor
2d ago
Makework is always possible, but I'm skeptical that it's worthwhile on current margins.
For example:
teaching children to read before 1st grade and tutoring them in their school work... chauffeuring children to activities,
There isn't really a point in teaching kids that young. For example, dropping arithmetic entirely until 6th grade resulted in zero learning loss by the end of sixth grade.
More broadly, you can only tutor kids or shuttle them around when they aren't in school, and mostly that is compatible with work outside the home. And if you live in a place with functional public transit it isn't necessary to shuttle them and it's probably good for their independence to let them figure it out themselves.
sarker
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2d ago
Zuck wearing a $2M shitter is objectively funny though.
sarker
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2d ago
A quick skim does not indicate any "underage callboys" in the white house in these sources.
sarker
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2d ago
AGI implies the ability to produce agents that are more sneerable than anything humanity has ever encountered. Call it supersneerability.
sarker
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3d ago
The Bigfoots are being harvested as slave labor by a more advanced alien race.
Bad news for the future of robotics.
sarker
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3d ago
sarker
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3d ago
Farm land stays fixed while food demand falls. Food becomes cheaper.
Harvesting is mostly done by immigrants of various legal statuses doing the work for much less than Americans. The effect of increasing wages for farm laborers on food prices is left as an exercise to the reader.
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
Two things. First, truth. How do you know that? Maybe it's the consensus among self-anointed seniors at your firm, but is it the consensus? Do you have data on that? A lot of consensuses are illusions.
Seniors are not usually self anointed.
Second, validity. Even if yours is the majority/consensus view, does that imply your view is correct? Is it well thought out? Is there evidence for it? Or ought a marginal view also be listened to? Is there any reason consensus views must be superior? What if they are the result of bias?
You gotta cut it out with the chip on your shoulder.
sarker
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4d ago
Because I hold the consensus position on this question.
sarker
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4d ago
But does that makes it presently unclear, in a general sense, or just unclear to you and people like you?
It does make it presently unclear in a general sense.
What if it is clear to me?
Then nothing. Do you want a cookie?
sarker
competency crisis actor
4d ago
I thought they were the best?
While some are good people, they are on average not sending their best.
Is the tanto shape more conducive to this?
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