sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6hr ago
I'd be pretty shocked if there's a regulation that CCTV footage must be retained for over a year. Any evidence for that?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6hr ago
Problem is that the US is higher trust than ten years ago. Maybe you can add more epicycles, perhaps some kind of inertial metaphor where we are paying suddenly for the decrease in trust that ended ten years ago, but it's getting to be a little much at this point.
sarker
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6hr ago
And yet:
In fact, social trust has been declining since the seventies, but has been on the upswing for the past ten years.
sarker
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9hr ago
The pandemic response and related events permanently altered my relationship to my government and my nation.
I gathered that. What I'm saying is, this isn't the case for the normies around me ("nobody I know still cares much about... What people did during covid"), so I am skeptical that it's driving the vibecession.
sarker
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9hr ago
I admit this could be my bubble but nobody I know still cares about covid, or what people did during covid, despite me knowing several people who were very covid paranoid.
I kept wondering when Scott would finally ask, "is this the result of American society transitioning from a relatively homogeneous, high-trust society, to a fragmented, 'diverse,' mostly low-trust society?"
This doesn't explain why there's a step change in consumer sentiment after 2020. A society doesn't become low trust overnight, but the vibes basically shifted overnight (and remain low despite the end of covid). In fact, social trust has been declining since the seventies, but has been on the upswing for the past ten years. That's fatal to the social trust theory of the vibecession without stooping to something like "I know the trust measures are bogus because I disagree".
That fact alone is enough, in my view, to discount explanations founded on secular trends in community, etc that have been going on for sixty years or more. Perhaps only high mortgage rates and a frozen housing market remain as plausible explanations of "wtf happened in 2020".
sarker
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12hr ago
Job numbers don't get revised in the same direction every time.
https://infogram.com/2023-to-2025-and-differences-1h7v4pdkqr1084k
This is missing the recent downard adjustment of 900k, but the trend is obvious - numbers are frequently adjusted up as well. In November 2021 job numbers were adjusted upwards by nearly half a million.
sarker
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1d ago
He bought 9V connectors at the end of 2019 and planted the bomb in the beginning of 2021. Are we to believe that microcenter retained CCTV footage of every cash register for over a year?
sarker
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1d ago
Do you sit in front of it in the evening or in the morning?
sarker
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1d ago
That's a different question, of course - they presumably stop calling themselves vegetarians.
sarker
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2d ago
Indians (I'm projecting a bit) will keep their heads down until they become citizens. But after naturalization or in the 2nd generation, they start feeling the entitled to free expression. Chinese Americans in comparison continue to stay quiet, as if they're guests in their own country.
I'm a little confused by @crushedoranges talking about immigrants importing tedious internecine conflict or even assassins and you talking about free expression.
I mean, harping about khalistan is free expression, it's true, but it's crazy to suggest that you're not really integrated unless you're agitating against some other group from the old country, and it's especially absurd when you're talking about the second generation who often hasn't even set foot in the old country.
Integration isn't about doing what your grandparents did, except in the new country. Integration is about doing as the locals do. And it would really be unconscionable for Americans of German extraction to go on and on about Alsaceshit. Nobody wants to hear that.
sarker
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2d ago
Note that whole most anchovies and sardines are wild caught, tilapia is mostly farmed and has the usual factory farming problems (and I'd expect, although I haven't checked, that the supply of wild tilapia is inelastic and increased demand for tilapia results in more farmed tilapia).
What can I say, you guys were right about stuff.
Don't look at me, I'm a vegetarian.
sarker
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2d ago
FWIW, you can get omega 3s from algae oil as well (which is what I do). I have to say I'm somewhat surprised that you ended up eating fish after the interminable debates about animal rights in the pages of this very forum.
sarker
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2d ago
Why did you decide to start eating those fish?
sarker
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2d ago
Be reasonable, @thejdizzler is not a boomer.
Regardless of their motivations, calling yourself vegetarian when you eat meat is simply a misuse of the word, surely?
Yes. My point is that the misuse of the labels is not always exclusively due to TLP's narcissism theory.
sarker
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2d ago
I tried to tell him. He wasn't having it.
sarker
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2d ago
How many deans are we talking about here? My alma mater had fewer than ten deans for seven thousand students. Is "dean" not a title for a small group of department leaders in your school?
sarker
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2d ago
I've never found a study like this about vegans, but one study indicates that 60% of vegetarians had eaten meat in the past day. To be fair, I had a boomer coworker who claimed to be a vegetarian despite eating fish ("I consider fish to be vegetables"). He was a health vegetarian though, so there's presumably a variety of reasons that meat eaters call themselves vegetarians besides virtue signalling.
sarker
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3d ago
It's an interesting idea but I think I'll try it first on a project that's not veneered. Would hate to scrape off the veneer and ruin these at this point.
sarker
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3d ago
I forgot to mention that they are veneered, so abrasives are out.
Well, having a newborn in the house, I decided to finally get around to refinishing some side tables my wife and I picked up off Craigslist.
Living in Commiefornia, my access to paint strippers and solvents is limited. And I don't mean MC, I can't even get denatured alcohol easily. My first approach was with citristrip, which I covered with saran wrap and let it sit twice for 24 hours and it still didn't get all the finish off (and it's unbelievably hard to wash it off).
Some reddit research showed that everyone hates citristrip but few are willing to recommend something else. Finally I saw someone recommended Safenol (it must be safe if it has "safe" in the name, right?) which, miraculously, ace hardware had in stock.
That stuff is pretty good - in about an hour it lifted off a ton of orange-brown shit and cleaned up pretty easy with "odorless mineral spirits" (the recommended wash product was, of course, not available around here). The wood itself is a fairly attractive color so I figure I'll put some hard wax oil on it.
Unfortunately I've only stripped one surface so there's still a whiles to go.
Besides the finish some genius replaced the original brass screws with steel ones that are too long and poke through the wood. Luckily they're poking through the underside of a shelf so it's not noticeable, but I'll need to pick up some new brass screws of the right size.
sarker
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4d ago
And many, many more people are buying with cash
Nope, share of purchases that are for cash has been largely the same for 20 years.
https://www.redfin.com/news/all-cash-home-purchases-2021/
That has a graph up to 2021, and in 2025 it continues to hover around 30%.
I already indicated the metric in my original post.
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