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
8mo ago
as a ranked member of the gang.
In a city in which he has never lived?
Also, he got stopped doing what looked rather like human trafficking in 2022, but the Biden FBI told the locals to let him go.
Source?
sarker
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8mo ago
I visited Utah once and drove three miles per hour over the speed limit on the freeway and got pulled over (no ticket though).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
Also, the Chinese nationals are totally spies for the PRC. It’s fine if you’re not a China hawk (I’m not either), but it’s obviously happening.
This guy is not Chinese though, so this is a total non-sequitur for this case.
sarker
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8mo ago
You can get blocks of it at Asian stores for about $2.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
Tofu is absolutely a good source of protein. Super-firm tofu is 14g tofu and 2g carbs per 90g. Sure, it's not meat, but if you're better off eating tofu rather than a few bowls of pasta if you're trying to hit a protein target without blowing out your calories.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
Fyi, you can file early and pay at a later date.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
It's really more like saying "the way to get poor is to spend more and earn less".
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
Some people's absorption rate might be dysfunctional such that they lose any middle ground between "obesity" and "starvation".
I'd be interested to see a controlled medical case study of such a person. So far in many hours of conversation about this, none has been produced. I am not confident that such people exist.
sarker
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8mo ago
The executive branch deported this guy despite the fact that the executive branch said the guy can't be deported, which according to the law passed by the legislative branch, should have prevented him from being deported.
The entire function of the judiciary is to redress grievances of this kind.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
If the police accidentally arrest you, they are supposed to let you out. If they accidentally kill you, they may have to pay out a settlement if they lose a court case. If you get deported when you shouldn't have been, apparently there's no takebacks and no remedy of any kind and none are even possible in theory.
If the police were allowed to shoot anyone they wanted with zero consequences, that would be bad.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
Even if absorption rates vary, the thing is that you cannot absorb more energy than there is in the food you eat. So sufficiently restricting calories necessarily results in reduction of mass.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
The second season generally seems to be pretty aimless. People do stuff without any obvious motive, there's so much secrecy and mystery but I get the feeling that it's a kind of potemkin village of a plot where there's nothing actually behind any of those secrets.
sarker
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8mo ago
Some Bs have As. Not all of them however, have As. So this does not follow.
They do, of course, as you admit yourself. It's merely a "no true Scotsman" of what constitutes a border.
Beyond formalities however, what my argument is at core that a government that does not control who it administers ceases to be one properly speaking because it is easily gamed by outside actors. And therefore decays into some administrative or economic denomination of the larger structure that puppets it.
It's not clear to me why this is true except that you feel strongly about this particular issue. Like if you were a leftist telling me about how governments that don't control inequality cease to be a government "properly speaking" because , I'm not impressed.
The current immigration regime is not unprecedented. There was much more freedom of movement before the latter part of the 20th century than there has been since. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the foreign born share of the population was comparable to what it is today. Was the USA not a government, properly speaking, but merely an economic zone? I don't think so, but if it was, it seems being an economic zone doesn't really mean much for the future trajectory of your country.
sarker
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8mo ago
Again with the absurdity through inappropriate narrowing of scope.
How can you tell when your scope is appropriately widened? Okay, the purpose of the bus system isn't to emit CO2. Is the purpose to do that and drive vehicles on NYC streets? Is the purpose to do that and pay out bennies to bus drivers? Is it to do that and move paying customers around? Is it to do that and also house a few homeless people? Is it to do that and reduce traffic overall?
And we can't look at the bus system in isolation, right? It's part of the city government, which itself is embedded in layers of government and society. Why is it not inappropriate to even attempt to analyze the purpose of the NYC bus system in isolation of the entire world?
At least I agree that we can limit our scope to planet earth, since there doesn't seem to be any agency being exercised by anyone outside of it. The question is where to set the scope in between busses emitting CO2 and everything that goes on on earth.
sarker
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8mo ago
Cool, but the point is that Bs have As, so if something doesn't have an A, it's not a B.
sarker
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8mo ago
I was primed to look, but it was the scripture references that first made me think something was up. At first, knowing nothing about the director (or Korean culture really) I ignorantly thought it was an esl type thing - the foreign director wants to reference Christianity somehow, saw a passage mentioning ghosts and went with it (sort of like how Osgood Perkins jammed T. Rex into longlegs). But it is referenced again later in the film by the girl in white and by that point in the film I had seen too much self-awareness to accept my original assumption about the use of scripture, I'd already started beating myself up for it. It was too on the nose, I just couldn't accept that this apparently clever film was now going to make the girl in white a christ figure by having her actually quote Jesus.
You've confused this - it's actually the Japanese man who references the intro quote, as he transforms into a devil and shows the deacon his stigmata.
Quality movie. I'm not sure what I think happened yet, but my first instinct is that all the three major players are evil, possibly competing to harvest the village's psychic energy via bloody murder or something like that.
sarker
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8mo ago
Even if a wonder happens and the fertility will rise to replacement level next week, the country would still have massive problems in 30 years.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
"The Jews know. Shut it down."
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
A country with no borders is not a country, it's an economic zone.
I don't think you can mix these two metaphors popular on the right. Some economic zones have actual walls around them. Not to mention that the conditions of the economic zone obviously don't apply outside the zone, otherwise everything would be in the zone.
sarker
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8mo ago
Both those things were motivated by angry Palestinian refugees wanting to fight Israel while their host countries weren't so keen.
And by "refugees" you mean "guerillas". Indeed, most countries do not want you to use their territory as a staging area for antagonizing the neighbors and will tell you to cut that shit out. I fail to see how this is exculpatory for the Palestinians.
One reason this whole situation is such a mess is that King Abdullah annexed the West Bank which was supposed to be the core of the new Palestinian state, which also happened to make Palestinians a majority of the Jordanian population. Obviously the Palestinians were more keen on attacking Israel than Jordan, especially post-67.
I don't see what the Jordanian occupation has to do with explaining why the Palestinians couldn't get along with the Jordanians. The Jordanian civil war took place after Israel annexed the West Bank.
As for Lebanon, Israel set up a false flag terror group attempting to provoke the PLO into war during a ceasefire. They also attempted to assassinate the American ambassador to Lebanon.
The PLO was involved in the Lebanese civil war since 1975. Why are you bringing up events from the 80s? My point isn't that "Israel does no wrong", my point is that the Palestinians will pick a fight with anyone and everyone. Whataboutist arguments about Israel have nothing at all to do with this.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
Uh, do you remember what happened when Jordan had a conflict with Palestinians? And then that time Lebanon had a conflict with Palestinians? It's remarkably ahistorical to think that the Palestinians just want to be left alone and it's just that they can't get along with those Israelis.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
8mo ago
Past experience? The more parties you delegate enforcement to the more parties whose interests can clash.
You have four or five nations managing this stuff and you risk just being back in the great power era where people protected their own trade and spheres of influence.
There's a different party on each end of the trade. The route between those parties being protected benefits both and hurts nobody.
Also, a lot of nations simply aren't as good at this right now due to delegating it to America. It's not Somali pirates you need to worry about but state-sponsored groups like the Houthis, and their sponsors themselves if they decide to pull a Saddam.
Indeed, but that's hardly insurmountable with a bit of will and training.
But I must repeat again that military spending is not the elephant in the room.
We live in an incomparably more connected time and much smaller falls can lead to large changes in our standard of living.
Agree. But I don't agree that reduced trade or living standards means the "end of globalism".
I don't get it. Is this just a "narcissism of small differences" situation? "Jews are pernicious,
they should have been gassed, and Hitler wasn't such a bad dude, but that doesn't mean that you should hate them" doesn't really seem like a stable equilibrium.More options
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