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
16d ago
I think you'd be better off with a tan (or high carrot juice intake). To me it seems that your dark eyes have too much contrast with your fairly pale skin.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
16d ago
I'd be interested in seeing the studies on carbonated water being bad for teeth. Coke zero still has added acid, so it's certainly worse for teeth than carbonated water.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
19d ago
I can't help you with any of your questions, but I've used a Miele induction cooktop with touch controls and that thing is fucking garbage. Utensils constantly triggering the touch controls, something is always randomly turning it off, and it's hard to use when the surface gets greasy.
I guess what I'm saying is, proceed with caution around touch controls. It's possible that other brands do a better job, but Miele is really not entry level.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
19d ago
My point is simply that there are a lot of Europeans with similar (or darker) skin tones and dark hair who don't have traditions of extensive facial jewelry. In other words, skin color doesn't seem to play a causal role, and not all cultures agree that facial jewelry looks bad on pale people, and not all pale cultures abstain from facial jewelry.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
The problem with this claim is that the palest Indians are paler than many Europeans, and it's the North Indians (usually paler) that wear the most jewelry.
sarker
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21d ago
Indeed I work in industry, not academia, but I don't see it as any way bad if foreign students use American academia as a stepping stone into American industry. It's still a net benefit to the US.
Had they not come these jobs would have still been filled (probably at significantly higher cost, but if that’s the cost of a more equal society, so be it).
It's unlikely that these jobs would have been filled at a higher cost on account of the cost already being very high. It's more likely that the job would have been not filled or filled with inferior people.
An example of the top of my head - all but one of the authors of Attention is All You Need are foreigners. I don't know if you count Google Research/Brain as a "fairly standard job" but it's pretty obvious to me that there aren't seven foreigners on this paper because they're cheap.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
21d ago
This is the problem with fighting a genuinely genocidal country like Israel: you can never surrender because they admit they want to replace you on your land.
If this were the case, Israel never would have unilaterally withdrawn from Gaza, including demolishing Israeli settlements. Evicting Palestinians from Gaza has only become a serious option after the latest round of bear-poking.
sarker
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21d ago
the us tax payers is funding efforts to educate a bunch of foreign nationals who then leave.
Do they leave? I work with tons of very smart foreigners who got an advanced degree at an American university, so they can't all be leaving. We'd definitely be worse off if we can't brain drain the world anymore.
And let's not forget that Trump once proposed a drastic solution to retain international students:
You graduate from a college, I think you should get, automatically as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. That includes junior colleges, too.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
23d ago
There's yet to be an example I can think of where he made a promise then got beaten by a competitor to delivering on it.
Tesla robotaxi comes to mind. Waymo has been serving customers and steadily increasing its coverage for years now. Musk has been promising autonomous robotaxis since 2019 (initial timeline: 2020) and Waymo launched its Phoenix pilot in 2022.
sarker
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23d ago
That helps, and those aren't stroads, but it's convenient for a variety of reasons to mingle residential and commercial developments (as has been done for nine thousand years from Chatalhoyuk until WWII).
sarker
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24d ago
It's cheap to take a one-lane-bidirectional road that has a bunch of existing development on it, expand it out to 2, maybe put a center turning lane in it, and you have what is effectively a highway.
This is only the case in the situation where the development isn't actually on the road or the lanes are super wide.
Same with the 4-way stop and the traffic light; it doesn't require a few million dollars per intersection like roundabouts do (it's the cheaper, more technologically-advanced option, though it of course does make other sacrifices).
I'm not sure what your claim is, exactly. Are you saying that stop signs are technologically advanced? Or that you can have stop signs on a road where the speed limit is 50 (based on your next paragraph)? I certainly haven't seen that before.
Yes, it'll cost you more lives and property damage because someone didn't look both ways and got (them or their car) hit by another car going 50 mph, but human safety and human dignity (in this case, the dignity of not living in a million-dollar shoebox and it only taking 10 minutes to get to your destination rather than 60) are always two sides of the same coin.
Wide, high speed roads are a nuisance to live near (ask me how I know), so I don't know that it's a big increase in dignity to make every road a 45MPH arterial.
I'm not sure what you are getting at with your 10 minute vs 60 minute journey hypothetical. The places where it takes 10 minutes to make a trip and the places where it takes 60 minutes to drive an equivalent distance are not the same, and this goes back to the land usage in the first part. You can't expand the roads endlessly, because there's stuff on the side of the road, and to make things worse, that stuff on the side of the road is why people travel in the first place, and with wider roads those places are forced further apart except in totally rural areas.
You can't take e.g. San Francisco and replace every two lane road with a six lane road to fix the traffic without running out of land or building double decker freeways in the middle of the city.
In general, my preferred mode of living is a medium town with quiet, shaded streets in town so that people can walk and bike around and kids can play in the street without getting oneshotted by a driver scroooolling tiktoks at 50 MPH. This is incompatible with wide roads with high speed limits, aka, stroads.
For everything else, there's the interstate.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
24d ago
Not exactly. A freeway is not a stroad. An arterial without businesses or housing that serves to move people from place to place is also not a stroad.
Generally, a stroad is a high or medium-speed road with housing or commercial areas right on it.
sarker
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24d ago
everything could be lies, so no one believes anything, so life is terrible. Fun.
For most of human history, you didn't believe something unless you saw it yourself or someone you trusted told you about it. Photo and video evidence wasn't a thing. If we lose it, it would be a shame, but I don't think it would make life terrible.
sarker
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26d ago
Repeated official government positions nobody in the field believes about freon.
What's the red pill on Freon?
sarker
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26d ago
The time during which the Congo was the personal property of King Leopold was so bad that the Belgian parliament took it away from him. The time of being a Belgian colony was not as bad.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
29d ago
400 years may be an aggressive timeline if the rate of new above-ground line construction exceeds the rate of line undergrounding.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
29d ago
What is the problem? When in American history have people embarked on projects of such duration? The answer is never. For the closest analog, we must look at the great Gothic cathedrals. Burying those lines is our Notre Dame, our Chartres. A society grows great when men plant trees under whose shade they will never sit.
sarker
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29d ago
I hope they aren't building 0.51 miles of new lines every year.
sarker
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29d ago
They're a replacement of the city layer of government in parts of the US where people live at suburban density outside cities.
This is not even true, or at least not the whole picture. HOAs are common (and even make some sense) in condo communities with shared walls/floors, which are denser than suburbs and usually not built on unincorporated county land.
But you can also easily find detached houses within city limits with HOAs.
sarker
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30d ago
To a first approximation, every STEM course I took in undergrad was curved, and every humanities course was not.
sarker
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1mo ago
Anyways doing coursework is a huge ass chesterton's fence right there.
Pretty sure coursework is the newcomer to the University education scene. I don't think that professors in 17th century Oxford were grading homework.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I'm sure some people do this, but 99.9% of people do not.
I guess I mostly looked at the closeup of you running in the sun and your eyes seemed to contrast with your skin a lot.
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