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
1yr ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
do not use any athletic traits as that way you mask technical shortcomings
Why should someone care if they are masking technical shortcomings? It seems impossible to not use any athletic traits.
sarker
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1yr ago
But all things equal I would expect a famous person to have more accusations against them
How many rape accusations does e.g. Barack Obama have against him? What about Chris Pratt? What about JD Vance? What does it say about McGregor that plenty of prominent men have approximately zero rape accusations to their name?
sarker
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1yr ago
"recent" is relative, but from the Upanishads:
'He's made of this. He's made of that.' What a man turns out to be depends on how he acts and on how he conducts himself. If his actions are good, he will turn into something good. If his actions are bad, he will turn into something bad. A man turns into something good by good action and into something bad by bad action. And so people say: 'A person here consists simply of desire.' A man resolves in accordance with his desire, acts in accordance with his resolve, and turns out to be in accordance with his action.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Sex in the post I responded to refers primarily to marriage and its dissolution, so "how-to-get-and-stay-married" is the relevant skill here.
I think your story makes sense for marriage but not for sex (for which as we all know marriage is neither necessary nor sufficient).
Finally, playing-the-game-of-credentialism (a.k.a. "education") is without a doubt a more widely practiced skill now than it was fifty years ago. About 90% graduate high-school; of those, half go to college; of those, about half graduate with a degree. Fifty years ago, much higher percentage of people dropped out of high-school, and less than 10% of those who graduated went on to college. (There stats are approximate but broadly correct.)
The credentialism game has changed to accommodate the large influx of people seeking credentials.
I don't really understand your point here. you seem to be agreeing with me that education is not something generally unnecessary, so it doesn't explain the bimodal distribution mentioned by OP.
sarker
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1yr ago
Count the days until spring and try to keep it together.
sarker
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1yr ago
$[skill] used to be not only desirable but also broadly necessary; as $[skill] became generally unnecessary, a large portion of the population has mostly abandoned it, while those who remained devoted to maintaining $[skill] became much more proficient.
That explains cooking and perhaps fitness but I think it obviously falls short on physical appearance, sex, and gun ownership. Education I think it also falls short on, education is much more generally necessary today now that you almost need a bachelor's degree to stock shelves at Walmart.
sarker
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1yr ago
And to think that the previous generation of my family understood bribery vocabulary so well.
Anyway, giving the judge $6k to make it all go away still seems to make sense. When in Delhi, right?
sarker
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1yr ago
Judge: We will adjust; I will take 5 lakh INR (approximately $6,000 USD) and I will get it settled here in this court.
Is the judge offering to settle the case for just $6K? Surely this guy would have had $6K to make this go away? IMO it's not prima facie unreasonable for a divorce to split assets evenly if the couple has been together a long time, and presumably they had over $12k in assets.
sarker
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1yr ago
Communists avoided random assassinations
Is that really true? Alexander II, Stolypin, Skalon, Sipyagin, von Plehve, Bogolepov - most of the assassination victims of the russian empire were done in by revolutionary socialists, and most of those killings were by SRs proper.
sarker
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1yr ago
And Jewish women being known for their breasts?
I haven't really heard this before outside of "khazar milkers"-posting.
sarker
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1yr ago
Besides the train station, there's also a grayhound terminal.
sarker
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1yr ago
Waymo's driving system seems much safer than FSD (I've ridden in a waymo but not in a FSD Tesla). But they have not yet released highway driving to the public.
sarker
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1yr ago
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: replace it with a lawn.
sarker
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1yr ago
Canada and Mexico have many of those same advantages but are still less prosperous than the US.
sarker
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1yr ago
Quality comment, I truly can't imagine which country you could be from.
"Onions are nasty" is surely a sentiment that could only be expressed by an American, but an American would surely know that onions are standard on burgers. Even a Big Mac has onions.
sarker
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1yr ago
There needs to be a name for when people pretend that nobody believes something that people absolutely believe.
sarker
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1yr ago
Surely both of these require knowing random trivia?
sarker
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1yr ago
Are you sure this will help us discuss the culture war?
Culture war?
sarker
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1yr ago
Russia also wouldn't be invading Ukraine if NATO wasn't trying to cut them off the black sea.
NATO was planning on taking Krasnodar Krai? That's a new one to me.
sarker
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1yr ago
Well, the fact is that these two things have basically nothing to do with one another. And it isn't even a matter of "political capital is finite and government can only do so much" because China policy is federal and locking up toothpaste is local. We're talking about completely different policy spheres.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Some of those guys are probably mythical, but I would expect that a lineage like that has had sufficient eyes on it over time that it's real. Obviously there's a chance of infidelity along the way, but that's almost missing the point in this context - it's clearly about who was recognized as the heir even if they were illegitimate.
I bet tons of guys claim descent from Confucius and it's bullshit, but that doesn't mean that every claim is bullshit.
Okay, but the only reason this is the case is because the doctor cartel limits the number of residency slots to keep physicians in demand and well paid. You don't like your hours, but at the same time, you are against increasing supply: you don't want to bring in foreign doctors (doesn't have to be third world, American doctors earn way more than NHS doctors) and you don't want more American doctors because it will eat into your salary. You've painted yourself into a corner here, unless you have a clever idea for demand destruction.
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