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
2d ago
I... don't actually know what we can do about it, other than to let the blue tribe shrivel up and die from the low fertility this produces.
Considering this guy has three kids, this plan isn't panning out in this case.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
Not a hoomer, but some thoughts:
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Get Your House Right is a really good resource for basic design questions (proportions, moldings, layouts, etc). You might also see if Brent Hull has any videos on southern style houses.
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Lever handles are much better than doorknobs IMO. I fairly often need to open a door with stuff in my hands and it's way easier to do it if the door opens with a lever handle.
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Think seriously about room ventilation. The house should be set up so that you can get cross-breezes going.
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Make sure you put in a skookum kitchen hood that's sized appropriately for your cooktop. I've lived my life in places with underpowered or non-existent hoods and it sucks.
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Try to avoid making the garage a major part of your house's facade. May not be possible depending on your lot, unfortunately - but it looks much better if you can make it happen.
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Put some thought into sealing your garage to keep insects out.
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If you end up with a small bathroom, consider installing a pocket door. I have a bathroom right now where the room door and the shower door open into each others' space and it sucks.
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Two sinks in the master bath is a must.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
26d ago
But the basic issue behind the abortion debate is this: women don't want to be forced to spend nine months pregnant. That's a massive imposition on their lives. It doesn't really matter whether you're doing it out of "hate" or honest conviction, they will see you as their enemy and won't want to associate with you.
Men and women famously had similar views on abortion until 2020. Framing this as men imposing on women doesn't reflect reality.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
13d ago
the very day I become conscious of physical or mental deterioration, I'm checking into a hotel and euthanizing myself with the strongest poison I can get my hands on.
So you're going to kill yourself by 40? Certainly just about everyone is in worse physical shape at 40 than at 20.
This isn't a gotcha, the point is that very slow decay is, uh, very slow.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7d ago
I see tons of pickups in my blue/Hispanic area in absolute mint condition and empty beds. Fairly often they drive around with tow mirrors extended despite not towing anything. Sometimes you even see "duallies" (trucks with four wheels on the rear axle) in similar pristine condition. Hispanic landscapers drive beat to shit Ford trucks.
Does anyone have a sense of why Americans choose pickups over other big-ass form factors?
I think in my area, suburban office workers are alienated from anything to do with manipulating the physical world rather than symbols and feel that a very large and expensive truck connects them in some way to rugged manual labor.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
Weaving at 130MPH on the interstate when there's cars on the road is antisocial behavior and I sincerely hope you age out of this before you kill someone.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
12d ago
Where do you live that programmers are earning $50k?
Start job searching for an actual industry job. Again, really unappealing to me. The thought of presenting such a false image of myself as someone competent is quite repulsive, and I don't know that I have enough actual accomplishments on my resume to get any chances. I almost feel worse off than when I graduated, but I actually can't say I regret my decisionmaking.
A good industry position is quite cushy, although obviously not without the usual downsides that come with working for a big company. Who knows what will happen in 10 years.
What do you mean by "presenting a false image" of competence? If you write stuff you did on your resume, why is that presenting a false image?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
12d ago
The period starting December 2024. The problem is, the clips on TV couldn't have started in December 2024, nor could they have had much of an effect even in January 2025 on account of Trump being sworn in on the 17th of that month.
Now, perhaps you will claim that it was in fact the threat of the Trump presidency that caused numbers to drop even faster than they were already dropping. Perhaps, but that's not the claim you made and the claim I'm arguing against.
Walk? How much time do you think people have to dedicate to commuting every day?
It would take twice as long for me to walk to my local train station as it does for me to drive to work. Then, it would take me as long again to walk to work from the destination train station.
Taking a bus to the train station takes longer than just biking there.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
12d ago
Do you already have a bachelor's degree in CS?
I have not found that the CS bachelor's degree syllabus is particularly useful for becoming a good programmer, much less becoming a good software engineer.
I think the best way to become a better engineer is to find a good engineer and work with them and learn from them. At least, that is what I have always been able to do, and that is what I have found helped me the most. If you are the best engineer around, it's time to find a new role.
The job market right now is not good, and while I don't think it's a permanent downturn, it's not easy to move around. If you have connections, leverage them.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
12d ago
Border encounters have been plummeting since December 2023 (or, as they call it, dec fy2024): https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
sarker
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1mo 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
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
24d ago
There is one more option, which is that AI causes GDP to grow fast enough that the government can fund obligations with no (or very little) tax hikes. This would be a ridiculous deus ex machina that would basically confirm that we live in a simulation.
And yet...
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
Also, I swear to god if the rumors that Lyme Disease and AGS escaped from a bioweapons lab are true you may very well see me on the news.
That would have to be some kind of bioweapons program run by the Ancient Astronauts, because a 5300 year old mummified ice man had Lyme disease.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
20d ago
Rich countries should have well-functioning public transport in urban centres which is apparently missing in America.
I don't think I've been to a city where public transit didn't have a last mile problem except the very densest parts of tier 1 cities like London, Paris, etc. Busses are almost always slower than cycling on the periphery, and it's cost-prohibitive to have metro stops every mile once you're out of the very center of town. And most people don't live in the very center of town.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
25d ago
But he's been at it for nearly two decades, and it seems unlikely that he has been saving for retirement. He can't pick pineapples (or whatever) in Hawaii forever. Can he?
The man's expenses are probably near zero. Between savings and social security he may be ahead of the modal silicon valley striver living paycheck to paycheck between mortgage, property taxes, and private school.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
15d ago
Are you under the impression that FC is a Democrat supporter?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo 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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1mo ago
You mean you don't want flame retardants for children's sleep clothes? You think you can just clothe your child in loose fitting, non-retarded cotton? What if your child falls asleep while smoking and the cigarette lights their jammies and they just get fucking immolated? Has that thought crossed your mind?
sarker
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24d ago
I don't care how good it is, I don't want to hear it blaring through my windows. Or my walls (been there, done that).
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo ago
I recently came across this article that really cemented your view for me.
This woman lives with her husband and two side pieces and she's on her own for a startling amount of time while she's giving birth. Her husband is in no rush to make it to the delivery room:
My water broke at 5am. Plot-relevantly, I had gone to sleep only two hours prior...
I woke up my husband as the very last step – I went into his room and said “my beautiful love,” at 5:30am, which we both know full well is a crime. By nature, we keep similar hours.
He emitted a quarter-awake “you are inflicting horrible crimes on me and you are not forgiven” moan.
When I said, “I think my water broke,” he sort of flipped. Like a pancake but on its own.
“Oh!” he said.
“Nothing exciting is going to happen for a while. So I think you should get more sleep. Partners A and C are driving me to the hospital and getting me checked in.”
Later that day:
In the window where I should have eaten, the boyfriends who had brought me to the hospital had gone home to sleep, and my husband was on his way.
I had the bagel because my husband was near a bagel place and mentioned he could pick some up. It sounded like a treat, so I said yes. At the time he and I were coordinating on what he should pick up, my contractions were very slow, or hadn’t started yet. I had no idea how close the epidural was. Once he started picking things up, I watched his map location, was surprised by how slow he was, and decided not to ask for more things.
He agreed, and I went to the hospital... My husband arrived with some snacks at 1pm.
Husband goes home at some point. Next day:
Around 7am I was really panicked. I needed to course correct sharply to something else. I told my boyfriend to wake up my husband and explain to him what was going on.
To sum up:
But I cry uncontrollably when I think of how the actual moment my daughter came out of me feels like a bad drug trip. I have a blurry picture of that moment, only a few details crisp (like seeing the glowing rod coming out of a metal refinery). I remember being confused, misled, tricked into hurting myself, experiencing the birth of my daughter as a great alien rush of self betrayal, with no awareness of her, and full awareness of the people who had surrounded and outnumbered me, who did not seem to deal with me as an intelligent subject, who demanded my attention by shouting at me throughout the whole thing, barraged me with questions afterwards, questions I had already answered. I remembered the array of uniformed medical personnel around me a bluish blur of enemy forces who had worn me down and conquered me.
Indeed, managing the medical staff is the proper role of the husband in this situation. But I guess he was too tired to fully attend the brith of his child!
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo 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.
There's no amount of propaganda that can make land or housing an unattractive investment.
Okay. But it's clearly impossible for housing to be a good investment in real terms and for it to be affordable at the same time. So the options that I can see are:
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Gerontocracy. Buy now or be priced out forever. Housing to the moon. If you're too young or poor to get on the property ladder now, too bad - hopefully you're the eldest/an only child and your parents will leave you the house when they kick the bucket, unless the bills they rack up at the end of their lives consume the equity of course. And if you aren't too poor yet, don't worry: you will be.
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Housing supply is allowed to increase and the price is allowed to decrease.
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The Japanese method. Housing demand is forced to decrease so that the price decreases. Either cramming more people per household (intergenerational housing?) or expelling people from the country/area. I hear Canada has a lot of unpopular Indians, but note that this still involves prices going down and therefore housing being a bad investment.
Curious if I'm missing a fourth option here.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1mo 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.
Her dad died when she was 17 and I'm not aware of her mother having any ties to the MB. For that matter I'm not even sure what her dad's ties are supposed to have been, but I admit I haven't looked deeply into it.
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