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
10mo ago
Consider the following:
“Since #TamponTim is trending I'll point out that in high school, any boy who casually was like "Oh you got ur period? I stashed a pad from the bathroom in my backpack in case one of my friends needed it" -- that boy would be king stud. That boy would be drowning in prom invites.”
This is like the "hello, human resources??" comic, except she's reporting the guy in both panels. How would he even know about the period?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
29d 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
1yr ago
The most hilarious part is that Elizabeth Warren wrote favorably about school vouchers in The Two Income Trap. She also expressed a decidedly mixed view on women entering the workforce. The past really is a foreign country.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Who says AA is not good just because scotus said it was illegal? Certainly not Harvard, anyway, who redoubled their commitment to achieving their desired demographics by hook or by crook.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
11mo ago
K: No, I can't, particularly when you switched from "and" to "or" after the objection.
Pretty impressive to notice something like this in the stress of hostile questioning.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
I found it remarkable that she fully offloaded any responsibility from women for the status quo. They are all being forced to have all this sex with strangers by the men and the media and have zero accountability themselves.
Little by little she comes to agree with what her mother taught her. Her onlyfans career is perhaps best viewed as a way to continue her rebellion without a cause.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4mo ago
Second, DEI is being rolled back both in government and business.
I work at a company where DEI has been rolled back and internal discussions of this are uniformly condemning the change. I have literally not seen a single person defending them. I know I can't be the only one who isn't sorry to see them go, but the culture is still such that people don't feel safe expressing that.
Woke at the top may be on the ropes, but on the bottom it's still alive and well.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
6mo ago
Consider that many doctors are functionally working 2-3 full time jobs worth of work.
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.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
While looking for the source of these quotes I found a reddit thread where everyone dunked on Alito for being so stupid as to try to comprehend YouTube as a newspaper, even though he clearly is making a joke, even implying that YouTube is nothing like a newspaper.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
We know that the No campaign was funded and resourced by conservative and international interests who have no stake or genuine interest in the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We know this funding supported multiple No campaigns that intentionally argued in varying directions to create doubt and fear in both non-Indigenous and Indigenous communities.
AFAICT 'yes' outspent 'no' by orders of magnitude. Another nail in the coffin for those who think that you can just buy any election.
There has always been racism against First Nations people in Australia. It increased with multiple daily instances during the campaign and was a powerful driver for the No campaign. But this campaign went beyond just racism. ‘If you don't know - Vote No’ gave expression to ignorance and licensed the abandonment of civic responsibility on the part of many voters who voted No. This shameful victory belongs to the Institute of Public Affairs, the Centre for Independent Studies and mainstream media.
It's funny because lots of people across the spectrum follow "if you don't know vote no" when it comes to referendums where I live. It caught me totally off guard to see that this was such a vehement point of contention in the Australian referendum.
sarker
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9mo ago
Automating the ports is pro social. It's just not pro-longshoremen, who account for 0.01% of society. What kind of costs should the rest of us pay so that they can keep doing this generation after generation? I'd be happy with some kind of lump some payment plus forced retirement so this danegeld situation stops. Otherwise it's just another of the absurd frictions that are eating away at American prosperity.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Steelman: books are in fact cool, and zoomers would benefit from touching something that doesn't have a screen in it.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
9mo ago
This is the perfect microcosm of the female vs the male view of reality.
Has a guy ever asked you out by saying that he likes spending time with you and leaving it at that?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
The campaign's proposals include a "first-ever" tax credit for builders of homes sold to first-time buyers
What about first time buyers who want to live in a place where there aren't newly built homes?
It is totally retarded that owning a home has become a load bearing part of the retirement saving strategy in this country because it basically requires that it becomes gradually impossible for young people to actually buy a house in a place they might want to live (after all, good investment houses can't be affordable). Tragically, without a modern day unaccountable cigar smoking Volcker type to rip off the bandaid and whisper "no" as millions beg to be saved, this will never change until the wheels fall off entirely.
Not to mention the fact that this does nothing to address the reasons houses are unaffordable in the first place. If you want a vision of the future, picture a government subsidizing demand and restricting supply, forever.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
2yr ago
There's some cream skimming by private schools but there really is a billion dollars on the sidewalk here that nobody will pick up because it would ruin teachers' self image.
Direct instruction is meaningfully better than other methods: https://psych.athabascau.ca/open/engelmann/direct-evid.php
Being able to fire teachers also makes a difference: https://www.econtalk.org/terry-moe-on-educational-reform-katrina-and-hidden-power/
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
3mo ago
The Matura (graduation for the successful completion of higher secondary schooling), awarded to [Einstein] in September 1896, acknowledged him to have performed well across most of the curriculum, allotting him a top grade of 6 for history, physics, algebra, geometry, and descriptive geometry.
Gauss was a child prodigy in mathematics. When the elementary teachers noticed his intellectual abilities, they brought him to the attention of the Duke of Brunswick who sent him to the local Collegium Carolinum,[a] which he attended from 1792 to 1795
None of this sounds like kids who were on the bottom track at school.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5mo ago
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
7mo ago
The Democrat rank and file seem to have have largely convinced themselves that the Democratic party message is Just Being A Decent Human Being. It's hard to pivot from that to the message being a problem.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
10mo ago
For example, if we need to cut spending by 20%, every single department budget gets slashed by 20%. No exceptions.
This is conceptually simple but in practice is a terrible idea.
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Departments already running lean are penalized and may dip below the minimum number of people they need to fulfill their core mission.
Corollary: Inevitably the small department that keeps the whole organization running will get thrown under the bus and sooner or later everything goes to shit.
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Departments whose heads had the foresight to maintain appropriate blubber reserves chug along unaffected and wasteful. You'd need an 80% cut to start to make a difference.
I've seen this exact scenario play out in corporate cost cutting campaigns.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
It really only hurts renters whose parents aren't homeonwers and therefore won't inherit that wealth. Most young Canadians, even if they rent, have parents who are benefiting from this and therefore shouldn't really complain (although they do).
This doesn't really make sense.
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people don't want to wait for their parents to kick the bucket to afford a house
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if you have siblings, you are likely not getting the house anyway
What people want is to spend a reasonable amount of money on housing, not comfort themselves with the thought of an upcoming windfall in a few decades after a (for most people) traumatic event.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1yr ago
Stereotype threat probably does not exist. It's publication biased to shit and what is published likely does not replicate.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
4mo ago
Musk is more likely to die in jail than in Mars.
Aren't we all?
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5mo ago
deBoer provides several examples of the kinds of people who compose "they".
Also, they propose sweeping changes to K-12 curricula, but you can’t call it CRT, even though the curricular documents specifically reference CRT, and if you do you’re an idiot and also you’re a racist cryptofascist. Also nobody (nobody!) ever advocated for defunding the police, and if they did it didn’t actually mean defunding the police. Seems to be a real resistance to simple, comprehensible terms around here. Serwer is a guy who constantly demands that he and his allies be allowed to do politics on easy mode, but he’s just part of a broader communal rejection of basic self-definition and comprehensible terms for this political tendency. Also if you say things they don’t like they might try to beat you up. Emphasis on try.
I am not sure how else "who is 'they'" can be answered (when we're talking about a movement that rejects labels) if we don't describe them by their beliefs. Do you want a list of names or what?
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of white girls raped with the assistance of their own government... between 1 in 6 and 1 in 3 girls age 11-17 in the affected cities
Hopefully you get a response in before the inevitable ban - what is the evidence for this claim? As far as I know the usual estimate is closer to 1,400. It's pretty clear that 200,000 white girls would be way more than 1 in 6 girls age 11-17 in Rotherham (population 100k) and other cities.
I seem to remember you had great doubts about death toll estimations due to the Holocaust, so I hope that you went over these numbers with similar scrutiny.
My ideal system: applicants strip naked, anoint themselves with oil, then are dropped together innawoods with nothing but a knife. The goal is to reach a pickup point a hundred miles away where 100 of them will be randomly selected to go on to stage 2. This will require them to work together while having a plan to betray their comrades, which is important for elite. Them being naked encourages looksism in their alliances, which is a good thing because the elite should be beautiful, solid, supple, tight, and golden skinned.
For stage 2 they are immediately driven over to the Mr Olympia stage and pose in front of 5000 people next to actual contestanfs. This will test their bullshitting and out-angling skills, which are the most important elite skills (have to look like the bigger guy in the hand shake photo ops).
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