sarker
ketman hetman
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
ketman hetman
16hr ago
This is a perfectly legitimate translation. A "shield" is not a unit of currency, it would be distracting to talk about people paying so many "shields" for something.
"Crown" is not only British currency: M-W has it as "any of several old gold coins with a crown as part of the device". Did écus have crowns on them? Why yes they did.
sarker
ketman hetman
17hr ago
My wife and I liked In the Mood for Love a lot (less so Days of Being Wild and even less so 2046). I can assure you there's no problem though.
It's simply such an amazing vibe and mood. Also WKW's obvious penchant for ass is amusing.
sarker
ketman hetman
17hr ago
it's better to be oversensitive than under-sensitive here
True so long as your husband doesn't start ignoring you entirely due to the oversensitivity.
Male backseat driver in recovery checking in. My wife prefers to drive, I don't, and I used to give advice when I felt she was doing something clearly wrong ("honey, the light is green and the car in front of you pulled away thirty seconds ago while you were looking out the side window"). This inevitably led to resentment on her side and tension on mine as I focused on what she was doing wrong.
Eventually I decided to stop doing this and things are much more enjoyable. Operating the car is her problem, not mine, and I limit my driving commentary to reminding her when she's left the turn signal on for two miles on the interstate.
My sister is definitely a backseat driver too, but in a much worse way. I don't start braking immediately if cars in front are braking since I leave ample follow distance for exactly such cases, but this greatly stresses her out: "they're braking! They're braking!"
sarker
ketman hetman
19hr ago
But that isn't going to change the fact the CS grad working as a waiter can literally count the CS H1-Bs being brought in, and the CS foreign exchange students getting those jobs he isn't.
This just doesn't represent reality. The CS underemployment rate is way below average. There's also no trend in the overall underemployment rate, and it's a little better than it was when they started tracking in the late 80s.
This whole thing is a nothingburger.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
My point is that rugpulling the economic base will rugpull the ideology too.
Maybe to some extent. But we've had a variety of economic systems, few of which involved AWFLs cancelling people, and I'd say about (although not exactly) zero of them involved simply killing the "useless eaters". It would seem that people are generally averse to just killing large classes of people, even if they don't like them.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
I'd say a statement like "I didn't mean to shoot myself in the head, I was just playing Russian roulette" sounds pretty dumb.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
You can simply feed them in batches instead of all at once. It's not a question of curation.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
I guess I could theoretically load deposition transcripts in case I needed to see if there was one taken in the past where a witness said something I could use, but that would literally require millions of tokens of input context, assuming it was even capable of handling such a request, and the utility of that would be limited, i.e. I'd do it if it were cheap enough but there's no way it would be cheap enough.
Not saying it would or wouldn't work well for this, but even Opus 4.6 is $5 per million input tokens. You probably wouldn't want to feed in all the transcripts at once though.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
Billionaires and spooks are the ones to worry about with AI takeover, they have their hands on the buttons.
I'm informed that they already have their hands on the buttons. Certainly the middle aged women are not the ones with their fingers on the buttons.
An economic system that produces and requires a bunch of middle-aged women in office jobs, a bunch of teachers and bureaucrats and officials and journalists
In what sense are they required?
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
There aren’t any examples of people building “Disneyland” for people unrelated to them, particularly people who do nothing to benefit those paying for it.
You are aware of the sums being spent on the homeless in West Coast cities, right?
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
High income people are for the most part the upper middle class.
It's intuitively bizarre to say that people who out-earn 99% of people are part of the middle class. Data bears out our intuitions - half of the top 1% of wealth holders are in the top 1% by income, with the rest of the top 1% of income earners being made of the next 9% of wealth holders. You're welcome to define the top 10% of the country as the "upper middle class" but this is pretty nonsensical.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
The status quo ante is impossible because we destroyed their military and nuclear program.
Yeah, I'd say it's a little early to call this one. Casualties appear to amount to 5% of the IRGC strength. 5% is not nothing, but I wouldn't call it destruction. The status of the nuclear program is simply unclear at this point.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
Indeed, the Ayatollah is dead, however it's not clear that merely replacing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei counts as a success. Or at least, I have never heard anyone describe such a thing as a success scenario before the war required it.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
You'll notice that the comment about the war being a success if Iran has no military was made after I had responded to the original comment that boils down to "the status quo ante would be a win"
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
The top 1% of income earned pay 40% of income tax which goes to fund Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and EBT. I doubt that Al Capone spent as much of his income on soup kitchens as top 1% income earners spend on those things. Yet this is not enough.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
Because prosecuting a war at some cost of blood and treasure only to end up with the status quo ante is a failure.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
I find it a little amusing that most of these would constitute things being worse than the status quo ante. It seems that if tomorrow Donald announces that the war is over and everyone goes home and we end up where we were before all this mess except Iran spent some missiles and replaced the Ayatollah you'd consider this a smashing success.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
Like most Shagbark posts, this is post-hoc cope to justify what he was going to do anyway. Really, Shaggy, women don't like wagies? But if they did, you'd become one? It's too late, he has already depicted me as the screaming soyjak and himself as the handsome Aryan Chad.
The reality is that among my coworkers even the very physically, shall we say, ungifted don't seem to have problems finding wives and having one or two kids.
I can't speak to the ease of running a business, but 20% of small businesses close within a year. Presumably most of those are run by idiots, but the odds still don't seem great.
It isn't a paraphrase any more than wiring "horse" instead of "cheval" is a paraphrase.
You've invented a distinction that does not exist. "Crown" is not limited to those things. I have already shown you the definition. It's a fact of life that no two words in different languages have exactly the same meaning.
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