stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
Completely unrelated to the matter at hand, but did reading “nullification fetish” trigger a mental image of John C. Calhoun dressed in black leather for anyone else?
stuckinbathroom
23d ago
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
Non-Asian minority (using a PIN number to withdraw money from an ATM machine, of course)
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
Hear, hear. US health “insurance” is really a kludgey hodge-podge of at least 3 things that can and should be completely independent of one another:
- True insurance (for catastrophic events that are costly, rare, and difficult to foresee in individual cases, but follow a well-known statistical distribution)
- Health savings scheme (for medical expenses that will very predictably affect ~everyone who lives long enough)
- Welfare
stuckinbathroom
27d ago
New Russell conjugation: I am a Platonic philosopher-king, you engage in hairsplitting pilpul, he says “It depends upon what the meaning of the word is is”
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
So you can still service your dakimakura five times a day, right?
While facing Akihabara, as is tradition
stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
Breaking news: Uri Berliner has since resigned. I have to assume that "resigned" here is the usual thing where bigshots are allowed to resign to save face and avoid the public spectacle of being fired that any normal employee would face.
I sincerely hope this leads to a wave of resignations within NPR, with everyone saying “Ich bin ein Berliner” as their parting words.
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
One is also reminded of New Zealand PM Robert Muldoon’s famous quip that Kiwi emigration to Australia “raised the IQ of both countries”
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
gestures broadly at everything
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
Funnily enough, I had the exact opposite impression: I rather wonder whether this will be picked up by the far right as a way to legitimize opposition to immigration, in normie eyes: “Real diversity” means preserving the native people and culture of $WHITE_WESTERN_COUNTRY, who are a tiny, beleaguered minority in global terms.
One man’s modus ponens and all that.
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
he has always towed the line
Ah, my favorite pet peeve rears its ugly head again: it’s toe the line
stuckinbathroom
10mo ago
As an exercise, let’s taboo the term “far-right”. What exactly is “far-right” about AfD’s platform? Do they propose:
- More strictly vetting all new asylum claims
- Reviewing successful asylum claims from 2015 to the present day, and deporting those found to have made false statements
- Kicking down doors and summarily executing men, women, and children who are not of 100% Aryan stock
… or something else entirely?
stuckinbathroom
4mo ago
“We wanted workers, but we got people instead” —Max Frisch
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” —Milton Friedman
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
The DoE was made in the fires of Congress. Only there can it be unmade.
But seriously though, it’s one thing for the President to fire anyone who serves at his pleasure, to leave the office of a cabinet secretary vacant indefinitely, or even to axe entire orgs that were created under executive authority. However, constitutionally, how can a federal department—or any other entity created by Congress—be legally dismantled, except by legislation to that effect? Seems like a blatant violation of Article 2, Section 2
I am aware that Musk is likely exaggerating for effect—in fact, he might not even be exaggerating, but describing the truth on the ground rather than as a legal fiction: if the DoE exists on paper but has no personnel, no money, no responsibilities, and no authority, then (when restricted to 280 characters) it’s quite fair to say it “doesn’t exist”. But my question is precisely about the legal fiction of the matter, the collective delusion if you will: to truly end the DoE in the eyes of the law, doesn’t Congress need to do something?
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
P Escobar describes the monopolisation of local civil society thus
Not sure I would trust the King of Cocaine on this, but then again I imagine he has significant experience in dealing with various arms of the US federal government
stuckinbathroom
5mo ago
It's beautiful hearing the Battle Hymn of the Republic, seeing soldiers march to it. Same with Glory, Glory Hallelujah.
Uh, isn’t the latter just (part of) the chorus of the former?
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
I’m sorry, did you mean “main’s house with the main’s tools”?
—GitHub, probably
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
whose security they have guaranteed in the 90s
I assume you are referring to the Budapest Memorandum, by which Ukraine surrendered all of its nuclear weapons. That Memorandum famously did not use the term “security guarantee”, but rather the utterly toothless “security assurance”.
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
They simply do not have the mana for that anymore.
Hence why they are tapping more lands of color, so to speak.
stuckinbathroom
1yr ago
God did not intend every individual to have access to a universal Turing machine. On the other hand, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds did
“God created men, Richard Stallman made them equal” —new motto of the Free Software Foundation, probably
stuckinbathroom
6mo ago
It’s going to make for a banger trivia question in a couple of decades, though: who was prime minister when Queen Elizabeth II died?
stuckinbathroom
7mo ago
As a wise man once said: if they don’t want to be seen as an international conspiracy to subvert and destroy anything that goes against their ethno-religious interests, then they should probably stop conspiring internationally to subvert and destroy anything that goes against their ethno-religious interests
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
“I see the Soviet system as what can stroika, unburdened by what has stroika-ed” —Gorby, probably
Seriously though, what do you mean by this? That Harris is supposed to be an infusion of new blood, a last-ditch effort to stave off gerontocratic stagnation?
stuckinbathroom
11mo ago
Scott (PBUH) referred to this as the Noncentral Fallacy and furthermore dubbed it the worst argument in the world
See also: Danegeld, negotiating with terrorists
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