ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
5mo ago
How far do you have to walk to touch grass? If it's less than half a block, it's suburban IMO.
ulyssessword
8mo ago
What are you talking about? Do you think that they were hopping in a time machine to get to their "home" in the 1860s when they were attending school in the 1960s?
Of course the conditions improved in a hundred years. You've correctly identified that it's simply ludicrous to deny that, but I'm not sure why you felt it was relevant.
In fact, let's imagine an alternate history: Colonization, settlement, and the Treaties happen like normal, but then the native population gets locked in and experiences zero changes in welfare/wealth/happiness/etc. from the pre-contact baseline. Would you think "Wow, the Federal Government is doing a great job. We haven't worsened their nasty, brutish, and short lives at all!"?
Maintaining the status quo doesn't meet my standards, and neither do the (frankly huge) improvements we have done in reality. This goes double when you cast your eye back a few decades.
ulyssessword
8mo ago
You don't think that the conditions on reserves are the responsibility of the Federal government, or you don't think that they were bad, or what?
How familiar are you with Canadian history?
ulyssessword
1yr ago
(FYI, I'm not @netstack)
...using Urban Dictionary's almost unrecognizable definition and describing them as whores, which conflates hypergamy with being sexually loose for money.
Urban Dictionary is a perfectly fine source here, because it reflects the same attitudes and biases as the group we're talking about: they conflate hypergamy with being sexually loose for money because "dissatisfied young men. Maybe incels, maybe RETVRNers" conflate hypergamy with being sexually loose for money.
See The Red Pill Community Forum|What is hypergamy? How to Benefit from Hypergamy & Everything You Need to Know About Hypergamy. for a second example.
If you think their claims are incorrect or confused, then go ahead and argue that. They are making the claims, though.
ulyssessword
7mo ago
ulyssessword
8mo ago
Why would I engage with the horrors of pre-modern life? Residential schools were only shutting down around the 1960s, so it's appropriate to judge them based on contemporary standards.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I looked it up, and it seems to fit. Relevant quotes from the first few links:
What point were you trying to make?
EDIT: wrong person. These are talking about Abrams the politician, not Lawrence-Bundy the lawyer.
Let's check:
with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm of the candidate’s campaign chairwoman.
But some outside the group questioned both the level of expenditures devoted to a single, largely unsuccessful legal action and the fact that such a large payout went to the firm of Abrams’ close friend and campaign chair.
“Beyond $10 million would be very shocking, I would say.”
some ethics watchdogs say the closeness of their relationship, combined with Lawrence-Hardy’s leading roles in Abrams’ campaigns, raises questions about a possible conflict of interest.
“It is a very clear conflict of interest because with that kind of close link to the litigation and her friend that provides an opportunity where the friend gets particularly enriched from this litigation,”
Through her campaign, Abrams declined to be interviewed.
Abrams didn’t congratulate Kemp after his narrow victory. Instead, she complained that the electoral system was flawed.
...and I stopped halfway through. I'd say that all of those statements in the Politico article are diminishing her qualifications in some way or another, to varying degrees.
ulyssessword
2d ago
You just need to accept that program state and file state do not need to be correlated.
Or I could continue to tilt at windmills.
I just have an odd feeling that, when you're using a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get style editor, when you see something you should also get it.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
Not sure why it’s not working for me.
Try it while logged out (or in a private window). Reddit's blocking functionality is a bit strange.
ulyssessword
2mo ago
I am going to die in this game-like dimension has one of the most unique worlds I've seen, even if the plot is kind of generic. It was written by a physics teacher, and it has entirely new physics: gravity pulls you to the nearest surface, cold is just as real as heat, your lungs process lavi and oxygen doesn't exist, and my personal favourite: "
Generally, the differences from earthly physics show up in a controlled scenario (such as training), then surprisingly they also show up in real situations working exactly the same way. Like, wall-running past a pit is fine because the nonexistent floor doesn't pull you down, but surely
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ulyssessword
3mo ago
Maybe
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It also shifts the comments rightwards to use up that space
ulyssessword
4mo ago
I like that idea for luminous intensity. The other option would be a number of photons, but I'm not sure how well that would work out.
For temperature, absolute zero (-273.15 C) is 0, freezing (0 C) is 100, room temperature (20 C) is about 107, and boiling (100 C) is about 136 (depending on elevation).
ulyssessword
4mo ago
most Americans would be squicked out and there's literally no one pushing for it...Every politician who voted for that would be saying goodbye to their career and personal life.
Why? Every argument I can think of comes down to "because they don't believe sex work is real work", and the same arguments that would convince the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice would convince the Department of Corrections (and/or the voters upstream of those organizations).
I'm aware that the previous paragraph sounds like "without God, Atheists have nothing stopping them from murdering everyone!!!", but I literally don't see the limiting principle (assuming there is one).
ulyssessword
5mo ago
OP mentioned him getting a standing ovation
Oddly, that article (link again) never actually says who was arrested. If you read through word-by-word, all you can say is:
- Petgrave's skate slit the throat of Adam Johnson.
- Johnson suffered a fatal injury to his neck.
- A man has now been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over Johnson's death
Who could that man possibly be?? Any conclusion you could reach would just be wild speculation and couldn't be attributed to the Sun in any way, shape, or form.
ulyssessword
5mo ago
Okay? 62% Christian - 46% YEC = 16% Christian nonYEC (very very roughly).
I didn't expect that to be a smaller subset of Americans and I'm still not confident in the calculation, but filter bubbles are salient because they break your intuition.
ulyssessword
5mo ago
One of the internal websites at my company only supports Chrome. Not "Chromium-based browsers" like Edge, just Chrome. IIRC, it was an effort to reduce development challenges, and getting 100% of employees to install a program is easier than building something with compatibility in mind.
Given the fact that User Agent switcher addons exist, I suspect that that practice has been increasing and will continue to increase in the future. There's not much point in having multiple browser engines competing if only one is allowed to access the websites you want without (the mildest forms of) "hacking".
ulyssessword
7mo ago
I wonder if there are more ways I can take on "writing obligations."
There's an opportunity just a few threads down from here: https://www.themotte.org/post/659/the-motte-moddes-highspace-september-2023
ulyssessword
8mo ago
This might even be doable purely as a client-side bit of JS.
You can ctrl-F for "new
ulyssessword
8mo ago
Multiple spoilers on one line are broken.
If you have
ulyssessword
11mo ago
Monthly Motte Meta-post? Write up some site news and updates, pose a specific question or two, and have an opening for general comments?
Monthly may be too quick, but I'd hate to give up the alliteration.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Yup, which is why I didn't oppose marijuana legalization back when it passed.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Replace "years" with "decades" and everything else will be the same. The mechanism simply doesn't allow for concentrating allotment the way that we can currently concentrate wealth.
Ultimately you'd end up with a two class society, between the Methuselahs (those who received a significant initial resource allocation block and have grown by countless death dividends) and the Children (those who start out with a zero or minimal block and have received fewer death dividends than the Meths).
I'm not sure if the math works out that way. I'm envisioning it as follows:
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Every year, everyone gets +1 allocation point from other people dying
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Families split their allocation evenly at each birth.
Let's look at several family structures that are stable over generations.
Large young family:
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Inherit 16 points
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Marry someone identical, and have children at 20, 22, 24, 26 years old
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The family has 2 * 16 (inheritance) + 2 * 26 (parent's age) + 6 + 4 + 2 + 0 (children) = 96 points, split six ways = 16 points each
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Live another 80 years, dying at 96 points of allocation.
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Average approx 49.4 points during your life
Small young family:
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Inherit 40 points
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Marry someone identical, and have a child at 20 years old
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The family has 2 * 40 (inheritance) + 2 * 20 (parent's age) + 0 (child) = 120 points, split three ways = 40 points each
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Live another 80 years, dying at 120 points of allocation.
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Average approx 90 points during your life
Small old family:
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Inherit 80 points
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Marry someone identical, and have a child at 40 years old
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The family has 2 * 80 (inheritance) + 2 * 40 (parent's age) + 0 (child) = 240 points, split three ways = 80 points each
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Live another 60 years, dying at 140 points of allocation.
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Average approx 106 points during your life
I don't think that a mere doubling of resources is enough to entrench an aristocracy or cast someone into poverty. More permissive inheritance laws could make for stronger effects, but that isn't how I read the proposal.
The poor conditions in their home communities were also the fault of the Canadian government, so relative rates aren't a very convincing argument.EDIT: Nevermind, I've fallen for the narrative. Death rates at residential schools reached acceptable mortality rates by 1949 (Source Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials (PDF), p17, from this website).
(As a sidenote, my thought process was "Why the downvotes? Motteposters are usually smarter than that. I'll show them with FACTS and LOGIC." lol.)
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