yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
1d ago
For every single caveat you could line up to frame this as "dishonest," you have lined up there's an equal and opposite modifier the other way. These are people who aren't citizens, many without IDs or stable places to live, and they still were somehow indicted in our crappy criminal justice system?
Most reasonable people would agree that traffic and weed are a totally different deal. 66% is fucking enormous - it's higher than black males.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
If your point is that the median voter is a spinless fool devoid of coherent political philosophy, who simultaneously wants more gibmes and lower taxes, who reads headlines and tweets to form every opinion.... then yeah, I agree with you.
I even think that, as a pragmatic measure, Trump backing down on this gives him enough time to save face before the next election, maybe even midterms!
they don't want to see a bunch of scary violence
It should be more normal to be averse to violence than it is today. But it's sick that a 30-second clip of gunfire is what's being force-fed down the gullets of the ducks being fattened for slaughter, not the endless hours of shitty rioters blanketing Minnesota.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
/r/bicycling has something like 55k upvotes where the last actual bicycling-related post topped out at 13k. I know Trump is great, but this is just a shallow copy of George Floyd virtue-jerking frenzy (although TBF a superior martyr).
In talking to blue people IRL, my sampling so far is:
- Men: 50% believe no deportations should happen, 50% believe that it should be done more effectively and less violently.
- Women: 90% believe no deportations should happen.
Quite frankly, if we were all on the same page about doing deportations quickly, we wouldn't even have much of an argument.
I'm seeing more framing like you're presenting here. Transparently, I don't believe it. People don't show up to these protests to prove they aren't intimidated. None of the people protesting are going to be stopped by ICE's detention or deportation. The most charitable way I can frame it is that they view illegal immigrants as the people working at their favorite mexican place or mowing their yard and think it makes their cause righteous.
In reality, it's just garden-variety TDS. The anti-ICE riots are happening exclusively in blue cities where a critical mass of people and opinions are relishing the opportunity to get in a fight with agents of the state they view as extensions of Trump himself. But of course, they'd riot if he offered free ice cream.
I mean, look at this framing from NPR: "A Third of people arrested by ICE have no Criminal record". Are we for real here? ICE's track record so far is such that even wildly dishonest, leftist institutions admit that 66% of them are criminals, and now we're talking about why we need to stop that activity?
The new argument ("We just want smart deportations") is because moderates do grok how insane it is to be using cars as weapons, to wrestle with cops while carrying a gun, and then to pretend like you're a victim. I've only heard it in the past 3 days. And I say this while believing that Saturday's shoot was not a good one - it's a huge bummer that he got killed, and it looks like a mistake more than anything else.
Insane take. Insane. He was wrestling the whole fucking time man. Jesus.
Let's say the act of being arrested is 1 standard unit of violence. Being shot by the police is... Some higher number. 10?
The act of facilitating a useful permit regime is .01. It's useful to round to zero in polite everyday conversation, I do it all the time. In this discussion, this is what you're saying by suggesting it's not required.
If that's true and it had truly zero utility, you wouldn't even bother showing up to the police station. But if we are being precise then .01 <> 0.
Aside: there's a direct example of this in America. RealID - just upgrading the legitimacy of identification - was passed in 2005. It was supposedly completely implemented by 2024, and is supposedly being enforced by airports as of last year. (They're not, actually, but most people believe it now)
The secret is that they're not, and waitlists to get DMV appointments to upgrade are still years long in some jurisdictions. The whole country essentially didn't bother doing it, until the threat/utility became more real.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
There is a significant difference between standing guard outside a car dealership (Rittenhouse) and the tactics of anti-ICE protestors.
The latter is being actively physically violent, using cars as weapons, and moving as close to the line that justified lethal force as possible.
Lemmings on a cliff, pushing each other forward. The ones who survive get smoky, exciting Instagram reels and likes on blue sky. The ones who fall off are catching bullets. It's an acceptable cost to the group.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
It's fair to call out that the right was not disciplined on J6.
That's one example compared to dozens (hundreds?) of instances on the left over the past decade.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
I don't see what's hard to understand about this.
By the state enforcing consequences - of violence - for not having a permit or not having an ID card, it granting people these things is still a violent act.
Of course it feels different in the moment. Or maybe "It's just a piece of paper". But it's all control at the barrel of a gun, even if it's a permit/ID regime I think is practically useful or even required in a modern western nation.
yofuckreddit
6d ago
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yofuckreddit
7d ago
What do you think of SQL so far? It's one of my favorite tools
yofuckreddit
8d ago
The "upgrades" are trivial: A gasket/showerhead/holder set (the plastic holder fails very quickly on these) and a naked portafilter from Normcore. The dual boiler uses a 58mm grouphead, so the aftermarket is rich on that front.
I replaced all the internal gaskets as well, which was the job I talked about. One failed, and so I just went ahead and did the whole set. Very fiddly work but straighforward, the newest models all have upgraded maintainability (down to descaling).
If I become a cash millionaire, I'll sell it for something much more Italian and better looking, like yours.
yofuckreddit
8d ago
The problem is the combination of price and quality. You're paying between 2-4x more for far worse coffee. The net overall value difference between fresh ground drip and Keurig is at least 10x.
Say what you will about Nespresso, but at least the cups are nominally recyclable and it tastes decent.
yofuckreddit
8d ago
Unironically, this is fine. French Press is such a fantastic brewing method. Some points:
- If you already have space taken up by a blade grinder, you might as well get a burr grinder. They never fall apart, and you'll get better flavor and the ability to do other brew methods if you want.
- The only "snob" step you're missing here is the removal of the bitter crema crust at the top of your press before adding the top and plunging down. It's low effort, low yield, so totally optional.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
What machine do you have? I'll mention I replaced a ful set of gaskets in my Breville Dual Boiler last year. It took an hour or so, which I consider pretty great for a famously less repair-friendly machine. It's been chugging around now with some aftermarket upgrades for 6 years.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
Three strong cups a day is too much, and my sleep has suffered as a result.
I've been cutting out afternoon coffee while physically recovering to help sleep. I hate to say it, but it's a major upgrade. I've now compromised a bit and offer myself high-quality decaf in the afternoon. The state of the art here has changed, though it feels strange to pay drug-high-prices for the drug being removed (similar mental challenges with NA beer).
On one hand, sleeping well feels great. On the other, the pleasure of an afternoon coffee is one of life's greatest. It helps me keep workin' hard at the computer from 2:00 - 5:00 when my brain is already fried.
No. No, no no. Don't excuse the Keurig use by @Muninn. It's a machine that exemplifies everything wrong about late-stage capitalism and the infantile American palate.
Just talking through it should be enough. Here's the "pitch": we're going to take a tiny, 9-gram dose of coffee and grind it to immediately start the process of decay. We're going to entomb it in a 3-gram amalgamation of aluminum and plastic - just enough to make sure nothing can be recycled, and packed full of air so idiotic consumers don't realize how much we're ripping them off.
We'll design machines with the lowest-grade plastic available, full of shiny surfaces that attract fingerprints. Each one a crime of industrial design: Debossed KEURIG front-and-center, pathetic blacks and greys, chunky cup holders that eat up so much vertical space that no meaningful drip dray can exist, and side-saddle water reservoirs to even destroy the tiny mercy of symmetry. No water filtration necessary! The algae growing in the poorly maintained office example should make it into every cup. While we're at it, let's spread that coffee dose around 3 different water sizes, spitting in the face of ratios, and make sure we only have one brewing temperature (Nuclear Hot) as insurance against someone tasting the slop we're pouring out. A scalded taste bud can be abused with impunity.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The coffee's bad enough, but there's a whole secondary ecosystem of "hot chocolate" and "apple cider" HFCS delivery systems that the underclass loves to puncture with those plastic needles, just to hasten the day they need to do the same with insulin and their skin.
I respect spooning instant coffee into the bottom of a mug 10,000x more than the animal self-cruelty of using the worst fast-coffee system ever devised.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
It got me thinking if I'll be able to. The number of highly respected boomers I loved who have calcified is high. It's difficult to think of those who stayed flexible, and the number can be displayed on a single hand.
Maybe the lesson is to line yourself up before 50, to make the glide onto the landing strip as graceful as possible.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
This was exactly my thought, and the elements led to very emergent social situations. No dancing emotes needed, just severe financial consequences for leaving yourself open to being backstabbed etc.
yofuckreddit
15d ago
Sure, but the cumulative capital flowing from the couple to this therapist (3 different types of therapy...) is a huge outlay. I'd pick being Poly over being forced into therapy like this any day.
yofuckreddit
15d ago
Wild dynamic - your gf is essentially demanding another person be in your relationship! I wonder what she gets out of it.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
sparked by economic problems such as rampant inflation and Tehran running out of water
Some of these are the result of vanilla idiotic theocracy, but I wouldn't downplay the influence of US sanctions on economic problems.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
I'll add an anecdote here from swiss bike touring friends who spent 3 years traveling the world. They said Iran was the friendliest country in the world from their experience.
yofuckreddit
18d ago
This is awesome
My Libertarian bones ache to agree with you. I even think that ICE doing these manual, piecemeal raids is less effective than blanket enforcement at Farms, meat processors, and landscaping companies.
But once again reality rears its head: You cannot simultaneously prioritize criminals for deportation (which the Admin is clearly doing, given 2/3 of the targets are criminals) and the, frankly, decent people working in industry. This demand from the left makes me want to fucking scream it's so dissonant.
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