The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
· Edited 17hr ago
They don't have to be the "big swinging dicks" to be covered under the charge. 18 USC 1071 states
Whoever harbors or conceals any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been issued under the provisions of any law of the United States, so as to prevent his discovery and arrest, after notice or knowledge of the fact that a warrant or process has been issued for the apprehension of such person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; except that if the warrant or process issued on a charge of felony, or after conviction of such person of any offense, the punishment shall be a fine under this title, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
The Justice Department helpfully lays out the elements:
Under 18 U.S.C. § 1071, the government must establish the following four essential elements: (1) a federal warrant has been issued for the fugitive's arrest; (2) the defendant had knowledge that a warrant had been issued for the fugitive's arrest; (3) the defendant actually harbored or concealed the fugitive; and (4) the defendant intended to prevent the fugitive's discovery or arrest. United States v. Silva, 745 F.2d 840, 848 (4th Cir. 1984), cert. denied, 470 U.S. 1031 (1985). Accord, United States v. Udey, 748 F.2d 1231, 1235-36 (8th Cir. 1984), cert. denied, 472 U.S. 1017 (1985); United States v. Bissonette, 586 F.2d 73, 77 (8th Cir. 1978).
But I think she was convicted on the other charge, 18 USC 1505, which fits rather less well. It fits about as well as the obstruction charges from Sarbanes-Oxley fit the J6 cases; it has one section specifically concerned with obstructing the Antitrust Civil Process Act, and the second is
Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress—
Seems to me under the J6 precedent, this should be thrown out. This is not the kind of obstruction 18 USC 1505 was meant for.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Eh, Picard was just older. We saw in "Tapestry" that young Picard was the kind of guy who would have totally decked Q.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
There's been a concerted effort to create a female fandom for all the male oriented IPs to expand their TAM, especially in gaming where the average budgets keep ballooning every year. The rationale is that male gamers (existing fandom) will remain loyal to the IP and get incalculated into feminism. But females need to be interested. So do away with the fratboy culture! Let HR screen the environment, kick out the milquetoast Gen X techbros and onboard woke millennial women. Accommodate all of their favourite social justice causes (BLM, LGBTQ). Fight the male gaze!
This is not a rationale; this is a rationalization for what they wanted to do anyway. The idea of "let's alienate our existing customers because they'll buy anyway, so we can just cater to the new customers we want at no cost" is pants-on-head stupid to begin with. It'd be like cigarette companies trying to cater to the health-nut demographic... by removing the nicotine. When they do it and it DOESN'T WORK and they keep doing it, the already transparent rationalization just falls apart.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Huh, the Pakistani immigrants must have had the day off. They would have successfully stopped you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You can't even pump gas in New Jersey without being acosted by locals.
Those are immigrants.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
One thing Marx had right is that religion is the opiate of the masses. Spirituality doesn't wake you up; it simply diverts your attention and efforts from the real to the unreal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
As the saying goes, men chase and women choose. Women have, increasingly, been choosing "none of the above". Societally, it is anathema to even consider that women's choices may be the problem, so we get this shifting of the responsibility back to men... but this is a problem men can't solve short of going Full Roman, which isn't going to happen.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
And at the same time increased the initial, maintenance, and regulatory cost of a car to that of a new 18-wheeler. You might want to start looking at those issues before trying to move enough money around to increase the number of Freightliners people are willing to buy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Yeah though on a societal level is it better if people are overcautious about their infants or undercautious?
What are you optimizing for? If you're optimizing for percentage of infants who survive infancy, more caution looks good. If you're optimizing for total number of infants who survive infancy, it might look a lot less good.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
If your entire post can be flipped to support the other side by just swapping a few key words, are you actually saying anything?
You can flip anything that way, but its correspondence to reality may change. "I know you are but what am I" is an argument that should stay in the kindergartens.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Or, they want the guests to have the fantasy that they're actually picking these girls up and not using prostitutes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Forget it, she's marrying Chad Stolzfus, the son of the owner of the pretzel stand.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Anyone older then a Millennial is a "boomer". That includes Gen-X, Silents, WWII, Lost Generation, and even the unnamed generations prior. Years from now the Zeds, Alphas and Betas will be calling the Millennials "boomers", much to their irritation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Are you sure those "fertility bumps" in oil towns and military bases don't go away when age-adjusted?
Yeah, people in poor countries have lots of children. They don't have to put them in the best daycares or supervise them 24/7 until they're in school, or any of the other things Westerners do.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The zero-sum status competition isn't enforced by capitalism. It's part of human nature, way down in the lizard brain; some direct descendants of dinosaurs are famous for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
That's false. According to surveys, women still want to have children.
Surveys don't mean much. If women aren't having children, it's because they don't want them, they biologically can't have them, or because they can't find a man to impregnate them. Infertility happens but there's no evidence it's increased anywhere near enough to explain the drop in TFR. The last is not credible.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
So, no, don't try to copy the Haredi. Instead, live in the world but not of the world. Pay your taxes, but don't bilk welfare. Use computers to do your job better and to find high quality information, but not to ingest slop and ragebait. Get a job, get married, have lots of babies to solve your own TFR rate but don't worry too much about everyone else's TFR.
And watch the fruits of your labor be taken from you (and your children) to pay for everyone else (including the Haredi) to have the lifestyle of their choice while you're busting your balls to make ends meet, dodging Child Protective Services because you don't have the requisite number of car seats, etc.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
But you can replicate the high TFR aspects of their culture.
It comes as a set.
We can totally imagine a Haredi culture where, instead of spending 8 hours learning all the laws about separately eating milk and meat, they spend 8 hours at an Amazon Warehouse.
Working at an Amazon Warehouse is very different than studying the Torah. It's backbreaking. There are cruel bosses who expect results, and the chance of getting fired. Studying the Torah all the time is basically just the ancient Hebrew version of playing videogames.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
To be fair, for some of them that's not their free time, it's their career.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It is obvious that the apartments are not up to code, have too many people living in them to meet occupancy maximums, and are probably covered by rental "agreements" which would be laughed out of a basic contract law course at NYU.
What if those requirements they are violating are part of the reason for the drop in fertility in the first place?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The birth rate collapse is happening because young men and young women are not coupling up any more.
As the saying goes, men chase and women choose. Women are choosing not to have children.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The challenge is finding a non-dysgeinc solution in an environment where having children is an objectively stupid decision on an individual level.
Putting it this way suggests another solution: Make it so having children isn't a stupid decision on an individual level. But paradoxically this means treating children as less valuable, not more, so there's no way to get there from here.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Perhaps, but why give up before giving even a shadow of a try?
Because we already have. There are lots of policies which transfer money to people with children. Most directly in the US, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the tax deduction for dependents, but many, many others. As these policies have proliferated, fertility has dropped.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The UBI skeptic generally agrees that there is an intelligent, open-minded, agentic elite of individuals who can flourish when left to their own devices - he simply believes that lower-IQ or otherwise mentally disadvantaged people cannot say the same, and the happiness of a fraction of clever dilettantes is not worth leaving the Average Joe to rot his brain with 24/7 video games while shoveling nachos into his mouth.
As a UBI skeptic, that's not my view. I agree that there is "an intelligent, open-minded, agentic elite of individuals who can flourish when left to their own devices". And a much larger group of people who will fit the stereotype "rot his brain with 24/7 video games while shoveling nachos into his mouth." But if UBI let everyone do what they wanted, that would be fine. I'm a skeptic because I don't believe in the implied abundance; someones going to have to produce all those nachos for the average Joe, and the videogames, and the electricity. And that's either going to be that first group, or some other group outside those mentioned -- no magic robot is going to do it for them. So you've got a group doing all the work, and a group reaping the benefits for nothing; that's not utopia, that's slavery. Talk to me about UBI when you've created the magic robots, and not before.
Right. "We can add female-friendly elements without scaring the dudes" isn't a pants-on-head stupid plan. It might be hard and it might not work, but the idea isn't categorically dumb. "We can completely aim for a female audience and the dudes will have no choice but to stay and we'll get the women too" IS pants-on-head stupid.
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