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.
2hr ago
Personally I offer nothing. But there are alternatives to the Calvinist ideal that one should be suffering all the time; hedonism and epicureanism are diametrically opposed, for instance.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
It's fairly easy to find references in Google Books both ways in the first half of the 20th century, though the only non-fictional contemporary one with an opinion I find asserts that blue is for boys and pink is for girls. This is post-Victorian (and American, besides).
I find nothing from the Victorian era, the only thing I find before the 20th century is this 1833 work, which also asserts that "pink is for girls".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
I'm surprised by the photo. Acid attack to me would indicate foreign Muslim (some form of brown), not probably-domestic black.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
They've discovered it loses votes so they're keeping it under their hat until they're back in power, at which point trans-everything is back on the agenda.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
LOL, this is like on Star Trek when they presented Nomad with an irresolvable paradox, except instead of making him get a higher-pitched voice and explode, it made him quote Ronald Reagan.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Turns out you can do the chart in FREDs interface. Here's median mortgage payment for a house bought in a given year as a percentage of income, assuming a median-rate 30-year mortgage. Very different look!
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
From my perspective, having kids is the most sure way to ensure some decent and adequate standard of care in my twilight years.
Might want to ask King Lear about that one.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
On the one hand, it really was about women entering into a "boys' club" space, not ethics in gaming journalism.
No, it never was.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
"Suffering is the only part of life" is what you're offering.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
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The second chart appears to be comparing nominal mortgage payments to real incomes. That is, I can reproduce it by using the mortgage payments from the first table (which are clearly nominal, showing $2207 in 2024 and $141 in 1971) and the incomes in the second table (which are in 2023 dollars, as can be verified by looking on FRED)
If you properly use nominal incomes (from FRED) it looks a lot different.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The ideal of maturity seems to be that you suffer through childhood preparing for an adulthood that you spend suffering through preparing your children for adulthood then spend a couple of years when you're old playing with your grandkids and then die. It is certainly no surprise people opt out of that if they can.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
2010 indeed was a good year, though 2012 was better. But it was actually historically good right up until COVID hit, and we saw a lot of the same whining then. NOW it's actually bad.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
So we're too fat and lazy and stupid to actually get good at sports, but at least we're rich enough to buy up talent from other, more sporting countries?
Getting talent from everywhere else is 100% American. Even a lot of our multi-generational American sports talent is derived from stock originally bought from Africa.
Are we going to win the world cup by taking advantage of anyone worldwide with a vague connection to America and bribing them to play for America?
Eh, if we ever give enough of a shit about men's professional soccer we might do that. Seems unlikely; like cricket, men's professional soccer is just somehow un-American. Maybe if the rest of the world were to stop calling it "football"
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If it happened I would say "Well, looks like they're fucking around so we should make them find out". But it's still war, not terrorism. The boundaries can be blurry sometimes (because it's advantageous for states to blur them) but the hypothetical here is that Iran is doing it, not one of their associated "terrorist" militias, right?
Contra MadMonzer above, I would say it's not "perfidious", but just because it's "fair play" doesn't mean the US doesn't get to respond.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Yeah, because it would be an act of war.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
What compensation is owed by a childless person to a parent for raising their own child? What if that child turns out to be a lifetime NEET instead of providing any useful services?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
These are the same thing. The parent's children are who will perform labor necessary for childless retirement.
They certainly are not the same thing. The children will naturally expect to be paid for the labor they do for the retirees (childless and otherwise). You're proposing to tax childless people to pay the parents of those children, then charge them again for the labor. Two different charges.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Everyone claims their punitive, coercive, redistributive tax is somehow more fitting than the ones they don't like. Still doesn't make it so. You're not proposing to tax the childless to pay for their own retirements (nor even pretending to do so the way FICA does); you're straight up proposing to tax them to pay for the other people's children. Of course the effect this can have is limited; as with any sin tax, if it actually reduces the sin it also reduces the tax base.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I wouldn't consider this punitive or coercive, just making people internalize their externalities.
To misquote Lincoln, you might consider a tail to be a leg, but that don't make it so.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
This is because formal dance is dead (aside from the retro forms you aren't counting -- those are the proper PMC+ dance forms, but the PMC+ isn't comfortable with them except as retro) and informal dance is a peasant/prole thing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Or we could do the empire thing for real, and regularize the status of the various territories/associations (Guam, Marshall Islands, Puerto Rico, USVI, Greenland, etc). Personally I think the US would be bad at empire so I don't really suggest this.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Except the one Janet Jackson did.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It's not a coincidence: All those halftime shows have been produced by Beyonce's husband.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
As it is, the shooters -- particularly in the Pretti case -- are not clearly innocent. "We heard a gunshot and then we put ten rounds into some nearby person we thought was armed" is a pretty big fuckup. Even normal cops might go to jail for that if it was caught from multiple cameras. Regular citizens or gang members will definitely go to jail for it.
That isn't a fair summary of the Pretti case -- and it's a summary that could be used (unfairly) for the Rittenhouse case as well, which you may note ended in acquittal. The cops who shot Pretti may well be guilty, but I don't believe the outcome in a Minneapolis case would depend on their guilt.
The case against the Good shooter is weaker, but also something where I would not call it a miscarriage of justice if it a guilty verdict was delivered for a similar case in resulting from a neighborhood argument.
So a woman is intermittently blocking the road with the car, two random guys object to this, she drives right at one of them, he shoots as he is struck, he should be found guilty? No, if those two guys weren't ICE agents, there'd be little question of the validity of their self-defense cse.
And Roddenberry was definitely doing '60s Cold War analogies.
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