@The_Nybbler beating me by five minutes.
Motte and Bailey... "Nobody means literally abolish the police!"
It's a lack of "healthy and affordable foods"
USDA: Mapping Food Deserts in the United States
ERS's Food Desert Locator is based on a definition developed by USDA, Treasury, and HHS. Low-income census tracts with a substantial number or share of residents with low levels of access to retail outlets selling healthy and affordable foods are defined as food deserts. A census tract is a small, relatively permanent subdivision of a county that usually contains between 1,000 and 8,000 people but generally averages around 4,000 people. Census tracts qualify as food deserts if they meet low-income and low-access thresholds:
- Low-income: a poverty rate of 20 percent or greater, or a median family income at or below 80 percent of the statewide or metropolitan area median family income;
- Low-access: at least 500 persons and/or at least 33 percent of the population lives more than 1 mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (10 miles, in the case of rural census tracts).
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2d ago
At the quantity of kids that 30 somethings are having it seems plausible. One kid per parent is manageable, or it can be an evening to get away from the kids. I never want to predict the future lest I get bit in the ass but I take my toddler out. It's not everything it was before he started coming out with me but I just get to hang out with other parents as our kids interact. Or one parent takes a few kids and you trade off.
There's also the ultimate third space of Church where if they at all want to grow will have child management.
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2d ago
I want to second this. It's why I chose trivia, but trivia is just an excuse. I don't care if we answer a single question. It's mean to be a super low commitment reason to hang out. Granted it does help that we are one of the best teams in the area... winning is fun. But we do have regulars who almost never answer a single question.
Also if you do want to take it to the next level and create a friend group that does require some effort and sacrifice. But it's worth it, just don't expect everyone to contribute the same amount.
For third spaces I think it's primarily lack of incentives for third space creation and maintenance, and the lack of incentives stems from wealth. Food deserts are probably more what I suspect you're darkly hinting at, but I also put wealth in a big part of that, society being wealthy and providing ample welfare.
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2d ago
I'm an older millennial so I don't get the full experience of the kids these days, but the weekly trivia night I go to has a great ratio of younger adults, so does the church I attend.
As you noted I suspect the people complaining are lazy and also have a propensity to be weirdos who other's don't want to be around.
Third spaces and food desert are similar. Third spaces don't exist, and healthy food is lacking because people don't want them.
What about an an autonomous AI advantage? Ukraine getting some western tech that's allowing independent identification and targeting of designated targets?
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6d ago
Reading Morning Star.
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6d ago
I guess this was quite awhile ago when a circle of friends were geneticists and a physicians assistant cohort. The with out a doubt best looking guy - only seen him with 6' D1 volley ball players - body count was 4. The - slightly pudgy normal looking guy - was at 28; also the guy who'd slept with a drunk much younger subordinate and would make low key passes at people's wives.
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10d ago
A government with the power to perfectly engineer incentives and internalize externalities according to your values necessarily has the power to engineer them according to your enemy's.
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19d ago
Finished He Who Fights with Monsters 12... I liked it, did we really need to introduce trans pronoun norms to a whole universe?
Started Red Rising. Been many people who have raved about it, I should have seen it was young adult, but I wish someone would have warned me
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19d ago
Gideon the Ninth was an extremely pleasant surprise. Harrow the Ninth less so. Hoping Nona the Ninth can bring it back.
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25d ago
In order to stop conspiracy theory disparate impact racism you're advocating for explicit racism.
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26d ago
An important thing to keep in mind about Law:
PDF: The Law is a Fractal: The Attempt to Anticipate Everything
For instance, we might consider a municipal park for which a city had adopted the rule, “no vehicles are allowed in the park.” We could treat “Point 1” on the number line as representing the act of driving a car through the park and “Point 2” as representing refraining from driving a car through the park. The rule would assign the label of “illegal” to Point 1 and “legal” to Point 2. ^5
As has been famously pointed out,^6 these two points and the rule itself are insufficient to cover all the specific factual situations that might arise involving vehicles in a park. At least they are insufficient in any reasonable rule system.^7 What if, for example, a police vehicle has to enter the park on an emergency call? If we want an appropriate, specific rule, we would need another point, between Points 1 and 2, corresponding to the factual scenario, “A police vehicle entering the park.” Point 1.5, let’s call it, to which we would assign, like Point 2, the label “legal.” But what if the driver of the car were a thief who had stolen it from the police? That specific scenario would fall between Points 1 and 1.5, perhaps 1.2, and would be assigned the label “illegal.”^8
And so on. Given the numberless potential variations, foreseeable and unforeseeable, in “vehicles,” motives, and circumstances, there can, provably,^9 be no end to the possible specific scenarios—and thus no limit on the number of rules that would result from trying to write an appropriate one for each possible, distinct fact situation.^10
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27d ago
I've been on a huge fiction candy binge. I don't know how many books a year I was reading per year for the last 10 years but it's been pretty intermittent. Start with the birth of my second kid I gave up all mobile gaming, and have read what I feel is an unhealthy amount. 7 Dungeon Crawler Carl books and on book 12 of He Who Fights with monsters in 5 months. Wife even says I've been doing more than my fair share around the house and taking care of the kids. Still feels like wasting a lot of time.
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27d ago
He Who Fights with Monsters 12. Seeing as I've read 12 of these things I am having fun but he can't help himself insert some reddit tier lib takes. They are infrequent enough that I find them manageable and he is semi-self aware. He's gotten better about not rehashing the previous chapter (I'm sure this is because of how he releases on patreon) at the start of every chapter. I think it was book 10 I could basically skip the first couple pages of each chapter.
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28d ago
Could be a good career move, wouldn't be the first leftist terrorist to get tenure.
Guy is facing the rest of his life in jail and people can't help want more regulations.
I maintain that social decay is a result of wealth. We don't need anyone else to fulfill Maslow's bottom rung. Virtually no one has starved to death because of poverty in the United States in living memory. There was inertia that kept the systems going - hyper-available dopamine hits may have been the last straw - but now that the incentives for maintaining a social circle - going to church, joining a fraternal organization - are gone, atomization is just the natural outcome for a significant portion of society. Good news: their genetic lines will end. Bad news: they're going to vote in horrible policies until they shuffle off this mortal coil.
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1mo ago
Depending on the day it could have been the majority. The prosecution admitted to 15, defense said it was higher.
Malheur Trial Defense Team Seeks More Info On Government Informants
prosecutors said in court the government used 15 confidential informants during the occupation.
Similar many if not most of those in the kidnapping plot of Gretchen were feds. The feds admitted to at least 4 defense says 12.
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1mo ago
I've always suspected that a material portion of the fatalities are suicides.
In my area it's companies with dozens of venues a week. Questions are provided to the hosts, it's a side gig the hosts do do one or a few times a week in the evenings for a few hours.
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