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Jiro
13m ago
They figured out that a few million people said "it looks just like a quarter" and the modern dollar coins are colored gold so they can't be mistaken for quarters. They are still the same size and weight so vending machines can handle them.
Literally who? I've never heard of this bitch. And I paid more attention in school than most.
Okay, one Google search later, I now know who she is. But she is definitely not well-known. If you want a female aviator, why not Amelia Earhart? Everybody has heard about her.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
44m ago
Reading Iris's about us page, my impression is this is likely a transgender person
Without even clicking the link, the name alone is enough of a tell.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
49m ago
We've had a decade straight of the absolute worst of the Blue Tribe not only being loud, but actually being in charge. We didn't win by evaporative cooling, the evaporative cooling started when we started winning.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
52m ago
Then why does everybody and their dog freak out about transgender therapies being banned for lack of evidence, and start appealing to patient autonomy instead?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
58m ago
One tangential thing this video made me realise again is how curiously the culture of the right and the left is drifting apart even in more subtle ways now. This is the nth time I notice that a seemingly quite popular right-wing youtuber talks in a way that is just viscerally offputting for me
On one hand I kinda wanted to agree with you after seeing that Klein vs. Coates interview and some panel with Yglesias on it, back to back, on the other hand I don't know if we want to start judging political subcultures by incredibly popular influencers... or do you want to answer some questions about Hassan Piker?
As a right-wing listener of this sort of narration, how does it feel to you?
I can't stand the Quartering even on a good day, but I was somewhat surprised by Lunduke being thrown in the same basket. Sure he's an outragemonger, but most of the time I'd read him as jolly rather than angry.
PreformancePertension
1hr ago
One sort of odd thing is that the $2 bill is not actually that uncommon, objectively: https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircvolume.htm There are about half as many of them as the $5, and nobody would be especially surprised to see a $5. But people don't spend/circulate them for what I can only assume are reasons related to business cash drawers not having a dedicated slot, so you'll never get them as change.
anon_
1hr ago
This amounts to viewpoint discrimination in therapy
I think we generally permit viewpoint discrimination in professional services. You can't claim that the viewpoint of "disease is caused by bad humors" and the viewpoint of "disease is caused by spiritual rot" and the viewpoint of "disease is caused by microbial or viral infection" have to be treated the same by medical licensure.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
1hr ago
And they do, often. Physical cash has its own niche though.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
1hr ago
Ah I see, this isn't a hypothetical. I would expect too many special interests (lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc) for the Supreme Court to take the free speech maximalist position but I hope to be wrong.
Reading Iris's about us page, my impression is this is likely a transgender person, both from the pic and the picture-perfect set of male hobbies, any one of which I know women who are into them, but put together is pretty strong evidence of not being a natal woman... and of course, "most of my recent focus has been on transgender rights, especially in the workplace." (Read: I came out as transgender recently and now that's my pet cause.)
Either that or the most masculine woman I have ever heard of in my entire life. So, in that connection, "trans woman in tech is extremely progressive and doesn't like transphobes," isn't exactly a wild outlier. They believe this is an existential fight for them; I'd probably call my enemies fascists too if I believed as they do. As it is, I just find their intensity of feeling a little silly, and so it's easy for me to shrug it off.
But really I have a more specific pronoun problem with the website. I find it hard to take the website of a professional seriously when all of the pronouns are "we", and it's obviously just one person's consultancy. Just say "I," please. Don't pretend to be plural. (Wait.......)
(EDIT: Also, there's a publication "Published under my deadname.")
Shrike
1hr ago
It's not an either/or, the US can pursue onshoring as a permanent long-term solution while pursuing other avenues in the interim.
The USA isn't actually capable of replacing China's role in the productive economy in any timeframe that's actually relevant.
Replacing China's worldwide economic production isn't necessary; what the US ideally needs to be able to do is fulfill domestic national security needs. Nevertheless, it's worth noting that the US (re)opened a single rare earth mine in 2018 and in a couple of years it supplied 15% of worldwide production.
This means no more harddrives, no more lithium batteries etc.
First off, it does not. It means the Chinese are putting regulations on export. If you read the article it suggest the Chinese will likely ban exports to defense companies. So yes, I suspect the tech and defense industries will actually be able to source harddrives, lithium batteries, etc. for the next 5 - 10 years.
Why? Well, setting aside the fact that the US actually has at least some rare earth mining and refining capability in-country (and is currently, as I understand it, in the process of building more, so 7 - 10 years to have at least some replacement for Chinese goods is probably pessimistic even if you don't assume the US invokes national security to cut through red tape), I'd just remind you that Russia has been able to source actually embargoed items for its military from Western sources despite the US having a much better ability to deploy soft and hard power worldwide to sanction them than China does to sanction the US. If the Chinese move to cut US defense firms out of the loop, that
- Does not impact the tech sector, and
- Is no guarantee that the US won't just import them via shell companies.
Off topic, but estimates of early dog domestication are 15,000 to 40,000 years ago.
When you go back 300,000 years, we're looking at fossil evidence of the first modern humans.
But dogs are one of deadliest animals in the USA, not far behind wasps.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1hr ago
The opinion on pets is pretty much my actual opinion, I didn't make it up just now to win this argument. To elaborate, we do of course cherish our pets and do our best to not do what we think of as torture to them - but it's still our morality and done for the sake of ourselves - and certainly we expect no reciprocity from cats and dogs. We do not expect them to be good cuddly pets because it would be the right thing to do of them, but because they're here for that purpose. Hence "morality does not exist between humans and pets".
It should be needless to say that the relationship between humans and states is usually far less amicable. So the comparison of treason and torturing kittens doesn't quite land for me, I'm afraid. You could compare how similarly to the torture of kittens having impact on the surrounding humans, so too can treason have an impact on the surrounding humans. I don't specifically advocate selling out your country to evil cannibal aliens for that reason. But going "literal treason, yikes!?" as if treason is automatically something bad amuses me.
anon_
1hr ago
Every now and then I start to regain hope that the worst of my outgroup probably aren't as bad as all the memes imply, and then I read something like that article, and my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I think you're mistaken on the process. The worst of the outgroup are never going to get any better -- in fact, if you're winning then they are likely getting worse by evaporative cooling.
They also restrict export on diamond grit and tools. So it is a lot wider. And I think this will hurt too. And it seems is global, not only targeting US
VecGS
Chaotic good
1hr ago
A long while back when I was a troll-y 20-something I walked into a drugstore and bought a newspaper. This was back in the days of 50¢ papers, to be clear.
I paid with a shiny new Susan B. Anthony dollar coin I just got as change from a post office.
The poor cashier.
She looked at the coin thinking that it's a quarter and looked up like I was stupid. Then she looked back down and realized it wasn't a quarter. She looked back up at me with a WTF expression. Back at the coin. Rung it up as a dollar. The register opened. She looked down at the drawer. Then back up at me with a "why did you do this to me?" look. Down at the drawer. I think she chucked it with the dollar bills. Back up at me with a scowl. Drawer to retrieve a couple quarters to hand to me.
This was easily 30 years ago and I still have it burnt into my memory.
I expect it would play out the same today.
FirmWeird
Randomly Generated Reddit Username
1hr ago
Yet another huge environmentalist error:
I don't think you can actually blame the environmentalists for a corporate executive deciding to cash out and make vast profits in exchange for fucking over his workers and the country he lives in over the long term, or the government failing to protect and nurture critically important businesses. In China, strategically important industries are protected by the government in recognition of how important they are - letting this industry get sold off to China is the equivalent of the CCCP deciding to save on costs by outsourcing all their internal communication infrastructure to Google and Microsoft.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1hr ago
I would assume that before the shock collar was invented, the go-to immediate negative reinforcement was beating the dog or yanking on the prong collar.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1hr ago
I'll bite, which one? Or did you deliberately not specify for the sake of the bit?
samiam
2hr ago
The thing about changing how US currency works is that most people have a really hard time getting used to new coins and bills. We tried to have a $2 bill but many people just couldn’t adjust to the new type of bill and it didn’t really catch on. Ditto with multiple attempts to have a $1 coin.
It’s almost as if a large part of our population learns how coins and bills work at a young age, and that knowledge becomes fossilized and doesn’t change.
anon_
2hr ago
Just think, Trump could be the face of stockpiles of US currency in countries which don't have a stable currency of their own.
They can already buy USDC or USDT.
FirmWeird
Randomly Generated Reddit Username
2hr ago
Obviously the best solution for the US is to bring all of these capabilities in-house
Actually, the best solution would be for the US to perform a magic ritual, invoking Moloch and begging him to supply them with rare earth metals in exchange for sacrificed children - which is more likely to succeed than your proposal. The USA isn't actually capable of replacing China's role in the productive economy in any timeframe that's actually relevant. Do you think the tech and defence industries can sustain a complete pause in production for the 10-15 years it'll take to onshore this stuff? This means no more harddrives, no more lithium batteries etc.
That's why my proposal only eliminates coins. It doesn't add any. It does add a new bill, but one I think is easier to understand than a $2 note.
I've noticed that, too. I mean, it doesn't help that American coins refuse to have a large Arabic numeral indicating their worth like most coins of the world do, instead using arcane terms like "dime", or spelling out the numbers in English. But I see foreigners have the same confusion with bills, which should be easy to read and use. That tells me they just memorize money by rote and cannot adjust to the slightest changes in design or denominations, the way most algebra students become completely lost if you change X and Y to A and B.
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