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ControlsFreak
1d ago
The average man on the street
...is wrong about Constitutional stuff all the time.
it's basically like a navy or an army
...uh, which one? The Constitution gives different rules for them, so which set of rules apply?
Corporations develop them but states manage them. States don't like human cloning, it's banned. States want to keep nuclear technology secret, it's secret. The EU decides that we need to click through pop-ups about cookies, millions of man-hours are wasted... The US allocates GPU access around the world, there are tiers of who can and who cannot have them.
This doesn't sound like "management". It sounds like States ban stuff.
I think this is confusing what it means to be a Classical Liberal.
If there are problems with implementing and sustaining an ideology (and there are problems with all ideologies), surely that's relevant in discussing its merits?
Sure... but I think you've just mistaken what it is in starting this analysis.
ControlsFreak
1d ago
There is significant interpretive difference between individual rights recognized in the Bill of Rights, due to the background of natural/retained rights tradition, as compared to enumerated, limited powers of government. In fact, much jurisprudence actually roots rights WRT television in the free speech clause. Whether or not that is accurate, and whether there should be more of a revival of the free press clause, is above my pay grade (though I have thoughts). But the entire interpretive framework is significantly different from the first step.
Now please answer the actual question? We have specific rules (that are different) for Armies and Navies. Which set of rules applies to the Air Force?
A proposed amendment could even use more generic language
How would that work? Remember, your idea doesn't go by wording
Hold up. The words you choose for your Constitution do matter.
if the air force were called a Flying Navy that wouldn't make a difference.
This is an after-the-fact naming convention, trying to shoehorn something into the Constitution that isn't there. You can just use different, possibly more general, wording in your Constitution. How general you actually choose to be is a difficult question, but you can obviously do it.
Let me see if I understand your logic. You're telling him to knowingly and intentionally abandon a woman and his potential child, and the proof that he's a better person is that he'll feel a little bad about it afterward? That's not character growth - that's learning how to rationalize being a selfish coward. Bah was considering sacrificing his entire life to do what he thinks is right. You don't even care if it's a scam or not you're telling him to sacrifice his integrity to protect his comfort, and then pat himself on the back for it!
The ironic part is that he would only be a douchebag if he followed your advice. You act as though he treated her like a third world pump and dump, but he is in love with her! He met her family, spent his time with her, sent her money for an abortion - because he's smitten. And you tell him, assuming it's real, that instead of taking personal responsibility for his actions, he should run and leave his own kid being raised by a sex worker in the third world? And for little more than the negative opinions of others? And then cap it off with a rant about how she needs to take responsibility for her actions?
I might think Bah is a naive lovefool, but I at least admire his commitment to his responsibilities, scam or not. I think you are a douchebag.
Edit - Bah replied while I was writing this saying he isn't in love with her and the problem is solved, but since your advice assumed he was too, I'll leave this comment as is.
orthoxerox
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1d ago
Have you ever made useful things with your own hands? Or ran your own small business?
There's a blog I read that posts interviews with small and medium business owners: how they started out, what their challenges were and are, what their business model looks like. There's a common theme running through all of them: they could all earn more working for hire, but instead they stubbornly cling to their businesses. "It's good to be your own boss, no one will block you from working overtime or skipping vacation" is the typical joke.
My assumption is that they all are especially sensitive to alienation.
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
1d ago
Green, the chicken took a while to cook. I bought red paste, will try it this weekend.
madeofmeat
1d ago
Think about living in a small village community where you're a skilled artisan of some sort. You feel confident in your work which you do autonomously under your own judgment, get pleasure from your mastery of it, and can immediately see how the results of your work benefit yourself and those around you. You're a known and valued member of your community and you have deep and long-lasting personal and professional ties to those around you. Alienation is the opposite of that.
BahRamYou
1d ago
and consider why she'd be sending you proof that she aborted?
because she's not an idiot, she's also aware of how scammy this seems but she still felt it important to tell me.
Anyway yeah, problem solved I guess. I like this woman but I'm not at all in love with her like how the people here seem to think, just trying to avoid being a total scumbag. But it seems to have all worked out so... hooray!
Corvos
1d ago
A statistically even worse method of birth control. Recommending this is 100% colored by ideological bias.
You are conflating two things:
- Not having sex is a 100% effective way of not having children.
- Telling your kids not to have sex has much lower efficacy, modulo the personality of the kid and the relationship with the parents.
Most of the suggesters likely have confidence in the method (as they should) and in their kids (rightly or wrongly) and therefore suggest this method.
MadMonzer
Pedo! Pedo! Pedo! Out! Out! Out!
1d ago
Slavery was universal in the ancient world, and in some form (state slavery, chattel slavery, serfdom/peonage) right up until shortly after the Industrial Revolution.
Chattel slavery was illegal in Christian Europe by the High Middle Ages. (This ban never extended to overseas possessions). Serfdom was abolished in the vast majority of France by 1318, and de facto in England by 1500. Serfdom also appears to be the exception rather than the rule in Northern Italy.
Western Europe produces a distinctive civilisation long before that civilisation industrialises.
Why are you assuming that he 've had a uniquely bad experience? I'm not from the US but to me what he's describing seem to be the usual consequences of Mexican or Central American underclass immigrants forming criminal gangs in a town/city where their numbers reach a critical mass. I don't assume that is a unique development, especially not in Virginia which probably attracts a disproportionate number of immigrants due to the vicinity of the Beltway region.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1d ago
I wonder what this means for men in their social experiences with other men.
Does it mean that with a flatter curve you don't know what sort of personality you're going to bump into? While women bump into 'another basic bae'?
MadMonzer
Pedo! Pedo! Pedo! Out! Out! Out!
1d ago
In particular, a positive balance of trade requires negative net foreign investment in the United States by accounting identity. Trump continues to encourage foreign investment in the United States, and to discourage foreign investment by American companies.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
I have no idea why I added the word "major" to country. I was just trying to ask about the differences between anonymized large data sets, and smaller but far more specific data sets.
I guess I'm trying to find out... how open to abuse is this system - is it simple for a somewhat resourced person or group to just set up a company and acquire sensitive data on business rivals or personal enemies or whatever else.
MadMonzer
Pedo! Pedo! Pedo! Out! Out! Out!
1d ago
A lot of monetary policy thinking starts with MV=PY which is an accounting identity.
For non-economists - M is the total quantity of money in the economy, V is the number of times each dollar is spent in a year, P is the price level, and Y is real GDP. So we say that the total amount of money spent is equal to nominal GDP. A lot of monetarist and monetarist-adjacent macroeconomics is arguing about which elements in this accounting identity are causes and which ones are consequences.
orthoxerox
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1d ago
Green, yellow or red?
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
1d ago
As always, The Worm Ourobouros.
Also, The Sea-Wolf.
And I notice some parallels between the two. An effortpost - as effortful as I can make it, anyways - is in the works.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
Why have you shaped your objection into one reddit-esque snark? The post would be more informative if you elaborated a bit more on each point instead.
orthoxerox
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1d ago
I think it has daily challenges, like Wordle
Botond173
1d ago
Franco, like Emperor Franz Joseph, committed the grace political mistake of living too long.
Botond173
1d ago
What I saw of Vinland Saga suggested a show that takes historical setting seriously while using it to explore themes about violence, revenge, and the possibility of redemption.
It should be noted though that the title is rather misleading as the plot of season 1 has nothing to do with Vinland at all.
Botond173
1d ago
I was merely trying to illustrate how such seemingly innocuous and completely normal statements appear to Blue Tribe activists.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
1d ago
yeah it's a fine method of birth control
It's statistically a mediocre method of birth control. In my opinion, recommending it is somewhat colored by ideological bias (either anti-sex, or anti-western medicine).
I would generally assume the ideological spread most likely to believe this are Christian/right leaning.
I'd simply tell her not to have pre-marital sex
A statistically even worse method of birth control. Recommending this is 100% colored by ideological bias.
Same assumption as above but more certain.
I wouldn't even be mad if she got knocked up
This is just a value judgement, but one I overwhelmingly assume/associate with the Christian/right wing area of human beliefs.
philosoraptor
1d ago
Vast oversimplification, but yeah, after 5 solid years of unbridled acceleration into identity politic madness, can you point to ANY particular piece of media, or successful ad campaign, or memorable (in a positive way!) pop culture event that got published/released that had any lasting impact?
The woke aspect does seem to have helped Baldur's Gate 3 a little, and it managed to both have those aspects and be a really good traditional-ish RPG. Though other than budget constraints, I don't see why it couldn't have had the elements it had and a PC option who was a conventionally attractive, more or less straight woman. (Shadowheart is at best an honorable mention in that regard.)
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Nope. This is from an old communist joke - I want to criticize comrade stalin. He is working too much, he strains himself too much for the good of the people. He needs to rest more.
I will say this much - any suggestion for alternate societies that curtails productivity by banning useful tools will not be the one that is ultimately implemented and sustained. I think you can see quite obviously why rolling back the industrial revolution won't happen, and by the same token I claim that any further such "revolutions", be they carried by AI or by other means, will absolutely happen whether we like it or not, and we will adapt to any further alienation as well as we can because we must.
I'm not saying this is desirable, or that we will be happier for it. Very likely neither. I'm saying it's inevitable, in the long run.
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