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Eetan
2d ago
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
2d ago
Western democracies are designed to make it difficult for politicians to directly control the judiciary.
Which is yet another reason "Western democracy" needs to go. Bring in an Augustus who will solve this swiftly and decisively.
Capital_Room
rather dementor-like
2d ago
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
DOGE didn't ultimately succeed in shrinking the government, but it eliminated the security of government employment.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
I guess the play would be to release an actual AI generated version of the same picture, so that everything is confused as to what they're looking at and what was the original.
since the mantra of most owners is to buy and hold.
That's not necessarily it. I used to know a guy that donated 1000 BTC to a minor-mid influencer, back when the price was in single digits. It later came out that the recipient lost his wallet key, without selling a single coin.
Either way, I don't really is see the problem. The pathologization of savings always struck me as economist cope.
pbmonster
2d ago
The clothes themselves seem to be pretty standard ones, similar to what I see in every store, not some junk or second hand ones, so they must cost something? How these costs are covered? How are they ensured against loss or theft?
The answer to all of that is that those clothes cost almost nothing when you directly import them from China/Bangladesh/Vietnam. Single dollars, often cents, per item. It's all mass produced plastic garbage.
Go onto shein.com and sort cloths by "price, ascending". Bulk is even cheaper than that.
pbmonster
2d ago
The clothes are sourced from others in the community, maybe a couple of whom acquire big volume discount merchandise from discount store closings, perhaps wholesale outlets etc, then sell them on.
And frequently, it's just the same plastic garbage Shein/Wish/AliExpress is selling, imported in bulk.
On vacation, my wife tried getting a cheap beach dress from those stands, the only criteria being "cotton or linen" and "kinda fits". The entire operation was abandoned because the first 5 people we tried didn't have a single piece of clothing not made of plastics.
pbmonster
2d ago
That's also probably the ideal vessel for a sail system. Transporting bulky rocket parts below deck makes mounting the sails/masts straight forward, the low density cargo doesn't require a large displacement hull, and the ship probably doesn't need to run on a tight schedule. Container ships would have much more trouble finding room for the sails, and with more draft comes more hydrodynamic resistance, and so a requirement for much larger sails.
But maybe bulk carriers could get foils mounted cheaply and quickly. Even 0.1% fuel savings are a big deal in the industry.
Now I'm wondering what happened to all those startups that tried lashing a robotic kite to cargo ships...
quiet_NaN
2d ago
Directionally, I am okay with that, provided that the long term consequences for the CEO are real, which seems doubtful. On the other hand, having a fat bank account allows for a much nicer prison term ('work' release etc), and having a nice life despite a criminal record.
As another example, suppose someone kills a kid in a DUI crash. If it is their own kid, then it seems very likely that the killing will haunt them for the rest of their days. If it is some unrelated kid, it will not affect the median person as much. So I am fine with giving the filicide a shorter prison sentence.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
2d ago
Just finished The Reverse of the Medal.
Jack Aubrey displays his characteristic gullibility on land and walks right into a trap laid for him by his father's political enemies. Practically the entire book is set in England which makes for a nice change of scenery after having most of the last three books set in the Mediterranean, South Atlantic and the Pacific seas. Really interesting novel that plays more like a spy thriller than a naval adventure, and I can see how its in some people's top 5 for this series.
After a bunch of ????? happens that I don't want to spoil (but includes someone accurately insulting Maturin as a cuck), our heroes end up on The Surprise bearing a letter of marque and sailing as privateers. I'm looking forward to Letter of Marque, because while there's plenty of ink spilled about pirates, there's very little about pirates that are endorsed by their legitimate government.
Haven't been commenting since most of this has been simple evolutionary-biology stuff I'm already intimately familiar with, but you stated last post that part 3 would ruffle some feathers - in contrast, I see the conclusion this part comes to as transparently and obviously true. The very way you view and perceive the world is strongly genetically-linked, this would have been clear to people in some way or other until the Enlightenment idea of tabula rasa fucked most people's conceptions of this basic truth (though there was prior precedent in earlier concepts of mind-body dualism as well as the Christian concept of everyone being equal in the eyes of God). I don't think most people on TheMotte would disagree with this though, except for maybe Hlynka who is long gone.
The fact that human mental architectures are just irreconcilably different has always been plainly clear to me, since I strongly suspect that many personality traits of mine lie somewhere around two or three sigma from the mean. I have always found the way most people form their moral and factual beliefs, as well as how they experience the world, to diverge so significantly from mine that they may as well be lizard people. That applies to members of my family as well in spite of the shared genetics (albeit marginally less so). As I've grown older I have since learned to model the minds of other people, but I have always been an individual without a clear tribe or any place in which I "belong", and am perpetually mustering up a facsimile of normal human interaction in order to get by.
EDIT: Your post is also related to a thought I've been having recently, detailed here.
Corvos
2d ago
Those 2 million aren’t in circulation per se, though, since the mantra of most owners is to buy and hold. In many ways it’s a demonstration of the issues with non-fiat, non-inflationary money.
benmmurphy
2d ago
so the presumably if we follow this logic a CEO of a company would get a shorter custodial sentence than an unemployed person because the extra consequences will be much larger for the CEO. if you have special circumstances that will make punishments extra costly then you should make extra effort to not break the law.
5434a
2d ago
From what I remember seeing the members were basically normal in terms of looks, just wildly over-invested in the idea/ideal of One True Love romanticism and the childish wish that the way to get what you want is to really really really want it. You don't have to be fat and ugly to to be dissatisfied with being judged solely for your looks.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
2d ago
I think the far right will come to power in Germany, Austria or both.
Don't get my hopes up, and don't you dare be wrong about it.
Also, even if - the far right is known to bungle it.
odd_primes
2d ago
The litrpg space and progression fantasy genre is weird, it feels like the audience is vaguely right-leaning (lots of male video game nerds) but there are author cliques that purity test each other. And in order to succeed on Royalroad or Amazon, it really helps to get bootstrapped by other authors. For example the progression fantasy subreddit has a year-round pride flag, and it's run by a clique of authors who chase off anyone outside their political window of acceptability.
solowingpixy
the resident car guy
2d ago
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2d ago
Ireland and the vast majority of the British empire, including Western countries like Canada, Australia...
CanofWorms
2d ago
I finished *The Poisonwood Bible and while I thought the first 2/3's and the lead up to
I'm on to To Kill a Mockingbird. I haven't read this book since I was probably 14 and want to revisit it. I'm surprised at how much of the story I don't remember.
Out of curiosity have you read To The Stars? It explores a kind of similar idea.
Mild spoilers (worldbuilding elements): ||Eventually they interact with an alien society structured around the idea that individuals have a prefspec (preference specification) that they can modify at will which determines their compulsions and interests. An individual can decide to modify their own prefspec to better match their desired goals. For example someone planning to be a parent could self-adjust to enjoy the nurturing and caring components more than they otherwise would.
This also allows for prefspec negotiation, where individuals or groups can negotiate mutual modifications to each others' prefspecs to reach compromises between what would have been mutually incompatible values. Factions end up trading prefspec modifications between each other, sometimes for material compensation or sometimes for prefspec modifications in other areas.||
It's a pretty neat exploration of the concept, but it does start pretty deep into the story.
JarJarJedi
2d ago
It's an interesting question whether Coinbase is already qualifying as "too big to fail". I'd say probably not yet, but could become before this decade is over. Of course, massive regulatory interventions would accompany that.
Dissolved as split into smaller states, or dissolved as abolished?
If the latter, numerous small (but very ancient) small German and Italian states vanished during 19th century.
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