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4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
4d ago
As with teetotaler drug dealers, gay fashion designers or eunuch harem overseers, it can be advantageous to be immune to the temptations of your own supply.
Wohlfe
4d ago
I've found occasional use of the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" options to be sufficient to curate my YouTube recommendations. If I watch one random video on a topic I don't really care about it may show similar videos but only for a few days before giving up or I click "Not interested" and it's gone forever.
Bleep
4d ago
the point is specifically about national id
if in a year or two, with vast resources or whatever you're implying, and the removable aliens haven't been removed, are you really trying to imply the reason is because there is no national id?
that's silly so I'm going to assume you were trying to make another point
what is it?
birb_cromble
4d ago
My experience with rabid animals is that they don't really stop doing whatever they start doing until they get a new thought in their head.
I once had a rabid groundhog continue to violently attack an archery target for a solid 30 seconds after I put a .38 round into its neck. It only stopped because it bled out.
Lewis2
4d ago
I agree with most of your comment, but this:
Even for non-catholic groups, they were still Christian
is kind of a funny framing, given that America was a mostly Protestant nation that begrudgingly accepted Roman Catholics. It would have been more accurate to say, “Even for non-Protestant groups, they were still Christian,” though not all Protestants would have accepted that designation.
anon_
4d ago
Well there ya go -- now we're at the point of tradeoffs with respect to the functions that are absolutely necessary.
It would be kinda silly if we both had government as a necessary evil and it was too disempowered to actually accomplish those ends.
zeke5123a
4d ago
I’m not saying technology necessarily makes assimilation harder. I’m saying it easily could and thus citing historic immigration assimilation is irrelevant unless you can strongly make the case that tech doesn’t matter or makes it better.
anon_
4d ago
We should revisit this in a year or two to assess whether Trump's ICE, plus all the funding it got from the OBB, was able to accomplish this easy task.
2rafa
4d ago
I don’t think Matt Yglesias has a particularly coherent worldview. He certainly has read Sailer, Murray, Yarvin and others. So has Scott, of course, who is also still a liberal if a less confident one than Yglesias.
My guess is that Yglesias accepts that some form of HBD is true but thinks it can be mediated by rapid economic growth, the flynn effect, affirmative action and deciding not to speak about it ever. This isn’t even an uncommon opinion, it was the default view of a large proportion of the American progressive elite between the 1950s and early 1990s.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
Because Twitter encourages sloppy arguments? You could even say they’re not sending their best.
Speaking of which, a folk argument with no authoritative reference sounds like the exact opposite of “catechism.” But I’ll leave it to the Catholics to litigate that one.
Ceteris paribus, I agree that international travel and communication makes it easier to avoid assimilating. How about intranational? The interstate highways have to be more appealing than riding the rails if you want to get to Chicago or California. Immigrant communities don’t have to be as concentrated, and cheap labor can get where it wants with less friction. I would expect this to boost assimilation but also increase immigrant visibility, both cultural and economic.
faceh
4d ago
It also enables the people in their home countries to exercise some level of control over them that would otherwise not be possible.
The other big thing that comes up is Remittances back home, where the home country's denizens are actually dependent on their American relatives for a lot of support.
(didn't realize they were almost a full TEN PERCENT of Pakistani GDP!!!)
Which... that certainly adds a major incentive for the home country to keep the immigrants loyal so they continue to care enough to send the kickbacks, doesn't it?
iprayiam3
4d ago
et me make an analogy. I have a friendly acquaintance who has a PhD in English. Really clever and funny guy. And, importantly for this story, he's a not especially rabid or antagonistic atheist of Russian Jewish descent. And at some point, a decade ago, we were at a barbeque, and he was talking about the time that he had spent, earlier in his academic c
Mexicans are Catholic Christians, with cultures nearly as much descended from European colonialism as the US's. It's not surprising that this is a more permeable barrier, and not surprising that their 3rd generations are similar to your average American with an ambiguously religious background that has melted into secular Americanism.
I don't understand just assuming it will be the same with further cultures.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
4d ago
People love to rag on English food, but I don't really think that's fair. Any culture that comes up with a dish as great as fish and chips deserves respect.
The decision to integrate coincided with the general decline of religiosity across the western world that followed the 1950s. Only one major Christian movement - American Protestantism - held on long after the others (European Protestantism, Lutheran and other, and Catholicism in general) fell, and that was in large part because of the unique success of the evangelical televangelists and the Christian revival movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, led by extraordinarily capable preachers like Billy Graham and supported by an embrace of modern media and to some extent music. Catholics tried to copy some of this with happy clappy post Vatican II masses and so on, but it never had the same vitality.
The evangelical revival preserved a religious Christian (not social customs; divorce and single parenthood still rose of course) identity among otherwise deracinated American Protestants and the many, many Catholics who converted to it for almost two generations after most Europeans largely abandoned regular churchgoing Christianity. It didn’t really die, not wholly anyway, until the mid-2010s, and even today hangs on due to comparatively higher birth rates and the large scale conversion of Latin American Catholics and their descendants, both in their homelands and in the US.
Catholics didn’t have that, and so a combination of suburbanization due to white flight clearing out the old ethnic neighborhoods and throwing various white ethnics and founding whites together in suburbia and the decline in Catholic mass attendance led to intermarriage and the merging into a shared American identity. Sometimes this is laid at the feet of WW2, but I disagree. The New York or Philadelphia of, for example, 1949 was still very much a place with distinctly separate white ethnic identities. It happened 10-30 years later.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Does EA even have something worth of buying? Bioware is dumpster fire, Battlefield time is long gone. And let alone for 60B.
Whoever from EA negotiated this deal deserves every cent and then a lot more. It will be a total disaster for the buyers.
faceh
4d ago
What does it matter that they can face time back to Italy when Italy is also watching MTV, eating at McDonalds, buying coffee at Starbucks, and talking about 21st century technology using barely converted English words? This same phenomenon makes traveling as an American simultaneously easier and more boring.
Uh, are the countries these particular immigrants come from also buying coffee at Starbucks, eating at McDonalds, and talking about 21st tech?
This starts to hit on the other argument against accepting these immigrants: they come from third world backwaters that can't even maintain the infrastructure necessary to keep a McDonalds operating, and this is likely because the people are just that incompetent.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
4d ago
human-generated slop was already at functionally infinite levels prior to AI, so I'm not sure if there's a net loss here.
I expect the ratio of slop:epic to rise by at least an order of magnitude and I do consider that a loss.
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
4d ago
When Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of lentil soup, it was supposed to be a parable about keeping safe one's inheritance and revering one's forefathers. You're not supposed to actually do it, or say that it's a good thing!
professorgerm
found a needlessly pedantic hill to die on
4d ago
There is no background check which can 100% assure you that someone is not abusive, or not a North Korean spy.
I don't expect 100% of background checks to be 100% perfect.
The guy in question has held at least 4 different jobs in four different districts (three different states plus DC). All four either didn't do a background or the background failed? Dude's got pretty good luck or the background check system school districts use is a farce.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard (also 5280 feet to a mile though that isn't exactly everyday)
You can easily derive the 5280 feet from 3 feet to a yard, 440 yards to a quarter mile.
16 ounces to a pound, 2000 lbs to a ton
Except troy pounds which are 12 (slightly larger) ounces. Though if you're dealing with troy pounds you can hire someone to remember that. Also the ton can be the long ton of 2240 lbs.
3 tsp to one tbsp
And 2 tbsp to the fluid ounce.
Grant_us_eyes
4d ago
Being unkind, he's just not very smart.
Being alternatively unkind, he's smart but abusing the simplified mythology revolving around how most people understand immigration and how it occurred in the late 19th/early 20th century.
I find it amusing that he's trying to use Italians as an example. If we treated Muslims and Somalians the way we treated Italians back then, we'd have a large number of people loosing their minds over it.
BahRamYou
4d ago
The first is that it is impossible to get ethnic food with mass immigration from that country. That's obviously nonsense, with the internet and online shopping, you can buy basically any foodstuff in the developed world, regardless of whether your country has had immigration from where that food comes from.
(I'm assuming you meant "without mass immigration")
These days we in America have a different problem, where it's hard to get anyone at all to cook food in restaurants. The low pay and terrible work conditions just drive out any normal person with options, especially when you can make so much more in a tipped position like waitstaff. The only people doing it are either crazy people who couldn't get a job anywhere else, or immigrants. So in a way we do kinda need mass immigration to support those cheap restaurants and delivery services, and ethnic ones can get away with the most avoidance of immigration laws.
Of course we could also just cook for ourselves but who wants that.
100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
4d ago
Alright, so, for the rabid animal case, it's pretty much fend off the attacking zombie deer and then get my ass to the hospital for all of anti-rabies shots and whatnot?
My understanding is they're still a market leader in sports games, like the yearly basketball or football tie-in game. Those don't have a great reputation among hardcore gamers, but the gaming market as a whole snatches them up.
Given the Saudis' love for buying up sports franchises, it's likely this had to do mostly with those titles and not a newfound passion for Mass Effect.
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