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I agree with the comments below that older boys and men can rarely give unfiltered expressions of emotion, particularly anger and particularly to women, without their being misconstrued. Often swallowing one’s emotions is the right answer. The teen years are the right time to learn this, but if your son is on the autism spectrum he’s going to have trouble.
I would try to get his dad’s input if you can, even – perhaps particularly – given his dad’s struggles. You might also consider asking a male teacher for his perspective; if he has a male teacher who hasn’t called you I would consider him first.
fmac
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6hr ago
I would posit the GM share ownership was as a result of a huge exigent circumstances, which Intel is not facing.
I also think this makes the Dems more likely to do it, as Trump is moving the Overton window towards doing this whenever you feel like it and towards companies that aren't on the verge of total collapse (although maybe Intel is, lol).
How would you feel if the Dems started buying equity shares in solar panel manufacturers because "the climate is an urgent crisis we must address"?
But overall I am a fan of your comment and mostly agree with you. Thanks for sharing!
fmac
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6hr ago
My rules are also "no government control of companies."
I'm pretty equitable, I think the motivations and intellectual caliber of both the left and right are stupid as fuck. Americans are of course, as with many things, at the cutting edge of this trend.
I find your response quite fascinating. It strikes me that both American parties in a multi-turn prisoners dilemma game where the payoff for "defect" is a temporary gain in political power, which is then offset by the other side doing the same thing, and american governance/institutions/leadership being overall degraded as a result. Both sides are so myopic they seem to only have the capacity to smash the "defect" button over and over again, as American institutions rot, economic and military dominance over the world wanes, and the government gets worse and worse at doing... anything.
And your response to this is "yes! Smash the defect button before they do! Smash it!!!"
I know you don't want to be the first one to cooperate while the other side defects and gets a leg up, but damn, you must all realize this isn't going to end well for your children right?
JTarrou
6hr ago
There's only two international ones, Islam and globohomo. Everything else is politically captured religion, ethnic division and nationalisms.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
7hr ago
Thank you so much for putting this into words better than I could
hydroacetylene
7hr ago
Let’s also add EMTALA- hospitals get left on the hook for care for genuinely uninsured patients.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7hr ago
Her two friends called me a pervert and accused me of groping her, then left, abandoning her to her fate.
Wow. This is one of those stories you don't believe if you read it on facebook, but I trust you. Terrible behavior.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
Grant_us_eyes
7hr ago
Looks at his current play-count for saved worlds
Well, as of late, I'd have to say Vintage Story. As for why? It's hard to place down on one single element. There's just something weirdly appealing about making wine and baking pies in a post-apocalyptic lovecraftian eldritch horror setting were your overall goal is to make it to producing steel. Oh, and possibly figuring out the entire reason for all that post-apocalyptic lovecraftian eldritch horror.
Mechanics-wise, it also has a wide plethora of emergent gameplay. Not requiring containers to store things and just being able to put your tools down on the ground or leaning up against a nearby wall has a charm all of it's own.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
7hr ago
Subsidies don't have to lose money if they have a positive multiplier.
I'm not entirely sure what treasury ownership you're referring to? Social security?
Because in that case, that's the government owning a Treasury issued by the government. The interest paid is real it's paid by the way everything else is, taxes or debt.
I fully agree social security is a shitshow nightmare from numerous perspectives. I think they should move to the "Canadian model" a la CPP, where investments are managed by an extremely competent and largely independent team.
I would like to reiterate that the executive branch borderline randomly scooping up equity stakes in flavor of the month companies is not this. Also, it's likely a transfer of welfare from taxpayers to equity holders AND it will definitely fuck heavily with equity price discovery, leading to a less efficient market overall.
Throwaway05
7hr ago
I know this isn't popular but I quite disagree, I think Floyd was exactly as bad a martyr as everyone else, he just stuck a lot better because of the circumstances and that makes it harder for people to have awareness of that.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
7hr ago
I agree and disagree. I think Trek's fandom has always been predominantly male, with a substantial distaff side. The boys like geeking about the Warp specifications and photon torpedo load-outs of the various versions of the Enterprise and playing Starfleet Battles -- the girls like cosplaying as Orions and shipping Kirk and Spock.
The quasi-military structure of Starfleet was always a bit of thematic dissonance; Roddenberry was really envisioning a post-religious, post-military, globalist society, but framing a crew of explorers who also sometimes have to fight Klingons (Chinese/Soviet analogs) as anything other than a military vessel would not have made sense to a 60s audience. Making them a space navy was an easy way to get the normie audience oriented, but the show itself was, as has often been noted, actually Wagon Train in space.
You'll notice the officer/enlisted distinction in Starfleet is practically non-existent and getting promoted rarely has much to do with command as opposed to just being good at your job (like in a civilian job).
I think this cognitive dissonance has continued through various iterations of Trek; sometimes they try to lean away from the military themes and more into political or social ones, and sometimes they lean into it and tell a war story (DS9, the best Trek), but lately, it's just kind of incoherent as Trek parodies itself. That said, Trek has also always been a commentary on contemporary issues, told through the medium of sci-fi, so it's not surprising that as woke spread, Trek became more woke.
The fundamental problem with Trek is largely the same one as Star Wars (and to a lesser extent the MCU) - it's running on fumes. It's got a huge fanbase of aging nerds who loved it when they were 12, but a franchise can only live so long on nostalgia, and both Trek and Star Wars are having trouble pulling in the next generation. I think this is something we are starting to see with cape movies as well. How many Zoomers are invested in 60 years of Superman or X-Men lore? Will alphas even read comic books at all?
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7hr ago
Yeah I just played recently on a private server. Was fun, accelerated xp so you don’t waste your entire life leveling hah.
A new one is coming out for cataclysm soon and I want to try that.
On Halloween I was coming home from the pub at maybe 10 or 11 pm when I happened on a girl who'd passed out on the street after having too much to drink. I immediately realised she needed to get to a hospital to have her stomach pumped, so I called an ambulance and put her on her side in case she was sick. Her two friends called me a pervert and accused me of groping her, then left, abandoning her to her fate. Because of the occasion, I had to wait somewhere in the region of three hours for an ambulance to arrive. At least some other passers-by stopped to help, including two nurses in training. A day or two later the girl texted me to thank me and said she was cutting ties with the two friends who'd abandoned her.
In July I went into my local cornershop, in which a customer was accusing the staff of short-changing him (I assume he was mistaken). He attempted to climb over the counter to assault them, whereupon I stepped in to put him in a half-nelson and drag him out of the shop. He feebly attempted to attack me before being dissuaded by his (I assume extremely embarrassed) girlfriend and slouching off in defeat. The staff were very grateful and made a point to thank me when I came into the shop over the following few days. Another patron came up to me immediately afterwards and quipped that I was in the wrong line of work and ought to become a bouncer.
A few weeks ago, my parents were flying back from Australia, and I offered to drive them home from the airport as I knew they'd be jet-lagged. When we got to the car, my mother, God love her, offered to drive. I very gently pointed out that the sole reason I was there was to save her the trouble of having to drive.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
7hr ago
Yeah a shared group identity is pretty crucial. Which do you think are still the most potent in the current era?
JTarrou
7hr ago
Unity of people will reinforce any vision that captures it. A deracinated, divided people are capable of following no vision but force.
This is a GPS unit in search of a vehicle. The car broke down a century ago. The UK is now a mirror on the vehicle that is the US empire.
magic9mushroom
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7hr ago
I'm getting at the philosophy-of-law question, not current custom. Lots of non-Anglo countries reject precedent. The philosophical question is mostly reliability vs. justice (after all, a bad precedent is literally judges getting a decision wrong; following that precedent is getting it wrong again).
Precedent also potentially worsens the "rogue judiciary" problem, since it allows a few rogue justices to control their inferiors more easily and their successors at all.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
7hr ago
I just noticed he actually linked to the conversation, so you can judge for yourself.
quiet_NaN
8hr ago
Firstly, prices only reliably influence decision making if you have skin in the game.
If I am at a bar and paying for my own drinks, I will carefully consider the trade-offs between different options. If some corporation is paying for drinks, different things could happen. Perhaps I am indifferent to the company spending money, then I might use high prices as Bayesian evidence for "is a good drink". Or I like the corporation and do not want them to spend money needlessly, then I might still consider the trade-offs. Or I hate them and want to try my best to bankrupt them through my liver, then I might simply drink the fanciest drinks I can find even if they taste like horse piss to me.
For major surgeries, patients typically do not have skin in the game, their health insurance is paying for them. Price transparency is nice for society, but not crucial for patients.
Secondly, the health insurer and the hospital already have a pre-existing agreement on a price list. What they are negotiating about is which medical procedures (and line items) are indicated.
In a borderline sane medical system (e.g. what we have in Germany), that should be wholly between the health insurer and the clinic. The doctors use whatever procedures they see medically indicated, and then their billing department will settle with the health insurer. Sometimes the health insurer will dispute the charges. If dispute resolution favors the insurer, the hospital will just eat the charges. Running a hospital is a mixed calculation, you can afford to lose money on a few cases if you make some money on average. The patient would only be on the hook if they had lied about having health insurance.
Of course, the US health care system was lovingly hand-crafted by Moloch himself. Take competing health insurers, but then let the employer -- who cares very little about coverage but a whole lot about costs -- pick the health insurance company for their employees. Then pass a lot of regulations forcing Dog Butcher Healthcare to actually cover anything. Let every insurer build their own network based on secretly negotiated prices so that people will have to change their therapist when the change jobs. Sprinkle in some socialized healthcare for the poor. Have juries award excessive malpractice damages to keep everything expensive. Also link in the Molochian university and student loan system for the same reason.
There's a pretty decent number of women authors who just write male-focused or general fiction, especially for teen and young adult audiences.
I recently delved into LitRPG/Cultivation sphere, which I think is somwhat newish offhoot of scifi/fantasy genre and is at least adjacent to YA scene/audience. And to be frank, I start to think that female protagonists like in surprisingly interesting Azarinth Healer series may work better in that context. The male protagonists in many of these stories are some combination of weak whiners, being overshadowed and constantly scolded/humiliated by female side characters, having weird fetish/harem sidestories and more.
The pet theory of mine is that feminism is basically projection of male virtues/characteristics on females. Terrible girl-bossing is just projection of what feminists view as toxic masculinity on women: aggressive know-it-alls, emotionless or even cruel leaders etc. If the author can do modicum of work to reign that tic at least a little bit, they can actually end up with decent formerly male character only in skirt. With female protagonist you will not see her being literally hit on head if she says something "dumb", scolded for being a creep, being told that she is an idiot, humiliated or womensplained for not knowing something or any other type of terrible writing now so prevalent with male heroes. Or to me more precise even if they are addressed like that, they have a mature response to it.
It reminds me of the story how the character of Ellen Ripley from Alien was originally written for male actor and how it surprisingly worked well for female - especially in a world where only women are allowed to have oldschool male traits/virtues.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
8hr ago
Hopefully it's more coherent than that! Though healthcare does seem to make people go crazy for one reason or other.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
8hr ago
Reading an article on why Britain should settle Antarctica from Palladium got me thinking: are there any major, visionary projects happening at the moment that have a plausible chance of success?
I'm still hopeful for SpaceX to at least make operations on the moon more feasible, though I'm skeptical of making a real go at Mars colonization, especially as Elon's star has fallen so far recently.
China seems a likely contender, but I don't know what they have going on. I know that AGI is the thing on everyone's mind, but I'm thinking more about a physical, non-software based major visionary project that's happening in the physical world.
To quote some from the article:
These apparently radical measures will look less radical by the year, but would nevertheless represent a dramatic break from the Westminster status quo. Declining nations can resort to many sensible technocratic reforms that are easy to explain, but they find it hard to come up with compelling political or bureaucratic motives for those reforms. That can only be done with national visions—visions that are not only suited to the capabilities a country could realistically develop, but also a congruent continuation of its history, or at least the best of its history. We can see that these two conditions have been fulfilled with nearly every successful national founding or refounding. Britain’s overlooked Antarctic legacy, and the vast frozen territory it still retains, then, offer us the opportunity for such a vision.
If such a project is pursued with enough vigor, it will make Britain’s claim to Antarctica inarguable. It is easy to draw peremptory lines on an empty map, but it is much harder and more admirable to people that map and to rescue its land from barrenness. For a stagnant or declining nation, it is easy to find this or that technocratic intervention that can solve this or that economic, social, or political issue. What is more difficult is finding a vision that gives the nation reason to carry out such reforms. These visions must be inspiring, but they must also be within reach. Most importantly, they must match the legacy and history of the country.
This is culture war because, well, the decline of nations is extremely political, and from my view the Trumpian Right, for all it's many and varied flaws, is the only party at least nominally pursuing a future vision of greatness, instead of simply ignoring or managing a decline.
Also, this is a very sassy quote from the article I loved:
This unworldly modern Britain is hardly the “perfidious Albion” depicted in the propaganda of its 19th century geopolitical rivals. Not wholly unflatteringly, contemporary Russian state media still portrays the country as the shadowy orchestrator of coups and death squads. A truer depiction, though, is that of the “cash-poor, asset-rich elderly woman who has somehow inherited a portfolio of scattered, high-value properties she doesn’t know what to do with.”
Hardspace Shipbreaker. Attempting to dissemble a ship as neatly and efficiently as possible with a minimum of waste was enormously absorbing, appealing to the same part of my brain that can't relax until everything in my apartment is in its right place.
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