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RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
5d ago
Would you consider a Chinese or Vietnamese person less American if they were born here and spoke English natively?
By that standard, Jared Taylor is Japanese.
charlesf
5d ago
I speculate the the higher income families might also have more connections with which to secure their kids summer work. All of my summer jobs as a teen and in college came from connections, not randomly dropping applications or otherwise cold approaching employers. Living in a higher income area probably helps too; one of my summer jobs was working at the boat service center at a private marina.
BreakerofHorsesandMen
Sweet Sejenus
5d ago
Jeroma, Jerometta, Jeromina, and Jeromabelle
@FiveHourMarathon We’ve solved your problem for you.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5d ago
Yeah, it could have been Brussels.
Just something I remember I saw while doomscrolling, and my brain might have rounded off the capital for the country. Though your link is for 2020, and I think the info I saw was more recent. Either way, I can't find at the moment, so I'm happy to concede.
TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
This anecdote isn't intended as commentary on what you wrote, but I feel like sharing.
My area is full of big homes occupied by single retirees and tiny apartments occupied by families. Somehow, whether due to regulation or tax nonsense or what have you, there doesn't seem to be a way of fixing this. Maybe when the boomers really start to die en masse it'll work out.
Actually something I've seen a few times is married boomers who are still 'together' but each live in their own full sized homes near each other as they simply find that more pleasant. Blew my mind the first time but it keeps coming up.
Corvos
5d ago
To the degree that gender is a useful concept separate from sex, it is exactly a belief.
This I think is exactly the bone of contention behind the relabelling. To the trans, 'gender identity' is an innate characteristic that is often incorrectly assigned at birth and rediscovered later in life. That is very different from the conception that sees 'gender' as being a propaganda concept that is actually the exact same as sex and 'gender-identifying' as a category mistake at best and a mental illness at worth. That is what I mean by 'reifying' - the manner in which such things are recorded implicitly gestures towards an official attitude on them and is at least in part an attempt to take hold of the 'neutral' ground.
To take a more extreme example for illustration, if Sarah is an otherkin we do not say
Name: Sarah. Species: unicorn.
If we note their weird beliefs at all, it would be as a note in the misc section.
Finally, let's take your atheist example. Let's imagine a very, very atheist society in which 2% of people at most have a religion and it's regarded as a ridiculous peculiarity and evidence of schizophrenic delusion. Such a society would certainly not have a Soul column in their datasheets! Nor would they have a religion column because almost nobody has a religion and nobody cares about the people who do. They would, where appropriate, note the person's peculiarities in the misc section.
I was amused to see 'Lord' and 'Lady' as potential titles on a questionnaire I was sent recently from Harley Street. You wouldn't get that in America, but you might get 'Mx' or various other formulations. The questions that are asked, and the way the answers are recorded, show society's implicit viewpoint and define common sense, so they are absolutely going to be a battleground in cases like this.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5d ago
You sound European?
Correct.
but my Asian and Hispanics friends in southern California are just as American as me
Are you sure they are as loyal to you, as you are to them? Does this statement include the fellows flying Mexican flags during the recent riots?
Right-wingers who went them gone from the country or to feel less American have no place in politics.
Sure they do. Their views are just as legitimate as yours, and have the advantage of not being suicidal.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
I've seen and read the play before. I'm hoping to look at it with new eyes.
Ioper
5d ago
Shouldn't you look up stuff like that after? Just watch the play, it's not that complex.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
Man, but then you miss out on the essential dad activity of pushing them, letting them fall, and telling them to rub some dirt in their skinned knee.
TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
The Democrats' positive vision is more socialism and it's pretty popular with a lot of young people. The worsening economy will only fuel this fire.
KMC
5d ago
You yourself don't consider them American, you call them what they are: Chinese, and Vietnamese.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
5d ago
I believe in FiveHour's ability to get creative. My wife's grandfather wanted to name his kids after him, and the fact that he had all daughters did not deter him in the slightest. That's how my wife wound up with aunts named Paula and Pauletta.
Stellula
5d ago
I think you’re getting into some semantics here.
Repetitive prayer certainly exists in Catholicism (and its online offshoot: Eastern Orthodoxy), as does meditation.
The belief that Buddhists have discovered some mystical magical thing in meditation, or “mantras” or “breath work” is just orientalism.
https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/meditations
KMC
5d ago
The sons of those who beat a thoroughfare for freedom across the wilderness are absolutely those who have a place in politics. It is the bitter and resentful foreigners, the unnaturalized and unassimilable ethnics, and anyone who considers himself an American and something else besides who have no place here, in politics or otherwise.
After all, you yourself don't even call your friends American. You call them Asian and Hispanic. Hyphenated, at best, and therefore not American, and I won't let you give away my inheritance that my forefathers struggled for and bequeathed to me. Not to Asians, not to Hispanics, not to foreigners, not to traitors and backstabbers, either.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
5d ago
People have often claimed that a wunderwaffe would soon massively shift the tide of the war, and they've been wrong every time in this conflict so far. Some like HIMARs have legitimately moved the needle, but it wasn't a revolution, just a needle-change that was soon adapted to (with some minor costs associated with the adaptation).
I haven't heard Perun talking about this much and he's been a pretty good barometer for the tempo of the war so far. He actually had a video out recently that went into the use of drones as anti-drone weapons, so I don't see why those couldn't be adapted to this.
quiet_NaN
5d ago
To the degree that gender is a useful concept separate from sex, it is exactly a belief. (We could also rate passing, on a scale of 0 (always read male) to 1 (always read female), but that depends on effort, situation and so forth and is probably not worth the cost of measuring.)
Consider a column named "religion" (which is something the government sometimes tracks, e.g. to put on dog tags).
Sure, I could put in
Name: Sarah. Soul: None. Auxiliary Note: identifies as ensouled / Roman-Catholic.
But that would be an asshole-atheist move. If I put in religion: RCC instead, then almost nobody is going to read that as "she has an eternal soul which she has pledged to the Roman-Catholic version of the Christian god and thus she will either go to RC heaven or RC hell, unlike the next guy who is Sunnite and will either go to that heaven or wherever bad Sunnites go" because nobody expects religion to work like in D&D.
Or take the column "name". Nobody will claim that "Sarah" is her eternal True Name objectively etched in her very soul. Perhaps her parents named her "Karen" and she really hated that name and got it legally changed. Should we write:
Name assigned at birth: Karen. Auxiliary Note: trans-named / Sarah-identifying
jkf
5d ago
Arguably, it depends. If I want to study breast cancer, then I likely want to select "people with boobs"
I don't think silicone bags get cancer -- are estrogen induced breast deposits in males particularly vulnerable?
with the wokes probably prefering "SAAB"
Is that really what they are saying now? I'll be polluting their data by answering "99" in the future.
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PokerPirate
5d ago
Making twins is super easy. Basically every couple I know who had kids >40 has twins due to how IVF works. I don't know of a way to make identical twins though...
oats_son
5d ago
Chinese and Vietnamese, no, I like Asian immigrants in general. I also consider Hispanics American good enough. There were just way too many of them coming in and straining the social services a lot and undercutting wages.
Arab or black or Indian, yes, probably, depending on how they turn out. Arabs are insular enough that there's a good chance their kids do not integrate, same for Indians, and black people have their own terrible culture that they're usually unfortunate enough to fall into even if they're born outside it.
TheAntipopulist
Formerly Ben___Garrison
5d ago
I'm not familiar with that anecdote. Is this article an accurate summary? If so, I don't see how that's really related to ambition. She couldn't forge her own path that much when she was the nominee because 1) Biden was fairly popular with Dems, and her campaign was all about not rocking the boat to hold the fractious coalition together, and 2) people wouldn't believe her anyways since she was the VP.
I don't get how here strategic choice on the campaign trail is reflective of her ambition.
roche
5d ago
I believe we're in the twilight years of a meritocratic age, where it's fairly easy to build wealth and status now, but you need to be a highly intelligent and enterprising person to make it happen (like someone in a picaresque), and this gets slightly harder each year.
For instance, I'm developing a game, and the standards for indie games over the past decade have ballooned to such a wild degree that we're now selecting for elite members of the population who can learn and do anything. If 8-10 years ago you could succeed off a fun gameplay loop alone, in 2025 it now takes a unique art style, a healthy and active social media presence, and a fun+unique gameplay loop at minimum. You may counter that I'm describing the mega-hits, but the market is so risky that if you're not aiming for a mega-hit, you're rolling the dice on a flop. Gamers have criticized the industry for years for letting AA games die, but they died at the hands of the consumer. You are essentially telling creators to spend years on a product that is "kinda good" and gamble between a moderate success and a total flop, when aiming for a mega-hit is more like gambling between moderate success and incredible success (with a smaller chance of flop). Hitting the "gamble" button for a string of moderate successes is just unreasonable, when for both small and large developers one flop can spell catastrophe. So the norm that the industry has reached is, "let's gamble for a mega hit each time because just one will sustain us for years". Square Enix is one company that does this now, with XIV profits bankrolling their single-player games -- many of which aspire to be mega-hits and fail.
In this environment, the naturally gifted Miyamotos and Sakaguchis and Carmacks of today will still rise to the fore, but increasingly, they stand alone. And I can't feel positively about that. Aristocracy is predicated on the idea that if you simply gather all these gifted people together, they'll all cooperate and do incredible things. But I feel like that's bullshit, and innovation is drying up all across society.
charlesf
5d ago
4m per year? or 4m total between 2025 and the end of 2028. I wonder sometimes what the actual realistic ceiling is on deportations. There are only so many ICE members, courts etc to process them. Though the budget for such was recently increased, it takes time to hire and train and build institutional capacity in any organization. I would expect a ramp in capacity over time; 2028 is likely to have more than the prior years. I read a semi-convincing argument that at current capacity, assuming the political will remains strong, we could maybe do 1m a year. Definitions and motivated statistical analysis also confound efforts to accurately capture such figures.
There is actually, the APKWS laser-guided rocket, which has already been used by US fighters to take down Geran-type weapons.
A single F-15 can carry fifty of these, [edit: sorry, at least 42, although I'm sure larger pods could be introduced] introducing video game ammo logic to real life and allowing a squadron on station can defend a vast territory from even hundreds of Gerans pretty easily and more effectively than static air defenses (Gerans are slow and ~easy to detect if they are flying at 3km). At somewhere around $20 grand it trades nicely in cost with a $70,000 cruise missile.
Ukraine can't use this particularly effectively because it has been unable to degrade Russian air defenses and fighter coverage (and in fact I wonder if Russia modified their Gerans to fly at higher altitudes specifically to deny fighter interceptors ground clutter cover). NATO's air forces and capability to degrade air defenses are vastly superior to Ukraine's, so the APKWS is a more viable defense strategy for them.
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