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Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
10m ago
If you declare "My ideological opponents (including people who work in fields I disapprove of) are not productive citizens" you are not striving to create a just system, just one that rewards your ingroup and punishes your outgroup.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
12m ago
Thanks!
I wonder what that means for the legality of the "I am visiting the US and want to shoot a gun" folks. I've seen billboard ads for "shoot a machine gun" in at least Vegas and some red-state cities.
I guess that might not be legal "possession", though.
TwiceHuman
13m ago
I think it's possible to re-program people, but also that it's difficult. Look at actual programmers - the competent ones can do a lot of amazing things, but those who lack the skills can barely make a working application. So these techniques "don't work" in the sense that they aren't recipes that any idiot can use to get the results that they want. In order to reproduce the results of the findings, you need competent people to try them out.
I wonder if modern studies even factor in competence. If you were to study whether or not therapy worked, your results would depend more on the competence of the therapists than on the method you were testing. In fact, a lot of things which are considered "impossible" by "experts" are completely possible and merely gatekept by competence
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
20m ago
I'm not sure why coordination would be required for this, rather than a desire for the current government to stay in power / whoever would foreseeably take over to stay out of it.
Muninn
"Dick Laurent is dead."
26m ago
I'm going to see if it's possible to train my nose to become more sensitive and receptive again. Sort of like how exercising the body influences the brain etc. If I demand more performance from my palate, maybe something will respond. I'm something of a food/drink enjoyer, it's one of my joys in life, so having a weak receptivity won't do.
I'm not surprised that you enjoy food and drink and I strongly believe that it's possible to gain or regain sensitivity to taste and smell. Simply paying attention to the sensory inputs while imbibing is, IMO, a large part of the battle. Not-so-coincidentally, I also believe that this is why explicit tastings are a Thing; for me, it's far easier to pay attention to the sensory input when that's the explicit point of the exercise. Anyway, sounds like you've got your eye on some nice new beans to try. Indonesian coffee in particular will likely give you a good idea of how different coffee can taste by region, assuming the roast isn't too dark.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
26m ago
The architecture behind her is fucked up too.
Would have been too spicy to make her a white woman with soot on her face, I guess.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
42m ago
I assume some of the people discussing this are already maxing out their Roth IRA options, or exceed the salary caps.
oats_son
47m ago
My experiences do not call into question the statement's validity. As @RenOS pointed out, my dad was not really a traditionalist, or at least, not a traditionalist of any tradition I know about. He started a family and kept cutting off any of his own social connections he had made. He didn't go to church. He had us go to the state park with a bunch of milk jugs to fill up drinking water from the spigots there. One year, he got obsessed with nitrogen and fertilizers and chemistry and had us all piss into milk jugs and buckets. I remember, once, the fellow Tae Kwon Do pupils were in the same car as me swinging by my house, perhaps to drop me off after a tournament, and wondered about the dark yellow liquid jugs lined up by the clothes line. They wondered "is that lemonade?". I don't remember what I responded with. Dad was immersed in something other than a conservative culture. Dad still is immersed in something other than a conservative culture. He browses extremist websites every day. He set up an office in the barn with a window AC unit for his elderly grandparents because the actual house is apparently not finished enough to live in (or, since his computer, his bed, and his TV are in the house, maybe he just doesn't want to be bothered by them?). He has spent years doing minor work on the house, and it still isn't finished. The toilet broke, so he set up a "bio-toilet" that doesn't need to be cleaned or piped anywhere or anything expensive like that. He doesn't pay for trash pickup, he just burns what he can and sets non-burnables aside in its own large dumpster. There are bullet casings all over the ground.
I think I'd describe him as "extremely anti-social with paranoid narcissistic tendencies" before I'd describe him as a traditionalist.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1hr ago
Tbh last time I left the USA I did find it odd I didn't seem to pass through any specific exit point
The US doesn't make people leaving the country by air get a stamp, but flight (and ship) manifests are tracked for that sort of thing, I understand.
Needing permission to leave sounds a lot like the Berlin Wall, but I think makes sense for the EU combined area.
anon_
1hr ago
Well, yes, but the AF were largely outvoted at the Constitutional Convention.
Im also real sick of “the bill of rights mandates (whatever political platform I’m on today)”. When my side wins election, it’s a principle of democratic governance. When my side loses, it’s about minimum liberal rights. Even Scott succumbs to this in latest ACX.
SkoomaDentist
1hr ago
I was expecting something dumb, but that's just... wow.
That's pretty much par the course for the current administration, so really not that surprising (eg. recall the formula used to calculate the initial tariffs).
nomenym
1hr ago
Depends on how quickly you act. But sure, if he had already way overstayed his student visa before getting married, then it would not have been easy to get a green card.
nomenym
1hr ago
This is one of those situations where one group thinks that because he has scammed the system, and done so quite successfully, for such a long time that we should be more lenient than with a new arrival. The other group thinks that scamming the system for a long time, and especially when occupying a position of social responsibility, makes the crime worse than if he was caught jumping the fence just yesterday.
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
1hr ago
I'd be much happier if philosophers kept it to themselves.
There are plenty of other types of academics (in both STEM and the humanities) who are also doing work that has roughly the same level of impact on you and your life (~zero). Philosophers don't seem to be much different from those guys. Why single philosophy out for such ire?
Have you ever been in any "philosophy" circle?
Several (both online and irl).
It quickly becomes unreadable because every single person will come up with their own definition for already defined words to match one of their theories, and then will use them in concert to try to make their thesis a mathematical proof.
I don't believe I've ever seen anyone actually do this. I can imagine what it would look like, but I've never actually encountered it. The greatest and most common danger is that you run into people who are just kind of dumb and don't have anything interesting to say. But that happens in everything, not just philosophy.
There are a number of papers in the analytic philosophy literature that try to present themselves as having achieved a "mathematical" level of rigor. Maybe this is what you're talking about. But you're incorrect to say that those papers are "unintelligible". Usually it's just a matter of understanding how the key terms are defined; hopefully the author will define terms that they're using in an unusual or idiosyncratic way, and if they don't, it's probably because they assume that you already know the definition of the term based on prior experience with other relevant literature (physicists do not use the word "work" in the way that people do in ordinary conversation, but that doesn't mean they're obligated to define it for you every time they use "work" in the physics-sense).
quiet_NaN
1hr ago
This would only matter if he was arrested on school property or on his way to/from school.
Also, while it might technically violate the policy, it seems like it is also utterly unenforceable at scale. Letting everyone walk through a metal detector is feasible if expensive. Searching every car which enters the school parking lot is just not feasible. From a safety point of view, people keeping their guns in their cars seems closer to them keeping their gun at home than them keeping their gun on their person or in their bag or briefcase.
I would also estimate that people who keep a handgun in their glove compartment are feeding the illegal gun market, which seems bad.
From a CW perspective, this also pretty much destroys his woke credentials, I would say. Being a school official who hunts is one thing. But while hunters carry pistols for defense against boars and the like, my priors for anyone who keeps a gun in their glove compartment is that the gun serves for self-defense against fellow humans. OTOH, if his area is rural and has a severe coyote problem, that would make things look different.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
1hr ago
Same origin as the word "prince" for first son, I would assume.
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
1hr ago
The purpose of the public school system is to 1) provide state-funded daycare, and 2) force kids to socialize with each other and give them hands-on experience with navigating social hierarchies. The "teaching" and "learning" of objective information, to the extent that it occurs, ranks at a distant third (or it might rank even lower, depending on how much weight you assign to "Pavlovian conditioning with regards to how to follow orders" and "repeated IQ testing and sorting based on future potential", and how tightly interwoven you think those things are with the actual teaching/learning).
So in order to fulfill (1) and (2), you still need to gather all the kids under one roof with adult supervisors.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
2hr ago
Yeah I figured that it was the H2 version first, then the H1 version. So I did have the right order in mind when I said that the second iteration looks better.
Bingbong
2hr ago
Tbh last time I left the USA I did find it odd I didn't seem to pass through any specific exit point, so I'm not sure if that's hugely unusual
I had a domestic flight from Vegas to Los Angeles then my Los Angeles to overseas flight was just 2 gates over from my domestic flight at the terminal and the attendants said it'd be fine if I just boarded but as far as I can tell I didn't actually go through a formal border control spot.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
2hr ago
ER PPCs are good for a similar approach. My personal favorite (not best) setup Mech was in MW4, a Daishi crammed full of clan MGs. It's not necessarily the most powerful (though it does a surprising amount of work), but it's just so much fun to have that much dakka.
TheBailey
soapy mop
2hr ago
but not the Roth
That's only true before age 60. After age 60, you can pay any expenses tax-free out of the Roth—and do so without sacrificing the ability to deduct those expenses if you're above the 7.5% threshold!
Besides the case of “someone who anticipates HSA exhaustion before age 60”, how does the shoebox strategy help? At best, it seems to put the shoebox strategy on equal footing with the Roth-sweep strategy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
If you had explained that these were the product of a representative government, they might feel differently.
The Anti-Federalists among the founders would not be particularly impressed, seeing as they insisted on that Bill of Rights.
The Founders were not of the opinion that one has the right never to lose an election.
Well, Aaron Burr was also a founder.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
2hr ago
The problem you get with an argument that goes that far back to claim that actually people were already unhappy and things were bad is that in order to actually make your case to RETVRN to something, you now need to make the argument that things were better and people were happier before that.
You've just implicitly accused a lot of people of being naive and unable to see the unhappiness and rot in the Boomers' generation. Granting this for the sake of argument, would this not be a strong argument that it is surprisingly easy to be naive in this way about a relatively distant time? Accepting that, would any ideas that you may have about things being better once upon the time, before the boomers with their individualism, television and love marriages came along, not be subject to the same concern, turned back at yourself? How sure can you (and we) be of any impression that the Victorians or Edwardians were happy, when we just saw so many people erroneously believing that the Boomers were? Given that we know even less about those generations, they are more strange to us and have left behind fewer records, misunderstanding their lives would be even easier. At some point you might just wind up believing a nonstandard version of the noble-savage trope that involves your ancestors.
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
2hr ago
You can pay your medical expenses tax free out of the hsa but not the Roth.
Damn, you're good.
So that might be the cause of the occasional missed shifts that are driving me nuts.
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