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Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
9m ago
You are still in the new user filter, which means your posts have to be manually approved by a mod. After you've been posting for a while, this will stop happening.
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
9m ago
Not having a personal obligation doesn't negate the fact your choices may be sup-optimal for society at large in other words.
And so what? No one is obligated to get the short end of the deal to achieve Kaldor-Hicks optimality.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
10m ago
You've already gotten a response from two mods, but let me add mine:
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We don't claim to be "neutral." We claim to (attempt to) be fair. Not the same thing.
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You are bitching about a post not being modded when in fact it was modded. As we have told people many times (and you're not new here), we sometimes don't get to posts right away. Sometimes we want to see what another mod thinks, sometimes we don't want to deal with a borderline low-effort shitty post because we're not feeling in the mood to deal with annoying anklebiters and we're hoping some other mod will shin up. Sometimes we're all busy and no one has gone through the queue in a day or two. If a post is less than 24 hours old and hasn't been modded yet, it's premature to start hollering about how the mods are totally biased.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
10m ago
No, you simply have to allow people to develop their own property.
The_Nybbler
Does not have a yacht
10m ago
If that’s a priority for you there are tons of places in the country where demand is low enough to allow that.
I'm already living in my home. Let the NEETs have their pods elsewhere.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
10m ago
Lots of people do this (see Taiwan, Japan). Even in San Francisco there are tall buildings. There's no shortage of demand.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
12m ago
you're knew, so your comments automatically get filtered and the mods have to approve them manually. This goes away once you've picked up some level of net upvotes. We get asked this a lot by new users, and to head off the obvious questions, yes, it really sucks, and no, there isn't anything we can do about it. The functionality is baked into the code package that was used to set up the site, and the owner and his support staff haven't had the time to change it. It's dumb and it sucks, but usually it goes away pretty quickly.
Welcome, by the way.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
17m ago
If we are assuming omniscient tyrants we can probably simplify the system a bit.
practical_romantic
17m ago
Business to consumer, a web/mobile app that's based exclusively on a monthly payment plan.
atokenliberal6D_4
Defender of Western Culture
17m ago
Do you think there are no Indian or Chinese, bay-area tech workers on this forum? I thought part of conceit of a public forum like this is that you are talking to some notion of "everyone". Either way, I'm definitely sure there aren't any antebellum southerners on this forum (they're all dead), so it's still super confusing why my linked comment wasn't also not antagonistic by this standard.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
18m ago
Incorrect, the bay area has been losing population since the pandemic, albeit at a slowing pace.
And the population becoming insanely wealthy like the Bay Area has because of tech and wealthy people moving in from all over the world can shift the demand curve to the right even if the population stays the same.
Okay but prices have been marching up in the face of declining population, so clearly people moving in from all over the world is not a factor. Perhaps you wish to bite the bullet and say that it's bad that people are getting rich in the bay area because they have higher willingness to pay?
Walterodim
Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t
20m ago
I can see the point. Thanks for elaborating, and as always, thanks for moderating.
yellowgreenred
22m ago
Are there any good estimates for "gotaways"? There are quite a lot of deportations and quite a lot of immediate expulsions, and when combined with repeat offenders, the overall number of people entering does not appear to be as high as people might think.
The objection in that thread, as described to you repeatedly at the time, was that you were conflating people to object to the destruction of Confederate memorials with slave owners.
I never conflated these two groups in that entire conversation and repeatedly tried to explain that I didn't. From the very first post, I tried to be very clear that I was only talking about the antebellum south:
The Confederacy/Antebellum south is one of these---one of the worst cases of hereditarian, anti-egalitarian nonsense in modern-ish history.
This is in fact the main issue. If you try to argue many points on this forum, you get pattern-matched and rounded-off to a very different point that is actually objectionable. You can take however many pains you want to say that you are just talking about the antebellum south, and even the moderation team thinks that you are somehow also talking about the modern south. Like how are you supposed to interpret the group that's being teabagged by melting down a statue as something other than the group led by the person the statue represented?
In the case here, a similar effect creates huge blindspots when applying the guideline:
You do in fact have to be careful about how you talk about any group here
How is "infested with Indian and Chinese tech workers taking over" at all being careful while talking about a group? Pointing this out, however, gets conflated with other crying wolf about racism, so this rule about not casually and unjustifiably sideswiping large groups of people doesn't really get applied properly.
The estimates giving 6-7 million tend to be based around only CBP encounters, minus explusions/deportations, plus the CBP's own estimate for 'gotaways' or undetected illegal immigration. This isn't the absolute lowest-bound possible -- some number are repeat offenders -- but it's a very low estimate, especially when the CBP is also claiming that its apprehension rate has remained stable from the lowest part of the Trump/COVID lull til today, and as immigration courts have been increasingly swamped.
I don't think 15m is correct (and it might just be taken from a Trump claim), and most of the ways to get anywhere plausibly close to it depend on some questionable assumptions (eg, declaring some of the weirder refugee categorizations "illegally imported" even if it's not strictly speaking illegal for the immigrants themselves), but the Biden admin numbers are pretty hard to believe.
yellowgreenred
29m ago
Hi, are my comments not showing up?
iprayiam3
31m ago
What's your startup space? Generally speaking , you don't have to dox your idea. Who is your target? Are you business to business or business to consumer?
What questions do you have specifically? I can probably answer some of them.
Amadan
"I would put a screwdriver through your eyeballs if I could"
38m ago
You aren't that funny. Or clever.
Don't do this.
jeroboam
39m ago
A 2 hour window where you eat very little is probably a big improvement on its own for most people. You need to plan out your meals much better and cannot mindlessly snack (you at least need to check you're not within the window first).
Forgot to add that one! Any rules you add kinda just make it harder to consume calories. But... I don't think that explains it. IF (intermittent fasting) is not a particularly effective strategy. The problem is that fasting now just makes you hungry later.
I think it's worth trying, but improving physical health is really a lifelong goal. These gimmick diets might work for losing the initial weight, but you need to be willing to keep the diet up forever or learn the fundamental skills involved if you don't want the weight to come right back.
Funny how modern humans need "fundamental skills" but people 50 years ago just lived their normal lives and stayed skinny. This strikes me as Usain Bolt saying "you need to develop the skills to run fast" as if 99% of it wasn't God-given.
Tomato
44m ago
California’s housing problem and people’s political views on it is completely orthogonal to national party differences. It’s caused by local zoning restrictions which is basically older incumbent homeowners versus younger new entrant renters. Through demographics it’s probably accidentally related to national party affiliation but that’s likely weak and completely incidental. Whether the locals like Trump or not has nothing to do with whether they’re in favor of multi family apartment building construction. The state (Democrat) has implemented pro-building policies that short-circuit local power to restrict it but again you should think of this as largely orthogonal to D vs R. Viewing this as a Trump-related culture war issue totally misses the mark IMO. (I’m responding to your comment but this goes for everyone in this thread).
Supah_Schmendrick
46m ago
Well, the appeal of living in gigantic skyscrapers does diminish a bit when you're living in an earthquake zone. Even being in a fourth floor apartment during a 3.2 a few years back was a deeply unpleasant experience, and I say this as someone who slept through the '92 Northridge quake as a kid.
Can you name a single conservative thinker who is pro-affirmative action?
No, I can't, and that's the point.
So to summarize:
- It's not about race, it's about politics.
- You are against affirmative action in favor of "race-blind meritocracy"
- You are opposed to being "pro-white" in favor of being "pro-meritocracy"
- You are in favor of national over racial identity
- You are an favor of American focus on "dynamism" rather than racial issues
So where's the dissidence? That's just standard boomer conservative. Maybe you believe in race and IQ and hate women, that doesn't make you a dissident it basically just makes you a Republican. A lot of Republicans have low-key or implicit HBD views and similar "edgy" views on gender.
Hence, the sheep in wolves' clothing. These people act all based and red-pilled with edgy memes or greek statue avatars, but at the end of the day they basically just support republican talking points, are highly defensive of Jews, and don't really care for white identity politics.
Do you really think they should be cheering you on as you try to form lines of in-group preference and out-group prejudice with them on the outside?
Yes, actually, I do think they should have fostered a white identity rather than incessantly critiqued and subverted it, but that ship had sailed. White Americans gave fealty to Jews in the 20th century, none was given in return. That's how it's supposed to work, you can't demand fealty and give none in return. But now I just accept they are a political opposition, which is why this is an important issue, and when anon "dissidents" deny that it's an important issue it's a strong tell they are secretly Jewish.
Up zoning is great for property values. The nimby argument is not due to property values but rather "neighborhood character".
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