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naraburns
nihil supernum
23hr ago
Thanks for digging that up. I did not remember this when I wrote the original comment, but it strengthens my feeling that we should be paying more attention to this sort of thing, and preferably not memory-holing it...
5434a
23hr ago
Can't offer any input on my end, I was unaware there were different versions and I'd rather avoid seeing any spoilers by reading up on the changes.
naraburns
nihil supernum
23hr ago
I don't think Islamist terrorism is more identitarian than intellectual?
Anyone committed to Islam is committed to a "group or organization" in a way that lone wolf intellectual terrorists generally aren't, and Islamist terrorist groups often claim credit for terrorist acts, while the reaction from e.g. anti-natalists to this anti-natalist attack has been "that guy doesn't represent us."
Last I checked, the highest rate of antidepressant usage by sex and profession was men working with small children, and it was more than twice the next item on the list.
Possible source (tables 3 and 4)
| Profession | Increase to chance of taking antidepressant (%) for men | …for women |
|---|---|---|
| Not human services | +0 | +0 |
| Human services | +22 | +0 |
| Human services: Education professionals | +9 | −8 |
| Human services: Education professionals: Secondary-school teachers | +8 | −7 |
| Human services: Education professionals: Preschool teachers | +20 | −2 |
| Human services: Education professionals: Childcare workers | +72 | +7 |
| Human services: Social workers | +62 | +19 |
| Human services: Social workers: Not benefit administrators or social care workers | +111 | +27 |
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23hr ago
Taxes, regulations, formal employment with fixed/limited hours, reduction of inequality, and Baumol's cost disease have pretty much wiped out any financial advantage for hiring help. It's pure luxury now, and expensive luxury at that. You can't pay someone $30/hr and spend the time saved at your $80/hr job. One, you're probably salaried and the marginal time won't pay at $80/hr. Two, you're paying that $30 out of post-tax money and the $80 will be taxed at your marginal rate, perhaps in the 45% range. Three, you'll have to pay payroll taxes on the $30 too. Four, it won't be $30 on the legal market, it'll be more. So no, you really can't afford help.
If your copy of chapter 4 begins with "Even before Erica finished formally adjourning the meeting", you are reading the original web serial. If instead it reads "Even before Valerie finished formally adjourning the meeting", you are reading the edited book version.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
23hr ago
I think it’s more that Europe has the right formula as they don’t have elections that begin the moment the current government is sworn in. The campaign seasons are fairly short and unless there’s some vote of no confidence or something, the government can run things and people don’t feel the need to consume political news to follow it all.
DirtyWaterHotDog
23hr ago
Bay Area != East Bay.
He's paying a lot less in Oakland than he would be in SF / South Bay / Berkeley. There is a large undocumented/recently-documented population there, who works at or lower than minimum wage. You can get it down to ~$150/month (4 visits). That's not too bad.
kky
22hr ago
For hiring an FTE, keep in mind that you are typically on the hook for all the fun things like healthcare and retirement plans that you never see the costs of as an employee. Those can run hideously expensive. It’s possible to hire someone under the table, but there are risks associated because it is quite literally illegal.
I looked into nanny costs, and in my state, it really isn’t $20/hr. And this is true for most affluent states, to the best of my knowledge. A good daycare built around a tight-knit and inherently somewhat exclusive community will almost always run you cheaper, like the church-associated ones that others have mentioned. (I saved significant cash going from 3/wk to 5/wk from a downmarket nanny to one such daycare.) I think the arbitrage is way less than your instincts are telling you.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
22hr ago
Hot take: "Europe" is only a separate continent because geographers have a very eurocentric view in drawing the lines. Every other continent has a pretty clear separation from its neighbors by sea or at least small isthmus. "Eurasia" makes more sense from the map.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
22hr ago
Tired: Europe is a continent
Wired: Europe is not a continent
Inspired: Europe is a continent, and so is India
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
The ozone layer and global warming is not real/not threatened by Freon, but the US government acts on behalf of large chemical companies to ensure that there will never be a generic version of most refrigerants available by inventing excuses to ban them before the patent lapses. There’s some other stuff about the government intentionally underpaying informants tied in there based on evidence standards for environmental regulations(venting Freon requires video evidence from a licensed technician and not any other kind) and sometimes this ties into eccentric metaphysical/spiritual beliefs.
HVAC techs are probably the most conspiratorial/far right demographic in the country because of the recruiting population, so stuff like that is par for course.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Oh absolutely- and I’d imagine most surgeons don’t mow their own lawns, scrub their own toilets, etc.
atelier
Jimmys: unrustled
22hr ago
Bullets lose way too much energy in a short distance of water. I don't think they'd work. Easiest way I know of is a cheap rod and some bread on a hook.
Quantumfreakonomics
22hr ago
The rant from "A Few Good Men", presented without comment.
ThisIsSin
Cainanites and Abelists
22hr ago
I don't know why people have such a hard time believing that women are psychologically better-suited than men for caring for small children.
Because the follow-up question is "are men better-suited psychologically to certain tasks?", and the answer, "yes", strikes at the heart of how Western society's nobles (women as class) justify their current position as nobility.
5434a
22hr ago
It's Valerie.
I'll try to remember to check Scott's post about the edits after I've finished.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
22hr ago
On one hand, you’ve got a (former?) Trump enthusiast who blew himself up in front of a Trump property. On the other, a self-proclaimed misandrist and nihilist who went 0-1 against a bunch of babies. There’s a common thread here and it isn’t intellectualism.
Hell, they wouldn't even call it terrorism, when George Floyd extremists went around lighting things on fire in protest of a vibe.
Were they wrong? I think most riots belong in a different category from hostage situations, hijackings, and bombings.
many attacks on universities I regard as quite warranted
Please tell me you mean political attacks rather than terrorist ones.
JarJarJedi
21hr ago
Imagine you have a number of tasks to do. Some of them are relatively quick - maybe up to 15-20 minutes, some will probably take hours. You will eventually need to do all the tasks but you can do them in pretty much any order. Which ones do you start with? Is it the small ones to get a quick win and keep yourself motivated, or the largest one, so that once you do them you'd feel you made a lot of progress and what is left is easy work now compared to what you've already done? What would you do and why?
Lewis2
21hr ago
I’d start with a quick one, then alternate between quick and long. Ideally do a few quick ones in between each long one in order to help keep myself engaged. This method would give me a quick initial win, but also prevent me from bogging down at the end when I have multiple back-to-back long projects to do.
That’s in the perfect world, at least. In practice, I’d do a couple of quick ones, a couple of long ones, get distracted, then unexpectedly gain a burst of energy and tear through a number of longer projects at high speed, then procrastinate and possibly give up on the rest entirely.
JarJarJedi
21hr ago
Probably has something to do with UK laws. Maybe some Google lawyers are scared somebody would sue them if some image casting somebody powerful in bad light is generated. UK is not a good place to be sued for defamation. While Google is probably not scared that somebody in UAE sues them. May be related to that.
naraburns
nihil supernum
21hr ago
There’s a common thread here and it isn’t intellectualism.
Intellectualism isn't necessarily intellect. Being driven by ideas (as opposed to group identification) is not the same as being driven by good ideas.
Were they wrong? I think most riots belong in a different category from hostage situations, hijackings, and bombings.
I mean, they were literally wrong, yeah. But while I agree that "riot" is qualitatively distinct from "hijacking," they're different categories, but both can certainly also be terrorism.
many attacks on universities I regard as quite warranted
Please tell me you mean political attacks rather than terrorist ones.
Hahah, yes, I certainly mean political attacks. Though now you mentioned it--there was that kid in Florida who shot up his university recently, in what seemed potentially a right-coded anti-university terrorist attack. But it's not clear that his extremism was specifically anti-university...?
To some extent talking about any of this feels a bit like trying to make sense of insanity; if sense could be made of it, then couldn't the argument be made that it's not insanity? It's entirely possible that I'm spooling through arguments about the shapes of clouds, here. Still, it seems like we are headed back in time, rather than forward, in terms of political terrorism.
JarJarJedi
21hr ago
or attributing Israel's massive success among the audiences as the result of concerted, strategic voting efforts by "the right".
Wait, I thought "the right" are supposed to be all Nazis? So all the Nazis are voting for Israel now, against Austria, where literally Hitler was born? That's hilarious.
ambient nominally pro-Palestinian (but really anti-Israeli) sentiment in Ireland
On a more serious note, a disappointment of a decade, tbh, how quickly and easily Ireland turned anti-Semitic (let's not be coy, that's what it is). What did the Jews ever done to them? I have always been a fan of Irish and wider Celtic culture, but this thing makes me sad.
TIRM
21hr ago
a suicide bomber on American soil in advancement of a radical leftist position
I'm nominating this guy as a 6 years ago almost-example. Cops killed him before he could blow up that propane tank. And he isn't quite a suicide bomber. But he was a bomber, suicidally attacking ICE because of his leftist ideology. I say he counts. Bonus points for being a John Brown Gun Club member putting their ideology and training to use.
I have blown up a number of propane tanks on BLM land by taping road flares to them and shooting them with rifles. It's good fun but I don't think the explosion is large enough to do much in an ICE detention center parking lot.
Kaczynski for sure. McVeigh and "abortion clinic bombers," not so sure.
This was part of my overall thinking (the "grey tribe" stuff at the end, sorry for burying the lede) in that comment. Anti-natalism pattern matches to leftism for me--all the anti-natalists I know are leftists--but not in an "identitarian left" way, so I am thinking about how I should accommodate that in thinking about this phenomenon of intellecually radicalized suicide bombers in 21st century America.
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