This is like 5 goals ($ for basics", "$ for luxuries", "have a family", "respected"). And missing goals people care about, like, "prove I am worthy of love", "prove mom & dad wrong", "to crush your enemies"
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This is like 5 goals ($ for basics", "$ for luxuries", "have a family", "respected"). And missing goals people care about, like, "prove I am worthy of love", "prove mom & dad wrong", "to crush your enemies"
All not what the intellectual progenitors of an idea are, but whether it will work.
I mean it can still do that. You just realize that you're doing to the emergent properties of the natural world
I am increasingly intolerant of metaphorical language describing speech acts. Did you get disinvited from parties? People privately told you to knock it off? You got named in a blog post?
∴ Progressive income taxation and wage compression are anti-corruption measures.
Basically the inverse problem of Seeing Like a State: the State must be complex enough to fit the messiness of reality. BUT it must be simple enough so the voters can understand and use their information to guide the State.
I think the larger point needs to be the complexity of many solutions currently favored make the State illegible to the demos, making it a black box. This environment breeds woo and scam solutions.
Outside of California, you could improve most property tax regimes by just indexing them to the city's housing inflation and stop adjusting after improvements!
The thing about political alliances and compromise is the goodness depends a lot on what support you give vs what support you get. The very first political act is the peace treaty.
Never ask Brightline's PAC how they made their 5 min frequency trains pencil without subsidies
The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain
I'm in favor of bodily autonomy transhumanism and all, but the future where we can all get whatever tails and 3rd eyes is going to have a lot of Ugly. I've seen y'all's tattoos.
Changes every day but David Bowie, Kevin Shields, Elizabeth Frasier, Billy Bragg
"Pass several laws that take effect within a year." Is not a high standard for a legislature, and yet.
AI removes "effort" of thinking, cars remove the effort of walking, chairs remove the effort of good posture, junk food removes the effort of digestion.
At this point I'm wondering how long until they polarize themselves against sewage treatment. "I only drink Raw Water, obtained 50ft downhill from my whites-only outhouse"
The thing that is most incomprehensible about the anti-vaxx shit is everyone gets infections, and knows how much they suck. We could get sick much less! It wouldn't be all that expensive to install air filters, UV lights, and ramp up vaccine research, but lots of people prefer being sick.
Religion is a social psycho-technology. It is super cool that Christianity ended up birthing Modernity, Science and freedom from poverty, but it kinda fucked up Christendom's conception of religion. Buddhism is the autist technical reference manual to spirituality. Xianity has the best social Myths.
"The problem is moral rot in all of our hearts, especially our social leaders": another of my opinions that sounds like a 90's Republican. But why is it a problem now? My best guess is fighting fascists in WWII really did create incredible moral momentum. Or loss of social bonds, infoslop?
The Other is just society's Jungian Shadow: projecting all the shit people haven't dealt with into simple categories of people the projector is not a part of.
A return to the Solid South after a 1964-2010 reprieve. But now every rural area is part of Dixie.
this gives plants’ alternation of generations a run for its money on weirdness!
How long does it take for them to cook up some lies? Very weird.
My dog has a special interest in tennis balls and my cat has sensory issues with how I touch her and doesn't like being social. Must be the tism.
Land Value Tax, the best tax, does have some problems correctly assigning value to land vs improvements, but just adding a lag to changes in total property value after an improvement is a good approximation.
Post-apocalyptic scifi story: the detailed warnings surrounding the radiation waste site are the best source of ancient, arcane knowledge. Universities spring up near dangerous, profane temples. Related: youtu.be/vxR-oKkwJLI?... youtu.be/Bj1oITXzqyg?...
I used to think the "comes out of closet at 27" guy was just suppressing the ego dystonic gay feels. But also, I think he is actually just one instance of a type of Guy: 99% thinking about what an abstract person in my place Should Be, 1% asking "what do I like"? Which is very common!
Aside from Gender, just realized that treating love as a zero-sum thing you fight for possession of is toxic af. Realize giving is enjoyable, ask for what you want (not what other people want), appreciate what people can give.
A decade of edgelording every offensive thing we don't need, and not the offensive thing we do need: a prestige TV series dramatizing the life of Mohammed, in the style of "The Last Temptation Of Christ"
ETOH boosts mood for an hour then makes you feel like shit for 12hrs The two phases have approximately equal but opposite areas under the curve. Alcohol is a social drug because the immediate mood boost can be shared (a Party) without sharing the hangover.
What's awesome about this movie is it shows the beauty of the smaller world, how competitive scaling took a super world millions of years ago as wetware computation wasn't compact enough.
The "We're still in a pandemic" people and the right wing "why did we vax and mask and close schools?" nuts both are forgetting the jam-packed ICUs.
It's also like, a way to implicitly claim "I am a Type and there are many like me". Realizing you're Different doesn't always include the realization that "everyone is kinda weird". Supporting "we're all kinda queer" requires solidarity...
I think they should justify their shadow docket decisions if they have an itch to write more
False bsky.app/profile/sele...
It's funny because it's true
Good news: the next generation of software devs who rely heavily on LLMs will have demon-summoner witch-doctor pre modern animism as their Brain
This isn't even a good read under the Popularist evidence? Like, Starmer should be refocusing the conversation away from trans and immigrant issues by fixing the UK housing crisis & building better trains. Instead this compromising highlights the salience of culture war stuff!
If society wants people to do things with astonishingly high private costs, it should offer astonishingly high subsidies.
The biggest thing I see is that the smaller and more removed from politics an interest group is, the less they get Nazis their mentions, and less they have moved over here. The biggest group that seem to not have antibodies to fash are Normie types. Rageahol is like alcohol.
When you start to look, it's hard not to see the difference between "real improvements" vs "dumb zero-sum status competition bs"
"We tried a $2k annual tax credit and it didn't change birthrates. Only option left is 17th C Patriarchy"
sharing this because it captures a slightly different, but related aspect of Boromir
Maybe if SCOTUS feels the urge to do more writing, they could write full opinions for their decisions instead of doing unsigned shadow docket bs.
"Bougie trans lawyers" are the no 1 demographic to have actually read theory.
The little Chinese place is so delicious
Falling asleep really feels like getting your mind to only think about NULL
A lot of us grew up and have relatives from rural/red states. I think we're a lot less likely to be cosplay leftists
Good boyfriend who tries to get you to get a job vs abusive meth-dealer boyfriend
Improve a lyric with a small change: "They like me, want 'em to love me like they love Pac" -> "They like me, want 'em to love me like __I__ love Pac" (Happy birthday to SelectStarMan's niece)
There is another way... bsky.app/profile/sele...
Guy who is overweight has a lot of books about exercise!?!
Nitro coffee is legit one of the best food inventions of recent decades. Delicious without just being "add more sugar"
In the words of xkcd, the Up Goer line
This, from the company created to stalk and jerk it to classmates?!?
So does the truck! Some engineering guidelines suggest they should be secured with metal anchor bolts if you don't have several feet of deflection space, and it seems they are using the bike lane as the deflection area here
piloting a car at speed is a precision act requiring total focus, experience, and sound mind and body. it’s insane we’ve made cars so huge and fast in the age of cell phone and screen addiction and let any jackass drive any car anywhere and as fast as they want to. what a reckless, violent society
Basically: 1) Do you drive a car? 2) Have you eaten meat this week?
That seems like it's just an incentive problem (people prefer sycophancy to tough love).
Before her time
La cosa nostra
Wish there was someone with a full time job who had authority to investigate and fix these the bad laws...
Were there any plots that weren't resolved by blackmail?
My wife is an ICU nurse and same
Hm, I wonder what political side has opinions that would make people want to avoid contact. 1) The side wanting higher taxes, welfare, and allowing diverse ways of living 2) the side that revels in inflicting cruelty?
The thing about elite athletes is they are all, by definition, biological freaks. So it is used to subtly highlight people who are unusual, even compared to other trans people.
Well they also want to abuse their kids until they are monsters too
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
If you keep making that face, some day your face will get stuck like that
Or maybe if you've never set foot outside of Louisiana: the narcissism of small differences
Cycling is inherently more suburban than walking/walkability: bikes take up more space but are faster than walking (they also cost more money). So for American cities, building good bike infra is more important than improving walkability.
Deified Cletus I
Insane alpha in a 15 minute weightlifting workout doing 15 rep sets on the big compounds, assuming you have a home gym. Lower weight, higher rep sets build muscle and are less hard on joints, and strength needs to be targeted less frequently. You can finish this circuit without much rest.
"Build some housing, including SROs" would fix 75% of the public perception of crime, at least for anyone not FOXNEWS-brained. Most of the rest would require more resources for social worker/cop hybrids who can make sure people get Suboxone or antipsychotic injections.
And the "protect yourself from tyrannical government" is becoming a much less theoretical question, especially for e.g. a Hispanic Texan...
I've seen like a half dozen definitions (expansionist belligerent warmongering, putting minorities in camps, taking stakes and partial control of corporations, using allied street gangs for terrorism, destroying science and objective knowledge, etc.) and he is trying to collect them all
They why is every app trying to deprecate passwords in favor of "you phone is your authentication?"
Is there a VSCode plug that handles code highlighting and syntax checking python files nested on yaml files? Or even better, SQL queries as strings in Python files nested on yaml files?
Trump has always been an indebted, leveraged real estate guy -> Think low interest rates are always good -> He's going to destroy the Fed to get some incredible inflation numbers that eventually bring down his presidency
That's basically what happened in 2020
I wave at the robot in the sink, hoping to get her attention, so she'll provide some water and soap.
I just love his nonfiction essays explaining science topics. The one explicating Paradise Lost as a sci-fi story is so fun.
It seems like he wants to be sure to do the inflation and then recession version
Reminds me of the "New York City?!?" salsa ad, but NYC salsa >>> Hitlerville salsa
Yeah that is "openness to experience" aka edpol
The last Dem to do this sort of policy communication was Bill Clinton. Very different vibes but both respect their audience
We are mostly post-materialist and it's only going to get worse unless we manage to really screw things up. Creating and externalizing fears need to be seen as a mortal sin.
Mail, phone calls, news, etc. have all become worse as transaction costs decreased, demonstrating how most modern problems aren't "not enough complex widgets at low prices" (the big exception: housing). Our real problems are finding social connections, distributing $, and feeling accomplishment.
"Aesthetics restores mastery over the order of the world to a subject, restores a form of sublimation of the total illusion of the world, which would otherwise annihilate us." - The Perfect Crime
Maybe, but also I'm not going to try McDonald's new McShitter
This is what copyright took from us
US sprawl makes protest movements invisible, but also makes this kind of stuff ineffective too
Dancing is not to be watched, but done. Just causes madness
We're all dying, question is how fast
I will die having read .01% of the books I'd like to have read. I can afford to be picky.
Realizing that "Cheesecake Factory" really wasted its name...
I get annoyed by bad storytelling in TV (not that resolution is the only part of that), but at least there is acting, costumes, camera work, etc.
I'm not sure you're wrong, but that's also why I will basically never read anything from an incomplete series anymore.