Slator_hardin

Homo sum, nihil humanum mihi alienum est

[Slator_hardin @SlatorH]

@_Jason_Dean_ @captgouda24 I doubt it's that big of an effect, for the simple reason that big firms do not have better selection criteria. For the few that do, the causality is probably reversed (Google goes, and can go, to such great lengths to screen candidates only bc it's exceptionally productive).

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@ArmandDoma In the rest of the world govt work is about as safe (much safer actually, in light of recent developments) and they still manage to have competent administration and public provisions.
Turns out you don't need elite human capital, just to let people learn and sensible protocols

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@Garbagestyleman @SeanMcCarthyCom No, insinuating every Indian is a rapist street-shitter was (and is) not part of everyday life. Same for insinuating every Jew is a pedo or whatnot.
Like, some of us actually have offline lives and can tell when social media start collecting the worst dregs of culture.

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@tragic_maverick @zachweinberg @Securb @berkie1 As opposed to...? Like, what is the magical solution that would bring rents down today (for everyone, without creating even more scarcity tomorrow)?
Today's cheap housing was built yesterday. Since yesterday we built nothing, there is no cheap housing today.

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@ajlamesa In general I feel it has devolved into some weird functionally conservative (if not reactionary) ethos wearing some vaguely anarchist sentiment as a skinsuit.
Everything new is bad, everything is getting worse, nothing should ever change, but wokely.

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@PippengerHarlo Also at least in Cali and NYC, affordable apartments in exchange for permits is what the *YIMBY* reforms have created, and NIMBYs fucking hate it.
The status quo was simply that other than a few connected developers getting variances, nothing ever got built

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@PippengerHarlo Affordability mandates are bad in principle (why should renters subsidize other renters, and not the public at large) and obscene in practice (renters end up subsidizing trust fund kids who know how to navigate the bureaucratic maze and have the lowest incomes, on paper)

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@GaryWinslett Given that 1. Where there is hydro, we already have a very cheap and capacious gravital storage 2. We need massive carbon sequestration 3. Most economic activity happens by day, I don't think the intermittency is that bad for the time being

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@as_per_ushe @quantian1 Bro I really love American parks but you're welcome in any country where even a modest 401k gets you an house with y'know, running water, heating and other luxuries

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@Empty_America I see that argument a lot but tbh 6'5'' guys usually don' t sleep with hundred of women.
A better retort is that the guy literally dedicated his life to that one purpose.
If smbd goes to the gym daily, he'll be jacked regardless of how good his routine is

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@GordonliddyG @DolphinMossad Public defenders tend to be libertarians or ordoliberals in my opinion, they don't want stricter gun laws. And they are pretty opinionated about the IRS.

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@MattBruenig @HBendaas Good joke
'All the world's efforts against the "Western hegemony", [...] are negligible in comparison with what has been accomplished by *the Palis* [...] by means of a radical transvaluation of values, which was at the same time an act of the *cleverest revenge*'

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@NickHudsonCT @SamaHoole You are confusing taxes *on* something with taxes to be paid *by* something. If the state demands 10% of your income to be paid in some commodity, it obviously increase demand for that commodity (this is how the world monetized btw)

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@MattBruenig @HBendaas Is the joke that Palestinians are now accused of the inversion if values Nietzsche attributed to the Jews?
Like, in AIPAC's view, it's Palis who are the rootless cosmopolitans winning by guile and infiltration what they are too weak to seize by force?

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@nikicaga I think a lot of them are just software engineers (and not firmware) so they completely ignore material reality.
"Just send a bunch of vN machines, and when you have enough machine you send them the plans for the city!"
"OK with which materials?"
"That's just a small detail"

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@UrbanCourtyard Part of it is competition, part of it is Americans expecting really good level of customer service and variety which raises costs, part of it stores in the middle of nowhere tend to be pretty inefficient in terms of customer/sqft (which ties to the expectations abt crowding etc)

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@ArpadV2 @mmjukic Tbh that's pretty hard to believe, engineers are a bit less stereotypical but still sad ppl overall in Europe.
Pure scientists tend to be party animals, and mathematicians either Buddhist monks or the most dissolute (ie, fun) bohemians for some reason

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@homosovieticus_ @souljagoyteller Yes and no, they accepted govt intervention (in fact Nixon was probably even more interventionist than many Dems) but the war on the "welfare queens" (with all the racist undertones) was already there, and he was lukewarm on labor.
Sort of MAGAs if they knew how to read.

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@LucasPo98005038 @TopherStoll There is a cartoon with a similar premise

SPOILERS

The humans find this hippie low tech species, invade thinking it'll be a piece of cake, the hippies are like "bruh we have nukes in storage, we just evolved to not be like you", and actual even-sided war ensues

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@TopherStoll It's not necessarily a cosmic horror toh? There are plenty of books (recently Alien Clay, but it's the last of a long tradition) where the symbionte is something the humans never want to go back from after experiencing it, much like in Avatar