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Also, I largely sympathize with the goal. I like Meghan Daum's observation on how undifferentiated most kids' clothing was in the 1970's and how much less neurotic Gen X was/is about gender compared with millennials. I would love to see a future where more kids wore simpler, less adorned clothes fo...

I'm not a Gamer. I don't have a console and I don't like shooter games or world building games. But I do like nonviolent single-person games that are intellectually challenging and/or entertaining. I think the Portal games are great. I think The Stanley Paradox is hilarious fun. The Beginner's Guid...

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hahahahhaalkdjfalksjraklsjfdlkasjr;lkawjf;lkajg;laj https://www.vox.com/culture/22273263/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense-prediction-2024 Oh Wormhole Aliens :roll: That is exactly what sucks about DS9. I guess not every Trek series can match " commentaries about race ripped from the pages of Dr...

hahahahhaalkdjfalksjraklsjfdlkasjr;lkawjf;lkajg;laj https://www.vox.com/culture/22273263/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense-prediction-2024 Oh Wormhole Aliens :roll: That is exactly what sucks about DS9. I guess not every Trek series can match " commentaries about race ripped from the pages of Dr...

One interesting thing about their system is that even when a party gets a lot of seats in Parliament they might have to still wait an election cycle or two to increase their share of Federal Council seats. They have to play nice and wait and prove that they are big kids with lasting support. How is...

Considering how often we talk about parliaments as a cure-all for American democracy, this interests me more at the moment: https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewRCraig/status/1360704657149079555 Mind, the Cold War idea that we must have one man ready to blow up the world take decisive action at a momen...

My second is that the whole premise of location based municipal taxation is kind of upended. I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you have municipal income tax? Yes. 2.5% in the city in question. NYC it's like 3.5 or something I think. Maybe it's just that I live in a state with no income t...

JasonL wrote: ↑12 Feb 2021, 11:20My second is that the whole premise of location based municipal taxation is kind of upended.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you have municipal income tax?

But, he cautioned, it could also be the vocal “never Trump” reality simply coming into focus as Republicans finally took the step of changing their registration, even though they hadn’t supported the president and his party since 2016. Why are so many people convinced this is Never-Trumpers leaving...

Making it all about PTSD misses the biggest problem. Most of the newly out vet issues don't occur because of PTSD, they happen because guys spend their entire adult lives in a totalizing institution, then they get out and suddenly there's no expansive rule system to tell them exactly how to advance...

Making it all about PTSD misses the biggest problem. Most of the newly out vet issues don't occur because of PTSD, they happen because guys spend their entire adult lives in a totalizing institution, then they get out and suddenly there's no expansive rule system to tell them exactly how to advance ...

This seems as good a thread for this as any: an argument on whether technological stagnation is real (also at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gMszBSAX23uqYhytR/technological-stagnation-why-i-came-around) Honestly, I think a lot of the pro-stagnation arguments boil down to "I expected this thing to ...

I am so confused about how other people can get worked up about conspiracy theory stuff when almost everyone believes in god and the afterlife and shit. Like who cares, I’m already operating under the assumption that most people are insane and/or idiots. I mean, can you not get how a group that got...

Hugh, well done. Also Warren, that did make me laugh. On a more serious note, there's an organizational issue I've observed locally with both the stimulus checks and other relief measures. There's an unfortunate disconnect between monies made available to states and locales and getting it into the ...

Hugh, well done. Also Warren, that did make me laugh. On a more serious note, there's an organizational issue I've observed locally with both the stimulus checks and other relief measures. There's an unfortunate disconnect between monies made available to states and locales and getting it into the ...

Read something today that argued that while sending people money probably isn't the best option, if we're going to do it, it should be on a federally backed credit card that'll expire after a few months. That way, everyone who gets one has to spend it, or else lose the money.

So let's say the Republican Party for whatever reason abandons or is abandoned by Trump in 2024. What does the gryll-mind think are the chances he'd take the path of least resistance and get the Libertarian Party nomination? Almost zero. If somehow he did, the resulting party world do a major rebra...

You'd think a billionaire could afford a better haircut.

Well, we won't have to worry about Uncle Joe getting his radical left agenda thru Congress because Cocaine Mitch somehow remains effectively in charge of the Senate. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/senate-filibuster.html The article starts with fights over the filibuster, which, whatever. I d...

Or a staffer who just got his job two days before. My money is on it being some Qultist Rep's intern.

thoreau wrote: ↑23 Jan 2021, 11:33 Cruz is slimy and selfish Hawley is both of those with more savvy.

You have that exactly backwards.

It'll wind up being a low-level staffer. Whether it was actually them, or whether they were working under the orders of someone higher... That will be hard to determine.

Time was when career military officers were effectively prohibited from taking civil service jobs after retirement. In the course of my career with the DoD -- in fact, just around the time when it could affect my personal promotion chances -- the rule was abandoned. Sure enough, thousands of jobs t...

Hugh Akston wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 15:52

Jasper wrote: ↑22 Jan 2021, 15:33 I've seem them state that Trump 'set a precedent' with Mattis, so of course Austin should be waivered.

So Donald Trump is now America's moral yard stick.

Isn't that exactly why people worry about breaking precedent?