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To be clear, it's much worse than this. He is currently ACTIVELY making the tariffs possible. Congress could end the national emergency that is letting Trump do all this stuff anytime it wants.
Republicans like Ted can bristle, but would they vote in Congress to stop Trump from doing it? No? Right.
Republicans like Ted can bristle, but would they vote in Congress to stop Trump from doing it? No? Right.
April 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
To be clear, it's much worse than this. He is currently ACTIVELY making the tariffs possible. Congress could end the national emergency that is letting Trump do all this stuff anytime it wants.
Republicans like Ted can bristle, but would they vote in Congress to stop Trump from doing it? No? Right.
Republicans like Ted can bristle, but would they vote in Congress to stop Trump from doing it? No? Right.
Like she said, some kinds of government spending are good. Specifically the exact ones that I personally want. Everything I don't individually care about is (*checks script*) waste, fraud, and abuse. But given that I have person experience with cancer, that's obviously important.
April 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Like she said, some kinds of government spending are good. Specifically the exact ones that I personally want. Everything I don't individually care about is (*checks script*) waste, fraud, and abuse. But given that I have person experience with cancer, that's obviously important.
It's definitely amusing and also seems...incredibly dumb for an organization that hasn't had a winning season in 10 years.
March 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It's definitely amusing and also seems...incredibly dumb for an organization that hasn't had a winning season in 10 years.
You can read the polls. Israeli citizens largely have no regard for the lives and dignity of Palestinians. Palestinians citizens, for their part, celebrated in the streets on October 7th and initially largely approved of the attack and Hamas. It's a fucking mess.
March 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
You can read the polls. Israeli citizens largely have no regard for the lives and dignity of Palestinians. Palestinians citizens, for their part, celebrated in the streets on October 7th and initially largely approved of the attack and Hamas. It's a fucking mess.
I am not Jewish, or Zionist, or Muslim. I have no dog in the fight. There is no protagonist. "Might makes wrong" is a simplistic assessment of the situation. Israel does horrible things because they can. Hamas does heinous things on a smaller scale only because they can't manage large scale.
March 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I am not Jewish, or Zionist, or Muslim. I have no dog in the fight. There is no protagonist. "Might makes wrong" is a simplistic assessment of the situation. Israel does horrible things because they can. Hamas does heinous things on a smaller scale only because they can't manage large scale.
Of course Jews and Arabs can live together in a country. They do it in countries all around the world all the time. The problem is this one very specific country and the context of its specific situation. It can be true that Israel is genocidal and that Hamas is too. Hamas is just weak.
March 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Of course Jews and Arabs can live together in a country. They do it in countries all around the world all the time. The problem is this one very specific country and the context of its specific situation. It can be true that Israel is genocidal and that Hamas is too. Hamas is just weak.
I'll ignore you calling me racist and making a wide range of extremely unhinged assumptions. You didn't answer my question. What does Israeli collapse look like, then? The anti-Israel powers in the region have no interest in peaceful coexistence. If the west abandoned Israel, they would seek justice
March 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I'll ignore you calling me racist and making a wide range of extremely unhinged assumptions. You didn't answer my question. What does Israeli collapse look like, then? The anti-Israel powers in the region have no interest in peaceful coexistence. If the west abandoned Israel, they would seek justice
It's certainly true that without help from the west Israel would likely not survive. But when you say "collapse" what do you mean specifically?
A: What you mean is "all the Jews would be massacred or driven from the region by Jihadist assholes who would rule like the current government of Iran."
A: What you mean is "all the Jews would be massacred or driven from the region by Jihadist assholes who would rule like the current government of Iran."
March 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It's certainly true that without help from the west Israel would likely not survive. But when you say "collapse" what do you mean specifically?
A: What you mean is "all the Jews would be massacred or driven from the region by Jihadist assholes who would rule like the current government of Iran."
A: What you mean is "all the Jews would be massacred or driven from the region by Jihadist assholes who would rule like the current government of Iran."
"Ignoring the self-evident stupidity of Musk's actions, what he is doing is obviously illegal and I am working [insert specific legal action] to stop it."
This is the only thing we want to hear. "Yes, we do realize that the laws of the US are being flouted daily, and we're going to war."
This is the only thing we want to hear. "Yes, we do realize that the laws of the US are being flouted daily, and we're going to war."
February 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"Ignoring the self-evident stupidity of Musk's actions, what he is doing is obviously illegal and I am working [insert specific legal action] to stop it."
This is the only thing we want to hear. "Yes, we do realize that the laws of the US are being flouted daily, and we're going to war."
This is the only thing we want to hear. "Yes, we do realize that the laws of the US are being flouted daily, and we're going to war."
Making a wiffle ball move like this is honestly pretty easy, especially if you scuff up the ball. Throwing a ball moving like this accurately, on the other hand...harder.
February 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Making a wiffle ball move like this is honestly pretty easy, especially if you scuff up the ball. Throwing a ball moving like this accurately, on the other hand...harder.
Interestingly, "poblano" is the Spanish word for "stone," and the peppers are called that because you'd need "piedras enormes" to ever consider cooking with one!
January 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Interestingly, "poblano" is the Spanish word for "stone," and the peppers are called that because you'd need "piedras enormes" to ever consider cooking with one!
Any given person is probably cut out for some high-skill jobs and not others. The same for low-skill jobs. This is not a contradiction of the fact that some jobs are high-skill jobs and some are low-skill jobs. The adjective "high-skill" and "low-skill" applies to the job itself, not people.
December 30, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Any given person is probably cut out for some high-skill jobs and not others. The same for low-skill jobs. This is not a contradiction of the fact that some jobs are high-skill jobs and some are low-skill jobs. The adjective "high-skill" and "low-skill" applies to the job itself, not people.
You are confusing the notion of a person's aptitudes and a job's "skill level." Being a brain surgeon is always high skill. Being a cashier is always low skill. People are not inherently high skill or low skill. *Jobs* are. People have varying ability to succeed at different jobs, yes.
December 30, 2024 at 11:32 PM
You are confusing the notion of a person's aptitudes and a job's "skill level." Being a brain surgeon is always high skill. Being a cashier is always low skill. People are not inherently high skill or low skill. *Jobs* are. People have varying ability to succeed at different jobs, yes.
This is not correct. Being a brain surgeon is a high skill job regardless of the person. It requires advanced education, specialized training, and extensive experience regardless of one's natural aptitude for the skills involved. It is not a low skill job for anyone. This is your misunderstanding.
December 30, 2024 at 11:29 PM
This is not correct. Being a brain surgeon is a high skill job regardless of the person. It requires advanced education, specialized training, and extensive experience regardless of one's natural aptitude for the skills involved. It is not a low skill job for anyone. This is your misunderstanding.
Expand on what you mean by "proportionate skill." That literally means "skill in correspondence to something else." It seems like you're saying one must accumulate skill in proportion to the needs of one's job, i.e. just a roundabout way of acknowledging some jobs are high-skill and some low-skill
December 30, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Expand on what you mean by "proportionate skill." That literally means "skill in correspondence to something else." It seems like you're saying one must accumulate skill in proportion to the needs of one's job, i.e. just a roundabout way of acknowledging some jobs are high-skill and some low-skill
You're sort of just refusing to acknowledge what the terminology means. Some jobs cannot be adequately performed without advanced education, specialized training, and/or extensive experience. Other jobs require no formal education, very little training, and no specialized skills. Terms have meaning.
December 29, 2024 at 10:52 PM
You're sort of just refusing to acknowledge what the terminology means. Some jobs cannot be adequately performed without advanced education, specialized training, and/or extensive experience. Other jobs require no formal education, very little training, and no specialized skills. Terms have meaning.
Again, you're just mixing/equating concepts here. Yes, some people have more aptitude for certain jobs than others. Yes, people in all kinds of jobs work hard. Yes, we need people to do all sorts of labor to have a society.
And some jobs are high-skill jobs, and some low-skill. All of this is true.
And some jobs are high-skill jobs, and some low-skill. All of this is true.
December 29, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Again, you're just mixing/equating concepts here. Yes, some people have more aptitude for certain jobs than others. Yes, people in all kinds of jobs work hard. Yes, we need people to do all sorts of labor to have a society.
And some jobs are high-skill jobs, and some low-skill. All of this is true.
And some jobs are high-skill jobs, and some low-skill. All of this is true.
This is the distinction being made when people talk about low-/unskilled labor versus skilled labor. You're trying to respect people who do low-skill labor and that's admirable. It's dignified work. People work hard. They deserve fair pay. But it's just wrong to say all labor is equally "skilled."
December 29, 2024 at 10:46 PM
This is the distinction being made when people talk about low-/unskilled labor versus skilled labor. You're trying to respect people who do low-skill labor and that's admirable. It's dignified work. People work hard. They deserve fair pay. But it's just wrong to say all labor is equally "skilled."
Your first reply said that all labor is equally skilled. The point I am making is that doing brain surgery and running a cash register are not equally skilled. One can accumulate all of the skills needed to accomplish one in days. The other requires considerably more specialized training and skill.
December 29, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Your first reply said that all labor is equally skilled. The point I am making is that doing brain surgery and running a cash register are not equally skilled. One can accumulate all of the skills needed to accomplish one in days. The other requires considerably more specialized training and skill.
You're sort of changing the argument a bit. The point is that if literally anyone can train to be a functional McDonalds employee in a few weeks, but it takes many years of specialized training and on-the-job development to become a functional doctor, that is a real difference between the jobs.
December 29, 2024 at 9:22 PM
You're sort of changing the argument a bit. The point is that if literally anyone can train to be a functional McDonalds employee in a few weeks, but it takes many years of specialized training and on-the-job development to become a functional doctor, that is a real difference between the jobs.
I think it would take a FAR less time for a doctor to become a capable McDonalds employee than it would take a McDonalds employee to become a doctor, if the latter happened at all.
Working at McDonalds is hard work, but not specialized, expert work. It does deserve a dignified wage. All work does.
Working at McDonalds is hard work, but not specialized, expert work. It does deserve a dignified wage. All work does.
December 29, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I think it would take a FAR less time for a doctor to become a capable McDonalds employee than it would take a McDonalds employee to become a doctor, if the latter happened at all.
Working at McDonalds is hard work, but not specialized, expert work. It does deserve a dignified wage. All work does.
Working at McDonalds is hard work, but not specialized, expert work. It does deserve a dignified wage. All work does.
Genuine question: How long do you think a medical residency lasts?
December 29, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Genuine question: How long do you think a medical residency lasts?
My main problem with it is that after I recently played it for the first time, I immediately checked to find out when there will be a sequel and was dismayed to learn that the studio dramatically imploded and there will never be more of it. 😭
December 25, 2024 at 2:23 PM
My main problem with it is that after I recently played it for the first time, I immediately checked to find out when there will be a sequel and was dismayed to learn that the studio dramatically imploded and there will never be more of it. 😭
If you think you have no spare time as a college student, I have some alarming news for you about the future...
December 25, 2024 at 12:14 AM
If you think you have no spare time as a college student, I have some alarming news for you about the future...