dworkr

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by dworkr 2y ago
This is not optimal. We get one if these every 10 years or so. We should be always prepared, not "prepare now!" boom/bust cycling this stuff. This is new, but it is really not new. Waves of panic followed by apathy is not the
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by dworkr 2y ago
For those who want quick and easy, I wonder if quarto dashboards will eventually replace that use case. I feel like many R users would be a bit more skeptical of Posit if they were more familiar with software companies and the games they pl
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by dworkr 2y ago
Zalensky is right. Russia started it, if we have to destroy the planet with nukes and kill every single European of fighting age, we can never, must never, surender to Putin. And think of the great innovations in murderous drones we will ge
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by dworkr 2y ago
Do you believe anyone is noble? If not, that may say more about you than the peacecorps.
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by dworkr 2y ago
Certainly not 90%! Many American men are religious, and those that aren't are often feminists. The fraction of American men who are in neither set couldn't be more than 20-30%.
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by dworkr 2y ago
"illegal immigrants stay because they pay tax without getting social security." Why not just make it global? Shouldn't social security should be a human right. Also, why make laws around citizenship if you do not want them?
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by dworkr 2y ago
Unless it's the government. But Elon is addressing that.
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by dworkr 2y ago
I think most government workers including elected officials in both parties will be biased towards spending and granting themselves more power over time. I think if each party actively damages the other party's cherished institutions a
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by dworkr 2y ago
I chuckled, then cried. Ymmv
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by dworkr 2y ago
The only way to avoid that requires a lot of very angry people realizing that it's in their own interest to embrace their enemy. That literally never happens. So RIP to the way we were. If only more people valued institutions and heri
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by dworkr 2y ago
But that's it. I don't think slash and burn is related to debt, least not directly. That was my whole point. It's revanchist escalatory politics on both sides. When more than a few democrats acknowledge the debt and talk abo
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by dworkr 2y ago
But we'd need a way to email them all. Maybe we could give them all cell phones first.
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by dworkr 2y ago
It already is!
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by dworkr 2y ago
Exactly right. Revanchist politics lead to boom/bust debt cycles in government. One party spends way too much and hurts the citizens, the other party uses their mandate to fix the overspending as a pretext to subvert government control
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by dworkr 2y ago
The debt is not a minor problem, which is why conservatives should be unhappy. The cuts so far are at best rounding error. We're cutting the cheap useful programs (USaid, Ed) and leaving the big issues with entitlements for future bipa
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by dworkr 2y ago
If I have to spend more than 30% of my monthly budget on power, I will not be taking cold showers or living in the cold. Consuming energy replaces other hobbies. High energy prices have been normalized, at least in my state. Same with gas.
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by dworkr 2y ago
Maslow's pyramid is a thing. Once you are financially secure, those other levels of good stuff open up. For most common folk, college is about financial security because that is what they don't have. If you are born into a financi
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by dworkr 2y ago
Was watching something recently, think it was Vox, that seemed to suggest bird flu is widespread now but very mild and so not worth continued alarm. It doesn't help science if we over hype stuff that always ends up being not quite the
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by dworkr 2y ago
They'll have no one left to pander to.
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by dworkr 2y ago
https://www.history.com/news/clinton-1990s-welfare-reform-fa...