Hegar

鬼島 “ghost island” is the phrase taiwanese use to talk about the general feeling of malaise that comes with taiwan’s precarious political position, the difficulty of finding good work, new opportunities or hope for the future.

I can imagine that makes organizing much harder.

effort of producing journalism

I don’t think this has been true of the nyt for some years.

Between a “privacy” browser that steals ads and trains ai on the one hand, and a declining mouthpiece for elites with pretensions of journalism on the other, it’s hard to work out who to oppose more.

I’m making fun of the stupid status attached to particular universities in the US. Part of the joke i’m making is about how elites in the US will never accept someone who didn’t go to the right university.

It’s really funny moving here from elsewhere, when i tell people that i went to a university in my hometown they always act like it’s an admission of failure, so they’ll say sympathetic things like “oh i only barely got in”, or “my brother went to a state school and he’s doing great!”

If we just banned convicted rapists from attending anywhere but state schools we could just about eliminate the next generation of the ruling class.

Democrats need to take some responsibility for the perception that they are not meaningfully different from nazis.

Haley Stevens may as well be working out of a GRU information warfare center in moscow, since she’s basically russian propaganda in action.

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Someone pointed out falsely claiming to be president might have legal implications when your dad’s under house arrest for falsely claiming to be president?

Without that legal fiction, new businesses would grind to a screeching halt

Thats not true though. The world abounded in businesses before the modern corporation and it will after.

There’s no way that making the board or c-suite personally liable could increase the power of monopolies. It would encourage smaller corps with less centralized risk.

Global warming is a great example of how terrible we are at dialing in the correct priority for issues beyond human scales.

When some humans worked out it was coming, nothing happened - the opposite of nothing. As more humans became aware, more effort was put into styming efforts than actually doing anything.

Even now, as the effects are near-universally understood, present, and killing people - still we fail to act on the threat with anything like an appropriate level of seriousness.

The fact is that humans are just not well equipt to deal with problems beyond human scales.

We’re not good at accurately assessing risks beyond human time scales and we’re not good correctly prioritizing action when the benefit is beyond human time scales.

For those who don’t know, delaware is basically three taxhavens in a trenchcoat pretending to be a state.

This move is Delaware taking a bold step into 21st century ways of hiding the crimes and wealth of the rich.

Nuclear plants - with high start-up costs, national security risks and high output - will always require concentrating large amounts of power in few hands.

Solar has much greater potential for decentralization.

Greater inequality results in a worse society in just about every imaginable way. And nuclear will always encourage that more than solar.

Yeah, as @[email protected] said, the meaning is clear.

It’s such a fun word and i think it’s such a neat concept, but it’s annoying to use in a title cause it’s quite a rare word. But i find that once there’s a name for it, it’s way easier to notice it, so i like to mention it.

Where i live we pronounce couch st and schuyler st as cooch and skyler, and the police dept is the police bureau. Not knowing these things is used as a shibboleth that marks visiters.

Are those dog whistles? I think of dog whistles as conveying a specific message to those in the know.

The examples you gave seem more like shibboleths - something that can be used to identify or rule out being part of an identity group.

Calling taiwan “taiwan” instead of china marks the speaker as not from the PRC, but it doesn’t send a specific message the way that republicans would say “welfare cheats” when they meant “black people”, trusting their base understands.

It’s worth remembering that the northern cluster includes 3 of bottom 5 states by population - this represents even fewer people than ”12 states" implies.

It’s just rich people lying to themselves to justify doing whatever they wanted to do anyway and pretend it’s somehow in humanity’s long term interests. It’s not, and nothing the rich do ever is.

The nuclear industry failing to properly account for safety risks? I’m shocked!

The nuclear industry itself is just an excersize in failing to account for long term risk.

This was my first thought too.

“Have your cake and eat it too” doesn’t really make sense. Cake is not rare or expensive enough that simply possessing it feels good. If you have cake, all you want is to eat it.

The italian version, “you want a full barrel and drunk wife” illustrates the same situation much more clearly.

Uplink. I played the mac version released by the legendary Ambrosia Software.

“I am the administrator, my voice is my password, verify me”