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Bari Weiss is a conservative. Michael Shellenberger in 2021 published "San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, a criticism of progressive social policies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenberger#San_Fran...

I wish someone would explain to me why conservatives love to single out San Francisco as a special kind of American hell hole due to Democrat policies. The only thing I can think of is Nancy Pelosi is from there and they are much triggered by her.

user249on Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists?

Slaves were the first labor strike organizers

user249on NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit

Sure they are but they are willing dupes who don't understand what an NFT is - hence my statement that Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon are morons. I mean, even before NFTs, no one accused either of being smart

user249on Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations

> is a half hearted attempt to roll some of that back

That's just assumed and is normal politics so I didn't see it worth mentioning. You didn't refute my other point that President Biden does not see Musk as a political ally

user249on The Reality War – It’s just Gnostics all the way down

Seems like a long way of saying civilization was a mistake, which Yuval Noah Harari does in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Alternately, it could be read as a description of how mental illness in large groups engendered by civilzation continues to plague us to this day.

user249on Pay attention to WebAssembly

Why not .NET? Surely Microsoft is better than Oracle

user249on SpaceX flight winner gives ticket to friend because he exceeded weight limit

I guess he wouldn't give his right arm for a ride in rocket to space

user249on Biden's Failure to Acknowledge Tesla Is Wearing on Elon Musk

Musk made it clear he didn't like the way Democrats governed California so he went to Texas, where he tacitly supports draconian abortion restrictions. So he shouldn't be shocked when President Biden gives him the cold shoulder. I admire Musk a lot, but cringe a bit when he and his biggest fans act like cry babies. Grow up and accept that you reap what you sow.

Elon Musk declines to address Texas abortion law directly after Gov. Greg Abbott’s comments

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/texas-abortion-law-elon-musk...

user249on Whichever party is in power, policies tend to be similar

I had the same idea but even if I spoke fluent Indian-Spanish dialect, which I don't, there was no chance of it happening. They have a system that works well for growers, 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican-Americans and recent Mexican immigrants and I'm sure it will be working the same long after I'm gone

user249on Whichever party is in power, policies tend to be similar

That's hilarious that you actually thought they were serious. No, they've got Mexican-American field managers in California who are second or third generation running crews of recent immigrant Mexicans with green cards. The last thing they want is some Anglo coming in to start demanding rights.

user249on NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit

NFTs are actually quite useful for outing your friends as either morons or con artists. MAGA hats serve a similar function. I knew P Hilton and J Fallon were morons before this, but now I have the evidence. If I were a young person on the make I'd be clear to people I'm trying to impress that I'm in on the con and thus smart, or risk the danger of being considered a moron.

user249on Whichever party is in power, policies tend to be similar

No, this has been studied. Americans think bending over in artichoke fields in California or working in chicken and pig slaughtering plants are jobs suitbale for immigrants, not them. They seemingly can't put two and two together that's that is why Mexicans are here, unless everyone is participating in this charade that Mexicans come here for welfare and to vote for Democrats

user249on Whichever party is in power, policies tend to be similar

I've been puzzled by people blaming "open borders" (Mexico vs United States) on President Biden. What changed? Did he fire the 20,000 border guards? If there is one thing that's driving this charge it's Mexican neighboorhoods popping up in many small towns across the South and West. Many "native" whites feel like it's an invasion.

Well, nothing changed. It's not the Democrats doing. It's industry bring in Mexicans for cheap labor. For example, in chicken processing factories. Americans don't want these jobs. But corporations don't want small town Americans to blame them for the foreign influx, so they blame Democrats in a constant drum beat on right wing media. "Democrats need new voters. They get them by bringing them here and putting them on welfare." When their people are in charge, they get them to claim they're building a wall and they're dealing with this influx that happened under Democrats.

Corporations and industry shift the blame away from themselves for any social problem caused by the influx of cheap labor, even though they are responsible for it. Nothing changes under either party in power, only the blame rhetoric gets changed. That's political science in America.

user249on The rise of the anti-work movement

I've watched it now. What a disaster!

user249on We Might Be in a Simulation. How Much Should That Worry Us?

https://archive.is/KZRBK

user249on The rise of the anti-work movement

I'm trying to catch up on some reddit drama. Apparently the mod of r/antiwork did an interview on Fox News that didn't go so well. I can only imagine Fox is spinning it as "young people are lazy"

https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/sddx07...

user249on Facebook’s Libra is still dead – Diem to be sold off for spare parts

> The US government was just absolutely not going to let Facebook do a private currency, backed by a basket mostly of foreign currencies, at worldwide scale.

How does this affect the rest of Crypto, because I suspect that governments around the world can shutdown Bitcoin and others any time they want. Given that fact, I'm wondering why other crypto currencies are being tolerated.

user249on NFT: even more deceiving

People are misunderstanding decentralization. Sure we can talk about decentralized technology like IFPS, but we should also talk about moving away from centralized governments, banks and legal systems. Decentralization in this context means we can form our own social group, say a commune in the desert or a virtual group online that skirts the old school central organizations and sets up our own. We could conduct our buniness on the blockchain and implement our own enforcement methods. An extreme example of this might be a drug cartel conducting it's transactions on a blockchain and if you don't honor what's on the chain then you get killed.

user249on More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years

I'm not sure why it's so surprising that college enrollment is down when 30% of the country thinks colleges teach cultural marxism and want to turn their daughters into lesbians and their boys into girls

user249on Dear sir, you have built a compiler

A lot of guys have a wife and don't know it yet, but she does and is waiting for the ring

user249on Flutter Failed to Solve the Biggest Challenge for Our Cross-Platform App

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857409

user249on Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter

Webview uses Skia but it uses HTML5/JS/CSS to draw on it. Flutter uses Skia in a different way, using a declarative component language and Dart in place of HTML and JavaScript

user249on Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter

The cool thing about Flutter is that it draws components to the Skia canvas. I wasn't even aware it had a WebView. I'm not sure why you would use Flutter if your app consists mostly of a WebView. The bugs that were found are probably not fixed because they are very low priority. You don't save a whole lot by using a WebView in Flutter rather than building a simple shell around the iOS and Android WebView. Without knowing the details, I'd guess that the programmer is using the wrong tool for the job.

user249on The Cruise Ship Suicides

    this is a test
    of code blocs

user249on The Literature of Laughing Gas

I logged in here with a throwaway account just to caution people that for a small percentage of users it is highly addictive. Some call it 'hippie crack' with good reason. After using it off and on for years and becoming more addicted, my last binge lasted two weeks and I ended up in a dissociative nightmare with nerve damage and a rash all over my body.

user249on The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers

In my case it started to become obviously serious when I woke up with the shakes and needed some to feel right and stop shaking. I didn't really take it that seriously before then.

user249on The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers

As someone who recently went through DT's (been sober a year and a half) I can tell you for certain they are no laughing matter. I've done hallucinogenics like LSD and mushrooms before, but nothing prepared me for the nightmare of Delirium Tremens. I couldn't close my eyes because of the awful visual hallucinations that played out like a kaleidoscope from hell, each image a broken face in a box, grinning fiendishly. On top of that I had miserable auditory hallucinations that sounded like bad people whispering just out of earshot. I'd advise any heavy drinker who may be physically dependent to seek medical help and not try going cold turkey.