JPKab

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by JPKab 8mo ago
I agree. I think that paid parental leave and then later, paid daycare is an amazing investment of government resources. If we diverted a fraction of what we spend on retirees who had good jobs their whole lives and don't even need a
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by JPKab 8mo ago
I think your point is correct about the lack of optionality for women being in the workforce, but there are entire regions of the United States where it absolutely is optional. I live in one of them (Lynchburg, VA, which is filled with you
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by JPKab 8mo ago
I totally agree, and my argument with the original post was that the author made it sound so simple. Has any society successfully done this yet? Basically, the only prosperous first world groups I see with fertility rates above replacement
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by JPKab 8mo ago
We are unhappy BECAUSE it's a utopia, and our brains evolved in a landscape that was ALWAYS trying to kill us. Like an immune system in an overly clean environment starts attacking inert things and creates allergies, our minds have cr
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by JPKab 8mo ago
My wife worked in several daycares in her early 20s, including an extremely expensive "Bright Horizons" location in a very affluent area. Even premium daycares provide inferior care to infants and young toddlers versus parental&#
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by JPKab 8mo ago
"Only if the mothers in aggregate truly believe that their children will have good lives, then will they have them." Then please explain why birth rates throughout human history, when life was vastly more difficult and dangerous t
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by JPKab 8mo ago
Brown University has 1 administrator for every 2 students. This is a widely known and discussed phenomenon and is actually a running joke here in the comments. Honestly, I'm shocked that you're unaware of this, to a degree where y
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by JPKab 8mo ago
I recently moved to a rural home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I socialize with a bunch of current and former college professors, and they've all remarked on this phenomenon for nearby UVA and Virginia Tech. Interestingly,
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by JPKab 8mo ago
I witnessed massive fraud first hand in the DoD and the VA (the area this gumroad guy was dealing with) as a Booz Allen contractor. I worked directly with fraudulent shell 8a firms (literally a big white dude made his Filipino American wife
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by JPKab 8mo ago
Nonsense? Yeah, you're right, the US Federal government is a peak engine of efficiency and it's nonsense to think massive sums of money are wasted.
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by JPKab 8mo ago
You're labeling someone a "Nazi nut job" over nothing. It's juvenile and silly and screams "midwit overly absorbed into political news." Enjoy your unearned moral superiority. It's a thin blanket against
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by JPKab 8mo ago
You mean the Gazan civilians living in a densely populated area governed by a group of insane 9th century theocrats who launched a war they knew they couldn't win militarily with the objective of using their own citizens as human shiel
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by JPKab 8mo ago
Wrong. Hasn't changed the behavior of a single developer on my team.
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by JPKab 8mo ago
So Trump wants to help Putin while simultaneously seizing his oil tankers? Explain.
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by JPKab 10mo ago
These days it's a whole lot of Rust.
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by JPKab 10mo ago
The numbers are interesting when you run them. https://chatgpt.com/share/6920afb3-5f84-8008-827d-907e5f0a0a...
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by JPKab 11mo ago
What falsehoods do I believe, exactly? And thank you for the condescending, pious, moral superiority in the "your views" comment. It perfectly encapsulates the quasi-religious nature of the DEI adherents.
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by JPKab 11mo ago
It's funny how the quest for "unique strengths" entirely ignores people with pale skin who grew up in trailer parks in Appalachia or farms in the midwest, despite the fact that they are dramatically underrepresented in our in
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by JPKab 11mo ago
The "poison pill" terms are not at all a new thing. They have existed for a long time, and were one of the main drivers of the highly aggressive "guilty until proven innocent" cancel culture within academia, where a PhD
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by JPKab 11mo ago
The length and breadth of this outage has caused me to lose so much faith in AWS. I knew from colleagues who used to work there how understaffed and inefficient the team is due to bad management, but this just really concerns me.
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by JPKab 1y ago
The CCP literally revoked the visas of key DeepSeek engineers. That's all we need to know.
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by JPKab 1y ago
Feminist activists funded my mother's legal bills to win custody of me and my 4 siblings when she and my father divorced. My mother was a bipolar drug addict and the activists ignored this, and within a year social services gave us ba
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by JPKab 1y ago
Exactly this. The reporters are extra aggressive when it involves companies with right of center founders or VCs involved. Both of these companies fit that profile.
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by JPKab 1y ago
Can you provide a link to data for the body counts you are describing?
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by JPKab 1y ago
He was shot with a bolt action .30-06 hunting rifle. There has never been a proposed ban on these weapons. Your comment is essentially saying he deserved it, and that you see some form of cosmic justice here. Meanwhile, I've been rem
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by JPKab 1y ago
Most of the world engages routinely in tribal thinking without any form of self-reflection. Northern Europe is a distinct exception due to post-enlightenment and post WW2 cultural norms. The commenters in this thread engaging in transactio
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by JPKab 1y ago
"less than 3x is hardly vastly more" Listen to yourself. That is absolutely ridiculous. This is not a serious conversation. I won't be replying to anymore of your comments.
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by JPKab 1y ago
None of you are responding to the fact that China and India are buying Russian oil and financing the thousands of dead every week. Per capita means nothing to the planet. The temperature climbs regardless, and China has a choice and it&#x2
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by JPKab 1y ago
Ironically, you are responding to a person who has the attitudes that his supporters believe the entire world has: They don't like Americans unless they are engaging in unequal trade where they sell goods at vastly lower tariff rates t
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by JPKab 1y ago
Can you explain the difference between taxing the corporation itself vs taxing the executives, board members, investors, and employees directly (something that already happens)?

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