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by pasabagi 4y ago
I've been on-off in England over the years, and stuff like groceries have got both way more expensive, and are far inferior in quality, to what I remember. That's pretty much my observation across the board: things are worse, but
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Is there a direct, inverse relationship between per-capita economic productivity, and fertility rate? It seems intuitive to me: a major way per-capita economic productivity goes up is by working more hours, both at school, and in the workpl
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think that's a part of it, but I think a bigger deal part that, when the media and political establishment saw he was electable , they also saw him as a real threat, and so they made a much more concerted effort to damage him before
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Eh, they did quite well in 2017 - in fact, the best performance for the Labour party since Blair was under Corbyn[0]. [0]: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
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by pasabagi 4y ago
It depends on who you ask. If you ask any british person who has been out of the country for a few years, yes, it's absolutely going down the pipes. If you ask people who have lived there the whole time, they've been frog-boiled
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think the idea that working people were feeling the heat from eastern european competition is a bit simplistic. Most industries have been facing a 'skills shortage', so people are generally aware that the health of their compani
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I guess from plain statistics, you could say that the number of talented people from wealthy backgrounds is roughly the same as talented people generally, so my feeling is that there is a sizable slice of jobs where you just secure rents th
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by pasabagi 4y ago
If you come from a wealthy background, you get the really depressing version: the school bully who loved ICP posts about how they got a new job with McKinsey, the slimy moron who used to spread shit about you is the CEO of a up-and-coming s
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Every country is special. The point is, social welfare works in reducing crime in Korea, it helps in reducing crime in Denmark. It helps in radically different cultures and in countries with totally different histories. It works because the
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Eh, the US has kind of outlier stats when it comes to stuff like violent crime basically because it has a weird social system. Most rich countries have settled on a vaguely social-democratic normal where you pay taxes for social services th
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I don't know if this will have a huge effect. First, China tends to try and keep people employed even if they're economically unproductive, in places like state enterprises. That means there's a lot of slack, a lot of jobs th
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I guess one social worker costs about the same as maintaining five cars? What you're describing is not normal , and has little to do with the presence or absence of police. The US has about middle-of-the-pack police-per-capita, for in
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by pasabagi 4y ago
One factor could be that industrial might quite likely correlates with crew performance. The job of a sailor is essentially to maintain and operate a large floating industrial complex. Engineering skills are not always necessary, but experi
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Eh, if you look at the history of the current state of Singapore, it's quite obvious that the repression was in no means put in place for any kind of high-minded weighing of the needs of the many against the few. It was put in place by
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Calling it 'myth' is definitely overselling the case. It was the scientific consensus in from 80's on. With the rapid advance of climate science, new data, etc, it might be possible to challenge that consensus. I don't
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by pasabagi 4y ago
The godot language server also seems really nice. You just add something like: lspconfig.gdscript.setup({}) to your init.lua (or equivalent in init.vim), then it works with the normal neovim autocomplete. More significantly, it means you ca
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Essentially, yes. It's been a slow-burning controversy for some months now.
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My observation is that, in households where sexism is a real problem, the public-facing stuff isn't likely to be the meat of it. Nobody who has a husband who might murder them considers religious attire as the worst thing about their r
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by pasabagi 4y ago
Alternatively, literally every white woman I know has told me they find the pressure to appear presentable, to look in a certain way, oppressive and stressful. We live in a society that makes it easy for men to oppress women, in public or i
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> Religion is a private matter you practice however you please as long as you harm noone I think the chinese make this argument in Xinjiang much more convincingly, after all, unlike the french, they do not have large, bell-ringing church
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by pasabagi 4y ago
France just narrowly avoided voting in the daughter of a noted neo-nazi, running the nationalist party that neo-nazi founded. It's also got a hijab ban, which puts it in the company of places like Russia, or Xinjiang in China, not note
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think there are two points: first, 'all lives matter' is a typical dog whistle for a lot of people who are racist , even if you are not. If you're going to argue that line, you have to try and put some clear water between
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by pasabagi 4y ago
In the specific case of Ukraine, a people's war of national liberation is a pretty classic form of nation building. That's how a lot of nations came about. The Taliban are a particularly bad analogy, because they represent regiona
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by pasabagi 4y ago
If they don't have a legitimate claim to asylum, they can be sent back. The problem is, the vast majority do , and since that right stems from fundamental human rights, you can't simply remove it. That, and the better angels of e
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by pasabagi 4y ago
I think you've been watching too much Fox. The EU is almost totally within NATO, so when you're using the word 'deterrence', and 'near abroad', you're not talking about defensive deterrence. You're ta
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by pasabagi 4y ago
PLA (1920's): good relations with local farmers. PLA (1965): good meat on local farmers. PLA (1968): good thoughts about Mao. PLA (2022): good takeout, with chinese characteristics. So depending on the commune, imagine a point between
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by pasabagi 4y ago
OP is just talking about a co-op work situation, which can be anything between the PLA (late 20's), the PLA (1966), the PLA (1968), and the PLA (2022), only with less guns, and better food.
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by pasabagi 4y ago
> highly-interconnected I think the problem is, decision makers need to understand what interconnectedness means , and not just on an abstract level. If you make things, you're intimately familiar with just how many components come
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My preferred speculation is simply that faster-than-light travel is impossible, so all the tool-using aliens out there are not visiting us because they can't, and we can't hear their signals because it gets lost against the backgr
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by pasabagi 4y ago
The thing the drones prove is that you can can solve the guidance problem cheaply and with commodity hardware. Obviously, an excalibur shell has like a rocket booster, and there are lots of things like jamming that could cause problems, but

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