quacked

62 ms·

691.
by quacked 5y ago
What about it strikes you as optimistic? I felt pretty pessimistic when I wrote it.
692.
by quacked 5y ago
Ever seen this series or author? https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta...
693.
by quacked 5y ago
More and more often, large institutions like bloated corporations or swollen universities feel like giant holes where people go to mine money. The American Dream is to have all of your paperwork in order so you can set your tent up right ab
694.
by quacked 5y ago
May God have Mercy on our Souls, my good man!
695.
by quacked 5y ago
Not strictly true; states that have nuclear weapons are capable of destroying other states, but not necessarily invading, repurposing, and ruling them to the point that their own legal and governmental system is subsumed by the other.
696.
by quacked 5y ago
Concur
697.
by quacked 5y ago
It is most certainly not true of every state; if no one recognizes your claims, but you can still feed your citizens and defend your borders, you are "a state".
698.
by quacked 5y ago
"Sir, your Publication on the many Causes of War is most interesting; but I notised that in all the course of your Text ye made not a single Reference to our Lord, who is of course resposible for all things. I can only then assume that
699.
by quacked 5y ago
That is precisely my position. It is a scam; producing very little value that didn't already exist for Americans while enriching the owners of the 401(k) portfolios beyond nearly anyone in history.
700.
by quacked 5y ago
Ooh, can you tie in the final abandonment of the gold standard, the introduction of the IRA/401(k), and the relationship between insane over-leveraged derivatives markets and American consumer financial health? Afaik, the successful ty
701.
by quacked 5y ago
Will do, and thanks for the leads.
702.
by quacked 5y ago
Wow, it's a patio11 thread with only 8 comments. I'm close friends with a relative of yours who has worked for several major space companies, and we talk about your writing pretty frequently. Your articles on salary negotiation, l
703.
by quacked 5y ago
Despite the fact that racial proportions match up fairly well with the population, I still have a very hard time believing that personal politics and intelligence/education levels match up with the population as well.
704.
by quacked 5y ago
Wow, great article. Poor guy. Some people's minds are constructed in a way that simply doesn't mesh with modern life. If only he'd discovered extreme sports; he's got the exact personality profile of a champion hang glid
705.
by quacked 5y ago
Oh, I completely agree with you. My views on police are mostly based on first-person reports or bodycam footage of what detectives, highway patrol, etc. have encountered. I also have some personal experience with witnessing a violent arrest
706.
by quacked 5y ago
It's interesting that you focused on leadership/management as an option--no, I actually really am talking about going to the academy, learning about escalation of force, patrol work, and basic procedural law, and then manning the
707.
by quacked 5y ago
I think the commenter you're responding to was just mistaking my assertion that most bad cops match a particular demographic due to the type of person to become a cop for an assertion that you can tell someone will be a bully if you kn
708.
by quacked 5y ago
What about based on internal beliefs and voting patterns? A "police" administrator at the city level is liable to donate a lot more money than a rural patrolman.
709.
by quacked 5y ago
I find that bullies can be found in equal proportions in both parties, but I do agree that the type of bully who is willing to walk the street with a gun in the name of justice does have a more welcoming home in one major party than the oth
710.
by quacked 5y ago
This is obvious to me, but it seems to be lost on many people who want to change how police work is done. It's like saying that chefs ought to be responsible for punishing each other when they spit in people's food.
711.
by quacked 5y ago
The police job attracts most people who do not have a college degree, are white, and lean into conservative/justice-heavy politics. Many of those people are bullies. That doesn't mean anything about people that do not have a colle
712.
by quacked 5y ago
You're absolutely right, and it's insane that people don't realize this. So many people that want police reform in the US think that somehow we can continue to let the police be mostly made up by people with a certain politic
713.
by quacked 5y ago
There are plenty; I think the campfire model is the one that allows you to hold the expectation that friends may go out of your life and not come back, which is a reality of growing older. If you don't expect that to happen, it hurts.
714.
by quacked 5y ago
The best model for friendship I've heard as an adult is the "campfire model". It was explained in a Reddit comment that I can't find these days, but I will paraphrase below: "I treat all of my friends as if I'm
715.
by quacked 5y ago
That's a huge question, but I believe the answer is that in a modern first world country, time is expensive and comfort is cheap. (I am also completely ignoring any social changes that have occurred since the pandemic, because all of t
716.
by quacked 5y ago
Concur; for most of human history, societies have been governed by warlords. There are multiple sub-societies in the United States itself governed by gangs and warlords. Democracy and rule of law is the exception, not the rule.
717.
by quacked 5y ago
No, but controlling a state does a statesman make. I suppose you could quibble over the formal definition of "statesman", but the fact of the matter is there are individuals in the United States who exert great power over the dire
718.
by quacked 5y ago
I fully agree with you. I don't think the Divine Right of Kings is necessarily a good idea, but it blocks the formation of a warlord-driven society and restricts the right to rule to a single warlord. Have you noticed that despite the
719.
by quacked 5y ago
Democracy only works when the people governed are capable of forming a society; Americans today are mostly dependent and incapable of maintaining any sort of survival or supply chain without direction. Do you think that the owners of the ba
720.
by quacked 5y ago
If you control the state, you're a statesman. The billionaire leadership caste of today holds a great deal of sway in society, but very little social obligation or connection to culture.

More ›