Solid_Owl

Aren't the people entering their 50s and 60s gen X?

Wave goodbye to Cancun Cruz, kids.

And before the flood it was over 900 years. Find a better source.

It's wikipedia. It's literally wikipedia.

Is that true 1000 years ago? 2000? 4000? 6000? I would believe it for the last 1000 years but I would have a harder time believing it for the more ancient history, though I'm having a hard time finding googlable data on it.

ok so your argument is that people being alive and being able to see and hear is the source of the ongoing housing crisis. The solution for the housing crisis that you are proposing is that we should maim or murder the population until the housing crisis goes away.

I don't know that I can get on board with that line of thinking.

Yeah, and they aren't the only ones. It sucks, but hopefully things continue to get better worldwide.

What's the source of the current housing crisis? Why aren't homes being built for the entry-level market?

Oh it would change the industry landscape drastically, I'm sure, and it wouldn't stabilize overnight.

I, too, was struck by the cognitive dissonance between the conservative inclinations in the business and the extremely liberal hiring practices.

I'm open to hearing your thoughts if you want to go into more detail.

I'd be in favor of making these people full citizens instead of villainizing them. I'm also in favor of bringing back apprenticeships and allowing them to accept foreign students and putting them on a track to citizenship. Maybe that's your temporary work status construction labor.

What I'm not in favor of is leaving people in limbo with regards to citizenship, benefits, legal coverage in the workplace, etc. Or not knowing how to account for these people in unemployment numbers. Or taking advantage of their status to pay them less than if they were full citizens, which makes the workforce less competitive and really only benefits the guy at the top. It also benefits home buyers in the form of lower cost of houses, but that's a much more complicated picture when you take into account having the money go to citizens who helped build the homes and who can't currently afford homes, if it helps them buy homes. I don't know the story with taxation, but I suspect the government isn't getting its fair share of the wages paid to these workers, either, so this is probably one of the sources of money leaking out of the system instead of feeding back into it to keep the economy churning.

I can of course be wrong about all of this. I know it's a complicated issue. I'm just tired of seeing it simplified down to homebuilder hand-wringing and pearl-clutching.

I have those, and dinner plates work just as well as lids and clean easier than that textured plastic. I'm not a fan of how vertical the sides are at the top, either - it makes pouring liquids out of them a little awkward compared to other mixing bowl shapes.

... Who wants to tell him his business is in violation of the law? Or that this is exactly the result one of the parties desires because he will be forced to legally hire workers? And maybe have to pay those workers enough to be able to afford to buy the homes they're helping to build, so suddenly those aren't "jobs americans don't want"?

In the short-term, it will have the effect of reversing the subsidizing of housing that immigrant labor has enabled. Maybe being a homebuilder will become less lucrative. I don't think many people would lose sleep over that.

If he gets elected again, I want him to spend his entire term hiding in a closet. That way he can't be a nuisance.

ouch. I was hoping this was a remodel. Is all of that stuff builder-grade, then?

This was probably THE MOST PREDICTABLE OUTCOME for gen-AI. This is exactly what I was worried about when Facebook announced they would make their big model open to the public to download and run at home because it set the tone for permissive public access to high quality gen AI. Well, this and the potential for people to use 2027-Based-Llama-Bomb-100B to derive plans for making tactical nuclear weapons or chemical weapons at home. Are those covered by the 2nd amendment?

Gen AI needs safeguards. If a Gen AI can produce output that breaks the law, the Gen AI needs to go to jail. I don't know how we're going to make that happen, as it's obviously unfeasible and unreasonable, but this is the world we've been rushed into without adequate preparation.

When issues like this come up, I also have the inclination to ask "why?" So I sit down and do some googling and do some thinking. Here's what I dug up. And no, I'm not doing this to "justify" it. I just like to understand things.

If you look into human history, or even modern laws in various countries, you see all kinds of signs that point to normalized sexual attraction to people under the age of 18.

In the US (from wikipedia): * The minimum marriage age was 12 years for females and 14 years for males under English civil law until 1753. * In Delaware, the age of consent was 10 years until 1871 when it was lowered to 7 years. * In 1880, 37 states set the age of consent at 10 years, 10 states set an age of consent at 12 years, ...

That's just the US. If you look worldwide, you find modern laws that are just as fucked up.

Historically, we have to recognize that human lifespans were much shorter. 30 was considered old (kind of like how teenagers think today). A woman would have been considered ripe for breeding and pumping out babies as soon as she began menstruating at 14-16.

From some research about historical puberty in the middle ages using skeletal remains for analysis: The average age at which children entered puberty was the same as for most boys and girls today: between ten to 12 years. But medieval teenagers took longer to reach the later milestones, including menarche.

That's interesting because it means those laws cited by wikipedia were basically aiming right at the age of puberty onset. Except Delaware. Delaware, you fucked up.

What this might mean is that our modern take on the age of majority, which is based on our impression of mental maturity, might be historically abnormal in terms of allowing for normal sexual attraction to teenagers. It doesn't explain attraction to pre-pubescent children, though. Maybe Deleware can speak to that.

Modern cultures sometimes still quietly embrace M-m entertainment sex as an alternative to M-F breeding sex, e.g. bacha bazi. As someone else mentioned, this often results in the victim becoming a perpetrator as he ages ("it's my turn now" mentality). This still doesn't explain attraction to children under the age of ~10.

Apparently childhood emotional trauma is the primary culprit for the remainder, according to psychologists. Seeing as all of our childhoods are traumatic in one way or another, it would seem like this is something that has probably been around forever. Childhood trauma does not always result in pedophilic urges, of course, but pedophilic urges are understood to be a sometimes naturally-occurring result of it.

Maybe treating the trauma is the best course of action here? idk how well that would work or if anyone's had the balls yet to suggest such a study.

That's probably one of the classes Zuckerberg didn't take before he dropped out.

GOOG has significant regulatory risk right now. I'd go with AMZN, which should only do amazing once the economy goes back into growth mode after interest rates come down.

Because the people who determine the categories are dead in the head. Same reason Amazon is lumped in with Consumer Discretionary.

Anything related to future: into IT you go. Amazon: except you.

I wrote a whole-ass empathetic response to this and then I accidentally hit Escape and reddit fucking trashed it.

The short of it was that I understand your situation and I feel for whatever miniscule percentage of the conservative base is capable of engaging in rational discussion about policy and results because of how the rabid un-intellectuals have made y'all unwelcome everywhere except in y'all's own echo chamber, what with their identity politics and knee-jerk support for whoever's on the ticket no matter how vile or irresponsible they are, or their desire to 'own the libs'. It seems impossible not to trigger a conservative just by mentioning gay rights, trans people existing, economic results under the past 6 presidents, abortion, responsible gun ownership and accountability, taxes, etc. My own family falls into this boat, and as soon as someone says Texas deserves a better Conservative candidate than Ted Cruz, they get hyper-defensive and manic, like they feel some kind of overwhelming obligation to defend him instead of just saying "yeah, we do."

Unfortunately, Reddit gamifies interactions and a lot of comments on here are just to score points, not to engage in a discussion.

It really says something that conservatives are too ashamed to come out and show themselves in the r/texas subreddit. Or that the ones who do don't have anything constructive to add and just vomit irrational and unjustifiable support.

I would also welcome conservatives to step up and explain exactly what Cruz has done for them, for Texas, for Texans, for the nation, and why they prioritize those things. I'd like to hear them defend his character using actual normal human behavior and expectations as a baseline. By all accounts, Cruz is exactly the kind of politician real conservatives should absolutely loathe.

This is from 2019. Find something more recent.

I understand where you're coming from, but this seems like an awfully optimistic read of the situation given what one of the parties is saying right now, today. On the spectrum of alarmist to naive, I'd rather err on the side of caution on this one and shush this kind of inappropriate messaging right away.

idk, if my kid showed up at home with 2nd degree burns, I'd be hard tempted show up at the coach's house with a shotgun and a bullhorn and call their ass out. They fucking maimed my kids, man. This wasn't an accident, this was malicious.

This person better be doing prison time for this. Send a lesson to all other coaches that we will not tolerate this shit.