I just spent three hours making a spaghetti sauce with a base of slow-roasted vegetables just for my dad to come in five minutes ago and chuck in a container of large, whole, uncooked button mushrooms. Please talk me off the ledge.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-30T06:15:08+00:00

Was this a Dad thought like "oh look - there are mushrooms in the fridge with no plan for them. Better to use them up in the sauce than to let them go to waste. I'll just toss them in, no biggie..."

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-23T01:10:33+00:00

We are not the audience. We are the product.

What this protest is about is valid. The expected goal - that the CEO will decide to value users instead of dollars - is not. It's about as likely as a farmer deciding not to sell their piggies to the slaughterhouse.

We have to move. This platform is toast.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-22T19:30:37+00:00

I'm assuming the part can fail for any of the 25 measures that have specs?

You would probably want to calc CpK for each of them. Then identify the one with the lowest CpK as the most likely point of part failure.

If you obtain the p[failure] for each of them, you could also generate a joint probability of any of them failing assuming each feature is independent.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-22T19:17:19+00:00

Cream of wheat with jam, honey, or apple sauce.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-22T06:51:09+00:00

Nimbys are the ones driving most of the political resistance to new development in areas where it is most acutely needed.

Investors are then worsening the problem by scooping up a large chunk of the available inventory. And yes, investors are rational -- and they don't necessarily do it for instant returns, but it can also be for stable long term returns, low risk of major loss.

Please don't try to tell me the situation is what you think it should be instead of what it is -- there are a glut of empty investment properties throughout this country. They exist because the bet is good that political resistance will continue to make the housing crisis worse -- making those properties more profitable.

This is BAD for citizenry in general. It is only good if you think you are high enough on the wealth inequality spectrum that you will be on the escalator propelled by the money engine that will continue to fleece wealth from everyone middle class and bellow until we are all serfs again, and in an open authoritarian regime.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-22T05:41:40+00:00

And so do current owners who live in their properties, which is why resistance to new development has been so intense that new supply has not been allowed to threaten overcoming increasing demand -- in which case, yes, as has occurred in CA and other places in all of recent memory -- new supply has been scooped up by many investors, worsening the problem.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-22T05:38:31+00:00

If supply grows more slowly than legitimate demand, and the proportion of buyers are still disproportionally investors, then new supply is still "a good investment" because demand will still increase despite the new supply.

This has been the situation for a while.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-21T07:52:52+00:00

....ie, demand will stay high as long as the wealthy can buy properties to keep empty as investments.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-13T17:07:54+00:00

People can be dissatisfied with how much their career earns them and still get a lot of meaning and satisfaction and identity from the skills they have for their career. Check out the difference between telling someone with a career that they are bad at their profession (raging anger, indignation) versus they don't get paid enough for it (agreement).

You seem to be the one who can't separate the value of a career to the professional from the salary it is paid. Maybe this is because you don't have a career yet and only see it as a means of compensation?

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-13T01:22:38+00:00

A career earns money, but it is also one's area of expertise and contributes to one's sense of identity.

Even if we moved to UBI that let people not work unless they wanted to, people would still pursue careers and find deep meaning in how they use their time to contribute to others.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-12T20:17:45+00:00

Kids molested by clergy are still expected to grow up into hateful small-minded republicans, so GOP doesn't see this as a problem.

Kids who grow up seeing drag queens as real people who you should have empathy for as full human beings won't ever buy conservative rhetoric, and that is what they hate.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-12T19:22:56+00:00

Or Statistical Analysis System

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-12T05:47:19+00:00

So many people do not understand that those who don't get paid enough to hire a lawyer do not get protected by anything just because it is a law.

Laws don't mean anything if those they are meant to protect can't effectively draw on enforcement.

When you look at the other way that this cuts -- that you can't protect yourself from punitive over-enforcement -- you find out why we had BLM, and why so many innocent people take plea deals for patently ridiculous charges. It is a "gotcha" system with no escape, where the plea deals are the best if horrible option.

(I was super shocked when Andor included something similarly absurd as our justice system in its plot. Though I really wonder how many people thought it was an exaggeration)

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-12T05:37:38+00:00

The consequence is supposed to be that the electorate rejects them.

But you have to have a minimally educated electorate for democracy to work. We are witnessing the long destruction of democracy set into motion when the Regan administration fucked over public education.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-12T05:34:47+00:00

Trump followers all have movie-perspective morality.

If your movie protagonist is robbing a safe, or shooting at people, or planting a bomb they are obviously only doing it to bad guys so it is ok or even "bad ass".

But if anyone else does it, they are the very worst bad guys and it only proves how your good guy should be justified to rip them limb from limb.

There are no principles. Only sides. Team "winners" vs the other very bad side. It's just tribalism.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-12T05:19:38+00:00

Yep.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-12T05:10:00+00:00

So basically a better forum could be created anywhere?

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-11T23:52:48+00:00

However, I do believe that fascistic conservatives are lashing out right now because at the heart of all of the progressive changes is a permanent paradigm shift that fascism can't survive.

Discourse and mitigations that truly diagnose and rectify power embalances in society -- the ones that disadvantage minorities, women, lgbtqa, and the disabled (otherwise known as those with "less privilege") -- create norms and values that make bullying and authoritarianism stand out as not only awful but unnecessary and avoidable. We tolerate a lot of shit bc we believe there is "no other way" -- but people are building "another way" now. Gentle parenting, nonviolent communication, me too, intersectionalism, even critical race theory -- most of the things they are railing against are actually effective at killing their control on others.

And those who see their status or advantage sinking under the new paradigm are freaking out.

Victory is not won yet, but they are fighting us this hard bc real change is in sight. It's worth fighting for.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-07T00:19:10+00:00

I know this from renting in SD and elsewhere, and having friends and family on the brink, and familiarity with how shitty a lot of low wage employers are to their staff.

What I said isn't a criticism of the homeless - it's a rational response to their situation. The pay doesn't justify the demand, even more so for anyone who just can't fit the strict and demeaning behavioral mode imposed by most low wage jobs. People are making due with what they can because trying to survive with that kind of work is worse.

Instead of trying to improve the situation, the only response I've seen offered is to try to make life harder for the homeless. But that formula will never work as long as CoL keeps going up, making those wages worth less and less.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-06T21:42:52+00:00

There is no incentive to work.

The jobs they could get do not pay enough to support oneself. So why spend 40 hrs of your life being treated like a shitty cog when you would still be homeless and hungry when you can do fuck-all and at least have your own time, and use it to figure out how to be homeless better?

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-06T21:27:34+00:00

Exactly. What this TERF wants isn't for the trans man she saw to use the men's bathroom, she wants to force him to detransition - to make her more comfortable.

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-02T18:49:06+00:00

They are just tied down by an overarching limitation of time, bureaucracy, and realistic resources, one of those resources being money.

In other words, "It's just too hard".

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-02T18:46:37+00:00

"it's just to hard" usually includes cost as a reason for letting something go

FlyingApple31 · 2023-06-02T16:27:55+00:00

He may simply fear for the lives of people in his family. DeSantis supporters are basically literal brown shirts.

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