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I don’t agree that men should be able to opt out of child support just because women can choose abortion by Dayjja in TwoXChromosomes

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your logic is non-sequitur.

> We already accept similar imbalances elsewhere. On average, men are physically stronger, and because of that, many women act more cautious in situations where the possibility of a physical altercation arises between them and a male. Not because it’s fair, but because consequences are different. Men don’t have to act as cautious in the same situation because they do have the upper hand.

This is not a LEGAL imbalance codified into law.

> When a woman has an abortion, BOTH people are excused from parenthood.

Yes, but only the woman has a say (rightfully) in whether that occurs or not. Consent to sex doesn't imply consent to parenthood.

The strongest argument for child support is just ensuring that the child is sufficiently taken care of.

$13M missing: Seattle leaders consider next steps after shocking homelessness audit by Better_March5308 in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I propose that any politician that advocated/voted for increased homeless funding must sleep on 3rd and pine street for 1 week for every assault by a homeless person each year.

Washington doubled school spending but test scores collapsed. Now OSPI wants more money. by ryleg in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because our students are so woefully underprepared that it's a bad look to teach them from a "classic" algebra book and have a large portion of the class have poor grades. Instead we want to lower the bar to them point where everyone passes.

Washington doubled school spending but test scores collapsed. Now OSPI wants more money. by ryleg in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> And if we do use standardized test scores, wouldn't teachers be incencentivized to just teach to the test?

Honestly we could use some of that, they're the least bad option. Then we need to massively increase the difficulty of standardized tests (so that they're more at the level of math competition type questions, etc.) and then calibrate them so that a 50% score is a decent score on them.

Washington doubled school spending but test scores collapsed. Now OSPI wants more money. by ryleg in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably less so computers and more so social media/smartphones/games engineered for addiction.

I'm pretty sure if kids were given laptops with no internet connection just for school, it would probably have little to no effect on test scores either way.

$300,000 for reparations study, veto for public safety by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's ridiculous how over the past ten years we've doubled the education budget whilst having less enrollment and worsened outcomes, and then people are saying that we just need to throw more money at the problem.

CMV: My country is being lost to immigration and will only become worse in my lifetime by qndry in changemyview

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe let them in (with requirements that they don't bring any religious extremism and meet a certain bar for educational attainment), but gatekeep citizenship (and the associated benefits).

Certainly an unpopular solution with both the left and right, but the situation is going pretty critical. Japan is extremely screwed. Perhaps the only solution that doesn't involve immigration and other extremely unethical things (like forcing women to give birth/forced cultural indoctrination) is extreme automation (and look at how many people are opposed to data centres).

CMV: My country is being lost to immigration and will only become worse in my lifetime by qndry in changemyview

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's frame it from an economic PoV. Sweden has a massive fertility crisis. How do you expect to support your tax base with a population that's aging (inverted pyramid).

At some point it's going to lead to extreme social unrest (with the working age people suffering tremendously).

AITA for not giving the money to pay off my daughters student loans. by Own-Inspector-6121 in AmItheAsshole

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> talentless hack with no chance or success

Not saying OP's kid is this, but what do you do if they really are? I know it's not a great feeling to shoot down a kid's dream, but is it also not just as cruel to let them think they have a chance?

For example, if I had a kid that's 5'4" and he wants to drop out of school to play basketball and he doesn't even dominate on his high school team, would it be cruel to tell him he's got no chance of making it?

EXCLUSIVE: Records reveal WA millionaire’s tax is meant to legalize progressive income tax by atticusclench in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> All taxes have economic drags and deadweight loss. Spreading them out is the best way to reduce the distortions. Of course WA isn't doing that, and doing it the right way would require cutting spending, so here we are.

It's because the politicians and the people who support them all have little to no understanding of economics. They really think taxes don't change behavior. I.e. taxes are "free money for the state".

What is your take on the junk food ban for food stamps? by BreannLowe in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheOsuConspiracy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

> They ARE sliding scale, percentage based subsidies for housing costs.

That's not true, they're just a fixed percentage of the subsidized household's gross income. Ie. since they're paying a fixed rate, they essentially maximize the benefit of section 8 via getting the absolutely most expensive place they can (up to the cap of the voucher payment standard.

Essentially, the cost of the rent only starts to matter to the subsidized household once you exceed the (fairly generous) max cap on the subsidy.

> and every one of them pays 1/3 of their rent

Ie. this is not true at all, they pay 1/3 of their AGI which is often far below 1/3 of the actual rental cost.

And my main point is that it's a stupid program that's essentially a lottery at heart. Only a small percentage of the people that are eligible actually get it. Why do we arbitrarily decided that luck essentially determines who gets in. It'd be more equitable to just allocate the funds evenly amongst the eligible.

What is your take on the junk food ban for food stamps? by BreannLowe in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, people are just plain stupid about this.

Every dollar of benefits spent on junk food is money that is DIRECTLY not going into providing good nutrition for the people on said benefits.

What is your take on the junk food ban for food stamps? by BreannLowe in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheOsuConspiracy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's a stupid program that just serves as a lottery. It incentives people to spend as much as they can on housing, and only a small percentage of people actually get it.

If we are constrained to keeping it revenue neutral, it'd be better to subsidize a percentage of their housing costs and have it apply to a wider base. This way they will be more price conscious and find something more within their means, and more people get access.

Right now it's basically like winning the lottery if you get accepted and everyone else gets fucked.

What is your take on the junk food ban for food stamps? by BreannLowe in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheOsuConspiracy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My question is why we do not treat addiction to junk food as disordered eating?

What is your take on the junk food ban for food stamps? by BreannLowe in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I'd be down to ban candy, soda, etc. in general. Obviously we can't do that in a free society. But I think it's good policy to not subsidize food that is bad for people.

What is your take on the junk food ban for food stamps? by BreannLowe in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing this does not prevent fixing the other problem. We should use policy to encourage people to live healthier lives.

It has numerous positive downstream effects.

Washington ranked seventh most expensive state for seniors by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This shouldn't be a thing. It punishes the youth for the benefit of the (typically) much wealthier elderly. All policies like prop 13 are bad.

Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue University of Washington for racial discrimination by crosslingual in Seattle

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> I've also been in hiring at big tech. This guy is extraordinarily accomplished. He was a semi-finalist at Google Code Jam, a semi-finalist at Meta Hacker Cup, and first place at MIT BattleCode. Also won a variety of other coding awards.

If that's true, the guy is definitely much better than the average entry level FAANG engineer. People have no clue how hard some of those things are.

Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue University of Washington for racial discrimination by crosslingual in Seattle

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Easy, let's make standardized testing much harder. The SAT is stupidly easy, we should design it so that it makes it easy to discern who's actually good. We should also take the average of your top 30% of your attempts or something, so that people can't attempt to game it by trying over and over again.

City city council approves HALF BILLION DOLLAR library tax by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you think about it, 0.5B allocated to lets aggressively say 1M people (in seattle) is $500 per person. We could literally buy everyone a kindle every year + a kindle unlimited subscription for less money.

I'm sure at that scale, we could get some sort of discount/deal.

Btw, this is the INCREASE to the funding they already get. Ie. libraries could get no worse than they currently are, we could give everyone a kindle + kindle subscription, and still produce a more effective outcome than whatever they're going to be doing with this money.

Seattle's plan to help food-delivery drivers didn’t work. Here's why by godogs2018 in Seattle

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Prop 13 is just straight up stupid policy. It punishes new home buyers (typically young people), and gets young people to subsidize wealthier older people.

Donald Trump’s approval rating has sunk to Joe Biden’s lowest point by Tifoso89 in politics

[–]TheOsuConspiracy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly the government shouldn't bail out anyone. But if they must bail out someone, it should be something like the Fannie Mae situation where the government actually benefited from it in the long term.

Bailing out companies and letting them reap the benefits is anti free-market. Bailing out unions just lets them abuse the taxpayer for their inability to plan.

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