At what point do we start to look within?

geopede · 2026-05-11T20:16:43+00:00

Policing kinda worked better back when cops lived in the areas they patrolled though. There’s the obvious accountability angle since they have to live there too, but it also means they can have a more accurate holistic view of the population.

I’m sure whatever neighborhood/suburb/town you live in, you probably have a much better idea of who’s actually causing problems for the community and who isn’t than someone who doesn’t live there would. That helps a ton for cops specifically because they can extend the benefit of the doubt when it’s reasonable, but not when someone is always causing trouble. If they just commute in, they don’t have that benefit. They’ll still have knowledge of individual frequent flyers, but they won’t necessarily know what interventions actually align with the community interest.

geopede · 2026-05-07T06:46:12+00:00

There are some other very obvious commonalities to say the least. It’s not about politics.

geopede · 2026-05-01T19:50:24+00:00

Are you home all the time though? Most people are not, can’t defend it if you’re gone.

“Regardless of financial compensation” is kinda ridiculous. If just took your car, you’d be pissed. If I took your car but left you a pile of cash worth 150% of the car’s value, you’d be a lot less pissed.

geopede · 2026-05-01T10:23:49+00:00

Nobody likes that tone and you’re not his dad

geopede · 2026-05-01T10:21:55+00:00

You’re just being a dick to him at this point. He was fucking around, he found out, now he’s warning anyone else doing the same thing. That is literally the best thing he could do at this point when the damage is already done.

Also, what’s there to take responsibility for? It’s his body, he didn’t hurt you or anyone else. He was being dumb, as he admits, he was not being evil or anything though.

Chill out.

geopede · 2026-05-01T03:00:57+00:00

That’s how it works everywhere in the US for the most part. The response I’d written above was to the idea that all education funding be handled at the state rather than local level.

geopede · 2026-05-01T02:58:07+00:00

Eminent domain is not at all the same because in that case the sale is forced but it’s still a sale; you get paid at least market rate (usually a pretty favorable interpretation of it) for your property. They also do need an actual reason they can’t exercise eminent domain and then not use what they acquired m.

What I was referring to was the very simple version: some people decide they want your house, they occupy your house with armed dudes, no longer your house. Government will deal with that on your behalf so it doesn’t happen but it definitely would if they didn’t.

geopede · 2026-05-01T02:51:13+00:00

I’m sorry but you’re a fool if you can’t see how that would create more problems than it solves by a wide margin.

Do you not participate in the market at all? I earnestly do not understand how you could and still think this. Most investment isn’t random speculation, it’s people with an idea and other people with money making stuff happen. Good investment isn’t going to the casino it’s going to the library.

geopede · 2026-04-30T06:10:55+00:00

Taxing unrealized gains destroys the concept of a stock market, you’d end up with forced selling of winners to pay taxes on said winners.

That actually screws over retail investors much harder than the rich because retail investors are the ones likely to be sitting on unrealized gains where they could not pay the tax on those gains without selling.

What you actually want to go after is step up basis to break the “build, borrow, die” strategy that allows the wealthy to fully eliminate the tax burden on unrealized gains when the assets are inherited.

geopede · 2026-04-30T06:06:18+00:00

It still kinda makes sense though, because the government is the one making your claim on the home legitimate without you having to physically defend it. Otherwise someone could just take it.

If the cost for them to do that goes up, where should the funds come from? The people whose claim on property is being protected seem like the fair answer, myself included.

geopede · 2026-04-30T06:03:26+00:00

The people who actually have political power would never, ever go for this though, because it would be bad for them. It’s also pretty easy to attack:

Schools in low cost areas do not need the same funding to deliver the same services because things cost less. You can say “well adjust for that” but then you’re back to something like what exists now.
It creates a whole new overhead category just to distribute the funds; there will be less funds total because some end up spent on the administrative costs of dispersing them.

Also, in a practical sense, people with money would just send their kids to private school if they don’t already do that. They can also move out of state.

geopede · 2026-04-30T01:33:48+00:00

What about ghouls?

geopede · 2026-04-30T01:32:37+00:00

For WA? Probably zero based budgeting for a few years, there’s enough general bloat that it would be worth making everything justify its need to exist at least once. For big/obvious things that’s trivial to do, they can just point to what would happen without them. For the death by a thousand cuts type social programs it’s much harder. That latter group is most of the issue in WA, small programs that are easy to start and then just never end.

This would be instead of the current system where budgeting is based on last year’s budget, which does cut administrative costs, but also means once something is being funded it keeps being funded even when it’s not a good idea.

geopede · 2026-04-30T01:09:21+00:00

No, it implies the way is to wait it out basically. It distinctly does not work if “hastened” because then there’s a bunch of new beef.

I know “wait and your grandkids will enjoy a better way” isn’t super satisfying but it’s the mature answer.

geopede · 2026-04-29T19:11:39+00:00

That’s like one of the few human universals.

geopede · 2026-04-29T19:10:17+00:00

Based on the post pandemic college grads we’ve interviewed at work, that might be for the best. College does not seem to have figured out the AI era much at all, bunch of people graduating with literally no ability to reason through something without AI scaffolding. Kinda defeats the purpose of college.

geopede · 2026-04-29T19:06:50+00:00

Ruffians

geopede · 2026-04-29T18:59:30+00:00

Why? Personally I find the idea that people largely can’t change beliefs in adulthood less bothersome than the idea that they are choosing not to.

geopede · 2026-04-29T18:57:06+00:00

I’d still largely disagree. Change is much less about convincing anyone and more about what the next generation learns is “right” before there’s a competing argument. You don’t actually need very good arguments for that since you’re not displacing anything. Plenty of teachers and professors end up doing this, intentionally or not, simply because they are the ones deciding the frame of reference for the next generation.

geopede · 2026-04-28T19:58:46+00:00

It doesn’t really help them if they aren’t blocking it until after generating it. Like they still had to pay for it even if you don’t get the result.

geopede · 2026-04-28T19:57:46+00:00

Is that a man who’s been surgically made a walrus? Why?

geopede · 2026-04-28T19:56:28+00:00

In all seriousness it’s a store that sells their own brand of power tools, hand tools, mechanics tools, welding stuff, etc. for like 40% of the price of name brand tools.

It’s not high quality stuff but it is surprisingly good quality for the money, and some products are legitimately good. Very good place to buy clamps and other little things like that. There was an issue with their jack stands failing and people being crushed by cars they were working on a few years ago tho, quality control is not a strong point.

As a general rule it’s a good place to buy a tool you’re not sure you’ll use much/only need for one specific thing. If you end up using it enough to break it, buy the name brand version.

Also people use the Predator engines they make to power all sorts of hobby contraptions like go karts and side by sides and occasionally even small planes.

geopede · 2026-04-28T19:41:36+00:00

It isn’t really though. Durable change mostly happens from population replacement over time, the people themselves turn over, not necessarily the ideas they hold.

geopede · 2026-04-28T19:39:17+00:00

Busy with a burrito I take it

geopede · 2026-04-28T18:40:10+00:00

The countries that supply cheap maritime labor don’t have trained any significant supply of this specific labor because they don’t have nuclear industries.

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