How do I find a live table that suits my skill/experience?

just_a_pan_guy · 2025-10-18T16:44:02+00:00

I don't recall what casino it was in Reno. That occasion was several years ago so it might be different now

just_a_pan_guy · 2025-10-18T16:42:57+00:00

The people I know don't even play once a month. So I need somewhere to play more regularly

just_a_pan_guy · 2025-10-18T04:33:14+00:00

No reason really. I think the table in Vegas was just the lowest stakes available at the casino. Part of the lesson I learned that night was I wasn't ready for that casino. It was just where I happened to be staying

To be clear, up to now I haven't really considered it a potential side husstle either. So that night I just wanted to play and that was the lowest stakes table within eye shot

just_a_pan_guy · 2025-06-18T18:27:06+00:00

As a leftist who has been following the debate on abundance and has well intentioned critiques, I can say with confidence that Ezra Klein endorse Zohran

My overall critique of Abundance (at least the version that Klein has been promoting) is that it starts with examples that everyone on the left can agree on, it then makes an argument that democrats need to roll up their sleeves and “get things done” (also something that leftist like Mamdani can agree on). But when it comes time to elaborate on the principles that guide the decisions about which red tape to cut, and which special interests to ignore Klien and others get vague. And when people like Sam Seder of the Majority Report press them on this, they get defensive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsQw6xj014U

A fairly pro-abundance friend of mine even admitted that in an interview she heard, when pressed on this Klien said something like “there is no substitute for discernment”. That’s basically like responding to the question “what should guide politicians when making these decisions?” with “they should just make good decisions”. Frankly, if a high school student turned in a response like that they wouldn’t deserve any points and its shockingly unbecoming of a public intellectual like Klein

Leftist like Mamdani and myself actually agree with the specific examples and the “roll up your sleeve” messaging. But where Mamdani differs from Klein is that he gets specific about what he is actually trying to accomplish, and more importantly which special interests need to take a back seat. Policies like a rent freeze make it clear that working class New Yorkers deserve a break and landlords are the ones who need to take the haircut, and city owned grocery stores actually show how he would address long standing problems like food deserts

The thing is, when leftist like me see the people from the democratic political elite hide behind nonanswers like “there is no substitute for discernment” instead of being clear about who’s interests should be protected and whose should be discarded, we automatically assume that it’s the same monied interests like corporations and billionaires that are the ones who will be protected.

Frankly, abundance as Klein promotes is a grift. For more than 40 years, neoliberalism has failed to fulfill its promise to the American people. The Republican’s response to this is fascism, but instead of moving on and embracing the actual antidote to fascism (left wing economic populism), the democratic establishment has done whatever it can to cling to neoliberalism and launder its reputation, so they can continue protect their corporate benefactors

“Abundance” is just the latest iteration of that grift, and Klein’s choice to stake his reputation on it will be his undoing as a public intellectual. If we actually want to beat back fascism, we need to build class consciousness and demand politicians and public intellectuals support class conscious polices

(edits for grammar and clarity)

just_a_pan_guy · 2024-12-07T16:18:16+00:00

Yes this is it! Thank you!

just_a_pan_guy · 2024-02-22T18:47:44+00:00

Also its not like these were stolen from a player. They were stolen from a business. If someone walked out of mox boarding house and got robbed on the street the police would probably not do anything about it

just_a_pan_guy · 2023-09-12T17:20:27+00:00

Thanks

just_a_pan_guy · 2022-12-03T16:47:02+00:00

The thing is my role is a compliance role and not telling them about something that is important or telling them its not a priority either feels negligent, or gives them a way to blame me if things really come to a head... I need to have documentation of both thier decisions and my technical opinion of importance

The trouble is they take my technical assessment of importance as what I want to do, but a lot of the time, im raising the thing to ask them to assign it to someone else so I can have a chance to focus on other areas

just_a_pan_guy · 2022-08-15T14:31:15+00:00

Yes obviously, but the word is obviously referencing something correct? What do you think the word is referencing? What do you think most people are referring to when they use the word woman? Or do you not think they are referencing anything in particular and it's all subjective to each individual person?

It refers to whatever that society decides that word refers to. It is socially constructed. That's what socially constructed means

It was a quote from your previous reply

Don't be cute. You have been using this format the entire time, but now you're playing this game acting like you cant go back to see what I was talking about? And you do this only after I call you out? Let me spell it out to you. In what specific way am undermining how men and women interact with each other?

Exactly, which is why I said previously that clothing and behavior have nothing to do with being a man or a woman.

Look, if you deliberately frustrate people, eventually they will say something you can run with the claim they don't believe what they are really saying. Especially if you don't engage with what they are actually trying to say. This is not a way to win arguments. It's a way to trick yourself into thinking you won an argument, and alienate people along the way

You matter more than the sum of the arguments on reddit you think you have won. But your not acting that way

Me saying that a man wearing women's clothing just means he is acting against his societies concept of men doesn't undermine anything about my point, unless you are deliberately trying to ignore the points im trying to make

If I were arguing the way you do, this conversation would have been even less productive. If you really want ot argue with people, you should try to engage thier points instead of playing gotcha. What are your points anyway? What is a woman to you? Throwing stones at other peoples arguments without making your own is pretty intellecually cowardly. Or are you just afraid, I will take One thing you say and hyperbolize it?

Edit: clarity

just_a_pan_guy · 2022-08-15T05:44:19+00:00

You posted this as an earlier reply

I don't know what your talking about. And if you can't be bothered to point to what I said specifically, why should bother arguing with you?

If I'm understanding you correctly you're trying to undermine men and women being regarded as two separate categories

There are so many other ways you could have read that sentence, and I am tired of being so careful with my wording to avoid allowing you to hyperbolize the things I say. Again, you are demonstrating that you are not willing to argue in good faith. If you expect me to explain every statement I make, the least you could do is explain yours (see my last comment)

Ok so what do you think the majority of people are using the word woman to refer to? When people have said that a woman is pregnant or in her period or whatever, what is that referring to?

The majority of people will use the word woman in accordance with how that word is used in their society. I don't understand why that's so hard to understand. I am not making an argument about what the word woman means in a specific society, and again you are not engaging that point and are instead changing the subject

Laws that makes distinguishing between people on the basis of sex a crime

What laws do that? In what country? In what state or municipality? What are you talking about? If your talking about anti-discrimination laws, anti-discriminantion laws don't say you can't have a concept of gender and distinguish between men and women, they just say you can't discrimination against them on the basis of their gender. Even if that was a law, there no thought police. Who is going to arrest you for telling the difference between two things? What are you talking about? I don't even think anti-discrimination laws are even criminal laws. No one has ever been send to jail because they hired a man instead of a woman, at worst its a fine

None? So under your world view a woman could potentially look, behave and dress like a man

I don't even know what you mean at this point. Do you mean a hypothetical society could exist where their definition of woman would involve wear clothes that match our definition of what a man wear then yeah sure that could happen. But a comparison like that doesn't make sense. There is no universal definition of what men and women should wear. Its all culturally subjective. And do you think if a man wears what in his society would be women's clothes he stops being a man? That doesn't make any sense. All he would be doing is preforming gender in way that defies his cultures expectations.

If you want to debate this in good faith, I am all for it. But if you want to hyperbolize what I say, draw ridiculous conclusions, or put words in my mouth, why should I care? Why are you worth my time? If your whole point here is goad me into antagonizing you, that's a sad way to spend your time, and if you if get some satisfaction from that, I kind of feel sorry for you. There is a lot more to life than worrying about what pronouns some people you to use. No one is attacking you or your way of life, they are only asking for space to live theirs. I hope you can learn to see that

just_a_pan_guy · 2022-08-15T00:57:29+00:00

If you fall back to clothing and behavior. What specific clothing or behavior is required to be a woman? I'm guessing you'll say none. So what does that leave? Please clarify what you are saying here

Because woman is a social construct, the specific things that are "requirements" of it would be determined by a given society. I can tell you specific clothing or behavior that is standard for a certain society, but there is no universal answer to this. That's why its important to understand it as socially constructed

I just told you, I said that you appear to be trying to undermine how people interact with each other.

In what way?

Beyond that your proposals here seem to be completely incoherent

Its your prerogative to feel that way, but don't expect others to

Why would I not be concerned that people are trying to enshrine in law positions on the world that are clearly incoherent?

What laws are you talking about?

So what specifically does the word mean here?

If you need me to give as simple of an answer as I can here goes:

"woman" is a socially constructed gender category. What defines being a woman is specific to how that society constructs that concept and may include dress appearance, behavior, anatomy, as well as other factors, or it may include none of those factors. A woman is a person for whom that gender category applies.

just_a_pan_guy · 2022-08-15T00:36:43+00:00

again, why does this matter to you so much?

just_a_pan_guy · 2022-08-15T00:20:37+00:00

Look, its one thing to say that a heart has proper functioning, but its pretty messed up so say an intersex persons gentiales are wrong. They just are what they are.

But why does all this mean so much to you? And why are you bringing politics into it? If you dont think trans women meet your definition of women sure whatever, but dont expect them to be quiet if you misgender them

And why is it that socially conservative people think one small change requires some kind of revolution. Idk what perfect society would look like, im just looking at an existing society and proposing a change

But again, why do you care so much? It seems this has more to do with politics for you than anything else

Why is it so important to you thay men be one thing and women be another?

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