Heh, that's what got me thinking on it... it's hard to think of clowns who failed; like we have collective amnesia and/or we only want to track the failures who won.
Try googling for failures... it literally gives you a list of people who failed, but then overcome all the odds and won! Google assumes this is what we must mean, and maybe we do.
But then, perhaps that's the true Conservative insight: mostly we're failures with success bias.
"I don’t think you need to live with inequality to get economic growth.
It’s that economic growth will, by its very nature, create inequality."
We want inequality, but broadly based 'horizontal' inequality. It's the 'verticality' of the inequality that erodes trust, causes friction and ends with bad decisions all around.
Is it? Is it supposed to be ironic? I don't think I get it.
I mean, you're supposed to laugh at Bozo, that's success... who's the most spectacular failed inventor that everyone laughed at? That would provide the 'heightened contradiction'
But if the idea is that there are no clowns who think themselves geniuses... well then... that's good news for me, I guess.
One of my working dogs once mysteriously became paralyzed in his hind legs.
I spent a lot on money to learn about healthcare markets, death and sadness. It was all perfectly transparent and prices quite accurate. In the end, I'm sure my choices were perfectly rational. Still miss that dog.
Having sold to Walmart, it's interesting you bring it up because it acts like a giant single payer driving prices from suppliers down.
Are you advocating massive consolidation of Healthcare into one or maybe two primary distributors of services?
It would surprise me if you were... but as someone who negotiates prices on a daily basis, the managing/controlling prices angle of market analysis always strikes me as the weakest.
It is a little known fact that going to Disney with Boss's kids grants a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions).
My wife and I have our private Covid-19 liberation day set for May 8; and as patriarch, I've set our public liberation day for June 1. The CDC is welcome to call me for rhetorical tips and graphics, if they'd like. Our 23yo is already vaxxed as childcare worker, the 20yo got first dose yesterday at the Amazon warehouse he's been working at this past semester, and 17yo is signed up and should get one in the next month or so...
Otherwise this weekend look to be mostly meh, chores, repairs, pastures, downed trees, maybe some stumps...
Which is both exactly right in the banal prosaic case *and* the philosophical argument that the Laws shape Morals.
I mean, having taken dozens of these CYA courses, I can imagine the future such that co-worker Suzie overhears Pam talking about the importance of choosing not to have downs-syndrome babies knowing that co-worker Divya has a downs-syndrome baby. Does Suzie a) Quietly take Pam aside and educate her about Downs-syndrome and Divya's child? b) Publicly confront Pam the next time she brings up the topic, c) Tell Divya about Pam's hurtful views so Divya can avoid Pam in the future?, or d) Discuss the matter with Pam's manager so Divya's views can be brought to HR for further review and possible action.
The levers of power are not shaped to one type of hand.
1996 Clinton speech writers:
*The era of big government is over.
2021 Rejected Biden speech writer ideas:
*The era of the big government we got after it was over is over.
*Government, it's gonna be YUGE
*Deficits don't matter
*Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help
*It's infrastructure week, baby!
Heh, we'll always have ribeyes. *I'll* have ribeyes, but they will be out of reach for the regular folks. Hopefully my ribeyes will get better since we won't be ruining our beef in the feedlots.
My status signal will be both financial and transgressively edgy... my instagram might even feature my enjoyment of raw meat.
Of course, people will tell me there's no difference in taste... and depending on how I feel and/or the audience, I'll let them believe it.
Yes, I'm hoping to avoid both as well; out here in crunchy country a number of our older folks have passed and their burials have been simple pine (or walnut) boxes in a 6ft hole on their own property. Looking into it a bit, I was surprised burying human remains isn't the big deal people make it out to be... given enough space, distance from wells and such (100 ft). To be sure, doesn't work in big cities and/or suburbs... but a lot of country folk are just buried 6'ft under on a bit of a rise... as I hope to be. Almost every property out here has the family plot that most folks benignly neglect (assuming it isn't their family) which is not to say actively remove/destroy, but just sort of keep it respectfully cordoned off, if a bit overgrown. During Lent and other seasons for remembering the dead, we walk down the road to the next-door property where just such a family plot exists.
The no embalming is trickier... you have to be buried within 24 hrs of death (not sure exactly how this works vis-a-vis cold-storage/morgues)... but the main point is that absent plans/preparation it seemed the harder path to navigate... but not impossible.
I dunno man, they say they 'deprecated' beef content recipes in 2019. But they made very specific announcement yesterday that they are henceforth ending all new beef content. And the reason they cite is Global Warming. But we all know that no one is arguing for it.
Bless your engineering heart... I wouldn't expect anything less. I don't think the paper is addressing efficiencies, but just the math necessary for the energy transfers. Efficiencies? To be sure... But the bar isn't even close. My take away was that something like Nuclear Power would be perfect... no impact to global warming while replacing the micro-biological-generators of every cow.
Which leads to the occam's razor of this: If we could use Nuclear to replace cows... why not use it simpliciter?
On “Letter to a Young Conservative”
The guy who invented Zune?
Heh, that's what got me thinking on it... it's hard to think of clowns who failed; like we have collective amnesia and/or we only want to track the failures who won.
Try googling for failures... it literally gives you a list of people who failed, but then overcome all the odds and won! Google assumes this is what we must mean, and maybe we do.
But then, perhaps that's the true Conservative insight: mostly we're failures with success bias.
On “Darth Vader Visits HR”
Planets destroyed: 1
Deathstars lost: 1
Mixed results lead to no recommended merit increase this year; cost of living only.
On “Letter to a Young Conservative”
"I don’t think you need to live with inequality to get economic growth.
It’s that economic growth will, by its very nature, create inequality."
We want inequality, but broadly based 'horizontal' inequality. It's the 'verticality' of the inequality that erodes trust, causes friction and ends with bad decisions all around.
"
Exactly. But with someone everyone's heard of.
"
But if I'm Bozo I want you to laugh at me... all my self-evaluation points to: spectacular success!
Einstein:Scientists:Bozo:Clowns
But then, I've never really been impressed by Carl Sagan... so maybe the true lesson is the clowns we meet along the way.
"
Is it? Is it supposed to be ironic? I don't think I get it.
I mean, you're supposed to laugh at Bozo, that's success... who's the most spectacular failed inventor that everyone laughed at? That would provide the 'heightened contradiction'
But if the idea is that there are no clowns who think themselves geniuses... well then... that's good news for me, I guess.
"
One of my working dogs once mysteriously became paralyzed in his hind legs.
I spent a lot on money to learn about healthcare markets, death and sadness. It was all perfectly transparent and prices quite accurate. In the end, I'm sure my choices were perfectly rational. Still miss that dog.
"
Having sold to Walmart, it's interesting you bring it up because it acts like a giant single payer driving prices from suppliers down.
Are you advocating massive consolidation of Healthcare into one or maybe two primary distributors of services?
It would surprise me if you were... but as someone who negotiates prices on a daily basis, the managing/controlling prices angle of market analysis always strikes me as the weakest.
"
"Force medical care providers to have one price and publish it."
Like cars.
On “Weekend Plans Post: Disneyland”
It is a little known fact that going to Disney with Boss's kids grants a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions).
My wife and I have our private Covid-19 liberation day set for May 8; and as patriarch, I've set our public liberation day for June 1. The CDC is welcome to call me for rhetorical tips and graphics, if they'd like. Our 23yo is already vaxxed as childcare worker, the 20yo got first dose yesterday at the Amazon warehouse he's been working at this past semester, and 17yo is signed up and should get one in the next month or so...
Otherwise this weekend look to be mostly meh, chores, repairs, pastures, downed trees, maybe some stumps...
On “Democrats Have a Problem, But It’s Not the One You Think”
Which is both exactly right in the banal prosaic case *and* the philosophical argument that the Laws shape Morals.
I mean, having taken dozens of these CYA courses, I can imagine the future such that co-worker Suzie overhears Pam talking about the importance of choosing not to have downs-syndrome babies knowing that co-worker Divya has a downs-syndrome baby. Does Suzie a) Quietly take Pam aside and educate her about Downs-syndrome and Divya's child? b) Publicly confront Pam the next time she brings up the topic, c) Tell Divya about Pam's hurtful views so Divya can avoid Pam in the future?, or d) Discuss the matter with Pam's manager so Divya's views can be brought to HR for further review and possible action.
The levers of power are not shaped to one type of hand.
"
1996 Clinton speech writers:
*The era of big government is over.
2021 Rejected Biden speech writer ideas:
*The era of the big government we got after it was over is over.
*Government, it's gonna be YUGE
*Deficits don't matter
*Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help
*It's infrastructure week, baby!
On “A Beef: No, Joe Biden Is Not Going To Take Away Your Burgers”
Heh, we'll always have ribeyes. *I'll* have ribeyes, but they will be out of reach for the regular folks. Hopefully my ribeyes will get better since we won't be ruining our beef in the feedlots.
My status signal will be both financial and transgressively edgy... my instagram might even feature my enjoyment of raw meat.
Of course, people will tell me there's no difference in taste... and depending on how I feel and/or the audience, I'll let them believe it.
On “Wednesday Writs: Compost, Human and Otherwise Edition”
Yes, I'm hoping to avoid both as well; out here in crunchy country a number of our older folks have passed and their burials have been simple pine (or walnut) boxes in a 6ft hole on their own property. Looking into it a bit, I was surprised burying human remains isn't the big deal people make it out to be... given enough space, distance from wells and such (100 ft). To be sure, doesn't work in big cities and/or suburbs... but a lot of country folk are just buried 6'ft under on a bit of a rise... as I hope to be. Almost every property out here has the family plot that most folks benignly neglect (assuming it isn't their family) which is not to say actively remove/destroy, but just sort of keep it respectfully cordoned off, if a bit overgrown. During Lent and other seasons for remembering the dead, we walk down the road to the next-door property where just such a family plot exists.
The no embalming is trickier... you have to be buried within 24 hrs of death (not sure exactly how this works vis-a-vis cold-storage/morgues)... but the main point is that absent plans/preparation it seemed the harder path to navigate... but not impossible.
On “A Beef: No, Joe Biden Is Not Going To Take Away Your Burgers”
I dunno man, they say they 'deprecated' beef content recipes in 2019. But they made very specific announcement yesterday that they are henceforth ending all new beef content. And the reason they cite is Global Warming. But we all know that no one is arguing for it.
"
Phew. Wondering if Epicurious will follow-suit.
"
Sure, we could take them out... my point is that Cows are extremely hardy and require astonishingly little attention to thrive and reproduce.
If we opened the gates and let them into the wild, I'm comfortable predicting we'll have their descendants with us 100 yrs from now.
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Hey, our well water is kinda sweet...
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Medium? Well...
On “House Reapportionment Number Are Released”
Montana flag emoji
On “A Beef: No, Joe Biden Is Not Going To Take Away Your Burgers”
Cows would survive in the wild... they'd get meaner and the non-polled genetics would probably win out... but Cows would make it.
Chickens won't last a season.
Sheep... eh, purely a numbers game vs. predators... I could see it going either way.
Goats will find their way into your house and hide out while you are sleeping... they will be fine.
When the word goes out about the extinction event, Pigs will rise up and take over entire counties. So let's keep it down for now.
"
Heh, I just saw that... It is! it is a moral argument. We're just hiding the moral behind Global Warming.
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Fractal Cucumbers!
"
oops... misthreaded, meant as part of thread below... not regarding Hydrogen.
"
Bless your engineering heart... I wouldn't expect anything less. I don't think the paper is addressing efficiencies, but just the math necessary for the energy transfers. Efficiencies? To be sure... But the bar isn't even close. My take away was that something like Nuclear Power would be perfect... no impact to global warming while replacing the micro-biological-generators of every cow.
Which leads to the occam's razor of this: If we could use Nuclear to replace cows... why not use it simpliciter?