@FreeNortherner There is no labor shortage. There's a productivity shortage.
We employ as many shipbuilders as S Korea, which has the world's second largest shipbuilding industry.
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Student of many subjects, master of none.
In front of my screen. Beigetreten Haziran 2024
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If they were that desperate, they'd raise wages until the problem solved itself.
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Shipyards desperately need welders, pipefitters, and other skilled workers. But this work is grueling and dangerous. cbsn.ws/4bIyP6O
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@constans Speeding the system would be great for many reasons, but it wouldn't make punishment certain b/c we can't solve most crimes.
We can't even solve a majority of murders.
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The biggest deterrent to crime is the *certainty* of punishment. The slowness of our justice system reduces certainty and disconnects the accused from the underlying crime they are being prosecuted for. Speed the justice system up to increase certainty.
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys
The deterrent effect of gathering DNA from people arrested for felonies is large, and illustrates something important about crime. 1/2
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@Empty_America I'll happily take the extra litter for the suits.
You can get rid of the litter by adding trash cans (totally absent) and running some PSAs.
Getting the suits back will be much harder.
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Also notice the trash and litter laying everywhere.
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
It feels truly insane to me that people used to wear full-length cotton suit jackets and dress pants at all times. This is Manhattan in the height of summer, late June 1936! And these are factory workers!
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@upstatefederlst "But it's only a broken finger, doc."
"Nonetheless, it's all downhill from here. MAID is the only option."
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I want a radiologist with a shared first language who can give me clear instructions and someone with the same baseline cultural values.
For instance, I don't want a Canadian doctor irrespective of race because I don't want him to suggest I should just die.
Psychiatrist.@texual
@upstatefederlst But if he’s outmatched… Do you want the best radiologist or the white male just because reasons? It’s all semantics till your life or your loved ones are. You’ll take the best doctor and they’re definitely many who aren’t American born.
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The differences give the Gazans less cause for grievance, not more:
1. Hamas started it, as did Germany and Japan, so that's even.
2. Israel would be more than happy to go army to army. Hamas makes that impossible by hiding among civilians, specifically sacrificing them to save its lives.
3. Israel is making more efforts to avoid civilian casualties than the allies did in WWII. We very intentionally killed millions of civilians to break our enemies in strikes w/ no military aims whatever.
4. The only surrender terms we accepted were unconditional. Israel has accepted less.
And this isn't coming from a rabid Zionist. The fate of Israel and Gaza aren't among the top 100 political things I care about.
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@OftCorrect In a formal war, with surrender terms, where both sides were engaged military to military? Not analogous
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This kid will grow up wanting nothing more than to kill Americans.
And can you blame him?
This is what we invite when we become party to someone else’s bloodlust against innocents.
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده@RamAbdu
“They killed my mother — and before that, my brother. I urge everyone: do not go to the American aid distribution points soaked in blood. This bag only contains 2 empty flour sacks — nothing else — & yet they shot & killed my mother as she tried to get us something to eat today.”
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@lost_nomad__ No. Hispanics mostly vote for the party of Umbridge and feel safe doing so b/c her rules and laws only apply to the richest of them (who vote R).
Rules are just for middle class and above (with a tiny percentage of the mega rich once again exempt from many).
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Hispanic immigration has provided a very useful check on this woman’s power
Like many non-hispanic Americans, they find her ways alien. Florida, Texas, & Arizona are all freer states partly thanks to their presence
Wokal Distance@wokal_distance
I'm watching the Harry potter movies with my son, and I can't express to you the degree to which this woman is the perfect embodiment of the spirit which has infected our culture.
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@CameronCorduroy SFO doesn't use TSA so these ICE are not there to supplement them and arresting people in their spare time.
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and here they are wrestling a mother to the ground in front of her daughter at SFO
Enguerrand VII de Coucy@ingelramdecoucy
I think Democrats are severely under appreciating the damage it will do to their anti-ICE messaging for flocks of normies to see ICE agents at airports being respectful and helpful to busy travelers, as seems like the most likely case here Most of these people have likely never encountered an ICE agent in person… Putting a real, friendly, and helpful face on them has a huge amount of PR potential for the agency
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@matthewswspence What's their incentive to introduce new competition into their industry?
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The only real way to fix this is to build new shipyards with new companies, ideally partnered with Korean or Japanese shipbuilders.
Matt Spence@matthewswspence
The problem with US shipyards is that they suck at building ships. It’s not a labor shortage, they’re just bad at their jobs. Productivity is super low, you can’t fix that with more workers.
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@upstatefederlst He's correct in doing so b/c if you say "oppressed," you get into an argument about what oppressed means.
If you're really specific with "face institutional discriminations such as X, Y and Z," people have to admit you're right.
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Chris is primarily objecting to Hoe Math trying to wrestle a wizard word away from leftists. "Oppress" just means to keep someone subjugated via unjust authority. But leftists have reserved it for a super-special case.
bumbadum@bumbadum14
Chris will admit that White men are the most institutionally discriminated group for the past 50 years but if you say the word “oppressed” the suddenly he brings up slaves from 200 years ago lmao
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@BarneyFlames There may or may not be net-beneficial ways to reduce traffic death, but the optimal number of traffic deaths absolutely isn't zero.
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The solution is to ramp up policing
Adam Kovacevich@adamkovac
Urbanists are loathe to admit it, but Vision Zero has been a flop. All the public education campaigns and road diets can't compete with phone-distracted drivers. As @mattyglesias says, the rational response would be to embrace autonomous cars. But urbanists aren't.
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@harrisondubay Noise and light.
You can make walls basically noise-proof, but it's expensive and builders won't do it till every house listing comes with a number that makes its sound proofing as legible as square footage.
And deep row homes can be dark. Side light is nice.
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Why are Anglos obsessed with houses that don’t touch. What is the anorexia alley achieving
Daniel Sultan@danielsultan
Would love to see developers build suburbia like this.
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@asymmetricinfo Alas, clearance rates suggest small-but-certain punishment isn't a realistic option for us right now.
If you can't catch 50% of murderers, you're not going to dissuade those shoplifters who bother to hide it with sure punishment.
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A point that doesn't get made enough: deterring crime with certainty (not severity) of punishment isn't just good for their victims. It's good for the would-be criminals themselves, who get pushed into doing something better with their lives.
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys
The deterrent effect of gathering DNA from people arrested for felonies is large, and illustrates something important about crime. 1/2
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@zagrebbi Where are the numbers from, the leak of all Columbia admissions data?
Does it omit GPA b/c the difficulty of achieving any one GPA varies among districts (and even among teachers of particular classes)?
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Here's a graph of what race alone does to your odds of getting into Columbia, holding everything measurable equal.
Race is the single biggest factor in admission odds.
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@RealDianeYap Vanishingly few in the Right want to deport citizens.
The voting question is "do I care more about brining more of my ethnicity here or maximizing welfare in the country I just pledged loyalty to?"
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I’m often asked why Asians, especially Asian women, tend to be liberal. If I had to guess I’d say it’s a lesser of two evils thing.
“Sure, the left is bad on crime, but the right keeps saying I eat cats and should be deported and they want to take away my right to vote.”
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@ArtemisConsort This stuff always makes me think false flag, but the real answer is probably engagement bait.
More outlandish = more followers and to hell with furthering any of the causes they claim to support.
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This is so annoying. We have a winning argument about anti-White discrimination and (potentially) genocidal anti-White ideology pushed by major institutions. It exists, it’s pervasive, it’s bad, and it’s unpopular. But some weirdos made the absolutely indefensible claim that White men in America are the most oppressed group in history, and now we’re all talking about that instead. I am begging you all to be serious. Communicate in a way that’s likely to achieve your goals. Build coalitions. Do something other than jerking yourself off with how contrarian you’re willing to be.
Mass deportations are happening. Repealing Hart-Celler is in the Overton window. Crushing major institutions for anti-White discrimination is in the Overton window. That will get all of us at least 90% of what we want if we can maintain the momentum to see it through. Focus on that.
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630
@DisaffectedPod The reason this debate is going on is that prominent people are openly saying that white executives, etc today ARE more oppressed than US Black...and Irish, etc...historical slaves.
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@texual @upstatefederlst Matching into residency considers some objective metrics, but it's mostly a subjective process.
Heads of residency can absolutely pick favored ethnicities or - almost always - hot chicks.
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@upstatefederlst But if he’s outmatched…
Do you want the best radiologist or the white male just because reasons?
It’s all semantics till your life or your loved ones are. You’ll take the best doctor and they’re definitely many who aren’t American born.
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There has to be a middle ground somewhere between Hoe Math's ceaseless whining and Matt Walsh's "you just gotta grind harder."
Josh@XJosh
The US is suffering brain drain to Europe and Asia because nobody wants to live in a country like this. Even if you were ambivalent, who would want to raise children in the US? In a world where you can get a passport and move, why would you raise your child to be a slave here?
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@ArtemisConsort This isn't a Chesterton's fence scenario. We know why previous generations restricted the vote. We know why more recent generations removed said restrictions.
You may still think universal suffrage a mistake but the arguments have always been out there.
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“we must think like our ancestors and ask ourselves this most critical question: why did they restrict voting rights? What did they know that we don’t know?”
Promising new account.
American Philosophy@AmerPhilo2025
"Allowing virtually every citizen to vote has been a catastrophic disaster for the United States. We have allowed illiterate, uneducated citizens to hold hostage the world’s largest economy, most powerful military, and a robust intellectual culture. It has decimated the concept of civitas and allowed powerful actors with bad intentions to influence those who cannot think for themselves. To restore the United States, we must seriously consider ending universal suffrage." Read more below.
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@moultano Hard to overstate how much this undermines any effort you’re making to establish yourself as an observant and knowledgeable person that others should follow.
2% of all shoes sold in the US are leather soled, per Google Gemini. You have literally seen millions of them.
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It is so bizarre seeing all the comments that "nice shoes" don't have rubber soles. I don't think I've ever seen a shoe without a rubber sole, and in California "nice shoes" means "close toed."
constans@constans
Apparently this is because redditors have one paid of “nice shoes” they keep in the back of their closet that they wear once every few years, and rubber soles degrade and fall apart if they’re not worn.
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@Empty_America I can't fathom how so many people who would likely score pretty well on an IQ test assert that either everything has gotten better or everything has gotten worse.
I am on team life-is-net-worse but I'll cheerfully admit that genuine improvements are too many to count.
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There have been some improvements:
-much easier to make money outside of employment.
- stuff like kid's shoes, milk, blue jeans much cheaper
- serviceable tools are much cheaper at Harbor Freight
- hunting/fishing/general environment better.
- food is a lot better
- Medical is FAR better
- depending on State, in-state college can be cheaper.
- A lot of central cities are much safer to visit.
- depending on State, minimum wage is way higher.
- used books are super cheap and easy to order.
NWO@NEETWorldOrder
A lot has changed in the United States in the last 25 years. None of it for the better. Though I suppose the writing was on the wall if I allow for honest retrospection.
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