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[alexyar]

[anthropicprincipal]

Nativism is bipartisan.

[sinesalvatorem]

Oh, huh, a Democrat who thinks that raising the minimum wage at which (foreign) workers can be hired causes less of them to be hired? I don’t think they got the memo about how price doesn’t actually affect demand and economics was an inside job.

[nuclearspaceheater]

The system does need to be reformed, but a better way would be to replace the lottery system with a blind auction rather than setting salary requirements.

[mitigatedchaos]

Yeah, an auction would price it more accurately.  Other interventions include making it easier for H1Bs to change jobs - thus if they really are worth more than the lower wages that are claimed, they won’t stay at the company.  Making it easy to deport but hard to change jobs is just begging for corruption and replacing the native labor pool with labor that can be credibly threatened with being kicked out of the country.

Though, I admit my first instinct was to limit the number of slots and auction them off.  “Oh, it’s so important to you?  Then clearly, you’ll be willing to pay the necessary amount of money to show it’s important.”

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[gunsanddopeparty2020]

i should follow more people. get my attention, fags

[mitigatedchaos]

You should follow me because:

1. I’m definitely not a Time Cop.

You can tell because, let’s be honest, how many future timelines are dominated by Crypto-Centrist Transhumanist Nationalists rather than either Leftists, the Chinese Hyperunion, the Ultra-Caliphate, or Google Defense Network?

2. Even if I were a Time Cop (which I’m not), there’s no way I’m from the mid North American Union timeline and am just visiting the Trump Timeline, since, let’s be honest, there is no way any timeline Leftist enough to unite North America into one country modeled on the EU would allow time travel to right-wing timelines, much less by paramilitary cyborgs.

3. You already follow me in several branches already.  Probably.  This is just a hypothetical which I’d have no way of knowing.  I’m just, you know, putting it out there as a possibility.

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[overwatch-fan-art]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY by ChuraGhost

[mitigatedchaos]

Pictured: Tumblr user @argumate and an unknown species of flying creature that KEEPS DYING REPEATEDLY.  SERIOUSLY WOULD SOMEONE AT LEAST THINK ABOUT PROTECTING THE HEALER FOR ONC-

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[quoms]

i remember years ago before LRAD cannons were a thing i watched a TED talk from the guy who developed LRAD cannons and he demonstrated the technology for the audience - using soft orchestral music, at its base LRAD is a technology for long-range projection of any sound - and was like ‘haha yeah we sold this shit to the military, no idea what they’re gonna do with it’

this one, it was filmed way back in 2004. LRAD cannons weren’t used against protesters in the US until 2009 during the pittsburgh G20 protests

Ideas worth spreading®

[dabblingindissent]

i swear to fuck this is why i hate when people share videos of those boston dynamics robots acting like they’re all cute when 10 years down the line they’ll have tasers and pepper spray and mini lrads and millimeter microwave guns and they’ll be using them on protesters

[mitigatedchaos]

Just for future reference, readers, whenever you see me post a video of some Boston Dynamics robot that moves way too much like an animal, assume there is some minor nervous undertone, even though I’m not the protesting kind.

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[cyborgbutterflies]

Why am I getting reblogged by tacky Western porn blogs all of a sudden?

I mean, at least they don’t sound like bots or anything but… why?

[mitigatedchaos]

I give it 80/20 it’s just a more sophisticated component of spam vs you just happen to appeal to those people by posting what you post. (I follow you partly because you remind me a bit of one of my exes.) Porn bots also follow people to get clicks, to answer one of your earlier probably rhetorical questions.

[cyborgbutterflies]

I was mostly just wondering why they’d want my posts over at their blogs.

I mean, it was a relationship post but it was not the lewd kind, it was the heartwarming kind.

Not to mention the fact that I have a personal aversion to meatspace porn, still…

(Derailing my own post to ask: In what ways am I like your ex? Good ways, I hope?)

[mitigatedchaos]

I was mostly just wondering why they’d want my posts over at their blogs.

To be honest, I don’t fully understand the behavior of porn blogs on this platform, and I can’t figure out how to tell which ones are real and which ones are bots, nor why some (but not all) of the bots do what they do.

It feels almost like they just exist to insert porn into places for no reason, or as part as some sort of “sexual enrichment project” or something.

“Here, mammal, we see that you find images of copulation satisfactory with high probability, based on your demographic data.  Gaze upon these images.  Our bountiful network capacity blesses you with these gif(t)s.”
- pornbots, probably

(Derailing my own post to ask: In what ways am I like your ex? Good ways, I hope?)

That’s, uh, complicated.  But I don’t hate-follow blogs, so it’s good ways, yeah.  Most of my exes are nerdy subby bi women.  One of them was very devoted, and needed me as a stabilizer at the time.  I’d still be with her today except for reasons.  You aren’t exactly like her, you just have some traits that happen to line up.

The primary reason I follow your blog is that I find it interesting, though.  In fact, I seem to recall having briefly seen it some years ago while reading some discourse involving theunitofcaring, I think?  I registered a Tumblr lately because I was impressed with the discourse on Rationalist/Rationalist-Adjacent Tumblr.  I added your blog a while after I saw it again.

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[argumate]

Trump is like a Nazi because he advocates for an immigration policy slightly less strict than that of Australia.

[argumate]

Now you can go a few different ways with this observation:

1. This demonstrates that comparing Trump with Nazis is hyperbole that may just cause people to tune out. (”Are you saying that Australians are Nazis too?”)

2. Immigration is only one issue, you also have to look at other economic and defense policies, the complete picture is suggestive of fascism.

3. Yes, Australians are Nazis too.

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[cyborgbutterflies]

Why am I getting reblogged by tacky Western porn blogs all of a sudden?

I mean, at least they don’t sound like bots or anything but… why?

[mitigatedchaos]

I give it 80/20 it’s just a more sophisticated component of spam vs you just happen to appeal to those people by posting what you post. (I follow you partly because you remind me a bit of one of my exes.) Porn bots also follow people to get clicks, to answer one of your earlier probably rhetorical questions.

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Anonymous asked:

immigration policy is the equivalent of the state offering insurance for damages to the host nation. not gonna convince progs, might convince libertarian or ancap types.

esoteric-hoxhaism answered:

what

[mitigatedchaos]

I tried to figure this one out, but I don’t get it either, and I think about applying insurance to everything.

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Consequentialism is too hard

[bambamramfan]

This Freddie article panicking about Paul Ryan in a post-Trump world is part of why I consider consequentialism such a poor ethical guide post.

He worries that if we focus on opposing Trump, and Trump is impeached or obstructed or just all around foil and discredited, it will open up a lot of space for other conservatives to be seen as “acceptable” and “moderate.” “Oh, you only want to gut the welfare state, you don’t want to stop green card holders from entering the US because they’re brown? Well that’s not so bad.”

History has provided plenty of examples of that.

The other possibility is that if Trump is discredited as a massive joke, everything even remotely related to him is going to look bad, and left-liberals will get a surprisingly free hand to implement their agenda while accusing anyone who isn’t on board with them of being a Trumpkin.

History has provided plenty examples of that.

Not to mention the possibility that attempts to defeat Trump will all fail and we are wasting our breath talking about Paul Ryan.

And the thing is, each of these seem equally plausible to me. I feel I have no way to determine what the political order of a post-Trump world will look like. I don’t know if deBoer is just being small-minded, or this is the actual threat to watch out for.

[mitigatedchaos]

Consequentialism is true, but of limited usefulness, and not trustworthy in just anyone’s hands. Rights are not true, but are great for resolving situations.