How would you rate adulthood?
Life since you entered the "adult world" (be it after college or after high school if you didn't go to college), how would you rate it compared to the life you had before?
Life since you entered the "adult world" (be it after college or after high school if you didn't go to college), how would you rate it compared to the life you had before?
I was looking through some pictures and realized that, starting from pictures taken a few years ago, you won't be able to tell how old a picture is based only on picture quality, even though that's been the case pretty much since the invention of photography.
Most countries don't have it outside the US and Canada.
Virtually the entire Western hemisphere and sizable chunks of the Old World have jus soli.
I'm opposed to getting rid of jus soli since I believe American soil is free and being born on it entitles you to protection of your natural rights under American citizenship. The alternative I view as fundamentally un-American. I say this as someone who believes in common sense border and legal immigration policy.
The clause often referred to states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Trump wants to reinterpret the phrasing "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" to mean that the federal government would not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents without legal status, incoming White House officials told reporters on a call on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss upcoming actions.
Taken out of context, I unfortunately can see how they might be able to get away with such an interpretation in the current political environment. The original context clearly opposes it, though. The intent of that clause of the sentence was to exclude children of ambassadors and foreign ministers, whose families were not subject to US jurisdiction, and, depending on who you asked then, native Indians whose lands were unconquered but considered part of American territory. Even in the extremely nativist time of the late 1890s, it was established in no uncertain terms in US v. Wong Kim Ark that all children of foreigners (edit: born in the US), except in a set of clearly delineated cases not including illegal status of the parent, were citizens of the US. It was further established in Plyler v. Doe (1982) among both the 5 concurring and the 4 dissenting justices that illegal aliens, being physically in the US, were obviously subject to the jurisdiction of the US.
Lower rents will definitely reduce the incentive to build more housing, though it may be the case in certain instances that there already exists sufficient incentive to build more housing. I wouldn't say there's no evidence that rent control has a negative effect on housing stock. The 2014 Autor et al. study they cite itself says that eliminating rent control in Cambridge, MA corresponded to a 20% increase in building permits (though that includes both improvements and new construction).
I think policymakers should be mindful that there is a tradeoff, though it may still be worthwhile if having more affordable housing outweighs greater total housing investment (the total of either improvements, construction, or increased sale value/liquidity for current property owners) or if they're confident there's other strong reasons to build housing. Exceptions for new construction gets around much of the concern, but it still risks reducing rental stock, even if total stock remains the same, from landlords selling to owner-occupants. Personally, I'd say it would help if renters more seriously considered moving each year in search of a better deal. Rents will naturally ratchet upwards if tenants don't shop around enough, and American tenants are moving less than they used to.
I haven't had a back injury, but I'll say it's absolutely crucial you stay active (with caution) and ensure the muscles stabilizing the lower back don't atrophy. You don't want nerve impingement to lead muscle atrophy/discoordination to lead to further nerve impingement.
Inflation in most cases is quite regressive, since it favors asset holders over wage earners. Low interest rates is also a double-edged sword. Though it makes it easier to buy a house, it also pushes up rents and is a boon to private equity looking to buy up and undercut small and medium-sized businesses. Inflation in general is a fairly complex and broad concept that should be made more specific whenever possible. Upward pressure in prices due to rising wages is a different type of inflation from major supply shock inflation. The goal of economic advisors was to avoid having the dollar be worth significantly less across the board, which would have certainly hurt the working and middle class hard.
It would be one thing to fund a group of Wikipedia users to push their view, but this is outright dystopian.
I have a hard time taking the claims by health insurance companies seriously that they're playing any meaningful role in improving care while, instead of passing those savings on to customers, they post ungodly profits ($16 billion in 2023 for UnitedHealthCare, compared to $1.3B for a similarly sized non-health insurance company like State Farm or $(-)0.3B for Allstate). The complexity of healthcare allows for a profound level of moral sophistry from insurers and drug companies.
The fundamental problem with health insurance is that it simply is not competitive, in the sense that major frictions get in the way of consumers punishing insurance companies for providing a poor product (main ones IMO being that your employer decides your plan and the provider files the claim instead of the consumer). If we want a private health care system, I'd rather we have a fairly conventional insurance market for health care (ex. car insurance), coupled with a mandatory and progressively government-subsidized health savings account to cover necessary treatments for when a subset of people inevitably underinsure themselves, à la Singapore.
It's worth noting that the petrodollar supports the dollar's position as the world reserve currency, which would be potentially threatened if the security arrangement shifted such that the gulf states were no longer dependent on the US.
The thing with AI art is that, without sifting through unimaginable reams of training art, it's hard to tell how much of it is essentially plagiarism. Maybe the best pieces are basically just smoothed out collages of three or four existing pieces? I remember earlier on, there were many easily identifiable cases of this with generative text and art/video. With a much larger dataset, I'd imagine it would be quite difficult.
I'd say you're missing out a crucial aspect of why these international organizations exist: to work out, in hopefully a neutral space, different parties' grievances and to eventually work towards the truth or a policy objective in a way that's transparent and credible. When these international institutions are set up properly, they gain prestige and often have significant cache in domestic debates and policymaking. In the case of the ICC, there exist many countries with statutory frameworks for cooperating with the ICC, and you can see here already a sizable list of countries that say they will enforce the ruling.
The boiler plate music and editing that every blockbuster trailer now has is pretty horrendous. Even worse than "iN a wOrLd...". Otherwise, the movie seems like a fun, simple movie to watch with the family.
I think you hit the nail on the head of much of what went wrong. I would partially disagree with a few things:
Foreign policy: I think it mattered more than you'd think. Not necessarily because there was a large constituency voting solely on that (though there was certainly a much larger portion of the electorate that cared quite a bit about Gaza beyond just Muslim Americans), but that it dramatically shifted the vibe among hyper-engaged Millennials and GenZ that you heavily depend on for canvassing, organizing, evangelizing, and keyboard-warrioring . Gaza made it difficult for most people who are highly engaged in politics to feel actively good about voting for Harris. I mean, the fact that there exists an intellectually-defensible, though arguably weak, argument as to how Trump would be marginally better is really bad. The electorate more broadly is also anxious about getting entangled with foreign conflicts, and it's empirically true that we had less conflict under Trump than Biden and that Ukraine was a strategic failure (whether Trump would've done better may be another question).
Immigration: I would just add that the Latino vote was largely lost because of mass illegal immigration, not purely social issues. It was their communities that felt the brunt of the chaos and the Biden administration handled the border logistically poorly.
Scolding: horrendous strategy from the Dems that definitely hurt them much more than it helped.
JD Vance: Picking Vance was a base pick and a gamble, but it paid off handsomely I think. The base loves him and it made the non-full-out-crazies in the Trump camp feel like they were voting for something than against something. He was smart to be on a constant media blitz and to routinely go to adversarial settings; if you go into a room where everyone hates you, you only stand to gain.
GOTV: The Trump campaign's get-out-the-vote I think was just much stronger. They kept hammering home that they should get 5 or 10 of their friends to go vote.
The other thread about potential spam on the site got me thinking, can/should Tildes hide itself from Google and other search engines (aside from just the main page) to avoid the tentacles of SEO from infiltrating the site? I'm not sure how feasible that is, but I know reddit has the option to prevent your profile from getting indexed by search engines so perhaps that could be applied to the site as a whole.
I'm curious how much bitcoin has contributed to this. I know a decent number of people who did very well for themselves (on the upper end, pretty much printing money) through cryptocurrency over the years.
The takeaway is that Israel is not a good-faith actor or a reliable partner in peace. We should treat them more like Turkey or Saudi Arabia than Canada or the UK—a practical geopolitical ally we support to the extent that they directly support US interests. The idea that America should provide unconditional support (I don't think people understand what "unconditional" means, they just go along with it because it sounds nice) to any country is ridiculous, let alone a nation that is, by the standard we apply to other countries, a state-sponsor of terror.
I don't think it's much of a loss, and it could even be a net gain. Note that the jobs that Amazon created were more or less replacing other jobs in Quebec, and that operations are being shifted to local small businesses.