Caveman_Coder

They didn't say explicitly...but you have to look at the context of the conversation...perhaps I misread it

"Do you want poor, unskilled, uneducated customers, vendors, employees, neighbors, and fellow citizens? Or skilled, prosperous, educated ones?"

No, plus the question is a kind of false dichotomy...they present it as either you're college educated and productive/capable/smart or you aren't...it turns out you can be very productive/capable/skilled/smart without ever having gone to college.

A recent reading of Nietzsche made me view what is currently going on socially through the lens of his master/slave morality...it makes watching the "Oppression Olympics" more entertaining anyway...you can really see the "resentment" play out in full view.

"Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be 'blamed' for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external 'evil'...Ressentiment comes from reactiveness: the weaker someone is, the less their capability to suppress reaction. According to Nietzsche, the more a person is active, strong-willed, and dynamic, the less place and time is left for contemplating all that is done to them, and their reactions (like imagining they are actually better) become less compulsive. The reaction of a strong-willed person (a "wild beast"), when it happens, is ideally a short action: it is not a prolonged filling of their intellect." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment#Kierkegaard_and_N...

I don't think it is fair to discriminate against anyone at all and certainly don't think that this "shifting discrimination around" game is going to work well at all in the long run...

"My "race/culture" is navy submariner, and I always enjoyed watching the few sailors who hadn't had their background racism washed out of them at boot-camp realize that getting the job done well was what mattered, some sailors came in with some bad biases but within a year those issues usually had been resolved by working in a meritocracy, if a very authoritarian and hierarchical one."

+100

I think a lot of submariners can relate to this (I'm also a submariner). I do remember when I was a senior sailor, and one of my division's nubs was this smart and hard-working kid from bumfuck nowhere Georgia (he was from a small town of <500 people)...well, we were sitting on crews mess and getting GMT on gays in the military and this kid was like "there's no way i'm working with some fag"...to which I, and pretty much ever person senior to him were like "shut the fuck up nub, you most certainly will work with someone who is gay, in fact you already do (we had a gay guy in our division but he was pretty hush-hush about it), and that 'fag' as you called him, might be in a position to one day save your life, so you better drop whatever bullshit prejudice you may have...and get quallified"....he dropped some of his outwardly shitty behavior pretty quick...like you said, it didn't matter what your background or sexual orientation was, the only thing that mattered was coming together to get the job done...and you totally saw this during any kind of emergency...sometimes I do miss the "togetherness" we had as a crew...just not the unpaid overtime.

"...i replied by disagreeing that it is more, and claim it is the same amount of discrimination, just moved around."

How is this an acceptable solution??

So its more like "discrimination is bad, but only against some groups, if we discriminate against this other group though, its okay"...I still don't how this is "fair" or "just" in any sense

I loved that book! Excellent recommendation. If you want a good intro to non-PWR nuclear power technologies, I'd highly recommend "SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future" by Richard Martin.

I'm not sure what to make of his statements...they could be correct assessments of his military's capabilities, or they could be completely false...who really knows?

TLDR:

"With advances in communications and artificial intelligence, it’s not at all impossible to imagine scenarios in which SSN motherships deploy a lethal force of killer torpedoes, capable of remaining on station for days — or longer — while waiting for a victim."

1. Discrimination is bad.

2. Minorities have faced discrimination the most.

3. Let's discriminate against Whites/Asians to correct #2, even though we accept the truth of #1.

I don't get this thought process at all..."lets fight discrimination with more discrimination!"

"She's gone now, instantly, after working there for 20 years and rising to senior executive VP. What is going on in our industry?"

Her crime was not having ideological purity...

Is it false? You can identify as whatever the hell you like these days...that is a fact.

"So you being poor is justification enough to spread divisive comments and fuel further hatred (on either side)"

This is over-dramatic...

I'm just saying in today's world you can identify as whatever the hell you want, and nobody can question it apparently...so It might be a good strategy for white males to "identify" as the race/gender that seem to get additional points on their applications based on their race/gender.

White != "upper class"

Turns out you can be a poor white (like myself)...just an FYI.

Its also systemic bias when you won't even interview men...

I have first hand experience with this. As a normal working-class white guy with poor parents and no connections (I worked my way through school), I had a hard time even landing an interview at first. As a social experiment, I changed my name/sex from Joe/male to Joanna/female, kept everything else on my resume the same, and reapplied to all the jobs that didn't want me previously. Every single company that rejected Joe was overjoyed when Joanna applied. In every case I got a email within the week wanting to meet and interview me. It was kind of eye-opening. I didn't follow through as "Joanna" because the sexist hiring policies were enough to put me off working at these companies entirely. I eventually found an employer that wasn't sexist and have been happy with them so far...

"Often I can't really tell the difference between affirmative action and reverse racism."

There is a good reason for that...its because there isn't a difference. You have to do a lot of linguistic gymnastics in order to somehow come to the conclusion that affirmative action isn't racist.

"Extended outages, or retirements, among the region’s nuclear power plants would have detrimental effects. At the same time, having stored fuels like LNG and oil at dual-fuel units, combined with imports from Canadian hydro facilities, could help maintain reliability."

We need some kind of disruption in the energy generation market...I mean we're shutting down our nuclear power plants without adequately accounting for the loss in generation capacity...perhaps there will be some innovation in distributed generation, but either way, it'll be interesting to see how things go in this industry.

"...instead of the 200+ hours I spent studying for Google"

That sounds like an exaggeration. I'd bet that very few people who work here had to spend that much time preparing...

I'd check out "The Concept of the Political" by Carl Schmitt...it presents a different argument about national identity and nation states [1][2].

[1] https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2017/SOC286/um/Schmitt_1996_-...

[2] https://fee.org/articles/carl-schmitt-the-philosopher-of-con...

"Unions are not always fighting "unjust" monopolies."

Nobody said they were...

"People unionize even when their employer is not a monopoly."

Nobody said that unions form only when the employer is a monopoly...I'm not sure what "point" you're trying to make here.

"...a modern day union is."

This is also wrong. Your straw man union isn't true across the board.

Interesting...maybe in an ideal world...but in the real world where business owners currently have the upper hand (and congressmen and congresswomen basically on payroll), I'm perfectly fine with unions acting as a counterweight to corporate power.

"Ahh, okay, now im understanding the point of this article. Lets fight monopolies with more monopolies instead of solving the underlying issues!"

So you don't think unions have a place in modern day society?

"Market transactions only happen if they are mutually beneficial. Can’t force any side as this will distort it."

I think the modern assumption is that things are distorted, and they are heavily distorted in favor of business...

"...and there is a level of destructive power beyond which individuals should not be trusted."

What about hunters and people who use firearms to obtain some of their food? Not everybody lives in a major metro area with access to the latest food delivery startup.

"Yes, Google has a data center, but it's in Council Bluffs. Have you ever even heard of Council Bluffs before that?"

Most people working for Google in Council Bluffs probably live in or spend their time in Omaha, which isn't that bad of a city.

I left the Bay Area for the Pacific Northwest (and not Portland or Seattle)...the bubbles do exist...out here I can talk with my neighbor about all kinds of things pertaining to farming, self-sufficiency, home repair, electronics (as most farmers are pretty well versed in basic electronic repair), etc...I now look at SF/LA/NY as being stuck in their own superficial bubbles and I'm glad I left.

That is why it will be better to be a transmission line owner (or vertically integrated) instead of just a generation owner/operator, since everything will be going to an energy market anyway.