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  • Right. The term that would probably fit the context would be "infantile", which again has negative connotations.

    English has a long history of descriptors of intellectual deficiencies becoming contemporary insults then terms to be avoided because of that insensitive use, then the use continuing until everyone's kinda desensitized to it but now it can't be used in the original context.

    See also: idiot, imbecile, moron, etc.

    Currently going through that process: "retarded".

  • Lately with my workplace it's been:

    Deliverables Team: "Well here's the deadline we set, so regardless of whatever happens, you need to have all of your work submitted by then."

    Design Team: "Yeah, we'll get you our markups, but all in big clumps of work, most of it just says before the deadline, but a lot of it we aren't even going to try to get to you until after that deadline."

    Me: "Okay well then you two need to discuss that because those two timelines are obviously incompatible."

    Them: "Yeah, no. We're not going to work that out."

    Deadline arrives...

    Deliverables Team: "OMG! Why isn't this done?!"

    Me: "Because I don't even have the design yet!"

    Deliverables: "OMG you're going to make us miss the deadline! Why didn't you say anything before?!"

    Me: First off, this is just a random internal deadline you set. There's zero real effect of not meeting it. Second, it's not me making us miss it; I can't model and draw what I haven't received the design for. Third, I did say something before, several times in fact."

    Deliverables: "Well you need to talk to your design team and make them hurry."

    Me: I can't and won't attempt to do that. But I'll let them know you're wound up over it.

    Lets design team know that deliverables is bent out of shape over missing their made up deadline.

    Half of Design Team: Yeah lol they'll get over it, and if they don't, they're only freaking out on you, so we don't care.

    Other Half of Design Team: OMG you missed the deadline?! How could you?!

    Me: Well it's because you guys haven't gotten me any designs yet.

    Design Team: Yeah we're still working on it and we don't have a timeline on when we are going to get it to you...but when will you have it done?

  • Idunno, I feel like a sufficiently large city could do something along those lines with sufficient political will.

    Maybe not some little population 47, one stop sign "town" out beyond Bumfuckistan...but maybe a proto-UBI as a economy-boosting supplement could be worked out in a city of 100K+ residents.

  • All the people watch commercials, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a correlation between the kind of person that can watch stupid reality shows for hours on end and the kind of person who watches those ads and it actually translates into them spending money on the things in the ads.

  • Honestly I think a lot of these people raised their kids under the "my house, my rules" mantra where they tied their authority to their home out of laziness and expedience, basically choosing rather than explaining themselves to their kids, instead just quashing any opportunity for a conversation (that in many cases may have revealed how poorly thought out their beliefs were) based on, of all things, economics.

    Basically: I work and earn the money in this dynamic, so because of that, I'm right and your opinions don't matter.

    Shock of all shocks when kids raised with that noise grow up, enter the work force, and get a place of their own, they now remember that shit and make the short step of logic from "my house my rules" to "I'm not in your house anymore, I'm not following your rules, and you have to respect that because you have no other choice".

    I've heard stories of this getting so bad that basically the parents of adult children still were trying to impose their politics and ideology on their adult children when they came to visit...then being all surprised Pikachu and playing the victim when... spoiler alert...their kids quit visiting.

  • The victim complex is strong with these ones.

    I feel like I know him without ever having met him.

    Guessing he uses "the liberals" as a hand-wavey catch all for anyone and everyone that's ever done anything he's ever disagreed with or sees as wrong in the country?

    Also assumes that there's a "war on" anything he likes, orchestrated by the aforementioned liberals?

    Doesn't actively take part in local politics but sees himself as some sort of ideological warrior, keeping the faith and "fighting the good fight" day in and day out?

    Hasn't been in a city with a six figure population in 25 years except (maybe) for concerts and sporting events, yet seems to think he knows, in detail, how horrible they are?

    Thinks driving a manual transmission vehicle is a personality trait?

    Regularly rails against "cancel culture"...but proudly brags about how he hasn't set foot in a Dick's sporting goods since they quit selling guns, and hasn't drank a bud light since that whole fiasco...but that's not canceling, that's different?

  • It's the Republican MO: everyone needs to suffer from everything I've ever had to deal with at a bare minimum. More is fine, but anything less than every single issue I had to deal with (whether I really did, or just think I did, thanks to a healthy victim complex) is unacceptable.

    In practice, it looks a lot like the socialism they claim to hate, but only for negativity. Hoard everything good, distribute everything bad.

  • Another member of the "til" gang here!

    I would also completely understand "to", though, but I just don't use it.

    Those "quarter of" weirdos can fuck directly off though. That one makes zero sense to me haha.

  • While I'm not saying it's categorically impossible, and I agree that there are some parallels that could be drawn with South Africa, realistically there are several big and very relevant differences which unfortunately seem (to me) to make your theoretical scenario impractical and unlikely at best.

    Very broadly speaking, the differing religions would be a massive, nearly insurmountable challenge on its own, but even if they could get past it, it would always be there, making any effort at resolving any issue orders of magnitude more difficult than it might otherwise be.

    The immediate road block of course is also that each side wants as its main goal mutually exclusive things...and since they're overwhelmingly likely to view all decisions through the lens of achieving those goals, there will never be consensus even on the most basic things.

    And this has little to do with the US. This is a situation where, if it is to be resolved, I feel it would be best handled with as little direct US involvement as possible, instead channeling all formal interaction through the mechanisms of the UN. America has a rather poor record when it comes to nation building, and as far as Israel is concerned, most regional powers would likely assert that the US government is incapable of being a neutral mediator in the situation given their longstanding relationship with the Israeli government, and that any possible diplomacy they may attempt would be fundamentally and critically tainted by their history.

    And honestly... they'd be right to make this objection. I cannot envision any scenario in which America attempts this delicate statecraft and does not compromise the effort by looking after its own interests in the process.

    It's also a very real possibility that any attempt at lasting peace that even shows a glimmer of potential will likely be intentionally sabotaged by regional neighbors. Nearly as much as the Israeli government wants to see the entire area controlled by a Jewish government, that's how much many of the neighboring powers want to see that government eradicated and replaced with Muslim leadership. And if they can't accomplish that, they'll be content to simply play spoiler, and destabilize the region as they are now.

  • At this point the only "moral" path forward in my mind is a secular single state managing the region.

    In a theoretical situation, I'd completely agree.

    But at this point, realistically, the situation is so fraught that I don't think there's a single authority anywhere on the planet capable of forming, administering, or managing that theoretical state.

    You certainly couldn't have Israelis or Palestinians running it, and every other solution would, by default, mean it would be a region ruled by a government not of or by the people...which would make it exceptionally difficult to convince those people that it was, in fact, for the people.

    Basically, any individual or small coalition of nations trying to effect this solution would be, in essence, colonialism/hegemony, since as much as the Israelis and Palestinians don't want each other running things, one thing they'd likely agree on is that neither of them want a foreign power running things. (Perhaps they might be okay with it, depending on which foreign power, but then we're back to the issue that no one power would be agreeable to both parties.)

    While it's still nigh-impossible, really the only possible way this could happen would be a sort of UN peacekeeping administration, but that would likely be a huge negative impact on the Israeli side, so they wouldn't be likely to go for this anyway. Even if you do let these people have some sort of democratically representative seat at the table, it's either population based, favoring Israel, or it's not, and it's just a same-number deal, favoring Palestine. Or they're non-voting members of that leadership group, which neither side would stand for, effectively giving up sovereignty.

    There might be room for some sort of UN government in which there were two chambers like the US legislature, one scaled for population, the other not, but with a certain amount of seats...and explicit veto powers... residing with a UN contingent...but again, this is a theoretical solution that Israel is not ever going to stand for.

    The only thing I could see bringing them to the table would be if all their Western allies made all aid contingent upon their cooperation. But that'll never happen because of the value of the Western ally state in the Mideast, no matter how troublesome they may be.

    So ultimately, we're left with a situation where innocent lives are so comparatively unimportant to the governments who could do anything about it, versus the value of their alliances, that the incentive to stop the bloodshed isn't as great as the incentive to keep it going...and that calculus is not likely to significantly change in the near future.

  • There's a lot of variables, not the least of which being the specific people you hire, how busy it is in your area at that time for them, and the specific site (can they access easily with their equipment, are there easily damaged buildings nearby, etc.).

    The last time my parents had tree work done, my dad was getting estimates in the range of $2,500-4,000 per tree, for a total of 4 trees.

    Then one guy came out, took a look, and says, "$1,500."

    My dad is thinking that's the best price he's likely to get, but still wants to see if the guy has any wiggle room, so he says something like, "Is there anything you can do on the price if I want to get all four done at once?"

    And the guy just says something like, "I was planning on doing all four at once. If I gotta come back a second day, it'll cost a bit more. Maybe $1,800 in total for the four of em. But I'll only need one day as long as I can get here early and put a full day in."

    When my dad realized the price was for the entire job, he basically just said, "How soon can you do it?"

  • Centrist democrats love to guilt and shame progressives any time progressives try to leverage their support in order to get anything they want.

    Even if it's just the slightest shift or adjustment, the center left seems to always go right to "oh so you'd rather the Republicans win if you can't get your way? This is bigger than you. You need to put your selfish wants aside and just support the things we want. Maybe after we get all the things we want and have all the power, maybe then we can consider some of your priorities, but until then, we're entitled to all your votes and support simply by virtue of being slightly less opposed to you than the conservatives".