Aryeh Zax

I didn't understand this was how it was being discussed because it is (of course) totally unworkable as a retrospective policy, and b/c that's not what's contemplated in the executive order that's being litigated.

Oh, is the claim that changes to citizenship would be retroactive?

Dark blue is US-style birthright citizenship, lighter blue is birthright-with-buts and covers all of the West that's east of the Americas.

I haven't heard that people in Europe or Australia have tons of trouble getting their documents in order, but maybe enforcement is laxer than Miller would have

I'm fortunate to have had a passport for as long as I can remember, but I imagine my parents brought my birth certificate to some kind of office, and if they'd needed to prove their own citizenship they could've brought their passports too

? I have a passport

Yeah I don't understand the result either but you did ask "what country would they even potentially be loyal to"

Hello?? It's Israel

I'm a deontologist but only for doing regime change

n = 1 but I'm a California liberal and think it's good we might oust a guy who is mathematically proven to have stolen his most recent election

So does "stealing people's private property" mean taking away their garbage or what

Do you think the framing device was added during a rewrite or something? It implies that things even out in the end and God was just fibbing to Job

Did you not read the epilogue where God doubles Job's wealth and gives him twice as many children as before (he doesn't bring back the old children, children are fungible, I'm not kidding)

wat

(obviously Democrats will never do this unless DC gets admitted as 300 different states, they don't hate winning elections nearly enough)

I think the fear is that Democrats will outlaw real meat while lab grown meat is still uncompetitive, and once lab meat is available at the grocery store and cheaper and you can buy it in chocolate flavor if you want this particular brand of crazy will vanish

Sentient but quiet is apparently an extremely brief period of time though (n = 1). My guess is a combination of we happen to be very early + great filter (either ahead or behind us idk)

Unlucky

They are?

You can just look around and observe a lack of von Neumann probes or Dyson spheres! Idk if you mean bacteria or little green men but it seems clear we have to be a huge anomaly

Guy who exclusively uses "NIMBY" to refer to people who refuse to build themselves an ADU

The question is a reference to a specific proposal from his campaign website, which frames a sensible, facially race-neutral policy in a deliberately racial way. I think the framing is dumb and the question is dumb but Mamdani opened the door to it.

It's a purity / religious thing. Water is natural / sacred / uncommodifiable in a way that electricity is not

there is no safe level of "there is no safe level of X"

4d chess by Eric Adams baiting them into drawing a red line to oppose fake vegetarians

- person who lived in Saratoga Springs in 2008 and just woke up from a coma

I don't think your understanding is shared by the people who are outraged about this (or, if you prefer, the characters they are inhabiting in order to perform outrage)

mfw I give my children language to facilitate communication but they don't use it that way

I guess she's moderated on MeToo, in a sense

Gillibrand 🤨

I don't think this is quite right. What do you think the denotation of "Globalize the intifada" was at the protest? (I am prepared to accept "it doesn't have a denotation")