There was never a process where Arab or Muslim conquerors completely replaced the native population, they just added to it. Conversion and Arabization gradually transformed the existing population’s identity. If descent from conquerors means colonizer, then virtually no population on earth is non-colonial. Arabs in Palestine, Normans in England, Turks in Anatolia, Romans everywhere…

Colonizer status is typically attached to an event and structure, not inherited indefinitely.

Interesting perspective. But does that mean that Taylor Swift is just as native as Sitting Bull? Or are descendants of aboriginal Americans more entitled to the land?

Under the most common frameworks for assessing claims about "indigenous status" or "land entitlement", length of continuous inhabitation and external support for migration are big factors. Considering Sitting Bull's lineage likely migrated unsupported from other regimes and his lineage inhabited North America for much longer, it's unlikely Taylor Swift would be considered "just as native." Whether descendants of Sitting Bull are specifically entitled to land is a matter of ongoing legal and cultural dispute.

It's been there for years, they only just recently remodeled.

Ah was it? I didn't notice it before I guess with all of the demolition and corporate/private equity skyscrapers sprouting around and behind it.

They had a one story "store" in Mountain View CA on Castro St (downtown shopping/eatery area) for a long time, but I guess they wised-up and moved[0] into a Better Call Saul-style strip mall more obscure and cheaper because it's more of an "LA celebrity" thing.

0. https://maps.app.goo.gl/szLiu9DiqbLbNGDY8

> I don't think children should be given copies

Disingenuous framing. Book bans remove books from school libraries. A book sitting on a shelf is not giving a book to someone.

> of Mein Kampf or Camp of Saints

Why not? Genuinely, why not? What will happen if children have access to words on a printed page? Most of them have access to a supercomputer in their pocket.

To make my stance clear in case it’s not: there is no such thing as “age appropriate literature.” A free society depends on intellectual freedom. Restricting school libraries from holding certain books is a tactic to raise children to be closed minded adults.

> there is no such thing as “age appropriate literature.”

Would you be comfortable with a 5 year old reading "Morning Glory, Milking Farm"?

Another disingenuous framing. We’re talking about banning books from school libraries, not my personal comfort with an individual child reading an individual book.

The cruelty is the point

>I think there are enough short term supposed benefits that something should be showing there.

As measured by whom? The same managers who demanded we all return to the office 5 days a week because the only way they can measure productivity is butts in seats?

Productivity is the ratio of outputs to inputs, both measured in dollars.

What is the definition of input, what is the definition of output, and who is responsible for measuring them?

The answer is different depending on your target -- are you measuring the productivity of a firm, a country or some other sort of entity?

Productivity is the ratio of real GDP to total hours worked.

That's labor productivity, a different measure. But the original article references labor productivity, so your definition is more relevant.

I totally agree with what you're saying, but just to note that in this article, the person who had the stroke is describing the experience. Whether someone told her that or whether she heard it herself, she found it meaningful enough to describe it that way herself.

yes. I suspect it's a common approach, but when it becomes the News of the Weird headline it does my head in.

> Someone who graduates from college in their early 20s with six figures in debt could file for bankruptcy immediately and have it be off their credit history by the time they've saved up a down payment and want to get a mortgage.

So change the bankruptcy law? It’s a pretty easy fix. Create a whole new chapter if that’s what it takes. Make it dischargeable only after 7 years of nonpayment, do means testing… bankruptcy law already has these kinds of nuances built in.

> Make it dischargeable only after 7 years of nonpayment

You don't really want to give people an incentive for nonpayment.

> do means testing

Bankruptcy already does that. But what are your "means" the day you graduate from college and haven't yet found a job, or temporarily take a low-paying one on purpose to meet the eligibility requirements?

You would need something like, deferred payments while you're unemployed but if you subsequently find a job then you have to pay, instead of one-time permanently discharging the loans. Except that's how it already works.

The questions you have are best put to a judge. The law is not meant to cover every possible permutation of circumstances and motivations.

If student loans are dischargeable in bankruptcy, lenders will price it in or refuse to lend without a gurantor.

> The law is not meant to cover every possible permutation of circumstances and motivations.

This isn't a permutations issue. We know the specific shape of the problem: 18 year olds from poor and lower middle class families don't typically have existing assets with which to secure a loan, so if they can't secure it with their future earnings, they can't get one, and then they can't afford to go to college.

> If student loans are dischargeable in bankruptcy, lenders will price it in or refuse to lend without a gurantor.

That's the problem. The inability to discharge them allows the borrower to get a much lower interest rate than they otherwise could for unsecured debt issued to someone with minimal credit history, or find someone willing to loan them the money to begin with.

It was set up this way so that people could go to college.

The article doesn’t say enough about why this matters. I have no opinion either way, I just presume from the headline that the author thinks it does, so it would have been more interesting if the author devoted more than a few sentences to that aspect.

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