I was actually trying to find some minds users on the fediverse and failed. This is the first time it actually worked...
The Biden plan to cancel $20,000 in debt for up to 40 million people with student loans debt sounds really good at first, until you realize how stupid it actually is.
A lot of people with student loan debt are making enough that they're getting charged the maximum amount of the last dollar they make. Some of them are paying much more than $20,000 per year in taxes. Therefore, all this is is a government taking $20,000 from you with one hand and then handing it back to you with the other.
"Thanks! I mean, I'd prefer not having the spoils of my work constantly drained away from me so that you can pay for your pet projects somewhere on the other side of the planet, but I guess thank you for giving me a small amount of all the money that you take for me back"
A lot of people with student loan debt are making enough that they're getting charged the maximum amount of the last dollar they make. Some of them are paying much more than $20,000 per year in taxes. Therefore, all this is is a government taking $20,000 from you with one hand and then handing it back to you with the other.
"Thanks! I mean, I'd prefer not having the spoils of my work constantly drained away from me so that you can pay for your pet projects somewhere on the other side of the planet, but I guess thank you for giving me a small amount of all the money that you take for me back"
"scientists shocked to discover Pareto distribution exists yet again, propose global dictatorship to prevent it"
Maybe it's his secret femboy lover feeding lines into his ear? Because it sure isn't the bible...
How to make everything: https://www.youtube.com/@htme
For the first era of the channel, he just tried to make stuff using modern techniques and materials, but afterwards he rebooted the channel trying to make stuff from scratch using materials and tools he created using the previous stuff.
Here's a video from another source of some people in Norway making iron from bogs using the ancient methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80omf7bM3Ek
For the first era of the channel, he just tried to make stuff using modern techniques and materials, but afterwards he rebooted the channel trying to make stuff from scratch using materials and tools he created using the previous stuff.
Here's a video from another source of some people in Norway making iron from bogs using the ancient methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80omf7bM3Ek
This is a topic that I'm extremely interested in, because I like the idea of having a skill set where you can go out and make things yourself using local materials. Sometimes it's possible, and it's actually kind of surprising how much you can do locally if you have the right knowledge/technology. Figuring out how to get iron out of literally just a bog was a planet shattering revelation that made something that was previously fairly useless into an incredibly important asset.
There's a YouTube channel called how to make everything that has gone to some lengths to answer these questions, and for a significantly more limited scope there's another YouTube channel which is absolutely fantastic called primitive technology, Where this guy tries to recreate technologies using only things he was able to make himself with his hands on a plot of land he owns.
There's a YouTube channel called how to make everything that has gone to some lengths to answer these questions, and for a significantly more limited scope there's another YouTube channel which is absolutely fantastic called primitive technology, Where this guy tries to recreate technologies using only things he was able to make himself with his hands on a plot of land he owns.
Forget about the technology, just the materials.
Let's say that you want to make clear glass. Not something very complicated. Basically all you need is sand and borax.
But wait a minute! What the heck is borax? Well it's a mineral mined in I think two places on the face of the earth, so if you aren't in those two places you don't have borax.
Whether we like it or not, unless global empires like the British empire make a comeback, if we want the modern world then we need global trade.
Let's say that you want to make clear glass. Not something very complicated. Basically all you need is sand and borax.
But wait a minute! What the heck is borax? Well it's a mineral mined in I think two places on the face of the earth, so if you aren't in those two places you don't have borax.
Whether we like it or not, unless global empires like the British empire make a comeback, if we want the modern world then we need global trade.
It also occurs to me that "we might fail" isn't a good reason not to do something when if you succeed it will fulfill a couple fundamental drives of existence.
My wife's grandmother died, and we were at the funeral, all surrounding the body. It was like -30 out, probably -40 with windchill. So we did the ceremony as quickly but respectfully as we could and everyone rushed back to their cars before they froze to death.
It occurred to me that everyone just left this body in the freezing cold, and were like "Ooh! There's sandwiches!" and everyone just kinda left the body there in the freezing cold, and in that moment I realized I don't want to be buried.
It occurred to me that everyone just left this body in the freezing cold, and were like "Ooh! There's sandwiches!" and everyone just kinda left the body there in the freezing cold, and in that moment I realized I don't want to be buried.
The thing that's frustrating is that people don't recognize the pain started post 2008 as the money printer went brrrrr. Well, I think many people do get that, but certaintly the politicians and journalists do not.
Leftists are like 1945 Nazis. They consider Asians to be "honorary" whites.
In both cases, it's because the core of the ideology is based on racist fictions that entirely fall apart once you leave their little geographical bubble.
In both cases, it's because the core of the ideology is based on racist fictions that entirely fall apart once you leave their little geographical bubble.
Yes, I've been away from access to my servers for a while, and the new big lemmy instances are hammering my lotide instance pretty hard so it keeps coming back up and getting knocked back offline, that's what's going on. Going to clean things up when I get back, maybe upgrade my lotide instance to something with more jam.
Yeah, acting loud and stomping around without a care and not running away if you see a bear is the way to act, which if you've never met one before and nobody told you is the exact opposite of what you'd expect, right?
I'm seeing bears in my area almost daily now. I'm sure there'll be a cull soon at the rate things are going.
I'm seeing bears in my area almost daily now. I'm sure there'll be a cull soon at the rate things are going.
I feel like a lot of people's relationship with nature is like a person's relationship with a model on the cover of a magazine. They adore the fantasy, but if they actually sat down with the model, she's got flaws you don't see, but the things you might actually love about her once her looks fade are also invisible. In the same way, most people from cities idolize nature in the abstract but don't realize she's got fangs and claws and will kill you dead, and the night sky in the middle of nowhere is beautiful especially when the northern lights are on display. A bear is pretty looking, and dangerous if you behave wrong, and wrong behavior is unintuitive if you don't know how bears think.
There's a haiku from the era where Japan reentered the world after centuries of isolation after their warring states period:
泰平の
眠りを覚ます
上喜撰
たった四杯で
夜も眠れず
As it's been explained to me, it can be interpreted as talking about drinking just a few cups of tea, or of just a few steam ships, and then keeping you awake at night. Such duality of meaning is common.
For a culture with a poetic culture like that it's tough for me not to notice the resemblance and wonder if there was some intentionality in naming the new capital the opposite of the old capital on the other side of the island.
That being said, the two names are etymologically different and I'm not aware of any evidence that it's true. I'm just demonstrating maximum weebosity
泰平の
眠りを覚ます
上喜撰
たった四杯で
夜も眠れず
As it's been explained to me, it can be interpreted as talking about drinking just a few cups of tea, or of just a few steam ships, and then keeping you awake at night. Such duality of meaning is common.
For a culture with a poetic culture like that it's tough for me not to notice the resemblance and wonder if there was some intentionality in naming the new capital the opposite of the old capital on the other side of the island.
That being said, the two names are etymologically different and I'm not aware of any evidence that it's true. I'm just demonstrating maximum weebosity
It a funny linguistic accident (maybe an accident) that the two cities are basically the same sounds but reversed. To kyo and kyo to