Important question: Do you get paid in GDP?
The answer is no.
You get paid what you and your employer agree to have you work for. That number isn't necessarily correlated to GDP.
Would you rather be the average person in China, or the average person in Japan? Well, the GDP of Japan is less than that of China, but the quality of life is overwhelmingly higher in Japan.
The answer is no.
You get paid what you and your employer agree to have you work for. That number isn't necessarily correlated to GDP.
Would you rather be the average person in China, or the average person in Japan? Well, the GDP of Japan is less than that of China, but the quality of life is overwhelmingly higher in Japan.
I don't really see the Americans having much standing to complain. They were attacked and they invaded two countries that didn't even have anything to do with the attack.
Honestly? It looks to me like there are now generations of people who were never even shown what hard work looks like, or would sacrifice looks like, or would deferring gratification looks like. They've only ever been told how to consoom, and now they've consoomed as hard as they were told and they're not sure why they're deeply in debt, miserable, making no money, have no family, working a shit dead end job.
And in the suffering that is produced by completely eliminating deferred gratification, they think that that is work because it is hard, and it is true that their lives are hard don't get me wrong -- but their lives are hard because they've already taken their reward, not because they deferred gratification to receive a greater reward tomorrow.
Anyway, I'm just sounding like a grumpy old man.
And in the suffering that is produced by completely eliminating deferred gratification, they think that that is work because it is hard, and it is true that their lives are hard don't get me wrong -- but their lives are hard because they've already taken their reward, not because they deferred gratification to receive a greater reward tomorrow.
Anyway, I'm just sounding like a grumpy old man.
It seems to me that reality is much scarier than the narrative would suggest.
The reality is that it doesn't really matter how good or bad Russia is, they are a symptom of the reality that this world order is breaking down, and tensions that previously were held in check by the overwhelming power of the United States are quickly simmering over.
The future will be violent and there's nothing we can do about it, and Putin is just one messenger.
The reality is that it doesn't really matter how good or bad Russia is, they are a symptom of the reality that this world order is breaking down, and tensions that previously were held in check by the overwhelming power of the United States are quickly simmering over.
The future will be violent and there's nothing we can do about it, and Putin is just one messenger.
It's a miserable mindset. Pretty much everyone with that mindset is going to be dead without any descendants within a generation.
Honestly, soapbox (the software running poast) is so good as a mobile website I just use it.
Well this is the Boomer ideology, that the worst thing you can possibly do to someone or something is to judge it. Even at this very moment, cannibal gangs? Well that might be bad but would be even worse is if you judge them for it. How dare you?!
They successfully cut a clip of Donald Trump saying "there were good people on many sides, and I don't mean white supremacists and neo-nazis, they should be condemned completely" into a clip saying that he supports white supremacists and neo-nazis.
And a lot of people just sat there and took it, so yes they think we are that stupid and for the most part they are right.
And a lot of people just sat there and took it, so yes they think we are that stupid and for the most part they are right.
You know what's hard to hack?
Piece of paper and a little pencil counted by a little old lady
Piece of paper and a little pencil counted by a little old lady
C'mon man, I checked the Jobs report, and it says no change since 2011!
And you guys kept saying all these policies were killing Jobs!
And you guys kept saying all these policies were killing Jobs!
Because it's fbxl social which is an extension of fbxl, and fbxl.net itself has used the a sort of 1970s futurism/psychedelic rainbow stripes on black motif for nearly 20 years now. (And realizing that fbxl.net has been up for nearly 20 years I need to go into the corner and cry)
It's something that was common iconography in the 1970s, itself an evolution of early psychedelic art of the 1960s. It's an aesthetically pleasing, colorful, and optimistic design.
It's a symptom of the broken parts of our society that all love must be sex, and all sex must be love, and every rainbow must be a symbol of sex because there's nothing else it could be, nothing else it could mean.
It wasn't until I started talking to my newborn son that I started to realize how much we're trained to find double entendres in everything, and I honestly had to turn off that part of my brain because it's not healthy to pass everything you say or do through a series of filters to extract meaningless potential hidden meanings. It actually prevents you from just saying what you mean with plain language since you're playing 5d chess with yourself in every statement you make.
It's something that was common iconography in the 1970s, itself an evolution of early psychedelic art of the 1960s. It's an aesthetically pleasing, colorful, and optimistic design.
It's a symptom of the broken parts of our society that all love must be sex, and all sex must be love, and every rainbow must be a symbol of sex because there's nothing else it could be, nothing else it could mean.
It wasn't until I started talking to my newborn son that I started to realize how much we're trained to find double entendres in everything, and I honestly had to turn off that part of my brain because it's not healthy to pass everything you say or do through a series of filters to extract meaningless potential hidden meanings. It actually prevents you from just saying what you mean with plain language since you're playing 5d chess with yourself in every statement you make.
FBXL started off as QBXL, or QuickBasic Accelerator, an irreverent magazine about programming in a language that was already considered long dead when the magazine started. Later on when the free and open source FreeBASIC programming language was developed (and I lost the domain name because I forgot to renew in time) the magazine changed into FBXL.
Solzhenitsyn wrote in the Gulag Archipelago about people who knew they were going to die in the gulags and how they'd develop a gallows humor, a coping mechanism to help deal with the reality that they had no future. In the same way, FBXL has always had a sort of gallows humor about it, everyone knew there was no future in QB, but why be sad when we can laugh and have fun anyway? Even with the development of FreeBASIC, it isn't like we can expect major players to start making their projects in BASIC, it's always going to be a tiny niche.
FBXL itself has always been about freedom of expression, humor, and a willingness to push boundaries, even at the risk of offending some.
FBXL prioritizes authenticity and staying true to its vision, even if it means alienating certain audiences or challenging societal norms, and maintaining editorial independence.
That has been true long before the current moment in time. It's just that unlike the early 2000s when most of the issues were written, now it's a home for all sorts of ideas because the whole Internet is starting to look a lot like that gulag, with freedom's days being numbered. Let's enjoy ourselves -- why be sad when we can have fun and laugh while we can?
Solzhenitsyn wrote in the Gulag Archipelago about people who knew they were going to die in the gulags and how they'd develop a gallows humor, a coping mechanism to help deal with the reality that they had no future. In the same way, FBXL has always had a sort of gallows humor about it, everyone knew there was no future in QB, but why be sad when we can laugh and have fun anyway? Even with the development of FreeBASIC, it isn't like we can expect major players to start making their projects in BASIC, it's always going to be a tiny niche.
FBXL itself has always been about freedom of expression, humor, and a willingness to push boundaries, even at the risk of offending some.
FBXL prioritizes authenticity and staying true to its vision, even if it means alienating certain audiences or challenging societal norms, and maintaining editorial independence.
That has been true long before the current moment in time. It's just that unlike the early 2000s when most of the issues were written, now it's a home for all sorts of ideas because the whole Internet is starting to look a lot like that gulag, with freedom's days being numbered. Let's enjoy ourselves -- why be sad when we can have fun and laugh while we can?
"What piece of information would you need to receive to change your mind?" is almost like "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday?" for intellectuals.
Definitely a truth that the end of pax americana will mean a lot of wars, and that's what's starting to happen. That's the reason why there's wars breaking out in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America -- longstanding tensions turning into violence now that everyone is seeing America as weak.
I'm lowkey shocked -- you'd think that there'd be other routes set up by now -- Hell, I'd expect Internet to be restored using starlink if nothing else?
IMO the first amendment doesn't apply to the government itself. The government's speech *should* be limited.