"Ahmed! I've killed him!"
"You dummy how are we supposed to collect? The guy who posted the bounty is dead now!"
"You dummy how are we supposed to collect? The guy who posted the bounty is dead now!"
Considering the crowd that I roll with, I'm sure that most of you have heard about the shopping cart test. The question about whether you can live in a civilization ends up being "can you return a shopping cart that you've been using?"
Well that is about whether you can live in a society, but I've been thinking a lot about the sort of people who can build a society.
Yesterday, we were all buckled up in the car leaving a place, and there were a couple carts blocking the exit. I parked the car, took the two carts, and brought them back to the entrance (where the carts were stored)
It still cost almost nothing to do, but it wasn't a problem I created, and considering I could just drive around the shopping carts I didn't have to do it. However, in spending 30 seconds helping out, in taking on that load, a lot of people day got a fraction of a percent better because they didn't have to steer around a bunch of random shopping carts.
Now meanwhile, there are people who metaphorically would take all the shopping carts and block off the roads and say that they're helping. And I still can't help but think that the people who would do something like that are going to leave to the end of Western Civilization assuming they get their way.
Well that is about whether you can live in a society, but I've been thinking a lot about the sort of people who can build a society.
Yesterday, we were all buckled up in the car leaving a place, and there were a couple carts blocking the exit. I parked the car, took the two carts, and brought them back to the entrance (where the carts were stored)
It still cost almost nothing to do, but it wasn't a problem I created, and considering I could just drive around the shopping carts I didn't have to do it. However, in spending 30 seconds helping out, in taking on that load, a lot of people day got a fraction of a percent better because they didn't have to steer around a bunch of random shopping carts.
Now meanwhile, there are people who metaphorically would take all the shopping carts and block off the roads and say that they're helping. And I still can't help but think that the people who would do something like that are going to leave to the end of Western Civilization assuming they get their way.
I got in on wireless charging pretty early with Powermat which turned out to be an epic fail of a standard. The charging case I got ended up dying pretty quickly and so all the mats were junk, but at least you could charge other stuff, but there was no other stuff, so you could use your powermat to charge your shitty battery packs or to act as a wireless charger on a wired device you plugged in.
Powermat included positioning magnets from day 0 which was nice.
Later I moved to Qi charging because that was the ultimate winner.
Today I don't wirelessly charge anything. Turns out there's just too many caveats to it. Even my wireless charger in my car ends up getting unplugged so I can plug in the phone directly.
Powermat included positioning magnets from day 0 which was nice.
Later I moved to Qi charging because that was the ultimate winner.
Today I don't wirelessly charge anything. Turns out there's just too many caveats to it. Even my wireless charger in my car ends up getting unplugged so I can plug in the phone directly.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are the worst team and the best business in the league. Which really should make you think.
Jesus...
Even if you're a liberal or a leftist, that's a really dumb thing for him to say. Even if you're a Democrat superfan that's a really dumb thing to say.
Which is about par for the course when it comes to celebs I guess.
Even if you're a liberal or a leftist, that's a really dumb thing for him to say. Even if you're a Democrat superfan that's a really dumb thing to say.
Which is about par for the course when it comes to celebs I guess.
"I'm sorry, ma'am. Your husband... He died due to a double sus amogus friendly fire attack from the fortnight balls shell."
This image is one of the visualizations in yacy, showing your node talking to all the other nodes it knows about. It's showing here (and I'm not sure if it's going to be animated but it is on the page which is really neat) my node getting a bunch of packets with knowledge of search data and sending out some packets of my own search data.
My search box is the sort of potato that gets made fun of by other, stronker potatoes, so my server only represents 0.3% of the searchable documents on searx, but its 0.3% more than I can contribute to google or bing...
My search box is the sort of potato that gets made fun of by other, stronker potatoes, so my server only represents 0.3% of the searchable documents on searx, but its 0.3% more than I can contribute to google or bing...
Honestly, if having $20,000 in student loans paid off changes your whole life, you've got bigger problems than $20,000 in student loans.
I know the movie wish was made by communists, but the funny part is that in a big way the main plot is a repudiation of state communism.. essentially, a bunch of people come to the communist utopia, realize that the commissar is going to be the one making decisions about whose dreams get to come true and whose don't, and so the main characters stage a liberal revolution so that people can work towards their self-interest as individuals instead of just relying on the benevolent state to do it for them.
One of the core struggles in the plot is the battle between the common man and the technocrat, with the technocrat portrayed as arrogant and dismissive of the needs of the common man. Given what postmodern Neal marxists want to shape the world into, again that looks like a repudiation of their values rather than an affirmation of them. Tossing a brown girl into the hero role and a white dude into the villain role doesn't really change anything there.
As hokey as it sounds, I feel like this movie could be used as an allegory for how the left dealt with the lockdowns. This paternalistic technocrat sings beautifully about protecting people's dreams, but it's more than happy to crush those dreams the moment that their power is threatened. In the end, said government technocrat ends up drawing upon forbidden power, and sells their soul because it turns out it never had anything to do with protecting dreams.
One of the core struggles in the plot is the battle between the common man and the technocrat, with the technocrat portrayed as arrogant and dismissive of the needs of the common man. Given what postmodern Neal marxists want to shape the world into, again that looks like a repudiation of their values rather than an affirmation of them. Tossing a brown girl into the hero role and a white dude into the villain role doesn't really change anything there.
As hokey as it sounds, I feel like this movie could be used as an allegory for how the left dealt with the lockdowns. This paternalistic technocrat sings beautifully about protecting people's dreams, but it's more than happy to crush those dreams the moment that their power is threatened. In the end, said government technocrat ends up drawing upon forbidden power, and sells their soul because it turns out it never had anything to do with protecting dreams.
The logic in your post is fallacious (the guy is right because he's right or wrong because he's wrong and unrelated stuff has no real bearing on that), but with respect to the retarded boomer take that everyone should be forced to use their real name on the internet, it doesn't matter because you're still fully 100% correct.
All the retarded boomers who think that we need to be using our real name and usually real face on the internet are probably the same sort of people who will give their credit card to somebody who calls up in the middle of the day saying "I'm from windows, you have a virus".
It's really great that mister former Harvard professor has a media career that he was able to fall into, but for a lot of people if they get their professional license taken away by internet communists, it just means they're going to be joining Trudeau's tent cities. Fuck him.
All the retarded boomers who think that we need to be using our real name and usually real face on the internet are probably the same sort of people who will give their credit card to somebody who calls up in the middle of the day saying "I'm from windows, you have a virus".
It's really great that mister former Harvard professor has a media career that he was able to fall into, but for a lot of people if they get their professional license taken away by internet communists, it just means they're going to be joining Trudeau's tent cities. Fuck him.
Most people don't know that ships run on Bunker oil, it's absolutely brutal shit, you can barely consider refined petroleum. In order to work with bunker oil, you need to have an entire steam system just to keep the stuff from freezing at room temperature.
Today's episode of Mushoku Tensei reminded me a lot of many people I've met through my life. There's that scene where Rudeus looks terrible and he comments that he knows that feeling of shutting down except in a previous life he did shut down and his life effectively ended.
I'm pretty happy with how my life's turned out, but it never had to turn out this way. I've always understood the road to success in any form is narrow and many people fall off into the lava below.
I remember meeting one guy, he was lusting after girls in his friend group but he obviously had other problems, he invited people into his room and it was covered in porn out of magazines plastered over the walls. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I know one guy, and he perpetually comes off as 15 years old. He lives on reddit, doesn't seem to have a life despite having all the capacity to have one, and I'm sure if we were both 15 I'd consider him a cool guy and want to be friends with him, but he's in his mid-30s now. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I've met a few people who were smart and potentially talented, but they hit a certain roadblock and just became NEET hikikomori. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I remember meeting a computer tech who was about 15 years older than me, and he lived the nerd life for sure, including having a D&D group (which there's nothing wrong with), but he was single and didn't want to be and childless and didn't want to be, and you could tell it was tearing him up inside. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I could go on, there's so many roads not taken that it seems like a miracle to have taken the right ones.
There's two cliches, there's the cliche "he's just like me fr fr" and the other one of looking down your nose at people who aren't doing as well as you, but I want to be clear neither of these apply to this situation. I don't look down my nose at them because I understand how easy it would be to fall into the vices or traps they fell into, but fundamentally they aren't like me, and that's why I became what I did and they became what they did. As Aristotle said, we are what we continuously do; virtue therefore is a habit. And every outcome is not just because one different decision got made, but because various decisions were made constantly. The decision to fall into vice, the decision to stop changing or maturing, the decision to fail and accept that failure as final, the decision to be distracted by things that ultimately aren't fulfilling or relevant as the things that make life worthwhile, they're not something you decide once, it's something you make a habit of and a habit you never stop.
"We are not like God. Our powers are limited. Our time is limited. And sometimes we have to play the devil." -- but because we are not like God, we need to be graceful towards ourselves, and when we make a mistake repent and try to do better next time, because our ticket to the future is blank.
I'm pretty happy with how my life's turned out, but it never had to turn out this way. I've always understood the road to success in any form is narrow and many people fall off into the lava below.
I remember meeting one guy, he was lusting after girls in his friend group but he obviously had other problems, he invited people into his room and it was covered in porn out of magazines plastered over the walls. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I know one guy, and he perpetually comes off as 15 years old. He lives on reddit, doesn't seem to have a life despite having all the capacity to have one, and I'm sure if we were both 15 I'd consider him a cool guy and want to be friends with him, but he's in his mid-30s now. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I've met a few people who were smart and potentially talented, but they hit a certain roadblock and just became NEET hikikomori. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I remember meeting a computer tech who was about 15 years older than me, and he lived the nerd life for sure, including having a D&D group (which there's nothing wrong with), but he was single and didn't want to be and childless and didn't want to be, and you could tell it was tearing him up inside. It's like "Yeah, I can understand where you went wrong, and I can see how I could have become you in a different universe"
I could go on, there's so many roads not taken that it seems like a miracle to have taken the right ones.
There's two cliches, there's the cliche "he's just like me fr fr" and the other one of looking down your nose at people who aren't doing as well as you, but I want to be clear neither of these apply to this situation. I don't look down my nose at them because I understand how easy it would be to fall into the vices or traps they fell into, but fundamentally they aren't like me, and that's why I became what I did and they became what they did. As Aristotle said, we are what we continuously do; virtue therefore is a habit. And every outcome is not just because one different decision got made, but because various decisions were made constantly. The decision to fall into vice, the decision to stop changing or maturing, the decision to fail and accept that failure as final, the decision to be distracted by things that ultimately aren't fulfilling or relevant as the things that make life worthwhile, they're not something you decide once, it's something you make a habit of and a habit you never stop.
"We are not like God. Our powers are limited. Our time is limited. And sometimes we have to play the devil." -- but because we are not like God, we need to be graceful towards ourselves, and when we make a mistake repent and try to do better next time, because our ticket to the future is blank.
I've heard the pay is less than average but the benefits package can be pretty solid.
The global 1% has a net worth starting at $880,000USD.
That might seem like a lot of money, but it's less than you need just in your retirement account to retire in many places. A teacher, or an engineer, or even someone who just lucked out and bought a house in the right place in the 90s might have a net worth much higher than that.
That last point is particularly important, because maybe you have an 800,000 house but less than 100,000 in other assets? Guess what then? You can't even retire on that, ever. You're just a slightly well off wage slave.
"Just sell the house then!" oh, great. So then you'll have not enough money to retire on and also no house in the place you set down roots.
Your choice at the end of your life as part of the vaunted 1% may be you can sell out to Blackrock and live in a very luxurious cardboard box or you can slave away working for a Blackrock owned company so the city doesn't seize your property from you for lack of payment of taxes.
Even if you consider "The millionaires", that's a lot of money, but not that much money, especially if you lucked out and have a paid off house.
When we're talking about "Millionaires", usually we're considering what a millionaire used to be -- and that point is important. According to the bank of Canada (and the same really applies generally to the federal reserve), a million dollars today was only 77,000 in 1950. A million dollars in 1950 would be closer to 13 million today -- a number that's closer to being what we might consider "rich".
As for income rather than wealth, according to the charity website https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/, if you're single and have an after tax income of $75,000, you're in the global 1% of income earners. It's not a terrible income, but that's still a working stiff right there. You can make that kind of income without a degree or anything as long as you're willing to do something dirty and dangerous.
I think it helps show that when we're talking about "the elites", it isn't even one in a hundred people, it's a very small number of people who were both very lucky and very well connected.
It also helps to show a totally unintuitive fact about the global money system -- the fact that many people live perfectly fine lives on much less money. That isn't because you're a big fat rich loser and they're better people. It's because the cost of living is so high in "rich" countries that you just need that much money to have the same general quality of life as in other regions. A lot of immigrants are coming now to our "rich" countries and realizing it's actually really expensive and then just moving right back because it turns out the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence after all.
All of this is to say that we need to be careful about how we slice the rich and poor, and how we judge people based solely on being just past some arbitrary round number, be it 1% or 1 million dollar net worth. You can make some big mistaken assumptions if you do.
That might seem like a lot of money, but it's less than you need just in your retirement account to retire in many places. A teacher, or an engineer, or even someone who just lucked out and bought a house in the right place in the 90s might have a net worth much higher than that.
That last point is particularly important, because maybe you have an 800,000 house but less than 100,000 in other assets? Guess what then? You can't even retire on that, ever. You're just a slightly well off wage slave.
"Just sell the house then!" oh, great. So then you'll have not enough money to retire on and also no house in the place you set down roots.
Your choice at the end of your life as part of the vaunted 1% may be you can sell out to Blackrock and live in a very luxurious cardboard box or you can slave away working for a Blackrock owned company so the city doesn't seize your property from you for lack of payment of taxes.
Even if you consider "The millionaires", that's a lot of money, but not that much money, especially if you lucked out and have a paid off house.
When we're talking about "Millionaires", usually we're considering what a millionaire used to be -- and that point is important. According to the bank of Canada (and the same really applies generally to the federal reserve), a million dollars today was only 77,000 in 1950. A million dollars in 1950 would be closer to 13 million today -- a number that's closer to being what we might consider "rich".
As for income rather than wealth, according to the charity website https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/, if you're single and have an after tax income of $75,000, you're in the global 1% of income earners. It's not a terrible income, but that's still a working stiff right there. You can make that kind of income without a degree or anything as long as you're willing to do something dirty and dangerous.
I think it helps show that when we're talking about "the elites", it isn't even one in a hundred people, it's a very small number of people who were both very lucky and very well connected.
It also helps to show a totally unintuitive fact about the global money system -- the fact that many people live perfectly fine lives on much less money. That isn't because you're a big fat rich loser and they're better people. It's because the cost of living is so high in "rich" countries that you just need that much money to have the same general quality of life as in other regions. A lot of immigrants are coming now to our "rich" countries and realizing it's actually really expensive and then just moving right back because it turns out the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence after all.
All of this is to say that we need to be careful about how we slice the rich and poor, and how we judge people based solely on being just past some arbitrary round number, be it 1% or 1 million dollar net worth. You can make some big mistaken assumptions if you do.
If everything a spectrum isn't him saying "you're not X, You're Y" also wrong by his own logic? Having a discussion and being a dick is a spectrum after all and so you need to check your privilege and be more tolerant of being on the spectrum!
They had it up here for a while, the thing that I couldn't get over was just all the red. Like, colors do affect people's mental state, that's one reason why for example Walmart goes with blue because it's kind of a calming mellow effect. Other businesses go with white because it represents purity and cleanliness, or for branding they go with black because it represents authority. Discount places often go with yellow because yellow represents value for some reason.
But red is just fine for a logo, but it's a really weird choice to make most of your store red. It's the color of spilled blood, it tends to represent auction and intensity, again great for a logo but I don't understand why you would fill your store with it.
(Then there was a fact that Target didn't have fuck all worth buying)
But red is just fine for a logo, but it's a really weird choice to make most of your store red. It's the color of spilled blood, it tends to represent auction and intensity, again great for a logo but I don't understand why you would fill your store with it.
(Then there was a fact that Target didn't have fuck all worth buying)
It's pretty funny that "enjoy some Canadian healthcare" is now commonly understood as suggesting you kill yourself.