I feel like Crooked Hillary wouldn't drink beer. It'd make her feel like someone who can't have people killed or nations levelled for crossing her, which she would describe in private as "icky".
Ugh... Imagine being on a platform with censorship, where you had to pick what you say carefully because you might offend a global megacorp.
I've come to believe that the meaning of life is having kids and raising those kids to become someone at least as good as you.
There's been no pursuit in my entire life I've derived more meaning from, felt more pride in, than being a father and trying to be a great father. It means being a great provider, a great leader, a great teacher, a great protector, and a great partner to my wife. In that sense if I succeed then it'll be the culmination of many of my roles throughout life and it's easy to screw up and be only good, or fair, or bad.
It's a broken postmodern ideology that says having and raising kids is evil, and it's an ideology that I expect to not exist in 50 years because everyone who has it will be dead with no heirs.
Even if I didn't care for myself, my son is half my wife, and my wife is exactly the sort of person I want the future to be filled with.
There's been no pursuit in my entire life I've derived more meaning from, felt more pride in, than being a father and trying to be a great father. It means being a great provider, a great leader, a great teacher, a great protector, and a great partner to my wife. In that sense if I succeed then it'll be the culmination of many of my roles throughout life and it's easy to screw up and be only good, or fair, or bad.
It's a broken postmodern ideology that says having and raising kids is evil, and it's an ideology that I expect to not exist in 50 years because everyone who has it will be dead with no heirs.
Even if I didn't care for myself, my son is half my wife, and my wife is exactly the sort of person I want the future to be filled with.
The key is to just get out the door. Once you're out the door, then every step you take away from home is another step you have to take to get back home.
Another thing is to set goals. Especially if you have time, find a place you've never walked to before and decide to go there. You want to be trying to push your limits all the time, and it's so surreal when you're walking places you've only ever driven. And then it becomes normal to walk to those places, and your world expands.
Helps too if you have a kid or a dog, they love being outside and it's healthy to go for a walk with them every day. They'll help you want to go out because they'll be so excited about going outside every day.
If you're worried you'll get bored, grab a podcasting app and download some podcasts while you're on wifi. There's more content out there released every day than there area hours in the day, so you can listen to something interesting for hours while you walk, meaning it's a physical as well as mental exercise and you don't even need to use data.
Another thing is to set goals. Especially if you have time, find a place you've never walked to before and decide to go there. You want to be trying to push your limits all the time, and it's so surreal when you're walking places you've only ever driven. And then it becomes normal to walk to those places, and your world expands.
Helps too if you have a kid or a dog, they love being outside and it's healthy to go for a walk with them every day. They'll help you want to go out because they'll be so excited about going outside every day.
If you're worried you'll get bored, grab a podcasting app and download some podcasts while you're on wifi. There's more content out there released every day than there area hours in the day, so you can listen to something interesting for hours while you walk, meaning it's a physical as well as mental exercise and you don't even need to use data.
One thing I still get a kick out of is Millennials attacking the boomers for "stealing from us" while voting for politicians who have quadrupled the federal debt in the US and doubled it in Canada in 8 years up here in Canada.
You don't intend to pay that money back, where do you think it comes from? "Oh, we deserve [social program]!" great, so you stole the money from future generations to get it.
Hah, just imagine the people who took out huge student loans to become part of the educated elite and now are demanding the future generations pay their student loans for them! Likely the same ones who claim boomers stole college from them!
Considering us old millennial fucks are going to keep voting to steal from future generations until we're stopped, it seems likely the biggest threat to democracy is our selfish asses. Why would the kids choose to keep democracy if this is what it looks like, especially when they can just kick our asses when we're old and weak and they're young and virile?
You don't intend to pay that money back, where do you think it comes from? "Oh, we deserve [social program]!" great, so you stole the money from future generations to get it.
Hah, just imagine the people who took out huge student loans to become part of the educated elite and now are demanding the future generations pay their student loans for them! Likely the same ones who claim boomers stole college from them!
Considering us old millennial fucks are going to keep voting to steal from future generations until we're stopped, it seems likely the biggest threat to democracy is our selfish asses. Why would the kids choose to keep democracy if this is what it looks like, especially when they can just kick our asses when we're old and weak and they're young and virile?
Democrats knew or should have known that their court decision was incredibly precarious, especially once they started forcing people to take untested experimental drugs to keep their jobs.
They had decades to set up a federal standard but didn't, because they just wanted the courts to do the hard work for them, and it eventually backfired. One can blame the president for replacing supreme court justices with ones he wanted, but the real blame obviously goes to the congress (who have had supermajorities and so could have passed anything they wanted but chose not to)
They had decades to set up a federal standard but didn't, because they just wanted the courts to do the hard work for them, and it eventually backfired. One can blame the president for replacing supreme court justices with ones he wanted, but the real blame obviously goes to the congress (who have had supermajorities and so could have passed anything they wanted but chose not to)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FixVzxAitDY
It isn't really debatable at this point -- the planet will be losing a lot of its population over the next 100 years. Many people are bragging about how they will be the ones whose bloodlines end. But what can our future look like? How should we prepare for it?
It isn't really debatable at this point -- the planet will be losing a lot of its population over the next 100 years. Many people are bragging about how they will be the ones whose bloodlines end. But what can our future look like? How should we prepare for it?
I mean, my homeland of Soviet Canuckistan is presently trying to convince people who need too much healthcare to Canadian Healthcare themselves to save money...
[admin mode] some downtime today in part because GoDaddy restricted access to their API I assume because they're allergic to money.
Man, what a broken looking metric. Just think about what was going on while apparently it was getting easier to get a mortgage!
Just imagine -- you can use a new currency to buy corruption from Brazil, war sanctions from Russia, war with china from india, old people from China, or horrific racial violence from south africa!
She's lying. We know she's lying. She knows we know she's lying. We know she knows we know she's lying. But for some people they need to keep pretending because otherwise the truth will be too much to bear.
https://youtu.be/q8MnNeEPVSY
Hard times ahead for a lot of people in Canada.
Much of Canada is set up so you can't just hand the keys back to the bank, so if you're underwater on your mortgage, you still have that mortgage. It's called a recourse loan vs. A non recourse loan. The bank has recourse to go after assets other than the home itself to be made whole.
Roughly 92% of mortgages have interest terms of 5 years or less. Typically the highest interest term that's practical is 10 years, after that you get to interest rates close to 10% so virtually nobody would have gone with those.
Interest rates started to rise around late 2021/early 2022, so a lot of people who took out massive mortgages (the average house price at the peak was $850,000 nationwide) at rates as low as less than 1%(!!!), and they'll reset to 6%, meaning that many mortgages will be resetting at many times the interest they had before.
Some mortgages are "insured", but you have to be careful because that doesn't mean the people are insured, it means the banks are insured. The people are still on the line for the mortgage they're supposed to pay (and if many mortgages fail, the taxpayer is on the line for it). Moreover, many of the most dangerous mortgages for the million dollar homes in Toronto or the 2 million dollar homes in Vancouver are not insured so that could be a major hit to the banking system if there aren't any more buyers and prices collapse because nobody can afford million dollar mortgages at 6%.
Meanwhile people need to demand insane salaries to be able to afford rent on a million dollar home, and often people are paying insane rents for horrible living conditions such as the person in the video trying to rent out underneath a bed for 900/mo.
Hard times ahead for a lot of people who made a lot of decisions everyone could have told them were stupid at the time but because the line was going up didn't look stupid for a while.
Hard times ahead for a lot of people in Canada.
Much of Canada is set up so you can't just hand the keys back to the bank, so if you're underwater on your mortgage, you still have that mortgage. It's called a recourse loan vs. A non recourse loan. The bank has recourse to go after assets other than the home itself to be made whole.
Roughly 92% of mortgages have interest terms of 5 years or less. Typically the highest interest term that's practical is 10 years, after that you get to interest rates close to 10% so virtually nobody would have gone with those.
Interest rates started to rise around late 2021/early 2022, so a lot of people who took out massive mortgages (the average house price at the peak was $850,000 nationwide) at rates as low as less than 1%(!!!), and they'll reset to 6%, meaning that many mortgages will be resetting at many times the interest they had before.
Some mortgages are "insured", but you have to be careful because that doesn't mean the people are insured, it means the banks are insured. The people are still on the line for the mortgage they're supposed to pay (and if many mortgages fail, the taxpayer is on the line for it). Moreover, many of the most dangerous mortgages for the million dollar homes in Toronto or the 2 million dollar homes in Vancouver are not insured so that could be a major hit to the banking system if there aren't any more buyers and prices collapse because nobody can afford million dollar mortgages at 6%.
Meanwhile people need to demand insane salaries to be able to afford rent on a million dollar home, and often people are paying insane rents for horrible living conditions such as the person in the video trying to rent out underneath a bed for 900/mo.
Hard times ahead for a lot of people who made a lot of decisions everyone could have told them were stupid at the time but because the line was going up didn't look stupid for a while.
I recall some research showing that dead trees are more effective for learning from your reading. It's a bit out of date but I'd believe it still applies since it's fundamentally about having something physical in the real world you're relating your reading to.