I'm on the 7th volume of "Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I'm Bored", and one thing that strikes me is how dense the book feels. It isn't particularly long at 200 pages per book, but I can read something like 100 million year button in a sitting but each book of this series takes me a long time to get through.
One key part of the book is elves live 1000 years, and so for the main character 10 years is similar to 1 year of a humans life, so many of the things he does are like taking the prime of your life to do. He becomes a master of many skills through hard work over years of dedication.
The themes of the passage of time, seeing and rediscovering places, saying goodbye to people, and growth and mentorship, as well as the impact one person can have without really feeling like they did much important are everywhere. Often you drop in to see how the great grandkids of the first book's cast are doing. You really need to focus because you're keeping a large cast of places, people, descendants, and history straight to understand what's going on, but it's really rewarding going back to a place and seeing how a character's life turned out while the main character was off doing something totally different.
One key part of the book is elves live 1000 years, and so for the main character 10 years is similar to 1 year of a humans life, so many of the things he does are like taking the prime of your life to do. He becomes a master of many skills through hard work over years of dedication.
The themes of the passage of time, seeing and rediscovering places, saying goodbye to people, and growth and mentorship, as well as the impact one person can have without really feeling like they did much important are everywhere. Often you drop in to see how the great grandkids of the first book's cast are doing. You really need to focus because you're keeping a large cast of places, people, descendants, and history straight to understand what's going on, but it's really rewarding going back to a place and seeing how a character's life turned out while the main character was off doing something totally different.
Anyone who knows me knows full well I'm not in any sense against teaching kids. My son has had a rigorous education since the day he was born.
The question was about indoctrination, and good indoctrination is about the heart, not the head.
Indoctrination itself is associated with evil, but that isn't necessarily true. You can be indoctrinated into a suicide cult for sure, but you can also be indoctrinated into things like virtue, integrity, and honor. The key is to ensure you're making sure the deep messages you're passing on, the stuff that becomes the subliminal foundation for a child throughout their lives, is something worth living. Some people don't thing they have any values worth passing down so they consider all indoctrination evil, but I think there's many core values and ideals I have worth passing down.
The question was about indoctrination, and good indoctrination is about the heart, not the head.
Indoctrination itself is associated with evil, but that isn't necessarily true. You can be indoctrinated into a suicide cult for sure, but you can also be indoctrinated into things like virtue, integrity, and honor. The key is to ensure you're making sure the deep messages you're passing on, the stuff that becomes the subliminal foundation for a child throughout their lives, is something worth living. Some people don't thing they have any values worth passing down so they consider all indoctrination evil, but I think there's many core values and ideals I have worth passing down.
You don't even need to tell your kid one word. Just be there and try to have fun with your family.
The mammalian brain doesn't need words. "Having kids is terrible and horrible!" "I dunno my dad seemed to love it, and I loved spending time with Dad too"
The mammalian brain doesn't need words. "Having kids is terrible and horrible!" "I dunno my dad seemed to love it, and I loved spending time with Dad too"
There was a post on x claiming there were 2038 suicides on election day (15x the normal daily rate), but looking into it appears to show that was not true.
So I guess it was just a massive uptick in drama queens claiming they're about to commit suicide on reddit for attention.
So I guess it was just a massive uptick in drama queens claiming they're about to commit suicide on reddit for attention.
I made a big post a couple months back with two predictions.
One of them came to pass that "Personally, as long as [Donald Trump] retains his core identity and brand, I think it’s a winning strategy, insofar as such a thing can exist." And he won with that strategy.
The second was that "Most alarm lights that haven’t had masking tape put over them by the government are screaming imminent stagflationary depression, maybe one of the worst in American History, and everyone with eyes and basic math skills can see the looming sovereign debt crisis. Nobody wants to be holding this hot potato because whoever is in power at that time is almost certainly going to preside over a disaster and there’s nothing to be done about it."
I'd love to be wrong but I don't think I am. There's trouble ahead for Trump and the Republicans, and I hope they are already planning for the incoming financial crisis.
One of them came to pass that "Personally, as long as [Donald Trump] retains his core identity and brand, I think it’s a winning strategy, insofar as such a thing can exist." And he won with that strategy.
The second was that "Most alarm lights that haven’t had masking tape put over them by the government are screaming imminent stagflationary depression, maybe one of the worst in American History, and everyone with eyes and basic math skills can see the looming sovereign debt crisis. Nobody wants to be holding this hot potato because whoever is in power at that time is almost certainly going to preside over a disaster and there’s nothing to be done about it."
I'd love to be wrong but I don't think I am. There's trouble ahead for Trump and the Republicans, and I hope they are already planning for the incoming financial crisis.
You're not wrong, but it doesn't matter -- it'll send a message that the conservatives need to do their job without putting labour in charge.
I'm so glad he's not crazy. Gretzky is sort of a national hero, especially for 80s kids.
The people to blame are the ones who kept voting conservative instead of switching to reform. Handed the majority to labour.
The past 4 years have really been a divide between those who own stocks and assets, and those who sell their labor.
Even people who got respectable raises for the past 4 years haven't gotten raises to cover the increased costs in food, shelter, transportation, and fuel. You can blame companies for that, but they can't just massively increase everyone's pay in the same way you can't fly just by denying gravity exists. Moreover, CPI shows 20%, but that's cumulative and a lot of things that didn't go up or went way down by CPI's measure. Smart phones went way down, but ever since phone companies stopped giving out free phones, a lot of people are still using their old phones. I'm personally rocking a Galaxy S10, released 6 years ago, and I'm not looking to upgrade any time soon. Personal computers went down, but I'm still rocking the gaming PC I bought pre-pandemic.
Stonks, on the other hand? They've been doing great in general! My (modest) retirement account has gone up double digits, and there were months where I made more on stonk increases than on my actual wages. (It's all set aside for the future so it isn't like that changed my quality of life for the better today, but it's something worth knowing). I'm not even invested in stuff like the AI trade, which has in some cases seen more than triple digit increases.
If you realize this scenario, then it perfectly explains how the Democrats (who are mostly elite multi-millionaires themselves and whose closest allies are at least that too) thought they could run on vibes and joy. If you're already rich, then it *has been* vibes and joy. The problem is most people don't live off of stonks, they live off of selling their labor, and those people have seen material drops in their quality of life.
Don't get me wrong, the Republicans are mostly multi-millionaires (Trump is a multi-billionaire) with at least multi-millionaire friends, but one other key thing of the past 8 years is that the Democrats reject anyone who doesn't agree with them as racist sexist homophobic transphobic fascist nazis, as deplorables, and the Republicans haven't taken to this strategy. I think that's one reason why despite their historical disadvantage with the poor, the Republicans won big among the masses including union workers.
Even people who got respectable raises for the past 4 years haven't gotten raises to cover the increased costs in food, shelter, transportation, and fuel. You can blame companies for that, but they can't just massively increase everyone's pay in the same way you can't fly just by denying gravity exists. Moreover, CPI shows 20%, but that's cumulative and a lot of things that didn't go up or went way down by CPI's measure. Smart phones went way down, but ever since phone companies stopped giving out free phones, a lot of people are still using their old phones. I'm personally rocking a Galaxy S10, released 6 years ago, and I'm not looking to upgrade any time soon. Personal computers went down, but I'm still rocking the gaming PC I bought pre-pandemic.
Stonks, on the other hand? They've been doing great in general! My (modest) retirement account has gone up double digits, and there were months where I made more on stonk increases than on my actual wages. (It's all set aside for the future so it isn't like that changed my quality of life for the better today, but it's something worth knowing). I'm not even invested in stuff like the AI trade, which has in some cases seen more than triple digit increases.
If you realize this scenario, then it perfectly explains how the Democrats (who are mostly elite multi-millionaires themselves and whose closest allies are at least that too) thought they could run on vibes and joy. If you're already rich, then it *has been* vibes and joy. The problem is most people don't live off of stonks, they live off of selling their labor, and those people have seen material drops in their quality of life.
Don't get me wrong, the Republicans are mostly multi-millionaires (Trump is a multi-billionaire) with at least multi-millionaire friends, but one other key thing of the past 8 years is that the Democrats reject anyone who doesn't agree with them as racist sexist homophobic transphobic fascist nazis, as deplorables, and the Republicans haven't taken to this strategy. I think that's one reason why despite their historical disadvantage with the poor, the Republicans won big among the masses including union workers.
Right now, the Conservatives under Poilievre are on track to a massive majority. If the election were held today, the socialist New Democratic Party would drop from third largest party to fourth, the Trudeau's Liberals would drop to second.
My hope is that we can drop the Liberals to third, so the official opposition will be the the separatist party the Bloc Quebecois, because I can't think of a better denunciation of the Liberals or NDP than having the separatists beat them in a federal election.
https://338canada.com/
My hope is that we can drop the Liberals to third, so the official opposition will be the the separatist party the Bloc Quebecois, because I can't think of a better denunciation of the Liberals or NDP than having the separatists beat them in a federal election.
https://338canada.com/
Reminds me of all the people who claim the only good people for the environment live in cities, apparently blissfully unaware of why people can live in all those cities and not die of lack of food, fuel, or other materials.
Yes, even if he's the most impactful president in 4 years in American history, this is a marathon and he'll be dropping out after the first mile.
Theatres can't stay in business on showing movies that claim to be important for society but don't put butts in seats, and that's basically every movie from Hollywood these days.
For those who didn't know, Transport Tycoon was reverse engineered and it's now available for free in open source form on most platforms.
https://www.openttd.org/
https://www.openttd.org/
Sometimes I see a picture like this and I'm like "How can people live on instances without pure black backgrounds? It must be so sad. I feel for them."
Because it looks really cool on a pure black background.
Because it looks really cool on a pure black background.