LH0ezVT
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- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 4 days ago:
Precisely. Among massive corruption, a decadent ruling elite, and some less than ideal foreign politics, if I remember correctly.
Just because one thing is bad, it doesn’t mean that the other extreme is good. Maoism had massive flaws, but it transformed a practically medieval country ruled by warlords into a single, somewhat industrialised nation. The reforms by Deng and others, including Xi, turned it into a country with a half-decent standard of living and competitive economy. But they introduced other problems, such as massive wealth inequality and environmental issues.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 5 days ago:
I think the position of those people is “Maoism was bad, the reforms were good, but they overcorrected”. Imho a perfectly coherent position as well. Quality of life in modern China is surely better than during the Mao era, and not only because if material wealth, but surely this current state is not perfect. Far from it, if you ask me.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 weeks ago:
Sweet home Alabama, where the sky is so blue…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 weeks ago:
Full-time is rare. But as far as I know, the stereotypical backpacking locations are still full of unwashed backpackers
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 weeks ago:
Clearly the AI thinks you need therapy, financial advice and lectures on how to sell yourself better. Interestingly, I feel like it might be up to something…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 weeks ago:
Hah! You obviously have never heard of SSTV!
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 weeks ago:
No need to get all racist, mate
- Comment on Anon can't escape 2 weeks ago:
We’ve gone soft as a society, I tell you! If science cannot progress without kidnapping a guy from Sentinel Island and giving him psychosis, then that is a sacrifice I am willing to make!
- Comment on Anon can't escape 2 weeks ago:
I found I am way more likely to experience weird, nightmare-ish bs if I sleep on my back, or when I drank some alcohol. Maybe there are factors that control it for you as well.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 2 weeks ago:
There is a really interesting experiment there, right? I guess we have all watched or heard of Matrix, wondered what if everything is a simulation, and seen code somewhere. What if you take a guy from some backwater place who has never seen any code, give the poor guy DMT and shine a laser at a wall? Is it a thing we imagine because the brain is wired that way? Or because we are culturally primed to imagine this? A guy who has never driven a car probably won’t have that classic “car with no/broken brakes” dream.
- Comment on Anon can't escape 2 weeks ago:
Almost got eaten by a bear in my dream tonight, I didn’t even get a near-death experience out of it, just trying to fend off an angry bear with a pole I found. Man :(
- Comment on Anon is a tired bissexual 2 weeks ago:
Stupid people are out there. Plenty of them. Like it has always been. At this point, I am more than happy if the stupid people identify themselves before I spend thoughts and emotional attachments on them.
- Comment on Anon is a tourist 3 weeks ago:
All I am saying is, my racist ass would be more concerned with the strange looking man stealing my wallet and phone than somehow magically contaminate me with his dark skin
- Comment on Anon is a tourist 3 weeks ago:
But then, wouldn’t a balkan person be more concerned with their wallet being stolen? Idk, a strange-looking person being the only one around the valuables while everyone else swims sounds weird.
I mean, luckily, this is all fake anyways, but the fan fiction used to be more believable
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 3 weeks ago:
Likewise, LLMs have legit uses, but people can get trapped by the sycophantic hallucination machine
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 3 weeks ago:
Got complimented out of the blue about a somewhat beard-shaped stubble that I was growing out by a female friend, and my brother’s girlfriend has practically forbidden him from clean shaving. My dad had a beard when he met my mom. Maybe it’s our genes, but I think there are faces where a beard works and faces where it doesn’t. Same as with hair styles, some guys can have a mullet and still look decent.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 3 weeks ago:
But on the other hand, crack is also not good for you. I think a society where crack is banned is probably better than one where it is abundant
- Comment on Anon works in an office 3 weeks ago:
They used to call this “fire fighter jobs” here. Nothing to do really, unless something is on fire.
- Comment on Anon tries something new 4 weeks ago:
Ja warum liegt denn hier Stroh rum?
- Comment on Anon's jobs 4 weeks ago:
Same. I get to work on shit I like, my boss is chill, I get 30 vacation days plus overtime compensation, mostly reasonable deadlines, nobody really looks at when I come and go as long as things get done, and this side of a complete collapse I should have decent job security. Oh, and most people around me have sane opinions on politics, AI and priorities in life. I do get paid less with a MSc degree than some of my peers got with a fresh bachelor, but I wouldn’t want to swap.
- Comment on Anon gets lost 4 weeks ago:
France is at around 1.3, Germany at around 0.9, UK somewhere in between, if a quick search is to be trusted.
And I think change in incidence is a weird way to express this. Yes, the average person is not likely to die of homicide, even in “unsafe” countries. But at the same time, the chance of a man to get testicular cancer is around 0.01%; if I would be 5 times as likely to get testicular cancer than the people from other places, I would very much want to look into that.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 5 weeks ago:
I miss this meme.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 5 weeks ago:
Nice find with the LTT jet :)
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 5 weeks ago:
A few million? Nah, that is not being rich. A few billions, and then we’re talking. Then we are starting to get into private island and bunker in New Zealand money. A few millions is just a successful lawyer, not-so-small business owner or someone who inherited a house in a good part of the town. They may be more than a cancer diagnosis away from poverty, but not by much.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 5 weeks ago:
In all fairness, if you have money, health care has never been better, women’s or otherwise. The “if you have money” is an issue, though.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 5 weeks ago:
“Having to clean the fork would be pretty far down the list of reasons why I don’t want to stab myself with a fork”
“Oh, you enjoy doing the dishes?”
- Comment on Anon gets lost 5 weeks ago:
The unfortunate thing is, it sort of works. If you were able to stop and search 100 people as a cop, you would have more success stopping “stereotypical gangsters” than random people. And yes, many of those stereotypes are based on race and social status.
It creates many other issues, from discrimination to trust in institutions to pushing people into crime, but the sad thing is, the basic concept kind of works.
- Comment on Anon gets lost 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, scammers go for the easy targets. Locals will know the scams, are more likely to call the cops on them or have friends to back them up. Foreigners in “holiday mode” are much easier. Same as online scammers who are targetting idiots who still believe in Nigerian princes, smart people with their guard up are not worth the time.
- Comment on Anon gets lost 5 weeks ago:
The US has five(!) times the murders per capita than France, Germany or the UK.
Sure, a lot of that is probably gang violence, or isolated big events like school shootings.
But just let that fact sink in. Per capita, there are five times as many murders in the US than those “rough” countries. It’s not marginally less safe, it is a whole different league. The US is in between South American or African borderline third-world countries [1] in terms of murders per citizen.
[1]: Granted, murders are probably more often reported and counted in the US than in Angola or Kenia. But still, that we even have to have this argument…
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 5 weeks ago:
I hate “whatever the fuck is happening right now”. Give it a different name, I don’t care.