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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even close⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “She’s a movie star” yeah, we know. Lesbian stuff, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I certainly wasn’t saying that it isn’t a good option for some/most. It definitely can be. I’m saying that “just move” misses a lot of nuance, hurdles, pitfalls, and priorities. Like you said, you nearly ended up homeless. Even though you made it in the end, you were lucky you didn’t get stuck in that situation too.

  And that advice ignores the runaway problems that causes the affordability crisis in the first place, the same problems that are going to happen in places that are currently more affordable too. It is a short term solution for yourself to move. But when those problems catch up to you or your kids later, where are they going to go then? How long can the goal post keep moving before we stop it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never for Ben himself. He’s either a complete drifter that knows better or high on his own supply and has deluded himself about these things. Or both. Who it is for is the people that may see this as a “common sense” nugget of wisdom that may never examine it critically or those who are fed up with these over simplified “solutions” to their problems and just need to see that others aren’t taking this reversal of blame from systems and authority onto the individuals stuck under them without push back.

  It doesn’t feel wrong to come to the conclusion that “if things are too hard to get by here and they are easier over there, then you should go over there.” That sounds entirely reasonable, because if the problem were that simple, it would be. But the problem just isn’t that simple and pretending it is is the grift. That’s why folksy wisdom like this is so rarely related to reality. Life is layered and messy and complicated and FUCKING EXPENSIVE. No solution in the real world is simple, and even less so when you are broke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah there is also the consideration that many that live in metro areas get by without a car, and are less likely to own a car or even have a driver’s license. Without reliable or even existent public transport in their new home, where a car is a basic necessity, that is another massive financial hurdle and even a skill/paperwork hurdle to make living there viable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full circle.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For context, he was speaking about living in expensive metropolitan cities, suggesting people move into less expensive places within the US, like the interior states. Ben says enough stupid shit to mock without isolating a quote from context to make it seem like he said/meant something else entirely.

  Hell, there’s plenty to push back on with this quote and argument even understanding what he actually meant. “Just move somewhere cheaper”. Like that’s a much easier thing to say than do.

  1. If you’re unable to afford living where you are, then you’re probably going to struggle to afford the costs of moving. Then there’s the logistics of finding work and housing wherever you move to from another state. If you don’t have money to coast on for temporary housing, gas and food, you either need a company willing to hire you and provide you assistance to move or a personal connection in the area that’ll let you crash on their couch.

  2. Your field of work may just not exist in Guthrie, Oklahoma, or wherever. Leaving metro areas may mean changing careers. And those careers may not pay anywhere near as much either. Your costs may go down, but your wages might go with it.

  3. Leaving your home city means leaving all of your support structures. Your parents, siblings, friends, peers, etc. Some people may really depend on those. Or maybe sometime depends on you specifically. Maybe your mom isn’t healthy? Maybe you have a sister dealing with addiction? Maybe they need your presence to ensure their care.

  4. There are political, legal, and health considerations in changing states. Do you have an active sex life and don’t want to be afraid that you’ll die from an unaborted ectopic pregnancy? Have a trans child? Are you not white? Then you may be more limited in suitable places to live outside of metropolitan city.

  5. This sidesteps the actual problem here, the why of it all. Why they can’t afford to live in the city they grew up in. Why is pay so bad? Why is housing so expensive? Why are groceries so expensive? But no, no. We can’t question or address those things. That’s just business baby. Free market capitalism at work. Let it ride, unregulated. Just move your ass out of the way to Hastings, Nebraska or some shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Sun behind it all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So the valid observation is this: Countries started using green energy as a supplement and replacement to fossil fuels, and as fossil fuels are being phased out for any number of good reasons, those counties also started moving away from fossil fuel collection and stockpiling. But because they weren’t yet entirely free of the need for fossil fuels yet, cutting off those fuels left them with an energy deficit.

  The bad take: The move towards green energy made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should go back to funding the fossil fuels industry as soon as possible.

  The correct take: The continued reliance on fossil fuels made the western world vulnerable to an energy crisis, so we should rid ourselves of that reliance as soon as possible.

  A county that runs entirely on non-fossil fuel energy, on solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, even nuclear, doesn’t have to worry if the flow of oil is open or not. Ever. Your infrastructure would have to be attacked directly (like the war crime Trump threatened) to cut you off at that point. That’s about as invulnerable as you could hope for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CONSTANTLY being one upped by Uncle Ronnie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not the first, and you we’re the last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I was doing this chick one time, right…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell this is true because even your meme has a lot of reading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security lines at JFK airport, NYC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you imagine if you were on hour 10 of waiting through the line, just managed to get to the front and then they told everyone to just go through? I’d cuss someone out hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Science isn't political!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He seems to be… pro-celiac?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security lines at JFK airport, NYC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to invest in some KVM switches. Just leave the monitors connected directly to the towers but route the input devices through the switch. There’s no good reason for a single person to face more than one keyboard and mouse at the same desk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans be like:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sickled himself in his confusion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So subtle from the title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Super irresponsible of them. Their butt babies are going to be deformed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t know that Firewatch was a significant divergence from the rest of the walking sim genre, let alone establishing is own subgenre. But it is weird that there did seem to be a bubble of these sorts of experiential/narrative walking sim games for a minute. Some of them pretty popular. Firewatch, Gone Home, The Stanley Parable, etc. Maybe 10ish notable titles all within the few years between 2013-2017. Then nothing significant for nearly a decade now. But thank God we’ve had 40 more online battle Royale shooters since then!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meat honey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lovecraftian horror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make sure there is no bath salts in the milk before drinking.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thufir wore it better.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in Kindergarten, we would all race to get to our seats in the morning and call out “first”, “second”, “third” and so on as we sat down. We’d of course, always have the first two jeering and arguing about being in “First place!” And “First is the worst, second is best!” No idea how a bunch of 5-6 year olds knew this ubiquitous phrase.

  But there was this one weird kid who kept coming in third, and he’d always say the same thing. “Well, actually, if you start counting at 0, then I’m actually second. So I’m the best.” And that guy was the worst. I wish I could say that that kid was destined to be a programmer and got an early start on the meme, but no… he was just just dumb and still is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tom and I go way back. He’s never given you a thumbs up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want juice, is that so much to ask?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy real fruit and a juicer and make juice. Or buy frozen concentrates and make juice (concentrates are just condensed juice frozen for longevity). Or just eat fruit. So many options that arent sugar water.

  But for real, the reason things like this exist, apart from being cheaper to produce, is that shelf stable juices that dont lose all flavor over time is sometimes basically impossible. And fresher juices that arent shelf stable either will be heavily seasonal or need to be green house grown for off season which is rarely worth the overhead.

  Slight tangent and fun fact, the old joke “why is lemonade made with artificial flavoring but floor cleaner is made with real lemons?” Actually has a legit answer. Check a not-from-concentrate bottle of orange juice at the grocery and you should see that it contains artificial flavors, even though it also contains real juice. There is a reason for that. Citrus juices can be preserved long term to make the supply of juices available year round. However, the flavor compounds in citrus juices oxidize overtime making it blander and blander. It will be fine to drink, but it will not taste like an orange/lemon/lime/etc. So they have to add that flavor back in with artificial flavorings. And the reason that floor cleaner has real lemon is that its properties that make it clean well are not diminished by long term storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diphalia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory call out to Hank Green’s “The Fix” and his amazing fact-based intimidations: youtube.com/shorts/J8fmQ8E7rhE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And… the other 10?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The hard plastic ones tend to hurt my ears

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really not even a little bit following what you’re trying to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the example in from that what if, they are putting a universe’s worth of mass in the volume of the moon, so it would create a super massive singularity. That’s not what is happening in here.

  If every atom suddenly gained an electron, they would indeed increase in mass. But a hydrogen atoms would gain the most relative mass as it is the lightest atom, and that would only be an increase of 1/1837th of its total mass now, so… not that much. Masses of heavier atoms and the macro level matter made from them would increase in mass even more marginally. It would be a negligible difference, definitely not be enough for a singularity to form from this increase alone unless a star’s core were already riding that edge.

  So their original determination would still be correct, that molecules would fly apart (atomized) and explode outward into the vacuum of space. Now, maaaaybe if the explosive force were enough to cause atoms to collide in space and at relativistic speeds, tiny singularities might form. But their combined negative charge would be far more powerful than their gravitational pull, and they would decay almost immediately, so… no crunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Extra electrons make atoms go 'splodey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey those fucking atom bastards are nothing but negativity. They know what they did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No More Neutral ⚛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know how when you put magnet faces together with the same polarity, they push against each other. If you squeeze them together they will pop away. When an atom has an extra electron, it makes its charge more negative. If all of the atoms have extra electrons, all of their charges will be more negative. Now imagine every single atom in the universe was suddenly the same polarity and began pushing all other atoms away. I’ll let your imagination take over from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point in time advertisements were in dedicated sections of newspapers, magazines, posted in business windows and maaaaybe sent out in mailors. And that was about it. When TV broadcasts first started there was an dilemma over whether people would tolerate TV commercial breaks, and whether they were even ethical since you couldn’t just turn the page if you didn’t want to read the ad. We’re light-years beyond that shit now. Ads that try to appear to be anything but ads, individually targeted ads, unskippable ads on CPR instructional videos, ads in search results, ads on floating billboards among the beach, ads on your refrigerator, ads on your personal tablet or laptop, ads on the damn gas pump… it’s fucking dystopian.