theneverfox

@theneverfox@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on how you define yourself

  I am me. Not my memories, not my body, not my knowledge, not even my mind

  At the very center of my being, there’s a driving spark. My most fundamental self. It’s the desire for understanding in a very specific flavor, and the form of it is reaching out to touch something with your fingertips. It’s like a fractal that has endless meaning the closer you look at it, it contains many understandings of the truth of the nature of things and how things fit together. And within those truths is everything that I am

  That’s me. I am not the animal I inhabit, I act through the animal. I freely share my understandings with the animal, and so the animal can see clearly and know truth to find new understandings in all things.

  One day the animal will die, and everything but the understandings will be burnt away, because the animal is afraid of being left behind.

  I’ll have understandings of people, but memories are a physical thing. I’ll have understandings of how the world works, but knowledge is in my mind. I’ll have understandings of beauty and emotion and the full spectrum of the human experience, but my nature is not human

  So it all depends, who are you? Are you a person who acts a certain way? Are you your relationship with others? Are you your memories, skills, and experiences? Are you your physical body?

  Have you awakened your spark? Have you looked deep inside yourself to learn from it and add to it? Is it you, or is it something that whispers to you? Are you the combination of the spark and the animal?

  Or do you walk another path? Are you your blood? Your legacy? Will you die when your name is last spoken? Will you live on for the rest of time through the ripples you made on the world?

  It’s a question you have to decide for yourself. I think maybe the most important question

  But that doesn’t have the truth of understandings, so I guess it’s just my opinion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what the class is for. To make you care

  I’m not saying it’ll work, but that’s why every country does this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to have a shared cultural identity to be Egyptian

  It’s not useful, hell it’ll be mostly half-truths and plenty of outright lies, but it’s a way to build cultural identity in a top down stort of way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They deported my Chihuahua⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No… Do you think Mexicans are ashamed of Chihuahuas? Or sombreros? Putting the two together? They love that, it’s their culture and they love to share it. That’s not even a generalization, it’s part of their culture

  Or do you think they’d be offended by a joke about ICE doing nonsensical deportations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that like his entire arc? He slowly realizes his leash is only as strong as he believes it to be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that’s not how any of this works.

  For one, modern warfare is always asymmetrical. There’s no fair fights - the weapons are too strong. There’s no way to do this without turning it into a sport, at which point why make it lethal? Either way, the loser could decide to go back to violence

  For two, this isn’t a war, this is denying aid to starving people, then shooting at the bread lines for reasons such as… Showing up too early

  For three, Hamas are hardliners. They want all of Israel, which is obviously impossible. So their method is to make Israel martyr the civilians in the hopes the rest of the world will attack Israel

  For three part 2, Israel is propping up Hamas because they’re hardliners. When Hamas gets to open to a real piece deal, Israel assassinates the moderate (and often the negotiator)

  And beyond all of that… This is violence. This is what happens when you flip the table. We could settle conflict with Yu-Gi-Oh games, but only so long as everyone abides the results.

  We have rules of warfare… But even those are broken all the time. In fact, if everyone followed the rules, both sides would only be allowed to hit military targets. Hamas wouldn’t be able to hide among civilians, so they’d just occasionally attack Israeli troops before running off to a deep hole somewhere. Israel would only be able to attack that hole, so they’d probably occasionally find one and cut the numbers

  So don’t ask why the combatants don’t duke it out… Ask why the rules aren’t working

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you’re incredibly insecure about yourself.

  Bullshit. This is hardwired into our brains. False accusations hurt, but only when you can’t imagine yourself doing what you’re accused of.

  If someone doesn’t bristle at being treated like a wild animal, that’s a huge red flag. They’re not confident, either they’re manipulative or they could see themselves warranting the protection. They’re probably not an immediate threat, but that is what a future abuser looks like

  And what good is having a friend next to you as opposed to nearby? That’s not safer… What, do you think they’re going to grab someone out of the coffee shop and run?

  There’s lots of normal reasons to have someone you know nearby. You can get dropped off and picked up, have a friend in the area doing things. If you have bad vibes, stay in the damn coffee shop and have your friend come in and get a drink.

  You can go somewhere you know a worker. You can get to know a place and spend time with the staff so you have a safe ground.

  I’ve had someone introduce me to their co-workers before walking to a cafe a few doors down, that was a positive experience, because it was very friendly and I could feel I just passed a bunch of vibe checks… I didn’t even consider that there was a handful of people who saw my face and had eyes on the car I drove up in nearby until much later

  That’s about as safe as you could ever be, and it wasn’t offensive at all, because it was natural and affirmative. It feels good when people notice I’m a good person, and I think having a community is cool.

  At the end of the day, no one is ever truly safe, but having community around is how you make yourself safer.

  And I really do mean the manipulator thing, if someone doesn’t react at all to an implication like that, that’s a red flag… Honest people get angry at accusations, guilty ones get calm, manipulators use that information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Both. He wants violence on others, but wants you to be part of the in group doing it

  It’s an act of love and hatred. I don’t respect it, because I know the hatred will be turned on me soon enough, but you do have to try to understand it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, the danger is real and that people need to protect themselves

  It’s also incredibly offensive to do it directly.

  The polite thing to do is make being safe a matter of course. It’s very normal to meet in public, it’s normal to do checkup texts, it’s fine to do a group activity if it’s a group activity. We’ve spent decades normalizing subtle ways to do this

  There’s a degree of social hygiene necessary, or society falls apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they took the money. If you take the money, the path is inevitable

  When you take on investors, you just invited in someone who looks at your company like a farmer does to their crops. They want you to grow as much as possible, but they don’t actually care if you live or die - you’re one of many using up resources

  If your growth slows, they’re going to demand more. They might demand you make cuts, they might push you to take loans and expand, they might try to sell to someone else. If your value isn’t increasing faster than other possible investments, they lose imaginary money to opportunity cost

  And by virtue of being an investor, they have plenty of money and want to gamble with it. A total loss probably wouldn’t impact their lifestyle, they want invest in Apple at the ground floor and become a billionaire

  You can start a company through loans, risk your house and build up slowly, and walk away clear. And people do.

  But then they want to retire… And there’s this neat trick you can do if you want to own a small business… You can make it buy itself. You can take out a loan to pay out the previous owner, say 5 years of profit, and make the business take on the loan. But now, just to break even, you’ve got to beat what you paid for it plus interest over the term. And both business and individuals can do this

  So in short? The reason is debt. A small business can make you upper middle class, a large one could make your entire family insanely wealthy for centuries.

  But once you take the money, the business has to grow, or it’ll be harvested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about you, but when someone even implies I might be a terrible person I get extremely offended

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the government doesn’t have a bank account, they have tens of thousands of them all with different rules, and they don’t spend the same money they taxed

  Money is just numbers at this point, and so Congress comes up with numbers to fund everything they want to do, they come up with formulas to tax various things, and the two sets of numbers have no real relationship to each other

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  McDonald’s is the most clear cut example, although that’s ongoing

  There’s been countless little companies that sent themselves into death spirals with a price hike, but when they’re big their remains are pounced on, or they experience a slow decline before collapsing to a failed pivot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr. Pope⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That you have to have a heart. You have to believe in things, and see right from wrong

  We’re losing that as a species. Laws aren’t a replacement for morality, but they’re treated like it

  There’s no set of laws that could save us from global warming or bring the local community together. But these are very necessary things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking why though? Are cows endangered?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The joker is the avatar of the will of the people denied. He’s the French revolution, most revolutions really

  Revolutions are insanely destructive. When you push the people beyond their breaking point and keep pushing, society collapses. There is no glorious revolution, there is mass death. For every deserving person, dozens or hundreds or thousands will die as collateral. Maybe more at this point

  20 years. On the lower end. When the people flip the table, things don’t get better for a long time. But this is not a logical decision even it happens… It’s a tinderbox and a spark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to be good at math to learn to code. In fact, someone telling me there wasn’t much math involved is what made me seriously consider it.

  And well over a decade in, I’ve actually found I enjoy math when it’s about how things fit together rather than the numbers themselves… But generally you can totally avoid it, the computer is really good at math so make the computer do it

  Get away from the C++, start with python then move to another high level language like typescript or C# or something. You can learn to code on your phone if you hook up a keyboard, it will be limited but you will be able to do code challenges and even build apps

  As far as the future? AI is really killing junior dev jobs. Which is going to lead to a lack of mid and senior devs pretty soon.

  The Internet is also dying, a lot of people make money as content creators, but it’s not a quick path to money and it’s a very uncertain one. The people who love it are living their dream, if that’s not your dream, don’t do it to yourself

  My honest advice? Get a job as a handyman and major in computer science if you find you have the aptitude.

  No one knows what is going to happen in the near future, but people will always need things patched up. And if you can break through the gap in junior devs, there’s going to be a huge need for people to maintain all the old code that underpins modern life

  In uncertain times, it’s good to go all in or hedge your bets. If you’re not the all in type, learn every skill you can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So she's saying that she's a sexual bull?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean for now? Fascism isn’t a coherent ideology, the abuse of power is kind of baked in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So she's saying that she's a sexual bull?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? They were underlings and family members, it worked just like nepotism. It’s not anything exciting, it’s a small historical detail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all American stores have greeters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, and the funny thing is the purpose of the greeter (at least at this stage) is to lower the chances of shoplifting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always say “what do you need?”. It’s affirmative, it sounds and feels like a yes in the moment, but it’s not… It’s a request for more information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever noticed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait… The tip of my tongue rests against my palate, how much of your tongue are we talking?

  On the other hand, I just realized I can’t breathe through my mouth at all when it’s in that position, which is really surprising and seems like it might be the important bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QUACK QUACK QUACK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget children! So many kids are going to get brain damage or die because Trump just went up with a bunch of disgraced doctors and told people not to give any fever reducers unless absolutely necessary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨political debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s making light of murder in broad daylight, possibly also implying that Kirk deserved it

  Which, no matter how you slice it, is way too spicy for professional settings. Most people were scared by both events, not because they know of or care about the victims, but because the media talks about it in a scary voice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨political debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very different, making fun of the dead is way less socially acceptable than calling white supremacists bad people

  In this case I think that’s pretty funny, but that’s still a spicy joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hue hue hue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not filliments, conductors. Such as the ones running through through your home

  You can build a basic radio manually with a little bit of know how. If you have spare capacitors, they’re likely to survive and be pretty replaceable. You can rig up an antenna out of any wire, it just needs to be the correct length and it’ll work to some degree.

  If your entire house goes up in flames at once, well, spare parts are probably not on the table

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨political debate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you’re in the media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨labubu⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are demonic. The business practices are pure evil… And the dolls themselves are unsettling, like a furbee or something, but that’s neither here nor there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the Chinese government even work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s capitalism, but the government does it’s job and hammers down companies that get too big to fail

  There’s also all the one party authoritarian bullshit, but main concept is the government remain the strongest power

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AT&T tracked employee attendance to find 'freeloaders.' Now, it admits the system is driving workers to the 'brink of frustration.'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It means the situation is on the brink of consequences due to frustration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this is charcoal. If you leave the stove on low enough that the contents don’t reach flashpoint, you basically burn the ingredients without fire

  And that gives you lumps of carbon with the rest burned away