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- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 14 hours ago:
Can I ask if you are part of a group that regularly gets belittled, made fun of, or generally disrespected? Do you embrace those jokes and stereotypes that are at your expense and laugh along with them such as “That is TOTALLY us! We are crappy just like that meme says!”?
- Comment on No more Bosch for me.. 16 hours ago:
Speed Queen brand still exists and is mostly what you’re describing.
- Comment on Taking huge cock is therapeutic 4 days ago:
I didn’t think a single word could be poetry, but here we are.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 6 days ago:
Got it. Shitposting. I’m out. Enjoy your day.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 6 days ago:
In another post you made here you said you had a silly original post to have interesting in serious conversation in comments. Are you just shitposting?
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 6 days ago:
I want money and want to have a mindset that will allow for a swift and easy accumulation
Almost nothing in life is swift and easy, and certainly not what you’re asking for here. You already know this. Since that’s the case are you okay with the possibility of going through your entire life still clinging to this idea without even getting close to it until you shut your eyes for the last time on your deathbed? I mean, its your life, but that sounds like a pretty sorry existence to me especially when there are alternatives available to you.
such as some kind of abstract ethics or whatever
You don’t need money to accomplish this.
- Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too 6 days ago:
Here is a fun thought experiment. In any zero sum game there will be a Warren Buffet. And people will follow him or her around asking for their advice and writing books on it while ignoring all the people who did exactly the same thing that lost everything.
So for the experiment it’s a coin flipping championship with millions of participants. Heads you win and move on, tails you lose. All the coins are the same and totally fair. Someone will win far more than everyone else. People will follow this person around, invite them to speak publicly, write books, and so on. If they fail to understand the world properly they’ll buy into it and even tell people their secret to flipping coins successfully.
Thats an incomplete thought experiment for this topic and and in my mind it makes it invalid. Even your own followup statement (which i agree with) negates your thought experiment.
Don’t be fooled by randomness. Instead motivate against bad luck and position yourself to exploit good luck.
I agree with this but this is the opposite of your thought experiment.
I think of more of the concept of good luck (and bad for that matter) are harvested. If you make choices create conditions in your life that will give you more coin flips that others on both good and bad luck. If you get a college degree, you will have options to flip the coin for opportunities that require a college degree. If you don’t have the degree you don’t even get the chance to flip the coin. Keep in mind, I’m not saying getting a degree will absolutely lead to success. No of course not, but if the particular lucky opportunity in front of two people requires a degree and one person has it and the other doesn’t. The degree-less person doesn’t even have the chance at the luck.
The same thing occurs with bad luck. If you hang out with people that shoplift, even if you don’t, you run the risk of being unlucky enough to have to flip the coin when to be accused of shoplifting because of the actions of those around you. It doesn’t mean you’ll absolutely get charged with shoplifted even if you did nothing, but the chance increases that you will.
The article even covers lots of this for those that didn’t read it. Mackie wasn’t just some guy off the street that landed an MCU role. He did a WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS that gave him more chances at luck.
- After graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School in 2001
- he performed in both on- and Off-Broadway productions
- and in Academy award-winning films, like 2008’s "The Hurt Locker."
- he worked his ass of acting: Mackie estimates he “put in 10,750 hours of training” before landing that life-changing job.
- He was proactive, too: He wrote letters to executives at Disney’s Marvel Studios over a decade ago in the hopes of landing a role in one of the studio’s popular superhero films,
Each one of these things and dozens more were his hard work that gave him more chances to flip the good luck coin. So while its true that someone else could have done all of these exact same things and still not succeeded where Mackie did, had Mackie not done these things it is highly likely he would never have become an actor we know of today.
So put the hard work into giving yourself more chances of flipping the “good luck coin” and few chances to flip the “bad luck coin”.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 6 days ago:
A good part of therapy is having the problems accurately identified with possible realistic goals for how to improve your mental situation.
I need money and fearlessness, now give me that or at least ways to achieve it
Self diagnosis often leads to the wrong conclusions. A perfect example is that there are already many rich, powerful, fearless assholes. Not only is adding you to their ranks unrealistic but it may not lead you to a future where you are content with yourself. Therapy can help you find whats wrong, and help you with the tools to know what to do about it. They aren’t going to “fix” you though. If you’re going into it with that mindset you’re going to come out exactly as you went in. Therapy is work. Be prepared to put in the work. It can be difficult, but its always worth it. The alternative is what you are now or possible even a worse version of yourself if you go down the wrong spiral.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You’re right. I didn’t pick up on that. Thanks for that correction.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
How close are you to high voltage transmission lines? This might be good for an commercial sized solar farm.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
As in subsistence farming or trying to bring food to market? If the former, it will be a hard path, but possible.
If the latter, have you seen what is happening in the current food markets? For produce (quick spoilage) other nations are rejecting our produce either because of tariffs or because of retaliatory tariffs. For commodity grains like corn and soybeans, previous giant consumers like USAID, USDA, and other agencies are being cut or destroyed entirely meaning there will be a glut of production on the market for some time. Couple that with visa restrictions/deportations, the price of labor will increase substantially. Food prices are going to crater for a time because of this, and some farmers will go out of business. Those that survive will increase prices to cover all of the new expenses, but they won’t be earning more profit from their work.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 6 days ago:
It has, and its not just games though. Clothes, cars, movies, anime, even food all have trends. There are those that innovate, and those that imitate.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 6 days ago:
The Merge was executed on September 15, 2022. This completed Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake consensus, officially deprecating proof-of-work and reducing energy consumption by ~99.95%.
I don’t follow crypto trends so I hadn’t heard about this either.
I had to look up proof-of-stake, and for Ethereum apparently is required to stake 32 coins to operate a node. Another google search shows me a single Ethereum coin is just north of $2k USD. So someone mining Etherium today needs to have more than $64k if Etherium to even run a node now?!
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 1 week ago:
It’s hard for me to believe that I might ever be attracted to someone past retirement age
If you’re looking for a connection beyond just physical, someone drastically younger (yet still an adult) is missing much of the life experience you have. They maybe unrealistically idealistic. They may not have experienced other cultures. They may take religion at face value as the truth. All of these things are usually things that change with age. I think I would run out of patience interacting with someone that wasn’t my peer in life as a partner.
- Comment on Roblox CEO tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox”. 1 week ago:
So it’d be nice if there was a system that actually looked out for children
Here’s the rub. Who’s version? Would your universal system protect just against gambling type things? How about sex stuff? Just porn or more? How much more? Should the system block anything related to questions or statements about homosexuality?
How about things that might be against a particular faith?
There’s no one set of rules that all parents can agree on as to what their children should or shouldn’t have access to. Until then, how can one system do what you’re asking?
- Comment on Troy McMillan can't be bothered 1 week ago:
I don’t want to steer you wrong. My CompTIA Server+ cert is probably 20 years old now (My A+ cert is 30 years old this year!). 15 to 20 years ago I used the Sybex books and I always found them a good source for cert study. I don’t know if that is still the case. Others with more recent experience please chime in!
- Comment on Troy McMillan can't be bothered 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure this book is AI slop.
I agree. Some of those are vaguely correct, others you have to squint really hard for it to make sense, some are just made up mishmash. Discard that source and find a better one.
- Comment on what works for you to learn large numbers of technical / medicinal jargon? 1 week ago:
There’s no “right” answer that works for everyone. For me personally, I know I learn by learning the concepts to the point where I can link it to my existing conceptual knowledge. I’m also visual learner, so if I can attach a vision to what I’m learning (preferably in 3D space, where I can spin it around in my head).
So if I was trying to learn the name of all the bones. I’d see if I could borrow or buy an anatomically correct mini skeleton. Something like this 19" model for $26. I’d start with just the bones knew which for me are: Femur, Tibia, Fibula, Radius, Ulna , maybe a couple more. I would touch to the bone on the model and say the name out loud, name the bones it attaches, then point to the bone on my own body and say the name again. Then I’d do the same for a second bone, maybe on the opposite end of the body.
This would give me all kinds of marker memories!
- The proprioception of where my touching finger is relative to my other hand holding the model.
- The name of the bone as I thought about it.
- The name of the bone as I heard myself say it
- The names of the bones it attaches to
- The depth of the bond relative to the model in 3D space
- The positional relationship of other bones near it. Did my finger bump the rib cage near the bone I’m pointing to?
- The relationship on my own body where that bone is
- If it was a movable bone, how the joints moved when I touch the model bone
So when I try to recall the name later, I could easily forget HALF that list, but still be able to recall the name of the bone and where it is on the body. Those along might help me recall another 25% of the list or so. Alternatively, because we’ve attached the concepts, you can also go the other way. You have the name but can’t remember the location. Close your eyes, put your hand out like you’re holding the model. Picture the model in your head as though you’re holding it. Recall the name…where did your remember where your pointing/touching hand went on the model?
All of the above is what I know works for me because of how I learn. If you’ve gone through 12 years of primary school you should have a decent idea of how your particular mind learns new things. Put those lessons to work in ways that work best specifically for you!
- Comment on Inching closer to the grave every day 1 week ago:
We came up with “don’t give me the long-form video, just give me the TikTok” as we both felt we were inching closer to the grave, lol.
“Give me the Reader’s Digest condensed version.”
“How does what a reader eats have anything to do with this? and why would we need a condensed version of that diet description?”
oh god, I’m old.
- Comment on For every 30 minutes theres a 50% chance my right shoe lace will come undone 1 week ago:
Don’t take this wrong, but are you tying your shoes wrong?
Without touching them, look at your shoes and tell me which direction the bows are going. Are the ends of the bow pointed to your toe and heel like this?
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–8–
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Or are the ends of the bow pointed to each side of your shoe?
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–∞–
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If you have the first one (toe and heel pointing), you’re tying the knot wrong. You’ve got a knot that will untie itself.
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 2 weeks ago:
In incognito or private browsing mode, you are way more likely to be blocked or forced to fill out a captcha, because the site won’t see any tracking cookies you would otherwise have.
I use youtube almost exclusively in incognito and I never get the captcha. The only negative consequence is no suggested videos show up. It looks like this:
However, as soon as you watch even a single video, it gives suggestions based upon that. As soon as you close all your incognito windows, it wipes the slate clean and opening a new window and going back to youtube just gives you the screenshot I linked here. I don’t have a youtube “feed” and I like that. Again, zero captchas.
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 2 weeks ago:
Is this new? Perhaps geographic testing in certain areas? I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen that on youtube. Just curious, what happens for you if you open a browser in Incognito go to youtube and without logging in to youtube, go to the video you want to watch?
- Comment on Google doesn't work anymore 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on An American delicacy 2 weeks ago:
TIHI
- Comment on There Have Been Times I Liked The Villain Dynamics Better 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that because there are fewer unambiguous ways to be “good”? Even many people doing “good” could be seen by other’s as being evil?
- “I’m saving the forest!” “You’re killing loggers”
- “No one will every go hungry again!” “You stole every piece of arable land and only grow the food you want to exist”
- “I’ve saved everyone’s soul. Everyone is going to the happy afterlife when they die!” “Which religion’s afterlife are you calling the ‘happy’ one?”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Congrats! Having only been lifting occasionally for fitness in the last year, I learned I’ve been doing squats and deadlifts wrong this entire time by watching a video of powerlifters teach ballet dancers how to lift. No I’m not kidding! This was the best instructional video I’ve seen.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
I’m not going to “finely enumerate and spell out the letter of the law in hundreds of variations” for you.
I didn’t ask you to. I asked you to add some actual substance to what you’re proposing instead of simply hand waving “someone should do something somehow” which is useless and ineffectual. Your stance will mean the status quo is maintained, and I personally don’t want that.
Income and wealth taxes also have hundreds of variations and fine tunings. Saying I have to invent a whole new system on my own right here and now or else I’m not serious is not serious.
How about even just one part of your propose solution? You’ve given absolutely nothing except “rich people”. You’ve offered nothing that can be acted on. If you want change, you have to be able to talk about what change you want. If you can’t talk in reality, then yes, you are not serious.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
“Tax property” has finely enumerated rules completely spelled out in the letter of the law in hundreds of different variations across many states and cities. You can certainly disagree with it, but its a fully formed and executed system that is funding many schools today.
What you’ve got so far in this discussion is “stop what is currently in place and make someone else pay somehow”. Thats not even fully formed thought much less an argument that can be defended. Your first statement, and now this follow up tell me you’re really interested (capable?) of proposing a better alternative.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
If you actually serious, you have to do better than that for an answer. How are you going to tax them? What are you going to tax them on? Who is considered rich?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 weeks ago:
Here in Canada, primary education is paid for by the province, and school funding is based on student enrollment numbers.
So the source is the provincial government, but in that system where is the province deriving the revenue to pay for schools? What is being taxed by the province to bring in the money it uses to fund schools?
