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- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 9 hours ago:
It does not sound like a happy bunch to hang around. Is that what you aspire to have as a part of your identity?
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 1 day ago:
Possibly. But there is a good reason that is not the way swimming is taught and I’d not jump in the deep end based on book knowledge.
That being said read, then practice, then read, then practice loop is a very quick way for me to learn.
- Comment on Ever think of the inconsistency of airlines weighing luggage? 2 days ago:
There is a bar or some device that is there to prevent your stuff from sliding forwards. I’ve not been crawling on the airplane floors enough to see any weight rating on it but I would bet money on it being crash tested and rated according to whatever the overhead compartments are.
- Comment on Ever think of the inconsistency of airlines weighing luggage? 2 days ago:
The overhead compartments have a weight limit because they must be designed to keep the stuff in there during an emergency.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You’re in a situation where you have to cut spending and raise taxes while the left promises to not cut spending and the right promises to not raise taxes. It’s an issue the last handful of administrations have not been able to deal with…
It’s going to be painful. Hopefully not a drawn out depression like the 1930s.
- Comment on I require nothing more 6 days ago:
Twice as many mattreses as needed.
- Comment on Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change? 1 week ago:
Speed up by far. All the focus will be on producing enough stuff to replace whatever the enemy blows up. Any invention in the renewable department will only come as a result of having used all available fuel already.
The world population still increased during the previous world wars so unless we have a major nuclear exchange that probably won’t change. If we do have a major nuclear war global warming is suddenly not a big deal anyway.
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 1 week ago:
If you get the wrong idea about how good they actually do it’s not because you got my scale wrong, it’s because I spent 5 minutes thinking about how I feel they do.
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 1 week ago:
What do they spend the money on instead?
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 1 week ago:
Do you get value for your money in your country?
I’m okay with paying my taxes, don’t really care if it’s more or less as long as they are responsible with spending it.
I rate my town government B- and national government B+ when it comes to responsibility.
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 1 week ago:
I pay tax so that someone else can figure out who murdered who.
Please, I only have one life and I don’t want to spend it thinking about miserable things.
- Comment on Is there really anything stopping an evil government from just poisoning the water supply to commit a massacre/genocide/ethnic-clensing? 1 week ago:
If you live in an open and transparent society: there will be an investigation and there is a high chance they will find out. You’ll be expected to take care of the mess with disaster relief for the survivors. Also about 40% of the people did vote for you. Also even the ones who did not vote for you still pays tax.
If you live in a dictatorship: police brutality is cheaper and is a bit more selective in it’s targeting.
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 1 week ago:
You have to pay a highly educated individual to spend hours finding any weakness to hack anything.
If you hack a big organization you’ll get more then a few dollars from a bank account. They also have a lot more things that could be vulnerable to hacking.
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 1 week ago:
They have replaced phone, camera, music player for me.
I still have a computer and laptop at home and at work. They will not be replaced because good luck trying to write code on a phone or tablet.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 2 weeks ago:
Probably, but in most places the government can force buy the land. If you chop up a property in the middle of a big city and do this they may find the public interest outweighs your property rights. Or if you live in an authoritarian state.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Incentives: you find a girlfriend the app lose a customer. They are not optimized for you finding a girlfriend.
Gender imbalance: there are about 3* guys for every girl. There is very little leftovers for you as an average guy. *Very crude counting from me 5 years ago.
Sure you may find one and it’s relatively low effort. Don’t get your hopes up.
Funny anecdote: I’ve had more luck getting dates from World of Warcraft.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
You should be paid because you’re basically campaigning for the republicans.You don’t drive away any core republican voter, they would never vote D. You drive away the ones who voted democrat last election.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
Troll grade: C-.
Does Trump pay you by the hour or per post?
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t follow the media and the debate where you live, but over here left leaning politicians and media tends to frame it as: women, minorites etc have a problem. Men are the problem.
You’re basically pushing any undecided man over to the right.
- Comment on What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮 3 weeks ago:
Whatever-whatever. I don’t have any strict age limit, if you care to make your case I’ll listen. I’m not that busy.
That being said I do have the most in common with women in their 30s, being in my 30s myself
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 3 weeks ago:
They exist in the world. They are not very popular, judging by the fact that you’ve not heard of them.
You need much more than 1 acre per person. First Google result is 5-6 per person.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 3 weeks ago:
No. Not in my experience.
- Comment on How do I start a crypto wallet 3 weeks ago:
Using crypto as a second source of income is like playing hopscotch in a minefield.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 3 weeks ago:
If you try , make sure you film it.
- Comment on I don't know if I'm getting the most profitable SRI / climate change ETF, can you help? 4 weeks ago:
Just to be sure, annual performance is way more important than the cumulative index performance - net returns, right? Because here climate change is better than SRI.
You’re trying to stay on the road by looking at the road in the rear view mirror. It’s better than nothing because humans usually can’t see forwards in time. My point is that you should not worry too much about that. It could be because people bought the stocks thinking that they would make more money in the future and 10 years later realized they will not and sell it to the next sucker. It could be that genuinely the companies do better. You don’t know, I don’t know.
What are you buying? An ETF usually buys a few stocks from a lot of companies that fit their profile.
What is a stock in a company? It is a tiny fraction of ownership in a company.
Now would you rather have a tiny ownership in the companies that one ETF buys or a tiny ownership in the others? If you don’t know it does not matter.
As for buying in EUR or USD it depends. Tax rules can be different, that you will have to check. Since you use USD the EUR one is likely to change more, for the better or worse because the exchange rate will vary. Again 30 years noone knows how.
Don’t mind Trump, your horizon is 30 years, does not matter if he gets a 3rd term even. He will be dead long before. Unless you think he will crash the economy utterly, but then why are you saving for the future and not buying guns, ammo and non perishable food?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I can understand her hesitation if her parents are on the conservative side.
You live in a free country but until she is 18 the parents have a lot to say. Even after the age of 18 and moved away from home she has to consider their wishes or risk having her family refusing to have any contact.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 5 weeks ago:
I used to have a lot of these. Not sure where I lost my need to tell anyone about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Maybe you do them a disservice. But it’s your life story and your choice.
I can certainly appreciate your lack of appetite for being an activist. I have a mild aversion to activism even for causes I support.
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 5 weeks ago:
I was thinking the same but I realized I am not sure I have a computer with a CD drive or a mother board that supports my old IDE drive
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 5 weeks ago:
You’d also have to solve the problems of them working with each other instead of against each other.
What happens to your blood pressure? Do they beat at the same time then how do you mitigate the pressure spike. You now have twice the capacity your blood vessels are meant to handle.
If they don’t beat at the same time how do you make sure blood does not just go back and forth between the hearts, but actually does something useful?