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- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 10 hours ago:
People tend to be less mean irl. Either because they are likely to have to deal with you again or because they are afraid to be punched in the face.
But there are mean people IRL too.
- Comment on Do you think people from more "privilaged" backgrounds have a right to complain about the struggle and/or abuse that they went through? (eg: "Middle Class" or "Rich" family) 2 days ago:
Where do you draw the line? Is only the most miserable person in the world allowed to complain? The bottom 10%? How do you compare someone who was piss poor but loved to someone who was rich but beaten?
Either way I think complaining about the past is a curse you put on yourself and any poor soul that you force to listen. You can tell your story, everyone has one, but complaining should be saved for something that can change in the future.
- Comment on How does one become a entrepreneur? 2 days ago:
Pretty much the definition of entrepreneur. Start a business. Whatever you think you can do better than your competitors is a good start.
- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 2 days ago:
Looking at buying a house. Will get my first factory new hunting rifle, not pre owned as before. Over all things are heading in the right direction for me personally.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 week ago:
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 1 week ago:
I’d probably say mint, reasonably newbie friendly. I’ve not tried Bazzite but I hear good things about it.
I currently run Arch btw, it’s not what I’d recommend as a first distro.
Anyway don’t over think it. Get something easy up and running and after a while get curious or annoyed and try something else.
Hope you have an AMD gpu. Been a while since I had a Nvidia but they were twice as annoying to deal with some 7 years ago.
- Comment on Is it normal I feel embarrassed about being female sometimes because of feminine smells I don't want to be associated with? 1 week ago:
It’s probably unusual to feel that way. How much you should worry about it depends on how much you feel like it gets in the way of your life.
If it makes you feel any better I’ve never smelled anyting like that on a woman with reasonable hygiene standards.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
Smell and taste of eggs alone is tolerable but not good. Have to add at least salt to boiled eggs to make them taste OK. Not a huge fan of omelette or fried eggs either but if you put food in front of me I’ll probably eat it.
This has changed over the years. Used to hate them until I was about 25 and just mildly dislike them until 30.
- Comment on Inside me there are two shit takes 2 weeks ago:
You have the self awareness that it’s shit takes.
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 2 weeks ago:
No. Governments (Central banks usually in charge of this) try to create mild inflation to discourage hoarding money.
The rich also don’t horde money, they hoard assets. Usually stocks in companies.
Inflation is caused by there being more and more money in circulation competing for the same stuff, or less stuff produced.
Wealth inequality cause a lot of problems, inflation is not one of them.
- Comment on Currency 2 weeks ago:
While a big mac has intrinsic value, the value of the coin is based on trusting McD honouring the agreement. Will they still accept the coins 10 years from now when they have forgotten they were issued? Will they be sued out of existence after their meat substitute mushroom burger left in the sun for too long comes alive an eats 9 customers and and a minivan?
The value of the dollar is based on trusting the US central bank and/or governmemt to be responsible enough.
While you should not blindly trust either McD or the government, the latter has a longer track record, even though they seem like they are going to eat a metaphorical minivan soon.
- Comment on Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if it’s relevant to why you feel ridiculous, but feeling like you don’t qualify as what you are is common I think.
In my 20s I felt like a 7 year old boy dressed up in a suit and grandma pinching my cheek and going “well who is this handsome man?”.
- Comment on I consider myself as a left-libertarian who supports limited government and direct democracy. Can left-libertarians support limited government? 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like an inevitable tradeoff.
I’m genuinely curious.
How would a small government ensure economic equality? High taxes and UBI is still the government being responsible for a large portion of your needs, even if the bureaucracy may be somewhat slimmer. - Comment on I consider myself as a left-libertarian who supports limited government and direct democracy. Can left-libertarians support limited government? 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re coming at it from the wrong way. Instead of picking a label (left libert…) and figure out if you can support a policy (lim. gov.) you should think about if you belive a policy is a good idea and let someone else figure out what label to give you if they feel like they want to.
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 3 weeks ago:
Not the green. Their policies are hostile towards anyone not living in a big city center. Not the “left party” (former communist party). The rhetoric is the hostile to men brand of feminism and they have a dubious economic policy.
Me voting for either is like an immigrant voting for Trump.
- Comment on Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)? 3 weeks ago:
Socialism: what do you call the nordic countries? They have reasonable incentives. If they qualify then yes.
Communism: does China qualify as communist or are they some kind of former communist with capitalist reforms?
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 3 weeks ago:
I guess you could find some place where they only publish posive news, but you would be getting a skewed positive outlook instead of skewed negative from the usual news. It’s more pleasant but probably not better.
The pessimists will say that he will find a way to get a 3rd term. They will probably not say that he looks very healthy for his age. You will be doing a small fight for optimism there.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 3 weeks ago:
Avoid people who have this pessimistic mindset. This includes the news.
Next step is to think optimistically. There won’t be any election? He will be 85- something by then and he is not exactly the image of healthy living. And that is not even optimistic, it’s realistic thinking.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 3 weeks ago:
I prefer the pre 2007 design where Sweden and Finland can’t be unseen.
- Comment on if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, until then yoga lessons is a good investment.
- Comment on How did Zohran Mamdani win conservative voters over without using the terms "socialism", "communism" or "capitalism"? 3 weeks ago:
Generally you never win by taking the left or right voters. They already vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they are so far left or right that they basically think you and your opponent is equally too far left/right).
You win by making the undecided middle vote for you. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent loses.
- Comment on Everybody: Share Your Funniest Current or Past Desktop Backgrounds! 4 weeks ago:
Having porn as the background saves you about 9 minutes of what to crank it out to, you can just get started.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if your were a kid and your parents worked for a government intelligence agency, how would you keep secrets / have privacy from your parents? 4 weeks ago:
You don’t get access to anything you’re not working with and if you do have access and they found out you used it to spy on your kids then you’re probably getting fired.
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 4 weeks ago:
You have to convince the swing state undecided voters, not new yorkers.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 5 weeks ago:
They were talking about buying Swedish Gripen instead of US F-35. I’m not sure exactly how far along those plans were.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 5 weeks ago:
I’ve used the same pfp which is a photo of myself with a funny mask since 2007.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 5 weeks ago:
It looked easy but It’s ludicrously difficult to do. Russia tried something similar in Ukraine and got bogged down in a war they still have not got out of.
The fact that it worked and did not turn into another black hawk down scenario is like you say months of preparing, someone on the inside high enough to have information and dislike Maduro enough and a good batch of luck.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 5 weeks ago:
Europe would not be able to help much even with greenland under control. The US navy is much stronger and a lot of Europe’s navy is tailored for coastal defense.
The reason why I think he would not invade canada (or greenland) is that NATO would effectively dissolve which would be good for China.
- Comment on Let them fight 1 month ago:
It makes you more inclined to eat more calories than you need.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 1 month ago:
Possibly natural resources.
Place to put ports or airbases. Though they can do that if they ask Denmark nicely, and they have an airbase there called Thule or something iirc.