AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
5d ago
You could go talk to a recruiter about your diagnosis and see what they say. You need to do more things in general and talking to a recruiter is an easy goal to set and accomplish.
Trades can damage your health but it's not a given. Sitting in an office all day does it's own sort of damage.
AvocadoPanic
6d ago
Were you working on a useful degree?
There are super successful individuals that help pull up the median. If you land in the bottom quintile of the distribution the value is less certain.
Have you considered a trade? You'd be developing the relationships and interdependence that may help you with motivation to improve your attendance.
Did you take the ASVAB? Have you talked to a recruiter, perhaps the military would provide the structure you need.
AvocadoPanic
9d ago
consumers generally
These are the same people that were renting their landline phones from the phone company, are renting their cable modems / firewalls from their ISP and own a timeshare.
Maybe everything doesn't need to be connected to the internet?
AvocadoPanic
9d ago
Or you live in a time where tech advances quite rapidly and so a ten year old car is qualitatively different and arguably inferior to the new versions
Do we live in this time now?
I've not seen any recent technology advances in cars that I'm willing to pay a premium for.
software as a service thing
This is the model software companies use now. This hasn't always been so. There are still many use cases (mostly offline specialized stuff) that is seldom updated. It was feature complete when it shipped.
Software publishers like SaaS as it improves their revenue. I preferred the previous business model.
AvocadoPanic
9d ago
There's a cohort that largely already owns nothing, they don't seem very happy. Must everyone own nothing for them to be happy?
Renting / leasing may be more cost efficient if your the sort that updates on a regular cycle. New phone every year, new car every 1 - 3 years, etc. If you're the sort to buy a good 10 year old used car and drive it until it dies or is un-economical to repair in 12+ years, you've already optimized this as much as possible. Unless you only have a car and don't need a car, people living in cities who rarely drive etc.
Yes this is how the deep state / PMC lie.
They were careful to tell technically the truth while still creating the impression in the media that this was Russian disinformation. Providing cover for the various social networks to limit / censor the story. They certainly would have known the claimed provenance of the laptop as being abandoned by Hunter at a repair shop. I don't recall their letter rebutting this very directly. Maybe this just means Hunter is a Russian agent leaking his own emails and dick pics.
I'll admit I've very little generosity left for these people. They're the same sort to produce 'intelligence' about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or Russia blowing up their own pipeline, etc.
AvocadoPanic
11d ago
You can see that new populations have replaced existing populations in archeological DNA.
The manner or method of replacement is likely lost.
AvocadoPanic
11d ago
Wiseacre or wisenheimer
AvocadoPanic
11d ago
"maybe we should think pragmatically and build a better system that actually cares about the needs of non-elites
I'm hopeful this would be the eventual outcome after all the patricians are dead.
I agree it doesn't seem to be on offer, currently.
AvocadoPanic
11d ago
seems like the news media, social media, Blinken, and the former intelligence officials mostly or entirely sincerely believed it had a good chance of being Russian disinformation
You believe this is more likely than the deep state and political actors working in unison to protect their preferred candidate from the truth?
Have any of the 'intelligence officials' retracted their letter?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your meaning.
As I read it, your main concern of Trump winning is that if he loses he'll claim he won and Kamala only won via fraud.
AvocadoPanic
12d ago
Recently in Oregon is an example https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/13/noncitizens-registered-oregon-error/
AvocadoPanic
14d ago
“having their fun” and then turning around and telling you not to have yours
This is based on a misperception.
The sin and degeneracy I was mired in for a decade wasn't really fun, if it were I wouldn't have needed to be so drunk to do it.
The truth is I was deeply unhappy and unfulfilled. I wouldn't tell you not to have fun, I would tell you that sexual degeneracy alcohol and drugs are a false fun. They cannot lead to a lasting happiness, peace or fulfillment. They're distracting and numbing.
AvocadoPanic
15d ago
It's not just that the employees are less skilled, they're less capable.
Seleting for someone higher skilled may also select for someone capable of stretching. A competent person can be competent in many situations and scenarios with minimal training.
School used to do a better job of selecting for competence, graduation rates were much lower but graduates could pass competency exams.
AvocadoPanic
16d ago
Afghan bug out
Was this an example of success?
AvocadoPanic
16d ago
The difficulty is the 'decision makers' have often moved on before the pigeons come home to roost.
Even highly repeatable processes will often have edge cases / or odd failure modes that while rare if the process is very frequent will throw errors often enough to cause problems.
Also these jobs tend to suck which presents other challenges.
I'd rather interact with someone competent than an idiot with a checklist. I'm sure there's an appropriate Idiocracy clip.
AvocadoPanic
16d ago
government competency crisis
It's not just government. Lots of orgs have tried to replace expertise / experience / competency with process and procedure.
You can sometimes see how well this works in practice. It's like when you've a cashier that can't make change and you try to give them 2¢ so you get $1 and not 98¢ in change.
AvocadoPanic
21d ago
Poaching deer sure. Squirrel and racoon may not even be poaching. Some states have no limits on varmit animals though you'd need permission from the landowner on private property.
It doesn’t seem like a big stretch that it would be, the locals were saying it was, and Trump repeated their reports.
This seems the most likely to me. Combined with the Canton women who ate the cat.
AvocadoPanic
21d ago
AvocadoPanic
21d ago
If the claim were Europeans are using cat pelts as a traditional remedy for arthritis?
AvocadoPanic
21d ago
Trump would (allegedly) collude
Do you believe this claim? I believe we've high quality evidence that this was manufactured at the behest of those working if not on behalf of the Clinton campaign, working independently while also working for the Clinton campaign.
This still sounds like boo-outgroup. That dastardly Trump is the sort to collude with Russia to win.
Poor Hatians would never eat a cat.
At best I'm reasonably confident a Hatian in Springfield, OH hasn't eaten a cat it the trailing 6 months. I would be less confident that no Hatian has never eaten a cat anywhere.
AvocadoPanic
21d ago
You seem particularly upset by the Haitians in Springfield eating pets story. We're you also upset by the Russian collusion, or pee dossier stories?
I think there were a couple elements to the Hatian story that gave it the legs it had. There was a woman arrested while apparently eating a cat, though in Canton not Springfield and she isn't Hatian. There was a 911 call reporting 4 Hatians stealing geese from a park. There was a viral Facebook post purporting to describe 3rd or 4th hand about a lost cat found field dressed hanging from a tree. The memes of Trump saving kittens and ducks were sharable because cats and the internet.
It seems to me that this is one of those misinformation stories that's only horrible when it's my evil out-group doing it. When it's the righteous and good in group repeating Russian collusion, pee dossier or Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation, disinformation it's OK.
AvocadoPanic
23d ago
AvocadoPanic
23d ago
I hadn't considered that it was the Classic / New Country mix of 105.1 FM in the 80's that led me to marriage, family and church ~30 years later. I owe a debt to Uncle Dave and Lisa K in the mornings.
Already priced in.
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