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2mo ago
True. These days the lifestyle value of money hits massive marginal diminishing returns quite quickly. Even those who are fortunate enough to secure enough money to secure a good life in perpetuity tend to hedonistic treadmill themselves to death
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2mo ago
Does the VA medical pension system even meaningfully look at what role the applicant had? Admittedly my views are probably overly colored by Caleb Hammer participants and Twitter rage bait but there did seem to be a lot of PTSD/Tinnitus/Sore Back/never left the country 100%ers
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2mo ago
VA pension struggles with the standard public healthcare thing where people who know the right combination of buttons to press/right case workers to use can quite easily get luxury communism for difficult to dispute conditions. People with actual conditions that don't slide neatly into the classification buckets and/or don't have a case worker with an interest in bolstering them can quite easily get fucked.
Whenever attempts are made at curtailing spending on the first bucket, there's sufficient of the second bucket to walk out and argue.
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2mo ago
I mean they let Polyphemus talk in the prayer bit which was bizarre since it both had Polyphemus directly addressing Poseidon as his father which shit on the vague agnosticism of the rest of the film, and it established that he could talk.
IMO scene should either have been totally mute Cyclops or the whole thing. Plus the sheep tying situation just kinda comes out of nowhere since it's never established the cyclops is either intelligent enough to check nor that they've got a system beyond sprint for the exit.
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2mo ago
A week ago I saw a domestic worker from the Philippines and a domestic worker from Indonesia aggressively arguing that the other was darker complexioned and that that was a bad thing. Both of these women were very dark by Western standards
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2mo ago
Chickens a lot less skill and effort involved in butchering, though? Far more whole chickens get sold then whole cows
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2mo ago
Birthright citizenship makes it easier for poor Hispanics to get a foothold, though. Plus complicates the process of deportation
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2mo ago
Also sheer scale of the platform has to be a factor. I'm sure all sorts of stuff goes on on Whatsapp every day but that's downstream of it being arguably the biggest communication channel in the world rather than a particular failing
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2mo ago
It's still like one of the iconic Odysseus moments and giving the Cyclops actual dialogue does a ton to set the tone.
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2mo ago
'Haha you have drafted something that would normally take a skilled professional 3 weeks of effort to approximate but the fingers are kinda weird (and that's never happened before in artistic medium), it is slop'
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2mo ago
AI is fine as a medium of expression and creativity. Within decade this will just be the latest iteration of 'digital art' doesn't count and I'd prefer to see an AI take on something I think is a worthwhile idea than human hands gently crafting something meh
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2mo ago
Worst part to me was taking out the Nobody dialogue with Polyphemus. One of the big Odysseus highlights gone for no reason
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2mo ago
Some scenes of the Odyssey did seem to deliberately pay homage to Northman IMO, then immediately zigged back towards the milquetoast modern stuff.
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2mo ago
Low effort trolling even by your standards. AI can be more directionally on vibe than the 'real movie' even if having AI hallmarks
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2mo ago
I think ease of communication and an abundance of competing home entertainment has definitely increased flakiness versus prior eras but also the examples provided seem indicative of very extreme dysfunctional clusters
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2mo ago
Athletes have a lot more in common with lottery winners than typical high earners, with social clout on top of it
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3mo ago
Gulaging uppity foreigners who dare to take zero sum nonsense jobs in affluent countries and then complain voraciously is a great idea.
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3mo ago
Most of the content I saw was more of the 'McConnell is potentially braindead and being kept alive for political reasons' moreso than straight up not recording his actual death for what it's worth
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3mo ago
Probably more efficient doing it privately versus however public security details work plus the Bezoswatch doesn't have anywhere near the power to inconvenience the public
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3mo ago
East Asians enjoy hardcore religion when they go for it. I dated a Chinese classmate briefly in Australia and ended up getting roped into a Sunday service at their church and it was full speaking in tongues, baptisms once a month and whatnot.
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3mo ago
Also for formal clothing the relative cost of tailoring/adjustment versus buying a new item has skyrocketed versus what it would have been a century ago.
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3mo ago
To a certain degree your NFT transaction consultancy kind of character will survive by just skimming the waves of whatever becomes new and hip. Obviously lots will blow up in the attempt but I know enough crackhead energy crypto types who manage to skid along on occasional lottery hits
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3mo ago
Also once kids enter the equation you'd kind of have to be a nonsensical psychopath to expect honeymoon period girlfriend frequency.
Those are separate issues. I believe the gap between the lifestyles of the middle class and the top echelons in Western society are closer than they essentially have been at any point since feudalism. Most billionaires spend just as much time as you do scrolling their phone, etcetera.
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