Ioper
22d ago
Considering Mohammed it would make some sense... And what is Ramadan if not massive religooooon sesh?
Ioper
23d ago
I'd argue the same goes for the high quality posters as well, at the very least in terms of engagment.
The quality is just down overall, regardless of topic. Perhaps there are less offensive drive by posters but who cares?
Ioper
29d ago
Just looked up the drama and that is some of the most pathetic and deranged incel shit I've ever heard in my life. LMAO
Ioper
23d ago
I'm not asking you to. I don't think this can be solved.
People are either writing long form stuff on places like substack or they're in private discord servers/group chats when they want to discuss stuff.
I'm just mourning a bit.
Ioper
16d ago
I mean, it's possible but just horribly inefficient. Even just hydrogen is really inefficient.
Ioper
29d ago
Do some activity that requires interacting with other random people if you want to meet new people.
Attend a class, join book club/amateur sports team/an orchestra/a choir/etc or volunteer.
People go in to these activities primed to interact with strangers (as opposed to the opposite in something like a club) which makes it a million times easier to establish new friendships.
I'd like to note that to me this seems like mostly an Anglo problem, and more specifically an American one.
There are well written games and other types of media but they're increasingly, or even generally, produced elsewhere (or by people from elsewhere) despite most games being made in America.
Personally i think it's a combination of a pipeline problem and a cultural problem. Part of the pipeline problem is how much the industry have grown (the quality people are spread too thin) but also the general reputation of the industry. Who with talent and in their right mind would work in gamedev? Especially AAA?
It's kind of similar to online communities, once you reach a scarcity tipping point of quality people then why bother with something that doesn't pay? Especially when you're actively or passively selecting for bad people.
The culture part I'm sure you're all aware of.
Since there is close to no inflow of quality posters it is a problem, especially since we're close to reaching scarcity tipping point of quality posters so as that they have no other quality posters to talk to (or who're willing to engage).
To be clear, I'm not claiming to be a quality poster, I'm just pointing out that we're bleeding quality engagment in general, and have been since almost immediately after the original split from ssc. The liberal/leftwing exodus was easier to notice but we have lost plenty of rightwingers as well, who've not been replaced.
Fundamentally the issue is a lack of quality inflow, of any ideological flavour. It seems to happen to more than this community. Perhaps people are just on substack and twitter now, idk.
In the Nordics we could raise our debt to gdp by 100 percentage points and we'd still not be as indebted as Italy.
Europe could easily bear more debt, I just don't think it's really needed.
Haven't they've been doing a couple of massive upgrade projects and maybe those were mismanaged and/or the rising interest rates are somehow fucking them?
Scandinavia was horrifically riven by civil war and strife? Are we talking about pre-history here or are you referring to the vikings?
I'm not saying things were completely peaceful or that the people were peaceful but Scandinavia most certainly wasn't horrifically riven by civil war and strife. It was a bit below the norm regionally and mostly engaged in military adventurism and mercenary work elsewhere.
It's probably fine in the US specifically for the coming three decades or so given the abundance of cheap NG, which of course is the actual plan, just like cheap Russian NG was in Germany.
Ioper
23d ago
Same thing for me. I really loved black coffee but the acidity eventually started to give me severe heartburn so I had to switch to milkbased coffee drinks, which works fine. A cappuccino is usually no issue.
Ioper
13d ago
Everything is relative of course but there was rationing in Sweden during the war, even for basic things like food.
They dont have to, the eu energy market is configured so they can just leech on their neighbours.
Why don't you have grinder? They're cheap. Do you just drink at work and you're in an office?
At one point I drank too much coffee (like 7 cups a day) so now I'm limiting myself to 1-2 cups a day and have been for the past 15 years, it works great. One in the morning and possibly one in the afternoon.
Add in that their current plan for growth is expanding their already inflated global manufacturing marketshare through very aggressive industrial policy, in market segments where at least the rich world is practically certain to engage in things like high tariffs, at a point in time where people are already safe/friend-shoring.
It's a setup for disaster.
Ioper
28d ago
What specifically are you wondering about? I've bought and sold properties in Sweden and often the only agent involved is "the sellers agent" (in theory both parties agent but paid for and recruited by the seller)
You might recruit people like an assessor or a surveyor if your buying land or a house but you don't have to.
I've never paid more than 2% of the sale price to the realtor but supposedly it can be up to 5%, but I imagine that is for unusual and very high value properties.
To turn it into a source of graft for the Trumps? Use the war to indebt the Ukrainians to his family personally.
He would only be spending American money, not his own, and he'd gain a source of graft as well as regain prestige. Furthermore, money would primarily flow from blue constituents to red ones.
Sounds perfect for Trump.
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