erwgv3g34
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erwgv3g34
11mo ago
Comparing yourself with a third world country is not the W you think it is.
Isn't this the same broad who was literally cowering behind Trump and the other agents piled onto him instead of forming part of the scrum?
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
This is why I always get the bare minimum insurance legally possible. Self-insuring is much simpler; I understand that I am on the hook for anything other than $10,000 worth of damage to other people's stuff, and act accordingly. If their insurance covers me when they total my car, great; if not, or if I am the one that crashes my car, I'll just have to buy another car. It helps that I have never owned a new or expensive car; all my cars have been 10+ years old and worth only a few thousands of dollars on the used market.
But most people are constitutionally incapable of saving money for some reason, so this is not an actionable plan for them.
Similarly, when my job offered me a bunch of different health insurance tiers, I deliberately picked the ones that would deduct the least from my paycheck, on the idea that I probably wouldn't be able to navigate the insurance bureaucracy anyway (I was right; my contract was not renewed, and I barely got a couple of primary visits before my benefits lapsed). I am aware of my own limitations and deliberately try to opt out of interacting with complicated systems whenever possible.
Which is also one of the reasons I have a prepaid phone instead of a monthly phone contract. It's so simple; account balance is near zero or time is expiring means I need to buy another card, same as I buy gas when the tank is empty. What could be simpler than that?
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
There’s also the men who complain how expensive vidya is.
Skill issue. I have a whole-ass algorithm for getting games on the cheap using Steam. Namely, you may add any game you want to your wishlist. However, you may only BUY the game if the following conditions are met:
- The game must be on sale. Steam does so many sales that there is no point to ever buying a game at full price.
- The game must be at its lowest price ever. If it was that price once, it will be that price again. You can check a game's lowest price on SteamDB.
- The game must be at least 5 years old. This ensures that a game has had time to be patched, had all the DLC released, gone down in price, etc.
- The game must be under $19.99. Anything more than that means it's still too expensive.
By following this simple algorithm, you can usually get games that retailed for $50-$60 brand new a decade or two ago for $5 or less.
A note on bundles: Only buy bundles if every single game on the bundle follows this list. Otherwise, the bundle discount will be more than outweighed by the extra price you will pay on the non-compliant items.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
People don't typically burn down other people's houses, accidentally or otherwise. People DO get into car accidents every few years. There's a difference.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
This is the 1998 list. Are you going to do the 10th anniversary edition? Most of the titles are the same, but 23 new movies made it in.
And speaking of classic movies, I enjoyed the Oscar Madness retrospective on Academy Award Best Pictures Winners.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
I really am starting to wonder if Joe knows he's dropped out yet.
I was stunned by Biden's withdrawal, though probably not as much as Biden himself.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
I'm going to have to crank up the music in my home office even louder than usual for the next 4+ months.
Protip: Closed door + white noise machine + earbuds + music completely drowns out all other noise.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
I'm not gonna believe this until he posts a tweet containing the word "nigger".
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
Reddit is mainly overrun by "If Trump wins, the orange traitorous insurrectionist Putin agent failed businessman will put all the LGBTQ people in camps and bring about Christofascist dictatorship" types of posts.
From the comments of "The wonderful clarity of white genocide":
The nation is the hand of the race, the family is the finger of the nation, the individual is the fingernail. If your vocation is to fight, tell your cow whatever it needs to hear while you avoid seeding its’ fallopian tubes and instead mine more minerals and prepare to fight. Otherwise, tell your cow whatever it needs to hear while spawning more overlords.
Don’t talk politics with your cow. At best, it confuses it, at worst, it makes it difficult for your cow to chew cud with the other cows, and cows need to be part of a herd.
The level of politics to talk with your cow is, America is good, we are an American family, nice things are good, criminals are bad because they ruin nice things, having nice things is the only valid virtue signal, tasteful religious displays on nice things are great, ugly religious and political displays on ugly things are stupid evil heresy, ignore any advice from the news and entertainment media because it’s a bunch of pedophiles raping each other.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
Scott has written of archipelego as utopia.
Please, please link to the original version of "Archipelago", not the (horrible) edited version.
Of course, you also have to not hate the concept of young adults having sex to do that, and you can't be a traditionalist or progressive without hating young adults and sex [both will claim "protection of women and children" as an excuse to hate sex- traditionalists hate it when a young men has sex with a woman they feel should have been theirs, progressives hate it when a young women has sex with a man they feel should have been theirs] so it's definitely too much to ask of them.)
This is an absurd misrepresentation of traditionalist views. Trads are perfectly fine with young adults having sex; we just want them to do it inside of marriage.
From "Sexual Principles" by Free Northerner:
There are two biological adults strongly attracted to each other. They have been blessed with strong mutual attraction at a young age, and their families’ response would be to destroy their relationship because of some desire for them to be “abstinent”?
That’s insanity. That’s cruel. That’s borderline satanic.
Here is Paul on the issue:
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. (1 Corinthians 7:8-9 ESV)
The proper response, the Christian response, is to get these two young adults married and starting a family.
The modern drive for ‘abstinence’ uber alles is unholy. Some precious few are given the gift of singleness, they should abstain, but most are not given this gift and calling.
God blessed most with a sexual drive and a holy desire to become one flesh with another. To demand abstinence until some point in their 20’s or 30’s from those not given to singleness is cruel, destructive, unrealistic, unbiblical, and satanic. The focus on abstinence hands the devil a strong hold over young adults in which to subvert their holy desires into unholy ones.
One of the major problems with the modern church is the unbiblical emphasis on abstinence. Abstinence should never be an issue in the church. If two Christian young adults want sex with each other, their parents should rejoice and bring them before the altar post-haste.
Is it any wonder the unchurched are repulsed by such a hideous doctrine as abstinence?
And from "In Support of Early Marriage: Why I Hope Our Daughters Will Be Teen-Aged Brides" by Sunshine Mary:
It is our hope that our daughters will marry young, ideally around age 19; I have already begun gently talking to the middle-schoolers about the importance of marriage and taking seriously from an early age the search for a suitable husband.
How young should a girl marry? In most states, according to Teens / Minors Marriage License laws, if you are 16 or 17 years old, you can marry with written parental consent. If you are 15 or younger, you will need both parental consent and the approval of the probate court.
Although I would prefer our daughters to wait until around age 18 to marry, if one of them met a highly appropriate young man, and both of the families were in agreement that they would make a good marriage match, I would consider allowing them to marry at 17, which is the age my mother married my father, who was 19. Sixteen or younger seems very young to me and I would probably encourage them to wait a bit, simply because babies tend to follow marriages. However, if one of our daughters married at 17 and immediately became pregnant, I still don’t think that’s such a big problem; after all, by the time I was 13, I was regularly baby-sitting in the evenings for families with toddlers and babies. Baby-sitting is not as great a responsibility as parenting, of course, but if a girl begins to babysit by 12 or 13, then by 18 she should have enough experience with children to manage one of her own if she is married. Proverbs 17:6 says Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers, so why discourage our children from marrying and having children?
The unrealistic notion of practicing abstinence through high school, college, and beyond is an idea emblematic of boomer cuckservativism, not traditionalism in any meaningful sense.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
RE: The state of LLMs, LLaMA 3.1 405B has since come out, along with the improved LLaMA 3.1 8B and 70B models. It's pretty good, tying with Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini Advanced in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena. But the real news just dropped last night; the new Gemini 1.5 Pro Experimental has taken the lead, crushing GPT-4o.
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
To make a line break in markdown you must type two spaces at the end of each line. This will allow you to correctly format poems and lyrics.
I went into a public 'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins," when the band begins to play.I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap.
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes," when the drums begin to roll.We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, fall be'ind,"
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir," when there's trouble in the wind.You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees!
erwgv3g34
11mo ago
But where on one's person do you even carry a gun (or pepper spray)? Surely not in your pockets, and digging through a bag to find a weapon seems difficult.
I use the urban carry holster. Like everybody else, I was put off from getting one after seeing this gif, but I finally caved because the ankle holsters I kept buying would only last a couple of months before the Velcro became unusable. It's wonderful.
I wonder how much the people who instituted Social Security, which is basically the world's largest pyramid scheme, can be reasonably blamed for not seeing this coming.
On the one hand, the theoretical argument that "exponential population growth can't go on forever" is pretty strong. On the other hand, literally all empirical evidence up to that point was that population always grows exponentially until it hits Malthusian limits; the demographic transition was a hell of black swan.
And, of course, trying to make up for the missing grandchildren by importing infinite low-productivity foreigners into the magic dirt is just retarded.
I want to fix the budget, but I'm less than stoked about robbing me of the money I was forced to pay to social security in order to do it.
If you got back everything you paid into social security, it would be a pittance, because the program has always been funded by stealing from the young to pay for the old, and reliant on the idea that there are a lot more young than there are old so that stealing a little bit from each young person doesn't hurt too bad but is still enough to pay for the old people.
The demographic transition wrecked that, and now we are just going deeper and deeper into debt while we try to figure out a solution (no, immigration is not a solution).
Welp, I wasn't sure about this Vance guy, but now I'm sold.
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