yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
2d ago
many are developing rapidly, living standards are improving, education is increasing, infrastructure is being built, many more are seeing nonviolent leadership transitions - and most of that isn’t the result of charity but of ordinary economic activity.
Man I want to believe this but I just don't. It happens every once in a while but as far as I can tell it's only ever cyclical. The country getting out of a low-trust hole can only do it for 10-15 years before the next coup based on tribal lines.
You can't even read the Africa section of the economist regularly without losing your mind. There's such a constant background simmering of rape, mass murder, and corruption going on at some level on that continent it's just impossible to fathom.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
My main issue is that I agree with all this, but I've been crying "wolf" a long with Ron Paul for more than a quarter century now.
Our deficits and foreign policy have seemed like intractable problems to me for so long I don't understand how we're still going, that anyone can justify buying T-bills with our attitude towards spending.
It just feels all made up. At least until the military industrial complex falls a couple more notches.
yofuckreddit
4d ago
Even a layman's understanding of cars, money, and dentistry are enough to catch bullshit.
The average person holds these people in high esteem, considers them almost mystic witch doctors who understand incomprehensible mysteries. This is almost entirely a matter of fear, convenience, and social momentum.
An ICE car isn't really all that complicated. You can figure out the basic underpinnings of an engine, suspension, and drivetrain components in a 30 minute youtube video, for instance. A great mechanic is going to be able to explain these things to you in a way that is understandable.
And that is the key. If you're reasonably intelligent, and this supposed expert can't make a problem extremely clear to you, then chances are extremely high that they're a grifter. This applies to software, HVAC technicians, plumbers.... the whole 9 yards.
yofuckreddit
9d ago
This hits home. I had a plan of entropy reduction tasks laid out this morning, but because I let my spouse sleep in 2/4 were rendered impossible before the weather came in.
Whenever I'm laying another 4,000 pounds of mulch to inhibit weeds, replacing burst pipes, cleaning leaves out of gutters, trimming hedges, all I can think about is how the western white picket fence fantasy is such a fucking racket. The previous owners of this house apparently had a landscaping team coming out twice a week which would be an unbelievably exorbitant expense.
I cannot wait to move into a house without a beautiful, feature-rich backyard. I just want carpet of grass, a patio to keep grill implements, and that's it.
That's not even getting into the inside of the house, where the tight garage means that every maintenance task requires I pull out one or both vehicles, uncrate my tools and supplies, accomplish it, and then have to put it all back. Dogs and kids and wives constantly underfoot, grabbing each tool and consumable as soon as they hit the ground to fuck around with.
If I organize any room it doesn't matter - over the next few days someone is going to come in and fuck it all up.
Jesus Christ, if I think about it too much I'll put a shotgun in my mouth. Or I'll go to a friend's pool, ignore the chaos, and drink some beers.
yofuckreddit
13d ago
I highly recommend California as a tourist destination.
My family lives in California, so I've visited almost everywhere except LA (which I've universally heard is a shithole I don't want to see).
It feels like a different country. It's the same currency, abiet effectively devalued by 15%. But I very much enjoy visiting - the food is almost universally excellent, people are kind as long as you pretend to be a leftist, etc. There's just a lot of stuff to do.
yofuckreddit
6d ago
Politically, my preferred outcome would be to exalt White bisexual antitheistic males above all others and make this identity the pass to being treated as aristocracy.
Yeah, that'd be cool, though I'm not fully bisexual. I expect anyone I fuck to at least put on a wig and some makeup.
I don't want meritocracy, equality of opportunity, judging the content of someone's character. I certainly don't want any retvrn.
We differ here - I want these because I'm smarter, stronger faster, and nicer than almost everyone else. I've already optimized for these things so I want society to conform to me instead of the other way around.
Promiscuous girls with tattoos and one side of their head shaved make me go crazy.
I can't say the shaved head aesthetic has migrated from prog spaces to my sexual preferences, but I dig tats. Do I count as progressive?
yofuckreddit
8d ago
- Autopilot is nice. You can't rely on it completely, but the latest versions are pretty excellent and would make long trips far, far more pleasant.
- The range is "legit" in the summer. A new Tesla will frequently get very close to the advertised range. Temperature, elevation changes, and how heavy your foot is literally mean YMMV.
- Maintenance is non-existent/easy, though getting parts is still annoying unless you're in one of four US metros. The one thing people forget and talk too little about, though, is that if you get a performance model with low-profile tires, you will rip through them. If you hit a pothole, the tire is done, and each tire is more than $250. They also wear insanely fast if you drive the car the way you should, IMO.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
I have always been ignorant of this. Why did the US not buy back slaves? I haven't seen anything about opposition to the plan from the south.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I honestly cannot even fathom being unable to see NPR's shift in the past 8 years. Someone has to have a bare minimum of observational skills and long-term memory, and then it should just be patently obvious.
Thank god Uri brought some actual statistics to bear. Otherwise, this sort of gaslighting would perhaps have some effect because even after being constantly deployed in far less obvious cases.
I listened to NPR almost every day in the car. I fucking donated! It's now an intolerable shitshow of constant white-guilt signaling shoehorned into every single story. It went from being a bit too dry about too-boring topics to matching the hysteria level of MSNBC with maybe a half-step richer language.
Nothing is left there; it's just another empty mouthpiece I'm being forced to pay for.
yofuckreddit
22d ago
One of the cringiest faux pas of my lifetime was rating every single female classmate in my 7th grade yearbook. Which was then found and passed around.
There was something deeply distasteful about a mid bro such as myself a) exhibiting how thirsty I was for some of my female friends b) quantitatively showing how unattractive I found others. Even for children this was a bit of a bridge too far, I didn't recover socially from it until 9th grade.
Since then I've migrated to a more progressive, binary system in which women are either a 1 or a 0. There's not as much fidelity but it leads to richer conversations about attractiveness anyway.
It is funny, though, how when it comes to ranking attractiveness women are so vicious and unrealistic compared to men.
I also have a far less charitable reading of "unrapeable" than OP - I think it's obvious that it means someone is too ugly to rape. This is still just dumb kids getting together to say stupid and hateful shit because they have underdeveloped EQ. This has been happening since forever, and it's not a sign of some endemic issue in Australian society. Fuck Marry Kill is a classic game.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
My brother cannot stop sending me hype articles about GTA6. Vice City is such a compelling setting compared to "New York" and "LA" in my opinion.
Light culture war fodder - I have to imagine Rockstar has considered and discarded Atlanta as a template multiple times. Other cities can make a claim as to multi-ethnic criminals all over the place, whereas ATL's strengths and weaknesses come from it's very tangible blackness.
yofuckreddit
8d ago
A couple folks are suggesting "let it go". I get it! But a few things:
- If you lived in my neighborhood you'd be pretty reluctant to be the guy who replaced everything with a bunch of concrete padding and cut down all the trees in your yard. Standards are high - yes the boomers are at another level with their yards, but other young families are handling their shit. Mine's a bit tougher than some others unfortunately. Frankly I'm already embarrassed with how much I've let it fall off!
- The yard's a significant store of value. I suspect it cost 6 figures or more to get to this point - there are many places that can't host grass due to elevation changes + shade (where the mulch goes) and it's clear an expert designed the whole thing. If I let it go to seed it'll cost me some $ on sale.
I think the trick is going to be me just holding on for dear life, making more money somehow, and getting it right the next time.
yofuckreddit
13d ago
There have been so many great comments and threads about increasing longevity, but the only thread I can find through search-fu is a lil old.
Assume I know that what I really need to do is eat less, exercise more, and be happy. I agree.
But I'm now in a place I want to solve problems with money and convenience instead of hard work. I'm willing to take on a reasonable amount of risk for unproven supplements. To summarize the previous thread, some hot topics included:
- Creatine (already a convert, love it)
- Boring stuff (Fish Oil, Vitamin D, Vitamin C - none of which I take right now)
- Phenibut (Very interesting, and I occasionally have high-stakes meetings I could see using this for but haven't pulled the trigger)
What else would you suggest or discuss?
yofuckreddit
13d ago
Train for an ironman, work on side projects, play golf with executives.
yofuckreddit
8d ago
Yeah. Even my previous, smaller house, had a next door neighbor with a lot of "advice". Two retirees with a cumulative 100 hours a week more free time than the young couple they were advising.
yofuckreddit
20d ago
I hate IoT shit, but being able to close/open garage doors without the receiver when leaving the house without a car, set my thermostat to vacation mode, monitor my dogs, etc., have been beneficial enough for me not to rip out the haphazard automation put in the house by the previous owner.
Still cannot believe Google just gave up on Nest tooling and decided to leave home automation to a dozen Chinesium applications instead. It's embarrassing.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Maybe I'm permanently ruined for complex games, but I think I'm just slower on the uptick.
The thing with all these is if you can get over that first 30 minute hump, you're golden. Factorio and The Witcher 3 have fairly complicated control schemes and in-depth stuff going on. After learning the keyboard shortcuts I sunk 100+ hours into each....
But then when I would switch between them I would have to spend another 30 to get reacclimated! I've got too much shit in my proverbial RAM. I'm managing a marriage, a house, multiple teams, an old car, children, friendships, exercise.....
I'd like to blame it on the culture changing but I suspect it's vanilla mental decline and an order of magnitude greater responsibility that are the real culprits.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I read someone say they play a game whenever putting on NPR to see how many minutes it is before there's some mention of a racial or sex/gender-related angle to whatever story they're covering, and they almost never go past 5 minutes; ever since starting to play the game myself, I actually rarely go past 1 minute these days. Could just be coincidence given, again, I rarely listen to any radio anymore these days, but I suspect it's not.
My commute is short - when I couldn't even tune into the further and more rural station to make it to work without this being the dominant angle 5 days in a row, I had to excuse myself from listening.
Now I get to listen to Spotify's "Discovery" queue instead of learning about the world, which while great is still a downgrade.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I'm reading the final book in the Hyperion Cantos series.
As a recovering voracious reader with lots of free time, I've found I'm pretty picky. Almost no sci-fi in the past 10 years has captured me at all, so I'm combing back through the few classics I've missed out on.
Overall I'd give Hyperion a 8/10 which to me is a "Definitely read if you like the genre". However I have to vent about its shortcomings:
- The author clearly loves historical literature and so has pushed it into many core parts of the story. It doesn't fit in a sci-fi setting as neatly as he imagined it.
- The world building between ~1990 (when he wrote it) and 2732 (When it's set) is unbelievably sparse. There's maybe one or two wars and authors mentioned for those 700 years, no major advances in religion, etc.
- The plot armor of the cast after the first book is obvious and impenetrable. I'm not looking for Game of Thrones here, but there has to be a middle ground between that and "I can tell after a single page introduction this guy is going to
live the whole series and definitely switch to the be a good guy. - Speaking of good guys, the morality spectrum is pretty black and white here. The big bad is the big bad, and the good guys have very few rough edges. Plenty of Deus Ex Machina you can call a mile a way.
All that being said there's plenty of cool concepts and imagery. Each book in the series is pretty different which you normally don't get in a series. May dig into the Battletech books next.
yofuckreddit
12d ago
I agree with you on all counts. I don't dismiss eating less and exercising more because I don't want or need to do those things, just that they're already such table stake requirements that it should be a given.
The eating less part is very difficult for me since I'm a fast food addict and consider eating one of life's great joys. But I cycle 75 miles a week and do full-body workouts frequently as well.
yofuckreddit
9d ago
It's not actually libertarian propaganda, it's a pretty crappy show that was built just to sell toys.
My kid was pretty into it for maybe 6 months and then even he thinks it's pretty lowbrow at this point.
yofuckreddit
2mo ago
This is a flippant response, but I don't care about how fast we make progress in AI.
Of course regulation will slow it down and make it worse, just like it poisons everything else it touches. Given the track record of top-down national or regional regulation, I don't feel like anyone advocating against it should be on the back foot or defending it. What would good regs look like? Because the EU's effort looks like shit and so do many of the drafts I've seen from the US. In any case, the US's rate of progress on this doesn't matter to me.
But yes, I've noticed the people who love gun control also seem to be very excited about telling me what software I can run on my GPU. Especially if it offers the possibility of improving my life and competing with a state actor. It's no coincidence, then, that I consider them mortal enemies as well.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Twitter has some: https://twitter.com/olilondontv/status/1782167337682006209
yofuckreddit
13d ago
Love it, but looking for more cutting edge grey market supplements/drugs in the vein of Phenibut
I was a single digit employee number at my current gig, now very successful by any stretch of the imagination.
Competence is critical. Like you, most failed entrepreneurs I've met are idiots. I've also seen some semi-successful ones that aren't super hard-working but compensate with some light grift and charisma.
I think if you have:
You can be successful. Securing funding and taking advantage of luck are the keys, IMO.
Are you considering any business plan?
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