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WandererintheWilderness
18hr ago
This isn't even accusatory, I know your heart's in the right place, but I know that you and people like you are incapable of stopping the things I find offensive and distasteful that come from your side, so why should I police mine?
Well, "morality" would be the obvious reason why. Policing evil on one's own side is desirable in itself, by definition. If my brother has gone crazy then it is my duty to do something about it, whether or not my neighbor is dealing with his crazy brother.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
18hr ago
Feels a bit like being a Weimar conservative who would rather get shot by the Nazis than give the Communists one more inch.
But such is life.
According to the Consumer Expenditure Survey of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (size of consumer unit by income before taxes: one person: income before taxes < 15 k$/a), living on 27 k$/a is perfectly feasible.
Of course, cost of living will vary depending on location, inside (scroll down to "local standards", which are tabulated by county) or outside the US.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
18hr ago
The coins were bought off-chain, on an exchange.
In the bitcoin economy as it actually exists, most transactions between people happen off-chain (across the books of an exchange, or in the Lightning Network), and most on-chain transactions are people moving money from one hand to another (exchange deposits and withdrawals, opening and closing Lightning channels, transfers to and from cold wallets).
The easiest way to think about it is that Bitcoin replaces gold bullion, not money. Moving bullion out of the vault it is stored in is exceptional - most transactions happen by exchange of warehouse receipts.
WandererintheWilderness
18hr ago
You appear to think of politics entirely on the basis of whether policies create material problems for you in your life (and, granted, in your daughter's). Don't you have a concept of politics as rooted in moral values unrelated to your own personal fate? Is there any amount of evil that people to your right could wreak on strangers that would outweigh making the trains run on time in your specific neck of the woods?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
18hr ago
What is the minimum annual income could you live off of while still being happy?
Like many corporate tech drones nearing middle age, I have gotten bored with the rat race and dream of a simpler, lower stress life. I don't really consoom much anymore -- I barely play games or watch TV, and I have a massive collection of books that I've yet to get around to reading. My only expensive habits are whiskey and the very occasional cigar, but I could probably reduce my intake or go without.
Having money is pretty great, though. You can solve a lot of problems by simply throwing money at them. And expensive whiskey is nice...
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
18hr ago
They change the portraits roughly every 20 years - Florence Nightingale was on the £10 from 1975-1994, making her the first woman to appear on British money who was neither the Queen nor Britannia.
I think he means the centenarian SS collaborationist. Famous for being invited to speak at the Canadian parliament as a veteran of WW2 and a fighter for Ukrainian independence against Russia. Allegedly, the people in charge of the ceremony were blissfully unaware of what kind of military formations were conducting Ukrainian resistance against Russia at that time.
reo
19hr ago
you need to understand which part really was / is providing the bulk of benefit.
in general, 5.7 Hb1Ac isn't worrying level. it just means that there is a tendency of insulin resistance. And since muscles are one of the major users of glucose, using them will reduce the resistance (muscles will be hungry for glucose).
- Continue the exercise routine (whichever you find sustainable). if there are 3 strength days, then add 2 endurance days (with some form of LSS) or plain walking (>30min), etc (dog walking is a great idea). This will keep your largest muscles (legs) in usage.
- continue IF, if you find it sustainable. but if you are doing proper strength training, then not of highest recommendation.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
19hr ago
The world that looks more like the dark matter world from my perspective is the bubble that has formed adjacent the Western progressive ideology, where the healthy and fun trust exercise of saying outlandish things in private company, knowing that all present trust you to not really mean it, is taken deathly seriously.
If the men you know never make offensive jokes and can't even fathom why making offensive jokes is fun, I think they have poorer lives for it.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
19hr ago
Azov? Pretty sure they are indeed trolling LARPers trying to amp up the edgy factor. Which, granted, is something the nazis also did, but that's hardly exclusive to them or essential to nazism.
I'll give you that they can seem somewhat more real if you angle your perspective just right to see some Freikorps or anticommunist parallels...but I'd still call it LARP overall.
RenOS
something is wrong
19hr ago
Yeah, as said it was more a random idea I had in the moment; I wouldn't expect it to work, and asked more for the purpose of finding out why it is wrong.
WandererintheWilderness
19hr ago
If you're a fascist or fascistically inclined, you've got Hitler and Mussolini.
There's always Franco, though of course classifying him as a fascist is controversial. I think "Franco was alright" is somewhat more in the Overton window than saying the same about Mussolini and Hitler (to the extent people know anything about Franco in the first place).
2D3D
20hr ago
We aren't elcor who need to prefix our emotional framing with our statements, we can simply read a statement in its isolation and make the value judgment. It should be pointed out that 'Great. I love Hitler' is about as anodyne a statement as 'Great. I love mac and cheese', meaning context is actually necessary to understand the totality of that statements value and renders the statement useless as a singular point of evidence. If you have to ask 'what did you mean when you said you love hitler' it means that 'i love hitler' has been so degraded as a totalizing phrase that you can't make any associated terms stick with it. That is entirely the lefts fault for making Everything I Don't Like Is Hitler.
RenOS
something is wrong
20hr ago
Maybe healthcare just is a cursed industry.
Unfortunately, it is. High intrinsic costs, high legal costs, usually limited pool of customers. Afaik biomedical startups have the highest failure rates among all categories.
2rafa
20hr ago
The Nazis were relatively gay and not particularly trad. Limited moves to deal with the red light districts in a few major German cities were halfhearted at best. Single women were in some cases even encouraged to become single mothers, women weren’t removed from the workplace, there were forms of proto-feminism that certainly clashed with traditional Christian views of a woman’s place, even as fertility was lauded (but in a technocratic kind of way, not necessarily a trad one). Economically although heavily supported by small petit bourgeois business owners, the nsdap increased the presence of the major German corporations in the economy and was broadly supportive of the major capital markets through 1939. Exhibits on entartete kunst existed in an uneasy relationship with plenty of relatively modernist sculpture, art and especially architecture that, a few short decades earlier, would definitely have been considered degenerate and abstract by critics.
2D3D
20hr ago
If the turing test for denying wrongthink can be made by people on this board then the turing test isn't especially useful as a gauge, just like the actual turing test is just copeslop for teacher pets obsessed about their defining characteristic of intellect being supplanted by fancy calculators.
Also, how does one assess what other people are actually perceiving in their mental reward mechanism? This typical mindedness is especially uncharitable, and runs the serious risk of overinterpreting basic metaphor for much deeper meaning simply to fit ones own biases. Reading others as scared dumb animals simply because they find it unnecessary to explicitly verbalize the readily obvious sneering at the moral masters being shown as toothless is just contempt levelled from a different direction.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
20hr ago
I'm doing a pretty bad job, but I'm at least more aware of how much I stare at my phone. I've started putting it down more and trying to pay attention to what's going on.
One helpful development is that my 1 year old has started toddling up to me and straight-up slapping my phone out my hand or grabbing it and tossing it aside before shoving a board book that she wants me to read right into my chest. Can't argue with that.
fluid_pride
20hr ago
"Watermelon" means using the environment (green) to mask advocacy for communism (red). It's been a term since at least 1980. The newspaper pretending not to know this and hieing to the fainting couch is classing pearl-clutching.
2D3D
20hr ago
The overton window being shifted to 'everything icky is Nazi and that is a Bad Thing' is also being dressed up by extremely tired checkboxing of Umberto Ecos work. The language police must move in concert with the intellectual police in order to maintain the unfalsifiable moral high ground - you actually are nazi because according to this Smart Man what you are doing is in line with nazism!. That the intellectualism is being rejected is just further proof of the moral and intellectual superiority that the Not Nazi faction wishes to enjoy. Pity about the whole practical power translation bit, but thats not as important as self actualization.
2D3D
20hr ago
Progressives seem to have zero idea what blacks believe and actually talk like. Watching modern tv post 2015 and blacks are basically all Eloquent Respectable Middle Class White People But With Racial Grievances, like they're all Ta-Nahisi Coates or whoever the black sidekick was for the Iron Man series. At least in 2010 people knew what threats were, I was warned against bringing my 'hoodrat' hard-R speaking black friends to this 'diversity' party being held in brooklyn, which while ironic at least seemed to betray an understanding of empirical reality.
Ademonera
21hr ago
I’ll say this much. Someone I knew who was active in young republican circles met the current president far before his rise to power
Crowstep
21hr ago
It's a good thing we put at very few politicians on British banknotes - the row when feminists decide we need a woman and the only serious candidate is Margaret Thatcher would destroy confidence in the currency.
I'm not sure why they chose Jane Austen instead of Florence Nightingale. The woman who invented modern nursing vs a woman who wrote six books about thinly veiled author inserts finding rich husbands. My guess is that the civil servants who decide are more likely to be English Lit graduates than nurses.
Earhart's achievements were exaggerated by the 1st-wave feminists of the time for DEI reasons, and continue to be. Dalrock brought receipts
Your list makes me consider Hedy Lamarr. Her achievements as an engineer are somewhat exaggerated for DEI reasons (the US navy didn't take her work on frequency hopping forward at the time, and the people who developed CDMA probably weren't aware of it) but her achievements as an actress are not.
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