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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8hr ago
The same source (statista) gives 78 today. So no 80s. Though I don't know how accurate these tables are; they're by nature projections.
Operation Choke Point?
Government.
Kiwi Farms?
Now that's a good example and yes Cloudflare is an example of the rare institutional power broker without much alternative. But one of the main killers was from an Australian defamation suit. (And despite that, they're still around anyway).
solowingpixy
the resident car guy
9hr ago
My situation is marginally different, but I find myself in a similar boat. After a decade post-graduation of slumming it at an overpaid service industry gig (owner's crony/top driver at a locally-owned doordash clone) because I was too lazy to job hunt followed by a year of going broke in a low-paying blue collar job I was fortunate enough to luck into an office job at a trucking company (thanks to having gotten to know my current boss at my side job as a bartender) that's simultaneously the highest-paying and easiest job I've ever had.
I feel like I'm in some kind of twilight zone where I get paid lower-middle class money to do nothing. I maybe do five solid hours of work a week in the office and my boss is happy with me, and his boss with him. It's a small satellite terminal and I feel like there's enough work for maybe 1.25 people, so I got hired to do some background stuff that my boss finds unpleasant and be his buddy. I was warned by the upper managers who hired me that the slow learning pace would be frustrating and it is, not because I'm struggling to grasp what I'm doing but because I'm asked to do so little and feel like I'm going to get fired because I barely do anything. But hey, my boss is scrolling on his phone/watching TV/shopping online almost as much as I'm scrolling Twitter or reading a novel on my phone, so we're even? I get texts from him about how I've been a blessing in his life. The most important thing I accomplished this week was fixing my boss's refrigerator at his house (I got lucky, the problem wound up being a $10 temperature controller, and it took me about an hour to replace.).
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
9hr ago
Hence why I specified the 70s and 80s.
68 is awful in comparison, North Korea beats that today.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
9hr ago
Car's no longer a gateway to socializing with peer young women and having sex?
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
9hr ago
I do talk with her about philosophical things, but her mind is pretty limited from being 7 years old. I emphasize quite a bit that she doesn't have to do something just because she wants to do something and she doesn't believe me yet.
She has watched My Little Pony and also a show called Philo and Sophie which is a lot more... explicit on the philosophical underpinnings of a happy life.
I've always been pretty self aware and consious of the good people are trying to seek when they do things. I spent hours as a young kid asking talking to my mom:
"Why did so and so do that?"
"Because she thought it made her look cool."
"Did it?"
"Maybe to someone she wanted to impress."
"Why does she want to look cool?"
"Because she thinks people like her more when she's cool?"
"Why do people want to be liked?"
And so on for ever. My 7 year old isn't that curious right now.
solowingpixy
the resident car guy
9hr ago
The way I choose to look at it is that you may never perfectly "fit in" with a given clique of people, but thanks to all the crossed wires you'll probably have something to contribute for a given group. It's probably not possible to actually be unique without being at least a bit weird, but it doesn't have to be crippling. The way I like to put it (having been repeatedly armchair diagnosed as autistic by randos at the bar, something I find irritating) is that there's a difference between being a bit of an autist (guilty as charged) and diagnosable as autistic (I doubt that.).
That said, truly kindred spirits (instead of "tolerable enough") have been hard to come by in my experience. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, was too much of a nerd to fit in with the redneck kids, my family situation could be summed up as "Hillbilly Elegy with the details scrambled and maybe a bit worse." (Something it took me too long to learn: When middle-class Millennials gather and complain about their families, they don’t actually want to hear about traumatic stuff. Dropping a nuke and insta-winning the dysfunctional family olympics makes you a party pooper. Likewise, women who want to hear about your mommy issues more than you want to talk about them usually have bad intentions.), and somewhere along the way the teachers decided that I was “talented and gifted”, I reformed from being “likely to wind up dead or in jail” to “reasonable success story who is gainfully employed and lacks a criminal record”, and “talented and gifted” wound up being my escape at 15.
The one place I really fit in was a residential high school aimed at “gifted” STEM students. Sure, I quickly learned that I don’t care much for math or science, but I was good enough to pass with Bs and history and English teachers need pets as well. The student body weren’t truly brilliant for the most part (nor was I), but they were comfortably above-average (smarter than state-school undergrads, at least) for the most part and many were sufficiently weirder than I was that I passed for normal by the standards of that place. Was it fun? Yes. Does isolating a bunch of weirdos into a boarding school for three years and indulging their proclivities help make them less weird? LMFAO no. Some years later my favorite English teacher told me that I was the smartest person she’d ever taught (confirmed by her kids, who were amused/relieved to discover that I liked drinking beer and bullshitting just like them; on a side note being raised by a teacher of gifted kids with an excessive regard for intelligence has to have been a trip. I hope she never told them that she adopted a Chinese and an Indian because she was afraid that the local pool of white kids up for adoption would turn out to be dumb white trash.). Why? I don’t know. I guess she’d never encountered someone who was literate and also mechanically-inclined.
I guess the way I would describe my life as an excessively-online weirdo is that I find myself living in a world where people rarely get my references (and TBF I barely watch TV or Movies/wasn’t into Star Wars, Star Trek, or Harry Potter so I don’t get theirs either). Read books? Too bad. No one’s ever heard of my favorite novelist (that would be Lionel Shriver); they’re too busy reading 50 Shades of whatever. Favorite band? No one I meet has heard of Dog Fashion Disco or The Dillinger Escape Plan. I could go on but it is what it is, and I at least like football and cars enough to have something less obscure or hoe scaring to talk about.
If you want a pro-tip to level up your social skills in a hurry and have the time to spare, get a side gig working the door or barbacking a night or few at a place where people you want to be around (or at least don’t despise) like to drink. Being an acquired taste (I’m probably guilty of that.) doesn’t preclude making friends, bar patrons are a captive audience, and you’ll be forced to at least LARP as a normal person. Every once in a while you might find someone actually interesting to talk to! You’re right about time being of the essence, though. I’m 34 and the place I live (an SEC college town, and it’s summer so it’s pretty dead right now) probably doesn’t help, but I presently find myself in an episode of “Do Millennials even leave their house anymore?” I go to the bars and pretty much everyone I run into are either undergraduates or old and half of my friend group moved somewhere else after covid (a mix of people getting shaken out of their complacent lives as overpaid service industry types by the shutdowns and the town getting annoyingly expensive to live in as out of state student money gentrifies the place relative to the crappy local white collar job market).
Fruck
Lacks all conviction
9hr ago
Thomas the entire forum got together and discussed it, you need to finish episode 3.
Bartender_Venator
10hr ago
A decent pub is never a terrible spot to be, hope you and your friend have a great time.
London prices are mad for, well, everything. Though, living in the US now, it's always a pleasure to just pay what my beer costs and not end up with an extra ~30% from tax and tip.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
10hr ago
The norm yes, but certainly not legal in my home state. There, you are required to stop for the yellow if you are able to.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
10hr ago
US life expectancy at birth was already over 68 years in 1950.
TIRM
10hr ago
I thought cruising throughout yellows was the norm and legal. I'm sure state laws have some point about doing safely and before it turns red.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
10hr ago
It looks more like Newspeak: "27,000 EURASIAN SOLDIERS UNALIVED IN DOUBLEPLUSGOOD VICTORY IN GHANA"
Dean
Flairless
10hr ago
Rotational schemes also have a key roll in cross-leveling institutional knowledge at the levels between the subject-matter-experts and the client policy-makers. In any given institution, the specific SMEs are rarely the ones directly briefing decision makers. This is because there are incredibly few policy-level topics where a single SME is sufficient. Instead there is inevitably some level of synthesis going on, and that synthesis is often being overseen by other leaders who need to know what other perspective/input is needed for a better whole. Leaders changing portfolios across their careers is important for understanding the interconnection of things related to what their initial expertise was.
This is more commonly recognized on the military side. The classic saying on the military side is that amateurs study tactics while experts study logistics. You do this by taking a weapons officer outside of just the weapons side of thing, and make them responsible for overseeing something more logistical, such as a small organization or some such. Platoon leaders lead platoons, Company Commanders oversee a Company supply section, Battalion Commands have entire supply Companies, and so on.
Well, more expert-experts also study not only logistics, but budgeting and manning. And force protection and military construction. And training and theory. To get senior advisors who can advise on the miltiary as a whole, you need a military progression system that increases exposure and understanding of other parts of the military. Leadership rotation schemes are part of that.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
10hr ago
I never claimed otherwise. People can be dumb and not think through after all. That's a failing, and not a justification for their views.
US cost-disease is in a league of its own, and I won't make strong claims about how much of it is due to the availability of more expensive treatment modalities as opposed to medical cartels, a captive market etc.
These hypothetical people might be unhappy with the ER bill from a broken toe, but they should be aware that they'll be much more grateful for therapies later down the line.
TIRM
10hr ago
I have never used a captcha solving service, but I know they exist and claim to be very cheap per solved captcha. Less than a penny cheap.
TIRM
10hr ago
I saw a /r/combatfootage video in which a Russian wearing a large poncho was blown apart by a drone. The commenters speculated it was meant to make it harder to spot him in IR by spreading out the heat more evenly. But like many Russian soldiers he was wandering around by himself during the day and was clearly visible in regular light.
ABigGuy4U
11hr ago
But it’s not a conscious thought process. Most people aren’t sitting down analyzing exactly what’s changed in the medical industry and where the new costs are going and finding the checkbook balances. They just know that they’re getting mostly the same procedures but it costs more.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
11hr ago
I’m beginning to suspect that screens are a hyper stimulus you can have “relationships”, but they’re only the good parts and you don’t have to work at them, you don’t have to make time for them, you don’t even need to put on pants. Games are much more stimulating than doing the actual thing, they give more rewards and with less effort than real life
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
11hr ago
It's thanks to said medical advances that most people can be confident of living well past 50, into their 60s, 70s or even 80s.
Focusing on the first fifty years of life where the need for intensive medical care isn't nearly as necessary is myopic.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
11hr ago
Sigh. I guess they'll have to settle for just the twinks and gas station boner pills.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
11hr ago
If you're in Thailand, you might as well take advantage of the legality of marijuana!
It was recriminalized a month ago.
Late on Tuesday, Thailand's health ministry issued an order prohibiting the sale of cannabis for recreational use and making it mandatory for any retail purchase to require a doctor's prescription.
The new rules will come into effect once they are published in the Royal Gazette, which could happen within days.
What makes 'outcomes are approximately equal by racial group' a higher value than meritocracy?
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