sarker
ketman hetman
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
ketman hetman
2hr ago
I don't understand the claim. The biggest foreign worker demographics in Poland are Ukranians and Belorussians, together accounting for about a million people out of 1.3 million foreign workers. I do concede these are foreigners, but somehow I doubt that this is what we are talking about.
The word "deliberately" is especially puzzling in this case since these visas were apparently issued illegally as revealed by an internal investigation. Seems easier to sweep this under the rug if it really is coming from a deliberate top down policy, although I do concede that in the strictest pedantic sense these visas were issued "deliberately" as opposed to accidentally.
Are you under the impression that there are no foreign workers in Russia, or that Russian work visas are somehow not issued "deliberately"?
sarker
ketman hetman
2hr ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Indian population of Poland is around 0.09%. Perhaps some sophistry can turn this into "filled", but I'm not impressed.
When responding, please keep in mind that Russia is 10%-15% Muslim.
sarker
ketman hetman
2hr ago
Is there any belief by any serious thinker that this is a war of genocide?
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We are supposed to treat seriously claims of "white genocide" because white people in the west can't breed. However, when Russia deports ukranian children and bans the ukranian language the G-word is totally unfitting.
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Very few wars are fought with the explicit aim of putting a bullet in the head of every citizen. Nevertheless, wars short of that can be existential for the state.
NATOs puppet state and filled with Africans.
Interesting. And Ukraine was being filled with Africans between 2013 and 2022, right? And e.g. Poland (also a nato puppet if there ever was one) is also filled with Africans?
sarker
ketman hetman
4hr ago
It's like you're in an MMA match, and the guy you're fighting is going to kill you if you lose (but he's going to walk away regardless).
sarker
ketman hetman
13hr ago
One caveat on the 100k emergency fund thing, if you guys have really high annual spend, and I’m talking like 200k and above here, then 100k makes total sense as that’s only 6 months of spend.
Only if that's 200k of required spend (e.g. rent). If you're spending 200k due to taking three luxury cruises a year, it's probably okay to not factor that into your emergency buffer.
sarker
ketman hetman
13hr ago
Magritte and Dali are fairly popular I'd say. Dali is googled about half to a third as often as Picasso, which is really not bad.
I've got multiple credit cards plus a bank card all stored on my phone. When my banks have flagged transactions as fraud, I'm able to authorize them via SMS. IME digital wallets continue to work even if a card is deactivated for some reason and replacement cards are mailed overnight, so the opportunity cost of keeping thousands under the mattress outweighs anything else.
I've also never had a situation where I had an expense that positively could not be put off for a few days and was payable in cash.
sarker
ketman hetman
23hr ago
I've got about $20 in cash in my wallet and probably $5 in quarters somewhere in the car.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
If you're inviting someone to a party they are basically a friend in my estimation.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
I'm honestly shook that you have thirteen people to invite to your housewarming party. I had about three friends to invite to my wedding.
Congrats on the house! May your doors be ever unobstructed.
the subject of the first biography
I'd just like to interject for a moment. Johnson's Life was not the first (English, I guess you mean?) biography. In fact, Johnson himself wrote the Life of Richard Savage.
a good friend put in a word with the King and said that Johnson was a renowned writer, a fierce royalist and an all-around champion of British conservatism, and that the King might honour this with a permanent stipend.
This is also incorrect. Johnson was a Tory, but also against the house of Hanover. As Boswell put it:
The accession of George the Third to the throne of these kingdoms, opened a new and brighter prospect to men of literary merit, who had been honoured with no mark of royal favour in the preceding reign. His present Majesty's education in this country, as well as his taste and beneficence, prompted him to be the patron of science and the arts; and early this year Johnson, having been represented to him as a very learned and good man, without any certain provision, his Majesty was pleased to grant him a pension of three hundred pounds a year[1105]. The Earl of Bute, who was then Prime Minister, had the honour to announce this instance of his Sovereign's bounty, concerning which, many and various stories, all equally erroneous, have been propagated: maliciously representing it as a political bribe to Johnson, to desert his avowed principles, and become the tool of a government which he held to be founded in usurpation. I have taken care to have it in my power to refute them from the most authentick information. Lord Bute told me, that Mr. Wedderburne, now Lord Loughborough, was the person who first mentioned this subject to him[1106]. Lord Loughborough told me, that the pension was granted to Johnson solely as the reward of his literary merit, without any stipulation whatever, or even tacit understanding that he should write for administration. His Lordship added, that he was confident the political tracts which Johnson afterwards did write, as they were entirely consonant with his own opinions, would have been written by him though no pension had been granted to him[1107].
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
You mentioned dairy and eggs in the previous paragraph, so it seems fair to point out.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
You can also do this as a vegetarian but it takes more effort. Beans need soaking, vegetables need washing and cutting, etc. It can work well but needs some attention to pairing complementary sources of amino acids, like beans and rice.
Soy, dairy, and eggs are complete proteins and require next to no effort to prepare.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Well, I'll grant the lavish and inaccessible house with invisible servants and beautiful husband, but Psyche was a princess, not from a poor family, I don't think there's any special aging involved, she doesn't long to leave the mansion and in fact is not a prisoner at all (she just leaves after spilling spaghetti oil everywhere).
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
It's got some of the elements, but not necessarily a beautiful husband (see 425C) and certainly not an inaccessible house, rich foods, etc.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
I vibed a map of zip codes filterable by demographics, test scores, distance to the nearest big city, etc. Some interesting findings which I hope might be a basis for an effort post if I could just get around to it.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
human effort has intrinsic value, connecting with other humans has intrinsic value, the total historical and social context of an artwork has intrinsic value, etc
Come now. I'm confident it would take me, who has two left hands, at least ten times as much effort to paint or carve a great work compared to a great artist. Does the work become more valuable because it's hard for me? No, nobody cares. As long as there's some minimum effort involved, this seems to satisfy that requirement. How low is the minimum? Presumably it's arbitrarily set somewhere above "repeated workshopping of an image with an AI" and somewhere below "tape a banana to a wall". The astute reader may notice that the latter is plausibly less than the former.
The rest might work as arguments against art generated entirely autonomously with zero or minimal human input, but clearly fall apart if the prompter has a vision that he uses the AI to realize. Or do you think that AI art has no historical and social context? Surely you of all people would agree that you can't do anything entirely outside of your context.
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
A complete protein is one that has all essential amino acids in reasonable supply.
Are you mostly eating bread? No meat, no dairy, no eggs, no buckwheat or quinoa?
sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
But it's telling that we're not hearing the secular fears of getting raped and murdered by a tinder date.
What does it tell us? I expect you're more likely to die in a car crash on the way to a tinder date than to be murdered by your date.
sarker
ketman hetman
2d ago
Are you not eating complete proteins? Even vegans get plenty of lysine from soy.
sarker
ketman hetman
5d ago
Okay. I exaggerated. In reality, NSW and Victoria residents (over half the country) were only permitted to be within 5km of home (unless the Melbourne night curfews were in effect).
There's some evidence that pet ownership makes childbearing more likely.
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