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ketman hetman
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sarker
ketman hetman
1d ago
Cooperation is the ultimate and final cuck. Think about it logically.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Hard disagree. Evil keeps coming back because the Elves give up on Middle Earth.
Nonsense. The elves had already fought several wars against evil by the time LotR happens.
The elves give up on middle earth because the cost of defeating sauron was the destruction of the rings, which destroyed the elvish realms and power. The choice of the elves was to leave middle earth or fade into wraiths. None of this is a matter of opinion, it's literally what Tolkein wrote.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Certainly employment looks different. Not a lot of girlbosses in Uganda. It's nevertheless striking that so many Ugandan women sell goods and services outside of the household.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
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ketman hetman
1d ago
I think the vanishing of the elves and all of that was more to express the author's nostalgia for a preindustrialized past or some such.
This is probably more true for the fate of the hobbits than that of the elves.
It's not so much that the world becomes darker over time, but more that the magic goes away.
Of course, Arda has literally gotten darker since the days of the two lamps.
It's not just the magic going away - the dwarves and the hobbits are also gone. Numenor is under the seas and middle Earth kind of sucks compared to numenor.
the world becomes increasingly evil
It doesn't become increasingly evil. Nevertheless, it becomes ineffably worse.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Yet the only thing in the Lord of the Rings that risks genuine defeat is passivity.
This is fundamentally wrong. The whole point of the LoTR world is that things keep getting worse and, although you may win the day, in the long run everything is cooked, as it were. Evil keeps coming back, it gets defeated every time one way or another, but things are worse off than they used to be despite the ""victory"". Restoration is impossible. We can never make things as good as our fathers had it. The elves wither and go to the uttermost West. The race of hobbits fails. The dwarves die in their mines. The ents disappear. Lorien dies.
Things are not looking great on that front either, but time will tell.
Also I think curves kind of suck - what kind of furniture are you going to put against a curved wall?
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ketman hetman
1d ago
You can pay per token for open weights models served by third parties that are a few months behind SOTA if you don't believe that the first party cost per token is real.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
I mean that if a woman is a housewife and does housework that doesn't count as labor force participation.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
This case study compares panelization and modularization for a single house. It does not compare either technique to conventional building methods. I'd recommend reading the link I posted.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
Mobile homes are about 10%-35% cheaper than site-built homes. The big advantage of mobile homes vs prefabricated components is that there's basically no assembly required, which is a big savings.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
We live in the post-"Racism is the greatest health threat" world. Fuck studies.
Nobody studied hateful geriatrics back when things were more based?
I'm going all in on nothing. The market overall continues posting at worst anemic returns as it has for the past few months, but no crash. And yes, I am long the market.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
What is an example of a negative thing you might have responded with?
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ketman hetman
2d ago
50+ hours a week of housework was needed to achieve a respectable working class standard of housekeeping,
Work done in the home and consumed in the home is explicitly excluded from this accounting.
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ketman hetman
2d ago
Can you give an example of a situation where this led to a downgrade?
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ketman hetman
2d ago
Is this an Irish thing? I think @JTarrou is right about the US. Let's do a back of the envelope calculation for ireland.
- Median income: ~40k euro. I think the after tax take home would be 38k.
- Groceries for 4: hard to say. The US government makes a sample thrifty budget, but the Irish one does not. Let's say 125 euro per week.
- marriage: basically free.
- house: I tried to find a 25th percentile house price but couldn't easily do so. The median house outside Dublin is something like 300k euro. I don't know how Irish mortgages are structured, but Claude says you can put down 10% and mortgage 90% at around 3.5% (side note: apparently you get better interest rates for better insulated houses? Lmao) which works out to 1212 euros a month for a 30 year loan.
- property tax: apparently about 400 euro a year
- home insurance: 650 euro a year
- call it 1300 euro a month all in
So after those expenses you've got about 1400 euro a month to spend on everything else. Doesn't seem so bad?
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ketman hetman
2d ago
Can you give an example of when answering this question honestly led to negative consequences?
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ketman hetman
2d ago
The region with the highest female employment rate is...Subsaharan Africa,
Genuinely shocking result, thanks for that.
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ketman hetman
4d ago
He also made it clear that you aren't going to even be able to take those risks unless you're a multi millionaire first.
I wonder how true this is. Looking at the richest men in America:
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Musk: Started his first company in 1995 with about $60k of capital in 2026 dollars and seemed to just bootstrap his success from that. His dad famously owned an emerald mine, but there's conflicting reports about how much money that actually brought in and he was estranged from his dad.
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Larry Ellison: mildly shitty childhood, raised by aunt and uncle, started his business with $11k starting capital in 2025 dollars, of which he personally invested about $6k. Not a multimillionaire and didn't come from money as far as I can tell.
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Zucc: professional parents, high status schools, probably UMC or LUC. It's not clear how much starting capital Facebook requires from a cursory skim, but I can't imagine it was a lot considering its humble beginnings. He had a parental safety net, but certainly wasn't a multi millionaire.
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Jeff Bezos: born to a teenage mother (high school student) and father (an alcoholic "Danish unicyclist"). Later adopted by a Cuban stepfather (petroleum engineer). I guess his mom's dad was a regional director of the atomic energy commission? Bezos had a successful professional career after college and started Amazon with $600k of capital in 2025 dollars from his parents.
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Larry Page: college professor parents. High status summer schools. Got some seed funding for basic equipment and then managed to attract bigger investors with demos of the technology.
I don't really think that any of these people were only in a position to take risks from having millions already. Bezos is probably the closest thing to this given the size of the investment his parents put in (although it's a mystery to me where they got that money from in the first place). The most you can say for the rest of these is that their lives wouldn't have been over had their businesses not succeeded and they could have moved in with their parents or something - but that goes for a lot of people, not just multi millionaires.
In your model, it's impossible to cooperate without subordination, unless you're on top. Since, as you point out, very few are on top, we can round cooperation off to subordination in this view.
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