Ioper
17d ago
I'm not really making a value judgment on the superiority of any nation really
Yes, you are.
Great, my post was meant to be pointing at dysfunction, so I guess you got my point...
And yet you fail to see the even greater dysfunction in the places you visit. You're just richer there man. Your analysis of the places you visit is just plain wrong, egregiously so.
What conclusions can we draw from your post? It's nice to be rich and the housing market is fucked.
Food in Thailand is extremely delicious, healthy, and very cheap. I am sure the average Thai person eats a healthier diet than the average Japanese. Japanese food is extremely dated in nutrition and food trends. It is so to such a degree that I suspect it’s a sort of fashion or cliquish refusal to update rather than a lack of knowledge or interest. (South Korea next door has a very modern and nutritious food culture- eating healthy is significantly easier there than in Japan.) Thai foods feature a great variety of vegetables, fruits, meats and seafoods. Before I visited Thailand, I imagined that maybe they would be behind on trends or stuck in the past, since they are poor, but the opposite is true. You can find the trendiest foods in Bangkok- anything from the latest Korean baked craze, to Dubai chocolate bars and parfaits and ice cream cones, to Burmese tea leaf salad. They have it, and you can have it delivered within an hour for pennies.
SK has a 50% higher obesity rate than Japan, and Thailand a fully 100% higher obesity rate.
Clearly they're doing something quite a bit better than the nations you profess are clearly superior. It's fine to say that you prefer Thai food to Japanese food, I certainly do, but I don't really believe it's healthier. For instance, it might not be immediately obvious but thai cooking uses a lot for sugar.
You may be thinking- ok, this guy is rich in Thailand and poor in the US, of course he is going to have a merrier view of the Thai economy. But when I look at charts like this I am in the 95th percentile of wealth for my age, in the US. I am frugal with my money, yes, but I would like to be able to afford a life on par with or better than that of my father at the same age, and I’m not sure I can.
Congrats, you've discovered that the housing market is very dysfunctional. That tells us very little about the productivity of society in general, just that it extracts money from young people and gives it to old people. It might even be that having a dysfunctional housing market makes the economy more productive because it forces young people to work more. If a house cost 300k rather than 1.5m then people with decent salaries might very well choose to work less.
You also have to realise that this situation is even worse in Thailand, with housing affordability and household debt a far higher than in the US.
But then you're missing out on the wonderfully jingoistic lyrics!
If we're counting historic songs that I like that have gone through a lot of versions before ending up in its current form then i would point you towards Björneborgarnas marsch. The melody was probably written in France, the melody was then popularised in Sweden by the famous Swedish troubadour Carl Michael Bellman and was subsequently adopted as a marsch by the Swedish army. 70 years later, and post Sweden losing Finland to Russia, a Swede living in (and naturalised citizen of) Finland wrote a poem that became the lyrics to the song of called Björneborgarnas marsch. This was eventually translated to Finnish and became the anthem of not only the Finnish armed forces but also their president and Estonia's armed forces.
Ioper
19d ago
I don't live in a hot country buy whenever it's hot here and I run out AC I've never been bothered by a dry throat, neither have I while on vacation.
Perhaps this is you problem? Perhaps you breathe through you mouth when you sleep? Maybe you could try using tape?
Ioper
20d ago
Isn't it just a case of a preference cascade? The vast majority's opinion on woke ranged from mildly annoyed to actively hating woke stuff but falsified their opinions publicly due various well known factors. Wokeness then suffered a number of setbacks, plenty of them self inflicted, that caused annoyance to both boil over and being able to be expressed, leading to a preference cascade.
The opinions "disappeared" quickly because >90% of people never held them in the first place.
This of course doesn't mean people are rightwing, if anything redistributive policies seem more popular than ever. It's just that woke specifically was never popular on a grassroots level (perhaps outside a brief period of post Floyd hysteria).
Ioper
22d ago
Google should just call their bluff, where are they going to monetize?
Presumably other internet advertising venues like Facebook?
Maybe google should just unlist their domains and advertising campaigns if they pull out of youtube.
That is how you get bent over and raped by regulators that are already annoyed with you.
Ioper
22d ago
It was not all fake. You might claim that the advertiser boycott was intended to censor political opposition but the boycott itself was real.
That started way earlier back in 2017 in response to among other things PewDiePie making thirdies do racist jokes on camera via fiver and a bit later calling an opponent a nigger during a stream.
This was not YouTube using these things as a pretext for demonitization. Major advertiser like Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Adidas, HP, Deutsche Bank, etc. started pulling ads completely from YouTube which lead to a steep fall in ad revenue for the creators. YouTube's response came after, trying to get advertisers back.
It was absolutely advertiser driven. It could well be that advertisers don't care now but they did back then.
Ioper
24d ago
Apparently there's a secret third sector neither of us have found yet.
People in healthcare related professions (like nurses) can often get a lot of time off as compensation for overtime and night shifts as long as they don't spend it during the holidays. They are usually incentiviced to do this rather than taking cash compensation.
Ioper
29d ago
For young and older people I'm not sure women travel more than men but I've noticed a specific demographic of female travellers that doesn't really have a male counterpart. It's 25-40yo women who (usually) have some kind of higher education but are either unemployed or underemployed and spend a lot of time traveling, which is financed by their fathers, either directly through monthly stipends or indirectly by buying them a house/apartment with no strings attached.
This doesn't really have a corresponding demo for men because their families won't finance nominally successful men to have a layabout lifestyle, but they will do so for women and spending their time traveling is higher status than being a regular neet, so it isn't a black mark against the parents.
Ioper
29d ago
Not really. Most go directly for the rich countries and almost no-one anchors in the real EE shit holes. Some do "anchor" in Italy or Spain before heading north though.
Ioper
29d ago
He posted on Elon main account Sending codes on Elons main account that I would understand
This sounds like a textbook case of schizophrenia, no? How old is she?
Bots don't leave comments
They leave shit loads of comments. There seems to be some kind of system for limiting these though since they never seen to go beyond a certain percentage of the overall comments.
Ioper
30d ago
And yet, this fake image (and the countless others in the replies below) elicits much stronger emotions and sympathy from me than the real video
So, I don't agree here and I'm curious as to which of our perspectives is the more common one.
Please answer the poll on which of the options elicits stronger emotions:
https://strawpoll.com/NoZrzw9oBZ3
Then there is the question of which of the two garners more engagement and there I don't really think it's a question of which is more engaging but rather which is easier to consume while still being reasonably engaging. An image is much easier to consume than a video and it fits much better in a text feed than a video does. You can glance at an image and then scroll right by, while a video breaks your engagement flow with the feed.
Ioper
1mo ago
Jedi fallen order is the biggest game that Disney star wars has produced by far and that was released in 2019. That should only have been 1.2 billion in revenue though.
Ioper
1mo ago
I think we should probably be more specific, its social media and algo driven content serving (especially short form) that's the issue, not watching movies on your phone or w/e.
There are plenty of studies that show this, its not some kind of new and unknown subject. The issue isn't that we don't know what's harmful, it's that there are powerful commercial interests opposing regulation. It's the same thing with online casinos, it's not the internet that's the issue, it's specifically the gambling sites.
Ioper
1mo ago
Now I'll never spend another cent not just because its bad right now (it is), not just because it hates me for demographic reasons (it does), but because it's associated in my mind with all the extremities and terrors of shitty social justice and all that did. I've seen too much fucked up stuff, lost friends, etc and Disney dropped their flag on that behavior.
They would have to do something really extreme, like declaring all the Disney content non-canon and hiring George Lucas to oversee a new sequel trilogy (while not directing). I'm honestly not sure even Andor should be part of the canon despite how good it is. Even Lego star wars is more tonally consistent with the overall property than Andor is.
I'm not saying Lucas is some kind of genius but there needs to be a clean break and delineation between Disney star wars and the property going forward, things are that broken. Alternatively the quality of the content needs to be close to Andor level but that is obviously unrealistic and if you could guarantee that you wouldn't need to buy IPs in the first place.
Not an anime but have you guys heard the Japanese VA for FFX? I thought the very inconsistent VA for the English version was a due language barrier during production but apparently not..
Ioper
1mo ago
Have you tried any roguelikes/lites? Easier to just get one to couple of runs in when you feel like it and then do something else. You don't have to stay super engaged for extended periods of time.
He is a teen and he is having tantrums and meltdowns in school? That doesn't sound like a case of a school overreacting to normal male behaviour.
Whether something like this is "normal to him" doesn't really matter. This is unacceptable behaviour and he will have a really hard time if he doesn't learn to manage this.
Ioper
1mo ago
Anything that fits the chest/shoulders has a waist big enough for putting away a 12pack a day.
There are v-shaped slim fits. They have not been hard for me to find.
I guess It could be an issue if you're specifically looking for a form fitted but loose shirt.
This hasn't been a problem for me (6'6) for the last decade or so at least, there are so many brands with long t-shirts. What I do is go to some online retailer and look specifically for extralong shirts and order a bunch. With the generous return policies this easy and without any real cost. For dress shirts I just have them tailored and always have, there has never been a brand that fit me well. Furthermore, if you buy in bulk they're more or less the same price as decent quality standard sizes. There is not really a reason to not get them tailored.
While I'm big, strong and have naturally wide shoulders, I've never done steroids so perhaps we're talking about different things?
The issue is nominal deflation and that has not happened with computers, there has been inflation.
If you're talking about compute specifically then that is true in a sense but cheaper computers aren't really available and it's not really an option to buy them from a user perspective anyway because hardware requirements rise just in line with hardware improvements. I was fine with 2013s smartphones and I'm using them identically today, but those aren't available anymore and even if they were they'd probably not be usable anyway.
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