Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
9hr ago
Out of curiosity I tried digging up some stats on the prevalence of the phenomenon
Didn't someone post/link to something related here a little while ago? I remember it specifically talking about the OJ Simpson trial, but that really doesn't help with a google search.
Mantergeistmann
9hr ago
So many of your problems, including healthcare costs and inability to build infrastructure, ultimately can be traced back to the possibility of being dragged to court and having to spend the GDP of a minor country on lawyers
"We have lawyers like other countries have rats."
Mantergeistmann
18hr ago
Oh, that's almost certainly worse, but as far as bleak images go, an unexploded rocket just doesn't compare.
Mantergeistmann
23hr ago
The most "bleak sci-fi" thing I've seen in a while was images of the absolute spiderwebs of spent drone fiberoptic cables covering forests and fields and towns.
I feel like there's a Russell Conjugation to be had here: "I stand by my convictions in the name of justice, you are irritatingly stubborn, he is a bullying Karen subverting the justice process."
Although I will add that 12 Angry Men did indeed involve logic and reason as well as stubbornness and emotion, but I'd imagine very few people think of their own behavior or a verdict they agree with as ever not being logical.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
It's not an overpopulation problem if enough people get killed in the wars. I mean, you've got other demographic problems them, but no longer overpopulation.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Not if enough men die in the wars.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
"People are okay with nudity when there's a fig leaf covering the genitals, but are outraged when the leaf isn't there!"
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
And then a lot of them get abused by NIMBYs grasping for any veto-points they can find.
Was it here that someone mentioned that green projects run into some of the worst NIBMY obstructionism?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Even during the decades of single-party house/congress control, the Presidency was swapping sides pretty regularly.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I'm very fortunate the last year or two has been good to stocks, as aeeing my 401k index fund performance has given my partner the courage to set up an auto-deposit/auto-invest into an IRA. It also probably helps that as of now, it's still a very small amount compared to the overall retirement picture, so it doesn't feel like it's risking loss of a significant amount.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
In fact, we now have a richly-established norm of NGOs and activists suing the federal government and so that their political allies who run the government can settle. Welcome to the world you made.
If I recall, that used to be a major issue with shipbuilding. Might still be, even.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
The "$1776 million" is, astonishingly, missing from most headlines, which is almost as insane to me.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
That's... pretty clever, actually. What's the best way to acquire them? Do you just get them from your local bank, or what?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I've seen it in the US in the past, I'm pretty sure, but it's certainly not universal.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Sometimes the fraud systems flag you, no card.
For me, that's more likely (both to happen and to have immediate requirement) when I'm traveling, hence (one of the reasons for) keeping a nominal but not bank-breaking "emergency cash" in my wallet. Plus multiple cards, including with differing institutions.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
What, in case you get Isekai'd to a fantasy realm?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
They're entirely opposed to "Red Tribe, called America".
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Korea is one of those weird economies/markets that's classified as both emerging and developed, depending on who's doing it, right?
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I try to always keep $40-50 as a minimum on my person (separate from my spending cash in my wallet).
As far as cash in the house beyond that? None. The situations where I will need cash in an instant and a check/electronic venmo/run to the ATM won't work are... basically just an EMP/solar flare situation that I for some reason can't wait out for restoration. Maybe that happens, I run out of food in a week, there's still no government response, but the stores have product they're willing to sell for cash only?
Perhaps I'm unimaginative, but it just seems too unlikely to be worth worrying about for me personally. Not that there'd be any harm in keeping extra cash in house, though, so it's not a terrible idea just for things I haven't thought of and/or convenience.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Considering getting back into League of Legends. I stop whenever I remember how much I hated playing against other humans.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Hah. I lost it a long time ago. Possibly in a move, possibly thrown out after water damage. Possibly given away to a younger cousin?
Still remember when my cousins and I were opening packs, and I got a second holographic Charizard and had to give it away to another cousin out of "fairness". Was pretty bitter at the time, but it was definitely the thing to do in hindsight.
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
I'm honestly sad that most of the large D&D subreddits have banned anything with a whiff of AI, because I think it would be nice if there was a space for non-slop AI-assisted products for D&D. Instead we have /r/dndai which is 50% sexy elf girls, and 100% slop.
It's always entertaining to me when the large D&D subreddits are so hostile to AI character portraits... apparently everyone forgot that the truly virtuous way to get a character portrait was to google some vague traits and grab the first thing on image search that was kind of like what you had in mind.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
The Abyss was deemed ineligible for the Oscar for best visual effects because it used CGI.
Did it not win?
Sounds like a job for a sci-fi short story.
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