Templexious
Stuck in time
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Templexious
1yr ago
Books aren't expensive enough to justify them anymore.
This claim is going to need an in-depth number of citations showcasing that all books that libraries host are still available and purchasable, and their prices, and comparisons with past prices, all adjusted for inflation, as well as the average income of the parents who send their kids to a particular school, also adjusted for inflation.
The justification for tearing down institutions needs to have some measure of scrutiny.
I must confess that I don't listen to them very much, just a song here or there once in a while, so my personal opinions are half-baked, though Colter wall definitely deserves more than he's getting, even if he is still extremely popular.
That said, George Strait and his mopey music did lasting damage to the genre.
Templexious
1yr ago
I was trying to point out was that there's no indication that a post needs approval, on either the post-creation page or on the sidebar.
While I'm sure a programmatic fix would be the best option for optimizing the time until a moderator approves it, it was mostly that I didn't know the post was in limbo until I checked the front page, saw it missing, and did more investigation.
A simple note of: "All posts for now require moderator approval before being visible on the front page and it may take X-Y hours before a moderator approves it. Contact one if no feedback is received in that timeframe." on the Post creation page would resolve my question (and potentially future posters' questions) with minimal programmer work needed (hopefully).
I find these debates to be mainly definitional. "Difficulty predicting" is not the same as looking at trends and extrapolating outwards.
Knowing specifically that it would be South Carolina that would be the first to announce secession from the United States is inherently predictable: Based on pure odds, there were only N states at the time which practiced slavery to the extent that they were embroiled in the conflict over ownership of other human beings and whether the central government had the right to enforce such a dramatic societal change. But, with further information about the state senators and leading up politics- which states were the ones that were the loudest and most informed in the senatorial debates provides enough information to make a prediction.
When would it happen, and how would it happen, including some of the broad strategies the south would employ would likely have been predictable to a person who followed the newspaper.
What's difficult is the "by this date, X will happen", and only fools enter into specifics. You simply have to have the foresight to ask the question. Therefore, I don't find your argument compelling. By reframing the argument, we miss the cases where someone comes close enough that they may as well have been correct.
Communism was a motivating ideology that led toward revolution in general. Therefore, assuming an existing powerful monarchy would fall to communism, and after 200 years of monarchism's powers continually being peeled back in Europe seems simple enough. It's not difficult to imagine someone somewhere, predicting the Tzars falling to communism, were they properly informed, given the preconditions: They know about communism, recent history (the prior 100 years at least), and can look outward at what societies are unhappy with their existing setups.
Templexious
1yr ago
On this note, how long does it take for a moderator or admin to review a post? I wrote a post approximately a day ago and have been waiting for approval or feedback on why it may or may not fit the rules.
It's fine if it hasn't yet been examined, however the lack of feedback is disconcerting, especially as a first-time attempt at a post.
Jason Aldean is a city-centric "country" artist and tends to be rejected by most rednecks, his audience was usually 16 year old girls who've never left suburbia or cityville. The kinds that Bo Burnham make fun of in his skit about country songs.
Artists like Colter Wall, Ryan Bingham, Cody Jinks and Cody Johnson tend to be considered more "true" country.
Excellent, I've never done grey market injectables. How easy are sharps to obtain without a prescription? How long does the powder keep?
I could see myself picking up a month's supply and seeing how it goes.
Edit: Nevermind, it seems I could just use insulin syringes, which are available direct from amazon.
Templexious
1yr ago
That's a lot of additional risk, but what sites are these?
Templexious
1yr ago
In an attempt to better manage my weight, I have gone on semaglutide.
This stuff is straight up magical, and its efficacy has caused my opinions around personal health management to shift dramatically.
Where I was drinking at least 32 oz of sugary soda a day and unable to stop, those impulses have basically disappeared. I fill up faster, but that primal urge, the association of high fructose corn syrup, is gone.
I am not even on max dose, but have already lost 4 lbs in less than a month. I fully expect the entire usa to be on semaglutide or analagous in the near future. The monthly price of not being morbidly obese seems that it will come to about 500$/month, at least until competitors come to town.
Templexious
1yr ago
Most people do not make meaningful personal marks on society, it's true.
Templexious
1yr ago
Yes.
Templexious
1yr ago
Point is, if you want to be a regular tradesperson, make up to 200k+, maybe climb the corporate ladder, you can do that with any other kind of technical degree, or even just skill alone if you're good enough.
But to graduate from NPC-hood and become an actual ascending elite, making marks on society, for that, connections with those who have gobs of money to fund your ventures, matter much more.
Templexious
1yr ago
Going to prestigious schools is important, not because of income, but because of connections. The connections available to you socializing while at MIT or Harvard are vastly stronger and more likely to land a person in the top 0.01%, than if you go to OSU.
The key to getting into the ground floor of facebook or netflix or paypal wasn't technical skill, it was who they knew.
Templexious
1yr ago
In that ultra early period you can only really leave them with someone you can trust, like a responsible family member, but imo it's super important to ensure you and your SO do in fact get some alone time that isn't just with baby.
Templexious
1yr ago
Make sure you and so, starting at 6-9 months, have a trustworthy babysitter you can leave the kids with and have a sanity-keeping weekend.
Templexious
1yr ago
The variety of topics discussed tends to be pretty slim, it will be nice to enforce some variety by reducing the number of single-issue comments.
Would there be interest in a book review or summary of kantian philosophy and/or john locke's treatises? The goal would be to relate them to our current political situations under my own personal lens.
I find them to be incredibly prescient, even hundreds of years later, and the online material which covers them is only what can be gleamed by browsing wikipedia, and therefore rather shallow.
In like manner, Fascist politics give the feeling of “momentum,” “going there” and “moving towards,” an exciting sense of fatal direction.
I question the foundational assumptions which undergird this argument. Marxist and Communist and even liberal and neoliberal ideologies, which have varying claims of "the future is ours!" and "we will win in the future!" and "the world becomes more liberal over time!" have all made the rounds.
Every ideology and every movement makes claims of inevitability. Sure, Landianism also has a tinge of being darkly enlightened. "Our god, our religion, our ideology is better than YOUR ideology" is a key ingredient of every system of constructing national, social, individual, political identity.
Society will progress. Society will regress. Time moves on, and yet there is an idealized past being attempted to move back to, or an idealized future. There is no ideology that exists which doesn't also make meaningful claims about the future and its own inevitability. Latestage capitalism evokes this idea that capitalism will fall over because it's in the last stages of metastization. And yet. And yet it still hasn't fallen over.
Templexious
1yr ago
Minor side note: The term DEI I always auto-expand out to drug-enforcement initiative, which makes the hate on DEI on this site extremely entertaining. That's not what it means, but it is an extremely entertaining mental image each time.
I guess I should just give up and not give a shit and collect a paycheck like everyone else.
Have you done the math for leanFIRE or FIRE? Paying off all debts, stashing a bunch of cash? Or allowing some tickets to take a bit longer and instead becoming "overemployed" while work from home is still the norm?
Templexious
1yr ago
No, we didn't.
I don't think Ukraine is a great example, so I wouldn't lean into it, otherwise I agree with you.
Templexious
1yr ago
Trump just had to sit around as the establishment media wrung their hands and made complete fools of themselves, crying about this or that, demonstrating how little power they actually had.
Showing people what a complete farce the whole thing is, and leaning into it.
Templexious
1yr ago
No.
Templexious
1yr ago
After lurking here, I find myself relatively confused. You're the first person I've seen attempt to disambiguate between progressivism and wokeness. What is the difference between wokeness and progressivism, in your mind?
It's a sensible cost-cutting move on the whole. School districts tend to accumulate a mass number of redundant organizational administrative staff if allowed to over the years.
The main problem is that in schools like this, the libraries tend to be a refuge for the well-performing, high-iq students, so placing the high-iq students in the same room as the students who regularly and routinely misbehave is a problem.
If a student is regularly disruptive, one must wonder if they will be able to function in society.
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