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3hr ago
Valheim? Might be too fast
The newer Diablo's have couch coop which suprised me. Even more surprising, it's implemented pretty well
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4d ago
I'm a monarchist who thinks the "Founding Fathers" were vile traitors.
Alaskan monarchist? Yeah, I'm thinking based
So are you an Anglophile? How did you come about to becoming a monarchist?
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5d ago
Thank you for putting my feelings into words better than I would have
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5d ago
I mean you can measure productivity as "$ value produced/hour" which will tell you the productivity a chef. A more productive chef is either one who's skill allows them to charge obscene amounts for high quality food, or one who's ability to produce food is enhanced with machinery/capital goods. It's one of the reasons why restaurants keep getting more expensive, Baulmol's cost disease + not a lot of labour saving machines in the last 50 years.
Weirdly this implies a sous chef at fancy restaurant is way more productive than a McDonald's worker at a busy location, who probably processes an order of magnitude more calories than they do. But that's just what happens when a society is this efficient at producing carrots, shoes, etc.
I think your job is the same. It's productive because it's valuable enough to pay for. People take money they could have spent on carrots or shoes and instead give it to your company. Clearly it's valuable to them.
Western economies are built on services now, they're definitely productive.
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6d ago
We're this wealthy because we keep choosing to "work the same amount and increase quality of life" instead of "maintain quality of life and work less" every time there is a productivity increase due to technology/capital goods
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6d ago
That's fair
It was a legitimate attempt, just a horribly executed one.
It definitely makes it funnier to play it down to contrast the CIA coups vs "Gen X morons walking around and dying of heart attacks". But that was biased.
The meltdowns still hilarious though.
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6d ago
lol I guess I should have qualified.
I assume teams yellow status is just the default. I'm so desensitized to its existence.
I had in mind call center tier metrics and associated oversight and punishment for not hitting metrics or having too much idle time, etc
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6d ago
feels terrible to actually live/think that way
Yeah this is true. It's not spiritually pure, that's for sure. Although it is also somewhat emotionally satisfying, humans love a tit for tat.
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6d ago
We need to get a "fmab" account going and then we can be the three fmaX musketeers
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6d ago
This might not work in larger company's that actually monitor mouse movements/keystrokes per hour or something.
If you have literally any prospects in your respective labour market you should immediately leave any jobs that do this. What a fucking nightmare.
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6d ago
Back in the day, I had a very lax job. I would click on my desktop, so no icons were selected, and put something heavy on my spacebar. This has worked on 3/3 of corporate laptops I've used.
You can also open a word/TXT file and do this, if for some reason the desktop doesn't work. But after a few hours it'll get really laggy.
These days, I work at a busier job with co-workers who don't seem to give a shit if I'm online or not, as long as things get done on time and I'm responsive to messages. This is infinitely better than the job where I worked 2 hours a day, but couldn't leave my apartment in case someone messaged me so I just played civilization for the other 6 hours but without being able to properly relax.
I thought that would be the life but it was awful, although I'm a neurotic striver so in retrospect, no shit.
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6d ago
Absolutely not
The entity you work for will happily extract every (measurement of choice) unit of value out of you. You should do the same. Something something that's what makes markets work!
If it helps, don't view your salary as a direct exchange of money for a given amount of your time. View it as a combo of "paying for time" and "retainer to have you hanging around to be available immediately when needed".
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7d ago
Leaving aside the assertion that democrats would do any better of a job running the country
Don't think I ever said this?
My assertion is that an administration who creatively interprets the constitution to give itself more power would do a worse job than the status quo.
there is no right wing authoritarian regime which can be in power without taking care of conservative Catholics.
Doesn't matter. Your life gets worse when the overall economy gets worse due to shitty leadership and capital flight, no matter how much the administration loves Catholics.
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7d ago
You could literally just take your comment, replace "Republican" with "Democrat", and it would be true
You say the Republicans don't literally all move as one, sure. Neither do the Democrats. You'll always find exceptions, congratulations. You can find them for Dems too.
https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/dramatic-rise-republican-support-ukraine
This article shows 20%+ swings in opinion in a very small timeframe, which satisfies the "significant percentage of their base is trained to embrace the current thing immediately on declaration" that I quoted.
I don't even disagree, the Dems also do this bullshit. I hate both groups, you're fucking morons, please pull your collective heads out of your collective asses and wake up to the fact that China is eating your fucking lunch and western society has become so sclerotic and myopic it can barely meet the needs of its people.
I miss when Western society was the pinnacle of human civilization, and not an ouroboros of rent seekers cannibalizing itself for short term returns at the cost of long term prosperity.
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7d ago
But then you find out people agree that it's silly to spend more than 10m to save a child's life from cancer (so child's life is worth 10m max), but they wouldn't accept 20m to shoot a child (so child's life worth greater than 20m??? wat do).
This is blowing my mind.
I think part of it is that shooting them is a direct action you must take, whereas the cancer absolves some of the "ethical responsibility"
I guess the immediate counter is "assume that the 10m treatment will cure them perfectly and permanently with 0% chance of remission"
I agree that 10 million is probably a bit much to spend, but I also would not accept 20 million to shoot a child.
I'm not sure how to reconcile this.
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7d ago
There was a time when you could just hit on girls on Facebook. If you had a few mutual friends, she'd accept your friend request and chat with you on the assumption you were cool.
I totally forgot about this. I'm a bit younger than you and caught the tail end of this. It was pretty sweet. I was too awkward to close, but I had decent success a few times with this.
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7d ago
I 100% agree with you, that is what I would do
But the kind of person who has the conviction, determination and drive to become the president of the USA is also not the kind of person to kick up their feet and cruise control.
I constantly wonder why Elon Musk does anything he's been doing, he seems pretty unhappy and stressed out a lot? If I was worth 100s of billions I'd be living full time on a tropical paradise island that I built into some kind of funhouse compound and I'd have my friends and family rotate in and out to keep me company. Maybe spice it up by going on international trips every other month. I'd be SO MUCH happier than Elon if I had his money.
But Elon is Elon because of that drive. He wouldn't be worth 100s of billions if he didn't have it.
I see it with "retired" successful consultants who then just keep working semi-privately. Their millionaires, why are you still doing this shit? Because they have insane drive and the insane drive is also why they're millionaires. If they could fuck off and relax, they wouldn't have been the massively successful consultants they were/are.
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7d ago
significant percentage of their base is trained to embrace the current thing immediately on declaration
Unlike Republicans of course, who have never once changed their opinion on supporting Ukraine, or the efficacy of the free market, or the efficacy of free trade, or how small government should be, or if state owned enterprises are good, or anything else in the last ~9 months.
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7d ago
The American meltdown over Jan 6 was hilarious.
Century of toppling foreign governments, some of which were democratically elected by their people? I sleep
A bunch of Gen X wander around a government building for a few hours, largely make fools of themselves, and then nothing happens? Literally worst thing to happen to America since 9/11 / pearl harbor / the civil war.
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7d ago
Right, but a third term is in flagrant disregard to the democratic principles the country was built around. So presumably if you're willing to torch constitutional articles in the pursuit of more power, that won't be the only roadblock in the pursuit of more power.
This administration also has a rapidly growing resume of moves to increase its power despite rules or norms that say "no you can't". So this isn't even a conjecture it's just the continuation of an existing pattern of behavior.
I actually chose the words "crony capitalist quasi-autocratic" somewhat carefully, although I'm open to "autocratic" being the wrong word. They have a clear streak of being crony capitalists (TikTok deal, Merger approvals, Intel stake, Nvidia bullshit, etc). And doing that always, always results in shitter outcomes than letting the free market work. It also results in playing favorites and trading political and business favors back and forth.
The quasi-autocratic is again, because if you start undermining the fundamental principles of a democratic government to increase your political power, I really don't know what to call that.
Why would they be so upset, when they voted for Trump (or someone they knew would yield to him) for that third term?
Don't get too caught up in my lazy hypothetical. The thesis there is if you're okay with your team bending rules to increase its power, but there's a credible chance the other team will have a chance to bend those rules as well eventually, you are implicitly accepting that the other team gets to do it as well.
Unless of course you're only fine with your team bending the rules if they also simultaneously destroy the other team completely, in which case "quasi-autocratic" is only wrong because "autocratic" is better lol
A crony capitalist quasi-autocratic (maybe we need a less inflammatory word that "autocratic" but my point is more "no longer a very democratic form of government that has even less pretense to listen to its citizens or be run well for fear of losing elections") is in no way going to run better than the USA currently.
We know this because the USA is still ran better, today, than the vast majority of counties on Earth. And it is very definitely ran better than the currently crony capitalist quasi-autocratic countries that exist right now.
Also again, what about when the shoe is on the other foot? What if Trump rips a third term, then the American people are so deeply upset with it that they not only elect Kamala Harris (lmao), but they elect her for 12 years straight using the same trick? Would you accept 12 years of Kamalapocalypse in exchange for an extra Trump term? Because that's implicitly an outcome here.
If your response is "well we'd simply ensure the Democrats never win again by cementing red-tribe rule forever" I again direct you to my question of "do you seriously actually think places like Assad Syria or El Salvador are ran better than California?". Governments that no longer need to worry about securing votes go off the rails really fucking fast, every time.
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7d ago
it would be very good for my ingroup
Would it? Do you anticipate your country being ran better in the long run once this happens? Sure it'll be a nice sugar high, but what happens once it's 10 years from now and the rot and corruption that always (always) sets in once groups are established? Especially in cases where the usual checks and balances to prevent anyone from getting too comfortable or destructive?
Will your in group be doing well when your country's bureaucracy runs even worse than it does now, business investment (with knock on effects on the equity market) is more hesitant due to the increased risk from crony capitalism, and the USA has lost its mandate of heaven leader of the free world and the associated advantages like preferential trade deals and the world reserve currency?
I've been ripping battlefield 6. It's awesome
By far the best FPS engine I've ever played
Some really really bad balance and game design issues, but I'm confident they'll iron most of them out
I strongly recommend using the RPG to shoot down helis before they nerf it, it's ridiculously fun. I get one or two per game and it's addictive, it's more fun than shooting the people.
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