hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3hr ago
It seems like the space is ripe for someone to negotiate subscriptions at a discount, then charge a subscription for reposts on their own sub stack.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Even if we assume there isn’t still some guy getting paid to crawl into the server farms and cooling towers and fix stuff, you don’t need to be a personal servant. Waiting tables isn’t demeaning- and these people will eat at restaurants, waiters are already a luxury good, that job’s not going away.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Those people are the equivalent of Instagram influencers. It’s folly to think you’ll be one.
The average contracting or restaurant business has a decent shot of making it, so do tech startups. This is essentially aiming at being a celebrity.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
As usual, shagbark is saying things that are true in a manner of speaking, but which don’t apply, because he’s an insane hippie drifter making money through gnomic philosophy. If you want to live in a shack eating roadkill so you don’t need to have a real job, business-ing part time can get you there. But you don’t want to do that. Only shagbark does. Earning a normal living as a business owner is… intense.
And the kind of woman who wants to eat roadkill in a shack so her man doesn’t have a job is very likely to talk about how he doesn’t have a boss. Sûre. Bosses aren’t thé fun part of jobs. But that woman is definitionally not the median.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
No, you won’t.
You might have more money as a small business owner. There’s even business models with very low risk- someone else figured out how to do it. But you will be working 80 hours a week for that money.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
We don't sugarcoat death with our kids. I'm not 100% sure if they know animals don't go to Heaven, they're little, but when our last cat died, we just told them she died.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Frame them with a plaque explaining who earned them. Yes the plaque will set you back a bit.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Best recommendations for bypassing paywalls?
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Or tripping over its own feet and having an economic crisis
This is called 'tuesday' and so far, no nuclear war. Seriously, Pakistan has a military coup every few years. It has subsaharan Africa level stability.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Indeed, China(and Russia) are notorious among their own people for having elites that prefer the west to their own hinterlands.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Mao, however, repeatedly talked about how awesome a nuclear war would be- because China could absorb casualties and the west wouldn't, it meant communism would triumph. Didn't happen.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
You know Iran's leadership is crazy, right?
Like they're not retarded. That's how they got so close to a nuclear weapon to begin with. But they're crazy. You know, like in the old joke about the mental patient telling the guy changing his tire about redistributing lugnuts. The real constraint on Iran nuking the US(the 'great satan') is their missile technology. Iran with the bomb would gamble, like Mao repeatedly threatened to, on being able to absorb casualties better than Israel. Islamo-posadist lunacy is something we can do without.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Last I checked, the Iran war is slightly more popular than the democrats. Granted, by a few percent, but still. And at this stage of the late republic it's anything could happen to begin with; that just makes it harder to tease out.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
At the expedition in The Doomed City.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Didn’t know you were orthodox.
Byzantine Catholics start services late(but usually use the Latin calendar for feasts in the US), too, it’s just an eastern rite thing- but our stereotype is for technically a Latin mainstream Americans who go there to be the ones who can’t manage their personal lives, and the ethnics to be successful diaspora types.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
France has very, very few salaries anywhere near that high.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
He's talking about France, where everyone acknowledges that the pension system is going to have to be cut eventually- and eventually means 'in the mid term future', not 'in 100 years'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm registering a prediction that Tisza is just Fidesz 2.0 in practice. Hungary seems to like it until it gets excessive.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Traditional conservatism ideologically has little interesting to say about the economy. It is true that most conservative parties discovered that supply side economics works in the seventies and eighties, but this was a marriage of convenience- driven largely by the left being socialist(which does not work) at the time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The orthodox are late to every holiday.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Who’s most critical to the regime? You’re a soldier fighting a war, seeking a military objective(‘destroy the evil empire’), not trying to determine individual guilt.
I suspect that the tactically correct answer is to attempt to turn Carol as a source and kill Alice. But it’s going to depend on the circumstances.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Let alone laundry- ironing all that took an entire day. They didn't have wrinkle free fabrics, and they didn't have electric irons either.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Much easier than getting your government hands on the boomers' medicare.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Yes, it's not a thing in the US. There's nowhere in the world, ever in human history, where the elderly committed lots of crime to survive. They just died. The logic for taking care of the elderly is compassion, not crime prevention. There are places right now where senior citizens need to eat dog food to survive. They're not stealing better food(potatoes and shit, not steak). 'Old people suffering from malnutrition until they get knocked out by flu season' happened because they'll just suffer rather than steal/rob.
And they are a marginal presence because people prefer humans to clankers.
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