yofuckreddit
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yofuckreddit
3hr ago
It's a good data point - I got other numbers exclusively for third world countries.
yofuckreddit
3hr ago
If that's included in aid figures, then yes.
yofuckreddit
20hr ago
Good point. Couldn't tell you why - it feels like that tack is more common during presidential election cycles
yofuckreddit
20hr ago
Both the magnitude of aid to a first world country and its purpose I find distasteful.
I understand Israel is a proxy and the money creates utility, it doesn't mean I like it.
yofuckreddit
21hr ago
After looking up the data, Israel gets $350 per citizen almost exclusively for war. Meanwhile Africa gets $7 and Central America gets $10 on a blended basis.
That's pretty horrifying.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
It's a bummer that those two were too steep, The Martian is at that YA borderline IMO.
What about Animorphs? Actually kind of dark, but I did enjoy them as a kid.
yofuckreddit
5d ago
Reddit's gone and dead. Things have gotten WORSE since then, even as the left's censorship powers enjoy less support. I was terrified when we left but I would never trust going back. They could kill the community on a whim.
yofuckreddit
6d ago
What's your roasting gear? Sorry if you've mentioned it before. Dabbled with a popcorn maker and gave up after a while
yofuckreddit
6d ago
I suspect it's 50% luck and 50% the daycare. We had an easy time of it - I didn't get in my kid's faces, spent a lot of time outside, drank emergen-c
yofuckreddit
8d ago
Did you ever read any Wendell Berry? Finished Jayber Crow recently and it was of this genre and had that quality.
yofuckreddit
13d ago
Yes, the Russian configuration of women is appealing the me. I agree that's vaguely her motif.
yofuckreddit
14d ago
We've discussed this before, and I cannot believe people are arguing Madison Beer isn't an 11/10. Yes she's unrealistic and plastic, but jeez.
yofuckreddit
16d ago
The short answer is I would much rather be me than Antonio Brown. The problem with being really strong and fast while also being violent and dumb is I don't think you appreciate your body as much.
The other problem of of course, I can reach half of Antonio Brown's physical prowess through exercise, whereas he's always going to be the same mentally.
That said, I would trade some of my IQ points for some improved baseline athletic ability. If this were an RPG character screen, then I'd shift some things around.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
I think the exercise is only fun if you exclude Russia.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
You know you raise an interesting point. Anthropic's biases show up all the time in their models, but it's still far more reasonable than the default redditor.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
I know that may seem fast - I have family who was hoping to have a couple years of being newlyweds before kids but jumped the gun by 21 months. They're freaking out a little but getting started early has some advantages to it too.
It's awesome man. Congratulations.
It's pathetic. The people who have trouble getting out of bed in the morning or keeping a job are belittling the first realistic flying car. Talking shit about Trump accounts as a "tax dodge" when billionaires are giving money directly to children instead of going through the government.
As you said, I've spent the past 20 years after reading Atlas Shrugged and complaining about how unrealistic it is, but it's just too on the money.
yofuckreddit
20d ago
The cost and expertise to run an actually secure home intranet has dropped precipitously, which is great. I do think this is the future for programmers and DIY experts, but many people prefer a nice UI and a subscription to plugging in devices!
yofuckreddit
21d ago
This is a poetry of stupid and the hackers are the least guilty party here. Lets start with the obvious. Why freezers needs to be visible, why do they need to be remotely managed, why is not this done on dedicated internal network, why do they need firmware updates. How did we get to the point where a device that should be pid controller, compressor and alarm can be hacked.
OK, I'll be the idiot here. Managing 3 houses manually with retro thermostats fucking sucks. Setting up a reasonable HVAC plan is excruciating to begin with, and then making sure these move back to "Eco" mode when you leave and "Active" mode when you're on the way is immensely helpful.
Same with my pellet smoker. It's connected to Wifi so I'm not tethered to the backyard for a 14 hour brisket cook. That's worth the risk of a hacker getting access to my ReqTec credentials and being able to burn it.
And I'm just a lazy American trying to save $200/mo on my energy bills while enjoying smoked meats. Being able to monitor and change systems at scale is incredibly valuable, and the risk algebra actually does favor some centralized control from the corporate nexus.
This connectivity being insecure is a totally separate issue that I would agree with being "poetry of stupid".
yofuckreddit
30d ago
I'll just say that Biryani + a Red Bull in the park is a very alpha male meal.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Who would bother indexing this besides a member? 12 downloads in a month is higher than I'd expect, too. Perhaps from the same toy project.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
This steak is too juicy. The lobster: too buttery.
I feel bad for the one remaining owner and wish they/them the best, now that they've seen how positive, supportive, and inclusive their chosen subculture isn't
How are they going to get out of this? I suppose they could step up from this sub-sub-sub culture to just a straight up gay bar and use the notoriety to get back in the black, but since they signed on for this originally it may not occur to them.
When I read this or equivalent stories I need to check my ideological ego. So few of these freakazoid businesses really exist, and a ton of little mainstream or christian shops shut down because of community mismanagement or family fights all the time. I don't think there's enough data to suggest that any of these fail at different rates, or I haven't seen it. But watching supposed supporters thrash like sharks in chummed water to hate the owners of their spaces is hilarious.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
This is flippant, but over time I've assumed that our racial victim hierarchy has really just degraded into darker > lighter and if there's a gradient, everyone is rounded to the nearest dark skin tone. Basically, "One Drop".
I suppose it can be defended as an act of admirable tribal solidarity performed by a moron with strange ideas about education
I do defend it. If NHJ had never put her money where her mouth is, where would we be now? She'd still be an influential columnist, calling the system racist, helping funnel ever more taxpayer money down the gullet of failing students, teachers, administrators, and systems. Now at least we have an admission of being wrong, even with dozens of caveats and carveouts. The left never does this. All it took was an act of child sacrifice, and I'd rather it be from them than me.
The story is all about "apartheid". No mention of the fact that her daughter's failing schools were receiving upwards of $40,000 a year per student and has a good teacher-to-student ratio. The story never has a mea culpa for all the parents she would have looked down on. The story has nothing to say about the persistent disciplinary issues that wrecked the chance to teach. It's all the fault of apartheid
To your point, though, there was much more to learn here that wasn't. But let's boil this down further than "apartheid".
The inevitable, forever sin of black pundits is tribal racialism at any cost. As she describes her daughter's redemption in the new school, doubtless helped by a wide variety of people, note that only black teachers are offered applause for doing their jobs. The worthlessly incompetent, often just straight up not coming to work at her previous school, are of some mystery race.
If you ever happen to enter purely black spaces on social media, where they feel relatively safe from view, It's obvious that they know what the problems are and who is causing them, whether it's crappy service at restaurants, insane violence, or idiotic music. But even there, the leftists viciously attack the supposed Uncle Toms. Even after suffocating external criticism so completely, it's impossible for them to tolerate Noticing even from their own people.
NHJ still fundamentally hates white people and "white" institutions. One of the best parts of sending her to PS 307 was how dark the crayon was she used for her self-portrait, a level of skin color fetishization completely alien to any white kid in America:
She was also developing a strong sense of herself as a Black girl in a classroom that, unlike the rest of the school, was multicultural and economically diverse, a reflection of the city and the world. At the start of each year, the students created self-portraits, and I chuckled with my husband when our light-skinned child chose to draw herself with the chestnut-colored crayon and not the beige one because that is how she saw herself.
If I go too much longer I'll get myself tied up in knots. This article is woefully inadequate, and another example of how truly sick the focus on race in America truly is.
And yet, it's a huge victory, and the response (IMO) has to be moderate to encourage more of people admitting that they were even kinda wrong. I couldn't forsee a person this morally repugnant writing anything like this a decade ago. It's amazing what children can do for parents.
Believe me when I say that I understand that Israel is very often just defending itself. But I don't think it's useful to segregate defensive and offensive spending this way. War begets war, it's two sides of the same coin.
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