hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
14hr ago
What constitutes 'loud and clear'? Genuine question.
I have a budding(but never actually written up) ten thousand word effort post on miraculous evidence for the truths of Christianity. Unfortunately, I would be unable to handle the blasphemies surely uttered against it, probably I would get an AAQC and a permaban in the same thread. This is why I avoid faith topics/proofs in general(my dm's are open to inquirers, sure). But this stuff... exists, even if I'm not the person to make the argument. What constitutes sufficient evidence?
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
No, it's selecting for cowardice. It's an unjust war, but those men who volunteer to fight are almost always better men than those who dodge the draft, every time. Not to mention that medical issues are probably the main reason for exclusion from the draft.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Plumbers in particular are absolutely essential for running water, have robust guild protections, and it's hard to automate.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Isn't Saudi thought to have access to pakistan's nukes on demand? And Iran, unlike other nuclear powers except, for a brief period, red China, is run by true believer fanatics. USSR decision makers were nominally communists, but in reality cynical self-interested alcoholics. Israel's strategic program is governed by realpolitik, it doesn't seem to be the politically captured part of the state.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
This is why The Culture always sounded incredibly uninteresting; maybe as one book exploring an interesting dystopia, sure, but a whole series about how awesome it is? Uh...
I haven't read it though. It sounds boring and dumb. Utopia is stupid setting.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
It's a small thing, along with letting factory workers wear headphones
I believe this one's actually OSHA banning it, not the factories.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
You can easily do your four years in the service, make up your mind as to what to use the free college for, and then take advantage of preferential hiring.
There's also nothing wrong with the trades; we stand to benefit strongly from AI, after all. Not everyone is going to be a CEO or have a cushy sinecure, and that's OK.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
In person work will save your cushy white collar jobs, boy. A computer can do the work, but it can't be physically present.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
He was a junior, that is, not graduating yet.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
And they are a marginal presence because people prefer humans to clankers.
hydroacetylene
22hr 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
22hr 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
Frame them with a plaque explaining who earned them. Yes the plaque will set you back a bit.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Best recommendations for bypassing paywalls?
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d ago
Indeed, China(and Russia) are notorious among their own people for having elites that prefer the west to their own hinterlands.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
At the expedition in The Doomed City.
Indeed, if you actually want to do this you can do it right now. There a variety of communities that work that way. They’re weird, but they exist.
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