Templexious
Stuck in time
User ID: 2308
Templexious
4d ago
There are a few neocons in my circle, they're not terribly enthused with trump and putin's growing relationship.
Templexious
5d ago
I haven't paid attention to your spectrum alignment, but regardless, your additions to conversation are always enjoyable and interesting to read.
Templexious
8d ago
Income: 250-300k for an individual
To make sure I understand this, you're saying if you make less (say, 100k/year), in the US, you should be putting your income into health insurance?
Templexious
27d ago
Hillary and Jeb were both pretty universally hated by the normie class. The reasons likely to do with decades of the priestly class hating on them, sure, but it's the truth.
Templexious
30d ago
I've done it. At first started with semaglutide. Semaglutide is good, but has more side effects than others.
I lost about 30 pounds on semaglutide, but needed to lose another 20 to be healthy. After a year of semaglutide, I swapped to tirzepatide, and finally broke through the weight barrier and am now approaching the weight I was a decade ago.
Go for it. I buy from grey market because it's so expensive in the United States, though sites come and go and it can be difficult to find a new one when the old one shuts down.
Templexious
30d ago
If it rids companies of hour long lectures on microaggressions, at least that's a step.
Templexious
1mo ago
Consider any other altcoin, however- bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, monero.
By the time you've heard of a memecoin, when you buy, you've probably already lost.
Templexious
1mo ago
The more I read of Hanania over time, the more respect I lose.
His opinions are all over the map and impossible to pin down. He's right about the gribblers and maga conservatives being and embracing stupidity, of course. But pinning himself in the neoliberal camp as a kind of anti-maga race realist zionist(?) is getting old fast.
More specifically, it's the smug eternal dunking that's been getting insufferable
Templexious
1mo ago
My translation:
"We were just offered amazing tax incentives in Texas, and the fact checkers were really expensive. We really didn't want to decrease profit margins as user interaction on our website declines, and also please do not notice how we attempted to fill the userbase with fake ai users just a week ago. We think conservative users are particularly gullible to this scam"
You are not sufficiently blackpilled if you go to bat for Zuckerberg, of all people.
Templexious
1mo ago
It's unfortunate that it doesn't. With the vast number of smaller tech companies, one would think a few would hit "defect" and do it, and gain even more long term employees.
Templexious
1mo ago
The even crazier thing here is you often don't need huge wage bumps. In my experience, even a 10-15% raise is enough to keep people and keep them happy.
Job hopping brings with it a lot of unknowns, and most people would rather stay where they are comfortable, it's surprising companies don't take advantage of this. Give these persons a gesture of a wage increase and they will stay longer and be more picky in their hops.
Templexious
1mo ago
I struggle to believe that bringing those into America is necessary to moving humanity forward, but I am an American who still believes in nativist superiority.
Templexious
1mo ago
I am confused about the entire H1B debate.
Are there reasons Musk cannot just pursue cheap Indian labor on Indian soil? Software can be sent from India to USA without restriction, so what is the benefit of increasing H1B for him or any other tech company located in the US?
Templexious
1mo ago
Under the assumption the h1b visa program actually does that, go for it.
Templexious
1mo ago
Without waxing at length: Mario 64 (n64 and DS), Sunshine, the original NES and gameboy games, Super Mario World, A smidgen of the Paper Mario series (they didn't really catch my attention so never bothered completing them) and parts of the first Mario Galaxy, again not to completion. It's difficult to analyze exactly what was wrong with the Mario Galaxy games, but I suspect it had to do with the controls not being up to par for my tastes.
(Admittedly, the true fair comparison is Odyssey vs 64 vs Sunshine) Nintendo perfected the art of the dynamic difficulty curve without any actual dynamic difficulty. The difficulty is entirely driven by the player's desire for completion and challenge. They litter vastly more moons onto the levels than needed to progress, and the number is so high that 100% completion is an actual badge of honor and difficulty, but even just getting to the dark side of the moon is still an accomplishment. The difficulty curve has entirely to do with "I think I could get there..." and not arbitrary spikes midway through story progression.
Sunshine and Mario 64 both struggled not just with arbitrary and surprising difficulty spikes, but also slow gameplay and slow progression in comparison. That is to say nothing of the better precision of the pro and gamecube controller over either the n64 or the DS mario 64. The amazing thing about the mario games is in my more advanced age, I find myself unwilling to do collectathons and annoying puzzles- For example, dropping out of both breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom because they were tedious, but somehow, 3D Mario games have always managed to keep me playing longer.
No game isn't without its flaws, however: some things that are tedious about the moons are finding where some of them are, or the conditions for getting them to show. Luckily, obtuse moons can safely be ignored in favor of the more fun ones, and often while completing the others, the solution for a previous puzzle will reveal itself.
Templexious
2mo ago
Been playing Mario Oddyssey. Took about two weeks between real life and and casually poking around. Oddyssey is the most entertaining Mario game in existence, and it perfectly strikes that balance between rewarding skill and being accessible.
Templexious
2mo ago
Please, do do a full write-up on why they are not, in fact, intelligence ops, and try and change my mind.
I'd much rather be reading about the netanyahu trials and discussing israeli due process, however.
Templexious
2mo ago
It was a fragment of a comment that I genuinely didn't intend to post.
Templexious
2mo ago
They're pretty clearly just regular drone exercises by the American intelligence corps. Not entirely sure what the purpose of the operations are.
It is a useful distraction from other things that would likely be in the overton window, though.
Templexious
2mo ago
Is there really a convincing utilitarian argument here that health insurance ceos maximizing shareholder value is a net positive?
I can think of much stronger arguments against vigilanteism targeting ceos than bringing up the maxim that ceos are more valuable than plebeians.
Namely, glorifying this guy invites the more lazy ones to act, and a single other targeted ceo will be used to justify additional civilian-focused surveillance.
Templexious
2mo ago
Current sentiment online seems to be positive- Kurds and Christians seem generally pleased with the current shakeup, reports of minor rapport-building.
At this point, it seems to be a waiting game.
Templexious
2mo ago
Sadly, selling out Americans and the working class has been a pasttime of the oligarchy for the last 60 years, agreed.
Hopefully tariffs will begin to reverse the trend, but we will see!
Templexious
2mo ago
If your reality predicts collapsism stemming from the Hunter Biden Pardon, go for it, it is your reality, and a useful rhetorical weapon.
Templexious
2mo ago
As i said, mostly noise.
The informed ones in my circle were mostly happy with his first term.
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