@JessieIsHereNow @ChrisMartzWX Do you get your other taxes back? The money they took out of your paycheck, paid grandma's ss check that month and that's the only place it ever went.
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engineofgod
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@ChrisMartzWX So I’m self centered for wanting my money back? I already agreed it wasn’t okay to tax people for it.
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I'm not an asshole.
I'm a hemorrhoid. I irritate assholes.
I may be young, yes, but that doesn't mean I am wrong about Social Security being a Ponzi scheme.
Let me extend an offer for you to give a point-by-point rebuttal to my post. Address each of my arguments and refute them with supporting evidence. Otherwise, you can show yourself to the door.
Also, how I grill my steak is irrelevant to this thread. You are doing what they call "grasping at straws."
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@ne31900ri @ChrisMartzWX This kid is just an insufferable, arrogant asshole with limited life experience who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. If he had a fair portion of his income confiscated for 40+ years he'd be singing a different tune. Worse, he even doesn't know how to cook a steak properly.
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It is generally considered to be a bad decision to make illogical decisions. The brain dead are already dead as moral agents, so there is no issue there. Terminal cancer patients are already going to die, so no need for suicide. Just pain management. In that people interfere with pain management of terminal ill patients is the magnitude of the injustices of the action.
But the terminally ill cancer patient could be wrong about the future in that they might not be terminally ill. A cure for their cancer could be announced tomorrow(an unlikely scenario I'll admit, but still possible).
The chronically ill operate under the same framework as the cancer patient - make them as comfortable as possible and interfere with that comfort as little as possible.
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@engineofgod @sanjehorah Okay, so and what changes about what I said?
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pressing the blue button is immoral for the same reason that suicide is immoral
ylareia@Impish_Bunny
i actually think it’s immoral for anyone to press the blue button because you are forcing everyone else into a situation where they have to take on risk of death to protect you from your own decision
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@engineofgod @sanjehorah And the chronically ill, the braindead, or those with terminal cancer?
Imposing your ideal that they should keep living when suffering is not a great argument for it being immoral. Not smart? Probably, immoral? Not really.
Otherwise based on that any logical flaw is immoral.
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@tenobrus If my mom passed blue, I would definitely press red and if you knew my mom you would press red too
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nah. the logic actually goes the other way. anyone can go "oh there's a game theoretic equilibrium at 100% red, there's no reason for me or anyone else to ever risk their life" in a thought experiment.
in real life, you are forced to face the fact that your mom is pressing blue
Lukas (computer) 🔺@SCHIZO_FREQ
People somehow don’t realize that posting about how you’d pick the blue button online is totally different than picking the blue button in real life There is no actual downside to posting online about how you’d press the blue button But if this example were made real life, pressing the blue button means actually risking your life Everybody can pick the happy chungus meme option when there are no consequences, but if you think the results wouldn’t change substantially if people were actually staring down the barrel of the gun you’re just retarded
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@SalvMattera Not really, I'm really, really tired of hearing - we didn't know, in response to my question of how do we treat this disease. I want some damn answers.
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The sad reality is that a large percentage of chronic illness patients want validation in their illness more than they want scientific progress. When given the choice, they'd take the validation over what could become an actual treatment. Of course, they deny this, but it's true
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@ignorantmusings @sanjehorah And we laugh at people who do stupid things and put themselves in danger for no reason. Hence the new article starting with - Ohio man today......
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@sanjehorah Pushing red is immoral for the same reason we don’t cull the vulnerable in society.
We value police, firefighters, soldiers, lifeguards, paramedics… those that risk themselves for others, because we as a society think it’s good to protect the vulnerable… Reds are scum
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@ReddDrift @sanjehorah Because it's logically flawed, it assumes nothing will change about your dire situation in life and that is unknowable. It's unknowable because if you have free will the future is unknowable and we can only guess at what the future might be.
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@sanjehorah And why is suicide immoral. Genuinely. Not in terms of family or friends,since plenty of people ont have anyone. As an individual person, why is suicide immoral?
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@FindingHomeland @TooLateBlue @IterIntellectus No the red button is the quintessential inconsequential choice there are no conditionals on it, the same can't be said for the blue button. Choosing possible death is the conditional for the blue button.
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@TooLateBlue @IterIntellectus Death is only introduced into the equation when someone first presses the red button. Sounds like there may be a lesson there.
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Fair enough, so your moral claim that red button people are bad rests on the premise that children who can't logically think through things might put their life in danger so everyone should put their lives in danger.
How is that different than saying children should run things because they're dumb and we must do dumb things to save them from themselves?
My thought is maybe we should be adults and not let them put their lives needlessly in danger and tell them to push the red button.
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@engineofgod @choffstein You're adding extra conditions that dont exist in the original prompt. "Everyone on earth" isnt only adults or only everyone over 10
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Bond Villain: "Press blue... or don't."
Me: "What if I don't?"
BV: "Nothing. You go home."
Me: "And if I press it?"
BV: "You die, along with everyone else who pressed blue, unless half of humanity also presses it."
Me: "But I can just leave?"
BV: "Correct."
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@VeUghUgh @choffstein Let's make it simpler... Replace the red button option with "button not starting a global thermonuclear war" and blue button with " button starting a global thermonuclear war" . How would you choose?
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@engineofgod @choffstein Red pickers are either
- dumb and haven't even considered that "everyone on earth" includes very small children
- callous and dont care that millions of kids will die as long as they can live
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@btaustin @ChrisPacia Let's make it simpler... Replace the red button option with "button not starting a global thermonuclear war" and blue button with " button starting a global thermonuclear war" . How would you choose?
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@ChrisPacia The original poll was poisoned by the color choices. A significant portion of this country is unable to think critically beyond red vs blue. Many will press blue no matter what the result is…even if it will destroy them.
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If you vote differently in these scenarios congrats you are irrational.
Time to do some introspection and figure out why you respond emotionally to things rather than logically.
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The money for employee wages isn't created per sè directly by their bank employer, because if it was created ex nilo their would be nothing to balance out the accounting entry from the account used to pay the employees. It's paid from interest income from the loans book and customer fees.
That being said the loan interest comes from loans created not only by the employees bank employer, but other banks loans(and other financial intermediaries)as well via the bank employer customers fees. Basically the money has to go out to come back.
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@peruvian_bull As a former banker, I'm not surpised by this. Most people in finance/banking have no idea how the system works or where loan funds are created from.
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Just got off a zoom call catching up with a friend of mine from the Boy Scouts who is now a bank manager.
Told him that inflation has to be constant because loans create new money with interest and that interest has to be paid off somehow.
explained that even the bank of england has written papers describing exactly this process. they all admit this openly.
He was literally stunned and almost fell out of his chair.
"You mean money is lent into existence? every time a customer draws a line of credit they just print it? and the money supply is constantly increasing?!"
this is a guy who is a math major and works at a major bank.
even the people running the system don't know how it works.
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engineofgod retweeté
Today is St. George's Day.
St. George matters because his story contains the answer to the most important of all questions:
What is evil, and how do you destroy it?
This question has been asked by every civilization since the dawn of time. All societies can be judged by their ability to answer it. Those that provide a clear answer last the longest.
For a period of time, there was one story in particular that people turned to for help answering this question: the story of St. George and the dragon. On the surface, it's a simple story: a brave knight slays a dragon, saves a damsel, converts a city to Christianity. The end.
Except, it's not that simple. The legend of Saint George has endured for well over 1,000 years because it speaks to something eternal.
First, note that the dragon is a perversion of the natural world. Its origin is in nature, like the snake or lizard, and that makes it compelling. It's close enough to something natural (something good) that we tolerate it.
And notice the place from which it emerges. In Caxton's 1483 translation of the Golden Legend, it emerges from a stagnant pond: water without natural currents, which breeds decay. It is also outside the city walls at first, and thus overlooked.
Things overlooked, however, cannot be ignored forever...
When the dragon begin its reign of terror, it isn't by attacking people directly — it's his poisonous breath that kills. Thus, mere proximity to evil is enough to cause harm. You may think you're standing at a safe distance, but many of evil's effects are invisible to the naked eye.
In this article, we dive further into the tale to see what St. George can teach us about overcoming evil...
theculturist.io/p/how-do-you-d…
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Don’t even know what to say
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@qqnoob1 @ChrisMartzWX I love my M2, still use it to this day. They are the pinnacle of keyboard technology!
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@ChrisMartzWX Be happy you didn't live through the IBM mechanical keyboard era
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Manufacturers need to make laptop / computer keyboards that don't click. It's the most annoying sound in the world second to loud chewing. I have to wear noise-canceling AirPods in order to even use my laptop. Maybe I'm weird, idk.
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@VikeinNodak @Fxhedgers Because your government hates you, not you specifically, but us citizens.
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@engineofgod @Fxhedgers Why i gotta jump through hoops they don't
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TRUMP ORDER TO REQUIRE BANKS TO COLLECT CITIZENSHIP INFO 'IN PROCESS,' BESSENT SAYS.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that an Executive Order that would mandate that banks must collect citizenship information from customers is currently “in process.”
Speaking with Semafor in an interview published on Monday, Bessent went on to say he doesn’t believe such a requirement would be “unreasonable, because: Why don’t we have information on who’s in our banking system? I have a place in the UK; they want to know who lives in every apartment. And how do we know that it’s not part of a foreign terrorist organization?”
Full article:
msn.com/en-us/news/pol…
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