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@conditionalZep1

rockets & cathedrals

Katılım Eylül 2022
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conditionalZeppelin
conditionalZeppelin@conditionalZep1·
@planefag I’d like to think my 130 year old house begins to count, but I know deep down it needs to go another generation before it achieves real house status
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planefag@planefag·
these people seem to sincerely think that a house isn't a real house if it's not a 150 year old crumbling pile of shit brickwork with no modern insulation or vapor barrier with a slate roof and some daffy cunt dancing on it singing chim-chimminy cheroo
Krisp with a K 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@KrispWithTheK

"Well its 40+ degrees over here so you brits are just weak" okay but try turning that 40+ degree heat into 0 degrees and see how your cardboard houses and AC helps you there mate

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Matthew Zirwas, MD@MattZirwas·
A NYT piece yesterday from @kristyalpert said dermatologists are "flummoxed" that Gen Z is tanning despite hearing the warnings about skin cancer. I'm a dermatologist. I'm not flummoxed at all. When kids hear their whole lives that there is no amount of sun that is ok, they correctly read that as dumb and wrong. Then they don't believe anything from the people who told them that. The true things, like don't burn, don't use tanning beds. Maybe dermatology never heard about the boy who cried wolf. x.com/MattZirwas/sta…
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conditionalZeppelin@conditionalZep1·
@Jason @Geiger_Capital The best and brightest can’t even get visas, those are given exclusively to scab labor and undesirables used cynically to undermine the country. I would’ve even object to letting in a few good people, but that’s obviously not what this discussion is about.
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@jason@Jason·
The best interest of America today is very simple: 1. SKIM THE CREAM: Recruit the smartest and most driven 1-3m people on the planet every year; < 1% of our population. They create companies and jobs, while taking that economic growth away from our rivals. 2. POWER THROUGH SHORTAGES: Allow for a modest amount of workers based on our acute needs and the immigrants willingness to assimilate (as seen in say learning to speak English before arriving). This is probably 100-500k a year on average… healthcare, agriculture etc. 3. STRATEGIC IMMIGRANTS: Allow dissidents and refugees when politically advantageous (ie from rivals) And of course cut off all illegal immigration to accomplish this
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Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital·
Before Hart-Celler in 1965 our nation's immigration system was severely restrictive with varying national quotas. Immigrants from many countries were outright banned. It was almost exclusively Europeans because the men before us wanted to preserve our own ethnic homogeneity, demographics, culture and social cohesion. They prioritized our nation and the economic interests of American workers instead of the feelings of weak men and cheap foreign labor. The last few decades of third-world mass immigration has not been in our nation's interest.
@jason@Jason

Politicians make immigration decisions on what gets them elected — not what is in the best interest of the nation.

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conditionalZeppelin
conditionalZeppelin@conditionalZep1·
As standards go up, the old and more reasonable ways of living simply go away, or at the very least become associated with people whose company you wouldn't want to keep. This is the real cost-of-living problem: as the expensive way catches on, the cheap way simply gets deprecated. Viz: the great sort, healthcare, universal basic F-150
VB Knives@Empty_America

Right this instant is the PEAK material consumption that has ever occurred in the United States. Average person has never had more Sq. Ft. of living space, with stronger HVAC, a more luxurious car, more flights, more resturant meals. Social malaise is a different question.

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Hayduke ⏹️@GWHayduke97·
I'm genuinely curious what even well-implemented universal healthcare looks like for a country in with a GDP per capita in the mid-teens. I often wonder the same thing about China. Wild guess: with probably around $1000-1200/capita annual health spend, you probably get one or two annual checkups, vaccines, (non-luxury) maternal care, low-cost Rxs. But higher cost Rxs go uncovered (or just not prescribed at all even if badly needed), anything QOL-related you have to go private, surgeries you either go private or get in line for a 5-10 year long waitlist. Extreme, aggressive triaging for things like cancer care.
Spot World Affairs@SpotGlobals

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announces free universal healthcare for 130 million citizens starting next year.

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conditionalZeppelin@conditionalZep1·
@Mstrainer19 @GWHayduke97 Decline is best handled by outright denial. I’ll bet you think Chinese cars suck too, and you can just pay a little more for the US-made version of whatever it is you want
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Mojave Art Club@MojaveArtClub·
The Backrooms in general is the extended mythology of a rotted stagnate world. The Backrooms is everything about the later 90s preserved but extended into a twisted bewildering place that is wrong but familiar. All the levels represent some sort of exaggerating disconcerting piece of modernity, an office with no purpose that goes on forever, its stagnate air, humming lights make one uncomfortable but its the place of familiarity. Most of the Backrooms levels are that, places that either aught to be reassuring, and familiar but are twisted and have expanded into an inescapable prison. You can never leave the Backrooms, the Poolrooms, on and on, are inescapable purgatories for which nothing changes or progresses in a logical manner, as if time and history have collapsed into incoherence. Nothing really makes sense in the Backrooms. Like living in America today, you can't trust your senses, there is no logic or consistency. Your actions truly cannot assure you a good outcome, in fact you are just as likely to die horrifically going down the slide as you are to find the next level, and the next level has new rules that are as arbitrary and unhinged as the last level. And always there are roving monsters whose origins and intentions are completely unknown but whose lethality is ever present. The Backrooms is the End of History, a present that has no future, no progression except through levels of the same realm that has always been and always will be. We are all living in the Backrooms of History.
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri

Seriously though, why is there something borderline psychoactive about this specific set of motifs? Why pools? Why no windows? Why the pastel colours? It feels suspiciously like an arbitrary code execution exploit on the human mind.

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conditionalZeppelin@conditionalZep1·
@DiamondEyesFox I used to be in a similar position, I eventually found it to require more magical thinking than the alternative. Good luck in your journey.
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DiamondEyesFox@DiamondEyesFox·
getting lots of followers and engagement from my praise of catholicism and the pope, but i feel the need to remind you that i'm still an atheist you're welcome to step up to the plate to try and change that, but it will be difficult
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conditionalZeppelin@conditionalZep1·
I can't speak for every country everywhere, but this is a sound argument and the conservative rebuttal to it is cope. I live in the middle of some of the best farmland in the world, and the produce absolutely sucks (and is mostly from California). It's a bad system.
Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU@CompletedStreet

Other countries: Fresh, affordable food available within walking distance of every neighborhood. U.S.: 15 brands of genetically modified hyper-processed ice cream that requires a $35,000 vehicle to access.

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Soda@fredsoda·
one question I’ve struggled with is given America’s (relative) decline, what should you or I do as individuals to navigate it? America may bounce back but never to its previous level hoping that my writing will provide answers and rekindle faith in myself to find a way forward
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conditionalZeppelin@conditionalZep1·
@bryancsk They basically are divorcees, they’re probably three live-in girlfriends deep by that point
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Bryan Cheong@bryancsk·
It feels like all unmarried men in their 30s have some nonzero divorcee energy even if they were never married.
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