@LegalistsOfGor @LudditeHacker There is no greater folly than separating scale from substance.
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Tree Of Heaven
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@heaven_tree_ @LudditeHacker "Meet people" what, at school? The ancients had schools too, and they were just as large.
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I am of the theory America has no real civic life and Americans no proper communal experiences after it so it becomes the last reference point of any shared social setting.
Maia@maiamindel
what is it with americans and high school
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@shagbark_hick The benefits of homelessness in America sound like the average rural Europe (non-EU) home ownership experience.
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In fact, I truly miss the homeless vagabond life in general, and deeply mourn the fact that now, as a father, I am prohibited by law from continuing this kind of a life.
Homeownership is not really all that it's cracked up to be. It is vastly inferior to homelessness overall -- and I am not saying this to be cheeky; I actually mean it.
As a wayfaring vagrant, I paid no tax, I had no snooping neighbors, no codes enforcers lurking, no satellite imagery being taken of my home. Local and state politics were irrelevant to me. I did whatever I pleased in perfect privacy, passed long weeks and even months along glorious beaches or wonderful forests, alone or with company. I read a book a day as I liked, and certainly, I usually had the lowest cortisol levels imaginable.
Now, they've "got me." They know where I live. I have assets they could take from me if ever I was a "bad boy." I have certain obligations, such as paying income tax, property tax, mailing checks to the water board, haggling with the plumber, changing furnace filters, fixing rotted-out soffits, and so on.
And I do all of this for the dubious privilege of having so much "stuff" packed into a house that I'm a sitting duck. I can't get up and leave when some ill fate looms. I'm like a flightless bird, waiting for cynical bureaucrats and nosy neighbors to have their way with me. My room is like an anechoic chamber; I can hardly hear the birds or the wind. Bizarrely, I shit in perfectly clean water, start no fire when it is time to cook a meal, and I walk less than ever.
My body atrophies unless I use a glorified hamster wheel (called a "gym") to harden myself up with, for my life is "too easy." Still, my senses do not allow me to relax; I bolt up in the night, wondering if raccoons might be eating the food in my backpack. But my backpack is hanging on the wall collecting dust. All of my skills and instincts are useless. I'm like a ghetto beat cop transferred to a leafy suburb in Westchester -- bored, unnerved by the quiet, stultified by the mundane realities of a peaceful life.
Only a combination of strong beer and hard penance keeps me sane, for better or worse. And I really do wonder if the regimen will hold or if it will someday "break." In anticipation of this breakage I am always scheming; thinking of buying a boat, or of lighting off for the desert again, or of some foolish caper that could keep me from gnawing off my limbs.
The hope is that I'll get old soon, and will be too broken and tired to worry about any of that. When that day comes, it'll be nirvana...
Anyway, I don't recommend getting yourself adjusted to the life of a homeless vagabond -- but not for the reasons you might think.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
One thing I miss about being homeless is how much PRIVACY I got each night. This may seem counterintuitive, but proper stealth camping is 10x more private than living in a house with neighbors. I slept out of sight in odd places and weird corners, amongst reeds or brambles, whatever. With no car to signal my presence, and no worn trail to tell others that I was there, I could very easily relax in blissfully perfect privacy. Now that I live in a house, my neighbors know when I'm home. They see me sitting on my porch throughout the day. They wonder what I do, where I am going -- one of my more paranoiac neighbors even seems to perform "inspections" on my house occasionally, to see if we are here, leering into the windows and the driveway etc. Some will say: "so don't live in town, then!" But even in an isolated country home, your name is still on the tax records. They know who you are. They check you out on satellite. It's when you own nothing and just drift place to place that you're truly private. As a traveling vagabond, I was never subjected to the scrutiny of prying eyes, chiefly because I was good at finding stealthy sleep spots. No one had any knowledge of who I was, where I was, or what I was doing between dusk and dawn. It was truly beautiful and I deeply miss it. There is no luxury quite like being truly unseen, unknown, totally hidden. I am sad to think that that part of my life is really over forever.
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@bumbadum14 Anyone who thinks driving a 15 year old car is a "sacrifice" should be sent to a Pol Pot summer camp.
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FIRE is probably the most soul crushing lifestyle I have ever heard of and it's a terrible indictment on our society.
Some of the most competent and intelligent people are structuring themselves to live as minimally as possible so they can check out of society before they're 40.
Many of these people are unbelievably hard workers and incredibly intelligent. But they are so disillusioned so all of their potential goes to waste because there's no point to work for more.
Ramit Sethi@ramit
"Is pushing for a 60% savings rate destroying my marriage?" Yes
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@Oeconolia Yeah but by that standard any new build in Europe is a concrete house/villa.
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@MarquisKartaga What's the official reason for insider trading being banned, it's like the system came with a hardcoded anti-corruption feature and people banned it.
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Always going after the small every day man, while capitalist pigs do it all the time! Gamblers rise UP!
Clash Report@clashreport
A U.S. special forces soldier was arrested for allegedly using inside information from a secret mission to capture Nicolás Maduro to place bets on a prediction market, making over $400,000 profit. He reportedly bet about $32–33K on Maduro being removed from power just before the operation. Source: CNN
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@Oeconolia Brick, you can see it on the one where the facade is falling off
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@TheEternalSerb That looks like the perfect place for an aggregate plant
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Seems easy, just fuckin scatter the thing starting from the top. You could literally have guys kicking rocks all day and do it
History Content@HistContent
Antiochus I built a fifty meter high artificial peak out of loose crushed rock at the summit of Mount Nemrut to hide his tomb. Modern archaeologists still cannot reach the burial chamber because the stones instantly collapse inward during any excavation attempt. The sheer effort required to create a self sealing mountain makes you wonder what exactly he was trying to protect.
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@jensenjeans This was likely more true in 1923 than it is today.
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@moultano Romantic prospects were gated behind a billion other worse things that you thankfully couldn't bring back if you tried. The only thing really wrong with them is that the easiest way to make money is selling no-match DMs which defeat the purpose.
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I'm comfortable just cynically ignoring feed ranking algorithms on social media and posting true to myself, but if my romantic prospects were gated behind a fucking model I would lose my goddamn mind. How do you all put up with this shit?
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I don't understand why you kids let yourself be enslaved by dating apps.
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@LRH_Superfan I don't understand this purity spiral of lumping vapes together with cigarettes. Cracking down on cigarettes while ignoring or outright supporting vape use would solve 95 percent of the problem easily.
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25% of cigarettes smoked in Britain today are already black market because of the horrendous pricing, I really doubt this will do much
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
BREAKING: The UK passes lifelong ban on buying tobacco and vapes for everyone born after 2008. The law, meant to create “a smoke-free generation, will come into effect in 2027
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“I’d like to pay workers almost nothing while having them live on site and to have the leverage over them to terminate their visa and remove them from the country”
Rain Drops Media@Raindropsmedia1
Farmers struggle to find workers as immigration enforcement tightens 👀
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@xOccupyUSAx @sapp742 @DAKKADAKKA1 Farmers don't set the price of the product, they have to do what they can with prices set by wholesalers.
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@sapp742 @DAKKADAKKA1 Wrong.
If the money is good, people will do anything.
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This nasty bitch spent 200k to build migrant housing instead of just paying a guy $20 an hour. She wants slave labor.
Covfefe Anon@CovfefeAnon
This is like the classic dril bit >I can't find workers for my farm >Offer a higher wage >No
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@CovfefeAnon You don't have infinite leeway, you can only raise the price of the product by x before people don't want to buy it anymore.
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This is like the classic dril bit
>I can't find workers for my farm
>Offer a higher wage
>No
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@RokoMijic It used to be great cca 10 years ago, they destroyed it on purpose.
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YouTube video recommendations are so bad it's hilarious
It's 2026 and I still can't filter for the kind of high information content I want in an automated way.
If you watch one high information content podcast on, say, finance, instead of recommending a high information content podcast on biology, it will recommend some ghastly finance clickbait because it's "similar"
The system can't really see quality so it can't recommend it easily
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@dissproportion The beer bit is mostly made up or very locale-specific, beer was uncommon in many parts of Europe until the 20th century. As for mortality it was common not to record a child until it survived the first year until after WW2.
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Medieval peasants must have slept with babies under the covers, and they were all drinking beer all day (even kids did!), and they didn’t have modern fireplaces so their huts were pretty smoky. How much of the infant mortality rate was “SIDS”??
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@SnapperClapper1 There obviously was because we know the people living there now are very different from the people who lived there a thousand years ago. We also have DNA analyses of ancient skeletons and know they were genetically different from us.
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@heaven_tree_ @space_homer HBD (black ppl = dumb and violent) has nothing to do with these pet theories that there was some important genetic selection in the past 2000 years for Europeans.
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@space_homer HBD is basically accepted by everyone under 30 who isn't an overt leftist so you can pick out any random eugenic looking man in that age group.
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