AfterTheRocket

@DaddyWarpig IIRC, in the book, those vampires were also working independently to slaughter the monster vampires at night, but Neville didn't know any of that. They see him as an uninfected serial killer, not as the last pure human.

@DaddyWarpig The movie completely destroyed the premise. In the book, half of the vampires were literally just normal humans afflicted with vampirism by a virus and were trying to rebuild civilization. Neville didn't know that, as he staked them indiscriminately as they slept during the day.

Humans are monstrous, on the whole. Always have been. The difference is, we CAN be better. *Monsters* cannot. "Humans are the real monsters" stories are idiotic because humans can be better, and "monsters are just like humans" stories are idiotic for the opposite reason.

@cjjscrawfo58137 @TheMagaHulk No, the ending of the novel wasn't stupid or depressing. FFS, the novel's ending had a real essentially human society emerging from the ashes of the apocalypse where the movie just had 99% of humanity gone.

@TheMagaHulk I Am Legend's ending being "the protagonist realizes he was the monster all along" is, and always has been, stupid. That it was in the novel changes nothing, because the novel's twist ending is itself stupid, cruel and deliberately depressing.

Your end was scrapped because test audiences hated it. The retarded monsters that eat everyone are the bad guys. And Neville is the good guy who saved humanity. Now he finds peace and gets to be with his wife, his son, and his German Shepherd that the monsters murdered.

@eastern0414 @TheMagaHulk If they'd kept the book version of the monsters--two very different types of vampires--it would have worked beautifully.

@TheMagaHulk That’s the book ending but it wouldn’t have worked at all in the movie

@Watchman_motto "Making this as easy..." That's the equal and opposite bad idea. The son needs a work ethic to be burned into him. The dad should have made him get a job, work his butt off and then offered him matching money and coverage for his insurance.

This is reprehensible behavior disguised as good parenting. It’s just an incorrect mindset when it comes to your children. You should be viewing your family as a dynasty. That means making things as easy and smooth as possible for your kids. There’s a weird holdover from Protestantism/puritanism where you’re supposed to “work hard” I’m not saying you shouldn’t work hard for the things you want. Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve done plenty of that to get here. But there’s a big difference between “work” and “toil.” Work is productive. It stores up extra value and produces a useful result. It builds towards the future and it creates capital. Toil is just doing hard things and calling it work. Moving a huge pile of rocks from one place to another is toil. It doesn’t “teach” anything. This brings me to the point. There is a major controversy when it comes to firewood. You may not be aware. In the country many people heat with wood, primarily or as a secondary heat source. And cutting wood is a pride thing for these people - something I was unaware of before I moved rural. I get it, it does feel good to have the end result - a fully stocked and stacked wood pile. I’ve felled trees, and limbed, and bucked, and split, and stacked wood. It sucks and it takes forever. You need a good chainsaw, well-maintained. You really should have a tractor too (which I don’t have). But I don’t do that. I call a local kid who drops a dump trailer full of two cords at a time of seasoned and split oak/hickory right next to my wood shed. I pay him 250/cord. That’s not cheap, but it’s not crazy high for delivered wood. My neighbor on the other hand, drives 40mi to his property in the next county, dragging a trailer with him. He cuts down a couple trees, limbs them, loads them on his trailer, and drags them back home. Then he bucks them off the back of the trailer. Then he calls his buddy and borrows a splitter. He brings the splitter and spends a few weekends splitting everything. Then he takes the splitter back. Then it’s stacked. That gets him a cord or more of wood. That cord probably has 40 man hours in it. But it was “FREE” I’m sure he knows a lot about hard work.

@A_Hollywood1776 @AgroNationalism Yes, but outsourcing is much more easily rolled back than a genuine advance in technology.

@AfterTheRocket @AgroNationalism Either way we will be unemployed

Dave Ramsey is practically the Germanic Protestant Saint of Money. Imagine how bad things would be if men like him didn't save millions of white people's finances over the last 30 years. He probably boosted the fertility rate by half a percent fixing family finances. That said, the era of quantitative easing inverts virtually all his advice. When the money printers go brrrr, debt is good, and saving your money is stupid. Many didn't realize this and are far poorer now because of it.

@A_Hollywood1776 @AgroNationalism AI is not coming for our jobs any time soon. AI is the scapegoat for big corporations outsourcing our jobs overseas.

The only way to make it to the average boomer level of comfort in this country requires a hail-Mary. Not a pressure washer so you can pay for an education to do a job AI is already doing. Not to mention in 15 years AI will be doing the pressure washing too. Just never forget the black market is always hiring, it pays well, and there’s no taxes. That’s real advice.

@AgroNationalism "debt is good" is only true if you have the means and will to use it for economically productive purposes. The vast majority of Millennials and Zoomers who balk at Dave don't come even close to that. So it is far worse, far less helpful or relevant advice for them than his rn.

@wiztom88 @VladTheInflator You may be able to get by just fine without a degree, but you won't be able to skip the fundamentals that are taught in one if you want to stay in. Out of dozens of bootcampers I've worked with, the only one worth keeping was someone who had an Aerospace Engineering degree.

@VladTheInflator You dont need school to get a coding job. You need the certs and a portfolio of work that translates to todays infrastructures. 10,000$ is high end if your not motivated. Degree days for coding are over. Senior levels require them. Production matters today

This may be the dumbest most boomer shit I've ever seen in my entire life. $600 to get a "coding job" for $150,000? What the fuck are you talking about.

@Thepeoplesfool @ubiquitousnewt Because the story doesn't even mention that he gave them a family discount, and repairing a rental is a legal duty of a landlord.

@ubiquitousnewt He’s providing housing and repairs to his children. Since when is that ‘nothing’? 🤔

I know of a wealthy boomer yank down south, (business not friends) who rents out 2 properties. One to his son and one to his daughter, both in their late 20s. He bought both the properties a number of years ago. I asked whether he would give the houses to his children or help them out with a deposit for their own because of the current housing issues. He said "No. What will that teach them?". So basically he is pocketing their rent money. He isn't doing anything productive to help them like putting it into stocks and shares to build up a deposit for them. He's just pocketing the money. He's one of those boomers. "The youth of today, including my children are just lazy. If they wanted a house they work twice as hard just as I did". And that ladies and gents, is how you kill the American dream.

@FromLtoW @Pat_Stedman He was directly citing men who ditch their wives for a younger, tighter model after they gave up their careers and best years to raise his children without any earnings. No bro, those women deserve to chew his ass up in court absent infidelity or violence.

@Pat_Stedman You are basically saying that when a marriage stops , it is fair for the guy (who may struggle with his own employment issues later in life) to continue paying for the woman who has stopped taking care of him for the rest of his lifetime.

We don't know the full story, but I have heard some horror stories IRL about men who never married / got prenups with women and had many kids with them, and then decided later in life to dump these women for someone younger, leaving her basically destitute. Being objective, it's not a good deal for a woman to enter into this sort of arrangement. If you're both W2s, it's reasonable to protect all respective assets coming into a marriage, but it becomes a harder sell for what is built after. If the earnings differential between you is within 2-1 I'm not sure it really matters much, you risk making things too transactional. If he's well established compared to her however or has companies, and she's coming in with little and intends to be a housewife, this is a different story - he needs to make sure his assets are completely protected. But she should still have some financial vesting in the event of a divorce, assuming no infidelity on her end. Like a "salary" that only materializes in the event of things ending. This is basically like alimony except pre-agreed upon. Bottom line is you cannot expect a woman to have no career, stay at home and raise the kids, and have no financial protections or earned stake over the years. I get that things have gone too far in divorce court but the reason this stuff started to begin with is that women who trusted their husbands were ruined when he decided later on to ditch her.

@4Gt2Hate @kai_xbt No, this is 100% valid logic in places like metro DC.

@kai_xbt This is retard logic. Rich people drive expensive cars and wear nice clothes. Poor people who save a lot have a lot of money but drive sht cars and wear cheap clothes. Silicon Valley is full of autists

Caleb Hammer on why he assumes people with nice clothes and nice cars are broke "The nicer stuff people have, the worse I assume they're off. Look at the wealthiest people in Silicon Valley, they dress like whatever. Go to a white trash community, you'll see all these lifted $100,000 trucks. Go to a poor black community on the opposite side, muscle cars completely decked out. Everyone does it to flex. So many people I know would prefer having a nice car over a nice house. It's insane."

@Vxesn_ @teneleven04 @kai_xbt Stripping down to bare necessities to maximize savings is precisely how most Boomers, Xers and Millennials pulled it off. Only Gen Z thinks it's normal for working and middle class people to not have to make deep sacrifices to afford a house in their 20s and early 30s.

@AfterTheRocket @teneleven04 @kai_xbt Yeah but this is like saying “save every single penny and only eat what you meal plan” bro I can get a monster a few times a week without it killing my wallet

Caleb Hammer reveals what micro purchases are actually keeping Gen Z men broke "Gooning for sure. Energy drinks on the way to work every day. Stopping at the gas station. Men love to do that. It's these reoccurring things that really fuck them up. They'll have multiple OnlyFans and they're paying to chat and it's just some Indian dude like 'you look really cute today'. Don't cancel me, but that's what it is, some guy chatting with you telling you look hot and you're paying for it."

@teneleven04 @kai_xbt You will almost never find someone who patronizes convenience stores **daily** who has good saving and spending habits rather than terrible ones.

@kai_xbt Getting an energy drink before work isn’t keeping people from buying a house

@MikeWingerii Among other examples, it should be the black letter of the law that a criminal referral must be made when a Brady violation is discovered and material Brady violations in capital cases should be punished with the DP to provide proper incentive to obey the law.

@MikeWingerii 90% of the debate around the DP isn't about the DP itself but the fact that we don't have a system that ruthlessly polices the police and prosecutors when they are negligent or corrupt and someone suffers for that.

This is a biblical position. It’s not common and probably the majority of Christians would hesitate over it, or simply disagree, but I believe it is very biblical.

@Luke__22_36 @seanmdav Yes. Absolutely.

@seanmdav Do you think this should be retroactive for the American heroes that fought with the British to fight Germany before we entered the war? Or does this only apply to the jooooze?

Serving in any foreign army should result in instant forfeiture of American citizenship.

@RandomQueriant @baalzamon35 I just looked up Katko v Biney, and I can't believe you'd compare the two. A mailbox with a hardened steel post, secured with a large block of cement underground would have the same effect. "It's a boobytrap because its sturdiness was deceptively strong."

It is a weak reed, and I already acknowledged that with the Boy Scout reference. It is also likely to be the grounds that any “boobytrapped”mailbox is challenged in court. Not “my client did no wrong and shouldn’t have been maimed”, but “it could have been someone innocent, so the other guy was in the wrong, even if my client was also”. It has happened before, and the case I referenced, Katko b. Briney, is the current standard. Stupid or not.

The concrete mailbox is a litmus test. One side thinks society should protect those who bring violence/destruction by ensuring victims are limited in defending/reinforcing their property The other thinks if you hit a mailbox with a baseball bat and hurt yourself. Don't do that.

@tekthis1 @ShamashAran Disproportionate would be putting a landmine in the mailbox. It's totally proportional to secretly fortify a mailbox such that a vandal would have their arm, shoulder and collar bone shattered if they tried to destroy it from a car.

@ShamashAran They don’t seem to understand. Someone wrongs me, my family, friends, or country, I want the response so disproportionate that they and others will think at least 4 times about it before attempting it themselves.

People like this are the reason that rapists and murderers get out of jail with no bail after being arrested.

@baalzamon35 @HattsworthIsYou Ironically, a kid doing that in my suburban neighborhood would likely shatter their arm on any of our standard mailboxes. Why? They have very sturdy metal posts buried deep into the ground. The demographic that would destroy them likely doesn't understand that.

@HattsworthIsYou With a metal bat swinging out of a moving vehicle, it can.