Dev Invictus
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Dev Invictus
@Dev_Invictus
Aerospace Engineer and Programmer, UK
UK Tham gia Aralık 2023
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@arthur_spirling To be fair, in the UK this is made of brick with Welsh slate tiles. In the US it's all made of timber with asphalt roof shingles.
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UK: top-1 percentile EPL footballer with wife who is partner at City of London corporate law firm
US: guy who co-invented 3rd best app for rating hotdogs
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What jobs actually get people houses like these?
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@OrevaZSN They do it so that it auto-searches through bing and then they can report high usage figures for Bing.
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@SellikBhoy @prettyusefulUI @iWalkOutdoors You don't see the potential for a feedback loop there...? Wages go up to 'liveable', then goods and services go up, then what is liveable changes, then you demand wages to go up again. Please take a basic economics class.
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@prettyusefulUI @iWalkOutdoors No, they'll go up slightly to account for wage rises as they always do.
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@Angie_Marie_1 @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland My mistake, I assumed we were having a conversation about a general principle rather than zooming in on individuals. I won't waste my time any further, good luck.
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i understand why ppl do small talk when they are first meeting someone, but why do some ppl do compulsive small talk all the time? my MIL just by default talks nonstop.
“do you think all of that will fit in that suitcase? i always check my suitcase, don’t want to be lifting it on the plane. i take it to the gate and check it there. they let you check it for free!”
“uber is here! last time i took an uber it was a prius. hard to get ubers at my house, have to call ahead.”
“i talked to margaret. did i tell you that? she called me. she’s getting ready to go to the airport. 2pm fight for her. but she’s flying domestic. gets in in the evening.”
but like basically nonstop for hours. never anything that needs to be said, always just kinda autobiographical and impossible to respond to with anything other than “mmmm.”
it is very much the same as someone following me around with a television playing nonstop ads, but if i don’t kinda pay attention to the ads i am rude. not only can i now not have a normal conversation with my fiancé, i cannot even have interesting thoughts in my own mind.
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You didn't answer my question? That's why you can't see that to others it's just a blurted thought.
Why would anyone need to or want to know that the last uber she got was a prius? Or that she usually has to call ahead?
Just put yourself in the recipients shoes for one moment, ask if you GENUINELY think it's interesting for the recipient. If it's not, you're just blurting random thoughts at them that they have to respond to. That's OP's point.
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@Dev_Invictus @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland I don't see anything wrong with that, the Uber had just arrived, it's not off topic, not random, the OP seems impatient to me. She'll get there, with some maturity.
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@Angie_Marie_1 @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland "last time i took an uber it was a prius. hard to get ubers at my house, have to call ahead."
Why would you think literally anyone cares about or needs to know this information? You seem to not care whether what you're saying is interesting to the recipient.
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@Dev_Invictus @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland I don't see how any of those examples the OP gave were blurted random thoughts, they were all inline with the situation.
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@Angie_Marie_1 @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland Hardly a fair comparison if it's your own mother. Maybe I just say things to people if I think I have something interesting to say. I don't just blurt out whatever random thought comes into my head without considering if the other person actually wants / needs to hear it?
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@Dev_Invictus @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland Input as in I will chat too, not sit their sullen like yourself.
I can talk to my mother for over an hour on the phone and we can cover many subjects, nothing is off limits.
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@Angie_Marie_1 @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland So you both just ping inconsequential information back and forth? I don't understand how you can think any or most of the information in those quotes is necessary for someone else to hear. It's just an unfiltered brain spilling onto someone else.
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@Dev_Invictus @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland No i'm fine with it, but if I put myself in the company of a chatty person, then I'll mirror their input.
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@_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland Can I ask why you think people need to know the kind of information in these quotes? Why they have to constantly listen to things that are of no consequence and nod and respond? It can be exhausting.
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@Romy_Holland these quotes read as entirely normal conversation to me.. am i the problem?
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@Angie_Marie_1 @_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland Why is constant conversation and commentary required? Are you that uncomfortable with silence in someone else's presence?
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@_matthewp22 @Romy_Holland I'm thinking the same, OP could interject with some conversation of her own, expand on the 'small talk', make the MIL feel heard, but it seems she has not developed that social skill set yet.
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@blizzy888 @Daily_MailUS I'm pretty sure the article is just saying some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are going on display, not that they've found something new.
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@FortuneMMXM Damn, that's actually wise as hell. Tate drops some real wisdom sometimes.
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@VectorWear @drydenwtbrown That hasn't been true of communities reliant on foreign aid, the birth rate has exploded.
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@Dev_Invictus @drydenwtbrown Well they’ll have the lotto still I’m sure to give some up. They won’t have to do anything because people barely reproduce as is. Eventually the numbers of takers will be small.
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@mandyarthur No, it was neutralized so that there would be no resistance to the Greater Israel project. European ethno-states have always been the greatest pushback on their power attempts.
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Not only will you be poor forever, your descendants will be too. Not to mention, you think the people in the asset class and apportioning will put up with this anchor of UBI class forever? They never have before, and they will not. UBI will be an entire class of just takers, which they will get sick of.
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@Dev_Invictus @drydenwtbrown Underclass. If you are poor doing the transition you’ll most likely be poor forever. But then again I think our poor will be middle class compared to most other countries if not rich.
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@drydenwtbrown I hope you have better economic theories planned for your 'city' than this communist drivel
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Asset owners will be expropriated by coming generations as Generational Justice.
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@jtrocksforever @drydenwtbrown No, because why would asset holders sell their assets to UBI earners? their asset values would skyrocket, and you would be competing against a billion people who earned the exact same income as you and similarly saved.
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@jtrocksforever @drydenwtbrown No, because why would asset holders sell their assets to UBI earners? their asset values would skyrocket, and you would be competing against a billion people who earned the exact same income as you and similarly saved.
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@Dev_Invictus @drydenwtbrown Also if everyone is given enough money to sustain the economy you could def move into the asset class if you simply abstain from buying a bunch of shit constantly
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If you think UBI will lead to purposelessness
You are revealing that you believe **human meaning comes from economic productivity alone**
We are not on earth to create shareholder value to to make GDP go up
We are here to pursue virtue, glory, God
All human societies knew this pre-modernity, and you know it too
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@Dev_Invictus @drydenwtbrown The new classes will be based on who can abstain from indulging every pleasure to invest and those with talent. Those will be the new money makers and the basis of the new stratified classes
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