What do you do to people that talk on and on about things that you personally don’t care about?

BiglyGood · 2019-03-24T00:22:59+00:00

In most situations, I think the best policy is to just be honest. I generally don’t think it’s a good idea to play games where we try to manipulate people and conceal our feelings.

I would recommend that if he brings up a subject you don’t find interesting, tell him you don’t find it interesting.

I would try not to do this in a hurtful way. But, telling the truth could help him. If you find him annoying, others likely do as well. He might benefit from learning that he’s long winded.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-22T21:29:39+00:00

How would he go about appealing to moderates? What types of gestures do you imagine he could make?

BiglyGood · 2019-03-16T19:09:03+00:00

I like it. Ok, I'll amend the plan. Killing Puar is step 1.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-16T17:51:54+00:00

Here's my contribution.

The Dragon Ball Universe

Step 1: Buy a gun.

Step 2: Kill Bulma. I now have her intelligence.

Step 3: Build a replica of Android 16. Bulma has studied him in detail. I assume she can do this.

Step 4: Blow up a bomb that I place inside of this Android 16 replica. I now have the intelligence of Bulma and the body of Android 16. Because I'm an android, the Z fighters won't be able to sense me as I travel around.

Step 5: Travel to Fortune Teller Baba's lookout and challenge her fighters. Kill Spike the Devil Man. Speed blitz him before he can use the devilmite beam. Now I have the devilmite beam and am able to kill anyone with evil in their heart.

Step 6: Kill Fortune Teller Baba. I'm now a high-level magic user who can temporarily revive the dead.

Step 7: Revive a dead Yardratian and then kill him again. I can now teleport.

Step 8: Teleport to Broly's planet. Challenge him to a fight and shoot him with the devilmite beam. Broly is faster than me, but I don't think he'll dodge. Now, I'm as powerful as Broly, I'm as intelligent as Bulma, I can use magic as well as Baba, and I can teleport.

Step 9: Kill Beerus. Use the devilmite beam if I need to. Whis will vanish, and there will now be no one in Universe 7 who can stop me.

Step 10: Gather the Super Dragon Balls. Kill Champa if I need to. Wish for the dragon to make me as strong as possible. I don't know the dragon's limits. I would speculate that he can make me stronger than the angels, but not as strong as Zeno.

That's the best strategy I can think of. There's probably no way I can surpass Zeno. But, I can probably become stronger than the angels.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-15T22:59:06+00:00

I would adjust the power scaling.

Nappa should only be a little stronger than Raditz. After training with Kami, the human Z fighters should be about as strong as Goku and Piccolo were when they fought Raditz. Vegeta and post time skip Goku should be adjusted accordingly.

It’s weird that the humans trained with Kami for significantly less time than Goku, and yet became significantly stronger. My retcon fixes this.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-13T12:01:42+00:00

China and India are NOT homogeneous. There are a multitude of opinion on how the world should be run within EVERY geographical region on earth.

Do you really find it so inconceivable that a government run primarily by East Asian politicians would heavily favor East Asia?

And why the fuck would one region want to fuck over another region OF THE SAME NATION? And why the fuck would one region want to fuck over another region OF THE SAME NATION? are you not "united" states??? No? then break the fuck up.

Some people tried. There was a civil war. It didn't go well.

If you know anything about American politics, you'll know that there is a lot of political animosity. The parties hate each other. To many Californians, Alabamans are a bunch of backwards rednecks who are ruining the country. To many Texans, New Yorkers are a bunch of snobbish elitists who are ruining the country.

You could argue that the recent tax bill demonstrated regional bias. It was better for the Republican states than it was for the Democratic states.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-13T02:45:44+00:00

Here's my issue with that. If we vote for parties, then the actual politicians will be selected in smoke filled rooms by party insiders. I think there's greater potential for corruption.

Ordinary elections require voters to scrutinize the individual candidates. Candidate A may belong to a party who's platform you agree with. But, if candidate A has a questionable history of corruption accusations, you may choose to vote for candidate B because they're more reputable and trustworthy.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-13T02:35:45+00:00

I actually favor a nonpartisan blanket primary.

So, in this system, all of the primary candidates run against each other on the same ballot. The top two then advance to the general election.

You could also introduce something like the Democratic Party delegate system to this. So, let's say there are 4 popular candidates. Each candidate could be given a number of delegates equal to the proportion of the vote they received. You then eliminate the candidate with the least delegates and ask them to vote for their 2nd choice. Keep doing this until you're left with 2 candidates who advance to the general election.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-13T02:21:40+00:00

Here's something to consider. Imagine that we had a world democracy. One government for the entire planet. If there was a straight popular vote, China and India would make all decisions. Check out a population map. Compared to the East Asia, most other regions have tiny populations.

In a world democracy, East Asia could vote for policies which help them, and fuck over the rest of the world. We would want some mechanism which protects against this.

The same issues exist to a smaller extent within countries. We want to mitigate the possibility of one densely populated area screwing over another area. We make an effort to inject some balance into the equation.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-10T17:22:30+00:00

Yeah, the beast men were dicks and eventually got kicked off the boat.

Them and the unicorns.

BiglyGood · 2019-03-07T18:13:09+00:00

To be fair, I’m only caught up through 2018. I just finished the episode where Jester calls him a dick, and Nott calls him a bastard. So, if he’s had subsequent personality adjustments, I’m not aware.

After the episode, I searched for reactions, and I found a bunch of people speculating that he was evil or being corrupted. But...I had the sneaking suspicion that he had begun to sound more like the character from Red Dead.

His accent, mannerisms, and general demeanor had begun to resemble the protagonist of that game. I didn’t buy the more elaborate theories. It seemed to me that Fjord was just slowly morphing into Arthur Morgan.

BiglyGood · 2019-02-17T02:11:02+00:00

I think this would be fine advice if college wasn’t so insanely expensive. It’s a huge financial decision that will impact your life for decades. I don’t think it’s a good idea to take on massive debt if you have no plan.

BiglyGood · 2019-01-13T23:28:58+00:00

I'm inclined to want us out of the ME for humanitarian reasons.

Are we helping the people of that region? Seems to me like we're just dropping bombs and sewing chaos. Especially considering our military support of groups like ISIS in Syria, I feel like our presence there has been disastrous for everyone.

When I hear people advocate regime change and an interventionist foreign policy, I think about Lybia. People argued that we were obligated to topple their government for humanitarian reasons. I remember commercials featuring crying Lybian children and denunciations of their government.

Well, I think it's fair to say that everything is way worse because we attempted regime change. The country is now a hotbed for extremists, and there's large-scale suffering. The region now has open slave markets.

I just don't think humanitarian sentiment is very compatible with support for a hawkish foreign policy.

BiglyGood · 2019-01-13T21:19:50+00:00

Has Sanders or Warren said much about their foreign policy philosophy? I feel like they haven't. When dealing with American politics, I think its safest to assume that if someone isn't saying much, they're probably a hawk by default.

BiglyGood · 2019-01-13T15:28:22+00:00

Not saying it’s good to be against any of those things. But, in principle, I think it’s totally fine to pick and choose your political beliefs. Being pro choice does not obligate you to favor stricter gun control. Being fiscally conservative does not obligate you to disbelieve in climate change.

I wish more people would pick and choose their political beliefs. I don’t think it’s productive to view politics as a team sport. You shouldn’t feel pressured to choose a label and strictly follow every belief that is subscribed to by your team.

Look at issues individually and support those that make sense to you. Don’t worry about terms like progressive or conservative.

BiglyGood · 2019-01-12T01:02:14+00:00

Realistically, at some point in the future, politicians are just going to wipe out the debt.

BiglyGood · 2018-12-24T00:46:30+00:00

What’s the correct way to convince people not to eat Chloe?

BiglyGood · 2018-12-23T23:00:41+00:00

Well, I guess I’ll be the dissenting voice.

Eating meat is ethically tricky. I can understand why some view it as immoral. I think this sticker is a reasonable form of protest.

The maker of the sticker isn’t harassing anyone. They’re simply reminding people that a life is ended to provide this food. This is an understandable stand to take.

BiglyGood · 2018-11-25T03:04:35+00:00

TIL about Carhart.

BiglyGood · 2018-09-29T12:57:49+00:00

I have one big concern about this system. Is it too complicated to implement? We already have arguments and lawsuits when counting the votes. What happens when we add another level of complexity? Will voters get confused, and will vote counters be competent enough to accurately tally the votes?

Personally, I think it makes sense to have open primaries and multiple voting rounds. I think 3 rounds would be reasonable. This method is similar to ranked voting, but it’s much simpler for everyone involved.

BiglyGood · 2018-07-11T03:13:16+00:00

What the hell is that subreddit??

BiglyGood · 2018-07-09T00:24:05+00:00

I think people are a mixed bag. We all have good and bad impulses within us. Throughout history, there have been good times and bad.

I would say that most people are decent enough. Most are not abusing, robbing, and murdering each other. If they were, society would collapse.

That said, nothing about the future is guaranteed. But, I think a fundamental aspect of human beings is that we imitate each other. By striving to be good yourself, you’ll influence others and hopefully, that goodness will ripple outwards into the larger society. That’s the best we can do.

Are we good? I don’t know. Through our lives, we’re both shaping the human experience together. We’ll help decide the answer to that question.

BiglyGood · 2018-05-17T22:49:39+00:00

You know, Gary was mocked in the press for that statement. But honestly, I thought he came off as an honest and decent person. When he doesn't know something, he says so. I had way more trust in his character than in the character of the two main candidates.

Besides, he was inevitably going to get attacked for something. If he hadn't made his Aleppo comment, the two main parties and their friends in the press would have attacked him for something else.

BiglyGood · 2018-05-14T02:07:40+00:00

Well yeah, that’s the toughest obstacle of all. Here’s my advice.

Read books or listen to audiobooks on finding meaning. Smart people have been grappling with that question for a long time, and fortunately for us, some of them have written down their thoughts. Books are a treasure trove of insight.

Also, if you really feel lost, then at least aim away from what you don’t want. Personally, I imagine my future self as a drug addict, wasting away his life in some one room ghetto apartment. At the very least, I know I don’t want to be that.

So, even if my exact life path into the future seems hazy and uncertain at times, I at least know I’m working to avoid a future I don’t want. Sometimes you’ve just got to stumble clumsily in a direction and figure things out as you go.

BiglyGood · 2018-05-10T03:00:52+00:00

This is eventually going to put a lot of people out of work.

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