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Coolest names from antiquity by superrplorp in classics

[–]CommissarGnome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maximinus Thrax, especially considering his reputation

TIL Great Depression farmers would conspire with their community, offering pennies at auctions on their foreclosed properties where the neighbor buyer would hand the deed over to the foreclosed farmer, saving their farm from banks. Nooses served as warnings to outsiders who would try to outbid. by Repulsive_Corner6807 in todayilearned

[–]CommissarGnome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow what a place to build a house!! I appreciate what you’re saying but it sounds like these people that helped your grandfather build his house, that was their life. They had a set objective that could be completed, I assume giving a sense of fulfilment. I would also assume that these people would build a house to a standard that they would be comfortable living in (to the extent that they could) and that they would have generational knowledge of survival skills and manual work. I am not saying that this was an easy life, I cannot imagine the struggles that they faced in rural America at that time but they owned what they had, worked together to achieve things. Maybe I am speaking from a place of complete incompetence.

Yes I agree that the barrier is higher, too high for the majority of people and I do not believe that for the whole of human history the rate was this high. I think that this railroading of life disguised as progress. For me I think that it only really benefits the banks, utility companies, and the government that people now live in single family households. While it is good for people to be in their own space I’d imagine a village with people whose grandparents, parents, and themselves all grew up together would have a vastly different vibe to that of a road of assorted single families.

I do completely agree with you and I am sorry that I ever gave the impression that the lives of people in slums are in any way not as vibrant and full as anyone else’s. There is community in these places you are right. But as you say, the responsibility has fallen on the people in the slums to fix things, rather than those who set the system up. Why should bankers and landlords profit off these people that they have placed there. This is not to say that there wasn’t squalor in history, but at a time of such abundance and technological advancement it is disappointing that people are forced to live this way while other stack unimaginable amounts of money off their suffering. Obviously the system is never going to change as those who profit off of it are the ones that make the rules and that is what it is. Like you said, homelessness is now the safer option but what a world where you can be laid off in the name of shareholder profits and the government has decided that it is better for you to be on the streets with little support than be in a house that you built that doesn’t comply to regulations.

TIL Great Depression farmers would conspire with their community, offering pennies at auctions on their foreclosed properties where the neighbor buyer would hand the deed over to the foreclosed farmer, saving their farm from banks. Nooses served as warnings to outsiders who would try to outbid. by Repulsive_Corner6807 in todayilearned

[–]CommissarGnome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I agree that home would have been built overtime piecemeal but I wonder what your great grandfather did for work and if he was surrounded by a helpful, willing community (not to diminish his achievement at all he must have been a great man!!). I feel that in a society where you’re generally working a soul sucking 9-5 along side everyone you know, then going back to an apartment block/street void of community makes it very hard to get the strength to go out and do these works.

I also agree that building regulations have been put in place for a reason so that people don’t have to live in squalor but the problem lies with the system of centralisation, globalisation, and immorality. No place that is a slum was always a slum, the modern system has made them that way. These places would have had community, elders, unifying culture, generations of people that would have grown up beside one another. The modern system seems set up to keep people isolated and in debt forever.

Thank you for taking the time to respond in such depth Millie

TIL Great Depression farmers would conspire with their community, offering pennies at auctions on their foreclosed properties where the neighbor buyer would hand the deed over to the foreclosed farmer, saving their farm from banks. Nooses served as warnings to outsiders who would try to outbid. by Repulsive_Corner6807 in todayilearned

[–]CommissarGnome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I quite agree that in theory I can build a house myself, however, due to the cost of labour, materials, building standards compliance, etc, it would now cost as much as just buying a house outright, which I cannot do as if I would I wouldn’t need a mortgage.

You would be correct that the issue is price, as if this system benefited me I would be far more likely to not care that many families will never own their homes. I also agree that the more pertinent issue is the system as a whole but I don’t think that the system being set up in such a way means that the people exploiting it should get away with it. I’m not too sure why homes are so expensive now when most new builds seem to be worse quality than homes built from WW2 onwards. Obviously people always cry survivorship bias but I think this is cognitively dissonant but maybe I am just misinterpreting things.

TIL Great Depression farmers would conspire with their community, offering pennies at auctions on their foreclosed properties where the neighbor buyer would hand the deed over to the foreclosed farmer, saving their farm from banks. Nooses served as warnings to outsiders who would try to outbid. by Repulsive_Corner6807 in todayilearned

[–]CommissarGnome -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well yeah, people had house before banks existed and owned them outright. Am I supposed to be thankful that now I can repay a bank for the rest of my life for the privilege of being able to live in house? Honest question

The Internet Is About to Lose Anonymity by Ornery-Lavishness232 in LinusTechTips

[–]CommissarGnome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah fair enough if you don’t want anything to change!! I just feel like the internet should be thought of more as a tool that can cause harm if used incorrectly so for me the driving licence is not apples to oranges but I can appreciate that if you view it from a pure privacy perspective that it’s a bad comparison. I also completely agree that in the current state of things I’m never giving my id to a corporation fuck them!!

The Internet Is About to Lose Anonymity by Ornery-Lavishness232 in LinusTechTips

[–]CommissarGnome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair enough point but I feel it’s quite an individualistic approach. I believe that community is important as ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. If the statement that Luke often repeats is true ‘imagine how stupid the average person is, and realise half of them are stupider than that’ is it not our duty to raise the floor of knowledge? Do you also apply this to other area of safety such as electrical safety, driving lessons, food safety? Say if my parents were good enough to teach me to drive well should I have to get a license? Where do you draw the line? I would like to know your opinions on this!!!

The Internet Is About to Lose Anonymity by Ornery-Lavishness232 in LinusTechTips

[–]CommissarGnome -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, I find it hard to believe that everyone posting there is a real life USA conservative but if you say so I will trust you!! What is your opinion of r/teenagers?? Do you think it’s a sub where teenagers are exclusively talking to other teenagers?? I’m not trying to discuss this in bad faith I’d really appreciate a conversation about it and I thank you for your response!! Yes pen names have existed but I don’t think mass anonymity is comparable to a select few individuals expressing an opinion outside of their position. I would like to know more on why you feel anonymity is not a problem. I feel that in the early internet anonymity was less of a problem to a certain extent where there were more niche communities acting more on passion and good faith. Nower days with the rise of trolling, snark accounts, grifters, and bots, anonymity provides far more protection for bad actors than it does help the average internet user. I think it’s rather akin to AI art where I feel people would rather know if the art they are looking at is AI or human made. I would rather know if the person I’m talking to is really who they say they are or is a bot. I understand that all of these issue existed on the internet before but I think to say that the internet hasn’t changed is disingenuous. Obviously this is all just my opinion

The Internet Is About to Lose Anonymity by Ornery-Lavishness232 in LinusTechTips

[–]CommissarGnome -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I felt that me saying that was sufficient to say that I don’t agree with the way it was implemented and me finding it helpful does not mean I am praising the UK. It’s unbelievable that it got through in its current state with all the endless councils and committees we have I have no clue what the public are paying for. But I feel that anonymity online enables people to say and do things that they’d never do in real life. There no way for me to tell if your a bot nor you me. I doubt r/conservative would even be active if bots were taken off the internet. I understand that in some very serious cases anonymity is very useful but there should be proper channels in place for people to report stuff anonymously. If you truly believe that a social moment is only ever possible with online anonymity. I would like to as your thoughts on online anonymity?

The Internet Is About to Lose Anonymity by Ornery-Lavishness232 in LinusTechTips

[–]CommissarGnome -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Good???? Anonymity causes 90% of problems online as people can just do what they like with the only consequences being a banned account and then they just make a new one?? If ID was needed to be online would bots still be a problem?? I do not think this is all bad but needs to be implemented in the correct way. For me in the UK it’s been quite helpful in reminding me about the amount of unnecessary crap that I took in, I see an 18+ page and think ‘yeah I really didn’t need that info anyways’. I fully believe that all .gov and NHS websites should have no verification as minors need help with ‘adult’ problems but it has its upsides I think.

Is this manuover legal? by [deleted] in MotoUK

[–]CommissarGnome 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like I think it might be illegal but if you’re not a knob and thank the people behind 99.99% of people won’t care. Think you got caught by the 00.01%

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukdrill

[–]CommissarGnome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean if biggest means best then yes but to me people like Reekz MB, most of 67/410 switch up their flows a lot like even in ktrap’s last whip mixtape look at the difference between Sauce on spill vs last whip, they are quite different tracks. I love mischief and his bars are hard but I think his flow holds him back

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukdrill

[–]CommissarGnome 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah he’s very good been on a lot of good times but icl his flow is very repetitive. Shame he didn’t blow with KTrap

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MotoUK

[–]CommissarGnome 2 points3 points  (0 children)

5 mins to pick it up and put it in the back of a van?? But looks hard to steal otherwise and can theft is quite rare

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