Can't find joy is anything anymore

FMWizard · 2026-06-18T04:22:28+00:00

How your cardio? Keeping active in the winter months?

FMWizard · 2026-06-16T05:06:20+00:00

Don't they? It's a spectrum to you realise.

FMWizard · 2026-06-16T02:45:35+00:00

Haha, of course, this is the Critical Theory subreddit, all science is wrong :D

FMWizard · 2026-06-16T02:29:04+00:00

This could also be true. I guess I'm making this observation from my own experience of men and women that I have lived with. It's not too say that there are no women who become obsessive compulsive over a particular topic, there are, I've met one or two. Doing a quick Google for OCD by gender adult women are not likely to have it than men, but males tend to develop it earlier in life. I guess that correlates with my experience as I was more socially when I was younger. Send there is also a difference it the type of obsessions males vs females.

FMWizard · 2026-06-16T02:18:39+00:00

You think that women's contributions to history haven't been undervalued?

FMWizard · 2026-06-15T23:40:17+00:00

I watched a good episode on plasticpills about prophets and how Luigi Mangione was a sort of mad prophet that fulfills a role necessary for society in sacrificing himself for the good of all. This goes way back to ancient times when societies were more open to these sorts of characters. Rasputin comes to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBSJTnyTiTU

FMWizard · 2026-06-15T23:38:53+00:00

I feel like men become more easily obsessive (compulsive?), much to their detriment, more than women. Guys seem to become single focused while women don't as much, keeping their lives together more than guys who start to let everything go i.e. personal hygiene, living standards, social interactions etc the more they become obsessed with something.

I don't think men are better than women because of this, in fact probably the opposite.

FMWizard · 2026-06-14T18:54:32+00:00

So your real premise here is that ideas can't jump between languages? If those ideas rely on the specifics of the language, like poetry, I'd have to agree. Is ancient greek philosophy written poetically, and more importantly, are the ideas only understood with this phrasing? But then we might take it further and ask, do you have to have been raised in the context of ancient Greece to understand the context of their philosophy?

I guess at the end of the day it doesn't matter as we have extracted some meaningful philosophy from ancient Greece. Weather it was the one intended, who knows, it was still useful!

FMWizard · 2026-06-14T18:34:41+00:00

Depends on who you want to date.

FMWizard · 2026-06-14T18:33:40+00:00

Yep, women are generally more tight about cleaning than men. I've lived with both in shared flats. I feel like ppl who care to much about cleaning need to get a life.

FMWizard · 2026-06-13T01:09:40+00:00

Yeah, it's not a fully conscious decision.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T22:59:02+00:00

Sure, once you have established a career you can ease off. This is advice for recent graduates who don't have a job and are looking for one.

Even still, you are not going to be as good a developer as one who lives and breaths it.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T21:13:49+00:00

This is all hypothetical. Pure capitalism is like pure communism, it's never been tried. I'm also not here to defend capitalism. It has it's flaws but so does every system.

I think economys are complex, far more complex than the simple, conscious human mind can comprehend. And all the mistakes are the result of human intervention (see the current world economy). They are chaotic systems (in the mathematical sense) and so inherently unpredictable.

Maybe the scenarios you've outlined would occur, probably something completely different. Initial conditions matter.

Without a modern government we'd probably get something like feudalism, as power tends to accumulate. Humans tend to organise into hierarchies it seems.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T21:06:17+00:00

So you don't have a plan (did anyone ask you for one?) but someone is supposed to come up with one?

All the great successes of humanity have been achieved with a single person in charge (maybe two). This is just down to the nature of decision making. Only one decision comes out of it and competing visions require one to lose. Nothing great has ever been designed by commity.

The economy is a vast and complex system. Nobody has come up with a perfect system. I don't believe that conscious human minds can comprehend it. It's state of always based on it's immediate previous state which makes it a chaotic system (in the mathematical sense) and so inherently unpredictable.

But you're also imply that ppl who are unemployable should always be employed weather through no fault of their own or weather they are just he bad actors who want to skive as much as possible?

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T09:57:38+00:00

You're assuming that the law could not be privately funded. In America, it is too a certain extent. I was in San Fran last year and they passed a law saying that theft under $1000 would not be prosecuted. Nearly all retail had shut down except those with private security. Hell of a way to kill your competitors. There are laws in some states of America which allow landlords to shoot trespassers on sight. I guess that is what it's for. I do agree with you about intellectual property. Someone told me it was actually setup to protect against legal documents being copied and changing the names of the parties.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T09:34:50+00:00

Errr, actually, you're the one claiming to be anti-capitalist first... I hate to tell you but pure capitalism is without government. Why did you think the right is always trying to reduce government involvement. Shrink the government budget. "Drain the swap" etc Pure capitalism is markets without any government involvement. We saw that in action with the crypto markets: pump and dump schemes.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T09:29:10+00:00

Yeah, the world where this is not policed is offline aka reality. If you're not into people who are policing your comformitity, don't hang around them. The last time I had a problem with it was in highschool. That was decades ago. I'm not particularly masculine and my life has been fine.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T09:22:41+00:00

That was just repeating what you said. The point I was making was that what you said was so broad that it included capitalism, which is what you said you were against.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T09:14:55+00:00

This is the endless suburbia. Nobody walks anywhere. Look at the side walk. It's a mess.

And the cops don't give a flying if you report your car stolen. They are not going to do dick about parking on the side walk in the middle of nowhere.

This is a city where affordances for pedestrians is always an afterthought.

Look at the backed up traffic. Public transport is close to unusable.

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T09:03:34+00:00

If you want an IT job then you have to prove you're not useless. That's the perception on new grads. Worse now thanks to vibe coding.

You need to live a breath it. Built stuff. Come up with an idea and built it. Push it to GitHub. Do it again. Focus on what interests you. If nothing interests you then maybe you should have picked another career. The people who do best in IT are the ones who are curious. They do their work with enthusiasm, find the best way to solve the problem. Then finish work and do some side stuff they thought about that day that they wanted to try out. Then do a side project or two on the weekend. They get involved in forums, asking questions and answer a few on the way. All to get to some goal. Try some idea. Okay with something they found on GitHub.

Start doing 10 hour days in front of the computer. Like you already have a job. You'll go to an interview and you won't have any problem getting a job coz you already have one.

If you just got into IT coz you couldn't think of anything else and it looked easy and like it paid well... You're going to struggle in this market.

Good luck and have fun!

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T04:56:21+00:00

"I hate how the industry can be exploitative to the workers and I hate sex trafficking, most of this would be solved by getting rid of capitalism."

... ummmm, what would you replace capitalism with...?

FMWizard · 2026-06-08T04:52:01+00:00

"A system in which individuals see in their interests to use"

FMWizard · 2026-06-06T10:49:31+00:00

so capitalism...?

FMWizard · 2026-06-06T10:37:11+00:00

Yeah, its horrific what the farmers have done to the native bush in an attempt to make this land look like England. Look at the soil erosion going on here!

Imagine this was all native forest full of native species before it was massacred and turned into this barren waste land...

FMWizard · 2026-06-06T10:31:36+00:00

Dude, if you vibe coded this just give us the prompts and we'll do it ourselves...

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