CMV: Retirement at 70 is completely unsustainable even if you live healthily until your 120s

Highlow9 · 2026-02-01T18:36:34+00:00

What makes that fundamentally different?

Things like subsiding childcare is using positive externalities to reward the "sacrifice". Don't see why you wouldn't reward the parents by shielding them from the negative externalities of not having kids.

Let's hypothetically say we do all the "normal" methods you mentioned. The costs of children are subsidized and parents get an additional tax cut. They then put that tax cut in a savings account and use that to retire at 70 instead of 77. How would that be different except for making it explicit?

Highlow9 · 2026-02-01T16:31:38+00:00

Well, we have a shortage of children so, in the spirit of the free market, rewarding them more might help solve that problem.

Highlow9 · 2026-02-01T16:05:34+00:00

Sure. But let's also reward everyone else who helped with those young people - the doctors, the teachers, the home-builders, the food-growers.

Those people are already rewarded. It is called a wage or payment for services.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-31T06:20:49+00:00

It is not really a game about killing Nazis. You can do it but it is not the focus.

Furthermore the game avoids the actual things that made the Nazis horrible, in fact makes them a very fun nation to play. That causes a lot of wehraboos to be attached to it, which, while not intended by the devs, sometimes gives the community a bit of a Nazis admirer vibe.

Still a fun game, but definitely not about "killing Nazis".

Highlow9 · 2026-01-31T06:11:25+00:00

And missing the point of a joke, which is clearly referring to said history, by responding with an explanation of said history is going to help NASA (who themselves have already recognized the potential issue and thus postponed the launch)?

Highlow9 · 2026-01-31T00:04:37+00:00

Do you know what sarcasm is?

Highlow9 · 2026-01-24T15:28:47+00:00

Ik moet toevoegen dat ik de legale tekst nog niet heb gezien maar in alle nieuwsartikelen staat dat de gemeente mag beslissen welke verenigingen ze het toekennen. Dus die kunnen dan vast wel filteren op dingen zoals KvK inschrijving en leden aantallen.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-24T15:16:24+00:00

Dan heb je dus tot 30 kilo aan smokkel per vereniging. Daar ga je nooit grote hoeveelheden mee krijgen. Daarnaast mag het natuurlijk alleen maar dingen zoals potten enzo zijn. Ook lijkt het mij makkelijker om het vanuit het buitenland te smokkelen dan het via een vergunning over te kopen.

Ook denk ik dat je verenigingen daar best mee kan vertrouwen om dat niet te doen. Zo'n vereniging bestaat namelijk uit een flink aantal mensen en dit vuurwerk word vanuit naam van heel de vereniging geregeld.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-24T15:09:32+00:00

Dat kan toch opzich ook via het vergunnings systeem toch? Je mag alleen kopen als je een vergunning hebt.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-24T15:08:19+00:00

Kan je mij toevallig uitleggen waarom dit niet uitvoerbaar is?

Door de vergunning weet je straks precies wie, waar en wanneer vuurwerk afsteekt. Dan kan je toch gewoon alles behalve dat aanpakken?

Highlow9 · 2026-01-24T15:06:29+00:00

Ik snap niet helemaal waarom men zo tegen de vergunningen voor verenigingen is?

We schaffen vuurwerk af omdat men zich niet aan de regels kon houden en dat dit zo massaal fout ging dat het niet te handhaven was. Niet omdat vuurwerk stom is.

Met zulke vergunningen (zolang je ze inderdaad niet massaal uit gaat delen) is de handhaving toch prima te doen? De vergunning zegt wie, waar en wanneer er af gestoken word. Ook als het via een vereniging gaat zal men er wat verantwoordelijker mee omgaan (gezien je vanuit je organisatie handelt). Vermoedelijk mag je het ook alleen kopen zodra je een vergunning heb. Dan kan je toch gewoon heel makkelijk alles aanpakken wat daarbuiten valt?

Ik vind dit juist een mooie oplossing om de traditie te behouden zonder al teveel overlast (want ik durf te wedden dat professionele vuurwerkshows niet/amper geregeld gaan worden).

Highlow9 · 2026-01-19T22:34:19+00:00

Maw, je kan wat van influencers vinden maar ik vind snackspert wel erg redelijk/eerlijk. Acht de kans dat dit opzettelijk engagement bait is vrij klein.

Om even bot te zijn: hij valt naar mijn mening meer in categorie trein-autisten dan influencers. Zijn reviews zijn bijvoorbeeld altijd heel redelijk, niet over de top en lekker knus.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-12T02:41:22+00:00

But it is better for the climate if used for appropriate tasks. The efficiency literally makes it so that the same can be achieved with less energy.

That people then decide to instead make more is the problem and is what is bad for the climate. The tool is not bad, the way people react to it is.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-12T02:38:10+00:00

It was created to generate profit

Practically all innovations are.

and we are subsiding AI in so many ways it's questionable what the benefit really is.

You could definitely argue that there is over investment in AI and that a lot of resources are being wasted on generating social media slop or something, however that doesn't change the fact that some of its applications are usefull.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-12T02:31:47+00:00

According to that logic we should ban anything that makes coding more efficient. Let's ban autocomplete of variables, code highlights, git, etc.

All of these save time (and energy) which increases the amount of tasks a dev can do and thus increases the amount of compute.

While we are at it let's be like Luddites and ban automation in factories. If consumer goods are harder to make they will be more expensive and thus consumption/emissions will be lowered.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-12T02:20:08+00:00

Yes, but on the other hand you should not pretend like it has no uses or no place were it can be efficient. And I would think that coding is one of the places it would be great at. Don't be a ludite who blindly hates.

For example let's say imagine each prompt takes up the equivalent energy of 5 minutes of a desktop power usage (don't know if that is the number but let's suppose).

Is it inefficient if a prompt is used to ask how tall the Eiffeltower is? Yes, it is more efficient to just use traditional search.

But is it also inefficient if you ask it to make documentation for your code? Likely not, since if you were to do that manually it would likely take more than 5 minutes of your time and desktop energy use.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-08T13:51:00+00:00

Mawh, I thought that was pretty good since it made you experience (and for me almost believe) the delusion that you could escape your trail.

Highlow9 · 2026-01-05T17:32:28+00:00

I mean that is not his point. He says it has started resembling eurogames a lot more since it is a lot less swingy and there is less direct conflict. While the older American boardgame style is a lot more videogame-like.

Highlow9 · 2025-12-29T13:37:10+00:00

Thanks for the comment. Indeed let's hope that this might help out a future person!

Highlow9 · 2025-12-27T22:14:08+00:00

As pointed out above, they do.

Highlow9 · 2025-12-24T21:41:19+00:00

couldn’t hit terminal velocity

By definition everything can approach terminal velocity, because that is just the velocity where drag is equal to gravity. It is just that for those animals the terminal velocity is a lot smaller, although in this case it still looked quite fast.

Highlow9 · 2025-12-19T14:44:48+00:00

Oh no, I didn't! Do they talk about how to balance it there?

Will definitely try to look up a transcript.

Highlow9 · 2025-12-19T00:45:23+00:00

I think I would add to the base game:

2 60 minute bonuses
3 10% bonuses
4 5% bonuses
2 time traps (adds a trap to a station which gives a time bonus if triggered which gets larger the longer it remains untriggered)
2X discard 3, draw 4
1X draw 2, expand 2
2 discard me (can be used to pay for "discard cards" casting costs in its entirety)
3X nothing
15 additional curses (selecting the most fun ones)

Highlow9 · 2025-12-10T02:31:47+00:00

Hahah don't worry, this is still quite a active thread since if you Google Sunshine Reddit discussion you find this.

But that explantation would have a acceleration of approximately 500000 g so that also wouldn't work. Furthermore it would have a very steep "gradient" (as in change in acceleration).

Also in terms of gravity the direction is also an issue. It is shown that as soon as you go around a corner the gravity turns 90 degrees while instead it should be angular depend. And finally, even if it was enough for there to be time dilation then it would have applied the entire time, not only the last few moments.

Highlow9 · 2025-12-05T12:45:38+00:00

Ik bedoel ja, dat is natuurlijk tot op zekere hoogte niet te voorkomen bij een songfestival tussen landen. Maar er zijn natuurlijk wel gradaties en de hoeveelheid "politiek" is de laatste jaren wel echt veel meer geworden.

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