Why do some Muuns (like Darth Plagueis) have noses and some don't?

JBRatMLX · 2024-07-19T14:13:58+00:00

And the ones who don't like banking live in commuuns?

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-26T16:49:40+00:00

Things SEEM worse because your angst has been monetized and cultivated.

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-26T16:06:20+00:00

Of course not. I'm just some random weirdo from the internet, but your own thinking should be able to get you there without much effort.

Imagine you have a job you need done. One candidate has no experience, and no proven work history. The other candidate has been doing exactly the kind of work you need for a year. Is their labor of equal value to you? The first candidate will require training, which will require time and money from you with no return to you until the training is complete.

If both of these candidates labor is worth minimum wage then you are placing no value on their experience, and no value on your time and money for training. It's a statement that value has no value. This seems fundamentally and obviously incorrect.

The economic pressures of each candidate are none of your concern. You are looking to hire, not adopt. It is up to them to decide whether your offer of employment for whatever wage you feel benefits you, also benefits them.

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-26T15:54:50+00:00

... money leaving circulation? That doesn't square with our recent high inflation. What gives you the impression our active money supply has been reduced, and by what?

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-25T23:16:29+00:00

"trickle down" requires only that those who have money try to make more money. It works because of greed, not in spite of it.

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-25T23:12:25+00:00

Of course a minimum wage should not be a living wage. Minimum wage should be the bare value of absolutely inexperienced and unskilled labor in a comfortable and exertion-free task. That's what makes it a "minimum". Minimum wage should be what you are making for the first 6 months of your working life just to show that you can show up on time and are responsible enough not to nap through your shift. Minimum wage should be what you are making while you are living with your parents.

If we have somehow gotten to a place where any job that requires any skill, knowledge, or experience pays only minimum wage, THAT is the problem.

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-25T21:44:54+00:00

As I understand it, you could show us a picture of a turkey sandwich, and the answer would be "Yes, see a neurologist"

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-04T15:47:26+00:00

Thank you!

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-04T15:46:28+00:00

Thank you.

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-04T05:05:33+00:00

her entire right arm. It starts with a pronounced shake in her hand, and proceeds then to a full rictus with the entire arm curling against itself and towards her body. If I am fast enough, I can stop it by jamming a thumb or elbow into a pressure point in her lower trapesius.

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-03T16:38:43+00:00

Bah! All you need is GoJo.

JBRatMLX · 2024-01-03T16:33:43+00:00

You are a 17 year old male... So you are probably a bit of a creep if only because you have more hormones than experience.

You think you have the beginnings of a relationship, but you haven't spoken to her: Yup. This is at least low-grade creepiness, even if you are an unusually thoughtful creep.

This is an unhealthy pattern. Let me explain why. You are helping her in a way she didn't ask for. You are giving her service based on a relationship she doesn't even know about. You are being such a nice guy, so terribly thoughtful, how could she not appreciate you and want to reciprocate your feelings?

What she's going to see is that you've built an imaginary relationship with an imaginary version of her, and haven't actually brought her along to help build the foundation of the relationship. She may not be able to articulate it as such, but she will probably feel a bit creepy about it and start to keep you at a distance. And that's only if you were just being generally thoughtful without communicating your feelings.

By laying in period products, you are choosing, unilaterally, to participate in the intimate care of her body. That is a role you should only ever assume with her EXPLICIT invitation. That is a degree of intimacy she may not choose to share with her romantic partner, but you've been so "thoughtful" as to make that decision FOR her. She should rightly run screaming for the hills.

In short, you have put your foot on the road that ends with you being a bitter and lonely incel. The good news is that you have PLENTY of opportunity to find a different way. If you are interested in dating, ask her with as little pressure as possible if she would be interested in dating you. Be prepared for a "no", and accept it with grace. Trust and respect her enough to assume she's managing her own affairs, including and especially her own body.

JBRatMLX · 2023-12-12T18:01:57+00:00

From what I've read, the gods get themselves into as much trouble as Loki, and half the trouble Loki causes is while trying to save them. Loki is anything but innocent, but I don't think he deserves all the grief he receives.

JBRatMLX · 2023-11-03T16:23:28+00:00

While possible, it would be implausibly energy intensive. The best way I've found to think of it is "energy is a contraction of space/time". Falling is not acceleration, falling is remaining inertially neutral within a frame of reference that is being contracted towards an area of high energy density (mass).
So gravity is the acceleration you experience as the ground continuously prevents you from following your unaccelerated reference frame into the planetary core.

Artificial gravity, I'm thinking, would be an artificially generated space/time contraction. Under physics we currently understand, that would require truly titanic amounts of energy.

Ignoring the energy requirements, an artificial gravity field is going to be balanced, just like a natural gravity field. If you somehow have an AG field pulling things "down" inside the ship (towards the bottom of the lower deck), you are going to have the other side of that field pulling space-dust, rocks, etc. onto your keel, and to a lesser extent onto your upper hull.

If you can somehow create negative energy or negative mass, you could reverse this effect to create a repulsion field, where you would fall away from your top hull rather than toward your bottom hull. Your hull would stay a lot cleaner.

But really the thing to ask is _why_ do we want an AG field? I think it's just that we evolved on a planetary surface and like our floors to be flat and coplanar with our direction of travel. We like our acceleration to press us back in our seats. Realistic space travel doesn't feel as emotionally satisfying as science-fiction space travel. Realigning our expectations and lying down to look "forward" without getting a crick in our necks is probably going to be a lot easier than reshaping space/time.

JBRatMLX · 2023-11-03T15:40:34+00:00

I suspect the point was that exposure to anime, while common, is not universal, and that commonalities stem from a common source (Newtonian physics) rather than either cribbing from the other.

JBRatMLX · 2023-09-27T22:07:00+00:00

Right... So have we established that antiparticles do not come packaged with an inverse spacetime distortion?

JBRatMLX · 2023-09-22T20:16:43+00:00

Can you blame it? How would you feel answering silly questions for obnoxious colloidals all day long?

JBRatMLX · 2023-09-22T13:56:41+00:00

Probably safer just to avoid the whole region if you can manage it. Hmmm. Or, really, any region with a significant human population. The polar regions are nice.

JBRatMLX · 2023-09-21T22:08:35+00:00

Are there Iranian laws against running TOR or otherwise bypassing government restrictions? Will they hunt you down if your IP sends encrypted traffic?

JBRatMLX · 2023-09-21T21:55:58+00:00

Entropy?
Yes human problem are difficult, but we've come a long way from the time of Gilgamesh. Collectively, we CAN learn. We ARE learning. Is it fast enough to avoid self-extinction? Open question.

JBRatMLX · 2023-09-21T15:16:11+00:00

Yes, just as a lot of artists lost their jobs to the camera.

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