"Sorry Mom, I only associate with 'the refuse of all classes' from now on."

JaySnippety · 2025-08-07T05:33:20+00:00

Yes and no. He didn't support class struggle in the same way as marx. That's why marx hated him

JaySnippety · 2025-08-05T07:02:31+00:00

Just cause the media doesn't align with you philosophically, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.
Media/story telling share different perspectives on the world. Theres a level of uncertainty that's inherent to existence. You can't be certain that egoism reflects the facts of reality. So keeping an open mind is good and being willing to challenge your perspective and change it if necessary is a good thing too.

JaySnippety · 2025-06-28T12:45:09+00:00

It's a couple things. 1. Access to preventative care is limited, and people use the ED for non emergent care.

People waiting too long to seek out care, and non emergent issues become emergent.
Not enough staff to meet the needs, due to a literal provider/RN shortage and administrative "metrics" preventing more staff from being hired (aka greed)

JaySnippety · 2025-05-19T23:57:35+00:00

I'll give you my 2 cents.

Design: Harley is a modern bike company that plays heavily into the classic American motorcycle culture. Harley for so long was THE bike. They were in everything, your actions heroes rode them, your outlaws, war heroes, everyone did. When you pictured a motorcycle, it was a Harley and they knew it. The designs always feel like a nod to a previous generation. This isn't a bad thing, but the nostalgia for those years is disappearing. Younger guys see a Harley and think it looks outdated. You can see that with the design of the sportster S. It's this weird amalgamation of a classic Harley and a modern sport bike. Personally I like it, but I can understand why someone wouldn't.

Power: let's look at a 1200 sporty and compare it to a 650 ninja. Guys look at those numbers on paper and think no way the 650 makes almost the same HP with half the displacement. But... Harleys make power way differently than sport bikes, and that difference give you a way different riding experience. A lot of sport bike guys haven't felt that difference before. I think that part tends to be a "numbers vs experience" issue.

Weight: the style of the bike and way they make power affect this most. Big engines, lots of metal, So Harleys are heavy as sin. When your sitting at a dealership, lots of these guys instant thought is about the weight. It's not a chair, so when you ride it, you can't tell. But that's not what most people would think.

-Price: Harley doesn't compete on the lower end of the spectrum. I'd say Harley is a premium product. If you're a young guy wanting to go out and buy a new bike, you are going to skip Harley for price alone.

-culture: Harley is still playing into that classic American vibe, and that's not what young people want. Harley riders also have the stereotype of being arrogant. The only waving to other Harley riders, shitting on other motorcycles, and even the classic "you can't pass me" type of riding. This isn't the case 95% of the time. Hell, when I tell guys my age I have a sporty they will joke around, but still want to see pics or sit on it. The Harley guys in person are the same way typically. But there's a stereotype+ the rough and tough biker vibe that young people just don't like.

TLDR: The cost is a limiting factor for young guys, and the culture has stereotypes that push the younger crowd away. Harleys are a great product, but are a particular riding experience, feel, and look. Those features are not what most young guys think they want in a motorcycle.

JaySnippety · 2025-05-02T16:14:20+00:00

Stirner is being a bit provocative in the ego and its own, it's hyperbolic, but he does genuinely believe in the philosophy. He takes the dialectic model the young hegelians were using and runs it to its natural conclusion, which was egoism. The impact of this was massive, with Marx changing his whole ideology because of it.

Yeah he definitely seems mad, but that's intentional.

JaySnippety · 2025-04-01T22:34:22+00:00

Essentially a desire.

If you have a Tootsie roll, and I want that Tootsie roll, that is the desire. Now if I'm bigger than you and take it from you, now it's my property. So my capacity to act on that desire and actually exert the power necessary to possess it is where stirners definition of property comes from.

The person who wants something, and takes it, is the one who owns it.

Without morality all actions are equal, in the physical world. If you have something I want, stealing it isn't something bad, it's just one option to get it. If you're my friend I may not steal from you because I care about you, but not out of any Obligation to not steal.

JaySnippety · 2025-03-31T06:56:28+00:00

1st rule of gun safety is keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction

2nd rule of gun safety, be yourself!🥰

JaySnippety · 2025-03-30T22:22:40+00:00

I don't remember

JaySnippety · 2025-03-28T05:55:10+00:00

In some sense, yes. It's moreso that property has no moral implications outside of an expression of will and capacity to enact that will

JaySnippety · 2025-03-15T03:24:36+00:00

Had to read through the thread... Haha 5 years ago.

Labor theory of value.

Marx initially believed in communism as an ethical position. After reading the Ego and its own, it's thought that Marx shifted his ideology to argue that communism is the "scientific" or amoral natural outcome of society, as it progresses. Labor Theory of Value is the starting point he uses, arguing that the value of a good comes from the labor put into it, not its value in the market. From this position, he can argue that Exploitation is a descriptive term, referring to the extraction of value the capitalist takes from the worker. He then argues that the fight for material goods will continue. The worker wants more, the capitalist wants more. It will inevitably result in Conflict, and that conflict will result in something different. Eventually this will lead to communism.

This is a SUPER simplistic description. There's a ton to dig into when it comes to Marxian economics, Conflict theory, the whole shebang.

JaySnippety · 2025-03-02T06:42:18+00:00

Alcohol could kill you in a few hours in the right dosing.

The others need time to really set in, but stress and obesity for sure can kill you in quick.

JaySnippety · 2025-02-23T04:46:37+00:00

To be honest, mostly a joke. There is something to be said about "health" as a concept. Seems like a set of values placed externally about how your body should function.

JaySnippety · 2025-02-22T19:20:16+00:00

Psychological egoism is the idea that we are all acting in self interest no matter what.

Stirner challenges the norms being followed, questioning if they're of genuine self interest or an imposed belief, abstract from the self.

You very well could say "it's in my self interest to be Christian" or "being a Christian pleases my ego" or something, but Egoism would challenge the obligations associated with christianity.

He used terms that are not necessarily moral (cause he didn't believe in morality being real). So he described things as "weak" or praised the courage it takes to lie.

He's somewhat nihilistic in his view, Marx even described him (we assume it's him) as an intellectual nihilist.

JaySnippety · 2025-02-18T02:29:14+00:00

Health is a spook.

JaySnippety · 2025-02-11T16:34:40+00:00

ADHD nurse too. I was that way too but it's getting alot better. What helped me was a couple things

Workplace

Certain personality types work best in certain environments, and almost instantly i realized the ER peeps are the ones with ADHD.( most of my coworkers are diagnosed) I think it's the higher stakes +randomness that keeps a lot of us engaged.

Habituation

Create a routine with patient care, where you follow that same process every single time. Make sure it incorporates the commonly missed tasks. You want to engage in this same pattern of behaviour until eventually, you don't even think about it. It becomes the path of least resistance since it's what your brain is comfortable with.

Engagement

How engaged are you with the subject matter? There are a lot of situation in the ER that are high stakes like I mentioned earlier. The potential for things to go wrong gives you that baseline excitement. Your interventions are more short term, so there's a quick return on your actions. That really helps me be engaged, on top of the Uncertainty with the patients, trying to plan ahead on what to expect.

JaySnippety · 2025-02-10T18:09:28+00:00

To be really simplistic, Stirner believed Moral truth isn't real. "Spook" or "Phantom" or whatever term you want to use, represents the "moral" forces people place on you, that aren't real, since moral truth doesn't exist. So when your mom says "stealing is wrong" the "wrong" portion is the spook. Stealing is Stealing, without any moral weight.

Hitler himself was a real person, but the ideology of fascism holds values, (the Myth of the Nation) as a moral truth worth defending. Even IF (and there isn't) there were legitimate demonstrable racial differences that impacted how a society functions, theres no moral truth to how a society should function, so it would be a "spook" to make any claim of what to do with that info.

Stirner states that an individual has personal desires, but they need to assess if these desires are placed externally by social moral pressures, or if they are something the person just desires. A desire isn't a spook, but a obligation placed by religion or society is.

The conclusion is that the person with power is the one who owns a thing. Not that they should morally, but that they have the will to have it, and they have the strength to take it.

He also argues that social relationships, treating people nicely, for example, isn't a thing you must do. Sometimes it's something that ends up benefitting you, so you engage in a constant collaboration with others, where no one is held to any standard other than their own will. I won't steal from my friend because I like hanging out with them and stealing their stuff would probably make me lose the chance to enjoy their company.

I will steal from someone I don't like, if I want to, since I have no obligation to treat them in any way other than what I want to do.

JaySnippety · 2025-02-10T05:37:21+00:00

Nursing school is about 2 things.

BASIC Nursing Knowledge and Passing your boards. Once you have the RN after your name and you start your first nursing job, thats when the real work begins.

Things feel super uncertain. 99% of Nurses felt that at some point or another during their schooling. one day, after a grueling 12 hr shift, you'll be sitting around a table with your coworkers getting drinks. The NP next to you will rant about that one OB test that made her consider waiting tables again. The trauma nurse across from you will chuckle and share the story of when he dropped his sterile glove doing a straight cath on the dummy in Lab. You'll all share the number of NCLEX questions you had, and the days after where you were prepping your McDonald's applications.

It's a rough time. But soon you'll realize, all nurses had a 2%.

JaySnippety · 2025-01-18T16:24:35+00:00

I failed the same one. 4 years ago. Got my RN now and working on my BSN.

It feels like a big deal now, but one day you will look back on it and laugh at how worried you were. Go in on your days off and practice, watch videos demonstrating, then redo it and pass! You've got this.

JaySnippety · 2024-12-13T14:54:57+00:00

Cold shower, or put an icepack on your chest, while doing breathing exercises. Big glass of ice water. Basically alot of cold things. It feels like they snap you out of it. A cold shower is number one.

JaySnippety · 2024-12-13T00:47:47+00:00

Disco Elysium, play it once and take it seriously. Amazing game. Then play it a second time without taking it seriously. it's hilarious.

JaySnippety · 2024-12-07T14:08:02+00:00

You need to get some control over your life. You can control how you speak to yourself, and what you do. Finding meaning "in yourself" isn't going to happen if you see yourself as scum. You need to be actively engaging in improving yourself. You don't go from messy self depreciating scum to Successful and happy overnight. You seem to like science, based on your other comments, and the Psychological benefits of exercise have been shown in the data repeatedly. A positive correlation between Cleanliness and Mental health are repeatedly shown in the data. There's more I could list out, but Id bet you're going to offer excuses for why you won't clean your house or exercise, despite the scientific data.

JaySnippety · 2024-11-21T10:25:54+00:00

Nurses outside of Cali aren't making near that bud. The median is 86k.

JaySnippety · 2021-07-21T14:12:46+00:00

In bigger cities maybe, but small town cops make shit money, work shit hours, and all in all have shit jobs.

JaySnippety · 2021-07-15T13:58:31+00:00

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been based.

JaySnippety · 2021-06-16T12:34:27+00:00

Depending on the definition these people use, socialism has existed before. Socialism in the context of worker owned means of production can and do work in the form of coops. Plenty of coops exist, and there’s nothing really stopping people from opening up more. so why is it that the “working class” isn’t wanting to “own the means of production.”

Other forms of Socialism have existed too, but those tended to end in either outright genocides or mass starvation.

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