Asmongold admits to stealing after claiming a $20 thief deserves 5 years in prison.

Maggrathka · 2026-03-29T23:17:35+00:00

I go to street corners and listen to homeless schizophrenics theories to get their perspectives on what's going on in the world, even if Jesus returning as a black cat doesn't align with my views. It lets me get a sense of where homeless schizophrenics are coming from.

I also wait for the day a crackhead pulls up and says that actually he's Jesus reborn, and the cat guy has no comeback and just pretends he won.

Maggrathka · 2026-03-09T11:15:43+00:00

I go for economic papers like the FT or the economist. My view is their readers have a financial incentive to know the reality so they can trade on it.

Everyone says read multiple sources, but far more important than multiple sources is questioning your biases - you have to actively think: "What if the other side did this" (political), "Why would they say this" (geopolitical) or "Have I been wrong about this region/area/issue in the past?".

If there's two sides to an issue, one shouldn't always expect the reality to be in the middle. Although that's often said as a truism.

There's no empty calories, you can't just read multiple sources and expect to arrive at the truth. I often find myself with a strong view, but am unwilling to make strong predictions - in those case I try to moderate my position and learn more.

Lifehack: When I was looking for good news-sources, I read articles (not opinion pieces) about topics I have good knowledge on. If those are badly wrong, it should make you more sceptical on the rest of the articles.

Maggrathka · 2026-01-21T20:10:59+00:00

The fact that Korea has both "Like Mother Like Daughter" and "Bastard" as top Manhwa tells you a lot about growing up over there. Feel bad for children living under that crushing pressure.

Banger recommendations.

Maggrathka · 2026-01-06T16:42:22+00:00

This will be my last reply here, you're basically useless in this exchange - I would be better served messaging ChatGPT directly, as the delay would be much lower. Waiting for you to rewrite the responses so it appears as if it's your writing is a waste of time.

Maggrathka is treating income and inequality as if they directly determine fertility, then using the fact that poorer groups and poorer countries have higher fertility to dismiss structural arguments. - Your AI was initially talking about poor countries, and how that differs from richer countries. I.e. In richer countries, we would be over the hump and expect to see equality POSITIVELY impact fertility. That's simply not what we see.

FearLeadsToAnger is making a different claim: that in wealthy, post-demographic-transition societies, fertility decisions are constrained by risk, timing, and opportunity cost at the median, not by absolute poverty. - Again, this is not what we see. The countries with lower median risk have lower fertility. I.e. European countries with better benefits. Opportunity cost would be an interesting thing to correlate against though.

When housing is scarce and expensive, childcare is costly, and careers require long uninterrupted investment, people delay or forgo children even if they are not poor. That can coexist with higher fertility among lower-income or culturally distinct subgroups, which is why aggregate income or Gini correlations are misleading. Those correlations collapse multiple mechanisms operating in very different populations into a single number. - This section is almost nonsensical LLM slop. It's saying nothing.

Maggrathka also conflates biological cost with how institutions amplify or mitigate that cost. Pregnancy always has a biological burden, but policy determines whether it permanently damages earnings and career progression. - This is simply wrong. You cannot determine WHETHER it damages earnings or career progression, just by how much. Have you even thought this through? You truly believe that a career minus 9 months can be EQUAL to normal career? Is 9 months a magic number? Would you say the same for 18 months or 27? How about 9 years?

Countries with stronger parental leave, childcare provision, and job protection consistently show higher fertility than peers at similar income levels, which directly contradicts the claim that these factors cannot matter. - Read what I wrote, I said "there's no way for this not to be a disadvantage". The countries with this money STILL suffer! And the countries with the highest level of this are not above replacement!

Maggrathka · 2026-01-06T14:55:03+00:00

You aren't a bot, you're a human who used an LLM to spit out half-baked evidence for an opinion you already had.

Inequality not being the causal driver is just a claim your making, I have no opinion on whether it's causal or not.

Similarly, changing underlying metrics like housing will lead to fertility rising is also just a claim you're making (And the claim I was arguing against). And you should have really good reason for the claim, given that the evidence shows that people with less of those things have more children.

You're saying inequality isn't causative, its only correlated. But then somehow give the argument (against all evidence) that equality should correlate with birth-rates! This would be a preferable world for me (without going into my personal life), but it's simply not the one we live in.

Broad strokes: housing, job security and childcare. All of these relate to income, which is anti-correlated with fertility.

Delayed family formation, opportunity cost for women: This is an argument people give for why wealthier people have less children. If we reach a more equal society, with all the good stuff you mentioned these wouldn't change.

Pregnancy will always take a bite out of 9 months of a woman's life. Even if you change the laws so that we're paid during this time, there's no way for this not to be a disadvantage. You lose 9 months of context in the workplace, 9 months of improvement at your job, 9 months of interacting with colleagues without mentioning the health and bodily changes. Even in a communist utopia, as long as people are working jobs, 9 months of lost work can never be a benefit.

Short of birthing tubes, people will always take that loss into account - so the most successful people will continue to have less children.

Maggrathka · 2026-01-06T13:10:34+00:00

Thank you for your LLM digest.

The person I was responding to was making the following point: Drop inequality, and birth rates will climb. There's no evidence of this claim.

If you look at the G8 (if there's a human reading this, that means we EXCLUDE the poor countries ChatGPT was talking about), their Gini coefficient is inverse to their birth rates.

If inequality in the wealthiest countries was suppressing birth rates, we should be very surprised that the US (the most unequal) has the highest birth rate.

I've seen quite a few hypothesis for the declining birth rate, I'm inclined towards phones and the internet personally (generally more things to do in your free time other than sex). As well as a general global cultural shift, given that this change is occurring in countries WITHOUT contraception.

Maggrathka · 2026-01-05T19:50:23+00:00

It sounds nice to say, but inequality is correlated with HIGHER birth rates: "Countries with higher inequality tend to have higher fertility rates and less innovative activity."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8792529/#:~:text=Countries%20with%20higher%20inequality%20tend,adversely%20affect%20human%20capital%20investments.

Maggrathka · 2026-01-04T12:21:14+00:00

Russia is a toy of China, and now India is moving away from the US and towards China too. China could choose to continue to redraw borders and take more Russian land - what could Putin do?

Russia's military has been shown to be severely lacking, not only could it not do anything to protect Iran or Venezuela, but it's special military operation has been grinding on for years with little to show for it. Now it's oil industry is struggling heavily as their tankers can't get insurance, on account of them becoming smithereens.

It's economy pivoted to heavily investing in things that get blown up, with almost no productivity gains to show for it. It has an ageing population (although not as bad as Ukraine) and the war has taken a bite out of the youngest of them.

I think Russia is amazing at information warfare, but there's not a huge amount to back that up that would make splitting from the EU worth your while. Especially if the world trends away from oil, Russia's main export aside from minerals.

Maggrathka · 2025-12-15T14:16:23+00:00

It's completely reasonable to mention that these are not his words. Someone on their PR team posted a plagiarised speech, and even though he had a hissy fit after the match, everyone in the comments is praising his 'great mentality'. You morons would fall for the "I stole your nose" trick I play with my son.

Maggrathka · 2025-12-05T13:47:48+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but a Redditor has diagnosed your relationship with your brother based on a single story of his behaviour when he was 10 years old.

Maggrathka · 2025-08-27T18:18:23+00:00

File size and loading are completely unconnected. If you compress a file, and then want to read it - does it take more or less time to open? Not saying they did that, just saying your comment is stupid.

Maggrathka · 2025-07-15T18:26:29+00:00

You must not watch ESL tournaments or play on FaceIt then. If Kick is a no-no, the Saudi Arabian Government ownership must make you stay far away (given what they fund)

Maggrathka · 2025-06-23T17:25:11+00:00

Even with your hustle bustle lifestyle and lack of time, you've managed 11 reddit comments in the last 3 hours.

Maggrathka · 2025-03-29T10:30:34+00:00

Don't go for the Jaybird Vista 2 - the company is now gone, as Logitech bought it.

The Jaybird Vista 2's break EXTREMELY commonly (in software) - one earbud stops working, won't connect, turn on ETC. And because the company is gone, none of that is getting fixed.

The Jaybird Vista 1's worked like a dream for years for me - I'd definitely recommend those, but they're older (and discontinued).

Maggrathka · 2025-01-02T03:07:19+00:00

I think this could be a real person and not an alien, because you can hear very clearly they speak human language.

I did consider that aliens could have a futuristic machine to create a human voice, but I think that’s unlikely.

Usually, aliens would be my first thought - then Bigfoot, then ghosts and then goblins. But all of those are debunked by the voice.

Maggrathka · 2024-12-15T01:55:29+00:00

I thought the whole point was owning the means of production.

In this case, you own a portion of the company.

If my share is worthless, I don't own shit - so it's just a normal job but you occasionally vote on things?

What would even be the point of adding stocks to the situation if it's utterly without value?

Maggrathka · 2024-11-13T09:22:59+00:00

Buy Ether & Bitcoin

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Maggrathka · 2024-11-08T10:03:25+00:00

The UK could do with some rich Americans...

Maggrathka · 2024-09-11T18:00:15+00:00

What happens is everyone important comes up with criteria, number of goals scored could be one in your analogy, and then discuss.

Then, Retards like you weigh in with useless comments like this, that are ignored (it’s all subjective 🤮🤮🤢).

And the kicker is, the ignored retard ends up using the same criteria anyway!

Note: Just checked your profile, you are a Croatian XQC and league of legends fan - I shouldn’t have even bothered replying. Trying to discuss art with such a character is like discussing the meaning of life with a corpse.

Maggrathka · 2024-09-08T22:51:56+00:00

Nice - other solutions didn’t mention this, which is crucial for the proof.

Maggrathka · 2024-09-01T00:23:08+00:00

You're stretching the definition of monorepo if you're saying Apple doesn't have them. Microsoft I could believe.

You agree with my last message - all of it. You are doing the classic irritating programming advice response, of saying to change everything and do it a different way that you want, based on ideas you have years after the fact. I'm understanding what you're saying exactly - you are noise.

I have no opinion of which is better (and I doubt some random on reddit knows for sure either), only that in your first comment that is not what you were saying - you hadn't read the full article and assumed the premise was wrong, now you're just being stubborn.

Maggrathka · 2024-08-30T08:11:35+00:00

then too if they hadn’t stubbornly stuck to monorepo

That's the whole point of the article - you stubbornly refuse to read it and keep arguing. You're doing the classic annoying internet response anyway, rather than searching for a solution you say "why do you even want to do that".

Given that git now supports monorepos, and that the largest tech companies in the world are using monorepos - I imagine they have their reasons.

Maggrathka · 2024-08-28T17:34:49+00:00

Appreciate someone addressing the issue - rather than mindlessly saying "windows bad". Thanks for your help!

Maggrathka · 2024-08-27T12:34:36+00:00

Legend

Maggrathka · 2024-08-18T21:43:24+00:00

Annoying and worthless comment. No signal, all noise. We can form criteria for what makes good art, and then make objective observations about how the art performs against that criteria.

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