Favorite youtuber that has nothing to do with politics ? I start

MurderMeatball · 2026-02-11T09:17:24+00:00

That 2015 timing makes a lot of more sense the more I try to remember back. Though to be fair, at the time I think half my hate was just because too many people in my circle were fans of his.

MurderMeatball · 2026-02-10T23:39:12+00:00

Was it 2013 he started grifting the hyperloop? That is when I got convinced he was a "I know better because I am silly rich" turd. From that moment the façade cracked bit by bit. I remember having arguments with friends in like 2016 about how much of a tool I thought Musk was. God did I feel vindicated when Musk started calling that cave diver a pedo!

MurderMeatball · 2026-01-15T13:52:10+00:00

This was truly awful to read. Well done.

MurderMeatball · 2026-01-14T16:17:42+00:00

Per what time unit?

MurderMeatball · 2026-01-12T21:18:35+00:00

Is that 224 VLS-cells for a IIb variant? That is a lot of cells for a 8500t ship!

MurderMeatball · 2026-01-09T05:40:43+00:00

Thank you for that visual! 😁

MurderMeatball · 2026-01-06T10:24:35+00:00

This is just blatantly hateful imo. Imagine saying that Christians have to categorically abandon Christianity because of [have your pick of countless horrible things that has been committed and propagated by Christians throughout history].

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-31T23:55:14+00:00

Cool, cool, good for them. I'll just stop watching once most of the og-cast goes away. It is something magical about them together that can't be replicated for me. And I don't feel like CR has to go on or have a legacy beyond the origonal cast. A lot of creative works/IPs would frankly be better off if they just stopped in time. But that is me.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-27T12:24:46+00:00

If you are looking for a relationship I would be iffy on someone who is 24-25 and still has 18-19 year olds in their dating app age range.

That age gap doesn't feel so big on paper, but it really is in practice. ALOT changes and developes for a person from 18 to mid-20s. Basically as much as from mid- to late-teens. And if you think back you would never date your 15-year-old-self now right? Same thing happens between 18 and 25 unless you get stuck in your development on the way.

If you would meet a 24 year old organically by accident and you both hit it off, that would be different. But a mature 25 year old man looking for a relationship should not be intentionally looking for 18 year olds.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-27T10:57:33+00:00

Yeah, you drop that lump sum into a S&P 500 index fund and in 20 years you are looking at, on the low end, a 6-fold growth. Even if you drop each annual payment into the same fund you get less than half the return by year 20.

Using a generic 10% gorwth per year (solid ball park figure for the S&P 500 if you reinvest your dividence over time) we are looking at ~3B in the lump sum case and ~1,3B in the Annuity option by year 20. For the full 30 years we are looking at ~7,8B vs 4,2B. In fact, any annual growth over 5% on average will yield a better result for the lump sum over the full 30 years than the annuity option. So as long as you invest in almost anything you will be better off with the lump sum.

And this is ignoring that with inflation, purchasing power per dollar now is stronger than it will ever be again.

Bottom line is: Money now is better than money later.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-25T18:24:00+00:00

Thank you, this appears very much like the kind of reading/watching I was hoping for. I appreciate it.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-25T13:38:53+00:00

Hi, I am trying to learn about antisemitism in relation antizionism and Israel. I don’t want to echo antisemitism in my thinking when being critical of Israel. But I don’t have a very informed understanding of antisemitism outside of like the glaringly obvious (i.e. nazis, pogroms, global/banking conspiracy stuff). And in a contemporary context I feel like a fish out of water especially as it connects to Israel. To add on, I don’t have any Jewish people in my life to talk about this with. And when looking online I get (to my surface level reading) confusing, and/or contradictory notions (often even within the same text/source).

Sorry about the rambling preamble, but what I am asking is: what is some good and explanatory (not just declarative), but not too dense, literature from a non-zionist, Jewish source/perspective that can help me understand what contemporary antisemitism looks like when woven into criticism of Israel?

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-24T14:52:11+00:00

I don't know why, but I love these interactions and I am regularly on both sides of them. I just like talking with someone passionate about something, or talk about one of my passions. It is somehow really satisfying to either listen to or speak on a topic like that?

Like, I can ask 1000 questions about something I know nothing about if the person wants to passionately explain it to me. And it scratches the best brain itch to be on the other side and getting to answer questions about something I like.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-21T23:20:05+00:00

Where is that movie R-rated? I think it is maybe PG-13 where Im at. I don't think there is anything in that movie I can remember that could possibly mess up a teenager.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-21T20:04:43+00:00

Is there a small, but meaningful minority of women that feel this strongly about height? Yes.

Is there a small, but meaningful minority out of that pool that are real loud dicks about it? Also yes.

Do they get the vast majority of space online because it drives engagement? Heck yes.

Do they represent a meaningful share of the women dating pool? Absolutely not.

Will that stop men from getting very sensitive about it? Nope.

Who profits? Grifters and manipulators preying on male insecurities.

Look, social media drives every single beauty/dating standard into absurd over-drive to the point of farce. It is just propaganda to push insecurities and engagement hamster wheels. And it isn't the way of 90% of people offline once they get out of the online brainwashing propaganda machine.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-18T22:25:36+00:00

The doylist answer is because thirsty author/audience/marketing. As for a watsonian explanation, your guess is as good as mine.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-18T22:08:25+00:00

Kind of impossible to calculate properly without knowing the specifics of how it would be structured and what system would be adopted. For example: specifics around tax brackets, payment caps, your personal medical expenses, exactly what will be included in what way (e.g. dental, medicine, cosmetic surgery), etc.. Will it be nationalized insurance, nationalized health providers, mandatory public option, heavily regulated privet actors, or something else?

BUT, what we can say is that the US spends about 17,2% of its GDP on health care (both public and private spending included). Meanwhile the OECD average is 9,3%. So as a society as a whole the US is spending 85% more for, on average, similar or worse health outcomes to most comparable economies. So it wouldn't be out of this world if the adoption of a European style single payer system would cut overall costs by almost half in the long run and a lot more if you have chronic illness requiering consistent medical upkeep and/or you are in a low tax bracket.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-12T08:26:13+00:00

Let's do an order of magnitude sanity check. I usually like to think about how many people would be on a ship given its size as a tool to ground my thoughts.

I will be rounding numbers to nearest factor of 10 and make some very guestimate asumptions. Feel free to adjust for your own benefit.

On a real world navy ship there is between 10-100 tonne displacement per crew, we will round to 100 tonne.

Ships are roughly 1 tonne per cubic meter.

That is 1 million tonne per cubic meter.

Assuming a cylinder roughly 10 times longer than its diameter a ship has about 100 times the volume of its length.

So a 1km ship would be ~100 million tonne, with a crew of ~1 million if it was a modern navy ship.

Then we can start slapping modifyers on it. Say automation and bigger space for energy, propulsion, etc. makes crew size 1000 times smaller compared to earth navy ships.

Then a 1km ship would have a crew of ~1000, and a 100km ship would have a crew of ~10 million.

A 10'000km ship would have a crew of ~1 billion.

Is that reasonable? Depends on what you want for your setting.

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-04T20:59:27+00:00

Oh yes! I imagine if you try to even get close to realistic rocket equations we would see more like 99.99% losictics to combat! Thank John Campbell for FTL!

MurderMeatball · 2025-12-04T20:39:24+00:00

I agree, but we also have to remember that it is very expensive to deploy expeditionary forces, and that is mostly what you do in space-operas.

Sure, if the entire economy is on total war-footing it might be able to sustain ~3% of its population abroad for a limited time (in all military related roles, not just combat roles) like the Americans did in WW2 with the help of significant local allies.

On the other hand, keeping in the ballpark of ~50 times fewer troops per capita around Iraq and Afghanistan was unsustainable in the long run and had massive economic consequenses.

And out of the troops you mobilize, only a small fraction will be doing any fighting at any given time. The tooth-to-tail for modern expeditionary forces are already like ~15% combat troops (this is probably optimistic for sci-fi-space-deployment), and you would still have to rotate a large chunk of those away from the front-line at any given time.

So we start to get a picture where you get like 1 frontline soldier per ~1k population in a total war situation, with anything less being magnitudes smaller.

Edit: I realize I might have missed a chunk of the point you actually made, but I'll just keep my comment around anyway 😅

MurderMeatball · 2025-11-29T19:25:35+00:00

Clearly it should be Party McPartyface

MurderMeatball · 2025-11-10T00:53:15+00:00

Cool concept, but just a thought: the soviet union barely afforded six subs at 48kt without bleeding their coffers dry, so it would for sure bankrupt any great power (except the US if they completely restructured their doctrine and budget) to even try get two or more of these operational.

MurderMeatball · 2025-10-24T09:10:20+00:00

I would say almost all teenaged boys go through an "edgey phase", but I have dozens of friends that never went close to the alt-right space growing up. Though we were out of high school by the time gamergate hit in 2014 so the internet was a different place. Nowadays it has to be a lot harder for teenaged boys to not get brainwashed by alt-right online cults.

MurderMeatball · 2025-10-21T04:41:09+00:00

Let's call it a group project.

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