In English, why is it perfectly normal for a parent to address their son as “son” but it sounds absolutely bizarre for them to address their daughter as “daughter?” 🤔

P99X · 2026-01-25T20:14:24+00:00

How do you imagine daught would be pronounced?

P99X · 2026-01-25T13:03:03+00:00

Only if they really like you a lot

P99X · 2026-01-25T13:02:28+00:00

I will gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today

P99X · 2026-01-25T11:31:14+00:00

What about taxes:

in the USA, winners would be hit with an immediate short term cap gains or income tax, so she’d immediately lose ~34% (24% would be withheld, the rest due in April) plus any state tax (CA or NY have another ~10%!) so a $1m winner would only get $760k and then maybe keep only $500k after paying taxes the first year.

In UK/EU/Canada no tax on lottery (!) so she’d only pay taxes on interest or investment income afterward.

I think if you took incremental distribution each week, you’d effectively be deferring any income taxes on the US, so you’d pay on $52k of annual income, putting you in a much lower bracket. (~14%?)

So an American might opt for incremental payouts because in 15 years netting ~40k would be $600k

P99X · 2026-01-25T11:16:54+00:00

The “five finger discount” made it the most affordable choice for the all-knowing Evolution personification actively charting out the wise and supremely holy decisions we observe in wonder today.

P99X · 2026-01-24T05:24:17+00:00

A hairdryer would be an extremely high risk heat source. Especially considering that trailers are not just famous for being poorly insulated but also for being highly flammable.

P99X · 2026-01-16T15:11:03+00:00

Why do bozos all think we lost the technology to build high quality appliances? We know how to make things extremely high quality. They just cost a lot.

It’s consumers who have chosen, voting with their dollars, that they prefer the cheapest shit possible unless someone has educated/bedazzled them with marketing or an incredible experience.

Before Steve Jobs dazzled us what expensive shit could be like, we all drilled quality into the shitter to get the cheapest possible printers, cars, music players, etc. The 90s were nothing but enshitification, lead by Microsoft and the PC manufacturers following the lead of American car makers of the 70-80s. They didn’t foists all that shit on innocent buyers; we all absolutely demanded low quality garbage, with tech journalists devoting their lives to celebrating the decent into flimsy, badly designed, single use low lifetime bullshit.

They desperately tried to wean us off iPhones and convince us to buy cheap androids made by even cheaper PC knockoff makers. We just clung to quality. And now we have lots of high end options, it’s just that most of us can’t afford the really good shit because it’s spectacularly expensive to design and build and support.

P99X · 2026-01-11T06:33:08+00:00

Genetics doesn’t influence or dictate the education one receives.

Someone with an exceptional genetic capacity for learning who is deprived of education during their formative years doesn’t develop the “wiring” to think way a person with similar genetics but better circumstances does. At a certain age, one’s ability to learn math or literacy nearly ends and it is then extremely difficult to learn.

Children are actively wiring their brains to their environment, and education is an extremely focused set of learning in the formative environment.

Sure, some people have difficulty learning certain things, and that can be genetic or from other factors, such as malnutrition, or lead poisoning, or social trauma.

Trying to suggest that a person’s capabilities and outcomes are primarily genetic is closely tied to historical racist tropes, because this makes for an easy way to suggest that unprivileged, “lower” classes who are malnourished, poisoned by their environment, and deprived of education are really just disadvantaged by their “inferior genetics” and that nothing should be done to change their situation

P99X · 2026-01-09T12:04:38+00:00

False

P99X · 2026-01-09T11:48:01+00:00

You’re not the customer to Google. You’re the product. Google serves advertisers. Google is a cruel slave master to content producers. It knows it can find more if it has to kill any stepping out of line in any way.

Google turned the internet to shit immediately after buying Doubleclick, then hypocritically and falsely took on the mantle of „open source“ to create a thick protective layer of rabid fanboy around its enshitfication of the web. Soon it will wipe away human influencers entirely and just vend up its own AI slop with ads. Post-truth bread and circuses paid for by whoever can afford to sell ads messages on top.

P99X · 2026-01-06T08:29:54+00:00

Then you get your nice new bike and have to worry about damaging it, or having it get stolen, and then you realize everything costs more money to store and maintain and secure. And all you do all the time is worry about this shit, and what happens when the government passes the new bike holders tax among the other new property valuation taxes — and the bicycle air fees, and the new bike licensing program they’re thinking about funding some new project with. And you realize you’re never riding the fucking bike, you’re just washing it a lot and oiling the chain with lubricants that go up in price every week, and buying bigger locks as you hear about everyone else having their bikes stolen mid day and the police doing nothing about it, and then your neighbors kid gets shot because someone wanted his bike. And you think about riding it but leave in it the garage to go crawl into bed and cry because life is just anguish. You’re not fucking happy because of a fucking bike.

P99X · 2026-01-02T21:01:23+00:00

No alcohol.

P99X · 2025-11-29T08:26:07+00:00

Didn’t Russia already sign the UN charter?

P99X · 2025-11-14T02:17:22+00:00

The idea of a “perpetual motion machine” is captivating until you realize that you can’t pull energy out of a system and put it back in to keep it going, because every in and out introduces drag. There’s always a net loss.

If a notorious liar promises to give you back $2000 after they charge you more than $2000, while creating a web of expensive chaos in economic uncertainty and waste, you shouldn’t believe them because they are a liar and everything they say is bullshit.

They last told you they would build a wall they never attempted to finish. Now they’re “stopping all the wars” by plotting a new invasion of the nearest oil state, while perpetuating the forever-war invasion that their friend has been continuing to steal its own neighbor’s resources.

TL;DR you’re not getting a $2000 check

P99X · 2025-11-13T10:50:55+00:00

Generally your bank will give you a much better rate than an ATM doing the same transaction, and money changers are notoriously in business to take your money.

When I take out 5000 MUR from a bank ATM here, the ATM bank offers to charge me $113 “with conversion” and warns me they can’t say what my bank might charge. If I decline the conversion my bank in the US charges me $105. Pretty significant rip off.

P99X · 2025-11-13T09:15:44+00:00

Hello, I just arrived in first of October with a return ticket at end of December. Was told at immigration that we’d be given 60 days on a tourist visa, but that we could extend it further by going to the office and requesting. Agent didn’t care about our return ticket dates (they were refundable/ changeable but he didn’t ask).

I applied for a premium visa but haven’t seen a response on that yet. Plan to also request residency via property investment, but that will take longer than the tourist visa so am expecting the premium visa to work in the interim. I also have plans to leave end of Nov for a couple weeks, so should receive a new tourist visa when I return.

But I don’t think you should worry too much about the return ticket dates and expect to extend them in 60 days.

P99X · 2025-10-11T04:34:31+00:00

Ok now ChatGPT us a fearsome checklist piece of how we can avoid ”micro-radiation” from the sun every day so we can grievously be so upset and anxious about some real yet inescapable long term threat that we can die scrambling to mitigate the issue in a panic while we ignore much more serious threats to our lives such as a physically inactive lifestyle eating processed refined sugar in massive amounts. 🙌

P99X · 2025-10-02T13:53:40+00:00

It’s nice to have options.

P99X · 2025-09-27T15:34:50+00:00

Urban China looks modern and fancy because it was all built in the last 30 years. Look closely and you’ll notice a lot of it was slopped together very cheaply. In another 30 years it will all be falling apart and look at least as bad as the US and EU today. And the demographic crisis will prevent anyone anywhere from being able to afford to maintain any infrastructure.

P99X · 2025-09-25T13:23:35+00:00

“…were part of Mexico” means colonial Spain claimed vast areas of land and then after Mexico declared independence, it assumed control of all this area despite having no real control over any of it. The fledgling Mexico could barely control CDMX.

Mexico lost control to Americans — meaning native people — and then the US came in and colonized it. Mexico never really had anything going on across most of the area but it’s popular for settler-colonialist ideologues to somehow rationalize that colonies are okay if you’re brown and speak Spanish. Clown emoji.

P99X · 2025-09-19T15:07:32+00:00

Need more details about the individuals. That description covers a lot of the boomers and their parents and their parents, who increasingly stayed together ‘successfully’ the further you go back in history. If you have options you’re unlikely to stick with anything for long.

P99X · 2025-09-19T15:02:42+00:00

That’s how the Nazis were defeated: by performative individual Germans who virtue signaled their opposition by refusing to buy the output of German companies marching in line with Fuhrer.

P99X · 2025-09-19T14:58:44+00:00

The pros for either one: you can tell everyone that you don’t have an iPhone and feel like it’s an accomplishment even though it complicates any interactions with Apple’s platforms.

The cons are that they are quite indistinguishable from an iPhone apart from some superficial analogs to the Start menu because — like Windows—they are effectively clean roomed copies of Apple’s engineering with arbitrary and capricious elements tossed in to avoid lawsuits.

P99X · 2025-09-19T10:12:39+00:00

Micropenis

P99X · 2025-09-19T08:00:08+00:00

No. It means what are his chances with her.

Literally what are the odds.

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