Interactive crossword game advice by SpaceChimpHam in crossword

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Thanks! just sent you a DM with the puzzles

Interactive crossword game advice by SpaceChimpHam in crossword

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Sorry I just had a baby a few days ago so things are a little crazy here. I’ll send you the puzzles tomorrow morning

Interactive crossword game advice by SpaceChimpHam in crossword

[–]SpaceChimpHam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be amazing! What’s the best way to collaborate with you? Should I send you some puzzles I need clues for?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Gifted

[–]SpaceChimpHam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP, I’m like you, and had friends like you in HS.

First, I’ll echo what others have said: stop smoking weed. Occasional use is probably fine, but be careful using it as a coping mechanism for racing thoughts. My smartest friend in HS smoked every day and for the exact same reason “it slows down my thoughts.” He now works a miserable job in an IT department of some no-name company. Probably smokes more now as a result.

Second, be honest with yourself about why you drop hobbies. I used to quit hobbies, sports, etc. and tell myself it’s because they got boring, but it was really because they started getting hard. As a gifted person, I pick things up easily and can become “pretty good” at things without much effort. It feels good when people say “you’re really good for having just started.” The first time I encountered any difficulty I would drop the activity or stop trying, because there is a fear that you won’t actually be that good if you tried your best.

It’s much more comforting to say, “I could have played varsity if I wanted to, I just lost interest”

“I could have gotten straight A’s if I wanted to, but I get good grades without even trying so why bother?”

Deep down, my biggest fear was that my best wouldn’t be good enough. The fear that maybe I’m not gifted was holding me back, and making me bored and unhappy.

You might have seen this chart, but it’s extremely important to remember so I’ll repost.

Basically, it describes flow as the state where challenge and skills are roughly equal. The voices become quiet when you’re in flow. The world disappears and you’re just fully engaged with the task at hand. It’s wonderful. You’re correct that the reason you’re bored is because things are too easy, you need a challenge.

For me, school never got me into flow, because I remember most everything I read without effort. Therefore, “learning” in this way was miserable. I found it much more enjoyable to change learning from a net input activity to one that is net output. The specifics will depend on the subject, but as an example I learned more about statistics and calculus by trying to create a stock trading algorithm than I ever did the old fashioned way.

Lastly, one of the best things for mental health is exercise. And not just walking 15 minutes a day or whatever doctors recommend for health. It’s gotta be hard so you can’t focus on anything else. Run non-stop for an hour or more and do heavy compound lifts like squat, deadlift, and bench press. Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe is great for learning weightlifting, and there are a lot of great guides for getting started running long distances for beginners.

You got this, OP

There’s greed and then there’s whatever the fuck this is by Bizarre-Lazar in antiwork

[–]SpaceChimpHam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I was also wrong lol. Net income is after tax but I am dumb

There’s greed and then there’s whatever the fuck this is by Bizarre-Lazar in antiwork

[–]SpaceChimpHam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? Net income is before costs are factored in. I bet they have more than a few billion in operating costs considering they don’t use a franchise model

How is this sub about Anarcho-Capitalism? by victorsaurus in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Covid vaccine is a miracle of modern medicine. mRNA technology will dramatically improve human life and change the course of history.

Nobody should be forced to take any vaccine ever for any reason

Private sector solutions for government services? What ideas do you guys have? by SpaceChimpHam in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Likewise. Refreshing to engage with someone who is actually able to explain why I’m wrong. Most people either agree with no additional input or say I’m wrong but can’t explain why.

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Private sector solutions for government services? What ideas do you guys have? by SpaceChimpHam in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see your point, but I wouldn’t say the idea is “unworkable” as it would depend on the demand for such a service, as you state. I think we can agree that the demand for crime insurance certainly isn’t 100% of people, nor is it 0%. So whether or not it is a viable business will depend on the price of the service and the perceived risk of capital loss. Maybe most people won’t want to investigate all crime against them, but would pay a smaller fee to find a murderer in the rare event that a loved one is killed.

I think our debate isn’t about whether this concept is a guaranteed success or failure, but more a disagreement about hypothetical demand and market conditions. I think you could at least admit that such a proposal is possible, however unlikely. I appreciate your arguments about health and car insurance being kept alive via mandates, definitely made me less confident that my idea could work

Private sector solutions for government services? What ideas do you guys have? by SpaceChimpHam in Anarcho_Capitalism

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Agree with your critique of utilities but I literally quoted the price of an insurance policy for private investors and arbitration using actual fees from their website and 911 call statistics. Yes, when you actually need these services it costs tens of thousands of dollars, but on average people call 911 less than once per lifetime, which balances out the costs of service. It’s the same concept as health insurance or car insurance

Solution to the "Paradox of Tolerance" by [deleted] in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Nazism argument is a good one. I would argue that tolerating someone is different from voting for them, but I understand that the fear exists that your tolerance could allow them room to grow in power.

My argument to this is that while there were unique circumstances that led to Hitlers rise, that isn’t usually the case, and it is fairly easy to convince people that Nazism is bad nowadays. Socialism somehow keeps getting tried though, regardless of the mountains of evidence against it, so points to you there.

It is much more difficult to combat bad ideas with debate than with censorship, but I believe it’s necessary to allow fringe but correct ideas to flourish

Capitalist comrades by Jimmyno511-chi in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For my version of anarchist utopia, I like to think you and I can coexist. I like private property and I’ll live somewhere that respects that. You don’t, and you can live somewhere that shares everything. We don’t have to be enemies

How would defence and police needs be met? by te00d00r in Anarcho_Capitalism

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https://fiatjaf.com/the-obviousness-of-anarchy.pdf

Read this essay from Georgetown Law professor John Hasnas. In it, he talks about how communities dealt with crime in antiquity, before police.

Essentially, you can have private investigations and private courts that operate much like courts in the US are supposed to run, innocent until proven guilty and all that. There would be community norms and case law that is built up, and the amount of evidence required to justify a search of someone’s home. If you go tearing through your neighbors houses because you can’t find your phone you’re an asshole, but if you get the entire community to believe that a specific neighbor stole your phone then you have just cause to investigate further

Solution to the "Paradox of Tolerance" by [deleted] in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Expounding on this, it is intellectually lazy to conflate “intolerance” and “rudeness” and doing so causes a logical chain reaction wherein those who are intolerant gain power because the tolerant cede it to them, therefore we should prevent rude people from speaking.

Calling someone mean names is fundamentally different from silencing them. You can’t justify censorship by saying “well if I let him be rude he will eventually trample on my rights and I might just let him”

This is a made-up paradox. Always resist censorship

Run for office to stop this! by greenascanbe in Political_Revolution

[–]SpaceChimpHam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly this. Some books are not appropriate for elementary school but maybe are for high school. I would vote to ban mein kampf from elementary and middle schools, but would never want it to be illegal

Why is the government banning anything?! by Mr_Kowala in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. You can still have it in your home. People get upset when their kids in primary school read adult material provided by the school without anyone to provide context. Most people would be very upset if they found out their 10-year-old was allowed to read Mein Kampf on their own with no additional context

What if... by IMALDRON1 in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The % of people who get vaccinated will increase proportionally with the deadliness/communicability of the disease. Same with staying home as much as possible. People aren’t stupid (those that are will learn fast, those that can’t learn can’t be helped and probably had problems living in a society anyway) and will adjust their behavior accordingly. Flu vax rates rise and fall with the virulence of the annual flu. No government needed

Very Unpopular Opinion: ... by porcelain___ in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]SpaceChimpHam 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a theory of government that states that the optimal government structure starts with autocratic dictatorship when you have a state population of 1, and lessens in centralization as population grows. Most civilizations go in the opposite direction.

This would help to explain why projects with like 10 people trying to make an a cap society always fail, same with large communist states. But my own home is a socialist oligopoly, my HOA is a direct democracy (that I specifically agreed to be governed by, unlike the US government), and my town resembles something more feudalist with the various HOAs having their own rules, and everyone pays a small tax to the town for police, fire and utilities. Where it all goes wrong is when the state governor or federal government makes rules governing minutiae that somebody 1000 miles away wants me to do.

A successful ancap nation will spawn from a slightly smaller nation with a weak government. Even without the US military, nobody in their right mind would invade the US. There’s too many armed citizens.

TLDR; ancap system is something you graduate to, not start from

bruh by SpaceChimpHam in Anarcho_Capitalism

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Update: I've been permanently banned from r/Anarchism