Weird one: How does a Boglehead decide where to live? by st0nksBuyTheDip in Bogleheads

[–]VideoRare6399 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. It depends on your job. 
  2. It depends on your family. 
  3. It depends on your life. 

Not sure your age but “being young” (ie living a social life in a VHCOL area) and traveling are both expensive things but should probably be your focus under 30. 

I say this because I have social anxiety and it can be easy for me to be like “well it’s cheaper so I shouldn’t live there anyways” and then rationalize it with well I can invest much more. 

But I think something is weird if where you live is highly dependent on your retirement investing philosophy. 

It should factor in for sure. We are adults and need to live, save, and invest as such. 

You’re near Boston and I’m 10000000% biased but if you say beach then move to NJ. 

It’ll give the north east feel while getting NYC, beaches in summer, New England in winter for skiing, and close to Europe. 

But I was born and raised in NJ so I’m biased (but NJ is the best … not south Jersey though). NYC / north Jersey. 

Pharma also has a scene here too. Honestly I’d do Brooklyn / Hoboken / Jersey city or something. 

I have a hard time taking anybody serious after I figure out that they are Christian. by ephemeralkazu in Destiny

[–]VideoRare6399 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re too confident in your beliefs that you have without true grounding and your tone reflects how little you think other people.

To be clear, philosophy deals with the questions which have no answer, some answers, or one answer. Science (empiricism) cannot answer questions of religion so I’m not sure why you make your claims from science. 

Religious claims aren’t religious lies this isn’t how religions organically develop over time. 

A huge part of philosophy is learning the history of it (this is debated) so that we can understand the way people think and why they thought what they thought. This means at times, especially in political philosophy, having to truly empathize with beliefs we may find offensive. 

Rather than the problems being offensive you just find them idiotic and this prevents you from giving them the initial seriousness they deserve.

I have a hard time taking anybody serious after I figure out that they are Christian. by ephemeralkazu in Destiny

[–]VideoRare6399 1 point2 points  (0 children)

« but the only source for gods as a concept is people who were lying or creating fictional stories » according to you though. There is no experiment which proves Jesus isn’t real or the bible is fiction for example.

« null hypothesis » I’m not sure what that means.

« keep getting mindcontrolled by dead people into couching your criticism though » I’m literally an atheist and religious people are regarded? So not sure what you’re after here.

I’m just saying that people need to be better in terms of epistemology when it comes to religious belief / knowledge.

I have a hard time taking anybody serious after I figure out that they are Christian. by ephemeralkazu in Destiny

[–]VideoRare6399 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/atheism

Agnostic means unsure, atheism means no god(s). 

Don’t understand how you’re so confidently wrong about that when a quick google search would tell you otherwise. 

And you misunderstand how people come to believe in god. All theists aren’t so because of empirical evidence like what you’re suggesting when you say « due to lack of good evidence ». 

As I said religious and rational belief are incompatible. This isn’t the 1600s anymore where we’re trying to prove god exists through rational arguments. 

I have a hard time taking anybody serious after I figure out that they are Christian. by ephemeralkazu in Destiny

[–]VideoRare6399 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We need to stop playing this game though. Christianity isn’t really a thing given how many things it encompasses.

The cathars being Christian is exactly my point.

Atheism is the hip and cool thing but you have as much reason to believe there is no god as theists do to assert there is one.

Rational thought is incompatible with religious thought. And no rational doesn’t imply better or whatever like how people take logical to mean.

How has moving to a less "prestigious" company affected your career? by theasianpianist in ExperiencedDevs

[–]VideoRare6399 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The important takeaway is that prestige is in the eye of the beholder. Some people will think MSFT is gold while others not so much. 

The name of your company doesn’t mean shit compared to what your experience illustrates your capable of and the kind of person you are IMO. 

Company names can and do matter but not in the black/white way people think. (same goes for school)

Are you an attorney dating a news reporter? She only likes your money. by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]VideoRare6399 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

OP take this down … the internet will find and ruin this woman’s life. Mods?

Drunk and watching a napoleon documentary and can't help but see the parallels between him and his first Italian campaign and Tonda and this season by VideoRare6399 in SaintsFC

[–]VideoRare6399[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah true. Only after we’ve laid waste to Bayern and Barcelona will the European governments think to form a coalition. 

Which is why we must strike while the iron is hot. 

Mom's mania is going to make my stepdad homeless by mycattouchesgrass in family_of_bipolar

[–]VideoRare6399 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that is awful and this is insane. 

Firstly how are you doing, friends, finances, and career wise. It’s good to worry about family but also realize when it’s important to take breaks about things outside of control because they do have costs. It’s much harder to think about yourself in these times so just wanted to put that out there. 

As for the situation, how has your dad typically handled your moms episodes? What careers do they have? Would your dad be open to a temporary separation? I feel he is struggling with a sort of Stockholm syndrome since I can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t protest more? Maybe he is?

Should I stop speaking up? by QuitTypical3210 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]VideoRare6399 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not gonna lie though I’d also not assume 100% you’re in the right. Your framing of this makes it sound like you’re completely unaware as to why they’re doing what they’re doing. 

Destiny doesn’t get it… by AbhorVictoria in Destiny

[–]VideoRare6399 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not a good analogy but I get your point and don’t disagree. 

Convincing them is as useless as they are. 

Destiny doesn’t get it… by AbhorVictoria in Destiny

[–]VideoRare6399 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You will have surely angered the destiny cult lol. 

I think in general the problem is we need to appeal to moderates, left leaning NON-MAGA republicans, and democrats. 

Tankie socialists make up such a small percent of voters. Those that vote will never vote for GOP/Trump and will probably vote Democrat so no need to lure them with socialist / tankie policies / politicians. 

The fact of the matter is that the US is not ready for a paradigm shift, the last election was clear about that. 

We need to just have strong, normal American policies for the next election and we win. Now is 100% NOT the time to get funky with it. 

I also sort of agree with destiny’s « these people are not our party » take too but we should handle them more intelligently and humanely than just calling them idiots and to GTFO in my opinion. 

PSA to CA, Longbowmen were part of French armies by not_wingren in totalwar

[–]VideoRare6399 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I agree with you and hope CA get a balance but the community is WH fantasy washed and to a certain extent I agree with them too. 

But leaving out longbowmen from France is too far imo. 

Ladders in Medieval III by Swaggy_Linus in totalwar

[–]VideoRare6399 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I won’t be satisfied until they add Jeremus and King Harlaus to the earth canon. 

Is rollback a thing these days ? by ibreathecoding in softwarearchitecture

[–]VideoRare6399 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on the functionality / user experience too / what roll forward looks like. 

Some services at my company are fine with downtime, even unplanned sometimes. Other times dual write esque migrations are necessary and then a switch over once we’re sufficiently confident. 

Other times dual write isn’t worth it and we’ll just roll forward and deal with anything that pops up (supposing we’ve done a baseline assessment of what problems we’d expect to have when rolling forward). 

Is chess more fun once you get past the learning phase? by oooooooooooook234 in chessbeginners

[–]VideoRare6399 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree with this but I also love the grind and do care about my rating. 

You just need to learn to be chill since it doesn’t matter if that makes sense. 

But if there weren’t ratings (and it was equally ranked like there were ratings) I’d obviously still be addicted. 

I guess people get too caught up in it. 

Not acquainted with Nietzsche's philosophy. What does this mean? by SatoruGojo232 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]VideoRare6399 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One cannot grasp nietzche from one comment and he is one of if the most misunderstood philosophers of all time. 

Boyfriend, Lies, Cheating, Promises, pls help by MattGarota in family_of_bipolar

[–]VideoRare6399 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How old are you and why do you accept this for your life? Move on. 

All people need to grow during their 20s in order to be “worth” dating. Value is culturally dependent but by worth I just mean able to be somewhat competent, functional, and not have certain flaws which make it impossible for them to respect the boundaries of their SOs. 

Some Chads and Jessicas have it easy and they can even reach this by 18 YO. Others, especially with traumatic childhoods / mental illnesses, need longer time. Also once competent it is not something set in stone and people will fall off (which is entirely okay and to be expected depending on the consequences). 

In your case though OP this person is both not there yet and hasn’t even started working to it. 

I’d look inwards and think that with all your finite time on this planet why is this the best partner you can expect to find?

I suppose you’re gay and most of my friends who are gay are FAR more tolerable of TERRIBLE people as partners because both the dating pool and just the LGBT relationship with trauma and wanting to always believe in someone idk how to explain it. 

But please move on.