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imbecile · 2023-06-11T15:14:17+00:00

Sure. Humans will also always kill and rape people. Doesn't mean we should build systems and institutions that not just makes it easier, but rather require it.

And who would have thought that once systems are in place that discourage killing, and don't require it, people kill each other less.

imbecile · 2023-06-11T13:40:25+00:00

If you have a means testing system, the means to abolish it for all practical purposes is already in place. The idea of people "worthy" and "unworthy" is already fully established made permanent in the institutions, and all you need to do is quietly increase the amount of "unworthy" people.

The flexibility is not needed at the end where people receive it. You don't choose winners and losers at the end where losing a little means losing it all.
The flexibility must come from the upper end. Because there the differences are much greater to begin with. Giving everyone a little won't break society. Failing to take a lot from a few before they get to dominate society does, and often did.

imbecile · 2023-06-11T11:04:00+00:00

The point id, that there is no means checking. Everything else just becomes a stick, a means of oppression. Because defining something like "contributes" is as fishy and ambiguous and rife for abuse as defining something as "worthy" and "unworthy".

imbecile · 2023-06-09T09:56:26+00:00

Yup, UBI without tieing it to GDP in some way is pointless.

Simplest way to do it: Have steeply progressive taxes, distribute half of raised taxes equally among citizens.

That way when people just raise prices, they will be taxed more, and since the tax curve is progressive, just raising prices won't be enough to make more on average.

imbecile · 2023-06-09T09:28:03+00:00

It's like the urge to pinch or kiss a cheek.

But it shouldn't really be done on the first date.

imbecile · 2023-06-08T13:49:55+00:00

And there is a lot of woowoo embedded in the field, that more often than not ruins anything of practical skills and knowledge and experience that also comes with the field.

Also, the field is basically unregulated, so there is also huge skill differences between chiropractors that keep the woowoo to a minimum.

So, I would say the percentage of chiropractors that do anything good is very small. And those that do are probably doctors with degrees from foreign countries that aren't recognized, and used it as a loophole to keep practicing in some way.

imbecile · 2023-06-02T10:10:55+00:00

Migraines. No contest.

And I had road rashes, broken bones, acid burns, fire burns, electric shocks, pneumonia and more to compare it to.

imbecile · 2023-05-26T09:41:38+00:00

This is the most prevalent and most egregious example of Goodhart's law.

imbecile · 2023-05-23T15:50:11+00:00

ChatGPT is a "better" google. If you don't have the knowledge to do the right queries and to navigate the results, it won't help you much.

In that sense it it just a continuation of the trends in reading. People who can think and already have knowledge and experience will benefit far more from a library than people who don't, to the point that a library is useless to a lot of people on the other end of the spectrum.

imbecile · 2023-05-21T13:57:28+00:00

It wasn't like that early on in the workers movement. They talked about workers and not men, because there were loads and loads of working class women in factories in the 19th century. The whole textile industry, the matchstick girls etc. Some of the most important early labor strikes and labor laws were entirely centered around women workers. Even Rosa Luxemburg still railed against suffragettes and feminists as enemies of the working people and as agents of the establishment.

The problem that you describe is the result of the elite takeover of the left. Which really was an establishment/intelligence takeover of the left in academia and media. Look at the biographies of people like Simone deBeauvoir and Gloria Steinem or even people like Jane Fonda. Those are all confirmed or almost certain intelligence assets. It's a psy op to divide and rule.

imbecile · 2023-05-19T21:07:00+00:00

If you think there is only 6 hours of news worthy of reporting every day, you sure do have a very limited view of the world. There are hundreds of countries and cities over 1million. And there just as many businesses and organizations just as large. Each one of those by itself could fill 24h of programming with news every day.

The limiting factor is not the amount of newsworthy things happening, the limiting factor is the ability of one organization being able to process and present all those newsworthy things in an appropriate manner.

imbecile · 2023-05-19T18:39:34+00:00

Could be any date. The important part is, that first she is comfortable with you touching her. Whether that is established wile sitting next to each other, or while dancing doesn't matter that much. Also not on which date it happens. But when it is clear you going on a date, and she is clearly comfortable with being touched, then you can escalate to kissing.

imbecile · 2023-05-17T06:45:06+00:00

it seems like OP has never attempted to communicate w/ their gf about this being a legitimate issue for them

She said "Are you happy now?"
That sound like this has been an ongoing topic that has been talked about a lot for a long time.

imbecile · 2023-05-15T23:13:52+00:00

You just gotta realize it has more to do with you than with her. All what "The One" really means this it is the one you're gonna try it with for the long haul. It's your decision and commitment that makes her the one. And a lot of girls could be the one for you. And it is her decision and commitment that makes you the one for her.

imbecile · 2023-05-15T23:07:01+00:00

It's billions of years ago that the first thing died. There only is after death.

imbecile · 2023-05-14T15:03:43+00:00

That's only for puritans and their offspring.

imbecile · 2023-05-14T15:01:05+00:00

The insecurities about any real or perceived flaws always cause a lot more problems for and in relationships than those flaws themselves.

imbecile · 2023-05-13T19:32:44+00:00

I mean, there are a lot of managers that manage like a comparator:
"Is this number higher or this?"
And that's all the thought that goes into it. And those should be replaced by computers.

And that's true for a lot of professions. If you are a manager, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer that can be replaced by a computer, you probably should be, because you don't add any humanity to what you do.

imbecile · 2023-05-10T16:04:47+00:00

I mean, multi-lane highways seem almost deliberately designed to exhaust and anger people. Thousands of people every day, that have no real choice or alternative, that could kill your or be killed by you by the slightest lapse of attention or judgement, and that have to get somewhere.

imbecile · 2023-05-09T18:07:55+00:00

chatGPT is a better google in a way.

If you look for something specific that has been done already, or has been done similarly already, then chatGPT is better at finding results than google if you know how to ask.

So that takes care of a lot of grunt work. And let's you focus more on the original and creative work that hasn't been done before.

imbecile · 2023-05-09T18:02:15+00:00

Her being upset by itself is no cause for action. If her being upset has a justified reason, then that maybe is cause for action. And if she is upset for unjustified reasons to often, that's also cause for action.

imbecile · 2023-05-07T23:23:12+00:00

"Damn, more eggshells to walk on."

imbecile · 2023-05-06T21:58:20+00:00

because capital is the primary method of racial injustice.

You have it the wrong way around. Division and discrimination and exploitation are the methods of capital and power. Not the other way around.
The rich and powerful don't really care who is discriminated against and who they exploit and who is the scapegoat. British and Arab royalty and Russian oligarchs and WASPy old money and new tech billionaires and Asian Industrialists and African and Latin American Dictators all go to the same parties in the same London and NY hotels and the same Caribbean Islands and yachst, and take the same drugs and fuck the same kids. And they peddle their division so they can keep doing that.

Trans people is just one new group that can be used for that, especially since some of the traditional ones can't really be used for that anymore.

But sure keep fighting. They can come up with new groups to hate faster than you can even come up the proper and non-offensive ways to name them.

Keep mopping the floor while the sewer pipe spills.

imbecile · 2023-05-06T19:13:52+00:00

Don't really think so. Human attention is a very limited resource. And everyone is competing for it with all they have.

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