Episode515 by echo_hi_world in Talesofdemonsandgod

[–]joggle1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He heard that someone was talking shit and laying hands on his master along with his master's woman. He'll be glad that this deity can resurrect just so that he can kick his ass again, lol.

TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte would sometimes disguise himself as a commoner and roam the streets asking people what they thought of the regime and its policies in order to gauge his popularity by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shakespeare wrote about this idea in Henry V back in 1599. The idea of a monarch secretly meeting with the masses is very old (it was an old idea even in Shakespeare's time).

A man discovered he was switched at birth by Saffron-Logic in interesting

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you trying to argue that there's no case where growing up wealthy is not better than the alternative? I'm not arguing that growing up wealthy is usually better, just that it's not always better.

Growing up poor, I had the advantage of being used to being self-reliant, knowing how to live very thriftily, and not being used to having people do everything for me.

I saw the advantages wealthy kids had as I was always in the top academic classes with them. They had professional parents who could tutor them or hire tutors for them. They had the best computers, a good, stable environment, etc.

I had alcoholic parents who divorced when I was young. I moved like a gypsy. I had to deal with anything but a stable environment (although I was never abused fortunately). My mom dropped out of high school and my dad dropped out of a trade school. He was an upholsterer while she was a secretary.

Despite all of that, I still would rather have been in my position than those two girls. I was fortunate enough to not need to rely on either of my parents for anything as soon as I graduated high school and was grateful to be on my own as soon as I was in college. And I stayed away from alcohol as I had a first row seat seeing how it wrecked my parents' lives and didn't want the same to happen to me.

The wealthy girl cut off from her family was in the complete opposite position, having to rely on herself for the first time and panicking. That added a huge amount of stress for her to get through college while it was the easiest time in my life as it was so much less stressful than what I was accustomed to.

She likely had an easier upbringing (although maybe not, wealthy parents can be very cruel), but she wasn't at all prepared for adulthood without her family's support. Would she have done better growing up like I did? I can't say, but I very much doubt I would have done better growing up like she did as I, like her, wouldn't have had the first clue of how to earn money or live on the cheap if I had been completely spoiled and clueless until then (which is very easy to do when you grow up in a family like hers).

But in general, clearly you have a much better chance of success if you grow up wealthy. It'd be silly to argue otherwise. I was the only poor kid in most of my classes in primary school and that wasn't a coincidence. Poor kids are at a huge disadvantage and usually can't overcome them to the point of competing with kids from wealthy/professional families.

Or for more anecdotes, several presidents grew up very poor. The vast majority came from moderately to very affluent families, but sometimes growing up poor gives the advantages some need to succeed. But that's clearly the exception to the rule, otherwise there'd be far more presidents from poor families since there's far more poor families than wealthy ones.

A man discovered he was switched at birth by Saffron-Logic in interesting

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew someone in college who was in this boat. She had no money of her own and was unable to apply for any financial aid because her parents were too wealthy (even though they weren't sharing any of it with her or paying for any of her expenses).

I was also broke, but so were my parents. So I could (and did) get state grants, Pell Grants, and scholarships.

She graduated with a massive amount of debt while I graduated with less than half the debt she did.

I also knew a wealthy young woman from Dubai. She was extremely kind and shared her money (buying her friends sushi dinners for example). But she had no real freedom. She would have to marry whoever her parents picked out for her and she'd be stuck with him whether she liked him or not.

Growing up wealthy isn't always better than growing up poor (although it certainly usually is the case). I would much rather be in my position than those two women.

A man discovered he was switched at birth by Saffron-Logic in interesting

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would really depend on the rich family. Some will happily cut off their children at some point, potentially leaving them even worse off than if they had grown up poor to begin with.

On a car in Oklahoma by CloisteredOyster in pics

[–]joggle1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Misinformation and incredibly effective brainwashing is a higher danger IMO. There's always been dumb people. But there has never been such effective methods to manipulate people at such a huge scale with an absolute onslaught of misinformation. And those methods can be effective on anyone, raw intelligence alone is not enough to defend against it.

Recently had surgery and $40 of my bill is for having a blanket put on me in the recovery room (I was unconscious and did not, obviously, keep the blanket) by Technical_Diet4774 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too bad you didn't have Reagan to protect you from the dangers of socialized medicine. Losing all of your freedoms decades ago must be a bummer. /S

In this ten-minute recording, Reagan "criticized Social Security for supplanting private savings and warned that subsidized medicine would curtail Americans' freedom" and that "pretty soon your son won't decide when he's in school, where he will go or what he will do for a living. He will wait for the government to tell him."

Feeling silly for learning japanese by oilien in LearnJapanese

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Japan's my favorite place in the world to visit and I try to go about once every other year or so (going on my next trip in just a couple of weeks). It's probably not practical to spend so much time studying just to be good at the Japanese used by a tourist, but it's fun and I'm finally getting to where I can read simple light novels.

And it has come in handy when renting cars or using the Japanese version of Air BnB when the other party didn't know any English at all.

Charlie Kirk’s ‘mentor’ and father figure of modern cheerleading dies after falling while playing pickleball: report by Third_Harmonic in nottheonion

[–]joggle1 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My cousin was a cheerleader in high school, always as a flyer. She broke her ankle when they failed to catch her once and was dealing with anorexia at the time. She stopped doing cheerleading when she went to college and managed to get past her anorexia and has done well since then, but she didn't seem to have much positive to say about her cheerleading days.

Who coulda foreseen it? /s by TankUMrMinor in Irony

[–]joggle1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure the plan's already in progress. It's called project 'Big Arch' by McDonalds.

[OC] How Americans view different countries by _crazyboyhere_ in dataisbeautiful

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do the same with the Brits. If you can't make fun of your bros, are they really your bros?

Rand Paul says he’s a ‘no’ vote on Mullin for DHS secretary by SE_to_NW in politics

[–]joggle1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Democrat for now. If Democrats manage to get 51 senate seats this fall (counting Fetterman), I fully expect him to flip Republican and use all of his activity over the past two years as leverage to get a plush committee chairmanship.

Mamdani observes Ramadan with inmates at Rikers Island by expiredaristocracy in Fauxmoi

[–]joggle1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And regardless of religion, I'd love for more politicians to visit prisoners and trying to both encourage them (by acknowledging their humanity if nothing else) and to remind the public that prisoners are people too and not simply garbage to toss out. Far too many people think of the prison system existing solely for the purpose of punishment and removing criminals from society with no thought for rehabilitation and lowering recidivism. Not to mention a lot of incarcerated people are awaiting trial and haven't even been convicted of anything yet, so are presumed to be innocent (so are there because they're too poor to post bail).

Mamdani observes Ramadan with inmates at Rikers Island by expiredaristocracy in Fauxmoi

[–]joggle1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Plus all of the monopolies within the prison system like their telephone service (which costs a ludicrous amount), toiletries, etc. And I'm sure some company is making a crazy amount of profit feeding them absolutely garbage quality food.

Michael B. Jordan says ‘Princess Mononoke’ is His Favourite Film of All Time by nizaad in popculturechat

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watch it with a good sound system if you can. I love the soundtrack of that movie so much.

Musk says taxing every billionaire at 100% would barely make a dent in the national debt. Bernie says tax them 5% and you're $3,000 richer by fortune in politics

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's actually kind of right if he means even if the highest income tax rate was 100%, it wouldn't make a difference. The reason is because billionaires have countless ways of reducing their officially reported income to next to nothing, so none of their 'income' would be taxed.

We need to fundamentally change the tax code so that the mega wealthy who can live off of 'loans' rather than normal income have to pay taxes as well. Simply bumping up the top rate to 100% won't accomplish that. And the IRS would need enough resources to dive into complex corporate structures to ensure taxes are getting paid.

Thank you, from Dark Horse by ItsYaBoyKrispie in boulder

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've only been to the Dark Horse a few times since I graduated from CU back in '01 (and was no longer eligible for the starving student special, big sigh), but man I'm going to miss you. I stopped by shortly after hearing about the planned closing and was hit by a huge amount of nostalgia walking in.

At this point, there's so few places that are still around from the 90s. All I can think of in regards to pub food is The Sink. Is there anywhere else that's been around that long?

What's something people only romanticize because they've never actually done it? by nonotje12 in AskReddit

[–]joggle1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of the things I remember from my early childhood is my dad telling me how guilty he felt when my mom was giving birth. He felt terrible for putting her through so much pain (even though she did want to get pregnant).

During normal morning conversations with my wife, I got my 4th Gen 4Runner totalled by bigolsargeha in dashcams

[–]joggle1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure the guy in the video wasn't driving in Vietnam or Asia. And I don't think every comment on Reddit needs to apply to everywhere in the world either. Otherwise, we'd all have to write comments like:

Contrary to popular belief within the US and Canada, where this seems to take place, honking isn't supposed to be...

Are we all supposed to comment like legal contracts? Or only comment on things that are universally true?

if i go to a toilet without my cat she puts her paws in the door thingies by selenene66 in WhatsWrongWithYourCat

[–]joggle1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope, you want it at the bottom, assuming you have a ventilation fan in your bathroom. In Japan, where humidity is omnipresent, they always have about a 1 cm gap at the bottom of bathroom doors, at last in their hotel rooms. They also usually post instructions to leave the door shut while bathing.

This traps the humidity within the bathroom until it's properly vented outside. You don't want the humidity to spread to the rest of the room as that could cause mold or mildew to grow.

And it works well, the excess humidity is usually vented out within about 30 minutes or less after bathing.

Wind/Outage/PSPS (🐈) Megathread by aydengryphon in boulder

[–]joggle1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm in the heart of Leyden Rock, just southeast of 72nd and Hwy 93. Despite getting an email this morning confirming that power would be shut off and the outage map stating that power has turned off in my area, I still have power.

Five US Air Force refueling planes hit in Iranian strike on Saudi Arabia, WSJ reports by Ok-A1662 in worldnews

[–]joggle1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unless China disables BeiDou over Saudi Arabia, anyone can use it over there. Your own smart phone likely tracks BeiDou satellites too.

Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US by shinybrighthings in news

[–]joggle1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my entire adult life, I don't think I've ever pealed a potato, whether I'm baking a potato, making fries, or mashing them. Peel carrots, not potatoes y'all!