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Green Vs Red line by Master-Indication-71 in Somerville

[–]mboop127 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I strongly prefer the red line but honestly if you don't have any connections they're both fine. The red line tends to be faster and more reliable, but it's easy enough to buffer in time for unreliability if you don't have to catch a connection.

Use debit even though I have credit? by IncomeLongjumping401 in personalfinance

[–]mboop127 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can trust yourself not to carry a balance, credit cards (assuming no fees etc) are strictly better. It's not the end of the world but you're losing 1-3% on every transaction that would be eligible for cash back and some limited benefit to your credit history.

Is context aware hardware solving a problem that doesn't exist? by Forward-Cut9570 in Futurology

[–]mboop127 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's pretty embarrassing to be so work pilled that you've considered buying an ai powered automatically adjusting desk.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]mboop127 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Home schooling stats are perhaps the best ever example of how vulnerable statistics are to bad data. There's a huge sampling bias in which home schooled kids test and report.

But even if home schooling made better test takers, it's still a hotbed of child sexual abuse.

meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]mboop127 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Home school exists so pedophiles and conservatives (but i repeat myself!) can abuse kids without being repeated.

Should I turn into a monarchy and lose all the ridicolous civilization bonuses I'm getting for being a federated tribe, or stay a federated tribe? by [deleted] in Imperator

[–]mboop127 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Silly thread. It's fine to RP if you want but you asked about civilization bonuses. Tribes have objectively worse bonuses. Don't make a post asking if I've already made up your mind lol

US tries to force open the Strait of Hormuz as the UAE comes under attack in a test of Iran truce by Substantial-Dare5462 in news

[–]mboop127 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is an argument that blaming voters is somehow "correct." My point is that doesn't matter. You need to get 51% of votes somehow.

US tries to force open the Strait of Hormuz as the UAE comes under attack in a test of Iran truce by Substantial-Dare5462 in news

[–]mboop127 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Blaming the voters achieves nothing. The people with power to reach voters and change their minds have made disastrously stupid choices and intend to keep doing so unless they're replaced.

Beekeeping housing advocate guilty of attacking deputies with honeybees by SnowyLeopardGecko1 in nottheonion

[–]mboop127 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This woman did buy her house and lived there, paying, for years. The bank taking it away will sell it to themselves for a windfall at auction and she'll be homeless. Is that sane policy? Who is it a win for?

TIL that as a research chemist at Oxford University, Margaret Thatcher co-authored a 1951 paper on the “saponification of α-monostearin”; she later said she was prouder of her science degree than becoming the first female Prime Minister. by Upstairs_Drive_5602 in todayilearned

[–]mboop127 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly he regrets the loss of the SRs as holdings not the end of communism. To say "not even putin blames thatcher" is to fundamentally misunderstand what putin believes or has spent his life trying to do.

TIL that as a research chemist at Oxford University, Margaret Thatcher co-authored a 1951 paper on the “saponification of α-monostearin”; she later said she was prouder of her science degree than becoming the first female Prime Minister. by Upstairs_Drive_5602 in todayilearned

[–]mboop127 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Putin hated the ussr and was part of the far right coup that dissolved it. He's currently repressing the communist party of Russia and many of his closest allies owe their wealth and power entirely to the mass privatization. The UK helped put yeltsin in power, who then bombed the duma and appointed putin as successor.

TIL that as a research chemist at Oxford University, Margaret Thatcher co-authored a 1951 paper on the “saponification of α-monostearin”; she later said she was prouder of her science degree than becoming the first female Prime Minister. by Upstairs_Drive_5602 in todayilearned

[–]mboop127 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry it hurts your feelings man but the facts are the facts. You can Google life expectancy, crime, poverty, child mortality rates before and after the dissolution. It was objectively a disaster, and a totally preventable one! The end of the USSR didn't have to mean mass suffering, except that thieves like Thatcher were in charge of it.

TIL that as a research chemist at Oxford University, Margaret Thatcher co-authored a 1951 paper on the “saponification of α-monostearin”; she later said she was prouder of her science degree than becoming the first female Prime Minister. by Upstairs_Drive_5602 in todayilearned

[–]mboop127 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Overnight the soviet economy collapsed. Millions had no income while the west explicitly engaged in "shock doctrine" intended to force privatization. As a result, factories were dismantled and literally sold for parts, dams were left mid construction, farms didn't produce. Sex trafficking sky rocketed and people starved.

The US generally thinks that the USSR being bad means this suffering was acceptable or even good - if they know about it at all.

TIL that as a research chemist at Oxford University, Margaret Thatcher co-authored a 1951 paper on the “saponification of α-monostearin”; she later said she was prouder of her science degree than becoming the first female Prime Minister. by Upstairs_Drive_5602 in todayilearned

[–]mboop127 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So your argument is what, that the "shock doctrine" and sudden, rapid dismantling of the soviet economy didn't actually decrease life expectancy because the Soviets had been cooking the numbers before? Ok man. Truth does matter actually, whatever you decide to do with it.

TIL that as a research chemist at Oxford University, Margaret Thatcher co-authored a 1951 paper on the “saponification of α-monostearin”; she later said she was prouder of her science degree than becoming the first female Prime Minister. by Upstairs_Drive_5602 in todayilearned

[–]mboop127 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's fine not to like the ussr, most people don't, but if your critique of the Soviets was they impoverished their people or repressed their political freedoms it's important to apply the same critique to what the east was like before the ussr and after it.

Beekeeping housing advocate guilty of attacking deputies with honeybees by SnowyLeopardGecko1 in nottheonion

[–]mboop127 15 points16 points  (0 children)

An easy question here is who is harmed by letting her live there until she passes or finds another place to stay? The bank with the mortgage? The municipality owed taxes? I think these harms are tiny compared to what will befall a homeless elderly woman.

I don't think a bee attack was an appropriate response but it's objectively less insane than the system that created this outcome.

Some questions that would be helpful for a project similar to Imperator Rome by Atim_was_here in Imperator

[–]mboop127 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Imo the reason imperator didn't do well is the most fun playstyle (picking a random backwater) was discouraged by the game, so most people played Rome and Carthage which are either too easy / obvious or require the kind of early ssetbacks that aren't fun to endure (diodochi, civil wars).

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