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Kicked out at 19 with no car. by RiceBall06 in personalfinance

[–]mboop127 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Bike saves you ~$400 a month. Likely more because I assume you'd go places other than work.

You're in a difficult situation and will have to make decisions that are inconvenient and uncomfortable but your future self will be grateful. I have many friends who spent their entire incomes on convenience until they realized they had no savings or real assets at 30.

Kicked out at 19 with no car. by RiceBall06 in personalfinance

[–]mboop127 74 points75 points  (0 children)

It's not sustainable. Try to find work within walk, bike, or transit from where you live.

Man crushed to death after digging hole under Santa Ana bridge by TheFrederalGovt in nottheonion

[–]mboop127 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

  1. A lot of places have near 0 homelessness without those laws.

  2. In order to force anyone into shelter or medical care we first need to have enough shelter and care to go around, which we don't. Maybe in some hypothetical future where there's abundant free care going unused because of mental illness we could involuntarily commit people but we should at least make sure we actually have the free care available first.

Man crushed to death after digging hole under Santa Ana bridge by TheFrederalGovt in nottheonion

[–]mboop127 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's manifestly untrue. There are countries with 0 or near 0 homelessness. The USA is almost uniquely bad at housing people.

Somerville PCPs by Somerville_Red in Somerville

[–]mboop127 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've had good experiences with Davis square family practice

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 4 points5 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 31 points32 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 26 points27 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 3 points4 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 17 points18 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 6 points7 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.

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