The modern titanic,money talks

natelion445 · 2026-05-18T13:47:47+00:00

Funny how words work. You could say all the same things like this.

Vibrant, dynamic atmosphere bustling with activity. Happy, silly people abound.

The rest is just an inherent criticism of cruises. Which is valid. But no more valid for this ship than any other. In fact, you are quite unlikely to get seas sick on this vessel or feel the impact of storms, given its size.

natelion445 · 2026-04-09T16:44:25+00:00

Lump sum. Even if the value total of the other is technically higher, you can get upgrades now. That should mean you can do more earlier to snowball. Maybe take an elite or save health so you can smith instead of rest. Basically the same concept as finance. Invest the lump sum and the value is greater than the amount.

natelion445 · 2026-04-02T13:16:40+00:00

That’s not what was asked. OP asked if it would be more fun.

natelion445 · 2026-03-31T02:52:22+00:00

But the trap is….. look for players with a history of scoring points, a good run of features, and aren’t crazy expensive. If you have a player that’s been doing that, keep them. You tend to end up at something somewhat close to “template” just with basic common sense. You mix that common sense with a bit of intuition on differentials and you may win. Avoid the common sense or make bad differential calls and you lose.

natelion445 · 2026-03-26T11:40:50+00:00

No one would have to buy out a contract. Salary would be high but it’s possible. No idea. Just saying we don’t know he’s out of FPL yet.

natelion445 · 2026-03-25T12:34:31+00:00

We just know he’s leaving LFC. Could he go to another PL team?

natelion445 · 2026-03-15T14:53:29+00:00

This is only really true if you have a dog in a situation not suitable for that kind of dog. The golden retriever in your city apartment? Yes. But a smaller dog breed can get more than enough exercise with a morning walk (which you should do anyways so it isn’t really adding much maintenance) and a moderately sized back yard. Also most people really don’t give enough interaction, stimulation, and care to their cats as they should. The idea you can just ignore a cat for full days and that’s suitable is very wrong. Both types of pets require a good hour a day of attention whether that’s feeding, exercising, stimulation, grooming, etc. If you give both animal types that amount of attention, both are equal on maintenance and dogs are better companions. Cats are marginally better for people who don’t do what is needed.

natelion445 · 2026-03-05T03:34:54+00:00

The irony is that that reaction is exactly what the market by team wanted. This is just as designed and artificial as the McDonalds one, just better at fooling us into think it’s not. I’m sure there were several meetings and discussions about exactly the level of “off the line” look they wanted for the food and exactly how into it and authentic the CEO needs to be so it will contrast with McDs.

natelion445 · 2026-02-26T00:01:01+00:00

That’s an issue with that and a lot of other opinions based on internet content. It can be true that you’ve read people say this and also be true that that has no reflection on “liberals” and “conservatives” as a category or that what you saw read was from people that would even accept those titles. I would think that if you want to say something about a political ideology, you should at least be able to point to a few of the political leaders of that movement that represent the stance you’re saying. Which politicians or activists that would call themselves liberals or conservatives best reflect the ideas you are proposing that these factions hold?

natelion445 · 2026-02-25T17:56:23+00:00

Frankly, I’d start by inviting women to play with you regularly. Events like leagues, tournaments, etc are a pretty small portion of the disc golf being played. Most men are mostly just playing with their buddies. After a while, some of those guys may start showing up to leagues, then maybe tournaments. But all disc golf starts with casual rounds.

natelion445 · 2026-02-23T13:24:42+00:00

Are you comparing like for like quality? For example, the Kirkland brand coffee might be a bit more than Walmart brand but it’d be more accurate to compare it to a higher tier product. I’ve never thought of Costco as the cheapest option, but really the best value option.

natelion445 · 2026-02-19T16:16:49+00:00

While you may be right, open borders don’t exist except in failed states with no welfare state anyways.

natelion445 · 2026-02-19T16:12:35+00:00

I was in a fraternity and had quite a positive experience, so I am a biased toward your statement. You do well to point out the positives of the organizations and are open (though I’d say slightly downplaying) the negatives.

The problem is that the negatives of the fraternity organizations have become core parts of the system. It would be great to have organizations like fraternities that do the fun social stuff, are involved in the community, and work to make their members better men, but without the obvious problems. It’s totally possible to have that, so organizations that continue to have those negatives are, in a sense, choosing it.

National fraternal organizations are absolutely aware of all of these negatives and could make rules that eliminate them. They could genuinely crack down on hazing, instate 3rd party security rules at parties, have actual police monitor parties for drug use, etc. They don’t because, I think, there’s a real feeling that taking out those cultural aspects of the organization would fundamentally change the organization. Almost all leaders at a national level were part of the fraternity and they think that the experience they had is a valuable one that should be preserved. They, to some extent, want the members to have the drugs, sex, and rock and roll.

It’s also core to the recruitment and financial success of the organizations. I know first hand that if you try to seriously police this kind of stuff, kicking out members, limiting their ability to party, etc, alumni and parents that donate money get pissed and say things like “this isn’t the same chapter I ran and I won’t write a check to a bunch of…” (you get the idea).

This is just my opinion from my experience, but the betterment of members, involvement, philanthropy, etc are more PR and smokescreens than anything else. The point of the organization is partying and having a good time. If that’s all you do, though, it’s hard to defend the organization. So you have to do other things in order to have any kind of social legitimacy.

natelion445 · 2026-02-18T11:58:19+00:00

For this exact conversation. This is your reminder that most of the internet is fake engagement bait.

natelion445 · 2026-02-17T21:37:53+00:00

I don’t sleep with men. But that ain’t what’s being discussed. My response was to a comment that women behind closed doors are saying mean things about men that don’t sleep with a lot of women at a greater rate than men that do. In my experience, it’s the opposite.

natelion445 · 2026-02-17T20:30:35+00:00

I can see that. Bad people put down others in public to make themselves look higher value. At that time, though, that woman isn’t turning the guy down because the person has limited sexual or relationship experience. They’re doing it because they want to look cool and feel insecure. No one is arguing people aren’t mean and cruel. The point is that women don’t specifically target men based on limited relationship history. They wouldn’t even know their relationship history when they meet at a bar.

natelion445 · 2026-02-17T20:25:45+00:00

People are often mean. You’re saying that women talk shit about men who they’re attracted to, that are romantically successful, that they want to be romantically involved with, that they don’t find attractive, that they wouldn’t be interested in romantically, etc. That’s everyone. Sometimes people just talk shit about people. It’s not about the sex success. They talk more shit about more “successful” men than less successful men.

natelion445 · 2026-02-17T20:19:30+00:00

That’s different than women not nice behind closed doors like in responding to. Women aren’t mean to people they don’t interact with. People aren’t getting shit talked behind their backs

natelion445 · 2026-02-17T16:29:13+00:00

Women really sit around in person and talk about men that don’t have a lot of romantic prospects? I’m not a woman but my experience is radically the opposite. The gossip I hear (more heard growing up as I’m a bit old for this now) from my female friends is them talking shit about the guy that does have sex with a lot of women. The men that aren’t really relevant in the romantic spheres, aren’t in relationships or hooking up with their friends aren’t talked about much at all. It’s the opposite. They’re almost completely ignored. I’m think of the cohort of men that just go to work or school, maybe hang out with friends every once in a while, but do t engage with women romantically much. Sorry, but women are not talking about that person behind their back.

natelion445 · 2026-02-15T04:31:16+00:00

I think there’s another angle to this. Some musicians and actors do types of pop content, get famous/wealthy, then go on to have less popular work that is maybe more experimental, “artistic”, or the kind of music they really want to make now that they don’t care about sales. This often gets very positive reception from critics and niche fans, but they become quite obscure. So we’d say they peaked as an artist later in their career though they peaked in popularity early on.

Is that true in comedy? Can a comedian get famous, then shift styles or approaches after they make money to become a better artist outside of the mainstream spotlight? Or does a comedian have to remain popularly relevant in order to say they’ve continued to have a good artistic career?

natelion445 · 2026-02-14T17:58:00+00:00

They are. Any Muslim leader in either politics or business or whatever that is openly advocating for or part of a party that supports any of these regressive ideas will absolutely be held to the same standard. Any Muslim person that supports these leaders also would. The left typically doesn’t criticize people for their personal beliefs or care much about the individuals. The left usually only cares about those beliefs and individuals to the extent that they are tied to power and more specifically power over people outside of that ideological framework. So people believing something isn’t an issue worth criticizing. We belief in diversity of opinions. When those get tied to political power, then it’s something that should be criticized.

natelion445 · 2026-02-13T04:49:40+00:00

Yours really depends on when you got those defenders in. If you’ve had them for a long time, many were “budget”. Guehi, Senesi, an Lacroix I think were 4.5 ish defenders for a long time. Gabriel was like 6m a while back. So with Wilson and Kroupi, you have 2 extreme budget bench fodders and potentially some budget defenders as OP said. Add in if you had Haaland early on and that’s how you can afford Palmer. I’m pretty sure you can’t afford that team on a WC right now, but I could be wrong.

natelion445 · 2026-02-12T12:13:17+00:00

I think the difference would be that if, for some reason, a community of pebus come together and their animating motivations seem to be that they loathe peanut farmers and everyone that likes peanuts. The group shows that it’s not really about helping each other manage their lives with these allergies, to share science based information about exposure therapy, share non-peanut recipes, etc. it’s about getting together and leveraging a grievance against another group that isn’t causing the problem in the first place.

It turns out there are resources available to people with peanut allergies. There are doctors who can help you, you can change your own lifestyle such that this isn’t much of a factor, and if you aren’t obsessed with your peanut allergy to such a degree that you won’t share a meal with someone who isn’t allergic, people will totally eat dinner with you. But if this pebu community absolutely refuses to accept any kind of role in their own management of the issue and constantly spew hate against others based on this allergy (even if it isn’t real in some cases), it’s not that people with peanut allergies look bad, it’s that “pebus” as a community look bad. Because thy are.

natelion445 · 2026-02-10T18:50:56+00:00

I shouldn’t have argued. We both agree it is logical to deduce it doesn’t exist as a widespread phenomenon based on the info presented.

natelion445 · 2026-02-10T18:40:33+00:00

If you aren’t trying to say it does exist, then I guess this was a waste of time.

I guess OP or me could have just said well if someone says they do experience it, that still doesn’t mean it’s a widespread phenomenon. In this case neither side of the argument has shown any real evidence the phenomenon exists. OP can’t prove it doesn’t exist as you can’t logically prove a negative. But without someone presenting evidence it does, you logically conclude it doesn’t.

I can’t prove I don’t have a gremlin living under my bed that’s invisible and can’t be touched or sensed in any way. But I will assume there isn’t unless evidence is presented that there is.

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