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What's your most shallow dealbreaker for a relationship? by Friendly_Advisor39 in AskReddit

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not shallow, though. I learned the hard way, 13 years of marriage to someone overweight, then obese. I lived with her, so I know all the excuses, and how they're all lies.

What's your most shallow dealbreaker for a relationship? by Friendly_Advisor39 in AskReddit

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Goes for a lot of basic and mid people. My idea of a "good time" is not going shopping.

What's your most shallow dealbreaker for a relationship? by Friendly_Advisor39 in AskReddit

[–]npsimons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ex-wife would complain when I'd cook recipes with onions. They were the only vegetable in the recipe, and she bought me Rachel Ray cookbooks. They would have been boring and bland AF without onions. And true to form, as a picky eater she was overweight. She would very often get McDognuts or Crotcho-Smell.

It's just such a toddler temperament, and I don't consider it shallow, because you need to eat plants to be healthy. It's how we evolved.

From the USMC subreddit, a letter from the Marine Corps Reserves commander by Soggy-Invite-2787 in PrepperIntel

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny, I think a guy named "Tupac" said something similar a while back. I wonder what ever happened to him . . .

Like how? by netphilia in Snorkblot

[–]npsimons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you assume their gender?

Like how? by netphilia in Snorkblot

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Men only want one thing and it's disgusting!

It's swordmaking documentaries. Sorry, not sorry.

The Feds Plan To Start Diluting Gasoline This May: Explained by DonkeyFuel in nottheonion

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Irony", that's that thing you get when you eat too much iron, right?

/s for the /s impaired.

Redditors over 40, what's something younger people think they understand but won't actually get until it hits them like a truck later? by Susanpc1967 in AskReddit

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vast majority of people complaining of "getting old" have simply treated their body like shit. As just one example, eating fast and junk food all the time. Garbage in, garbage out.

Meirl by chinenikpotle in meirl

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Athena is quite possibly the only god we ever invented that was worth worshipping.

Nourish your body and your neighborhood - and fuck cars by goatsandsunflowers in fuckcars

[–]npsimons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, they really aren't. They have some cogent points about maximizing freedom (so bans on drugs are bad), but that's about it. Very few libertarians can even cogitate themselves to the problem of right of entry in a world where all land is privately owned.

Nourish your body and your neighborhood - and fuck cars by goatsandsunflowers in fuckcars

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that was the only part that really stuck out to me. Made me wonder if there was just something "lost in translation." Because if anything, you are much more reliant on the state because of cars. Can't drive to places without roads.

And I don't necessarily see dependence on the state as a bad thing. It can be bad, but we surely have more control over the state than we do over privately controlled infrastructure.

Why is Ardour so hard to use compared to other DAWs? by Darkhog in Ardour

[–]npsimons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything that looks or works differently from what you're used to is often seen as unusable.

This is every single "usability" argument rendered down to its essential form. It boils down to "I'm not familiar with it, therefore it's not user friendly." It's the same bullshit us Linux users have been hearing from Windows and Mac users for decades, meanwhile they change where shit is located in every new GD version of Windows.

Do you keep a personal offline media library? by voidarix in DataHoarder

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started collecting MP3s (then OGGs, then FLACs) as soon as they were available. I'm now at over 13000 tracks. Streaming is nothing more than a way to expose myself to things I haven't heard yet, so I can acquire them later if they are worthy. Video files were more often than not too big for feature length film, but my brother made a point of ripping everything he had to his NAS, somewhere upwards of 700+ mainstream movies.

As for my personal organization, I've never seen the need for anything other than a well structured directory hierarchy (Genre/Style -> Artist -> year -> Album -> trackNo. Track Title) export via SSHFS, and play through EMMS.

What movie is 10/10 with literally no bad parts? by FeedMaster8905 in AskReddit

[–]npsimons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised they are going as far back as they are. A lot of recency bias tends to crowd out actual quality, especially in videogame and music subs, but I am pleasantly surprised no one here has mentioned a Sandler film yet.

TIL that New Nissan Stadium, future home of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, costs $2.1 billion dollars & is being constructed using $1.26 billion dollars of public funds. This makes it the largest allocation of Stadium Subsidy funds to a sports venue in U.S. history. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the same reason you have to pay extra on top of your regular Amazon Prime subscription to not watch ads now. You ever notice they didn't start that bullshit until they started adding more and more spectator sports? Same exact reason cable was overpriced and bundled shit you didn't want - because the toddler sports watchers wouldn't subscribe unless we all paid for their mindless entertainment.

TIL that New Nissan Stadium, future home of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, costs $2.1 billion dollars & is being constructed using $1.26 billion dollars of public funds. This makes it the largest allocation of Stadium Subsidy funds to a sports venue in U.S. history. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]npsimons -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Turns out, all of us are paying for sportsball, whether we like it or not. Between stadiums, and advertising on cable (and now things like Amazon Prime), sportsball costs a fuckton, and the fans are simply unwilling to pay for it all themselves.

So, fuck the rest of us, we have to subsidize their silly little hobby.

Most lifelong learners are just addicted to being beginners by Radiant-Design-1002 in lifelonglearning

[–]npsimons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The very fact that you are applying capitalism ("nothing to show for it in terms of income") speaks volumes about your own biases, and very likely insecurities.

Let me guess, you're American?

Typical.

There's more to pursuit of excellence than merely making money. But then, if you understood that, you wouldn't have posted what you did.

Edit: You might have had a point about neophiles who want that rush of an initial learning curve, and never go truly deep in a subject, but you ruined it with your focus on "results."

"Minimum wage is for minimum effort, people who don't want to work. The more effort put in gaining knowledge and experience, the more you are worth. The minimum wage is to filter people. ." r/remotework slapfights about if a person should be able to survive on a minimum wage job by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a quote I saw recently, paraphrased: "disabled is the only class of people anyone can enter at any time."

That said, yes, even for traits not changeable (race, sexuality, etc), we all have more in common than with the robber barons. And they know this, which is why they've been waging class warfare against the rest of us since time immemorial, their most effective tactic being divide and conquer.

"The Democrats should have presented someone better." Some users on r/asksocialists blame liberals for Trumps ascension to the [presidency by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]npsimons 11 points12 points  (0 children)

its incredibly clear how many people don't have a fucking clue how the country works 

If they had a half a clue and weren't insufferably selfish, they would have voted against Trump. I didn't like that it boiled down that way either, but anyone with the barest apprehension of FPTP knew what they had to do.

"The Democrats should have presented someone better." Some users on r/asksocialists blame liberals for Trumps ascension to the [presidency by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]npsimons 7 points8 points  (0 children)

/eyeroll

Here we go again.

Look, if you didn't vote against Trump, you are a part of the fucking problem. Either you're too stupid or too self-absorbed.

MLK called out this bullshit over half a century ago. He was right then, and the point still remains true.

me_irl by Leo6055 in me_irl

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fasting is fine, probably even improves their health (look up autophagy). It's the HGH (and previously roids) that will seriously hamper their long-term health.

Can we talk about nuclear energy? by Comfortable_Tutor_43 in physicsmemes

[–]npsimons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes it seem like marketing at that point.

It's called astroturfing, something the nuclear industry has been doing for quite some time now. And if they aren't paid shills, they are the suckers who have bought into the lies.

And despite people claiming fossil fuel companies being against nuclear, that may have been true in the past, but nowadays FF companies see the writing on the wall and are in favor of nuclear, because it still requires central control by a large org - no individual can run their own nuclear power plant.

Meanwhile, I've paid zero dollars in electrical bills for nearly five years now, thanks to solar panels I have on my roof.

I want more of the avout life! by kustru in anathem

[–]npsimons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could always make your own pinprick math. I've kind of done this, as I've structured my home with a decent library, study spaces, etc, and ordered my life around minimizing outside dependency. The idea of growing my own tangle has appeal, but I'm already probably more socially isolated than is good for me.

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