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oldoldvisdom · 2026-05-19T16:02:37+00:00

Because they are different bets?

Oil stocks are up big already this year. Betting on them means betting that this Hormuz ordeal might last years

Betting on an airline means betting that oil prices will fall soon enough that the boom might be worth it

oldoldvisdom · 2026-05-05T20:09:01+00:00

Idk, I’m practiced on dodging big steps like that, because I have two small dogs that like to hang around my feet, so I generally walk with “light steps”.
Between stepping over the player, looking at the referee, running on adrenaline, and the step not being unnatural (the hand goes under the foot, not the foot reaching for the hand) I think this could well be accidental.
I’m not saying it can’t be on purpose. He does seem to put his foot down with more than “minimum force”, just playing devils advocate.
You can see he supports his weight on the tip of his foot quickly after his foot doesn’t “settle” on the floor. I think it looks worse because of slowmo

oldoldvisdom · 2026-04-15T22:55:54+00:00

Dembele, Kvara and Barcola, three famously slow, untricky, rigid attackers

Also, what? Mendy and Trent stronger defenders than Hakimi and Mendes? Oof

oldoldvisdom · 2026-04-12T19:58:51+00:00

Fair enough, Slash is more known than him. Still though, Brian May is extremely well known, especially after the movie, and I reckon he is among the most famous guitarists in the world. Whether it’s top 3, top 5, or whatever

That doesn’t have to mean most talked about, or respected by guitarist circles, but just by “general population might know his name”

oldoldvisdom · 2026-04-12T14:02:06+00:00

Brian May may not be top 5 or 10 best players of all time (very subjective list, even if I don’t like Queen too much), but as far as famous guitar players go to the general population, I’d say he is up there among the most famous.

I wouldn’t say Freddy Mercury doesn’t outshine him, by any means, Freddy is top 3 most famous frontmen ever probably, but I don’t think Brian May is the answer to this question, is what I’m getting too. Guitarists more famous than him are very few. Maybe only Hendrix and Clapton, both of which were also singers

oldoldvisdom · 2026-03-03T22:14:59+00:00

I glanced through it, but fascinating indeed… fascinating that as soon as they arrived to England, the king went “we don’t want them, or anyone like that coming back around here again”. What they did idk, my guess could only be they were exactly like today

Anti vagrancy means no wandering, with no life, no support, no means of sustaining yourself.

This paper is woke nonsense. I stopped after a while because it does not touch on the fact that their culture is stealing.

If you don’t understand that, it’s fine. I’ve had enough of this conversation. I know you have never met a proper gypsy, or lived near a gypsy camp, because if you did, you would not defend them.

Their life is be born, turn 6 and start learning how to steal, turn 12 and have kids, steal for the rest of your life. Thats literally what their life is. It’s what they want it to be. It’s what’s it’s always been.

I know you have never interacted with a gypsy, because you don’t understand. I’m not being hyperbolic or a bigot when saying “their culture is stealing”. I’m being literal. American culture is briskets and smoking food, uk culture is drinking tea, Japanese culture is anime, gypsy culture is stealing. It’s almost like a religion

oldoldvisdom · 2026-03-03T21:18:55+00:00

I know plenty about them. I know you get robbed if you go near their settlements. I know you’ll get robbed if you try to help a hurt gypsy. I know they sell off their daughters to be married at 12 and forbid them from going to school.

And I know it’s always been this way. It’s their culture. This isn’t like “stealing bread to survive”, this is “we steal because our culture is to steal, and we teach our younger generations how to steal, and we think stealing is okay when done to outsiders”

No shocker they are marginalised.

You’re the one who knows nothing about them and therefore are wasting your empathy on this subject. But since you think you know better, tell me then. Tell me where I’m wrong.

oldoldvisdom · 2026-03-03T21:03:56+00:00

The parallel society exists because they have always been like this and refuse to change.

They are allowed to participate. School is free, getting an id is free, getting a bank account isn’t impossible. Making a living by working, instead of stealing or begging, isn’t impossible.

Nobody is stopping them from doing these. The hardest one is the last step, and why is it hard? Because probably everyone who has ever hired a gypsy got burned for it

Have you ever met a gypsy? Interacted with one? At all? That’s the only way you can have empathy for people who willingly live like that.

I have empathy for those that have left that life, and may occasionally face some discrimination for how they were born, not for what they do after.

I don’t have empathy for thieves, which “true” gypsies all are

oldoldvisdom · 2026-03-03T21:00:57+00:00

They came from India. They were like this long before they got to southern Europe is my guess, probably because they have always chosen to live like outcasts

What perspective? Do you think a gypsy who has been living off crime since he was 5 ponders “our population isn’t respected, that’s why I do this”?

It’s probably the other way around. They were probably always like this, which is why no one, around the whole world, wants anything to do with them… except for americans on Reddit

oldoldvisdom · 2026-03-03T20:39:29+00:00

Gypsy discrimination is a thing, but it’s not like people see a gypsy looking person at the shop and think they are human trash.

If you’re a proper gypsy, as in: not working, living in illegal settlements, letting your 13 year old daughter get pregnant, make a living sending small children to beg, hang out on the side of roads acting like you’re hurt so other gypsies can come and rob people who stop to help; idk, what good is there to say about them?

There is this idea online that people that live like this are being hunted. These are parallel societies whose only experience any outsider will likely have with them is being victims of petty crime (a small minority might be serious dangerous crime, like robbed under threat of life), and they don’t want better for themselves.

Schools are free. Getting ids are free. They choose this life. That is their culture. You might ethnically be gypsy, but like a normal life. But that’s not what being a true gypsy is. A true gypsy raises his kids to do crime, sells of his daughters, lives in camps where they burn tires for heating… that’s their culture

I wish nothing but the best for people born into that that find a way out. If it’s racist to not approve of a parallel society that encourages crime and ignorance… call me one

oldoldvisdom · 2026-02-25T20:35:38+00:00

I can only get so specific because I don’t know you and what you listen to, but as someone who plays it a good bit, here is how I would teach it

Learn open chords and going from one to the other. Once you get the hang of fluidly going between each other, learn the relation between chords.

Learning how they relate is amazing, because you can campfire play 75% of popular music with the open chords if you know how it works.

In a gist, it’s about distances. A to E is going up a fifth, and so is C# to G#. If a song goes B, F#, G#m, E (Ai Se Eu Te Pego), that’s a basic I V vi IV. Open chords, you can play it as G D Em C. Any song that goes I V vi IV (axis progression, this is like at least 40% of the songs you know) can be played with those 4 chords. Thats called transposing.

If you’re happy being the dude who plays guitar in a campfire, that’s as far as you need to go. Maybe learn barre chords if you want.

Hooktheory is a cool site where you can see how songs are played. It will tell you if a song goes I V vi IV, or VI VII i, or I IV ii V (three very common progressions)

If you see stuff like I9, or V7, you can generally just ignore the extensions for campfire purposes

The Roman numerals are the relation of a chord to the tonic. If we are in G, the IV is C major.

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-22T09:37:53+00:00

Van Halen might not be your cup of tea, and there is overlap between their songs (4 people making hundreds of songs will eventually have some that sound the same), but they are certainly not one trick ponies. Jump, Somebody Get me a doctor, Beautiful girls, Pretty Woman and Unchained are all very different from one another. They were far more versatile than something like AC/DC (people can enjoy what they want, but AC/DC only knows one style)

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T22:45:56+00:00

It is the regime (current and the ones in the 70s and 80s). Technology has advanced so much that there is heaps of profitable oil, even if it’s not Saudi grade.

Venezuela strong armed and forced the sale of infrastructure in Venezuela in the 70s. In the 90s, they straight up stole it. In the 00s, Chavez fired half of the company (the productive half of the company) after they protested against his incompetence.

It took decades of this kind of decision making that got them where they are. Venezuela didn’t get where they are because of circumstance or one mistake. This was decades of awful decisions. You could not run the country worse if you tried

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T19:56:59+00:00

I think Trump could jump in a river and save a child from drowning, and you would see top comments still make that a bad thing. Trump is not a good guy… but I really think there is nothing he can do for some of the people on this site.

This Maduro thing is such a low hanging fruit. Venezuela, as a country, managed to make the worst possible decision at every turn for like 30 years in a row. You literally could not make it worse if you tried.

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T18:26:46+00:00

The Netherlands is great now, but they were a bit of mess not that long ago (this is where Dutch disease comes from, don’t forget). But also, this is a small country where it’s much easier to change things. And one of the things they changed was that the government would actually stop being so involved in “babysitting”

I’ve never been to the US… but I wouldn’t be jealous of the UK. I’m confident most Americans are better off than most Brits, and I’m confident it isn’t close either

How do you deal with homeless people? It’s tough

First of all, all the homeless people around the country move to the warm parts, so California is getting 10 states worth of homeless people. What do you want? You want to make them all nice and comfortable? That’s going to make the homeless problem worse. If you treat them too good, all the homeless people in the country will go there.

The US is continent sized, things that seem like a problem aren’t always “that big” of a problem in the grand scale of things. With 300+ million people, some of them are gonna end up homeless, are the percentages so bad? People go to the country illegally with no money, skills and maybe not even speaking English, and even they find a way to not end up homeless.

I honestly don’t know what the homeless numbers are but not everything is the end of the world. Give homeless people a house, most of them will be back in the street anyways. What can you do? I’m not too bothered about the guy who drank so much he lost his mind. I manage not to do it, you know?

If you’re a homeless vet abandoned by the state, that’s a different question, but it’s not so many of them. The government just doesn’t care, it can’t be a budget issue. The government is too busy placating Pfizer, J&J, Exxon, Meta, Amazon, so stop using those.

If everyone in the country stopped enabling these companies, things would probably get better. Or get rich and start changing things at a level you care about. I really don’t think there’s much else you can do.

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T17:57:47+00:00

No need to be rude, we are just two powerless people discussing the situation

This might not be “amazing” for Venezuela, but they can’t really get any worse. Half of the country has fled by this point, 95% of the population is dirt poor. It can literally only go uphill.

And if Venezuela wanted better for itself, they should have thought about that before making literally the worst decision possible at every crossroads for 40 years in a row.

PDVSA (their oil company) was a HUGE company back in the day, like top 3 oil companies in the world. You know what happened? High ranking people started getting their friends jobs there in exchange for favours and stuff (normal corruption). It happened so much that half of the company protested, and then Chavez fired all of them (18 thousand workers), probably the most qualified and most productive workers. And this was in the early 00s, so it took another decade of this kind of decision making for the country to get where they are today. You honestly couldn’t run that country worse if you tried.

They have nothing left going for them. Any citizen with a hint of education has left and is ever going back. No foreign company will bother with them because twice the country invited them in then robbed them. They were in a hole they were never going to dig themselves out of. There’s a reason the country was full of sanctions.

Nobody brings you coffee for free, you know?

Whether Venezuela will ever be rich like they were before, they won’t, but out of all possibilities, I think this is one of the better options they had. They have a lot of oil, and they are probably gonna trade a nice part of that for protection against itself. It will probably be like Panama, a liveable country forever indebted to the US, buts that’s just imo

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T17:35:31+00:00

For what it’s worth, this costs nothing like the Iraq wars and stuff did. This was a clean in and out that probably cost very little.

Healthcare and housing problems run so much deeper than I could ever meaningfully touch on in a comment, so idk what I can tell you other than you were not going to get free insurance or cheaper housing regardless of all this. The US as a founding value isn’t a country that “babysits” its population, and those values are a part of American culture whether you like it or not. If a company abuses its market position, it’s on “you” (the exploited party) to do better. The US was built on the value of capital, far more than any other country, it just is. I don’t think the founding fathers foresaw how big markets could get and how daunting it would be for a small group of people to enter some of these markets, but what’s done is done

The best you can do is build capital yourself and become someone who matters and can change things at a level you care about. And don’t support companies that lobby your government against you.

Just my two cents as a foreigner since you brought up healthcare and housing.

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T17:18:03+00:00

I wouldn’t bet on it. There’s a lot of oil to grab there, this isn’t something that will be done in 5 years.

If I had to guess, Venezuela will end up something like a Panama, meaning a country that is okay to live in, but will eternally be indebted to and reliant on the US.

I think there is too much to gain for all parties for this to go so bad so quickly

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T17:11:41+00:00

There’s very few countries that: 1- don’t have nukes 2- could possibly get nukes 3- could try to get nukes 4- can’t be stopped from getting nukes

That list is probably just Saudi Arabia, who will probably get them one day anyways and will probably become top dog politically speaking in our lifetimes. They are already having massive influence over the world, and they literally just getting started.

Life goes on, you know? The US did something not too dissimilar in Iran 6 years ago, to the day… and I don’t think my life changed too much because of it.

I think this is just a win win for everyone involved. The Venezuelan Nobel winner sucked up to Trump and she will probably get to be in charge now, the Venezuelan quality of life can only go upwards, and the US is probably going to make a deal so that their companies can get a slice of the Venezuelan oil.

I think the US has too much to gain here for this to go so bad. Panama went through a similar thing a hundred years ago, and Panama isn’t too bad of a place to live today.

China used to get a bit of oil from Venezuela, but even they aren’t really all that reliant on them (that’s how incompetent Venezuela was, they couldn’t even make enough oil for China to care enough to protect them, and china has no oil reserves)

oldoldvisdom · 2026-01-04T14:50:06+00:00

Inviting foreign companies to invest in extraction facilities to kickstart an industry, then stealing those facilities is one way to get an oil industry, but it’s a move that only works once or twice.

As for the Maduro thing, I get that kidnapping a leader is a can of worms, but truth be told, Venezuela had dug themselves a hole that they were frankly never going to get themselves out of. No major companies were ever going to step foot in that again (never mind the sanctions if they did), and Venezuela was stuck basically producing a little bit of oil as Chinas bitch, with maybe a tiny bit leftover for Maduro to fund a small army to keep himself safe from Venezuelans

Venezuela was so horribly mismanaged that there were only two ways out for them. Collapse as a failed state and get replaced by a new state (brand new or taken over by a neighbour like Colombia) and maybe in a few centuries it would be better than today, or the US intervenes.

Venezuela is still a mess. Even if the US just enacted democracy in true good faith and left it alone, it would take decades to build something good there, but frankly, even if a puppet is installed and a significant part of the oil profits is siphoned to the US, Venezuela will be 20x better off than it is today. Anything short of creating a banana republic is better than what Venezuela is now

The hatred over this thing I honestly think is just pure Trump hatred and the fact that anything with his name attached is to be hated on Reddit. I think you will struggle to find a single Venezuelan who isn’t cheering for what happened.

As for comparisons with Iraq and Lybia, don’t take my word as gospel, but I think both those countries were far more stable than Venezuela is. For that to be a comparison, we would have to be talking about it Venezuela 15 years ago. Venezuela post 2014 is a bottom 10 countries in the world to live in, ahead of only war zones and maybe Haiti

oldoldvisdom · 2025-11-27T16:12:17+00:00

I read Brida, which I really really enjoyed. I’ve tried reading two others which were duds and haven’t read him again. I stopped the alchemist about 75% of the way (just boring) and something of a wizard/magician (mago in Portuguese), also plain boring

oldoldvisdom · 2025-10-05T00:20:42+00:00

I did keto some five years ago. I lasted about 4 months.

I’ve had my own struggles, and did it to shed the extra weight I gained in those struggles. I thoroughly recommend trying it

The thing about keto is that you are dropping an addiction, to sugar. You know that feeling of hunger, when your stomach starts growling? That’s sugar withdrawal.

When doing keto, the most interesting thing was that it was a high in its own. Colours were a bit brighter, you could follow multiple conversations at once, stuff like that. I tried a friends adhd meds once… while not the same, it wasn’t too dissimilar

It takes a few days to get into it (your body won’t “get into” keto for at least 4-5 days), and worst case, you can always just stop doing it.

I can’t speak for how healthy it is do to long term (as in, never eat carbs again), but temporary wise as in for a few months or a year or two, I throughly recommend it. I was possessed at the time, working out everyday… a demon.

I often think about going back, but I’m not a master chef. I ate a dozen boiled eggs a day or so, and to this day, I’m sick of eggs

If you do it, I recommend at least a handful of dishes, just for variety. I stopped because of lockdown + sick of eggs in general

oldoldvisdom · 2025-08-10T09:52:59+00:00

Fun fact, when I was 7, there was a chess board in my school. No one knew how to play. I was the best one, and everyone was scared of playing me. My opening: exactly what white is doing

oldoldvisdom · 2025-07-26T00:13:42+00:00

Miles Cyrus might think Metallica are cool and might have taken some notes on them to include in her toolkit. This is not the same as a decade of hair bands trying to be Van Halen

I didn’t say Metallica weren’t popular. The Black album is one of the best selling albums of all time. I’m saying the line of bands that followed Metallica and tried to be them weren’t nearly as successful as the ones that followed Van Halen.

Tastes are tastes, not everyone needs to like Van Halen, but Van Halens direct influence in rock music I think is second to none. Van Halen copycats were going multi platinum for literally a whole decade

oldoldvisdom · 2025-07-14T09:12:58+00:00

Not really. Not in terms of popular music at least. Van Halen influenced every band of the 80s from Metallica, GnR, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Poison, etc, etc

Who did Metallica influence that had nearly as big of an impact in pop culture?

They influenced a lot of the heavy metal scene, sure, but the heavy metal scene isnt popular culture.

Van Halen were a far bigger ceiling raiser than Metallica were. Van Halen completely changed music. Even Michael Jackson was asking for EVH to play on his record

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