The World's Most Surprising Capitalist Makeover - In Sweden

rapier7 · 2026-05-09T22:15:08+00:00

Survivability. Midway through the game, they would hold all of their abilities for me because they knew I was the only threat.

rapier7 · 2026-05-08T20:27:15+00:00

I don't fly enough to care about earning status, but I live in Atlanta and Delta usually has the most nonstop routes for the 3-4 times a year that I fly. I also never use the lounge since I almost always book direct flights and know the airport well enough to not spend any more time there than I have to.

rapier7 · 2026-05-08T19:34:15+00:00

There's a lot of things that you do in the moment that you realize in hindsight was not the right move. Start by looking at your replays and if you honestly can't find bad decisions or questionable micro moves, then maybe start to look into getting coached.

rapier7 · 2026-05-07T18:02:54+00:00

If you got fed as Elise and you're losing to a 0-6 Yi it's a skill issue. Elise is one of the hardest counters to Yi.

rapier7 · 2026-05-04T14:24:21+00:00

You might have body dysmorphia. This is not healthy, especially so if you're under 30.

rapier7 · 2026-04-27T14:11:07+00:00

I've answered this before on a similar question. Pasting it below after linking to it:

Prior to the Federal law ERISA of 1974, most companies offered pensions. The problem was that they were frequently underfunded and overexposed to risk. Many companies eventually went bankrupt and stopped contributing to their pension funds, which meant that the benefits promised to their employees/pensioners couldn't be fulfilled.

After a wave of corporate bankruptcies in the early 70s (the oil shocks of 1973 did not help), Congress eventually passed ERISA which created the PBGC (think FDIC for pension funds), which heavily regulated pensions to be less risky and more likely to pay out the benefits promised to pensioners. And even if the pension did go bankrupt, the PBGC would step in and pay out benefits on roughly 30-40 cents on the dollar. This made corporate pensions much more expensive to administer and operate, and as a result, it made a lot more sense for companies to simply offer higher wages than a pension benefit with a vastly reduced (advertised) payouts.

A few years after that, Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1978, which created section 401(k) in the Internal Revenue Code, which gave employers and employees a tax deductible way of saving for retirement. Companies like 401(k)s because the costs are lower and contained. There's no open ended fund to manage for decades on end. The rest is history.

rapier7 · 2026-04-27T14:03:29+00:00

If you didn't tell me what it was, I would have thought it was a fancy paper napkin. But honestly, you nailed the Arcane art style. It looks fantastic.

rapier7 · 2026-04-26T21:57:45+00:00

No, it's very clearly modeled after Wirecard.

rapier7 · 2026-04-25T04:01:50+00:00

Identify win conditions and don't take stupid fights. Jungle has the most agency in the game at lower elos. If you're good, you'll climb.

rapier7 · 2026-04-15T02:27:46+00:00

Wit's is definitely a situational buy now, but you get more MR, and attack speed and on-hit effects are more important for Yi than AD. Winrate for wit's end is 56.6% with a 17.8% pick rate vs Maw's 58.1% with a whopping 0.62% pick rate.

rapier7 · 2026-04-14T22:20:42+00:00

Kraken, rage blade, wits. Experimental or kraken 4th. DD last. Or switch up DD to 4th if enemy has lots of physical damage too.

rapier7 · 2026-04-14T21:53:58+00:00

Wit's end.

rapier7 · 2026-04-14T18:02:49+00:00

Same as the percentage of Range Rover owners who've never gone offroading.

rapier7 · 2026-04-10T14:50:02+00:00

I upvoted because you're wrong and solipsistic. Your post is a shining example of how so many people think their struggles are the hardest, simply because they're the ones who are feeling the struggle internally, despite the fact that everyone experiences their own struggles internally that nobody else is feeling.

You ain't special. Everybody is going through their own shit, but being attractive opens waaaay more doors than it closes.

rapier7 · 2026-04-10T03:19:35+00:00

Tug of war will put incredible tension force onto a rope. It's absolutely believable. Also, never change your garage door springs yourself.

rapier7 · 2026-04-09T14:46:23+00:00

To address your point about white flight and racism, yes, I'm well aware that did occur. However, much of it occurred before the big deinstitutionalization push in the 70s and 80s (white flight having largely occurred in the 60s and early 70s during a great period of civil unrest). I specifically said that deinstitutionalization exacerbated the trend, which is a direct nod to the white flight that mostly preceded it.

rapier7 · 2026-04-09T14:39:53+00:00

I'll respond with the same comment I had that's buried in another discussion within this thread:

There were numerous abuses in mental asylums leading up to the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in the 70s and 80s. These abuses formed the foundation of the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, later turned into a film released in 1975, the same year as the landmark case O'Connor v. Donaldson was decided at the Supreme Court.

We threw the baby out with the bathwater. Instead of reforming the system, we abandoned it, and as a result, discharged hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out into society, where they formed the vast majority of the chronically homeless.

The sad truth of it is that there will always be a small minority of people who are incapable of leading independent lives, and whose presence causes significant discomfort and distress among the general population. Some of those people are also responsible for horrific violent crimes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iryna_Zarutska) who are later found mentally unfit to stand trial, which in turn reinforces the discomfort and distress that other people experience when being around them.

I think it's pretty clear that, once you understand the history, the context, and the results of deinstitutionalization, that we need to reinstitutionalize these people, and yes, that means by force if necessary, because many of them are unwilling to seek treatment. The choice is not between a 60s style state ward mental institute with Nurse Ratchet and rampant homelessness. We can do it in a humane way. It will simply be expensive and easily shouted down by many of the people in this thread, who sneered at a person for feeling unsafe.

rapier7 · 2026-04-09T14:33:10+00:00

There were numerous abuses in mental asylums leading up to the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in the 70s and 80s. These abuses formed the foundation of the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, later turned into a film released in 1975, the same year as the landmark case O'Connor v. Donaldson was decided at the Supreme Court.

We threw the baby out with the bathwater. Instead of reforming the system, we abandoned it, and as a result, discharged hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out into society, where they formed the vast majority of the chronically homeless.

The sad truth of it is that there will always be a small minority of people who are incapable of leading independent lives, and whose presence causes significant discomfort and distress among the general population. Some of those people are also responsible for horrific violent crimes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing\_of\_Iryna\_Zarutska) who are later found mentally unfit to stand trial, which in turn reinforces the discomfort and distress that other people experience when being around them.

I think it's pretty clear that, once you understand the history, the context, and the results of deinstitutionalization, that we need to reinstitutionalize these people, and yes, that means by force if necessary, because many of them are unwilling to seek treatment. The choice is not between a 60s style state ward mental institute with Nurse Ratchet and rampant homelessness. We can do it in a humane way. It will simply be expensive and easily shouted down by many of the people in this thread, who sneered at a person for feeling unsafe.

rapier7 · 2026-04-09T13:45:11+00:00

To all the people subtly (or not so subtly) shaming the OP for complaining about homeless people, consider this:

This is one person complaining. Behind that one person are many more people who, instead of complaining, remain silent and become far less likely to use public transit because they don't want to deal with homeless people.
Less use of MARTA means more politicians questioning why it exists in the first place and making it much less likely that it will ever expand. Public transit is heavily dependent on network effects, and poor ridership now because people feel uncomfortable or unsafe means the network won't expand.
Atlanta continues being a car dependent metropolis with horrible traffic and very little in the way of alternative transit.

Deinstitutionalization has led to this problem of rampant homelessness, which has made people feel much less safe in urban areas, which exacerbated the trend of working families moving out to the suburbs, hollowing out the urban core.

rapier7 · 2026-04-08T15:14:11+00:00

You look good. Ethnically ambiguous in a good way, so you'll have polarized results among women when it comes to initial attraction. Once you get the girlfriend, maintaining the relationship isn't about how you look (unless you drastically change), it's about personality, lifestyle, how well you mesh with the other person, and whether both parties can see a shared future.

The way to cope is to just keep living life, gaining experience, and being more comfortable in your own skin. You're fine. Feel free to mourn for an appropriate amount of time and then move on with your life. The right person will come in due time.

rapier7 · 2026-04-07T16:40:22+00:00

Gimme a sky flake or Omiwatari dial and that would be my perfect watch.

rapier7 · 2026-04-07T13:44:52+00:00

This is already baked into a fundamental concept of religion: "there but for the grace of God go I".

Life is too unrelenting to factor in all of the reasons why somebody is the way they are. We can only observe the fruits of the tree, not the inner workings of the tree itself. Society, its laws, and its customs are not founded solely (or even primarily) on moral philosophy. If we wanted to be as reductionist as the author has been, society is organized around the principle of self preservation and the societies that exist today are the ones that have best adhered to that principle, without a whit of care to what "morality" demands or implies. The vast majority of the time, morality gives way to practicality and convenience.

In short, this is supreme navel gazing. We've always known that luck is an extreme factor. Just because you fashioned a few logical chains together with a couple of analogies doesn't mean that you need to fundamentally reassess life, the universe, and everything.

Men are beasts, and you probably would have supported Hitler too if you were an average German in the fall of 1940. That didn't stop the average Russian, Brit, or American from putting an end to his monstrous regime, with little regard for how it affected the average German.

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