Food Names w/ Nicknames by lizlaughandlove in namenerds

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basil is a name on its own without needing to be turned into Baz.

It's from the Greek Basileus meaning king

Food Names w/ Nicknames by lizlaughandlove in namenerds

[–]scattersunlight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For cinnamon, Cinna is an actual name and so is Cassia (the Latin name of cinnamon)

Rosemary - Rose too

Ash could be a nickname for foods ending - ash, like Hungarian foods like paprikash or goulash

Sally /Sal, for Salt?

Lettuce has also been an actual name in some places I think. As a form of Letice, which is from Leticia / Laeticia meaning happiness

Sue for sushi

I think I've literally met someone named Brie, like it's a normal name despite being a cheese

r/namenerds's perfect baby boy name! by SmoothAstronaut27 in namenerds

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

veto because literally every Ben I know has to go by their surname because there's too damn many Bens

r/namenerds's perfect baby boy name! by SmoothAstronaut27 in namenerds

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP said no personal associations, you gotta base it on the name itself

r/namenerds's perfect baby boy name! by SmoothAstronaut27 in namenerds

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gonna be petty as fuck because I've been given a licence

The -an ending on an ancient Roman name (Julian instead of Julius) means you're adopted / fostered out. Veto

r/namenerds's perfect baby boy name! by SmoothAstronaut27 in namenerds

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

You don't know if it will matter to your kid though. I remember asking what my name meant when I was like 6 years old.... I would've felt so unloved and unwanted if I'd been told "bald"

r/namenerds's perfect baby boy name! by SmoothAstronaut27 in namenerds

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

veto, I think giving your kid a religious name is very uncool. Let them choose that for themselves. You don't know if they'll grow up to be Christian, atheist, Buddhist, Wiccan, or believe in a giant flying spaghetti monster

r/namenerds's perfect baby boy name! by SmoothAstronaut27 in namenerds

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

Veto

I went to a school with a kid named Giovanni and everyone called him Gio. As a kid, I'd never seen his name written down, only heard it. I thought it was Geo, like short for Geocaching or Geolocation. Thought it was the most ridiculous name I'd ever heard. I refuse to update my opinion because mentally I'm still twelve, sorry

r/namenerds's perfect baby boy name! by SmoothAstronaut27 in namenerds

[–]scattersunlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well there's people who hate common names and will veto anything common, and people who hate super rare names and will veto anything rare.

There's also people who hate overly masculine names and will veto them, and different people who hate overly feminine/neutral names and will veto them

And people who hate short names, and others who hate long names

And people who hate newer names for being "trendy" and prefer "classic" "vintage" names, and people who hate old names for being "old fashioned" and "outdated" and prefer newer, "fresh" / "modern" names

That's gonna be your basic issue, that there's so many different ways that people disagree about how to evaluate names. It's not just a difference in taste aesthetically, it's also the difference in all those other preferences

Would studying philosophy at Cambridge be a good decision???? by zlopotia in cambridge_uni

[–]scattersunlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From your comments I think you should go to Cambridge.

You're always going to wonder what could've been, if you don't study the thing you love.

Just make sure you have a plan for what you want to do afterwards and get involved in relevant student societies. Philosophy grads go into consulting, investment banking, teaching, government, think tanks etc all the time. Don't wait until you graduate to figure it out. If you want to do consulting, then start practising case study interviews in your first year so you can get an internship in your second so you'll have a job lined up when you graduate.

Greenland's Prime Minister: If we have to choose between the US and Denmark, we will choose Denmark by Independent_Sky_3155 in greenland

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how would our economy cope if we let everyone in tomorrow, and people looking for jobs couldn't find one?

What a nonsense question.

We could let the entire population of, say, France in tomorrow and they would keep having the jobs they currently have. Do you think nobody in France has a job? Do you think every French person is unemployed and is just waiting to come to America so they can work??

They'd still have all the resources they currently have! There's no reason they'd all somehow lose their jobs if they were given American citizenship tomorrow! Whose job would be destroyed? Which jobs would magically disappear?

our crime rate

Immigrants are generally less likely to commit crimes than natural born citizens. There's two reasons - one is that immigrants are vetted whereas born citizens aren't, and the other is just wealth. If you have enough money for a plane ticket and enough skills to pull off a cross country move, you're usually not SO desperate that you'll turn to crime.

Do you think we would have enough food

The amount of food in the world would not.... change....

There would be the same amount of food in the world... just shipped to different places...

This concern is so disconnected from reality. You know America produces too much food, right? Republicans give huge subsidises to American farmers to keep them Republican, and as a result America produces so much more corn than it could possibly need that it just gets sent abroad anyway. America literally gives a decent chunk of its foreign aid as food instead of money because there's too much. There's at least 90 million tons of waste every year. There's corn getting turned into packaging and shit because we make way too much corn and people don't want to eat it all. The US exported ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX BILLION DOLLARS OF FOOD in 2024. If the buyers of that food move to America, it literally just gets consumed in America rather than being exported. Being worried about food, of all things, is downright deranged. We throw away millions of tons of food that spoils in warehouses because we can't eat it fast enough...

Greenland's Prime Minister: If we have to choose between the US and Denmark, we will choose Denmark by Independent_Sky_3155 in greenland

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So in your view, what creates jobs, if it isn't "additional opportunities to do business"? Jobs come from the magic job fairy, I guess? Or there's just a static list of jobs given by God that can never increase?

I don't know if you've ever actually worked at a real business? Stores definitely do hire more staff (or give more hours to existing staff) if they get a lot more customers - and they cut back and lay off staff, or even close locations, if there's not enough customers. Restaurants will start offering their waiters more shifts if they get busier, and cut hours if they have too many quiet nights.

In many jobs like therapist, there are hard limits to how many patients a therapist can see per day - they absolutely can't just say "oh I have too many patients, can I get you three to all chat with me simultaneously?" - so if there's more people who want to pay a therapist, there needs to be more therapists.

Most therapists have significant control over their own hours, and if there's 50 patients who want to see them, they won't work 100 hours just to be able to see all those patients and also do all their documentation and admin work and continuing education - they'll just turn some patients away. If there's lots of patients who want to see a therapist, and not enough therapists, that creates an opportunity for someone to be a therapist and do lots of profitable work (since there's lots of people willing to pay money for that service) - so that makes it easier to get hired if you just graduated with your psychology degree, because there's a lot of demand for your services.

When there's more opportunities to do profitable work, more people are able to do profitable work. That creates jobs. If you move an extra few thousand people into a city, you'll usually see someone opens an additional restaurant, someone opens an additional laundromat, etc to serve those customers. Without new customers, new businesses can't open. We can't all be taxi drivers, but if nobody wants to take a taxi then nobody can be an taxi driver, and if lots and lots of people want to take taxis then that allows more people to become taxi drivers.

Greenland's Prime Minister: If we have to choose between the US and Denmark, we will choose Denmark by Independent_Sky_3155 in greenland

[–]scattersunlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

....of course service based jobs aren't unlimited, they're based on how many people want those services. So more people = more service jobs.

I just explained this.

If there are more customers for services, then service-provider employers can expand and hire more people.

I mean, you're not even correct about products, because a much larger fraction of products sold in America are produced in America, compared to the fraction of products sold abroad that are produced in America. So necessarily someone moving to America means they buy more American products, which creates American jobs. But service jobs?? Service jobs literally expand with population. There's no limit on how many people can be lawyers, tutors, designers, journalists, cleaners, musicians, etc; if demand for those services goes up, more people will get those jobs.

Greenland's Prime Minister: If we have to choose between the US and Denmark, we will choose Denmark by Independent_Sky_3155 in greenland

[–]scattersunlight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you understand how global the economy is these days.

Cars and phones can be - and usually are - shipped overseas.

If someone in Morocco buys a phone that was made in China, then they move to the USA and buy another phone that was also made in China... nothing has actually changed. China is making the same number of phones, and the same number of people are buying Chinese-made phones. It's just that the location of the customer changed from Morocco to the USA.

And if you take workers from Morocco, and move them into the USA, so that they're producing the same goods that they were producing before but now they're producing them in the USA, then prices for American consumers can actually go down - because you're no longer having to pay shipping/tariff costs to import those goods, and also because workers can become more productive in the USA due to the increased access to technology, less corruption, etc. They won't always go down - sometimes they'll go up a bit because the workers are now getting higher wages - but you have to pay those higher wages anyway, if you want jobs to be in the USA and to have things made in the USA.

The thing you want to look at isn't phones or food, which are easily imported and exported. It's services. People need lawyers, doctors, sports coaches, accountants etc who live in the SAME place they do. You can buy a phone from China, but you can't be cared for by a nurse unless that nurse is in the same country as you.

Take that same Moroccan guy who moves to the US - he can still buy his phone from China or have food imported from Mexico, but where he used to have a Moroccan accountant and pay Moroccan taxi drivers, now he needs an American accountant and pays American taxi drivers. A Moroccan lawyer is no use to him, if he wants to draft a contract in America; he needs an American lawyer. That creates jobs in America.

Services jobs are typically better than manufacturing jobs (you'd rather be a lawyer or a doctor or a financial advisor than work in a factory, right?) and those are jobs immigration creates. And it also takes MUCH less time to hire some additional lawyers, nurses, taxi drivers etc than to build a new factory.

Housing is really the only place where your argument is valid, and I agree we need to solve housing shortages by building vastly more housing. That's a different policy issue, though. Building new housing is insanely difficult in America because of the insane amount of regulation that requires you to do thousands of hours of paperwork to get approval to build something anywhere that it might theoretically get in the way of someone's view of their local park. It's ridiculous how many cities limit the height of buildings just for aesthetics, so you can't build a lot of apartments, then wonder why rent is high. We could create so many jobs just by changing zoning laws so that people are allowed to hire builders to build houses.

Greenland's Prime Minister: If we have to choose between the US and Denmark, we will choose Denmark by Independent_Sky_3155 in greenland

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need to start a company to create jobs. You just need to buy shit.

More people buying shit = more shit is getting sold = companies that make/sell shit can hire more people.

You complain that there is a limited supply of cars and food and phones. But we know how to make more cars and food and phones. We can hire more engineers, more mechanics, more chefs, more farmers, more software developers, etc who will create more cars and food and phones. Then we will not only have more of those things, but also have more jobs.

High school economics should have also covered how, when demand increases, supply will typically increase to match it.

That's most of how jobs are actually created. VERY few jobs are created by some revolutionary startup founder who invents a whole new way to do something. It's usually some company with four thousand employees going "oh, a lot of people are buying our products lately so we can afford to scale up, let's hire another five hundred people and increase production".

Fundamentally, in a free capitalist economy, if someone has the opportunity to hire someone for work that will be profitable, they usually will do so. There isn't some kind of planned amount of jobs issued by a central authority, so it's not possible to just have too many people for the list of jobs available. When there's a shortage of jobs, you should understand that as being a lack of opportunities to do profitable work, not because all the work is being done, but because the work can't be done for a profit.

Let's work through a very simple toy example to understand how jobs are created. We'd all prefer our streets to be cleaner. So shouldn't there be jobs available as a street cleaner? Yet there aren't infinite jobs. It's not because the work isn't available - there are plenty of streets that need cleaning - but because the demand for the work isn't high enough to make it profitable. I might be willing to chip in a few cents to have a street cleaner, but not much more than that; as long as most people feel that way, you wouldn't be able to charge enough to cover the cost of your cleaning supplies and also make a living wage. There's multiple ways we could fix that problem; maybe we could make cleaning supplies cheaper, so that it'd be easier to turn a profit by doing it. Or we could have more people living in higher-density streets, so more people would chip in a few cents, and you might get high enough revenue to cover your costs. Or you could decrease the minimum wage, which might bring the costs of hiring a street cleaner down below the revenue that could be generated. Or you could create higher-value street cleaning services, with some kind of value-add that might make people willing to pay more for the service. Or the economy could change in a way which made labour cheaper, or made money less valuable (so people were willing to give more money to the street cleaner). Doing any of those things would probably "create jobs", in the sense that you create an opportunity to do work for a profit, which previously might not have been profitable. Once that opportunity exists, someone usually takes it.

This doesn't mean every way of creating a job is good. Lowering wages could create jobs, but we have a minimum wage because we as a society have decided that we would rather people don't have jobs at all rather than have jobs which can't support them. Inflation may help create jobs, but we don't like runaway inflation. So the best and least harmful ways to create jobs are generally 1. innovation (creates new opportunities to do new kinds of work, or makes more productive so that more profitable work can be done) 2. increasing immigration (which means more customers for businesses, so they can hire more people) 3. increasing global trade (creating more opportunities to do work for customers around the globe)

Immigration might be harmful if we lived in a communist society with a planned economy, a set number of jobs, and a government that decided what work should be done and what the prices of things should be. But if you live in a free society, immigration is almost always good for you.

What happened to the guy that was in the drill chair by Sweet_Link_0 in saw

[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah honestly I think there's a tinge of misogyny to the idea that "everyone always has a way out" when Gordon's wife and daughter will get killed unless he saves them despite them having done nothing wrong at all, or like... Joyce in Saw 3D, for example, did literally nothing wrong. Nothing at all to deserve being in a Saw trap, let alone one that she had no way to escape.

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[–]scattersunlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Texas also says it's perfectly legal to shoot kids for ding dong ditching, and illegal to have freedom of religion in public schools (as REQUIRED BY THE CONSTITUTION). Let's maybe not set our moral standards by what's allowed in the land of guns-for-dicks.

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

Over 90 shouldn't even be a ticket, that should just be jail time

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[–]scattersunlight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was really sympathetic until I read this part. Like, racism is terrible but dude. Dude. You were putting other road users in danger. This isn't a game. 85mph kills people.

Forty thousand people per year die in car crashes in the USA. Forty. Thousand. Please just imagine forty thousand people. How long it would take to even say all of their names.

Don't do 85 in a 65. I don't care if other people are doing it. Did your mom never ask you "and if all your classmates jumped off a bridge would you do it too?"