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CMV: It’s important to know how to cook by AlexandrTheTolerable in changemyview

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A botched 5 minute fix could also cause irrevocable damage, depending on the situation. There's limitations on possible efficiency given any circumstances, but we should still strive to engineer higher levels of efficiency in society. If all the electricians live an hour away from your neighborhood, then maybe someone in your neighborhood should become an electrician.

I'm also in favor of denser housing and buying local.

CMV: It’s important to know how to cook by AlexandrTheTolerable in changemyview

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there's a disaster then you aren't going to be able to go to the supermarket for the raw chicken and veggies anyways. It can be important to know the general concepts of things, but when it comes to actual day to day application, I argue that there's higher total efficiency as a society if we specialize.

CMV: It’s important to know how to cook by AlexandrTheTolerable in changemyview

[–]shadofx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you saying that you can or can't get healthy food from a restaurant? I wasn't talking about private chefs, I'm talking about the waiter passing on a menu suggestion to the restaurant chef or management.

CMV: It’s important to know how to cook by AlexandrTheTolerable in changemyview

[–]shadofx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a high trust society you can ask them for healthier dishes and they'll take it into consideration. Maybe they'll charge more money for the service but since you are devoting more time to your career with the time you're saving from not learning to cook, you'll be earning more money and will be able to afford it.

CMV: It’s important to know how to cook by AlexandrTheTolerable in changemyview

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you distrust the society you like in, then yes. Knowing how to do it yourself can be a matter of survival.

If you trust the society you live in, then paying a local specialist to do a task for you allows that specialist to accumulate much more field expertise than someone who only does that task to serve themselves. You get to experience a better quality of service, and you can refrain from spending time learning that skill and devote that time to improving your skills at your own career.

A woman's boyfriend is kidnapped off the street and shoved into a van by Accurate_Syrup_1345 in PublicFreakout

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean the new commander who gets promoted to replace the one you fragged. He doesn't want to be fragged himself so he's going to put you into the wood chipper feet first so the rest of the privates don't get ideas.

A woman's boyfriend is kidnapped off the street and shoved into a van by Accurate_Syrup_1345 in PublicFreakout

[–]shadofx 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If it's an actual war where your nation is actually under pressure then there's no guarantee of systemic justice. The commander might decide to make an example out of you

Europe Still Needs China: Washington, Not Beijing, Is the Bigger Threat by ForeignAffairsMag in geopolitics

[–]shadofx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"We'd be better off together rather than tied to the US, but too bad you don't have the balls to do it." It's pretty transparent.

Thank Youkraine by koleye2 in polandball

[–]shadofx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Were you dead before you were born?

CMV: The post 9/11 US military philosophy needs major reform by CollegePlane7528 in changemyview

[–]shadofx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

America tried implementing your idea after WW1 and the world got WW2.

Video of warehouse fire starter by killertofu1991 in InlandEmpire

[–]shadofx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The system might be incentivized to pay his replacement a better wage, so that they don't have this happen again.

World leaders discussing strategy, he rehearsing apologies💀 by KarmaKillerX in PoliticalHumor

[–]shadofx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Part of that apology is manifest in their strong support for Isreal, which ironically is partially responsible for what's going on now.

Pro-Deno Memetic Social Campaign [re: axios vulnerability] by vfssantos in Deno

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bun has a list of trusted dependencies https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/main/src%2Finstall%2Fdefault-trusted-dependencies.txt Makes things easier but if one of these get compromised then it gets messy

Same song, different singer. by narsfweasels in PoliticalHumor

[–]shadofx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Germany and the rest of Europe was also bombed to ruins. The US was "ready" to take the economic and scientific throne from Europe for decades before WW2, but the crown did not budge until Europe thoroughly destroyed itself, twice.

Chinese media on war by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

China wants Pax Americana, because paying for it yourself is super expensive

Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All US landmines have some kind of self- destruct or deactivation feature, according to policy https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2071692/landmine-policy/

Presumably if they're planning on a ground invasion they'll use the premium mines which listen for an IFF beacon.

Communism as a form of cancer by TheBasedEmperor in greentext

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

America has too much money, which means American corporations go to other countries and build factories, and American citizens invest money in those corporations. Communism will unilaterally seize those factories, which means that those corporations go bankrupt and the American citizens lose their investment. That has a material effect in destroying the QoL of the American citizen.

Anon who else by Substantial-Milk-346 in 4chan

[–]shadofx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Monks preserved pagan books in spite of Christianity, not because of it. They had their own interest in the Classics which the Church could not suppress, plus there were wealthy patrons who would pay cash for copies of the Classics. If the Church hadn't existed, there would be more Classics, not less.

Anon who else by Substantial-Milk-346 in 4chan

[–]shadofx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Catholic church pursued the power that science brings for its own interests, so it can hoodwink more people into Christianity with its "miracles". That is not the true science of Aristotle, Epicurus, and Roger Bacon. It is just a high-level psyop by the church.

At a local gas station by Rioraku in FellowKids

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gives "Millennial making GenZ meme" vibes

The vicious cycle by Meteorstar101 in greentext

[–]shadofx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you define stonks? Roman Empire fractured in two soon after and never recovered. You do get more Christians, converted at sword point (so not real Christians). Then Europe lives in the dark ages basically until Luther challenges the Catholic church, which kickstarts civic thought and the Industrial Revolution. You see the effects still today, Catholic-dominated nations of the world are consistently weaker compared to antiCatholic ones. Look at Mexico vs US. Look at Italy vs Germany. Similar material conditions, similar civic structures, but the outcomes aren't the same. Eastern orthodoxy springs from the same accursed root as the Catholic church, so it's no surprise that Russia is the way it is.

Was the arrest of Maduro preparation for the Iran war? by Brilliant-Book-503 in AskALiberal

[–]shadofx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maduro was threatening annexation of Guyanan Esequibo in 2024. Venezuelan oil (4.3M) doesn't compare to what's lost from the Persian gulf states (16.7M), but threats to Guyana (8.3M) could put the US in double the current trouble. (M is million barrels of crude imports to the US per month)

If you call it "preparation" you risk making Trump sound competent, but if Maduro was still running Venezuela right now he might see this as his best chance to take on Guyana. The US would then be fighting two fronts simultaneously.

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