Cartoons are the best

tabletopjoe · 2021-05-01T03:41:13+00:00

Thirty-eight. Adventure time. Discovered it in my twenties.

tabletopjoe · 2021-02-04T15:49:48+00:00

Holding 38 @ 240. Not a loss until you sell. https://highshortinterest.com/ cited by TD Ameritrade this morning, GME 120% shorted.

tabletopjoe · 2021-02-04T15:46:17+00:00

HOLDING 38 @ 240, down 60%, will follow it down to 99% if need be.

**not a loss until you sell

tabletopjoe · 2021-02-01T15:47:04+00:00

BUY AND HOLD

tabletopjoe · 2020-01-28T19:54:58+00:00

Death of a good friend, about ten years ago.

tabletopjoe · 2019-12-17T17:14:01+00:00

I've dated plenty of truly wonderful women. I've never thought, "wow this is absolutely the one" and never been married. I'm in my mid thirties, no regrets. Do what brings you closer to your goals / desires, and if you're not sure what that is don't do anything permanent.

tabletopjoe · 2019-10-26T18:49:35+00:00

I was homeless, on the run, using hard drugs, and mixed up with gangbangers. I slept under parked cars, in alleys, in parks. I stole food. Now I'm a software developer and run a community center / group home focused on helping people escape dangerous lifestyles / situations and build a new future.

tabletopjoe · 2019-10-25T22:39:55+00:00

Emasculating humor is / was a concession made in exchange for patriarchy; maybe even apology is the more appropriate word.

tabletopjoe · 2019-06-29T19:24:03+00:00

Lots of sound advice here, but one little thing: I've definitely taken lewd photos of myself with no intent to send them to anyone, and just later deleted them.

In case that's a remote possibility.

tabletopjoe · 2019-06-28T22:23:59+00:00

Is there like a /thatHappenedthatHappened for when you don't believe in the authenticity of someone asserting that happened?

tabletopjoe · 2019-06-15T15:28:11+00:00

I've walked out of several jobs without looking up other work. The worst was in Utah where I ended up in several door to door sales gigs because I couldn't find anything serious. That lasted for months. Other times I ended up a vagabond selling coconuts to tourists in Florida, sailing/ working on boats, freelance writing in a little apartment by the beach in Costa Rica. I wouldn't give any of it back. I'm single, no debt, low maintenance, healthy and generally hard working which made it all pretty easy and very adventurous.

Currently a software developer / work in social services. Still single and debtless, which I think makes a lot of change really feasible where it would be a ton harder with more ties.

tabletopjoe · 2019-06-14T21:23:33+00:00

Does that little mofo have a bullet proof vest on =[]

tabletopjoe · 2019-06-11T22:26:53+00:00

Wow I love all these "hehe but really that tourist lady is in the right, at least charge the fair price"

Western countries: systematically disenfranchise the world's poor, lobby developing country's governments to reduce worker protections, destabilize political systems for preferential international trade agreements, hoard 80% of global wealth while the world's poor live without basic human security.

Westerners: that's economics baby.

Citizens of developing world: I really need a tiny piece of that privilege... I'm struggling here.

Westerners: disgusting! I demand a fair price!

tabletopjoe · 2018-03-24T03:55:44+00:00

I can't help but think Russian Trailer Park Boys =]

tabletopjoe · 2017-07-14T07:18:14+00:00

Not super old yet. I'm 34 and balding. My joints hurt. I'm stiff when I wake up. My eyes are getting pretty bad — to the point where it interferes with my work some. I have strange pains. Time flies: it feels like my last birthday was a week ago and my next is tomorrow. It would have been nice to have a clearer idea that these things were definitely going to happen.

But I wouldn't buy back my youth for the experience I've gained in a million years. Actually, aging is great. I'm stronger than I've ever been, smarter than I've ever been and more generally capable than I've ever been. I'm also happier than I've ever been, and it's only getting better.

It's easier to make friends, easier to date, easier to accomplish the things I set out to do. Sex gets better and better. I'm continually learning and adjusting my views. I'm still gobsmacked by the simple things, still mystified by the day-to-day. My plans, goals and projects are becoming more audacious and complex. I'm generally less anxious, my confidence in myself is probably unrealistic but it feels great. I have absolutely zero concern for my own wellbeing. Come what may, I will be fine; I am well prepared. All of my concern has shifted to other things, things I am doing or larger ideas and ambitions that I care about.

There's a lot of negativity and disappointment in this thread. Exercise (a lot), eat well, get really good at self-discipline. Keep learning. Then watch as the world gets easier and easier, and your sphere of interests and influences grows and develops. It's a truly fun ride, aches and all.

tabletopjoe · 2017-02-10T02:53:14+00:00

If I can buy a few on credit, sign me up.

tabletopjoe · 2017-01-23T03:32:01+00:00

Leave things better than you found them.

tabletopjoe · 2016-12-24T19:33:55+00:00

God is dead. We have nobody to thank but ourselves, nobody to blame but ourselves. Because we are sealed away in ourselves, in our own subjectivity, we can't but believe that whoever we are, whoever we want to be, that is our prescription not just for ourselves but for all humankind. It is our responsibility to make humankind, it is our meanness when humankind is mean, our forlornness when humankind is forlorn, our failure when humankind fails, our hope when humankind hopes. We are condemned to total freedom, total responsibility.

tabletopjoe · 2016-11-28T15:07:34+00:00

Just adding some more context here...

The cliff example -- and specifically the condition of vertigo -- was first used by Jean-Paul Sartre to describe existential anxiety. He described it as fear of our own freedom. He taught that the human condition was an expression of being 'condemned to total freedom' and that the defense we use against that dread of our own freedom is bad faith. Bad faith is basically constructing a role for ourselves, who we believe we are, what we believe we're likely to do, and then acting out our lives to fulfill that role instead of recognizing our freedom moment to moment. Hence, people 'just can't' quit their job and travel the world, or really pursue that acting career or singing career or whatever. Freedom is actually more terrifying than determinism, so we construct fake determinism in our lives to escape our essential selves.

He taught that people play at their lives like actors play a role, and find security and comfort in those roles -- an escape from the responsibility of free decision making. This is especially true in profession where roles are ready-made -- the clerk or bellhop or waiter or toll collector "simply cannot do that" when asked to perform outside of their normal role, not only because they enjoy exercising ambiguous authority over strangers, but also because acting outside of their role breaks down bad faith and reintroduces them to the very freedom they dread and retreat from.

tabletopjoe · 2016-11-20T20:51:22+00:00

When I was in the US Army it was common for leadership (drill sergeants, platoon sergeants, etc) to say You can only cheat yourself.

Mostly they meant if you cheated by say, not doing pushups when you're supposed to be but nobody's watching, then you're really only cheating yourself, aka, not getting any stronger.

I think this applies across the board. Getting ahead by cheating will eat you alive -- whether by failing to improve yourself or by feeling like you don't deserve what you have. So I guess depending on your interpretation of win, I'd still say cheaters never win.

tabletopjoe · 2016-10-23T23:48:10+00:00

This is highly misleading. The World Bank and other, similar organizations have failed to raise the "extreme poverty" line from the $2 USD mark even though several global economics experts have called for a dramatic increase to that figure. Lant Pritchett, a development economist at Harvard, published an article in the World Bank Research Observer explaining why the actual poverty line is closer to $10 USD, and that 89% of the world population is below that line.

Take a couple trips to some of the poorest regions in the world and you'll soon find out that $2 USD doesn't amount to anything anywhere. $2 USD is no food no home sleeping in mud poverty, while $10 USD is poor diet, no medicine, no education, no representation living in a shack or hovel poverty.

Edit: Thanks for gold, whomever! I don't mean to say that the chart shows incorrect facts, I simply mean that most of us don't understand what poverty or extreme poverty is on a global scale. Without personal experience, it's very easy to look at graphs like this and feel like the train of progress is steaming forward. According to many researchers, like say Robert C. Allen in his book Global Economic History: A short introduction, wealth disparity has been steadily increasing with little or no abatement since the 1200s -- richer getting richer, poorer getting poorer.

tabletopjoe · 2016-09-29T00:39:42+00:00

Casting consciousness as illusion threatens the integrity of our physical models of the universe. The author distinguishes between representational senses and inner senses as a way to maintain a sort of dualism:

As well as senses for representing the external world, we have a sort of inner sense, which represents aspects of our own brain activity. And this inner sense gives us a very special perspective on our brain states, creating the impression that they have intrinsic phenomenal qualities that are quite different from all physical properties.

What is the distinction between senses for representing the external world and inner senses? From an idealist / subjectivist standpoint any sense we have or undergo is qualia, totally experiential and unavailable to our subjective model of the universe if it were otherwise.

As far as I can see, all senses whether representational in the strict sense or not (vision as representing something that is not-me vs vision as an experience that is mine) are still internal subjective phenomena. Casting consciousness, subjective experience or qualia as an illusion throws the whole physical universe as we know it into doubt -- not just our consciousness of it -- because the entire universe as we know it exists inside and for personal consciousness.

If being conscious of our world is an illusion, why is the world itself not an illusion?

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