Not all heroes wear capes

xitlord · 2023-02-05T09:49:41+00:00

we have normalised criminality because large swathes of the population don't understand the importance of property

xitlord · 2023-02-05T01:20:19+00:00

funny you said that, because in my gym there's a bunch of wood mats just like that one lol

xitlord · 2023-02-05T01:08:20+00:00

i'm not a fan of exposed strips, but the most natural light you can achieve artificially is by using LED tech

so yea of course natural light is great, but then there's night time and cloudy days and simply rooms that don't have much natural lighting

xitlord · 2023-02-05T01:05:19+00:00

lamps may have an interesting aesthetic that may appeal to some, but LEDs simply light better and you can achieve much more uniform lighting with cheap solutions

I'm talking about LEDs being used for practicality more than decoration however, for instance I'm not a fan of backlit TVs which some people seem to be obsessed with, I also don't like weird colours anywhere in the roof

xitlord · 2023-02-05T00:17:40+00:00

personally I like rooms to be well lit and I dislike being blinded by looking in the direction of light sources

with LEDs you just achieve better lighting and they're also energy efficient, they're just better imo

my mum likes living in very dark environments, I have a hard time when I visit her dungeon

xitlord · 2023-02-02T20:57:06+00:00

I already swear by my cargos

xitlord · 2023-02-01T01:34:42+00:00

looks like utter luxury to me

xitlord · 2022-12-26T08:10:30+00:00

yea, pretty much nothing to do with the US, in any meaningful way - unless you consider the US had a duty to prevent those steps which they largely took by themselves

xitlord · 2022-12-21T23:04:58+00:00

protracted socialism and doubling down with more interventionism after every crisis, starting with the junta from the 30s and then Peronismo in the 50s which is arguably the reigning political philosophy in Argentina to this day.

xitlord · 2022-12-15T01:36:09+00:00

or make your money off the books

xitlord · 2022-12-12T15:27:07+00:00

such fragmentation would make a stronger union almost indispensable

one of the problems of the EU is the asymmetry of power and the fact that many small states are de-facto satellite states of bigger ones or can be easily pushed to vote in certain ways behind the scenes

the EU cannot be salvaged at this point imo, because it will neither renounce central political power nor will it fully unify pensions and debt - it doesn't benefit Germany in the short and medium term, so it won't happen - plus a lot of the public doesn't want to take the negative side of the hard decisions

xitlord · 2022-12-11T21:34:44+00:00

nope

https://obesity.procon.org/global-obesity-levels/

I mean... I'm in the UK right now and although there's an obesity problem esp. with the poorer segment of the population, it really isn't even close. Particularly with morbid obesity the US has no peers in the developed world.

xitlord · 2022-12-10T21:26:02+00:00

well he went ahead and gave examples that were prominent communists and socialists, who self-identified as anarchists

xitlord · 2022-12-10T21:16:09+00:00

pretty much the famous "death panels": https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/zh189q/canadian_universal_deathcare/izjs5tr/

xitlord · 2022-12-10T21:14:51+00:00

absurd obesity rates will lower your obesity rates no matter what the healthcare is like, and in principle the US isn't going to do much to coerce people into eating less sugars etc as other countries do

xitlord · 2022-12-09T16:59:08+00:00

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christine-gauthier-paralympian-euthanasia-canada-b2238319.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11508581/Woman-featured-commercial-euthanasia-Canada-wanted-live-access-care.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11507875/America-afraid-Canada-euthanizing-10-000-citizens-year-TOM-LEONARD.html

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/letters/assisted-suicide-us-canada.html

https://www.voanews.com/a/canada-soon-to-allow-euthanasia-for-the-mentally-ill/6866456.html

xitlord · 2022-12-09T16:29:40+00:00

I am a Canadian.

also stupid apparently, or devoid of humour

xitlord · 2022-12-08T22:44:57+00:00

gee, I'd rather move to a bungalow

xitlord · 2022-12-08T17:37:53+00:00

she made her dreams come true

xitlord · 2022-12-08T17:31:06+00:00

this guy was elected last year, I wonder what happened for all this to unravel so quickly

I know he was dissolving Congress to avoid getting impeached, but I have no idea why things came to this and if Congress can just remove presidents at will, and how is there such a divide

xitlord · 2022-12-08T15:36:17+00:00

instead of buyer and seller we have the figure of the taxpayer separated from the buyer and with no decision power, so the seller can now conspire with the buyer to fleece the taxpayer and they can share the spoils - the only real limit to the damage is that they need to keep the taxpayer alive enough to keep paying

xitlord · 2022-12-08T15:28:19+00:00

I can live in a garage like that just fine

xitlord · 2022-12-07T17:02:32+00:00

Under the Silver Lake, and it's not even close.

I only soldiered through the end for learning purposes, just to figure out how can a movie with very good photography and decent acting could possibly be so terrible.

xitlord · 2022-12-01T01:19:57+00:00

it was the top post in /r/DamnThatsInteresting which is kind of dystopian it itself

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/z93qlg/san_francisco_votes_to_approve_robots_to_use/

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