Wait, seriously? You can't see how these things are related? You don't think you're smart, do you? It's all one world. Everything is related. Do you really need a flowchart drawn for you?
I hope you are being facetious, DrinkyPoo.
Otherwise all women are pedophiles because there have been a lot of female teachers boinking their underage male students lately - and getting caught.
> If you want to see why there was such a backlash to his memo, I think it can be made clearer in light of the #metoo discussion we are presently having.
I don't see why. The memo didn't deal with rape at work in any kind of way. It had a different subject.
It's the narrative. His opinion doesn't fit the narrative.
Trying to make Damore's memo the equivalent of meetoo or whatever indignity women have ever suffered is an example of howaboutism, which is usually aimed at conservatives, but it turns out that liberals are just as prone to it. A memo or email pointing out possible differences between the sexes does not fit the narrative that there is no difference at all between males and females except that instilled culturally by the patriarchy."
This memo != Harvey Weinstein's disgusting behavior. This memo != Roy Moore's penchant for underage girls.
What this memo and equating it to meetoo is - Howaboutism, and a great example of it.
If Damore was insinuating himself in a sexual manner on female employees, there aren't many of us who would stand up for him. But that isn't what he did. He wrote forbidden words. Some people didn't like those forbidden words. They don't fit the narrative. Conform or be cast out.
To broad brush this memo into Damore is a sexual predator because Harvey Weinstein or Roy Moore is bigotry, stereotyping men as all sexual predators. It may or may not be legal bigotry, but it is bigotry nonetheless.
I don't have much sympathy for DaMoore, he could have made his helpful suggestions directly to HR. He wanted the most attention though. It was a totally voluntary thing he did. Ducking behind autism doesn't save him and doesn't make what he did less callous or more correct. It's as wrong as goatse (shock site, as in, DONT CLICK) His memo reads like the old trope of telling women to smile more to the eyes of someone with this background.
His "suggestions" do not fit the narrative. As such, his options were to shut up and quit, or shut up and stay.
All groups have a narrative, be it the Republican Party in Alabama, Huffington Post, or Google. The narrative is the permissible opinion. Conform or be cast out.
A person having an opinion contrary to the narrative who expresses that opinion is stupid. I have zero sympathy for Damore for stupidly expressing his opinion in an atmosphere that does not allow such an opinion. He deserved firing.
You assume all 'tech jobs' worth having are in SV. There's a great need for technical experience outside of these hubs. The most experienced and high demanding jobs however will be at these hubs. Data centers need engineers as well as the software to maintain it which may not be a priority for 'hub' locations.
There are plenty of jobs for top notch geeks outside of SV. You doon't get paid as much, but you don't need as much.
I've seen people orgasm over the pay, yet they don't take into account the insane cost of living there. A friend's daughter took a 6 some figure starting job there, and it was all bragging until she found out she would have been better making 50 - 60K back here.
She's living in an apartment - college style, with several unrelated roommates.
Good luck living on this in Silicon Valley. Welcome to the world of the working poor.
Quite frankly, it's getting ridiculous. This is, by the way, also the reason why you can't find tech workers. Why bother learning something when you can make more money in management?
Once we're all managers - supply and demand will lower management wages.
Couple things - the apprenticeship concept has been around for a long time, and you are a paid employee. Interns are the group that tends to work for free. And apprentice positions are a fine solution in many fields. One doesn't become a Master Machinist and command a Master Machinist's pay without serving and learning a lot over time. And rather than be a crap job that no one wants, a lot of people want to become an apprentice, rise to journeyman, and finally Master. The work has managed to stay abreast of automation as well.
The big "but" in this whole thing is whether the careers will be there when the apprentices finish their learning. If they aren't, the whole thing will fail.
What is the big problem today is that geeks like myself, who spent a lot of time as a teenager and young adult playing with the simple computers back in the day pretty much learned by passion and osmosis. And we're retiring. That learning experience isn't to be had in a traditional college. An actual paid apprenticeship is the closest thing we can come to those days.
Finally, I spent a long career in tech and only been to the Valley once. There's plenty of money to be made here on the eastern side of the nation. Where I'm at, you could handle training as an apprentice for 30 K a year. It's nothing to get rich off of, but as you learn, the wages increase.
So a work experience program? This is nothing new.
Almost, but not quite.
There is a real problem with apprenticeship, in that you pay a noob a living wage while he or she learns a trade or skill. By the time they assimilate enough skills they can take over the jobe at hand.
A work experience program is usually something fo r student to do.
Problem is in the late 80's as more management levels and accountants were added, ovewrhead meant that you could temporarily save money by not training replacements. It's all culminated in people retiring with no replacement at all, and companies not having much of an idea at all what they did.
Then it wasn't such a cheap thing as emergency re-hires occured paying that old guy high wages.
Yes, I have a family of four on an Xfinity plan capped at 1 TB per month, and we often hit 80% of that and have gone over it twice. I don't know how a 180 GB cap is supposed to work for a home internet plan, unless it's targeted at people who don't stream video.
It is what you can use. If your cap was 50 Tbyte a month, you'd be edging up against it. It's the garage/junk drawer concept of you'll use everything available.
When my son was living at home, every increase in speed and amount of data was sucked up by his internet activity. When he moved out, it plummeted to maybe 10 percent, as well as sped up - a lot.
Then there is the elephant in the room. Wanna know why the cap pressure in the first place? Ads. Ads, served up to us in all their malware providing glory. You don't run all those ads and tracking scripts without a lot of data downloading on your devices, then phoning home. The more data we can pay for, the more they can stuff down our gullets, like those geese in France they forcefeed through funnels to make foi gras.
Oh, I'm sure that they'll have an Unlimited 5G data plan... for $200 a month. It will probably start throttling you after you download around 500 GB of data as well.
The plans that most people can actually afford will have much lower data caps, I'm sure.
Thank heavens we are getting rid of Net Neutrality. I see this story as a smoke screen for what is going to be happening soon.
Considering that there is no such thing as unlimited in the first place.
No you use one you can personally customise specifically for supercomputer applications which Windows was not designed for. Are Linux fanbois that desperate to impress these days?
You'd have to ask one, I don't know how desperate they are. I have zero fucks to give about who runs what OS on what.
I just make note that considering the cost of a supercomputer, it makes sense to use an operating system that you consider a good operating system, regardless of the cost. Cost of the OS is way down in the noise in that arena. I use MacOS, UNIX, Linux, and Windows. Whichever works best for what I'm doing.
Your projection of me as a "fanboi" is about as close to a straw man when as you can get. I have my favorite(s), but that is not relevent to this conversation. So chillaxe, have a nice adult beverage, and don't assume what other people are or are not.
because you can't afford an actual place of your own
Look, you're just not putting the right spin on it. You're living in a commune because by sharing resources you reduce your ecological impact. By increasing population density to Tokyo levels, you reduce dependency on CO2 emitting personal vehicles. Come on, now, Bessie. Mosey on up the cow ramp to your new home!
Ugh! Nightmare fuel for me. I like the idea of a world with about a quarter of the population that it has now.
Not so much the Soviet Union as Fascist Italy. The Soviets wouldn't have put up with what the Republicans want.
It is one of those strange things in that outside of some of the details, far right and far left start to look very much alike. Only there is almost no far left in the USA these days.
It's not as though you're stuck with that option as is the case with iPhones.
You are soooo right Apple sent a bunch of thiugs to my place last night and beat the shit out of mem because I hand't run updates for a week.
Your howaboutism is strong. Believe it or not, this is a story about Android, not Apple, and you just justified buying a new phone with an outdated Android OS on it. Bravo!
Your argument is literally "liberals temper the negative consequences of their policies to be the maximum allowable without revolt." It's not a win that the economy is structured that people lack the ability to control their own lives, Hell, you couldn't even move off to live in the woods if you wanted to. You don't get to opt-out of society anymore.
WalMart has taken your input into consideration and will get back to you on your fate.
I was generous. It's probably 0.1-percenter, or 0.01 percenter.
Yes they're progressive as long as they get to remain a 0.01 percenter. Just ask Jimmy Kimmel.
The progressives in the government remain so because they realize that when the government owns everything, and they control how to distribute it, they will just distribute it according to their wants and needs.
I'm not certain what on earth you are talking about.
Trying to piece something together, there are wealthy people of all political stripes.
The concept of "The Government owns everything" well duh. The part that most people both left and right don't take into account is someone is going to own it.
We are now under Governance by corporatism. Corporations pay for and get proxy votes to run the country.
If people were to actually think about it, what they have chosen is that they demand that WalMart is to run the USA rather than elected citizens.
Now as a center right person, I'm not so certain that that is an improvement.
Make 100K a year and live like you are 18 with your first apartment, all your life in SV.
San Francisco has always been a place where money has been turned inside out. And its mostly relative. I could have worked and lived there, and made more money, but it would all have been sucked up by that cost of living. Same goes for DC. Could have made more, spent more, and dealt with the horrible DC traffic.
But aside from some folks thinking that this is somehow a liberal wet dream - what it really is - an example of tribalism. Most people are very social, and urban environments usually work against that, paradoxically because of too many people.
So people are banding together in groups that are more natural for humans, and re-establishing the "Us" that humans by nature like.
Nothing liberal about that. Some staunch anti-regulation conservative is probably still getting the rent money.
This wouldn't become far left until a group of these folks pooled their money and bought the place themselves, moved in and set up commune rules overseen by what is likely to be a direct democratic vote.
That's funny, because it's the sum of their policies.
RLY? So the concept of having to live communally because you can't afford an actual place of your own is now somehow a progressive goal?
I live in a college town where something like 4 families own pretty much everything, Students live as many per apartment as the law allows, which was brought into being because some actual progressives didn't think that 12 people shouldn't live in a small two bedroom apartment.
And the people who own the town are pissed because you know - "regulations" . They're even rather staunch Republicans who vote straight ticket.
We need to tell them that they are actually progressives.
Seriously dude, that kind of logic only works down at the legion when it's 2 AM and y'all start fantasizing about taking out a second 'mendment solution on liberals. Cuz cat's and dogs will be living in sin because liberal reasons.
Welcome to the progressive wet dream. Home ownership is for the 1% only (and optional). The rest get to live in shared housing, tied to it by monthly rent that is just high enough to ensure they can't accumulate wealth, and just low enough to ensure that anyone can get a 12x12 ft box for themselves. You don't need a bathroom - you can share. You certainly don't need a kitchen - you won't be doing any cooking of your own. And you surely don't need a garage because you'll use public transportation, or god forbid rent once in a while. Everything is disposable... and you're dependent on your betters for every aspect of your life. You won't even have a job of your own - you'll get free money from the government.
Actually, it seems like the 1 percenters are the ones who benefit from this system. Is a 1 percenter a progressive?
'The Collective, for example, a co-working space in London, describes co-living as "a way of living focused on a genuine sense of community, using shared spaces and facilities to create a more convenient and fulfilling lifestyle."'
We also may refer to that as a 'commune', 'compound', or 'cult'
The self affirmation benefits will be great as well.
There have been some interesting advances in anti-aging research in recent years - I recall a TED talk by a woman a few years ago who manged to halve the aging speed in... roundworms I think it was. If something similar could be made to work for humans that would mean, not living your whole life in your thirties, but at least seeming to physically be in your thirties while you're actually in your 60s and 70s. It'd also mean puberty hits in your twenties or thirties, which would give people more time to grow before they become physically ready for reproduction. Theoretically it would also mean twice the length of old age, though you have to wonder how many of the deaths we attribute to "old age" are in fact the cumulative effect of damage of a lifetime of modern living - in which case the time between your body aging to the point where it starts "losing the fight" and eventual death might not actually be extended nearly as long as the rest of your lifespan.
The irony of all that is that it won't seem a day longer to us. We'll have adjusted to it almost immediately, and our perception oof our lifespan won't change much at all. We'll spend the same percentages of our life in each stage.
Certain parts will not adapt to the wear and tear. easily. Bone, that awesome organ of collagen and calcium phosphate has limits not based merely on cellular repair. I have personal experience in that area, with a lot of Ice Hockey injuries. Injury based arthritis in the knees, ankles on side of the hip, trigger finger and lower back. Presumably if I were to live to a doubling of life span, I'd be keeping the surgeons pretty busy as they transform me into a serious bionic man. With every broken bone and torn tendon and ligament, I was informed by my orthopedist that in 15 years or so, the healed injuries would come back to haunt me. And here I am. It's not too bad yet, but hell knows what it will be like 10 years from now, I'm definitely allergic to opioids, so they are out.
As for making better choices (with regard to partners) - there's a reason that so many cultures throughout history have had arranged marriages. Which worked well enough until the Romantic Era popularized the idea that marriage should be about romance rather than business.
While veering off topic, you are spot on, so I'll veer off as well. Exactly this. I got very lucky, but altogether too many people have a bitched up notion of romance, of being swept off your feet, and a giddy in love feeling that will follow you to the end of your days. Coupled with the ease of getting a divorce, this is creating a bad situation, with the prevalence of mothers maintaining custody and the fathers being merely a wallet that is allowd to see the children once in a while, this is not allowing the children to grow up in anything remotely resembling a normal situation. If the father's only use was to be a sperm donor, males would have evolved to be small penis shaped parasites by now.
Now double the fecund portion of life, and the image isn't reassuring.
(the time where the 3 Magi had offered the gifts of Gold, Incense and Muir)
The scripture does not specify a number of Magi, it only specifies a number of gifts. It is implied that there were more than one, but how many more is not stated. Could one Magi have brought multiple gifts? Could multiple Magi have brought the same gift?
Admittedly it's mostly a cheery-but-sombre holiday and usually focused on the kids... but if it's going celibate I'm not going to observe Christmas any longer!
Observe? Non-celibate? You must get a lot of guests at your kickass naughty Christmas celebrations.
Black Friday isn't even one day anymore. It's a Beowulf cluster of days.
By popular demand - Black Friday held over for another week! Give me a break.
And beforehand as well. So many places have Black Friday events at seemingly random times after Labor day that it means nothing. I went to a Lowes in early September. I needed some lawn stuff. Had to get an assistant to go back to the storage area to find it. The entire area where the stuff should have been was taken up with Christmas shit. It's like 88 degrees, no one's shopping for your stupid Christmas stuff.
But they are worried so much that someone else is going to sell someone one single Christmas doodad that they must decorate teh stores for Christmas the day after labor day.
Why not just make every store in the land only sell Christmas stuff?
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Wait, seriously? You can't see how these things are related? You don't think you're smart, do you? It's all one world. Everything is related. Do you really need a flowchart drawn for you?
I hope you are being facetious, DrinkyPoo.
Otherwise all women are pedophiles because there have been a lot of female teachers boinking their underage male students lately - and getting caught.
> If you want to see why there was such a backlash to his memo, I think it can be made clearer in light of the #metoo discussion we are presently having.
I don't see why. The memo didn't deal with rape at work in any kind of way. It had a different subject.
It's the narrative. His opinion doesn't fit the narrative.
Trying to make Damore's memo the equivalent of meetoo or whatever indignity women have ever suffered is an example of howaboutism, which is usually aimed at conservatives, but it turns out that liberals are just as prone to it. A memo or email pointing out possible differences between the sexes does not fit the narrative that there is no difference at all between males and females except that instilled culturally by the patriarchy."
This memo != Harvey Weinstein's disgusting behavior. This memo != Roy Moore's penchant for underage girls.
What this memo and equating it to meetoo is - Howaboutism, and a great example of it.
If Damore was insinuating himself in a sexual manner on female employees, there aren't many of us who would stand up for him. But that isn't what he did. He wrote forbidden words. Some people didn't like those forbidden words. They don't fit the narrative. Conform or be cast out.
To broad brush this memo into Damore is a sexual predator because Harvey Weinstein or Roy Moore is bigotry, stereotyping men as all sexual predators. It may or may not be legal bigotry, but it is bigotry nonetheless.
people break NDAs privately to their friends all the fucking time.
Sounds like a character issue. I wouldn't trust a person who violates an NDA.
I don't have much sympathy for DaMoore, he could have made his helpful suggestions directly to HR. He wanted the most attention though. It was a totally voluntary thing he did. Ducking behind autism doesn't save him and doesn't make what he did less callous or more correct. It's as wrong as goatse (shock site, as in, DONT CLICK) His memo reads like the old trope of telling women to smile more to the eyes of someone with this background.
His "suggestions" do not fit the narrative. As such, his options were to shut up and quit, or shut up and stay.
All groups have a narrative, be it the Republican Party in Alabama, Huffington Post, or Google. The narrative is the permissible opinion. Conform or be cast out.
A person having an opinion contrary to the narrative who expresses that opinion is stupid. I have zero sympathy for Damore for stupidly expressing his opinion in an atmosphere that does not allow such an opinion. He deserved firing.
You assume all 'tech jobs' worth having are in SV. There's a great need for technical experience outside of these hubs. The most experienced and high demanding jobs however will be at these hubs. Data centers need engineers as well as the software to maintain it which may not be a priority for 'hub' locations. There are plenty of jobs for top notch geeks outside of SV. You doon't get paid as much, but you don't need as much.
I've seen people orgasm over the pay, yet they don't take into account the insane cost of living there. A friend's daughter took a 6 some figure starting job there, and it was all bragging until she found out she would have been better making 50 - 60K back here.
She's living in an apartment - college style, with several unrelated roommates.
Good luck living on this in Silicon Valley. Welcome to the world of the working poor.
Quite frankly, it's getting ridiculous. This is, by the way, also the reason why you can't find tech workers. Why bother learning something when you can make more money in management?
Once we're all managers - supply and demand will lower management wages.
Couple things - the apprenticeship concept has been around for a long time, and you are a paid employee. Interns are the group that tends to work for free. And apprentice positions are a fine solution in many fields. One doesn't become a Master Machinist and command a Master Machinist's pay without serving and learning a lot over time. And rather than be a crap job that no one wants, a lot of people want to become an apprentice, rise to journeyman, and finally Master. The work has managed to stay abreast of automation as well.
The big "but" in this whole thing is whether the careers will be there when the apprentices finish their learning. If they aren't, the whole thing will fail.
What is the big problem today is that geeks like myself, who spent a lot of time as a teenager and young adult playing with the simple computers back in the day pretty much learned by passion and osmosis. And we're retiring. That learning experience isn't to be had in a traditional college. An actual paid apprenticeship is the closest thing we can come to those days. Finally, I spent a long career in tech and only been to the Valley once. There's plenty of money to be made here on the eastern side of the nation. Where I'm at, you could handle training as an apprentice for 30 K a year. It's nothing to get rich off of, but as you learn, the wages increase.
So a work experience program? This is nothing new.
Almost, but not quite.
There is a real problem with apprenticeship, in that you pay a noob a living wage while he or she learns a trade or skill. By the time they assimilate enough skills they can take over the jobe at hand.
A work experience program is usually something fo r student to do.
Problem is in the late 80's as more management levels and accountants were added, ovewrhead meant that you could temporarily save money by not training replacements. It's all culminated in people retiring with no replacement at all, and companies not having much of an idea at all what they did.
Then it wasn't such a cheap thing as emergency re-hires occured paying that old guy high wages.
Yes, I have a family of four on an Xfinity plan capped at 1 TB per month, and we often hit 80% of that and have gone over it twice. I don't know how a 180 GB cap is supposed to work for a home internet plan, unless it's targeted at people who don't stream video.
It is what you can use. If your cap was 50 Tbyte a month, you'd be edging up against it. It's the garage/junk drawer concept of you'll use everything available.
When my son was living at home, every increase in speed and amount of data was sucked up by his internet activity. When he moved out, it plummeted to maybe 10 percent, as well as sped up - a lot.
Then there is the elephant in the room. Wanna know why the cap pressure in the first place? Ads. Ads, served up to us in all their malware providing glory. You don't run all those ads and tracking scripts without a lot of data downloading on your devices, then phoning home. The more data we can pay for, the more they can stuff down our gullets, like those geese in France they forcefeed through funnels to make foi gras.
Oh, I'm sure that they'll have an Unlimited 5G data plan... for $200 a month. It will probably start throttling you after you download around 500 GB of data as well.
The plans that most people can actually afford will have much lower data caps, I'm sure.
Thank heavens we are getting rid of Net Neutrality. I see this story as a smoke screen for what is going to be happening soon.
Considering that there is no such thing as unlimited in the first place.
No you use one you can personally customise specifically for supercomputer applications which Windows was not designed for. Are Linux fanbois that desperate to impress these days?
You'd have to ask one, I don't know how desperate they are. I have zero fucks to give about who runs what OS on what.
I just make note that considering the cost of a supercomputer, it makes sense to use an operating system that you consider a good operating system, regardless of the cost. Cost of the OS is way down in the noise in that arena. I use MacOS, UNIX, Linux, and Windows. Whichever works best for what I'm doing.
Your projection of me as a "fanboi" is about as close to a straw man when as you can get. I have my favorite(s), but that is not relevent to this conversation. So chillaxe, have a nice adult beverage, and don't assume what other people are or are not.
Look, you're just not putting the right spin on it. You're living in a commune because by sharing resources you reduce your ecological impact. By increasing population density to Tokyo levels, you reduce dependency on CO2 emitting personal vehicles. Come on, now, Bessie. Mosey on up the cow ramp to your new home!
Ugh! Nightmare fuel for me. I like the idea of a world with about a quarter of the population that it has now.
Not so much the Soviet Union as Fascist Italy. The Soviets wouldn't have put up with what the Republicans want.
It is one of those strange things in that outside of some of the details, far right and far left start to look very much alike. Only there is almost no far left in the USA these days.
Stand by for a barrage of howaboutism.
It's not as though you're stuck with that option as is the case with iPhones.
You are soooo right Apple sent a bunch of thiugs to my place last night and beat the shit out of mem because I hand't run updates for a week.
Your howaboutism is strong. Believe it or not, this is a story about Android, not Apple, and you just justified buying a new phone with an outdated Android OS on it. Bravo!
I would think they would prefer the US to be like Germany or, say, Canada...
Some folks would just like the country run by people who are working for citizens, not corporations.
Progressives want the US to be like the Soviet Union, so yes.
No that's part of the Republican Party Platform.
Your argument is literally "liberals temper the negative consequences of their policies to be the maximum allowable without revolt." It's not a win that the economy is structured that people lack the ability to control their own lives, Hell, you couldn't even move off to live in the woods if you wanted to. You don't get to opt-out of society anymore.
WalMart has taken your input into consideration and will get back to you on your fate.
I was generous. It's probably 0.1-percenter, or 0.01 percenter.
Yes they're progressive as long as they get to remain a 0.01 percenter. Just ask Jimmy Kimmel.
The progressives in the government remain so because they realize that when the government owns everything, and they control how to distribute it, they will just distribute it according to their wants and needs.
I'm not certain what on earth you are talking about.
Trying to piece something together, there are wealthy people of all political stripes.
The concept of "The Government owns everything" well duh. The part that most people both left and right don't take into account is someone is going to own it.
We are now under Governance by corporatism. Corporations pay for and get proxy votes to run the country.
If people were to actually think about it, what they have chosen is that they demand that WalMart is to run the USA rather than elected citizens.
Now as a center right person, I'm not so certain that that is an improvement.
Poverty.
Make 100K a year and live like you are 18 with your first apartment, all your life in SV.
San Francisco has always been a place where money has been turned inside out. And its mostly relative. I could have worked and lived there, and made more money, but it would all have been sucked up by that cost of living. Same goes for DC. Could have made more, spent more, and dealt with the horrible DC traffic.
But aside from some folks thinking that this is somehow a liberal wet dream - what it really is - an example of tribalism. Most people are very social, and urban environments usually work against that, paradoxically because of too many people.
So people are banding together in groups that are more natural for humans, and re-establishing the "Us" that humans by nature like.
Nothing liberal about that. Some staunch anti-regulation conservative is probably still getting the rent money.
This wouldn't become far left until a group of these folks pooled their money and bought the place themselves, moved in and set up commune rules overseen by what is likely to be a direct democratic vote.
...that's not what "progressives" want.
That's funny, because it's the sum of their policies.
RLY? So the concept of having to live communally because you can't afford an actual place of your own is now somehow a progressive goal?
I live in a college town where something like 4 families own pretty much everything, Students live as many per apartment as the law allows, which was brought into being because some actual progressives didn't think that 12 people shouldn't live in a small two bedroom apartment.
And the people who own the town are pissed because you know - "regulations" . They're even rather staunch Republicans who vote straight ticket.
We need to tell them that they are actually progressives.
Seriously dude, that kind of logic only works down at the legion when it's 2 AM and y'all start fantasizing about taking out a second 'mendment solution on liberals. Cuz cat's and dogs will be living in sin because liberal reasons.
Welcome to the progressive wet dream. Home ownership is for the 1% only (and optional). The rest get to live in shared housing, tied to it by monthly rent that is just high enough to ensure they can't accumulate wealth, and just low enough to ensure that anyone can get a 12x12 ft box for themselves. You don't need a bathroom - you can share. You certainly don't need a kitchen - you won't be doing any cooking of your own. And you surely don't need a garage because you'll use public transportation, or god forbid rent once in a while. Everything is disposable... and you're dependent on your betters for every aspect of your life. You won't even have a job of your own - you'll get free money from the government.
Actually, it seems like the 1 percenters are the ones who benefit from this system. Is a 1 percenter a progressive?
'The Collective, for example, a co-working space in London, describes co-living as "a way of living focused on a genuine sense of community, using shared spaces and facilities to create a more convenient and fulfilling lifestyle."'
We also may refer to that as a 'commune', 'compound', or 'cult'
The self affirmation benefits will be great as well.
There have been some interesting advances in anti-aging research in recent years - I recall a TED talk by a woman a few years ago who manged to halve the aging speed in... roundworms I think it was. If something similar could be made to work for humans that would mean, not living your whole life in your thirties, but at least seeming to physically be in your thirties while you're actually in your 60s and 70s. It'd also mean puberty hits in your twenties or thirties, which would give people more time to grow before they become physically ready for reproduction. Theoretically it would also mean twice the length of old age, though you have to wonder how many of the deaths we attribute to "old age" are in fact the cumulative effect of damage of a lifetime of modern living - in which case the time between your body aging to the point where it starts "losing the fight" and eventual death might not actually be extended nearly as long as the rest of your lifespan.
The irony of all that is that it won't seem a day longer to us. We'll have adjusted to it almost immediately, and our perception oof our lifespan won't change much at all. We'll spend the same percentages of our life in each stage.
Certain parts will not adapt to the wear and tear. easily. Bone, that awesome organ of collagen and calcium phosphate has limits not based merely on cellular repair. I have personal experience in that area, with a lot of Ice Hockey injuries. Injury based arthritis in the knees, ankles on side of the hip, trigger finger and lower back. Presumably if I were to live to a doubling of life span, I'd be keeping the surgeons pretty busy as they transform me into a serious bionic man. With every broken bone and torn tendon and ligament, I was informed by my orthopedist that in 15 years or so, the healed injuries would come back to haunt me. And here I am. It's not too bad yet, but hell knows what it will be like 10 years from now, I'm definitely allergic to opioids, so they are out.
As for making better choices (with regard to partners) - there's a reason that so many cultures throughout history have had arranged marriages. Which worked well enough until the Romantic Era popularized the idea that marriage should be about romance rather than business.
While veering off topic, you are spot on, so I'll veer off as well. Exactly this. I got very lucky, but altogether too many people have a bitched up notion of romance, of being swept off your feet, and a giddy in love feeling that will follow you to the end of your days. Coupled with the ease of getting a divorce, this is creating a bad situation, with the prevalence of mothers maintaining custody and the fathers being merely a wallet that is allowd to see the children once in a while, this is not allowing the children to grow up in anything remotely resembling a normal situation. If the father's only use was to be a sperm donor, males would have evolved to be small penis shaped parasites by now.
Now double the fecund portion of life, and the image isn't reassuring.
(the time where the 3 Magi had offered the gifts of Gold, Incense and Muir)
The scripture does not specify a number of Magi, it only specifies a number of gifts. It is implied that there were more than one, but how many more is not stated. Could one Magi have brought multiple gifts? Could multiple Magi have brought the same gift?
We do know that they shopped at Lowe's for them.
>celibate Christmas
Admittedly it's mostly a cheery-but-sombre holiday and usually focused on the kids... but if it's going celibate I'm not going to observe Christmas any longer!
Observe? Non-celibate? You must get a lot of guests at your kickass naughty Christmas celebrations.
Black Friday isn't even one day anymore. It's a Beowulf cluster of days.
By popular demand - Black Friday held over for another week! Give me a break.
And beforehand as well. So many places have Black Friday events at seemingly random times after Labor day that it means nothing. I went to a Lowes in early September. I needed some lawn stuff. Had to get an assistant to go back to the storage area to find it. The entire area where the stuff should have been was taken up with Christmas shit. It's like 88 degrees, no one's shopping for your stupid Christmas stuff.
But they are worried so much that someone else is going to sell someone one single Christmas doodad that they must decorate teh stores for Christmas the day after labor day. Why not just make every store in the land only sell Christmas stuff?