there is a big difference between "hey this is broke" and "hey you stupid b***h, you f***ing idiot, you broke this s***. i should come over to your house and break your fingers to keep you from screwing up my s*** even more".
Specifically, the latter sounds a lot like a threat to me. So why not simply call the cops? Let them deal with an asshole on a power trip, it's their job.
Then another prize for competing (regardless of effort), then another prize for the winning (you didn't lose, you just got fourth place out of four).
Hey, you got to brainwash people to have unrealistic expectations and regard everyone else as an enemy/"competitor" somehow, otherwise they might team up with their peers rather than running a rat race at the will of their masters later in life.
I don't think I'm being dumb, just acknowledging that I'm ignorant of certain topics.
You are doing more than acknowledging said ignorance: you are implying that other people, rather than you, should take some action about this. You are not being dumb, you are being lazy and entitled, which is much worse.
Also, if the summary truly was incomprehensible to you, your level of general knowledge is rather pathetic. Not that that's surprising with that attitude.
Please people. Check your sarcasm detectors as they are malfunctioning. The whole 'bodybuilders have known this for years' thing is simply a cliche. The poster was just going for a laugh, and got you bozos instead.
Or better yet, dispense with sarcasm and humour entirely. They fill page after page with pointless, misleading banter that adds nothing of value to either the topic under solemn consideration or its posters karma score - which should be proof enough that such levity is unwanted here. This is a highly respected veneral website; a careless joke here could have far-reaching consequences.
On the other hand it provides a major boost to efficiency and convenience to those who need access to the same documents in multiple physical locations.
Does it provide a boost over simply carrying a USB stick in your keychain?
Pretty much, yeah. Even if this iceberg doesn't get us, and even if climate change won't, the by-now ingrained habbit of putting fingers in your ears and shitposting to drown out unpleasant facts effectively nullifies your intelligence, thus making it impossible to consider or react efficiently to any situation. Since intelligence is our sole evolutionary advantage, and since climate chance denial has made pretending stupidity fashionable, we're pretty much doomed.
Still, at least it provides a fascinating case study about self-delusion.
Fiscally punishing someone due to their opinion is stupid. It discourages free speech, discourages open communication, and discourages the expression of new ideas. Unfortunately, with free speech and open communication you sometimes end up with idiots like Card spouting off crap. The best thing to do is ignore them.
Unfortunately, since Card makes his living from selling his creative works, people ignoring him is precisely what's fiscally punishing him. He isn't being fined; people are simply refusing to associate with him, even by proxy. Which does indeed discourage unpopular communications, which may or may not be a problem; but in any case, you can avoid it by not using your popularity as capital but posting anonymously instead.
Why must you demand that government call your relationship a "marriage" when the "rights" part can be achieved with using that exact word? Their only HONEST response was they wanted to FORCE those bigoted Christians to recognize their marriage.
And the only HONEST reason why we'd need a "civil union" that's 100% equal to marriage but not marriage is to enshrine the religious bigotry of these Christians into law, which is expressly forbidden by the First Amendment. And that, in turn, would be basically admitting that gays are not protected by the Constitution. Would you make such an admission? Could you afford to dare to?
It's not about forcing bigoted Christians to recognize anything; it's about forcing the state to recognize that it is not at liberty to appease them. And that is a fight we all have a stake in. "First they came for gays..."
No one cares about what Fred Phelps thinks, but everyone loses if Uncle Sam bends over for him.
I don't understand why I should have to subsidize people for poor choices they make.
Because it beats both being a lone hunter-gatherer or giving everyone else the details of and a say in every decision you make, which are the alternatives.
One perk of having a job, however, is precisely giving you a way to pass the day.
...I have no need for supervised activity.
This lesson is the same as in Candide, where in spite of adventures of tumult, death, and agony, it turns out that idleness is just as bad.
And the lesson Lord of the Rings is that if you work hard, a dragon or a demon will come and kill you.
Fictitious stories are not evidence.
Another thing that is bad is the self-concept of being unemployed -- I had some very rich friends at college who took great effort to avoid showing off how rich they were while at college and after graduating took semi-grunt-work IT positions just so they could think of themselves as productive, working people.
This is a cultural problem. It can be eliminated by changing said culture.
But there being "no need to work" at all is not an ideal end state. If there were no need to work, I would be a very unhappy person, even moreso than I already am.
You would be unhappy for a while, then you'd pick a hobby and get on with your life.
You're giving mental adaptations to the needs of the current system more credit than they're worth. They're just that: adaptations, learned values of reward and punishment directing your behaviour so you don't need to engage your higher reasoning for every decision you make. Change the situation and they change too, even if it'll take a while.
Yes, well, perhaps in La-la Land. Here, in reality, no matter how good your organization may be (for whatever definition of "good" you choose to use), you may still end up with bad employees. The question of securing your data shouldn't be about good or evil, or any particular moral judgment, but simply about how to make sure you're critical and confidential data doesn't end up being ripped off.
Moral judgements matter because good organizations need only worry about bad employees, while bad organizations must worry about everyone; bad employees will still backstab them for personal gain while good employees backstab them because they're villains. Unconditional loyalty belongs to La-La Land. Here, in reality, you either earn what you need or suffer the consequences. And bad organizations have a much harder time doing that, because appealing to the social contract they're themselves violating isn't effective.
This isn't about "them" or "the elites", this is simply people behaving rationally. If you got $1b in your account tomorrow, you'd be behaving exactly the same way, and you're no elite either.
I wouldn't. Why would I? $1b is enough to spend the rest of my life on the lap of luxury, while having plenty of resources leftover to spend in any cause I considered worthwhile, be it charity or space colonization or whatever.
Technically speaking, "rational" means maximizing expected utility. The utility of money asymptotically approaches a finite value as the amount of money approaches infinity, and for most people is already pretty darn close to it at $1b. Thus it is not generally rational to make great or even modest sacrifices to make more money at that point, especially since you are pretty much guaranteed to profit from simple and perfectly above-ground index investing.
That's so great, you get your data from political slogans.
Where do you get yours? From the people who don't want to get their dainty hands dirty but claim the credit for the accomplishments of those who do, and then show contempt for them?
Come on, even Marx admitted that some poor people were a burden on society.
The grandparent talked about "unproductive majority" and "productive minority", and then went on to imply that the employees - the people who actually produce every single thing produced in this or any other country - are examples of the former. That is a lie, regardless of what Marx or anyone may or may not have "admitted".
Also, society can take burdens. It can support the needy poor, and it could easily support the idle rich. What it can't take is wolves who prey on others, and then try to blame their victims for the results. That's nothing more than the divine right of the kings revisited, and will end the same way as the last time.
It's like having the a strong password and then writing it on a post-it note that you stick to your monitor.
Which is perfectly reasonable, if it's a password for some remote service and you trust the people who have physical access to the computer. It sure beats both having a weak password so you can remember it, or writing it on a file in the computer where it can be stolen by an intruder.
Never underestimate security through a locked door and a dog.
The average American KNOWS the average US veteran is a war criminal.
"KNOWS" as in "has evidence", or as in "some pseudonymous dude said so on an Internet forum without providing evidence, so it must be true"?
Because a lot of people seem to KNOW that Obama is actually a commie muslim with a fake birth certificate, or that jews did 9/11, or that Hitler is still alive in South America, or...
actually it promises to subsidize the unproductive majority by stealing from the productive minority
I'm pretty sure most people work for a living, and it's a small minority - about 1%, in fact - that steals from said productive people to support their parasitic lifestyle. And that would be a minor annoyance by itself, except that's not enough for them - no, they play at being "businessmen" by recklessly endangering the livelihood of the productive majority for their economic poker games, and then start throwing insults at the very same people who's labour supports them.
From just the tax rates on income and property, to various rules, laws and regulations that government imposes upon business to buy votes (be it minimum wage, various laws that give employees special powers to sue employers for any perceived 'wrongdoing', any kind of entitlement to the employers and customers that end up being obligations upon the employers and producers).
Who are these mystical "producers", since they are apparently not the employees in your mind? And why are you upset that the working class and the owning class define their relationship through laws, given your own insistence on the importance of the rule of it? Does it simply burn you that some laws actually side with the serfs rather than the parasites on top?
ALL democracies are destined to failure, that is not an option, it's an inevitable consequence of the rule of mob.
All systems are destined to failure due to nothing lasting forever, it's the inevitable consequence of time passing in a reality where chaos theory holds. Your assertion is dramatic but meaningless.
That's why to keep working the system is supposed to set those types of feelings and desires aside and concentrate on constantly and vigilantly protecting the rule of law, equality before law, equality of opportunity by providing equal application of law, prevention of discrimination by the mob, by the government.
So how does that equality before the law work when both parties are responsible for paying for their lawyers and the other has thousands of times as much available cash? How does equality of opportunity work when taking any opportunity likely has investment and opportunity costs and one party can pay them and the other can't?
Oh yeah, the economy sucks and people are desperate for money.
Kinda makes one wonder just how accidental the current depression really is. Desperate people not only do anything for money, but historically accept and even want strong leaders with unlimited power. So, for a politician or three-letter organization, the worse it gets the better it gets.
And who created the bitcoin software? We don't know but I'm sure they are having fun selling off coins they got for free to suckers who just finished eating their tulip bulbs.
So... the inventor of Bitcoin might get rich from it, therefore it is bad?
I'm not sure why I should hate targeted ads. I actually see ads for things I'm interested in... instead of random stuff.
Because the more you consume, the less you can save up, and the more dependent you are of maintaining your current job and/or the goodwill of your debtors, thus making you ever more helplessly bound and enslaved. Thus an ad should be considered an attempt to put another chain on you, an attack on your freedom, and a targeted ad a more effective attack.
The tracking, ad infinitum, has always been going on, will always be going on.
So has bubonic plague, but that's no reason to avoid taking antibiotics when you get it.
I was looking through my HS yearbook from ~1998, the girls seem different from today. Girls now talk as if they were mentally retarded- "OMG," "like totally," etc. It wasn't as bad back in the 90s.
So in your youth the youth spoke proper slang, which is different than the slang of today, therefore the modern youth must be retarded?
Seems like the average female IQ is dropping.
Bonus points for not knowing what IQ means.
Just look at the average girls Facebook feed- nothing but brain dead attention whores.
So... are you a creepy middle-aged cyberstalker of teenagers, or are you pulling stuff out of your ass?
I don't care what you do or don't do with your wabbly bits so long as if anyone else is involved it is consensual, but as far as life and evolution are concerned, you're an irrelevant dead end.
Maybe. Then again, the main thrust of human evolution is arguably cultural nowadays; even if no one carries your genes down the line, they might still carry your thoughts. And this is likely to only become more so in the future, as medicine and genetic engineering advance.
What if they can't find a job and begin to cope with the benefits of the social security system, continuing playing video games on the sofa?
Well, to put it bluntly: so what? There's a huge surplus of workforce that's only going to get larger as automation continues to advance. Having the ever-increasing masses of unemployed people be content to spend their time quietly playing video games is about the best we can hope for; the alternative is civil unrest, riots, and ultimately a revolution.
Hikikomori is simply a perfectly rational adaptation to having little, if any, hopes for the future.
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Just because you're a professional plumber doesn't mean you put up with anyone's shit on your free time.
Specifically, the latter sounds a lot like a threat to me. So why not simply call the cops? Let them deal with an asshole on a power trip, it's their job.
More like someone forgot their education. And then decided to make drama out of it.
Hey, you got to brainwash people to have unrealistic expectations and regard everyone else as an enemy/"competitor" somehow, otherwise they might team up with their peers rather than running a rat race at the will of their masters later in life.
Power, actually, the addiction to it, and the associated mental problems.
You are doing more than acknowledging said ignorance: you are implying that other people, rather than you, should take some action about this. You are not being dumb, you are being lazy and entitled, which is much worse.
Also, if the summary truly was incomprehensible to you, your level of general knowledge is rather pathetic. Not that that's surprising with that attitude.
Or better yet, dispense with sarcasm and humour entirely. They fill page after page with pointless, misleading banter that adds nothing of value to either the topic under solemn consideration or its posters karma score - which should be proof enough that such levity is unwanted here. This is a highly respected veneral website; a careless joke here could have far-reaching consequences.
Does it provide a boost over simply carrying a USB stick in your keychain?
Pretty much, yeah. Even if this iceberg doesn't get us, and even if climate change won't, the by-now ingrained habbit of putting fingers in your ears and shitposting to drown out unpleasant facts effectively nullifies your intelligence, thus making it impossible to consider or react efficiently to any situation. Since intelligence is our sole evolutionary advantage, and since climate chance denial has made pretending stupidity fashionable, we're pretty much doomed.
Still, at least it provides a fascinating case study about self-delusion.
Unfortunately, since Card makes his living from selling his creative works, people ignoring him is precisely what's fiscally punishing him. He isn't being fined; people are simply refusing to associate with him, even by proxy. Which does indeed discourage unpopular communications, which may or may not be a problem; but in any case, you can avoid it by not using your popularity as capital but posting anonymously instead.
And the only HONEST reason why we'd need a "civil union" that's 100% equal to marriage but not marriage is to enshrine the religious bigotry of these Christians into law, which is expressly forbidden by the First Amendment. And that, in turn, would be basically admitting that gays are not protected by the Constitution. Would you make such an admission? Could you afford to dare to?
It's not about forcing bigoted Christians to recognize anything; it's about forcing the state to recognize that it is not at liberty to appease them. And that is a fight we all have a stake in. "First they came for gays..."
No one cares about what Fred Phelps thinks, but everyone loses if Uncle Sam bends over for him.
Because it beats both being a lone hunter-gatherer or giving everyone else the details of and a say in every decision you make, which are the alternatives.
...I have no need for supervised activity.
And the lesson Lord of the Rings is that if you work hard, a dragon or a demon will come and kill you.
Fictitious stories are not evidence.
This is a cultural problem. It can be eliminated by changing said culture.
You would be unhappy for a while, then you'd pick a hobby and get on with your life.
You're giving mental adaptations to the needs of the current system more credit than they're worth. They're just that: adaptations, learned values of reward and punishment directing your behaviour so you don't need to engage your higher reasoning for every decision you make. Change the situation and they change too, even if it'll take a while.
Moral judgements matter because good organizations need only worry about bad employees, while bad organizations must worry about everyone; bad employees will still backstab them for personal gain while good employees backstab them because they're villains. Unconditional loyalty belongs to La-La Land. Here, in reality, you either earn what you need or suffer the consequences. And bad organizations have a much harder time doing that, because appealing to the social contract they're themselves violating isn't effective.
I wouldn't. Why would I? $1b is enough to spend the rest of my life on the lap of luxury, while having plenty of resources leftover to spend in any cause I considered worthwhile, be it charity or space colonization or whatever.
Technically speaking, "rational" means maximizing expected utility. The utility of money asymptotically approaches a finite value as the amount of money approaches infinity, and for most people is already pretty darn close to it at $1b. Thus it is not generally rational to make great or even modest sacrifices to make more money at that point, especially since you are pretty much guaranteed to profit from simple and perfectly above-ground index investing.
Cheating when you're winning is the domain of people with severe psychological problems, not Joe Average. It is also extremely irrational.
Where do you get yours? From the people who don't want to get their dainty hands dirty but claim the credit for the accomplishments of those who do, and then show contempt for them?
The grandparent talked about "unproductive majority" and "productive minority", and then went on to imply that the employees - the people who actually produce every single thing produced in this or any other country - are examples of the former. That is a lie, regardless of what Marx or anyone may or may not have "admitted".
Also, society can take burdens. It can support the needy poor, and it could easily support the idle rich. What it can't take is wolves who prey on others, and then try to blame their victims for the results. That's nothing more than the divine right of the kings revisited, and will end the same way as the last time.
Which is perfectly reasonable, if it's a password for some remote service and you trust the people who have physical access to the computer. It sure beats both having a weak password so you can remember it, or writing it on a file in the computer where it can be stolen by an intruder.
Never underestimate security through a locked door and a dog.
"KNOWS" as in "has evidence", or as in "some pseudonymous dude said so on an Internet forum without providing evidence, so it must be true"?
Because a lot of people seem to KNOW that Obama is actually a commie muslim with a fake birth certificate, or that jews did 9/11, or that Hitler is still alive in South America, or...
I'm pretty sure most people work for a living, and it's a small minority - about 1%, in fact - that steals from said productive people to support their parasitic lifestyle. And that would be a minor annoyance by itself, except that's not enough for them - no, they play at being "businessmen" by recklessly endangering the livelihood of the productive majority for their economic poker games, and then start throwing insults at the very same people who's labour supports them.
Who are these mystical "producers", since they are apparently not the employees in your mind? And why are you upset that the working class and the owning class define their relationship through laws, given your own insistence on the importance of the rule of it? Does it simply burn you that some laws actually side with the serfs rather than the parasites on top?
All systems are destined to failure due to nothing lasting forever, it's the inevitable consequence of time passing in a reality where chaos theory holds. Your assertion is dramatic but meaningless.
So how does that equality before the law work when both parties are responsible for paying for their lawyers and the other has thousands of times as much available cash? How does equality of opportunity work when taking any opportunity likely has investment and opportunity costs and one party can pay them and the other can't?
Kinda makes one wonder just how accidental the current depression really is. Desperate people not only do anything for money, but historically accept and even want strong leaders with unlimited power. So, for a politician or three-letter organization, the worse it gets the better it gets.
So... the inventor of Bitcoin might get rich from it, therefore it is bad?
Because the more you consume, the less you can save up, and the more dependent you are of maintaining your current job and/or the goodwill of your debtors, thus making you ever more helplessly bound and enslaved. Thus an ad should be considered an attempt to put another chain on you, an attack on your freedom, and a targeted ad a more effective attack.
So has bubonic plague, but that's no reason to avoid taking antibiotics when you get it.
So in your youth the youth spoke proper slang, which is different than the slang of today, therefore the modern youth must be retarded?
Bonus points for not knowing what IQ means.
So... are you a creepy middle-aged cyberstalker of teenagers, or are you pulling stuff out of your ass?
Maybe. Then again, the main thrust of human evolution is arguably cultural nowadays; even if no one carries your genes down the line, they might still carry your thoughts. And this is likely to only become more so in the future, as medicine and genetic engineering advance.
Well, to put it bluntly: so what? There's a huge surplus of workforce that's only going to get larger as automation continues to advance. Having the ever-increasing masses of unemployed people be content to spend their time quietly playing video games is about the best we can hope for; the alternative is civil unrest, riots, and ultimately a revolution.
Hikikomori is simply a perfectly rational adaptation to having little, if any, hopes for the future.