MisterBastahrd

Life is the full encompassing situation you are in. Living is what happens while you're alive. This isn't hard, and that prose is banal regardless of how you want to argue.

That's not because of remote work. That's because either your managers aren't capable of doing their jobs or your co-workers refuse to speak up when someone isn't doing their part. I hold my co-workers to a high standard. If they're fucking up and it prevents me from doing my job, I'm not going to pretend like it isn't happening. They will know, and if it continues, so will their manager. The biggest problem with weak managers is that they don't know how to hold people accountable.

I'm certainly more innovative when it's the opposite. When you're all on the same page from the beginning and you're deliberating in that way, you will often end up following a very narrow path. Divergence and ideation happens when you're given an initial problem and you attempt to solve said problem independently. THEN you come together and you can start to fashion together a solution, synthesizing the best parts of each solution. Even if someone is completely off the mark with the rest of the group, their lack of initial perspective can bring greater rewards in the long run as they've got a fresher mind to attack the problem from a different angle.

Life is inherently unfair because you don't get to choose the circumstances in which you are born. Sure, you can argue that after that point the universe doesn't give a crap about you, but the starting point matters more than anything else. That's why I regard her quote as surface level and childish.

Is there a better, and actually insightful quote from her that we should know about? Because this is the sort of writing you'd expect from an emo 6th grader, not a Nobel prize winner. "Life isn't fair, nothing lasts forever" isn't exactly genius level stuff.

Yeah, I'm sure the 1% of people this actually affects will be really big mad and stuff.

Citizens are taxed as individuals, not families. A person did not have assets, and now they do. I don't care that the land was "in their family." If they are even decent at managing their assets, then they will have more assets when they die than when their parents did. And if they don't, then it's not my concern. I don't believe in government policies to perpetuate generational capital wealth, and I will vote against them as long as we have a system where money can be used to influence the government.

You can make that claim, but the fact of the matter is that the US is a representative democracy, and our elected representatives make the laws. We are free to choose other people for the job if we want different laws. The vast majority of people were not lucky enough to be in a situation where their bumpkin ancestors just happened to possess a large swath of land, and so we don't vote to protect large swaths of inherited land.

They owe taxes? They can pay them. They can afford to pay them because they have inherited assets. "Oh no, they're gonna get a diminished inheritance. What a disaster." I'm not getting one, and neither are most of the people in the country. They'll still have their inheritance, they just won't have the land. And they aren't entitled to it if they don't have the money to pay their taxes.

Violent revolution, mostly.

Not even sure why I should be upset in the first place. If I get fired from my job, nobody is going to run to my aid crying that I deserved that job because my daddy worked really hard to put me through school (he didn't, but that's besides the point) and he wanted me to have it. No, I just get fired. How is a family farm any different? It's just an asset. Birthrights shouldn't exist past citizenship.

As far as enjoying it at the time I was reading it?

The Once and Future King.

I was on summer vacation while camping and fishing and I read the entire book in a couple of days in the evenings. Maybe it was the lack of distraction, but the Arthurian legend of that book has influenced a ton of modern fiction.

My experience agrees with you. At the very least, I had no idea how many of the people I grew up with were as stupid, shallow and bigoted as they are until I heard them announce their opinions on social media. I may not have hung out with many of them after high school, but at least I still sort of had some respect for them.

Yes, but that's an insanely small minority of people. The average person in my hometown makes $70K a year with overtime and has a $320K house. They're not loading up IRAs. They don't have the money to spare.

You can't expect the ignorant to understand that you can't feed outdated tanks and missile systems to the needy.

The same folks who wanted to defund NOAA and FEMA a month ago are now complaining that we're sending old military equipment to Ukraine instead of North Carolina because apparently multitasking is impossible. They're also the people who want to know why the Biden Administration hasn't been wasting everyone's time with photo ops at the scene, and also refuse to acknowledge that the aid rendered is the aid that the states have asked for.

Virtually all people who have worked and retired at oil and gas companies over the past 40 years had both a company pension AND a 401K. My dad has a paid off house and no bills other than utilities and taxes. He's pulling in over 80K a year in retirement, and he re-invests most of what he's being forced to pull out.

AI art is dead, dude. Get over it. Grifters lost. Regulators won.

The US. Your pension, if you get one, is tied to your employer. Most people have 401Ks.

A high school friend of mine contacted me out of the blue on facebook after probably 20 years. He had gotten on early with an MLM that made it big and one of them had such success on the platform that he had made multiple appearances at their national convention to give a testimonial to how it changed his family's lives. Mind you, this is a guy who was 2 years from being able to retire with a pension from the chemical refinery he worked at.

I laughed, told him I wasn't interested, and warned him that he didn't own his network: that the MLM could take it from him at any time, and it's why most of the experienced salesmen I knew lived well below their paychecks. He grew very upset, told me I didn't know what I was talking about, and basically behaved as if I had insulted his religion.

Well, half a year later I was laid off and found a new job with a marketing automation firm. On my second day, we had an all hands meeting where they were announcing that the MLM he worked for would be immediately breaking contract and leaving our platform because they reached a settlement with the DOJ over their methodology. Effective immediately, they were going to a distributor model and ceasing all payouts for network related sales.

I knew his world was going to collapse before he did. In the end, he had to sell his house and most of his possessions, his wife divorced him, and he tried to break back into the MLM world but could never get anything started. Nobody wanted to hire him for a traditional sales role because they regard MLMers as lazy and dumb. He's back at another chemical refinery, hoping to work there for another 20+ years to earn another pension.

Sooner or later, think tanks are going to start coming up with price charts showing how much your bills would be with and without crypto and AI. And that's going to be a huge political hot potato for these companies to manage. I hope they're ready to invest in massive solar farms.

The Encyclopedia of Cajun and Creole Cuisine by John Folse is the essential cookbook for those cuisines if you're looking for authenticity. Folse doesn't play with his food like other chefs in the area, he simply recites the recipes that people have been preparing for over a hundred years.

Even recent recipes have issues as shrinkflation and corporate food chemistry have both changed pre-made boxed ingredients for specific recipes. A box of cake mix today usually yields a softer crumb than a box of cake mix from 20 years ago. It's also smaller.

Yes, totally. That's why places in NC are currently charging 10 bucks a gallon for gas instead of rationing it out at 5 gallons a piece at market rates. Because supply and demand.

Eh, I'd go the opposite route. You meet a threshold, you go into a lottery. They can all sit there on selection day where the hopper spits out the names of admitted students one by one.

You could have actually paid attention to what she said instead of taking the MAGA approach where you only hear what you want to hear and jettison everything else. Her plan for grocery price controls was about emergency situations to prevent gouging. Every single state in the union which has political representation that YOU like already has such laws in place, they just aren't enforced unless there's political theater to be made.

The simple fact of the matter is that vendors will sell their product anyway. It takes time to bring product to the market and most food is highly perishable. To the extent that the US subsidizes agriculture, there's absolutely no excuse for gouging during emergencies.

Argentina never had rent control. Rent control keeps rents low for indefinite periods of time. Argentina simply mandated 3 year leases.

Who, exactly, gets to choose how unbiased the prosecutor is? You won't get that from a democratic election and you won't get that from elected officials choosing them.

Proof once again that justice at its highest levels in the US is to punish the poor and middle class and slap the rich on their wrists. There are people who have stolen food to eat who have gotten harsher punishments.

Bathing, pooping, washing things, and watering lawns.

And you're comparing individuals vs. households.

It's literally how children have played for 99.99% of human existence.

You want more active kids in the US? This is easy. Every neighborhood needs to have multiple adjacent lots with no construction on it. Aka, a park of sorts. It doesn't need to have slides, or games, or any of that other stuff. It just needs to be an open space with enough room that groups of kids can go and engage in outdoor activities without the need to be constantly monitored by adults. That's it.

They can play football or baseball or soccer or frisbee or tag. Doesn't matter. What matters is that you give them the room and let them do their own thing. Not only would this help them be more active, but it'd help them socialize a great deal more than they normally do.