HEmanZ

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by HEmanZ 1y ago
How would you get groceries tho? Everyone would starve! (Ive had multiple family members who said this after I mentioned I didn’t have a car for 4 years while living in a major city)
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Medieval kings were a lot closer to mafia dons, in scope of government, role in government, and strength of position than any kind of politician we have in the western world today.
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
People who say this don’t understand the breakthrough we had in the last couple of years. 15 years ago I was laughing at people predicting AI would turn everything upside down soon. I’m not laughing anymore. I’ve been around long enough to
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
I feel pretty bad for you reading your comments, it sounds like you had a very bad educational experience that caused much more confusion than it should have. It sounds to me like you may be neurodivergent in some way that made these two pa
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Are you being sarcastic? I completely disagree with you here. Even at a young age people can understand that Huck Finn is a novel told from the perspective of a southern boy in the 1800s, not how you’re “supposed to write” when in another c
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
That’s the absolute percentage difference. Look at the under 35 category, it’s literally down 25%. That means 1/4 people that would have owned a house in that age group don’t now. Under 45 is a relative drop of ~17%, so about 1/5.
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Both Egypt and Jordan are US protectorates with no regional superpowers threatening their ruling regimes. Jordan couldn’t if they dreamed of it, Egypt might have but the US shows no interest in toppling its regime and mediation between them
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
It’s one of the reasons I’m torn on what the US should do here. I think this intervention is the most likely way a regime change occurs, but the least likely way to stabilize the region. So some small chance of a great outcome, much larger
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
It might be splitting hair, but I do agree that if a new regime gained power that was tightly aligned with some world super power, and got some kind of serious protectorate status, then they could be totally fine without nukes. The current
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
The main reason to want a bomb is to stop people from interfering with/attacking you. It has now become even more obvious to them that the most powerful country on earth is willing to attack them in order to control them and their regi
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Right wing propaganda is too strong here. Last night I tried to explain to my MIL that Iran did not do 9/11 (after she claimed this was finally payback for that). She responded that I was wrong because I listen to the liberal media. It
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Why in the world do you think they would use a nuke on the US? Why do you think they would use it at all? That is utter suicide. This is Iran, not ISIS (something a lot of Americans don’t know the difference between). Their stated goal, and
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Microsoft and Facebook not large and established enough?
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Everywhere I’ve worked I’ve found that the entire organization pays lip service to unit tests and code reviews, but then sets timelines so short and workloads so high that make real tests and reviews genuinely impossible.
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
I find it unlikely but… Much of my extended family would absolutely join a civil war on side Trump to get him into a permanent position of power if given the opportunity. Some of them are in the military. So it’s not unreasonable by world h
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Suppose a foreign adversary were able to infiltrate the key US institution that determines if higher education institutions have been infiltrated and subtly accuses them of being pro communist? What if a foreign adversary infiltrates the in
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
They’re trying to make an example of Harvard so they don’t need to force anyone else to tow the line. Other universities will self censor.
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
I feel US higher education, which brain drains the rest of the world, is easily one of the best strategic advantages it could have for the next 100 years. Let’s throw that all away because learning is liberal.
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
Like all advice, it only applies to some people. Working as a front line trades-person is rough, but becoming a journeyman or master as one step towards a profession (“I’m an hvac technician” vs “I’m in the hvac business”) seems to be a ver
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
The economy is the abstraction for all aspects of getting people the goods and services they want and need. Literally everything you don’t produce on your own. How did you access this website if you have never received anything from the eco
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
All loyalty is a risk. Even loyalty to your spouse is a risk. Just like how all love and human trust is a risk. To feel human you have to take these emotional risks. You shouldn’t bet your life that a mega-corp has absolute and utter loyalt
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by HEmanZ 1y ago
I find some Marxist-ish ideology always wants to blame these things on the material conditions, wealth. My personal network is a sea of trump worshipers (quite literally, like my cousins say a prayer for trump at every dinner since 2016), a
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
Sure they do. In places like, Russia. You know, places to look up to.
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
I don’t think your hypothetical is crazy at all. I learned this weekend that much of my close family, who were pretty normal conservatives just a couple of years ago, now believe that all legal and illegal immigrants have been let into the
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
This rings true for my gut reaction. The family and acquaintances in my life who have been up in arms against fluoride for years now are actual neo nzs (like “deport all non whites”, “you-know-who controls america”, “superiority of the whit
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
Just a bit north of you, in Seattle, it feels like every house in my neighborhood with enough land added an adu, a dadu, and condoized. My realtor says almost everyone looking for single family homes wants an existing dadu or somewhere they
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
My MIL lost half the people she works with in the federal cuts. She’s been a massive massive trump supporter (wears maga hats in public, even in San Francisco, has a painting of trump in her house, etc), but the cuts shook her. She told me
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
Attitudes around college in the US are really fascinating to me, because I’ve found they vary a lot from region to region and I think really reinforce class divides. I grew up in an area/class where my parents and their friends believe
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
You seem very emotionally uncalibrated if the first place you go is that the majority of news must mean your family is going to die. I’m not going to stop you from becoming emotionally destroyed by impossibly-worst-case-scenario perseverati
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by HEmanZ 2y ago
I’m not advocating for ignoring the world. I’m advocating for contextualizing it so that your emotional response is sane. I think I put it in another post, but someone I know closely has become catatonically depressed this year because of w

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