rjbwork

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by rjbwork 5y ago
A huge part of addiction is the rituals surrounding the use of the addicting stimuli, not just the immediate gratification of the stimuli. I recently watched a video of a decades long heroin addict describing his life. He said that he came
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I don't think anyone wonders why, lol.
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I'm not invested in crypto or really at all interested in it. That said, my mentor seems pretty excited about it and is pretty heavily invested as of the past few months. I advised him to do something like https://en.wikip
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Pretty much. We're definitely gonna fail to do anything significant about any of this crap until it forcibly ends the way everyone actually lives their lives.
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No. It will lead to a terrible Nash equilibrium as far towards the donor class's interests as possible while still giving the voters the illusion of choice and enough of a quorum to provide airs of legitimacy.
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There is almost no voter fraud. And all verified instances I've read about have been from Trump/Republican voters. There does seem to be fairly common election fraud, though.
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Exactly. I think it is hard for someone who has never lived here and especially those that have never "slummed it" and had very rich friends to grasp the vast vast heterogeneity of this country.
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I'm not asked to or rewarded for it. I don't even get performance reviews. In the past I've seen the effort I put into documenting and architecting rot swiftly when things are handed over to others. That said, I do documen
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I don't really have a dog in this fight. I highly doubt the miners would move to that chain/protocol. There would be a hard fork of the source code and chain, possibly by people outside the reach of whatever jurisdiction this gu
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YIKES! This is literally the one and only setting I change right when I install Windows. I'm glad I found out it's totally unsupported before I went and took the plunge on 11. I guess I'll either skip 11 or wait for the up
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Again, I was not opposing the nuclear family to families without mothers and fathers. This is a misreading of what I am saying and clearly you are just engaging in the discussion to grind your axe about single parent households in black co
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We're not talking about the nuclear family in opposition to single parents or blended families. We're talking about it in opposition to extended and clan families. Which is why I explicitly mentioned extended ("broader&quot
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>or at least were at some point (it goes in cycles) Indeed. And the periods in which I can be obsessed seem to be increasingly less common as I get older, but every now and then I get bitten and just have to bang it out.
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True. I certainly am not. Definitely part of Atomization. Large swathes of the country, especially the religious and conservative still buy into this mythos though.
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In no particular order: The rich are getting richer faster than the rest of us. Real wages are stagnant. Social safety nets are constantly being removed. Labor protections have been being rolled back or enforcement lax since the ATC strike
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Not really. It's just a human responding to the incentives they're given. When management creates poor incentive structures, they get poor behavior, which drives poor outcomes. As they say - the problem with incentives is that t
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Possibly making sure that GP was at the bottom of the stack rank and looking out for his own neck.
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Or maybe genocide and "re-education" camps are bad, no matter the context.
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You probably won't get a good answer. The conception of political "wings" and the current FPTP party duopoly along those wings is hilariously narrow in the US. Our Overton window ranges from "genocidal fascists" t
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I haven't looked at the numbers in a while, but I think we also have much more top heavy education organizations, and much more unequal distributions of funds due to the bulk of funding coming from local property taxes. So, while we m
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This leads to absurdity. There are infinite non-existances, but finite existences (modulo the infinite of the universe, but the observable universe/the ~13.7 billion lightyear bubble around the Earth or so is finite). To assert that
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To answer your final question - no, we probably cannot actually determine absolute truth about the universe. There is quite a long history of epistemology that indicates this. In addition, we've got the https://en.wikipedi
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Okay. So you don't believe that the bible is utterly true. You believe that the bible, plus some supplementary explanatory material is utterly true.
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I have read it. It's why I don't believe it is utterly true and consider the claim that it is utterly true indicative of what I said it is. It's 2021. Any of us can go and look up a list of the contradictions people have f
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I think we've got a long long way to go before material conditions are actually ripe for open conflict. We'll have our panem et circenses in spades for a long time coming, I think.
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How can the bible be utterly true? It outright contradicts itself multiple times. It's a bunch of little books written by a hundred different people over the span of centuries. Do you instead mean that you believe that the broad them
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LOL. I actually used to rent a room from a dentist. Cool guy. Lived with him for 3 years.
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Scamming in games is part of the game. Eve, Runescape, Path of Exile, Ultima Online, etc. These all add friction to trade and uncertainty to in game interactions and allow people to attempt to carve out a scammer career in the game. If i
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I don't disagree with you from a very materialist, evolutionary, and anthropological point of view. But we're humans and we can rise above this base analysis. I am coming at it from more of an ethical point of view, largely utili
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Ultimately the role of parents is to provide their children the means to become successful and self-actualized adults. Their traditional values and feelings have little to do with that if their kids are opposed. If you decide to have kids

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