FrontierPsych

I completely agree with this world without men for women.

I also advocate a world without women for men.

Not sure about South Korea, but in the USA, there's no benefit for a man to marry a woman, either. I've long advocated for men not to get married. The number of friends I've had go to absolute poverty because of a divorce is incredible. Living in their cars, lose their kids except for 4 days a month (every other weekend).

But in the world without men, they women should probably move to an uninhabited land and start their own cities, put in pipelines, sewers, open auto repair shops, start construction companies, create and pave roads, build homes and highrise buildings, electricians - all that stuff that men traditionally do for women. Only 2-4% of all construction tradespeople are women in the USA, not counting women in admin or management - only counting the actual trades workers. If women are going to do this, they shouldn't depend on the infrastructure that men created, and should be 100% in their world without men. Seems fair to me. If women are going to live without men, then commit to it. And the same with men. Men will have to do without having 284 pillows on their bed, hearing about how their friend's brother's sister's boyfriend's boss' mother re-decorated their house. It's a steep price, but I think men can do make it without women. And women without men. For one generation, anyways. Then if we do it worldwide, the Earth can do a reset and go back to where it was before humans messed it up. So it all works out perfectly. Put a bow on it.

However, I've read artificial uteruses https://imgur.com/lrwGAvv are right around the corner (hello Matrix), and so men can then buy an egg from a woman egg donor, do an artificial insemination, and grow the child in the artificial womb. That way, a man can have a baby but not be in jeapordy of losing the child or any assets like they would if they get married and then divorced. For companionship, maybe with these new robots, that will bring new companionship to the next level.

I've worked with the construction and trades industry for a long time - not as an employee, but as a vendor. I've talked to thousands of business owners. Most times at great length about their business and the industry.

The most common complaint for decades is a lack of employees. Nothing new here. But a lot of it is that the smaller companies don't have a concerted effort to attract talent. This is because most of the trades - plumbing, electricians, etc, are small companies of 2-10 employees. They are not advertising every week for new employees and keeping their resumes on hand for when someone quits their company. The larger companies, while still having problems recruiting, are able to keep their companies at 100 or 200 plumbers or electricans. Maybe the large companies are not growing as fast as they can, but they still have a lot of workers.

Most of the construction companies don't need to look for work at all. Because of the extreme shortage of employees, they all have way more work than they can do.

Child labor would put a dent in what construction companies need. Construction companies can't find 18-22 year olds to do the jobs. Why would a child do it? And not many parents would allow it, not even low-income households. Construction is dangerous as fuck.

Also, it is EXTREMELY physically demanding. So many people walk off the job after the very first day and just say "fuck it," just because of the physical demands - not even talking about accidents or safety. It's like being at the gym all day, working out for 8 hours straight, every day. Some construction workers must eat 8,000 calories per day to deal with the calorie burn. So you are eating 400% more food and you pay for that extra food, or your parents do.

You can see the danger of construction by looking at workers comp insurance rates for different industries. The workers comp rates are based on your payroll. Companies pay $x per $100 of payroll. So for instance, the average workers comp rate across all industries is $2.25 per $100 of payroll. So if your company's monthly payroll is $100,000 per month, then your workers comp payments will be $2,250 per month.

But it changes by job. So since office work is very little chance of injury, it costs 28 to 99 cents per $100 of payroll. Very inexpensive. An doctors office cotss $1.22 to $3.68 - maybe because a greater chance of getting a disease or moving an overweight patient or whatever - more risk than sitting at a desk, right? A garbage industry worker costs $6.19 to $23.63. Tree trimming and masonry is $12-$43. Carpentry is $15-$50. Roofing is one of the most expensive at $23-$87.

The more you have to pay in workers comp, the more dangerous the occupation is. Roofing is one of the highest, because people fall off roofs, off ladders, they carry heavy shingles and hurt their backs. So roofing companies are going to have to pay a lot more than office jobs.

FYI it goes by worker - an office admin person working in a roofing company still gets office worker comp rate.

But construction is extremely unsafe which you can see just by looking at workers comp costs.

One other thing that affects the cost of workers comp insurance is how many claims a company has. Just like auto insurance, the more accidents and traffic tickets you have, the more you will pay, until it is devastatingly high. It's the exact same with workers comp. If a company has a lot of workplace accidents, their rate skyrockets, sometimes until the company must go out of business. The reason for the rate increase is because the company has lax safety procedures, on the whole, right? Makes sense. Well, if you have 14-17 year olds, you're going to have a LOT more accidents because kids that age don't know what they are doing. And you put them in dangerous situations.

Think of it this way - if you are a homeowner, would you hire your next door neighbor's kid to help you with re-shingling your roof, or any other dangerous or mildly dangerous type of work??? Hell no. Why should we allow a company to do that? And even if you hire the neighbor kid to mow your lawn, that is vastly different than hiring a kid to commercially mow lawns for a business. No way should anyone under 18-years-old be allowe to work in dangerous industries. Mandate that by federal law. If you want to get training for young workers, you can have them go out with estimators or foremen or do office work to understand and train them in the business. But no actual physical work as the tradesman.

Soon to come in those states - children coal miners:

https://imgur.com/nOP8jVV

https://imgur.com/RgLPM3v

Of course, even today there are child workers - in 3rd world countries.

https://imgur.com/v5UsSaQ

Glad to see we are becoming a...3rd world country???

I've always known about the three, but the author is correct saying it's about availability. You used to have to go into the "special character" pop up, click on the n- or m-dash, go back to the document and paste it in. In more formal documents, maybe I'd do that, but most of the time it is just a big pain in the ass, and most people don't know the difference, so why bother. I do use the space dash space now for the n-dash. But where is the m-dash??? Usually under the "Special Characters" option I went into Tools menu to check if Special Characters is there...nope. Format menu choice?? Nope. Insert? Ah! There it is...after having to look through each of the above very slowly to see if the Special Character option is there. Now I have to look at the characters - there used to be very few special characters and you could find the m-dash. Now there are thousands of special characters and I don't have the time to look through them all. So now I have to go to the help documentation to search for the m-dash.

OK, on in the help search box, nothing comes up under "m dash," "m-dash," "em-dash," or "em dash." Not even showing up under "dash." Fuck. OK, so now I have to go the ASCII table to find the ASCII decimal code. I found it - it is ASCII code for m-dash is 151, but how do I put that in the document??? I search online help - no help.

I go back to the Special Characters option under (Insert menu. OH! There's a search box on top. I type in "m dash" THERE IT IS!!

So I had to go through all that, just to find the m-dash. Why? Sheesh, what a nosebleed. You might say, "Of course, why didn't you do that in the first place?" Because 1) I'm an imperfect being, and 2) I've used all of those other ways before - I didn't start on computers in the last 5 years, I've gone through a lot of changes so I know a lot of ways to do the same thing. And from app to app, some still work one way way, some not.

I didn't do my old standby, though. That would have been my next step — just go to Google search, type in m-dash as I'll always find it there, then just copy and paste the m-dash. That almost always works. Why didn't I do that first just now? Because I just wanted do it within the word processor, because that's the way it "should" be. And eventually was, after much work.

So, fuck all the special characters. I just use commonly understood equivalents if I can.

But, the point is that I've always know the difference between all three, it's just — why even bother? It's a colossal pain in the ass.

This has always been the way of Silicon Valley.

I was there in San Francisco during the first dot-com bubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

I remember when the market crashed and being on Market and watching all these young people walk around shell-shocked by the crash and everyone getting laid off. I saw these code warriors, soon to be unemployed, with my own eyes. They were like walking zombies, I swear to you. Fear permeated everywhere.

High risk and bullshit has always been the game in the Bay Area. It always will be.

Venture capital companies look at thousands of business plans a year. One out of a thousand get funding. Of those, maybe one out of 200 makes money, and 1 out of 10,000 of those is a unicorn. And that unicorn is where all the venture capitalists make their money back to cover all the other losses in the companies that don't make it.

If the whole USA economy doesn't crash from a ripple effect on Silicon Valley Bank, don't you worry none - Silicon Valley will be back to its old tricks in no time.

It will be back because this is what the entire Bay Area is geared to - high risk, high reward. Just like Hollywood is geared to entertainment and Taiwan to the chip industry. There are thousands and thousands of other companies all geared to those ecosystems, and it cannot be duplicated elsewhere.

As far as Silicon Valley, it is worth it - consider all the tech - computers, networking, and all the different IT categories, and then all the specific companies exploiting those industry categories. It would never exist without Silicon Valley and the synergies found there.

The risks that Silicon Valley takes filter throughout the entire world and help the entire world. Mostly. I consider social media as filth, as well as privacy stuff, but besides that...

Will a lot of businesses go out of business? Undoubtedly. But those that fail are the weak companies, just like Silicon Valley Bank. And the space that the failing companies leave can be filled by new stronger companies, just like after the dot-com bust. The Bay Area didn't go down the tubes after the dot-com bubble bust. It won't now. California would be the 5th or 6th largest economy in the world, and SF Bay Area and Los Angeles by themselves would be the 16th and 17th largest economies in the world. It's not going to go away. The ecosystem is too big. All the highly trained specialized people will still be there, ready for their next conquest. The Bay Area is all about failure, too. Startups go up in smoke all the time.

I think loneliness is a choice except for exceptions.

I've read all kinds of things about California and how shallow it is, and especially in Los Angeles. I think the people who say this must be meeting different people than I do, or trying to meet different people. They want to meet high-end celebrities and just get pushed off or whatever.

I know auto mechanics, plumbers, financial planners, accountants, programmers, retail clerks, manufacturing plant managers, teachers. All of them are exactly like they would be in any other state. They don't sit around trying to sell a script to Hollywood studios, or try to get into acting. Plumbers are plumbers.

I had a GREAT group of hikers I used to hike with - friendly and down-to-earth and real.

But, I have to go out and FORCE myself to meet people. It's not like high school or university where you are surrounded by everyone your own age, and all you have to do is show up and there's a group there for at schools.

I've gone to computer groups meetings, business group meetings, and all kinds of groups. But I have to get my ass out and go. It kinda sucks to get off my ass and motivated, but what else can ya do?

Some groups did suck, I must say, but I just got out of them and go to other ones that turns out great.

Loneliness is a choice.

I guess if you lived on a farm and the nearest neighbor was 30 miles away, that would be different, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

Anyone can setup their organizations to use a LOT of ways to legally minimize their tax bill. For example, you can create a separate corporation in a non-tax state like Nevada and put most of your cash in it and if you are in California, you will completely not have to pay it if you do it right. See Apple Corporation's Braeburn Capital. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital Apple uses this to avoid all California tax on that cash that they deposit in that company. California tax is 8.84%, and that is a LOT of money that they would have to otherwise pay.

There are other things that one can do, but there's a lot of record keeping and expense so you have to make enough money to make it worth it.

But just owning a company is a fantastic tax break by itself. You get to write off all kinds of things as an expense as long as it is for business purposes.

How do I meet these oligarchs and help them hide a tiny bit of their cash and I take a 1% fee per year on a piddling amount like $100 million? I love helping people, would love to help any oligarch out there reading this comment.

Age doesn't matter on Toyotas and Hondas - only mileage and condition. ALWAYS bring to your mechanic first. Not one that the seller suggests as it could be a friend of theirs. Never buy a car without a mechanics approval. Pass on it if the seller says no. Ask before you drive there so you don't waste your time. Just say to them, "Would you recommend this car to your own kid."

i did a super fast review of availabel vehicles. These are not all $5,500 but in the same price range. But there are some at $5,500 and less, and under 100K miles. This is done real fast right now. If you are serious about a car, you will have a LOT more time to look, and should.

Buying a car should be a serious and time-consuming project in order to make sure you don't get fucked. A nice looking car can still be a mechanical shithole. But if a reputable mechanic says, "Fuck yes, buy it now, it's a fantastic deal" well, have the cash ready.

Also, you can buy older and cars with more miles on the as long as they are Honda and Toyota, as they can last forever if maintained. And again, have your mechanic always inspect.

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2003 Honda Civic 98,900 miles $6900

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/d/granada-hills-20...

2001 Honda Civic clean title 56,000 miles, $6,700

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/d/glendale-miles-h...

2015 Honda Civic $7,500 - 74,563 miles

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cto/d/whittier-honda-c...

2007 Toyota Corolla - 84,650 miles - $5,500 It even states in this advertisement - "Your mechanic welcome"

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/cto/d/los-angeles-2007...

2004 TOYOTA CAMRY - $5,500

https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cto/d/los-angeles-2004...

I'm not crapping on your experience at all.

I have a degree in CS/Business.

I know all about ROI and balance sheets and database normalization and boolean logic.

However, I also read all kinds of things on my own, like Thucydides, Seutonius, Virgil, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce; I study art history; I play guitar and piano; I'm learning Spanish; I'm a damn fine cook; I'm super into clothing and know fine clothing - a clothing connoisseur: I've been involved in politics. And a lot more.

The reality is reality - university is just too fucking expensive to fuck around with. Back in the day, in California, tuition was free, and when they increased it, it was still affordable. So anyone could take any type of major that they wished. But now is not then. No amount of wishing will change it.

However, at least in California, you can still get any degree you wish. Going to community college for 2 years is free if your family makes less than about $40K per year, and about $2,000 tuition if more. California State Universities is $5,742 tuition per year. So you can get undergrad courses out of the way for either $0 or $4,000 for 2 years, and $11,484 for California State University. For a total of $11,484 or $15,484 for a 4 year degree. This is only tuition, but you can zero out books and fees and room and board because they are going to be the approximately the same anywhere, unless if you go to high cost of living place like SF metro area, LA metro area, or San Diego metro area. But there's a lot of places like Bakersfield, Fresno, Chico, Humbolt that are a lot lower cost of living. Get a share rental apartment or house, get a part-time job and Bob's your uncle. But with $11K or $15K, you can pretty much get any degree you want. Any kind - English, sociology, whatever, it doesn't matter. You should be able to work part-time to pay for Cal State University tuition, and you can get a loan to help out with food and housing, but you can find a shared housing for $400-500 per month, so that's fucking cheap and might be able to have that part time job pay for that as well and graduate with very little debt.

$400/month in Chico - https://chico.craigslist.org/roo/d/chico-room-in-58-in-nord-...

$460 in Bakersfield - https://bakersfield.craigslist.org/roo/d/bakersfield-furnish...

$500 in Humboldt - https://humboldt.craigslist.org/roo/d/arcata-room-for-rent/7...

I'd say if you do one thing for your son, teach him how to comparison shop on everything. As you said, you went to "a shit school and far, far too much debt."

My first school was a private university, and was $4,500 per year, and that included tuition, room and board - 3 meals a day. That same school is now $60K per year for the same thing. So many private universities charge this much and it's fucked up. I went to school a long time ago. But I only went to that private university for one year before moving to California and going to community college and California State University to graduate for almost nothing - no outstanding debt.

Going to most private university is fucked. See what your public university costs, because, well, the public subsidizes it. I think small states like Vermont are fucked because they have a small population base that can't afford it, but not sure. If your public universities are too expensive, see what the requirements for becoming a California resident are, and move her for a year or two and work full time, then get a university degree with all the $$$ that you earned and saved. Or whatever other state you want to go to. Look at all the public school prices and residency requirements.

I don't know if this is correct or updated, but here's a list of public universities in all 50 states, you want to look at in-state tuition, because you have to move there and work for the amount of time before you get residency. As I suspected, Vermont is the highest. Fuck Vermont, if you live there, move. California is the least expensive. Move here, I live here, it's wonderful despite all you hear. Just go to a low cost of living area - California is huge and more than the large population centers.

But again, teach your kid to comparison shop on everything. Don't rush into purchases, any purchases, any money spent, including university.

Non-issue for me. I buy only used Corollas, Civics, Accords, and Camrys.

They last forever. My last car was a Corolla and lasted me 17 years. I bought it for $4500, it comes out to about $20 per month when amortized. Never had a problem with it - no major repairs. It also looked very stylish and great during that time.

I just purchased a used Civic about 5 years ago for $5,500 and I expect it to last another 15 years.

Eye reed all the tyme about how those skools are eleetist and racist and all that, butt what is never said is that those skools are "smart-ist."

Eye'm not vary smart, butts why knot me admitted to Harvard? Eye only gots a C- avrage in hi skool, butts if we going to bee equal, then us knot smart peeple must bee admitted at them universities, two.

Eye hate the discrimination against us. Maybee they need to take the same ratio of GPAs - only 5% A students, 25% B students and 60% C students and 10% hi skool dropouts so that Harvard and all of thems eleet skools "look like America."

Sure. They, like almost every other company like that, has my fake email. Usually I use temp@yahoo.com.

Oh...wait...do some people actually use their real email addresses???

Parents drop off and pick up kids everywhere, all events are carefully planned and supervised by adults.

When I was a kid...(here we go)...I was out everywhere on my own all day starting at 4-years-old - we would go out and around the close neighborhood. Year by year, the horizons keep espending and getting that first bike at 6-years-old - went everywhere. And by 8-year-old, we were for sure out every day, especially in the summer, just run out the front door, be gone all day, not tell parents what you were doing or going. If you stayed around the house, they would yell at you go get the hell out of the house.

It's not like that any more, or so I hear.

So, kids are raised in an environment where they have everything done for them, under constant supervision and catering to them, not allowing them to do anything on their own.

I took drivers ed classes and can't imagine not taking them.

However, mine were offered for free through my high school.

I'm not sure what you are saying.

It sounds like you are equating what I am saying to creating concentration camps for chinese.

Which would be bizarre logic on your end.

As I wrote, I created it on my own. I'm the one that conceptualized the logo in great detail, but he did the actual design work according to my specifications. I would never be able to do the actual design, it's not in my wheelhouse. But the concept was mine.

If you have a crisp solid idea that you can explain in great detail, just about any graphic artist will do.

That's really the key to outsourcing anything. You have to have a crystal clear idea and the ability to communicate it.

It doesn't only pertain to logos. It's everything. You can't really ask for ideas that they have - it'll never be yours, never have your own originality.

I thought a lot about my logo - I didn't do it in 15 minutes. I kept rolling it around in my mind until it came to full fruition. It took about a month for the concept to really work itself out. I google searched on terms for graphic images that were similar to my ideas and saw other graphics that gave me ideas. I put my own twist on it. But I was able to send the guy about 8 different examples from other graphics but told him how it would be different. Mine was completely different from the ones that I searched for the terms on Google, but they gave the "flavor" of what I wanted, plus I added words as to what I wanted and what would be different. I love my logo.

Wow. Deans are much more computer and tech savvy than students. AI is the way of the future, and the deans are embracing the new technology.

It's like cursive writing is not taught any more. Because things move on in technology.

AI is the way of the future. We should all take full advantage of it in any circustance.

hmmm....should I censor and delete what I wrote?

I didn't think I was redditing, but if everyone says to delete it, or change certain words to make it acceptable and non-redditish, then I'll have to change it.

....Oh, dang, I can't anymore, the edit/delete choice isn't there anymore. I was just going to delete it anyways, just for you. Can't. Oh well. What can ya do?

Right, but all the versions try to be faithful to what they translate as compared to the original. What if all the publishers did a wholesale slaughter of the "holy" books and nobody could get a King James that didn't have significant changes, because there's a LOT more that needs to be changed in the bible, in a woke perspective.

And personal versions like the Jefferson one can be discounted - that's not the subject of the conversation. Anyone can change a Dahl book, but we're talking about all the big publishers changing it.

Nothing, but I would think that if popular sentiment was so big, and that all the major bible publishers changed a lot of the "holy" books, it's much different than if I did my own. Sure, Thomas Jefferson created his own, too. But that's not what the issue is. It's about every bible publisher changing the bible, and in the bible, it would be a LOT more that needs to be changed/deleted than in Dahl's books.

Bucking the trend, I have a cool identifiable logo that I created on my own. Like Nike, I spent about $35 on it, done by some dude in Pakistan.

I bumped into a brand expert a few days ago and we changed business cards, he just was floored by my logo and said it was fantastic, and that he knows a good logo when he sees one.

So weird that so many people and companies have no imagination. All those "logo" changes done by Hische are so insipid. Nothing bold, nothing imaginative. But I guess she avoids conflict by making microscopic changes and she earns $40,000 per logo or whatever she charges, and that's the real point of it.

And yes, I'm tooting my own horn, deal with it.

"Truth is the first casualty of war" goes the saying.

>I realized is how hard it was to for leadership - whether product or engineering - to say no, or to stack rank priorities. I

I can't speak for other people, but personally, I always speak my mind. I don't care what level the person above me is. I don't do it in a dickish way, but I will say my say. I always feel that is my duty, to let people above me know what the situation on the ground is, because they just don't know. And usually, in a new job, I'll start out small and work my way up to bigger things as I get to know the system and services/products better. And I've never had any kind of weird shit happen to me, like have someone blow up that I contradict them in the slightest way. Especially in knowledge work. Every boss I've ever had has been good with my feedback and has taken it very seriously. Very often they change their decisions with my input. Often I'll say, "No, can't be done, nope" and explain why, unless they know something I don't know which they always let me know if that is the case.

It's all of our jobs to tell our bosses if something can't be done and be very clear about it, or to have them prioritize work, and also give feedback on that as well.

If you have a boss that is a dick and won't listen - time to move jobs.

Resources are finite, even during flush times, companies go out of business due to squandering of resources.

all it takes is one person from another country to gain access and transfer knowledge to another country.

1. What makes any country "their country"? Why does everyone only focus on the Western World? Can I move to Japan, China, Israel, France and just become a citizen without passport, visa, etc? No.

2. Yes.

Naw, I'm in a big city. I'm toast.

We are living in the matriarchy now, and it will only increase in the future.

Women now get 60% of all degrees, and I've read somewhere that projections are that they will get 70-75% in the next 10-15 years.

The only reason men are still most of the Fortune 500 CEOs, president of the USA, and other positions of power is because of legacy reasons - men who graduated 30 or 40 years ago and were in the workforce for a long time.

With fewer men graduating from university, now and even more in the future, it's logical that women will take over all forms of power in society in the medium-term future - starting now but snowballing faster and faster until in 25 years, it will be all females ruling most of society. Sure there still will be powerful men, but I'm talking about society as a whole.

Title IX started in 1972 to make an equal academic playing field for women. At that time, in 1972, the diparity between men and women was men had 12% more of university graduates. Now women are 20% more and rising.

We are living in the matriarchy but it's like that "he who must not be named" kind of thing. If you say that we live in a matriarchy, it is instant banishment from the kingdom in the form of instantly being labeled as a misogynist or incel, just for saying we live in the matriarchy.

Had my own martial arts school.

Obviously me, and any other black belt, has sparred with white belts and it's like a club tennis pro playing tennis with someone coming in for the first time ever to play tennis. The gulf between beginners and pros is massive.

That being said, I always had the imposter syndrome, and always felt like I was the exacts same level as when I was a white belt.

And yes, if you have great technique, you're going to wipe the floor with someone who is a lot bigger than you are.

And from yet another, who cares about children in the first place?