GuardianCaveman

The core belief of Americans and the defining belief in my opinion is you can rise to any level of success or failure based off your own efforts alone. I’m not arguing the validity of belief but I am arguing against whatever idea you have of gods will and America’s founding.

Americans will have less sympathy for the victims of the virus but not because of gods will blaming but because they’ll blame that person for touching their face or not taking precautions. We blame people for failing not god.

You’re the first person in any forum online I’ve seen reference Wings. My dads friend used to call my dad to tell him it was on and he’d switch from whatever ninja turtles / golden girls / simpsons episode we were watching. We despised wings! But actually it’s a great show.

Yes but there is all of the collateral damage of other hosted sites who did nothing.

For me it’s not the oil that’s the problem. It’s the wahabi sect of Saudi, the weekly public execution of bloggers and dissenters. The international kidnapping and torture of journalists, the constant bombing of schools and children in Yemen. It’s THAT money. I worked there on a foreign military sale contract and I saw a lot that disgusted me. The male Filipino workers told me they grow facial hair to make themselves less attractive to be raped by their male employers and employer friends. I’d walk through chop chop square on my way to get to the gold market downtown as they were power washing the blood off some feminist activist off the ground of the square (officially named Deera Square). I worked with sensitive elements of their military and am aware of indiscriminate bombing. Hell they shot down one of their own fighters when his wingman accidentally fingered the trigger while inspecting the lead plane for fuel leaks he thought he was having so you can imagine the incompetence around dropping bombs on targets, not to mention viewing Yemenis as subhumans.

Imagine if the westboro Baptists accidentally struck oil and became billionaires and tried to export that version of Christianity and we see why maybe it’s not good that they are allowed to participate in the international community and invest their money that happens to come from oil into these startups. It’s like if Epstein gave money. It doesn’t matter where it came from but from whom.

There’s not a single landlord who will rent without a background check. Your options are be homeless or submit. The landlords options in response to your demand are rent to one of the dozens of other people who want to rent from them or submit. Not exactly the same choice.

“Despite the bitter Maine winters, when temperatures can plummet to -20C, Knight says he never lit a fire, in case the smoke attracted attention.”

He dropped off the grid a few miles from thousands of cabins and survived exclusively on the contents of those cabins and the work of other people who filled those cabins with supplies. Had he truly survived alone in Wilderness instead of the equivalent of camping in the backyard and going inside the house for snacks he could have afforded to light a fire instead of pacing at 3AM to keep warm. He’s a parasite in the way he lived - not some noble outdoorsman. He’s a criminal.

I marvel at those charts that show everything companies like Proctor and Gamble own - I cant believe it’s allowed. But yes you’re right too comment is already about how it’s unfair to criticize. So many apologists. Our economy is broken. It’s so dismaying.

Ant-competitive practices? Facebook buying up any and all rivals like WhatsApp and Instagram? They are a juggernaut and shouldn’t be able to own all social media.

So by your logic you can work 80 hours a week but because you’re inside an office and not a barn you lose you’re right to want a better work life balance? Where is the cut off for not being able to complain or is it like a spectrum? 20k wage with kids is bad you say what about 30k with 1 kid? Is that too easy? Cop in a good neighborhood? How good does the neighborhood have to be before you can’t complain anymore? You said a few hundred cows at 6 am is rough? What about 99 cows at 7am?

People can be overworked in all kinds of jobs. Who are you the complaint police?

Besides the connections the software doesn’t work between those two out of the box. My mom bought 2k MacBook Pro from the Apple store and a 1100 Iphone xs and we got home and plugged it in to back up her saved backup and iTunes wouldn’t let us. I can’t recall the exact problem but the solution was downloading the latest software for both devices. Several hours later it was working but out of the box? So disappointing.

I don’t want the rest of the world competing for my job and driving down wages. This may be good for companies but I have to look out for my own interests and if they let the other 95 % in it would affect me by decrease pay, more likely to have ageism discrimination, etc.

Positive advancements? From whose perspective? I am sure the Chinese government and many Chinese views these articles positively. The article is pretty matter of fact just listing things that are banned and why. They see the games as immoral and are taking action, now whether or not that’s the real reason who knows.

I mean China state sponsors corporate espionage and supports copyright infringement like no other country in the world. It also has essentially a second internet because it so heavily censors its own. It also locks up millions of a cultural group into concentration camps. I just don’t see a lot of positive advancements in general and I’ve been there as well. This isn’t just from the news.

Sometimes things are reported overwhelmingly negative because they are, in fact, overwhelmingly negative. It’s not always a bias it’s just reality.

There is a sizable population of Silicon Valley workers who live in Fresno and commmute daily. I grew up there and they started moving there in the late 90s. This is just based of my observation, friends parents, newspaper articles in the Fresno bee so I don’t have statistics. Also not sure the actual financial impact of tourism but Fresno is the gateway to the major tourist attraction - Yosemite Valley and Kings canyon. I’m sure a lot of foreigners would ride from LA or the bay to then take the bus tours from Fresno.

I agree that it is complex and your assessment seems accurate but the problem with Saudi is not that they are opposing the houthis but their tactics of attacking supply lines and bombing indiscriminately. They refuse to use ground troops because they rely on Pakistan for an army and Pakistan does not want to invade. So they continue to do airstrikes on any and all targets like hospitals, kindergartens, food supply caravans, power stations etc and they don’t seem to care.

I worked closely with their reconnaissance aircraft as a foreigner and it’s funny that when they found out I was in Afghanistan they lectured me about killing kids but they are 100 times worse. I eventually left because I was disgusted with the way they conducted that war and did not want to be a part of it regardless of it if supported US foreign policy goals.

So if the Houthis win I don’t know if it’s better long term but at least 5 year olds won’t get blown up on their way to school but a Saudi pilot.

As the article quotes one soldier there was a mai Lai every month. You make it sound like this was a fact in the article. One unnamed soldier claimed that.

And I think the free fire zones were much more centered on artillery and air strikes and not ground infiltrations just walking and shooting whomever they wanted to, but it’s still horrible the disregard for human life.

But to state as you do that civilian mass murder was the goal, that’s false. The goal was war of attrition of actual combatants. What they did was not care or let civilian casualties stop them from trying to carry out that goal. Still horrible but come on there is enough bad stuff to point to without exaggeration and misleading.

I’ve only been to Beijing and there were plenty of two-wheeled scooters. Maybe they were electric but they were all over the road.

And while I understand your point, I can’t help but think of the 1 million Uighurs in concentration camps and that this system is not a good one. This is the same system where the cultural revolution thrived where mao ordered all the birds shot and then locusts swarmed without predators and millions starved to death. And let’s not forget their current President is in power forever now. Imagine trump for life. I don’t think it’s a good model to follow.

I never took it because I read a long time ago that it causes your body to decrease melatonin production long term. I guess that’s just a myth because people in this thread seem very positive about using it long term.

One of the most frustrating things for me with Apple maps is having a view of the city I’m in and searching for something like ramen restaurant and it takes me to another country like Singapore and says there’s a restaurant named “the ramen restaurant “.

I won’t use it now because of this.

Which documentary?

It seems like a lot of Facebook employees are commenting on this thread. I wonder if they have tools to influence the public argument similar to the Russians.

The guy says in his comment he is Canadian so no anti-US moral high ground argument here.

I have had tinnitus and it was pretty terrible the first year but I got used to it almost completely. Then I woke up one day with a new thing called diplacusis where I hear a tone on top of sound for certain frequencies. So my wife says hi how are you and I hear that plus a tone for each word. It sounds kind of like the radios in the xwings in Star Wars. I’ve been adjusting for 3 months but it’s very hard to habituate. Fortunately it has softened in that time. But it seems to be extremely rare associated with a sudden dip in one of the hearing ranges where the rest of hearing is mostly normal. Oh well...

That's a bit dismissive way to put it. "The whims of 20-something newcomers". A lot of of these people are people who grew up and went to high school here but as the article says anecdotally that 2 of 400 high school graduates from one class are in the same area, the rest having been forced to abandon their native home because of housing rules preventing construction.

Also the word "whim" is just as dismissive to a group of people who are organizing, lobbying, petitioning, etc to get the right to build apartment buildings so they have a place to live and sleep and raise children. It's not a bunch of millennial google employees who just showed up and casually decided they want to buy a house.

But it's so easy to turn this into a "entitled millennials" story instead of discussing a real housing crisis that has been developing for the last 50 years due to restrictive building codes that favor the wealthy I suppose.

If we had the resources wouldn't we visit another planet with intelligent life? Wouldn't that become a primary focus for the human race?

I listened to all of these as I drove across the US and I was so enthralled i almost ran out of gas more than once. I second this recommendation.

I mean, pretty much all the founding fathers were under 50. Jesus. Buddha. Mohammed when the Bulk of the Quran was written. Alexander the Great. The list of youngins goes on.

I posted above but my experience with United and those sitting around me on my two international flights was horrible. Nobody could connect, or some could and then would get disconnected 10 minutes into the movie. I'd rather have a crappy screen on the back of the seat that works.

I recently flew internationally on United. They have this. You need a phone or iPad with the app and then you can pull up movies and shows. I flew round trip and it worked about 20% of one way and 0% the other way. I had counted on it so didn't bring books or any other entertainment and had to stare at the back of the seat in front of me for 14 hours with simmering hatred for United.

One point: whereas before if the screen didn't work it was their responsibility, now they can blame your device and there's no real recourse.

I get that the other built in screens are not perfect but I've only had a problem with it not working maybe 1 out of 30 flights.

I ended up getting a 100 dollar voucher which will never be used since United is garbage.