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HN skews pretty neo liberal. A lot of holy-than-thou proselytizing of Western exceptionalism, as if Western culture actually earned it's place as the dominant culture on Earth through the virtue of simply being better than everyone else, who I guess just didn't want it bad enough, rather than a combination of luck, ruthless exploitation, and general disregard for the well-being of their fellow man.

I think the biggest issue people point to is you have to sink literally 10 years or $100,000 into the game to fully upgrade a character with how the rewards are structured/priced.

>Thank our government's restrictive policies around the diagnosis and medication for that.

Quite to the contrary I don't think ADHD diagnoses/prescriptions have ever been easier. They literally have online pill mills that will get you an ADHD diagnosis and an Adderall prescription within a week.

I went the more traditional route with an actual psychiatrist office, but after the initial appointments and testing, I just have one appointment every 3 months with my psychiatrist which basically amounts to "hey is everything still going alright" "yup life is good" and they write me the scrip for the next 3 months. It's literally a 10 minute televisit most of the time unless we get sidetracked talking about some tangent like we do occasionally.

Yeah it's ridiculous what they let these companies get away with building without properly expanding the infrastructure people are gonna be using to actually access their houses.

In DFW they slowly expand outwards by building these housing developments like 20-30 minutes farther from where "civilization" ends out in "the countryside", so you have these huge suburban hellscapes smackdab in the middle of rolling farmland and cattle and small country houses, and not any kind of retail stores for miles.

My brother lives in one of these, and there's easily 1000+ houses in his neighbor and the other 3 or 4 immediately surrounding it, and the only way to get to any of them is a single two lane road that stretches for a few miles off the state highway it branches off of. Around 8am/5pm it takes literally hours to make it out or get back to your house because of how many cars there are backed up.

Peter Watts has a series called Rifters that explores this a little. "Smart gels" which are neural nets made up of a mishmash of cultured neruons and silicon that run most of society. They're trained just like neural nets today, and therefore their decision making process is basically a black box. They do a great job, but no one is really sure how they get there, but they work great and they're so much cheaper, so they who cares.

Anyhow spoiler alert, the neural nets running the virus response have been inadvertently trained to prefer simple systems over complex ones without anyone realizing, and decide that a planet with no life on it after being wiped out from the virus is infinitely more simple than the present one and starts helping it out instead of stopping it.

So short answer to your question is I would not place much if any trust and systems like that, in as far as anything that has high stakes, real world consequences.

There's just something absolutely enchanting and quaint about being friends with crows, and learning what your local murder's favorite foods are absolutely let's you get in their good graces faster.

>Which other country goes "skilled immigrants RAH RAH!" but also imposes a random lottery instead of going on the basis of some kind of points/job offer based system?

I think I've posted about this before, but yeah it's pretty ridiculous. My college girlfriend was a foreign exchange student from India, was here all through highschool, had a fullride to college via a (maybe government sponsored?) academic scholarship, graduated with her degree in electrical engineering 2nd in her class, and got a 6 figure job right of out college. She got kicked out about a year later because she didn't "win" the "lottery" and her visa wasn't renewed. What a sheer fucking waste of talent and time and money educating her just to boot her out of the country like that.

A literal week after she was forced to leave, I was talking to my uber driver who told me of her sister's boyfriend who was also an Indian emigrant, in and out of court/jail for petty theft and various levels of assault/battery, that somehow managed to secure his citizenship a couple of months prior. I know it's just one anecdote among literally thousands of possibly millions of cases, but what a fucking crazy world we live in today where that's how things can play out.

Being young and dumb and in love, I briefly floated the idea of marriage to secure her a greencard, but she talked me out of it and we ended up parting as friends when she left. Lost contact after she got married a few years later and moved to Australia with her new partner so she definitely landed okay and I am so extremely happy where I am today in life and with my current partner, but somedays my mind just wanders and I find myself reminiscing and wondering about what could've been.

I actually forgot to mention the funniest part of this story, so at first we only received a warning that we need to take the lights down and so we did immediately that same day. However, apparently they're so inconspicuous that they didn't realize we'd already taken them down and they went ahead and find us anyways two weeks later for not complying with the initial warning. Go figure.

Highly probable, we have a bit of history with the neighbors a few doors down and would not surprise me one bit if they were snooping around the outside of my house for absolutely no good reason and got the random urge to nosefuck my bushes. They're certifiable and have nothing better to do all day.

We tried that with some lights we in our bushes thinking it'd be fine to just keep them off, they're not even visible unless you were on our porch with your nose against the bushes looking for them. HOA ended up fining us anyways, nosy fucks.

How much water do you use then if not the recommended amount?

Just buy some handwriting workbooks and complete them. And then keep practicing, a lot. It might be slow going for a bit, you're trying to change something you've been doing for over 20 years now the same way, it'll take time.

FYI you are quite literally describing dungeons and dragons, just virtualized and automated. But on that topic, I've had a sort of similar idea kicking around in my head, but on a bigger scale.

I want to run a game of DnD using a heavily modded Crusader Kings or Civ to simulate the world they are playing in. Just set up the starting conditions, like the various kingdoms, their methods of succession, their relationships and blood feuds with other kingdoms, the internal treacherous machinations and possible rebellions brewing, wars between kingdoms, etc, and then just let it run and use that to generate the overarching plot events of the setting while somehow translating the players actions as some kind of input into the simulated world so they can affect it as well.

I don't think anyone is necessarily saying more work will get done although that's possible I guess, my understanding is that in a humanitarian sense cutting down expected working hours would increase employee satisfaction/happiness without affecting productivity much if at all and that's the main draw of the movement.

I'd imagine this practice of only refunding people that spend hours and hours complaining to customer service is part of what they're getting fine for in the first place. If they're legally obligated to refund you, you shouldn't be getting the runaround like that just to get what is owed to you.

If you contacts overseas and enough volume you can often move various electronics for a decent margin. It's pretty involved though.

One of the routes I'm aware of involves buying gift cards from Kroger with a high cash back credit card during their frequent events where they offer extra fuel points on purchases. They don't charge activation fees on gift cards, and you can sell the fuel points accounts somewhat under the table on eBay, and then pocket the cash back from your credit card. Then you wait til black Friday or other sales, use the gift cards to buy electronics at discounted prices, and then ship them overseas to sell for a decent markup. It involves floating tens of thousands of dollars for several months though so not quite for your average individual just trying to make some quick cash.

I've read that there is a certain number of people that we're basically optimized to coexist within a societal structure, and modern civilization passed that a long time ago, and human beings in general just aren't capable of empathy on the scale of modern civilization. And I mean, it makes sense when you think about it. On some abstract level you have to know that even meagre standards of living in western society requires someone, somewhere to be suffering to provide it. $1 for a pound of bananas shipped from across the world before they even have a hint of yellow on them? That shit don't come without a cost, and our $1 sure as hell aint paying it. But we all just kind of don't think those people just to get through the day, because dwelling on the extent of suffering and horror we've wrought upon our fellow man in pursuit of whatever fresh hell the guys over at Oreo have managed to shape into the general form of a cookie would leave us a broken shell of a person and unable to show up for our next shift at the Big Mac factory.

Oh absolutely agree, everything up until now has eventually descended into the age old pattern of power and money finding it's way concentrated into the hands of the few elite, however capitalism with it's private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit, and rewarding accumulation of capital, seems like it's designed from the ground up to funnel money and power into the hands of the few, where at at least in theory communism/socialism/other -isms are designed to try to share the wealth.

Of course, said -isms require either an unbroken chain of morally righteous people with absolute power being in charge of said means of production fairly for the equal enrichment of everyone, or some kind of system of checks and balances to keep those in power from abusing it and preventing corruption from outside the political power structures, the exact formula of which we've yet to figure out.

Personally I'm of the opinion we should just throw the baby out with the bathwater and chalk this whole civilization experiment up as a mistake and go back to tribal societies of yestermillennia. Of course, the vast majority of the current human population disagrees with me in that regard and I will admit there are some good things about it, so until that changes I'll be here plugging along like the rest and hoping for better days.

Right now India is in a transition period and wages for these kinds of jobs are keeping pace with gains in productivity and that's how you're seeing so many lifting themselves are their families out of poverty.

However, if history is anything to go by that will stop pretty soon as the hyper upper class solidifies their hold on wealth, appreciating assets, and means of production, and will start to keep larger and larger shares of profit while workers' wages stagnate, and then inflation will start to decrease the purchasing power of those stagnating wages, and the middle class will start to shrink and disappear as it is in America and other "free market" capitalist countries.

I've been using this one for like 6 months now and it's great.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B095C7H62X?

I have way more iphone users dump on me for using an Android than I see android users dump on iPhones. Just another anecdata.

I don't really have many techy friends though so, that might weigh into it a little.

For the record, people and restaurants put cheese on the bottom of the burger/sandwich all the time so I wouldn't say Google was wrong.

These days on Android when sideloading things the installer will give you instructions and then can automatically send you to the correct settings screen and scrolls down to the correct toggle, and it may even highlight it I believe, it's been awhile.

The guidelines also say to not post a comment about how a submission is off-topic or inappropriate, so since they're so important to you maybe you should try reading and following them yourself.

If you could point to exactly where I said it was untraceable or that people don't get caught doing it....? Yeah. Please don't put words in my mouth.

I'm fully aware it's by no means a risk free or foolproof venture, but you're the one being silly if you think the amount of cases where people are caught committing crimes is anything but a small percentage of people actually committing said crimes, especially white collar crimes like this. They're just the ones that were unlucky and/or not smart enough to get away with it.

And honestly you're being more than a bit condescending and not really arguing in good faith, so not interested in continuing this conversation. You have a nice day though :)

This is an incredibly naive take. There's countless ways and examples of how to get campaign funds into your own pocket. Speaking fees, books, your campaign hiring family members or friends, buying goods and services for your campaign from your own companies, etc. It happens all the time.

dang can and will delete any post or comment you've made if you ask him to, and the FAQ literally says while they prefer not to delete your entire comment history they will if that's what you want.

There's a Microsoft utility calls powertoys that makes the window snapping/tiling even better with it's Fancy Zones feature. Also has a color picker which someone in this thread was decrying the lack of on windows.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

They used to have a separate star button in addition to the like button that was exactly that, but they took it out years ago. It would also add the song to a separate list in your library called "starred songs".

When they axed the feature, all the started songs got automatically added to a new playlist called "Star" that I still use today as a workaround, I just add new songs I enjoyed to it to keep track of them, and just throw it on shuffle when I'm not in the mood for anything specific.

Museums are presumably gonna be interested in getting people to visit them, and 1000 people isn't really a high enough number to guarantee a significant amount of them will be local to the museum and able/interested in visiting. Maybe history/archaeology podcasts, or websites/blogs would be interested in some plugs or ad placements maybe? Those aren't restricted by locale.