Bow and arrow in a wheelbarrow?

That sucks bro. We basically just put all the wizards out of work

Keep saving until I can get a used car, so I can stop renting to drive Uber. After that, rapidly save up a buffer using the eliminated rental cost, and then get my second career started. Sales, I’m thinking. Lots of outside sales requires having one’s own car.

Wikipedia. It tends to have excellent, neutral explanations of ongoing political stories.

As a plus, every article is written to be a complete picture (at low resolution) and so you don’t have to deal with the way regular news articles lack orienting stuff if they’re an “update on the situation” article.

Like if you haven’t been following something, wikipedia articles are written in a way that brings you up to speed from zero.

The 90s were really pastelly. The early 2000s were super colorful with the sudden proliferation of LED art. At least in my experience.

The FDA has certified 1200 mg/day for six months straight to be a safe dosage if L-theanine. That’s just the most extreme dose they studied so it could be safe beyond that too.

I mean … if you trust the FDA. I know some don’t. But I doubt Big Theanine has much of a thumb on those scales.

Two ways:

1. meditate to develop awareness of when you’ve entered and when you’ve exceeded your optimal stimulating level. When you do enter, or leave, the state, stop and pay as much attention to how good or bad it feels. Soak up the awareness of the feeling. This conditions your subconscious to feed you the right amount of caffeine, enhancing the subtle signal of anxiety levels and optimal flow, to overpower the more direct “addictive substance = take more!” reflex your brain wants to do.
2. When you’ve accidentally overcaffeinated, take some L-theanine to utterly destroy the anxiety/avoidance feeling of the overcaffeination.

You’re assuming that the toxicity indicates the profit motive’s presence.

But plenty of places seek profit without toxicity.

And the toxic form of profit-seeking, called greed, is not the only place toxicity can come from.

It can come from contempt, it can come from arrogance, it can come from cowardice, bitterness, laziness, greed, contempt, manipulation through lies or misleading, delusion, etc.

So it sounds like individualist ethics then, just with the cultural surround taken into account in how the numbers affect that individual’s perception of the crime? Something like that?

I thought you were saying the ethical value of the individual act was a function of purely the number of times it was happening in an area.

Kinda like how “we have record amounts of crack smoking so let’s punish crack smoking harder” is an example of what I mean by “individualist ethics becoming collectivist ethics on account of specific numerical thresholds”.

So if you blame the older men, would you raise the minimum recruiting age? If so, to what?

Do people get to choose whether they face “bombs and shit” in the military? Like can a person say “I don’t want a position where I can get PTSD”?

Having said that, and here’s the irony, not everyone in the military is “gonna face bombs and killing”. There are huge swaths whose job it is to do anything under the sun that doesn’t involve firing any form of weaponry. Chances are you’d have had to been paying attention at some point in school to know this, or something.

Or, I’d have to be aware people can’t just check “No PTSD-inducing positions please”. Or if they can, they are signing up just as equally at the moment they either check or don’t check the box. My point stands. You get PTSD from military service, you signed up for it unless you were drafted.

Now whether an 18 year old is wise enough to be capable of making that decision is one and the same as their being capable of making the decision to join up. If you think an 18 year old is not old enough to sacrifice his mental health for his country, then why not argue to raise the recruiting age?

A low-rung manager at wal-mart

I’ve never held a managerial position. I don’t see myself as entitled to any particular level in the managerial command structure. I don’t think my rights are being violated without any kind of guaranteed path up to there.

I dunno man. I’ve got nothing but compassion and gratitude for vets. But you don’t get to claim the shit is something that just happens to people. Adults join up, take an oath, stone cold sober.

Again, if you think those people aren’t old enough, I’d probably agree with you. I’d be all for raising the age to 30, if you wanted to push for that.

But for whatever age it is, that’s the age because ir’s the age at which it’s no longer a thing happening to someone.

Like if it was “military or die”, that’s a different thing. But if it’s “military or no upper management jobs for you” it just doesn’t move me.

And that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing we have a volunteer army. It’s good for everybody.

Hitler was big on fire too

Okay in that case I’m even more okay with this. I like the idea of having text files on my computer representing my stuff. Like, plain text I can explore using cd, tree, and less.

I’ve actually wanted to make myself a to-do app that stores the to-do items as nested bullets in markdown so that if I want I can make lists in markdown and access them from my gui and vice-versa.

I don’t think the move to force electrics on anyone who rents for uber is a profit-seeking one. I don’t see that as a result of capitalism like at all.

I would prefer to deal with an Uber Inc that’s trying to maximize its profits. Instead, this company seems to be trying to use its power to save the world … on my dime.

I just want to point out that no matter how much authority the US government gets, it never gets absolute power, because of our guns.

You know what, that’s true. I was involved in Occupy Boston and nobody cared that I was a conservative so long as I was there helping out.

But now if I try to go show solidarity with people, they judge my skin, my lack of tattoos, my appearance, they ask all these purity test questions, and then the slightest difference from their ideal set of answers and they’re like “fuck off man we want nothing to do with you”.

Yes, it is utterly absurd for anyone to talk about our economy being horrible with the levels of wealth we live in today.

I list 15% of my income to Uber’s decision to force electrics on anyone renting to drive Uber.

I don’t blame MAGA for that

It only is warfare when someone fights back. Until then it’s abuse.

Each of us is wealthier than the wealthiest person 100 years ago, let alone in Sumeria, could imagine.