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14 hours agoI wish I had learnt social skills earlier. Brilliant at maths and science but did not start paying attention to the soft skills until mid 20s.
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While a big mac has intrinsic value, the value of the coin is based on trusting McD honouring the agreement. Will they still accept the coins 10 years from now when they have forgotten they were issued? Will they be sued out of existence after their meat substitute mushroom burger left in the sun for too long comes alive an eats 9 customers and and a minivan?
The value of the dollar is based on trusting the US central bank and/or governmemt to be responsible enough.
While you should not blindly trust either McD or the government, the latter has a longer track record, even though they seem like they are going to eat a metaphorical minivan soon.
6·2 days agoNot sure if it’s relevant to why you feel ridiculous, but feeling like you don’t qualify as what you are is common I think.
In my 20s I felt like a 7 year old boy dressed up in a suit and grandma pinching my cheek and going “well who is this handsome man?”.
Seed after torrenting?
It sounds like an inevitable tradeoff.
I’m genuinely curious.
How would a small government ensure economic equality? High taxes and UBI is still the government being responsible for a large portion of your needs, even if the bureaucracy may be somewhat slimmer.
Scandinavian.
I don’t fetishize them but I find them pretty as a general rule. The ones I’ve met have had traditional views so that probably explains the trad wife steretype.
I think you’re coming at it from the wrong way. Instead of picking a label (left libert…) and figure out if you can support a policy (lim. gov.) you should think about if you belive a policy is a good idea and let someone else figure out what label to give you if they feel like they want to.
Turns out the puzzle is blank too and you get to draw whatever you like on the pieces you’ve assembled (crayons not included in the puzzle box). You don’t even have to finish the puzzle. Just put together some pieces and call it a good year. Few more next year.
By now you’re probably thinking something like: yeah that sounds nice and all, how about you give me some practical advice you old fuck that knows nothing about me or my life or what I’m going through.
My answer is you’re right. I don’t know.
What do you think your most urgent issues are? What do you think are some reasonable aspirations and first steps to take?
I’ll stick with 2d and my crayons. The blue ones tastes nice.
Worst experience was taking the train to the airport, only delayed by an hour but I was running to the check in and they were kind enough to let me board. Got stuck in the safety checkpoint due to not being able to check in my bag because late. Thought I lost my wallet because of rush at the security.
Funniest: Plane delayed by an hour due to Italians.
Most hours: maybe 3 hours. Plane, car, bus. Nothing newsworthy. Just sit down and wait.
Not the green. Their policies are hostile towards anyone not living in a big city center. Not the “left party” (former communist party). The rhetoric is the hostile to men brand of feminism and they have a dubious economic policy.
Me voting for either is like an immigrant voting for Trump.
How many do you want it to have.
The political compass is a tool to illustrate and compare political preferences. The more dimensions you add the more complicated it becomes.
After 3 it gets tricky to draw anything useful. You can still choose which political values to illustrate.
I can sometimes come across as a native speaker. The accent goes all over the place, australian, south african, brittish.
- 5-7 Sweden
- 5 to 6. UK
- 4.5 UK
https://benhopkinson.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-burying-our-grid
Socialism: what do you call the nordic countries? They have reasonable incentives. If they qualify then yes.
Communism: does China qualify as communist or are they some kind of former communist with capitalist reforms?
It’s roughly 5-7 times as expensive per km to bury the cables. It’s mainly a cost issue.
It makes sense in dense areas, it does not make sense everywhere. Critical infrastructure has backup power anyway because digging does not solve all reliability issues.
I guess you could find some place where they only publish posive news, but you would be getting a skewed positive outlook instead of skewed negative from the usual news. It’s more pleasant but probably not better.
The pessimists will say that he will find a way to get a 3rd term. They will probably not say that he looks very healthy for his age. You will be doing a small fight for optimism there.
Avoid people who have this pessimistic mindset. This includes the news.
Next step is to think optimistically. There won’t be any election? He will be 85- something by then and he is not exactly the image of healthy living. And that is not even optimistic, it’s realistic thinking.
- I find it insane that you’re allowed to drive full sized cars at highway speeds at 16 without adult supervision.
Practiced with my dad mostly. Drove from and to skiing practice. Had 6 lessons with an instructor, which is very low apparently.
No. Governments (Central banks usually in charge of this) try to create mild inflation to discourage hoarding money.
The rich also don’t horde money, they hoard assets. Usually stocks in companies.
Inflation is caused by there being more and more money in circulation competing for the same stuff, or less stuff produced.
Wealth inequality cause a lot of problems, inflation is not one of them.