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The person thinks inflation and pyramid schemes are the same thing. I think your argument is falling on deaf ears.

Pause.

Alan Moore

Saga of the Swamp Thing and Watchmen are two amazing runs of comics he wrote.

Huge fan of his recent-ish novel, Jerusalem.

How dare we want to… checks notes … Eat food and experience some of life before we MAYBE live until we are 70

Literally boots.

Work boots for my jobs doing physical labor. I would spend around or slightly under $100 every year for a new pair because theater, construction and pest control destroyed a pair a year.

Then I bought Redwings for close to $300. They lasted 3 years before the pandemic and likely would continue to last in those types of career for years to come.

I don’t.

I’ve even read philosophical works that go against what I think and feel and spend the entire time arguing with someone who has probably been dead for hundreds of years.

But I enjoy that from time to time to keep my mind sharp.

No point in reading something that doesn’t grab you and resonate with you. Life is too short to put myself through that.

I’ve only blocked a few communities and my feed is not only negativity.

It can be at times when something big drops in the news, but my feed is still flooded with fun memes and interesting articles.

Sounds like, at least partially, it’s confirmation bias.

Navi from Ocarina of Time.

Literally the Clippy of Zelda.

“Hey! Listen!”

How about shut the fuck up you stupid firefly from hell?

The mindset these people have is the same one that is destroying the ecosystem: they do not care.

The long term is seen as merely a succession of short terms. Numbers going up is seen as proof of prosperity regardless of if those numbers signify actual sustainable growth or not.

I’m one of those people who has never really stopped having cravings. It only gets bad when I’m really stressed but it is low key there 24/7.

Thankfully, it’s only really a battle when I’m stressed.

I feel like too many people take being corrected like this as a sign that I’m trying to be condescending when, to me, it’s a simple courtesy I hope other people extend to me as well when I mess up.

Enshrouded and Old School Runescape

So much this. I can’t remember the last time I had a huge pile up of dishes that I didn’t clean while something was simmering or whatever. By the time my meal is ready, everything is clean or there’s one pot that might need to soak while I eat.

My step uncle is one of the most thoughtful and considerate bosses I have ever experienced. It was just him, myself and his best friend Artur doing construction for years after hurricane Sandy. The pay wasn’t amazing for any of us but it was how he treated us and the other couple people that would rotate in that really stayed with me.

It’s the only place I’ve ever been encouraged to take the breaks needed when doing grueling, back breaking labor in the blistering heat and freezing cold. I was also encouraged and told to take the time actually needed to complete a task as long as it was done correctly. I honestly only saw us mess up a bare handful of times in the five years I worked for him.

He bought us lunch every day. Normally at some cool local joint he knew in the area we were working in. And lunch was almost always closer to two hours than one. We pretty much would finish lunch then have poop time because we were all on the same schedule.

My work day “started” at 8am. But that just was when I got to his house and he’d be there reading the paper eating breakfast. I was offered anything at the table, always given coffee when I asked. About thirty minutes after I showed up, I’d be asked to go grab Artur from his little studio apartment out back.

I wasn’t treated this way because I was family. Anyone that worked with us was treated the same way. Like a human being.

Don’t get me wrong. We absolutely busted our asses and did high quality work. And if we had to pour a foundation or something time sensitive, that shit always got done in the time needed.

This is how bosses are supposed to be. Leading from the front lines. Leading by example.

The Beatles had a huge and demonstrable effect on a large portion of rock n roll music. I’m not their biggest fan in any way, but you can literally see how they helped initiate a huge change in popular music in their era if you look at what came before them and what came after. It’s pretty disingenuous to claim it was mainly only hype.

“Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author’s simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.[2]”

It’s his “independence” and “self reliance” parts that make him a hypocrite

This doesn’t invalidate everything he says and does.

But it’s really easy to be “independent” when someone else foots the bill for the land you’re living on and you mom does your laundry for you.

Latin. I would have suggested it before you started learning two Romance languages.

There are a lot of operas that I thoroughly enjoy that are largely in Italian that are just incredibly moving. Pavarotti singing Pagliacci is insanely moving, as one example.

The issue isn’t the amount of money in circulation. Who do you think controls the prices that thereby makes your money worth less? It’s not demand from the consumer, it’s greed from the seller. Going back on a peg to gold would just mean less poor people have even less money.

It also cripples the functioning of the federal government by creating a financial restraint. The only real constraint on the US federal government and those like it is resources. Granted, everyone still pushes the false narrative that the federal government needs to collect the money it creates before spending it and barely anyone questions this. Governments suspended the gold standard when they wanted to anyway: see FDR’s actions during WW2 as an example.

The real issue is the absolute greed and psychopathic lust for power of the elite. We need to take back our own governments and tax these people out of their wealth and thereby reduce their power and influence.