I wish this news made me happier. It ought to but all it reminds me is that in 2032 people will probably vote in mecha-hitler Grok Musk for US president because Americans have the collective memory of a goldfish.

Me and my nihilism and anti-natalism.

And if a .ml user or equivalent is around, my anti-authoritarianism.

I feel like one of the covenant prophets would have been more fitting what with how racist they are. (And sexist, I read the books)

I don’t think you can make that prediction. Its quite possible things will become tepidly bearable again… before getting much much worse than it is now.

Writing start to finish vs writing the end and going backwards.

First is all about having characters and just seeing what they do in a situation the author throw’s them into. Not great for having a good ending unless you are really clever, lucky, or willing to just keep writing until you naturally hit a solid end point. However, it is good for having memorable characters usually and can enable an excellent hook or high concept.

The opposite, where you write the ending and work backwards in time, usually ensures a high quality plot but can risk making character’s flat or uninteresting unless you put in a ton of extra work to make sure they’re interesting or fleshed out. And also can make it difficult to hook readers and might result in a more mundane/average overall concept.

Other than people suggesting second reading, foreshadowing can be good for people who like to speculate/investigate the media they read/watch. The foreshadowing acts as clues.

And, it struck me that even though this crowd considers itself bohemian, and anti-establishment, it struck me that this is exactly the crowd that would go over for Fascism.

What an incredibly stupid and reactionary take.

It had that feel.

Feels over reals I guess.

For me, I do kind of think that if someone paid and then forgiveness happened, they ought to be at least partially compensated if they have any history of being low income. They could have put their loan payments into something else but they didn’t so they’d kind of end up screwed over by their slavishly responsible bill paying.

That said: its stupid to not want broad student loan forgiveness because the student loan crisis is literally damaging the economy. Its hurting everyone, even people who already paid their loans off.

The problem is that by its very existence and prevalence you have to contend with religion’s bullshit effecting your life.

So honestly you should be against people being religious and try and discourage it. Though yeah its not super helpful to look at individual religious people and hate them openly. That’s a good way to just harden them right back against you.

The city where I socialize is where the cops would probably bother me if I was drinking a beer outside in public. Small towns here in the US are full of dipshits and bumpkins so I tend to avoid people when in one if possible.

In what context? His front porch?

“Going with the flow” doesn’t necessarily mean “blow all your life savings”, and it’s kind of ridiculous to claim that it does.

Its a good thing that isn’t what I said.

Even if you aren’t treating people to stuff you still end up spending money. Just being out and about costs gas in the US because everything is so spread out. You get hungry and need to eat, there’s 10-20 bucks unless you’re lugging around a lunch box with you.

You want to socialize every once and a while it’ll add up. If you want to socialize consistently (which is key to establishing strong friendships or finding a significant other) you honestly need to be touching grass everyday and then it really adds up.

Also, pay attention to my words: Trying to maintain this is unsustainable in the US. I did not say it was impossible to do once in a blue moon, but that’s not really a meaningful social life. Seeing a person for an hour once every few weeks to play frisbee at the park (or equivalent activity, in my case board games) isn’t going to create a meaningful bond. Most people in my area make maybe a little over half what I make in pay at best and I can barely afford to socialize consistently. I currently do almost all my socializing at work and that shit doesn’t really count. I used to spend a lot more and had an actually fulfilling social life, but atm I’m trying to save money.

You can do nice things for people that aren’t expensive.

It is easy to say this but hard to execute. If you treat people to things that are gratis or cheap a lot of people will think you are a cheapskate or miserly. At best they’ll think you are poor which also isn’t great either, because even good people don’t want to feel like they’re potentially getting into a relationship that expects them to spend more money than the friend to go out and do things with them (unless, again, they’re rich and don’t care about spending a bunch of money).

If you dress nicely go out to hang with people but skimp out on spending money people will definitely think you are a miser or penny pincher. If you go out looking like a pauper or poor schlub people will generally just avoid you. I’ve done both.

The problem is people believing things at face value. Asking for evidence is good though.

There are facts, there is scientific consensus, there is research, etc. However, “truth” as a word gets abused so much by quacks and nutjobs that I’m always a little wary of a person when I hear it from someone.

The meme does not only suggest a conversation is needed. It implies money is needed. “Going with the flow” in the US TBH probably will cause the average person to spend an irresponsible amount of money. I know because I’ve done that and burned a number of holes in my wallet in pursuit of friends (and intimacy). Sure it works plenty of times, but its not sustainable unless you’ve got plenty of money to burn. Most people don’t.

lol

Reach out and spend wads of money on someone. Its cool he did that but this assumes this is a sustainable means of making friends and it just isn’t.

US society is simply not structured in a way for adults to naturally make friends and it verges on being outright antagonistic to making close friends.

This kind of thing is coming for Android as well once Google has converted it to it’s own walled garden bullshit.

They’re all 4-star general West Point graduates. They do not agree with 80% of the speech, and whether they’ll follow orders is not a given. There is a balance of power at play.

No one is “the people’s friend” and that’s not the point. Some of these guys believe in nothing but power, but a significant number are also constitutional ideologues. And both of those groups among the generals know their power is both at risk and so is the constitution. And this meeting has been largely been disliked according to reporters among all of them.

Pete Hegseth is completely retarded.