For anyone who’s confident Trump is going to cut social security, you can earn money by predicting that correctly: https://polymarket.com/event/trump-signs-bill-cutting-social-security-before-july?tid=1741193398789

The Democratic Party is extremely democratic.

They lost my vote this election because they skipped their primary. It’s not democratic to skip an election. That’s the death of democracy.

Oh no not the CFPB

Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.

Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.

Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein

Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.

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The whole world is indeed in a bad mood and the reason is we’re all addicted to social media, which makes people miserable.

It’s impossible to fully patrol one’s territory in cyberspace. That means our hippocampus never sends the “all clear” signal which would allow us to relax from fight or flight mode.

As a result, the entire population of humanity is in an unprecedented state of hypervigilance.

Nazis used to be flesh and blood. Now they’re phantoms

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WW3 began in 2022

What are your x and y axes here?

Having a life plan that works, that realistically and with some degree of certainty is taking me to somewhere that I want to go, and in the context of which waking up is an instrumental action furthering my progress along that path.

Without a good reason to wake up, waking up sucks. A good reason to wake up is a complex thing. A good plan for life is hard to make, but worth it.

I say this from the perspective of a history of massive depression.

A good reason to open one’s mouth is that there’s delicious food in front of you. A good reason to wake up is that there’s a plan for the day that brings you closer to the things you want in life.

If you have a hard time getting up, resolving that starts with making sure whatever thing you’re getting up for actually serves you.

I think the term “social” here refers to one’s peers. It’s the same idea behind the term “YouTube”. It’s a play on the term “boob tube” which refers to the television. So instead of showing you boobs, YouTube is supposed to be “TV about you”.

It’s the same idea as the brand name FUBU, which stands for “For Us, By Us”.

“Social” here is the same concept as in the word “socialism”. In this context, the word means “of the people”. Same as in the phrase “social causes” as a term for charity.

No you can’t do that

There would be a lot more respect between people, if everyone was in an iterated game with everyone else and they knew it.

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How do you figure Trump might get some kind of fractional extra term?

That’s the one thing old people just don’t do: they won’t read what’s presented on the screen.

I think it comes from growing up before GUIs, so they think of an interface as a set of buttons on a console. There was very little reason to read an interface back when they were all physical; you either knew what each button did or you didn’t and you only had to memorize it once.

Like, the controls of a T-38 tank are always the same. The controls of a ‘57 Chevy are always the same.

Once GUIs came into play, people started interacting with orders of magnitude more control interfaces, so the concept of “there is no manual; the interface is self-documenting” came into existence.

Now you’re supposed to learn the interface and use it on the first encounter, which means reading what the interface is saying.

I need to get out of my depression. I didn’t realize I was depressed until I had a dream, just now, where I ran into an old college classmate. She was telling me how depressed she was and I was just thinking “but your life is like mine”.

I just self-administered the IHQ-9 and it indicates me as having “severe depression”. So I need to get that figured out.

In the past I’ve taken medication for it, but I can’t seem to find any arrangement that allows me to take the medication continually. This really worries me. My life is a total failure including financially.

A family member has been helping me financially but it’s ruining their finances to do so.

Anti-piracy technique for the game X-Wing: the game was 15 floppies which could easily be copied, so it required a copy of the manual present to start.