Phoenixz

Back in 2010-ish, or so, I was on my way home from work, and I was dropped off in front of a hospital in Querétaro, México, because the bus stop was there.

“Lots of military here today” I recall thinking as I walked up to a group of military personnel always there. I see them being very antsy and all walking around and all of the sudden it’s shouting and one guy just runs to an army hummer, pulls out rifles and literally throws them at guys standing next to him. They all immediately get armed, start pointing their rifles in my general direction while doing that “aiming while running” thing and shouting “EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND NOW”

So I had some 20 odd armed soldiers with their rifles aimed in my general direction running at me while I’m shitting myself with all colors of the rainbow. I hide behind a small security building, quickly looked around and saw a small bus, my bus, arriving. I jumped in, told the driver to floor it, and he just looked at me, and told me he wouldn’t go anywhere untill he had my 5 pesos ( about 20 dollar cents at the time) for the ride.

I actually had to quickly explain to him that there was a district possibility we could all be dead in the next minute if he wouldn’t drive.

Turns out that they had the injured son of a narco in that hospital, and rumours started flying that either his buddy buddies would come to get him out or his not so buddy buddies might come to take him out, and the soldiers panicked.

Nothing really bad happened that day, but the road in front of the hospital was blocked off completely for the day. I still have the news paper somewhere in Mexico about that day.

Crazy shit

The point is more that even wars come down to economy.

All other things being equal, (s)he with the biggest economic breath has the biggest chance of winning

Where things get less equal is when you start destroying 25 million dollars of your opponent at the cost of 25 thousand for yourself.

This means, again all other things being equal, and assuming that you can continue making these kills, that your opponent needs an economy a thousand times larger than yours to be able to continue this in a sustainable way

This is in part also why Ukraine has been so successful against Russia, they found ways to cause millions of dollars worth of damage to Russia with relatively tiny budgets. Also, Ukraine’s focus is on crippling the Russian economy while Russia is still using the “let’s murder and terrorize their entire population” strategy from WWII which hasn’t worked out well for them

Fuck Microsoft with an umbrella, but in this case it’s not just only Microsoft, there are a lot more and bigger players on this shit dish

Angelbabyzz now has the much more pleasant problem of shopping for a replacement PC with a $3,500 budget

So she’ll be able to get some low budget 16GB machine, probably without a video card because 3500 dollars will only get you so far these days

Think of the people that dies due to continued sleep deprivation

You wouldn’t have the time for that

When the bright light comes, it kills you or it won’t, but by the time it’s there there is little.rinning to be done

For free

Companies should be searching for employees

Agreed

Looking for a job now and a single company so far has has taken 6 hours of my time.

Two for the initial requirements for applying, the reading their 5 page information, writing a cover letter, etc.

Then two hours on a screening interview, and the initial interview, though that second one went from 1 hour to 1 hour 45 minutes so it was actually 6 hours 45 minutes

Then two more hours on a technical interview

This is where I’m at now, and i still am looking at two more one hour interviews with higher up, then the CEO herself.

That’ll make over 8 and a half hours IF I get the job.

If I don’t get the job, man, this was a fucking waste…

In principle, jobs should be a mutually beneficial relationship. I give them resources, they pay for that but in reality, the balance 100% tipped to their side

I have to apply for jobs, they dont have to apply for employees

I have to write cover letters and separate letters to tell them how much i love their company and how badly i really want to work there and how much I’ll sacrifice for them

They interview me on their turf, their rules. We don’t get to interview the company. Some companies allow us to ask a few questions, but that’s it.

Shits fucked up

Well yeah but…

That would require a different way of cooling that water in that closed loop, which would increase power consumption by up to 100% as the servers used power to heat the water, and to cool it you’ll need at least the same amount of power to cool the water back to what it was before. Add in losses, and you’ll at least double the power usage.

So far it’s dumped into the environment with the reasoning that that sink is so large that you can keep dumping into it without any side effects; nature will cool down the water for free.

That being a big fat lie has already been known since we found out that nature won’t magically absorb garbage either, of course, but that is the reasoning.

Nah, you just discovered tankies, is all

They know how to steer it and train it…we still know very little about how or why it’s making certain choices. This is also not a new problem, we had the same issue 40 years ago so don’t expect a quick solution on the horizon

Maybe a hundred by now, lost count. My wife has hundreds more than me, and we keep increasing our numbers together, so to speak. God I love my wife and I love my life.

Wife an I love to regularly go to sex clubs, we have regular partners we play with a lot, and we both give eachother the freedom that if we have an opportunity to have sex while the other isn’t there, take it. We both simply love sex and we’re super open and honest and respectful about our wants, needs, and desires

I don’t mind anyone sleeping with a hundred people, or more even. Don’t mind the diary either, just that to me that sounds like too much work that nobody would ever read, but to each their own

Oh come on

What is degrading about simply stating facts? I’ve had one partner or two or ten, or a hundred or more… What is the degrading part here?

I’ve had sex with hundreds of partners and all of them enjoyed it by my knowing, what is degrading about it? One, two, or a bunch of people having fun together is degrading for you?

My wife has had hundreds of partners too, probably more than I. She is amazing and I respect her to no end. Am I degrading her by saying this? Is it degrading that she likes sex?

Live and let live, buddy. Don’t judge people, and don’t make such a huge deal about sex, it’s not a religion

Yeah but it’s not. I only see the polls where most Israelis don’t support Netanyahu because they WANT MORE.

I don’t think Jews are a problem or the problem here, I do think Israel as a state is such a problems that it has corrupted most of its citizens, which unfortunately mostly are Jews.

Wow, so you really want to steal all the Americans blind.

Well, they voted for it, so good luck, I guess?

None of you are getting bonuses this year because we’re heavily investing into replacing all of you

#2020s_suck

This!

I’ve been yelling this for years now, wealth caps! Finally someone else!

And yeah, just do it with taxes. After a net worth of 10,000,000 all income in whatever form gets taxed 100%

Nobody can be worth more than that, nobody can control more than that. You want to have a billion dollar company? Well, that is a lot of small shareholders who by the way also need networth to own a home, for example.

Governments get a huge increase in funding which they can use for so many things like free healthcare for all, free education for all, maybe even universal basic income!

Governments can fund independent press funding foundations so that journalists and news organisations can do their jobs without having to be for money or use ads,for as long as they flow the rule that news must be as unbiased and as factually based as possible

These are relatively small changes with enormous effects

No

Well for one, they’re all made up and as such, imaginary.

The older religions (Christianity, Islam, etc) were written well before most of our current scientific knowledge was available and as such, things like “omnipotence” being a logically inconsistent idea wasn’t exactly known.

Theae stories have been written by that age’s equivalent of fanboys so it’s no wonder that these rather extreme powers are shown off so much