Try making friends first, or at least understanding them. If you aren’t willing or capable of doing that you are just going to make things worse.

Lemmy is my cocaine.

There a big difference in seeking something out and someone walking up to you and talking at you.

It’s less about valuing communication and more about the dopamine hit. Delivering that lecture and educating the simpletons feels really good.

Do you want people to care or do you want to lecture people who don’t agree with you. People like to give lectures on politics, but no one listens to them. If you want people to care you have to care about them.

You can picture a clock or a track. If you have one going forward and one backwards, they meet at the halfway point (6), and again at the full lap (12). This happens twice in a day.

If you have one going twice as fast, they only meet when the faster one laps the slower one. The two clocks would be at 3&6, 6&12, 9&6(18), 12&12(24)

No, if you go twice as fast, it would only align with one at 12 and one at 24. It’s not about speed, it’s about the intersections of forward and backward laps.

Lots of people know a broken clock is right twice per day, but many are unaware that a clock running backwards is right 4 times per day.

Salary really depends on value provided or enabled. That’s why more knowledge stops mattering at a certain point, someone with a month of experience driving a forklift is less valuable than someone with 3 years, but 6 years of experience isn’t significantly different.

There’s also benefits to being closer to money to show value. This is why sales jobs tend to pay better, as showing direct responsibility for 1 million in sales vs keeping the machines running that made the product.

I’d maybe be better, but I’d still have a kickass life.

You can’t play fortnite directly on a steam deck, only stream it from somewhere else.

There’s way more reason than fashion. There’s durability and comfort tradeoffs in a toilet seat. Not everyone wants to power wash their toilet, but those that do need more durable seats. Others may want a softer material that is more comfortable for use. Prisons want one that can’t easily be removed or broken in pieces. Some may want a built in child size seat. Some may want a dedicated handle area. Some might want a heated seat. Some might want soft closing seats.

The same is true of most products, there’s no one true solution.

Yelp and more scrolling past ads. Mostly caring about style and food pics. Reviews are pretty trash, so depending on the type of place anything 3+ Stars is generally worth looking at.

This part was incredibly frustrating. Personal and second hand examples.

A lady believed the defendant couldn’t possibly rob a place during his lunch break. It was a 5-10 minute drive from his workplace. Couldn’t point this out on a map, because one wasn’t introduced as evidence.

A lady couldn’t believe that a corrections officer would just be a dick to an inmate. There is no way they would ever use the ability to search a cell to destroy property or as retaliation.

You can’t just destroy money. With fractional reserve banking any bank can create money, but they can’t destroy it. Only the Fed can “destroy” money by buying bonds back and not reselling them. Forgiving a is a loss to the lender, in the case of student loans, the government guarantees them, so the lender gets made whole and the government assumes the debt on behalf of the borrower.

The government guarantees the loan. Student loans are ultimately the government taking out a loan on behalf of a citizen.

In the strictest legal sense it’s not stealing.

Forgiving loans of those who followed a program and qualified is definitely not stealing. Not forgiving those loans and forcing payment, is at least analogous to stealing.

Blanket forgiveness of all loans is similar to stealing from future generations, as it is government debt that isn’t getting repaid as expected.

Every president since the 70s has overseen genocide, even ignoring the one you’re likely alluding too.

Trump is definitely in the bottom quintile, but also anyone putting him in the bottom 5 is just recency bias.

That advice seems like a red flag. There are way more options to diversify investments in an IRA than a 401k, you can also invest in the same funds through an IRA that are available to your 401k. Either way you end up paying fees to someone as well.