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Patrick
2020 Jul 14, 8:06am
Patrick
2020 Jul 14, 8:06am
WookieMan says
I was a liberal arts major at first and it was very depressing how no one would agree on anything, all constantly trying to stomp each other because of ego, and no one with any clear job path.
Then I switched to engineering and it was incredible. If you didn't agree, one of you would be proven wrong, using math, or a compiler. And everyone in engineering knew they were going to get a job at a good salary, and they did.
That's academia for you. Not actually about doing anything, just talking in circles.
I was a liberal arts major at first and it was very depressing how no one would agree on anything, all constantly trying to stomp each other because of ego, and no one with any clear job path.
Then I switched to engineering and it was incredible. If you didn't agree, one of you would be proven wrong, using math, or a compiler. And everyone in engineering knew they were going to get a job at a good salary, and they did.
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WookieMan
2020 Jul 14, 8:41am
WookieMan
2020 Jul 14, 8:41am
Patrick says
It's because it's all words. I was history major which you'd think would be benign with little disagreement. I can't remember the specific example but literally had overlapping courses with regards to timeline in history and each professor presented a completely different version. This was American history.
Political Science minor and boy was that a shit show. As I've mentioned in the past, LGBT on campus office was in that wing of the building. Fancy that.
I've got two boys and I'm probably going to push them to go the trades route with come CC courses on business. Or a STEM field. They'd have a leg up with engineering due to my wife's work. I just don't want them going near the bull shit minimum requirements/courses at a university that do nothing towards getting an engineering degree. Basically the indoctrination courses.
I was a liberal arts major at first and it was very depressing how no one would agree on anything, all constantly trying to stomp each other because of ego, and no one with any clear job path.
It's because it's all words. I was history major which you'd think would be benign with little disagreement. I can't remember the specific example but literally had overlapping courses with regards to timeline in history and each professor presented a completely different version. This was American history.
Political Science minor and boy was that a shit show. As I've mentioned in the past, LGBT on campus office was in that wing of the building. Fancy that.
I've got two boys and I'm probably going to push them to go the trades route with come CC courses on business. Or a STEM field. They'd have a leg up with engineering due to my wife's work. I just don't want them going near the bull shit minimum requirements/courses at a university that do nothing towards getting an engineering degree. Basically the indoctrination courses.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Jul 15, 4:16pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Jul 15, 4:16pm
WookieMan says
Finally got my wife to get on board with the trades first. Something like Rin's plan: GED at 16, Trade for a year or two, then college later.
Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Learn to love fixing the motor, then think about physics or mechanical engineering.
I've got two boys and I'm probably going to push them to go the trades route with come CC courses on business. Or a STEM field. They'd have a leg up with engineering due to my wife's work. I just don't want them going near the bull shit minimum requirements/courses at a university that do nothing towards getting an engineering degree. Basically the indoctrination courses.
Finally got my wife to get on board with the trades first. Something like Rin's plan: GED at 16, Trade for a year or two, then college later.
Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Learn to love fixing the motor, then think about physics or mechanical engineering.
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Patrick
2020 Jul 15, 5:04pm
Patrick
2020 Jul 15, 5:04pm
NoCoupForYou says
This should be standard, unless you're totally on fire for some specific degree.
Most students just kinda fuck around in college, wasting time and money until they hit on something they like. I was like that until I got into programming. Even then, the degree was not all that important. Lots of programmers don't have a degree these days.
And the last year or two of high school is also a waste unless you're really into it.
Finally, it's super-useful for everyone to have a basic trade they can fall back on. Construction, plumbing, electric, whatever.
Rin's plan: GED at 16, Trade for a year or two, then college later.
This should be standard, unless you're totally on fire for some specific degree.
Most students just kinda fuck around in college, wasting time and money until they hit on something they like. I was like that until I got into programming. Even then, the degree was not all that important. Lots of programmers don't have a degree these days.
And the last year or two of high school is also a waste unless you're really into it.
Finally, it's super-useful for everyone to have a basic trade they can fall back on. Construction, plumbing, electric, whatever.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Jul 15, 6:11pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2020 Jul 15, 6:11pm
Patrick says
Exactly. Even if your destination is college, why not pick up a trade first, esp. if you're going the low/no debt route.
Great job that nobody thinks about: Locksmith. Always in demand, stupid easy to set up a business (you don't need a storefront or even a place of business to do lockouts, you can run it from your van or truck). How many older guys with kids wish they had a dependable young dude willing to work nights M-Th/F and be on call? Entrance requirements are minimal, it's mostly learn on the job. In FL there are no statewide requirements, and in Miami-Dade which is usually the toughest for requirements, it's having $25k general biz insurance, no felony convictions in the past 5-10 years, and one year's experience. Other counties are less.
Finally, it's super-useful for everyone to have a basic trade they can fall back on. Construction, plumbing, electric, whatever.
Exactly. Even if your destination is college, why not pick up a trade first, esp. if you're going the low/no debt route.
Great job that nobody thinks about: Locksmith. Always in demand, stupid easy to set up a business (you don't need a storefront or even a place of business to do lockouts, you can run it from your van or truck). How many older guys with kids wish they had a dependable young dude willing to work nights M-Th/F and be on call? Entrance requirements are minimal, it's mostly learn on the job. In FL there are no statewide requirements, and in Miami-Dade which is usually the toughest for requirements, it's having $25k general biz insurance, no felony convictions in the past 5-10 years, and one year's experience. Other counties are less.
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WookieMan
2020 Jul 15, 6:25pm
WookieMan
2020 Jul 15, 6:25pm
NoCoupForYou says
That's the thing. I'd try to get them to find a niche trade. You brought up motorcycle engines and maintenance. Get your basic learning done, but jump into one type. Aircraft for example. Since most flight schools have Cessna's 152/172 or whatever model, learn that engine. Learn the plane and you could probably get a job in a ton of places given they're also popular to own. Factor in annuals, overhauls and maintenance and airplane mechanics will always be in need for that specific type.
Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Learn to love fixing the motor, then think about physics or mechanical engineering
That's the thing. I'd try to get them to find a niche trade. You brought up motorcycle engines and maintenance. Get your basic learning done, but jump into one type. Aircraft for example. Since most flight schools have Cessna's 152/172 or whatever model, learn that engine. Learn the plane and you could probably get a job in a ton of places given they're also popular to own. Factor in annuals, overhauls and maintenance and airplane mechanics will always be in need for that specific type.
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Rin
2020 Jul 15, 7:05pm
Rin
2020 Jul 15, 7:05pm
NoCoupForYou says
Sounds like Rin Wah is in effect ... Law!
Something like Rin's plan: GED at 16, Trade for a year or two, then college later.
Sounds like Rin Wah is in effect ... Law!
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AmericanKulak
2021 Jul 1, 6:05pm
AmericanKulak
2021 Jul 1, 6:05pm
Patrick has proven a saying that is as old as AOL/Prodigy groups in the 90s, maybe back to BBS's of the 80s:
The moment a forum/chat/board has no rule except banning Personal Attacks, the length of a Lefty account is shortened to months.
The moment a forum/chat/board has no rule except banning Personal Attacks, the length of a Lefty account is shortened to months.
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Patrick
2021 Jul 1, 6:24pm
Patrick
2021 Jul 1, 6:24pm
I do think the left is orders of magnitude more angry and intolerant than the right.
For example, do you know of anyone, ever, who was unfriended for holding leftist views? The right tolerates the left, listens, and does not end friendship over such stuff even if they continue to disagree.
But the opposite does not hold. I would bet money that all of the unfriendings done in our lifetimes were 100% by leftists who could not tolerate any disagreement.
Similarly, almost all of the political violence done in our lifetimes was done by leftists. Only the left is violent these days, never the right, but you'd never know this fact from the MSM.
The very rare exceptions prove the rule. I can't even think of any, but there probably are a few. Compare BLM/Pantyfa actions in 2020, resulting in literally hundreds of violent riots, many of them resulting in murder, vs no riots and no murders at all on the right. The "insurrection" by unarmed selfie takers also proves the rule. The only fatality was a Trump supporter killed by a Capitol policeman.
Left = intolerant and violent
Right = tolerant and nonviolent
These are indisputable facts for anyone who actually looks at what is really going on.
For example, do you know of anyone, ever, who was unfriended for holding leftist views? The right tolerates the left, listens, and does not end friendship over such stuff even if they continue to disagree.
But the opposite does not hold. I would bet money that all of the unfriendings done in our lifetimes were 100% by leftists who could not tolerate any disagreement.
Similarly, almost all of the political violence done in our lifetimes was done by leftists. Only the left is violent these days, never the right, but you'd never know this fact from the MSM.
The very rare exceptions prove the rule. I can't even think of any, but there probably are a few. Compare BLM/Pantyfa actions in 2020, resulting in literally hundreds of violent riots, many of them resulting in murder, vs no riots and no murders at all on the right. The "insurrection" by unarmed selfie takers also proves the rule. The only fatality was a Trump supporter killed by a Capitol policeman.
Left = intolerant and violent
Right = tolerant and nonviolent
These are indisputable facts for anyone who actually looks at what is really going on.
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richwicks
2021 Jul 1, 8:15pm
richwicks
2021 Jul 1, 8:15pm
FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
I will take you up on this. I am in complete disagreement with you on this topic and I'm willing to discuss it civilly.
I don't think the US has been in a justifiable war since at least WWII, and even then, I'm not certain about WWII. We are lied into all our wars and our intelligence agencies aren't this incompetent.
And in particular I think George Bush was acting on the best intel he had at the time post 9/11. I have to study up some more...there’s a few books I’ve had on the back burner....but I’m guessing that alone could be an epic thread. Once I’m read up on everything...I have no problem taking on the entire site.
I will take you up on this. I am in complete disagreement with you on this topic and I'm willing to discuss it civilly.
I don't think the US has been in a justifiable war since at least WWII, and even then, I'm not certain about WWII. We are lied into all our wars and our intelligence agencies aren't this incompetent.
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richwicks
2021 Jul 1, 8:26pm
richwicks
2021 Jul 1, 8:26pm
Patrick says
I do - me.
There's a point where I cannot take people's insistence that a bloodthirsty warmongering President like Obama that went on to bomb Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria is somehow a much better and less violent person than Trump was, especially when they are utterly oblivious that Obama went on to bomb Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria even though I've pointed this out to them multiple times. Hope and Change eh? Change to me wasn't gay marriage and a national discussion on trans-gendered bathrooms and I expect "smart" people to realize that. If they can't, I have to question their actual intelligence and moral thinking.
I don't want to be around people who just spew propaganda at me after a point, and have no logical or moral basis for their viewpoints, and simply have their viewpoints fed to them through mass media.
And that goes for BOTH "sides".
People who have told me that we "need to kill them over there otherwise we need to kill them over here" for example. Lunatics that think terrorists are going to barge into a classroom to blow up their kids. People that don't understand that US policy is to CREATE terrorists, not eliminate them and insist on arguing about trivialities and distractions like gay marriage, school prayer, trans-gendered bathrooms, flag burning and other bullshit that is created exclusively to get people at each other's throats. I see these as distractions and I'm irritated when other people cannot, for years. These are not important issues for the ruling class and therefore, aren't important issues at all.
People who insist on fighting on enemy turf, can't see that it's enemy turf - it's enormously frustrating. I really don't give a shit if some fucked up piece of shit parent allows their 9 year old kid to "change sex". Not my kid, but I do care when my nation is acting like the goddamned 4th Reich. There are issues that transcend our own existence. In 100 years, the American flag may be looked upon in the same way as the Swastika is today. That's the issue we ought to be worried about. Don't fuck up this nation, we have a responsibility for the next generation.
For example, do you know of anyone, ever, who was unfriended for holding leftist views? The right tolerates the left, listens, and does not end friendship over such stuff even if they continue to disagree.
I do - me.
There's a point where I cannot take people's insistence that a bloodthirsty warmongering President like Obama that went on to bomb Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria is somehow a much better and less violent person than Trump was, especially when they are utterly oblivious that Obama went on to bomb Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria even though I've pointed this out to them multiple times. Hope and Change eh? Change to me wasn't gay marriage and a national discussion on trans-gendered bathrooms and I expect "smart" people to realize that. If they can't, I have to question their actual intelligence and moral thinking.
I don't want to be around people who just spew propaganda at me after a point, and have no logical or moral basis for their viewpoints, and simply have their viewpoints fed to them through mass media.
And that goes for BOTH "sides".
People who have told me that we "need to kill them over there otherwise we need to kill them over here" for example. Lunatics that think terrorists are going to barge into a classroom to blow up their kids. People that don't understand that US policy is to CREATE terrorists, not eliminate them and insist on arguing about trivialities and distractions like gay marriage, school prayer, trans-gendered bathrooms, flag burning and other bullshit that is created exclusively to get people at each other's throats. I see these as distractions and I'm irritated when other people cannot, for years. These are not important issues for the ruling class and therefore, aren't important issues at all.
People who insist on fighting on enemy turf, can't see that it's enemy turf - it's enormously frustrating. I really don't give a shit if some fucked up piece of shit parent allows their 9 year old kid to "change sex". Not my kid, but I do care when my nation is acting like the goddamned 4th Reich. There are issues that transcend our own existence. In 100 years, the American flag may be looked upon in the same way as the Swastika is today. That's the issue we ought to be worried about. Don't fuck up this nation, we have a responsibility for the next generation.
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Patrick
2021 Jul 20, 11:37pm
Patrick
2021 Jul 20, 11:37pm
https://twitter.com/JoshuaLisec/status/1417184186599972869#m
Most tribal disagreements on here result from Word Thinking (Credit: @ScottAdamsSays).
"This word means that, and that's bad!"
"No, it means this, and that's good!"
See this everywhere.
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TrueLightEssence
2021 Sep 26, 9:57am
original link
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Dear Patrick,
May I share this heart call?
I have a small bitchute channel: 'Searching For The Evidence'.
My aim is to protect the vulnerable.
Timing is critical...We must make a stand.
With Love, Claire
original link
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Dear Patrick,
May I share this heart call?
I have a small bitchute channel: 'Searching For The Evidence'.
My aim is to protect the vulnerable.
Timing is critical...We must make a stand.
With Love, Claire
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charlie303
2021 Dec 16, 8:04am
sjmoca2 says
because you are a bullshitter.
no links, no sources cited, no references, no nuanced debate, no reason, no rational discourse
just looking to troll
a waste of electrons flying around the interwebs
.
Serious question for @Patrick and the followers of this forum.
Why did @Patrick censor the 'sjmoca' account by banning, when they did not break any forum rules? This forum purports to be a space to discuss ideas and disagree without insults. Patrick insulted 'sjmoca' by calling him a pharma shill, and then censored them by banning - seemingly only for posting data, ideas, or questions that Patrick personally disagrees with.
It's Okay for you to be offended Patrick. It's not Okay, by your own rules, to censor those who disagree with you.
because you are a bullshitter.
no links, no sources cited, no references, no nuanced debate, no reason, no rational discourse
just looking to troll
a waste of electrons flying around the interwebs
.
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Patrick
2022 Apr 12, 9:15pm
Patrick
2022 Apr 12, 9:15pm
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/circumventing-manipulation-via-trojan?s=r&source=patrick.net
consider the structure of the question being posed and the assumptions therein, because they will seek to skip steps and occlude what’s being done and they will blow it by you because you happen to like the outcome so you won’t think about it too hard or bother to fight.
they will pick the least sympathetic case to get the ball rolling.
after all, who’s going to stand up for some neo nazis?
well, you should, and here’s why: sure they may be odious and you may disagree violently with them, but an assault on their speech is an assault on everyone’s speech, yours included.
the price of your own free speech is listening to others say things you absolutely hate. if you are not willing to do this, you neither deserve nor will you retain your own right of speech.
no one ever said it was easy, only that it was just and fair.
it is precisely because you will not stand up for the right to hateful speech that they are able to take your free speech away. then, one day, you try to protest a school board for muzzling your children in class and they silence you, bar you from discourse, and, in all too predictable fashion, brand you as a fascist and a nazi and as a domestic terrorist. (and yes, this really happened)
and it was your fault. you walked into it and let them set up the trap by changing the framing from rights to privileges. you failed to defend nazi speech and thereby lost your own. we all did (or enough did that the rest got run over)
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AmericanKulak
2022 Apr 19, 9:35am
AmericanKulak
2022 Apr 19, 9:35am
@Patrick, can I suggest all appearances of "Pedo" and "Pedophile" and "Pedophilia" be replaced with "Disney"?
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Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 10:13am
Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 10:13am
Lol, I could do that.
OK, done for new comments and posts.
@AmericanKulak
OK, done for new comments and posts.
@AmericanKulak
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richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 10:18am
richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 10:18am
Patrick says
If you are going to do that, can I suggest that you make it so that when the cursor hovers over the world "disney" the original word is shown?
Lol, I could do that.
OK, done for new comments and posts.
@AmericanKulak
If you are going to do that, can I suggest that you make it so that when the cursor hovers over the world "disney" the original word is shown?
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richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 10:37am
richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 10:37am
Patrick says
Well, let's test it - a lot of Disney">Disneys work for Disney, in fact many pedophiles are upper level executives. Jean-Luc Brunel was a pedophile who worked with Jeffrey Epstein, Les Wexner, and Ghislaine Maxwell. He was Epsteined himself in a Paris prison while he was awaiting trial. Video evidence was again destroyed.
It missed the 2nd one.
Les Wexner is the billionaire of Victoria Secrets.
@richwicks OK, done.
Well, let's test it - a lot of Disney">Disneys work for Disney, in fact many pedophiles are upper level executives. Jean-Luc Brunel was a pedophile who worked with Jeffrey Epstein, Les Wexner, and Ghislaine Maxwell. He was Epsteined himself in a Paris prison while he was awaiting trial. Video evidence was again destroyed.
It missed the 2nd one.
Les Wexner is the billionaire of Victoria Secrets.
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Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 10:46am
Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 10:46am
Ah, need to make that a global match and replace, thanks.
And need to account for plural.
And need to account for plural.
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richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 10:49am
richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 10:49am
If you ever want to setup a virtual machine to mirror this site, you know I can help.
Should be easy to clone your setup. Email won't work, but it doesn't need to.
Should be easy to clone your setup. Email won't work, but it doesn't need to.
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Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 10:54am
Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 10:54am
Ah, the tooltip itself was getting replaced, ugh.
Just going to replace with plain "Disney" text for now.
Just going to replace with plain "Disney" text for now.
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richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 11:15am
richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 11:15am
Patrick says
I don't know what the tooltip looks like (html pretty bad now) - but if you could do a match on the tooltip and make that an exception..
I'll screw around with it this weekend. You're using PHP? Guess I'll learn that instead of doing it in perl.
Ah, the tooltip itself was getting replaced, ugh.
Just going to replace with plain "Disney" text for now.
I don't know what the tooltip looks like (html pretty bad now) - but if you could do a match on the tooltip and make that an exception..
I'll screw around with it this weekend. You're using PHP? Guess I'll learn that instead of doing it in perl.
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richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 11:27am
richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 11:27am
Patrick says
Well, been meaning to learn that too.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions?source=patrick.net
No php, it's all javascript (node).
Well, been meaning to learn that too.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions?source=patrick.net
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Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 11:57am
Patrick
2022 Apr 19, 11:57am
richwicks says
I could do it, but it gets a little nasty to say "match of all of these strings but not if they are in quotes".
Also, it might be confusing since, since I have to make it a link which goes nowhere, and the tooltip itself depends on holding the mouse over the ineffective link for some amount of time. Or maybe it can be done inside a span tag, but the tooltip delay is still going make it non-obvious.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions?source=patrick.net
I could do it, but it gets a little nasty to say "match of all of these strings but not if they are in quotes".
Also, it might be confusing since, since I have to make it a link which goes nowhere, and the tooltip itself depends on holding the mouse over the ineffective link for some amount of time. Or maybe it can be done inside a span tag, but the tooltip delay is still going make it non-obvious.
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richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 11:17pm
richwicks
2022 Apr 19, 11:17pm
Patrick says
Here's how I'd handle it in perl with a line:
$line =~ s/\"Disney\"/A_String_Youd_Never_See_sdj2m89amJx/g;
$line =~ s/Disney/disney/g;
$line =~ s/A_String_Youd_Never_See_sdj2m89amJx/\"Disney\"/g;
I use this trick quite often when doing weird substitutions. Perl is smart enough to optimize itself and realize what I'm "intending" to do.
I could do it, but it gets a little nasty to say "match of all of these strings but not if they are in quotes".
Here's how I'd handle it in perl with a line:
$line =~ s/\"Disney\"/A_String_Youd_Never_See_sdj2m89amJx/g;
$line =~ s/Disney/disney/g;
$line =~ s/A_String_Youd_Never_See_sdj2m89amJx/\"Disney\"/g;
I use this trick quite often when doing weird substitutions. Perl is smart enough to optimize itself and realize what I'm "intending" to do.
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Patrick
2022 Apr 22, 7:22pm
Patrick
2022 Apr 22, 7:22pm
DooDahMan says
Thanks @DooDahMan that has definitely been my philosophy.
I'm grateful that my wife went along with it. I think most guys get a lot of pressure to get deeply into debt.
“I’d rather rent and invest the money I didn’t put down for the down payment, home insurance, property tax, all of the other costs and make 7%-10% in the stock market
Thanks @DooDahMan that has definitely been my philosophy.
I'm grateful that my wife went along with it. I think most guys get a lot of pressure to get deeply into debt.
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Patrick
2022 Apr 27, 12:28pm
Patrick
2022 Apr 27, 12:28pm
I broke some things about linkification and automatically inserting images.
Working on a fix now.
Working on a fix now.
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Patrick
2022 Apr 28, 1:42pm
Patrick
2022 Apr 28, 1:42pm
Sorry if you couldn't get to the site for a few seconds. I changed the deployment script to use "reload" instead of "restart":
https://futurestud.io/tutorials/pm2-cluster-mode-and-zero-downtime-restarts?source=patrick.net
Now I should be able to deploy new code with almost zero downtime. In theory it's zero, but I did see one 500 error during a test deploy, so I guess it's not perfect.
https://futurestud.io/tutorials/pm2-cluster-mode-and-zero-downtime-restarts?source=patrick.net
Now I should be able to deploy new code with almost zero downtime. In theory it's zero, but I did see one 500 error during a test deploy, so I guess it's not perfect.
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Please use this effective debate technique:
1. State your opponent's position so that he agrees with it 100%. This is so that you argue against what your opponent is really saying.
2. State points of agreement, and anything you learned from your opponent.
3. Give your reasoning for why your opponent is mistaken.
4. Make it clear that you are attacking only the point and not the person.
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I also have a list of all US Congressmen as separate threads, where you are encouraged to comment on how good of a job you think they're doing:
https://patrick.net/post/1377838/2022-11-29-us-congressmen-lists