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richwicks says

Well my point about this given that I know exactly what I want to know about Rheology and fluids - which is absolutely nothing - my point is, this "discovery" from MIT was a waste of student and/or US grant money.

This is the truth!

Can realtors selling to other realtors prop up home prices in Boyzee once work-from-home ceases to be a thing, and SF refugees, now sufficiently armed, return home? The median annual income in the area is in the $60k range.

HeadSet says

Goran_K says

The entire point of the state legislature is finding out ways to strip you of every single dime not hidden in a rubber condom shoved up your anus.

Knowing San Francisco, that is likely the first place they will look.

Underrated comment.

One thing to think about in idaho/boise area is that most of the people have massive equity. They sold in CA and put a ton down or paid all cash. People are fleeing 3rd world CA.

1980 had to lock bike up at school or anywhere in LA or it would be stolen, 2022 Boise not one kid locks bike. Contractor from CA told me it's amazing here you can leave stuff out here and the next day its still there.

You vil own nothing, und you vil be happy.

I was hoping to see discussion of the fundamentals, but looks like this kid is just as lost as everyone else. If the discussion doesn't start with central banking and lies it necessitates, then it will only serve to obfuscate and continue those lies, and people's slavery.

The problem is that even if you clearly understand what you should do with your money, it’s difficult to obey your logic until you are age 26 or so.

I got my examples from my parents and grandparents, and I finally followed them after about age 27.

That’s when I decided that regardless of my possible business schemes or lack thereof, I would aggressively save, then invest. For a while I saved about 40% of my meager pay; for about a year I didn’t own a car to save money. I rode around with my girlfriend and later bought a cheap car to commute to a new job.

The biggest problem is resisting the temptation to 1. Please girls 2. Impress others 3. Have fun
$500/month is worth $1 million in about 30 years.

clambo says

$500/month is worth $1 million in about 30 years.

Unfortunately, in 30 years, that nominal $1million could only be worth the equivalent of $500 in today's money.

I've heard that from guys who didn't bother to save and invest.

Still, the million dollar balance impresses the chicks and pays for lunch out.

clambo says

I've heard that from guys who didn't bother to save and invest.

Still, the million dollar balance impresses the chicks and pays for lunch out.

Exactly, that’s why diversity in finances is important. Set percentages for Spend, Save/Invest, Give. Then you’re not just investing all of your leftovers after living a life on beans and rice, or you’re not winding up on the street when you’ve been living like the money runs out before the end of the month and why the hell can’t I retire.

Nothing worse than juvenile rentiers.

Is it more than politics here?... Doe the grooming really happens.. as we have seen with Punter Xiden.
Kinds shouldn't be football between politicians.. Disney and grooming are very serious charges and we must protect our precious children.
One of these two must go to jail. US needs to put lot more anti-children politicians in jail.

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Republicans have attempted to position themselves as the party of parental rights, with state legislatures across the country introducing a series of bills targeting the LGBTQ community, with those opposing the legislation being labeled as “groomers.” They’ve also targeted books that discuss race and gender while attempting to make it illegal for parents to seek gender-affirming care for transgender children. Prominent right-wing media figures have focused on anti-LGBTQ attacks in recent weeks.

FarmersWon says

Republicans have attempted to position themselves as the party of parental rights

Well let’s be honest, they didn’t have to try very hard, the democrats have made it clear they want to bombard the children with LGBTQ indoctrination and it literally flipped a state from blue to red. Democrats created the “parental rights voting bloc”, not Republicans.

If they are for sexualizing young preschoolers and schoolers period for that matter, then they are.

Sometimes it's more than a label, it's their fucking brand.

clambo says

I've heard that from guys who didn't bother to save and invest.

Oh, I have saved quite well. And quite a bit is in cash. My comment was a remark on the current inflation and the likelihood inflation will continue to rise.

FarmersWon says

Growing trend of Republicans labeling their Democratic opponents as groomers and Disneys.

"If the shoe fits, wear it."

Democrats are almost all for teaching children to approve of gayness. This is very wrong, because it encourages children to become gay, which leads to disease, misery, and early death.

No one was ever born gay. It is all rationalization for a very destructive vice. All of it.

Patrick says

FarmersWon says

Growing trend of Republicans labeling their Democratic opponents as groomers and Disneys.

"If the shoe fits, wear it."

Democrats are almost all for teaching children to approve of gayness. This is very wrong, because it encourages children to become gay, which leads to disease, misery, and early death.

No one was ever born gay. It is all rationalization for a very destructive vice. All of it.

@patrick, My concern is that Disney used to be extremely serious crime and that's How i like it to stay.
My concern is that it is losing its bite.. Disney should just have only one path to gallows.

Gayness etc. should be fought but Disney shouldn't be used lightly.
Can The republicans bring charges .. answer is no.. So end result would be that real Disney will walk free...if not already doing.
I just feel disgusted at pedos ..

@patrick
Have you done something to your site P----PHILIA changes to disney?

FarmersWon says

Have you done something to your site P----PHILIA changes to disney?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Disney&source=patrick.net

Yes, it's a serious crime, that will be taken seriously, when it becomes synonymous with a multi-billion dollar company who is promoting it.

richwicks says

FarmersWon says

Have you done something to your site P----PHILIA changes to disney?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Disney&source=patrick.net

Yes, it's a serious crime, that will be taken seriously, when it becomes synonymous with a multi-billion dollar company who is promoting it.

So it is some spellchecker SW @patrick uses?.. As this automatically happens.

Hindoo's Disney father!
https://patrick.net/post/1344722/2022-04-21-hindoo-land-s-father-was-disney-punish-

@FarmersWon Yes, I implemented a user suggestion to replace all mentions of p-e-d-o with Disney.

See:

https://patrick.net/post/1277846?560#comment-1835301

Patrick says

@FarmersWon Yes, I implemented a user suggestion to replace all mentions of p-e-d-o with Disney.

See:

https://patrick.net/post/1277846?560#comment-1835301

Cool.
Walt Disney must be rolling in grave.
(If he was cremated, I don't know equivalent quote).. Funny thing one old guy from Panjab told me once that Muslims have so much oil as they bury and their dead bodies become oil.

@FarmersWon I undid that just now, so pedophilia remains pedophilia.

Too confusing for people who don't know about the automatic change, and it makes it hard for people to actually use the word here.

If Elon takes over Twitter, I may well apply for a job there just to be part of something good.

Patrick says

If Elon takes over Twitter, I may well apply for a job there just to be part of something good.

In this case, I recommend contacting him directly.

If you get recruited through the usual corporate circuit, you'll have to put up with a lot organizational horseshit & then, being at Twitter will be like any other job.

If Elon learns about how you managed this website, eliminating personal-attacking trolls, etc, while maintaining the discussions on subjects deemed "too taboo" for mainstream media, then Elon may make you the content moderator for the new Twitter, moving ahead.

A few reminder about our neurally linked friend Mr. Musk:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-dad-errol-fathered-child-with-stepdaughter-2018-3?source=patrick.net

NuttBoxer says

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-dad-errol-fathered-child-with-stepdaughter-2018-3?source=patrick.net

Well, my dad has Narcissistic Personality Disorder and my sister, Histrionic Personality Disorder.

Despite that, I'm PatNet's anti-Covid crusader.

You see, no one can help which family one was born into. The most one can do is pull oneself up by the bootstraps to make one's own way in the world.

Rin says

You see, no one can help which family one was born into. The most one can do is pull oneself up by the bootstraps to make one's own way in the world.

In between the sex bot and lube posts, Rin drops the odd diamond once in a while.

Rin says

You see, no one can help which family one was born into. The most one can do is pull oneself up by the bootstraps to make one's own way in the world.

My family was no picnic either, yet my parents still avoided incest and pedophilia, and have not posed with Maxwell, or posed giving the Eye of Horus.

DooDahMan says

Religion can help you with your conclusions, but you shouldn’t just have religion as a substitute for where your soul should be.

Be careful you're not replacing religion with state propaganda or mistaking morality with state propaganda...

I was a very outspoken atheist at one point, but over time I soon realized that perhaps its best that most people are controlled by a religion. People who are controlled by the state - a completely amoral goal oriented organization which is ENTIRELY self serving - are the worst. I would argue that "woke" people are entirely state controlled. What the state tells them is "right", is. Coronavirus, slava ukraini, mostly peaceful protests, January 6th "insurrection", "trans-rights are human rights", bomb Libya "to prevent a humanitarian crisis", bomb Syria "to prevent Assad from gassing his own people", "we can't wait for the final proof to come in the form of a mushroom cloud" - they'll believe any complete bullshit of the state and will violently resist you if you point out that the state is lying or deceiving them.

Vulcan Logic: The needs of the many....

It's a defeatist problem, if the only way he "Thought" he could save them is to kill the fat man, then it would be murder. What happens when it fails and the five people get killed anyway? It's murder, the practical solution would be to derail the trolley before the bridge.
Why didn't the stinking commie philosopher suggest jumping to your death from your side of the bridge, in which case the fat man wouldn't even be in your way. Sounds like the commie just wanted the fat man dead, and didn't consider any ramifications. People like him shouldn't be paid to think .

DooDahMan says

richwicks says

What the state tells them is "right", is.

What is the "state" ?

The entity that points a gun to your head and says "don't worry, I'm taking this from you for your own good!"

DooDahMan says

People who belive they have seen the light or are being told the real "truth" will also believe any complete bullshit of the "state" and will violently resist you if you point out that the state is lying or deceiving them.

Skeptics realize there is no ultimate authority of "truth", but the state certainly isn't. People who have never changed their mind, are hardly people.

DooDahMan says

It seems that it depends which side of the fence one is on

It is not a fence. People are CONSTANTLY given false dichotomies. Like do you support Ukraine or Russia? How about if you just want to see the war be ended because the outcome of the conflict is just a bunch of dead people and a new Cold War being started? This is a war between two oligarchs with different goals. I think the purpose of the oligarchs in Ukraine is to weaken Russia and they have no real ties to Ukraine, and I think the goal of Russia is keep Russia together and NATO out because they see Europe as a collapsing empire.

But that's inconceivable to most people that I don't take "a side". You have to get on one side of the fence..

DooDahMan says

Any examples of a "moral" goal oriented organization which is not ENTIRELY self serving ?

I've never found one, even in charities, there's always a grift somewhere.

It has to be individual.

DooDahMan says

richwicks says

best that most people are controlled by a religion

Any particular religion in mind ?

No, not in particular. Religions that are overall harmful are attacked over time and die out.

DooDahMan says

What about the religions that do not align with your viewpoint(s) ?

No religion aligns with my viewpoints.

Looks like I'm not the only one who watches Zach and Ray. I'm still wondering what happened with Zach's former Volvo.

Tenpoundbass says

What happens when it fails and the five people get killed anyway?

Yeah, why would anybody expect a fat man to be able to stop a trolley? That would never occur to me to be true. You're given an invalid premise, that is killing a fat man would save 4. It would just kill 5.

I say there are no circumstances under which it is moral to deliberately kill an innocent person.

Patrick says

I say there are no circumstances under which it is moral to deliberately kill an innocent person.

Agreed

DooDahMan says

Patrick says

I say there are no circumstances under which it is moral to deliberately kill an innocent person.

But it happens all over the world

Start with abortion, the in most cases murdering and in some cases killing of innocent life

DooDahMan says

1967

No accident (no pun intended) it came up in that year, the beginning of our societal decay. It was the beginning of what was called "values clarification" that began being promoted in high schools during the 1970's when real education, learning the "three "R's" was all but abandoned, nothing was right or wrong. By the early 80's, it was obvious that schools were turning out young people unable to proceed with basic college courses without extensive remediation. It prompted the 1984 book A Nation at Risk.