The mirror serves up organic photons.

I’m thankful I’m not a picky eater. I’ll eat anything and it’s the company that makes the biggest difference for me when eating out. On the other hand, it makes it hard for me to lose weight.

A lot of this is on paper. For example, if they’re calculating potential retirement age based on stock market returns then they may be in for a rude awakening if the longest bull run of all time (minus the covid disruption) ends. But what are the odds of that, right? Surely housing prices will also rise forever too.

Depends. Are they sexy?

While true, how many of those workplace incidents involved someone from the executive level?

Truly the highest form of art.

The political memes community in particular has silly moderation. My post criticizing the billions in dollars being sent in support of genocide got deleted and when I asked for clarification, I got this explanation (and I quote):

You’re blatant accusing political partition being pro genocide.

This is an opinion.

But I know that no one is PRO genocide. Therefore stating it as such is misinformation. It was removed for this reason alone.

Trying to change the subject was not invented by anyone in particular, but the US likes to slap that label onto everything that directs criticism at them. For example, the US has the highest prison population per capita but will preemptively scream about enemy countries imprisoning people with countless stories in the media. Calling out the hypocrisy is countered with accusations of “whataboutism” but that’s not whataboutism, it’s simply pointing out hypocrisy since it’s the same subject.

One problem I see is that people feel like they have to work in absolutes or match their opinions 100% with everything within a group. How the grouping forms is not always clear, but apparently if one is associated with that grouping, they feel the need to defend everything in that grouping and attacking everything that isn’t.

There is some discussion to be had in the role of the US using proxies to undermine global rivals, but that does not justify Russia invading Ukraine, nothing does. Absolutely, fuck Russia.

Nice caricature, but it has nothing to do with my post. Pointing out that the US is the biggest source of imperialism doesn’t mean no one else is doing bad things, but thanks for proving my point. Fuck Starbucks and Apple, by the way.

The US is the biggest source of imperialism in the world. We don’t have to always follow that up with “butwhatabout” to distract from that, which is what the US media machine does by running stories all the time to manufacture consent for its own imperialism.

I stash away quite a bit, but less in my 401k so that I have access to it whenever I want/need instead of decades into the future.

This is always the advice given by the “experts” during retirement “workshops”. Have money and invest as much as you can into broad diversified funds. That the market will always grow in the long run because it has so far is taken as almost a guarantee, yet every one of these workshops will include a disclaimer of “Past performance is not indicative of future results”. At some point I feel like there’s going to a massive rug pull as the rich encourage everyone to put as much money as they can into the system so the rich can use it as exit liquidity. What’s even better is that with retirement accounts, you’re not allowed to pull out your money until decades into the future without massive penalties, and any changes in your allocations take at least a day to be made. Meanwhile the ultrawealthy have sub-millisecond algorithms at their disposal.

I’m sure when the great rug pull happens, every genius that espoused the common advice will come out and claim that obviously it wasn’t sustainable (like the tech bubble or countless other bubbles) and repeat the magic words “Past performance is not indicative of future results”, then they’ll all suggest some other investment vehicle and that’ll become the new common knowledge advice that everyone should follow until that also becomes unsustainable.

No thanks, I’ll just do the company match for a guaranteed pay amount and enjoy the rest of my money while I’m young, instead of stashing it away and hoping it doesn’t get fucked with in the decades before I can draw from it penalty-free and maybe having a decent chunk of money when I’m old and less capable of enjoying it.

If they make it too hard I’ll stop watching.

Exactly. There is practically an infinite supply of entertainment with a wide variety these days. There are too many alternatives to care about any single source.

If I’m hitting 10 hours of sleep, it’s generally because I’ve been missing out on sleep, though I generally feel great after that 10 hours. If I get enough days in a row where I can sleep uninterrupted, then I seem to settle at around 8 hours.

According to this, it had originally literally meant “exempt from royal tax”: https://www.etymonline.com/word/scot-free#etymonline_v_22952

I’ll have plant protein instead, thanks.

Shrimp is actually crustaceans, but also it’s around the bottom tier of seafood.

Can you use your basic level understanding of economics to explain why Tesla has a market capitalization of more than the next dozen or so automotive companies COMBINED?: https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/largest-automakers-by-market-cap/

What does Occam’s Razor say about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction?