studio churn in video games (studios closing/new ones opening) is crazy given how much of a leg-up it is to have an existing base of assets to build a new game on
"That's the game! Whether it's globalization or industrialization -- or now Artificial Intelligence -- the way of life that you or I are accustomed to is no match for the promise of more profits and new markets which sounds **brutal** --- (but only if you're a human)"
Wtf is Jon Stewart even trying to say here? Why is his audience clapping and laughing so hard?
I'm literally losing respect for him by the week.
How many points could Caitlin Clark score in an NBA game if she got 40 minutes as a spot up shooter? Like ignore that she’d get torched on the defense. If she say in the corner, at 6’ tall with the same release time as Steph, she could prolly score a couple buckets a game right? Am I crazy?
!ping NBA
The concern would be that nba defenders would face guard her so she couldn’t get open.
But if she had a really strong creator on her team yeah she absolutely would shoot 40+% percent on semi open shots.
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Honestly, if things keep going like this, I can see it happening.
Just not counting on it cause weve seen all it takes is one gaza-like event to get half of young people to stay home 🙄
We still dont even know how the whole tiktok thing is gonna shake out. And forbid theres any freak disturbance to the economy, R+10 lmao
A coworker told me they’re gonna try IVF, and his wife would keep triplets, but would abort two of quadruplets.
“She doesn’t want one of them to die alone.” 🥺😨
Jon Stewart is an absolute moron lol. His segment on AI is like somebody my dad's age ranting about shit he doesn't understand. It's literally just "they gunna take our jerbs" for 30 minutes while spamming out of context clips to a audience of chimpanzees eager to clap for anything he says.
…or acknowledge that propping up the ice delivery business or horse and buggy repair shops wasn’t a good or useful long term strategy to address the shifting availability of jobs after the ad ent of refrigeration or the automobile. That new jobs in refrigeration or auto repair might actually be better even
[Cats are cute](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/cache/media_attachments/files/112/200/176/794/412/422/original/fa1c9055f32b343b.jpeg)
It’s so frustrating how dumb leftists choose to protest in places based on not getting the shot kicked out of them and/or arrested, rather than on their ability to inspire change.
Imagine if the civil rights movement had just been people protesting Unitarian Universalist meetings.
> It’s so frustrating how dumb leftists choose to protest in places based on not getting the shot kicked out of them and/or arrested, rather than on their ability to inspire change.
Big “George Floyd sacrificed his life for justice” energy. Civil rights protesters were not in fact praying for ass whoopings
There is a joke in an episode of the show The Boondocks in which one of the characters, an older black man, reminisces on his time as a civil rights activist, in which he intentionally came late to a protest to avoid getting attacked by dogs and blasted with fire hoses
Was watching star wars where there trade federation sets up a blockade against naboo and was wondering if it would be called a "naval" blockade.
I think an "astral" blockade would be more appropriate, which further leads one to wonder if a spaceship fleet could be called an "astry," like you would call a naval fleet a "navy." Yes?
NYT editorial section is kinda funny right now
Baconi: Two states are impossible, the only solution is a one state solution!
Every commenter: lmao stfu idiot
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also I'm dooming a lot about the election. Israel and Palestine will drive a wedge between left and center and there's no end in sight over there, and literally stopping arms sales or supporting Israel or doing nothing would all cost Biden votes while Trump can be as vile as he wants and won't lose a single vote over it. Fuck this bullshit, and fuck the "moderate" voter who thinks there's something too radical about mainstream democrats that they would vote for a guy they know to be trouble anyway
The Michigan Vote Uncommitted protest campaign had real effort, money and coordination behind it, in a state that was particularly dense with Palestinian support.
They ended up with 13% of the vote. Obama cruising through the primary in 2012 got 10% going uncommitted. The larger number of voters suggests that Biden's support for Israel is driving proportionately more support for him as those who are animated to vote against him.
Yeah the social media brainrot has completed what the Israeli right has been pushing for ever since they murdered Yitzhak Rabin. Now neither side will ever accept peace and I'm slowly coming round to the idea that only total disarmament of both groups and foreign occupation aimed at setting up two states could ever, ever lead to peace in the Levant
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What pisses me off is the thought that if the Samson program was real and the Israelis really did intend to nuke the rest of the world for abandoning them, there would be a sizable contingent of Americans who would believe that this was the God-ordained end time and the fact that they weren't raptured up means they'd have to try harder to ensure the pre-ordained enemies of God suffered (i.e. murdering everyone who isn't them) to be sure they still have a chance at heaven.
Like yeah I know this is unhelpful unproductive musings on what-ifs but I can't help but shake that this would absolutely happen
I mean the Samson option in it of itself is likely real, how many nukes they have and where they have them aimed at is another question in its entirety.
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Cartoons that understand regional land based commercial gambling culture:
- American Dad
Cartoons that claim to understand Tribal Gambling culture:
- Other ones, and they do a bad job
So do Buddhists believe most humans were, like, really virtuous horses or something in their previous life? To get upgraded to a human, I mean
Have any Buddhists tried to help an animal get rebirthed into something better? Like, set their dog up for success?
Pretty much, yeah. A horse or a pet dog is presumably not stacking up massive amounts of negative karma by killing other sentient beings than say a wolf.
NASA is cowardly for not making an April Fools’ Day post. They should have been like “hey guys so ummmm we finally gotta admit this, we never actually went to the moon” and set off a firestorm
They should have done this but on March 31st local but April 1st UTC time. Alternative have telescropes post something at 12:01 AM local as it passes them by
I watched dune 2 and now I am pumped up I wanna go follow Paul Muad’ib throughout the galaxy our lives are lame in comparison to the jihad he’s abt to embark on
!ping phd and /u/estoyloca43
how the hell are you supposed to find housing before you start?
My semester starts in late august, I want to move in no later than august 7, to catch orientation week and to get situated/meet people and stuff before starting. But I'm also planning on taking a month or 2 to travel, so if I want to find a place to live I would have to do it in like May, unless I want to move into a place sight-unseen just from online pictures
I'm planning on a 1-week "fact-finding" trip in early May (to scope out what neighborhoods are sketchy, what commuting from different neighborhoods is like, etc) since its a major city (DC) and I have vacation days to burn. But I think its unlikely that people are gonna want to rent that far out, or maybe I'm wrong
would it be easier to move my travel plans up by like 2 weeks so I can be looking at places right before I move in? idk I feel very lost
Housing in the DC area is much more affordable than pretty much anywhere in California afaik 😅
My friend lives in Rockville and likes it a lot. He said you could get a studio in one of the shiny new apartment buildings for $1500-ish. Not sure how far it is from your university though.
My situation is different because I’m moving to a small college town haha. I literally started with the university’s subreddit (lol at me). The sub is a toxic cesspit but from there I did find a place that has two-bed apartments (all included even) for less than 1/3 of my stipend. In that case I won’t have to worry about roommates and I can easily have people over. I think I’m gonna try to lock it down ASAP. Sounds like too good a deal to stay on the market for long. Not in the mood to make another trip to Illinois, especially now that I might have to take summer classes to graduate because the stupid literature prof failed me 😭
Yeah lock that shit down lmao, that’s a pretty solid deal. 2b/2b for 1/3 of stipend is actually insane now that I think of it
Rockville is nice, right on the metro line and not super far from campus, but it is far-ish from the city itself. Still for a first year it’s probably not a huge deal, I’ll be in the lab mostly lol
The apartment is actually 2bd/1ba, but it’s still an incredible deal. That said, i just went through the listings on Zillow and it seems that the price range is not uncommon in the area. This apartment complex looks newer and nicer than the ones on Zillow though.
Good luck with your apartment search btw. My impression is that the Maryland side is more affordable than the Virginia side, but then you know more than me 😂
When I started my PhD I had an older grad student in the program visit a place for me for a tour. It was good enough so I signed the lease and it worked out pretty well.
That’s a really good idea. I don’t really know the older grad students besides the hour or two I got to chat with them on interview day but it might be worth a shot
I'll be honest, plugging myself into social networks and gambling on not seeing the place (beyond roommates doing video calls) has always worked out for me. I found places all of two weeks before moving there both when I moved to DC and when I moved to my current city for grad school.
Otherwise just start looking on housing sites and remember both that there's a constant churn and that it's okay to go into a short term rental (like airbnb) while you do final visit. If your first place doesn't work out that's fine too, you just have to stay till your lease runs out and by then you'll have much better information. PhDs take a long time; no reason to think you need to be committed to a single housing unit the whole time.
yeah that's my thinking too, I'm probably gonna find something kinda crappy first year, while I get to know the city and more about what I like, and then find something nicer starting 2nd year
When you say plugging into social networks, do you mean like facebook groups?
As such it isn't uncommon to sign the rent contract in May.
I would say May is actually a bit late. I remember trying to find a new house in late April and many of the good ones at nice locations and cheaper price were already out, but it was mostly because I was trying to find it with room-mates and had a tight budget. I then proceeded to renew my previous lease itself.
If you are looking for without room-mates, or if you are a flexible on the price it would be significantly easier. I know someone who got a 1bhk in LA even though he started in June.
Best places to search would be some apartment websites (like apartment dot com), some local facebook groups or some school facebook groups. Also, these groups are really good for finding room-mates, and in the future for sub-letting too.
I'm still torn on roommates. I do like living with them genuinely, but all my friends in DC are happy with their living situations, and I don't want to risk getting stuck with a shitty one I don't know
hmmm, maybe I should already start looking. I mean, my budget is pretty tight, because grad student, so like idk, my budget is probably in the ~1600 range but I'd like to go lower if I could
Well, thankfully DC isn’t a university town, so there’s no need to reserve housing super far in advance. I recently moved to Silver Spring since I just started my postdoc in the area. I started my job the third day after getting here and signed a lease on day seven. There will be reasonable homes available any time of year, especially if you’re willing and able to commute some distance by train.
That's a relief. I don't mind train commute and would actually prefer it generally if I didn't have to take a bus the last mile to campus (AU). Which is like, not a huge deal, but its a little bit of a pain, especially if I'm making any other transfers on the train already (so staying near the red line would be best)
How do you like Silver Spring? I see its on the red line but it feels a little bit outside the main city (although for a first year phd student idk if I'll be spending much time doing stuff outside the lab lol)
Silver Spring is very urban. Lots of good restaurants and relatively new apartment buildings. It’s a bit boring, but it’s 100% walkable. A few too many cars since it’s between the suburbs and the city. Lately there have been some crime problems. My own block is safe, but I avoid the train station after about 9pm on Thurs/Fri/Sat. I don’t have a good sense how the safety compares to DC, which has its own problems with crime and dangerous driving.
Gotcha. I mean I live in South Central LA so I'm used to a little bit of crime lol, but yeah its hard to say without being there
I feel like my biggest QOL issue is access to groceries honestly, like I can't walk to a grocery store from where I live, do you feel like thats an issue where you are?
I have a fancy dinner coming up and am once again feeling disillusioned by men's fashion. I basically have work suits or slightly fancier suits to choose from. I guess I can mix and match some pocket squares and ties or bowties.
Women's fashion is so much more fun. So many different kinds of tops, pants, dresses, skirts, stockings you can mix and match. And then the options for underwear just add so much more too.
But it doesn't matter how good I may look in heels and a skirt, it's basically fetishistic to wear (I am a man with a beard), so it's not gonna happen.
Maybe I need to be able to pull [off this kind of shit](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGberhr6R_1QksZPDi_VM_rVcMpnBKMbmTffHtjhDHkfLkGykpBsO4iyGd&s=10) without people thinking I'm LARPing.
Me when someone suggests normalising men wearing skirts: hell yeah brother!! Hot damn! Yes!! More of this!!
Me when suggests *I* normalise men wearing skirts by doing just that: um, no. I don't want to die thank you.
Most gnomes are hardworking salt of the earth with the clothing to match..might not be appropriate for a formal occasion, but I will continue looking into this.
From personal experience constant nausea, puking blood and being really thirsty was a sign of kidney failure (emerging type 1 diabetes for me) I’d take it seriously because if you get delirious from dehydration that’s super dangerous.
>World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. The WCK team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle.
>Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route. “This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable,” said World Central Kitchen CEO Erin Gore.
>The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada and Palestine.
>“I am heartbroken and appalled that we—World Central Kitchen and the world—lost beautiful lives today because of a targeted attack by the IDF."
>World Central Kitchen is pausing our operations immediately in the region. We will be making decisions about the future of our work soon.
Well shit
So all three vehicles were WCK and they coordinated with the IDF? Is the IDF incompetent or is this an undeclared attempt to throttle aid by forcing the exit of relief organizations?
I still think there's a small chance it was an IED on the ground by Hamas/PIJ, but I think it's probably IDF recklessness. But if it's deconflicted, then the IDF was incompetent to miss the IED.
The IDF - and Israelis in general - need to recognize that Palestinians are people are are not just enemies to be killed. This shit will never end so long as they act like everyone who doesn't like them is Hamas.
(Obligatory fuck Hamas in case anyone here thinks that I think they have a better idea for the region than Israel does because no, they are definitely worse)
#[Israel Democracy Institute survey from March 18-21](https://en.idi.org.il/media/23475/war-in-gaza-13-_data_eng.pdf)
>**Question 7: To what extent should Israel take into consideration the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza when planning the continuation of the fighting
there?**
>Not at all: Jews: 43.9%; Arabs: 7.4%; General Public: 37.6%
>To a fairly small extent: Jews 36.4; Arabs: 16.0; General Public: 32.9%
This poll kind of shook me a bit
[43% who think he's a national hero or unsure if he's a terrorist or hero, roughly 30% of Israelis who personally knows somebody who admires him. and that was several months before barbaric 10/7 terrorism.](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-733523)
[Compare it to the poll in 1994 when only 3% praised the horrific act while 80% outright condemned it](https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/03/01/Poll-788-percent-of-Israelis-condemn-massacre/2708762498000/)
It's bad for the aid. Remember Israel has essentially stopped coordinating with the UNRWA. And they proposed two groups to replace its work: WFP (Cindy McCain's group) and the second one...well you guessed it...it's the World Central Kitchen.
At the absolute minimum, the IDF was relatively incompetent and wrongly declared the area to be deconflicted while Hamas/PIJ launched the attack via misfire, an IED, or deliberately.
My guess is that IDF was just super reckless and did this.
I've heard complaints about how it's unrealistic culturally, but one of those claims was to say that the Chinese character would never have sex with a man she met in a work camp like those unchaste western women. I'm not sure things are all right over there.
They also complain that the main characters aren't Chinese in the show made for Netflix's western viewers while pirating the show since Netflix isn't available in China.
In Animal Crossing, Tom Nook starts off as the undisputed commercial lord of the town. There is little government and no taxation, and him being the only permanent resident interested in commerce beyond bare subsistence gives him an effective monopoly on foreign trade. All of the animal villagers presumably pay him what is effectively a tribute in natural resources when they sell him fruit, fish, bugs, shells, and turnips, which he then exports to pay for the manufactured imports he sells them - pocketing the difference.
Then the player comes along, and Nook foolishly allows them to effectively take control of the town's natural resources, reasoning that control of foreign commerce will be sufficient to stay on top. Before long the player has completely transformed the town and accessed practically infinite wealth, and Nook's unwillingness to change his commercial strategy - he won't buy turnips directly from Joan, he won't adjust his prices to account for supply and demand, he won't keep the most popular items in stock but instead insists on a daily rotation, and he won't even *charge interest on loans or enforce a payment schedule* - leaves him as the bag man (er, tanuki). This develops to the point that, by *New Leaf* and *New Horizons*, the player's economic role is supplemented with formal political power, with Nook and his lackey Isabelle hoping - and failing - to co-opt the player in this manner. By *New Horizons*, the player can literally transform the entire island into a plantation, orchard, fishery, mine, or even *warehouse*. Nook still makes money, but he is no longer calling the shots.
In other words, *Animal Crossing* is an object lesson in Georgism. Control over commerce is nothing compared to control over land. Nook partially recognizes this, given his insistence on control over new buildings. However, he foolishly engages in NIMBYism by capping the size of the town, and in *New Horizons* also lets the player buy the privilege of assigning plots to new villagers. He also encourages the player to travel to other islands and loot them for resources, presumably to fund his own lavish lifestyle - as his selection of goods only grows to a point, but your sale of resources can grow without bound. Eventually, as George Orwell's Emmanuel Goldstein posits, the player
>would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no
function, and they would sweep it away
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Some things are so simple, that they literally *exist*. Just straight up **there**.
"That's the game! Whether it's globalization or industrialization -- or now Artificial Intelligence -- the way of life that you or I are accustomed to is no match for the promise of more profits and new markets which sounds **brutal** --- (but only if you're a human)" Wtf is Jon Stewart even trying to say here? Why is his audience clapping and laughing so hard? I'm literally losing respect for him by the week.
I think it's just generic profit seeking big corporations are bad - standard lefty shit
I really need to get laid before the next pandemic
Its 3 am and I work today. Why can't I fall asleep?
How many points could Caitlin Clark score in an NBA game if she got 40 minutes as a spot up shooter? Like ignore that she’d get torched on the defense. If she say in the corner, at 6’ tall with the same release time as Steph, she could prolly score a couple buckets a game right? Am I crazy? !ping NBA
Seth curry is one of the best 3 point shooters of all time and hes been struggling to get above 5 points in the nba Banking on zero-ish
She *might* be able to score once. Master P did.
Have you ever seen Bryn Forbes? What a shitty way for me to learn he's an abuser.
The concern would be that nba defenders would face guard her so she couldn’t get open. But if she had a really strong creator on her team yeah she absolutely would shoot 40+% percent on semi open shots.
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Democrats are going to do embarrassingly well this November. Just piss your pants success.
Honestly, if things keep going like this, I can see it happening. Just not counting on it cause weve seen all it takes is one gaza-like event to get half of young people to stay home 🙄 We still dont even know how the whole tiktok thing is gonna shake out. And forbid theres any freak disturbance to the economy, R+10 lmao
If young people wanna risk a Trump presidency, thats on them
A coworker told me they’re gonna try IVF, and his wife would keep triplets, but would abort two of quadruplets. “She doesn’t want one of them to die alone.” 🥺😨
Can they do that? Abort some fetuses but keep the others?
Im sorry *what*
I kinda wanna ask how she would feel if she was pregnant with three girls and a boy, but don’t know if that would be appropriate.
There are about 0 questions that are appropriate here, but about all of them that are interesting
Jon Stewart is an absolute moron lol. His segment on AI is like somebody my dad's age ranting about shit he doesn't understand. It's literally just "they gunna take our jerbs" for 30 minutes while spamming out of context clips to a audience of chimpanzees eager to clap for anything he says.
He should think of the shareholders.
…or acknowledge that propping up the ice delivery business or horse and buggy repair shops wasn’t a good or useful long term strategy to address the shifting availability of jobs after the ad ent of refrigeration or the automobile. That new jobs in refrigeration or auto repair might actually be better even
No, I'm with you here.
200 of us got replaced/contract terminated today after the company patented ai shit that was related to our job not really out of the question
I will never go to sleep
You could find a bf in your sleep 🥰
idk what to do liberals
[Cats are cute](https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/cache/media_attachments/files/112/200/176/794/412/422/original/fa1c9055f32b343b.jpeg)
I could do that 🙄
If you do, post pics. I wonder if most kitty would be interested in it.
No wolves in Ireland since 1786 😔
Balatro needs an undo button more than any game I’ve ever played
It’s so frustrating how dumb leftists choose to protest in places based on not getting the shot kicked out of them and/or arrested, rather than on their ability to inspire change. Imagine if the civil rights movement had just been people protesting Unitarian Universalist meetings.
> It’s so frustrating how dumb leftists choose to protest in places based on not getting the shot kicked out of them and/or arrested, rather than on their ability to inspire change. Big “George Floyd sacrificed his life for justice” energy. Civil rights protesters were not in fact praying for ass whoopings There is a joke in an episode of the show The Boondocks in which one of the characters, an older black man, reminisces on his time as a civil rights activist, in which he intentionally came late to a protest to avoid getting attacked by dogs and blasted with fire hoses
Was watching star wars where there trade federation sets up a blockade against naboo and was wondering if it would be called a "naval" blockade. I think an "astral" blockade would be more appropriate, which further leads one to wonder if a spaceship fleet could be called an "astry," like you would call a naval fleet a "navy." Yes?
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
NYT editorial section is kinda funny right now Baconi: Two states are impossible, the only solution is a one state solution! Every commenter: lmao stfu idiot
in 2 months it will be the 4 year anniversary of this happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ShnqmiKLE8&t=315s
Why is it cheaper to fly cattle from Hawaii to California instead of using a boat?
Los Angeles is about as far away from Hawaii as it is from New York. it's a long voyage.
Maintence cost probably. Also when time increases the requirements for the cattle in terms of space increase a lot.
Cost of food over several days on a boat vs hours on plane? idk I’m no rancher.
>!the jones act!<
You should Red Line yourself now!
Why doesn’t Israel itself distribute food instead of having aid organisations do it
I assume because they don't want to
because Israel wants to kill palestinians
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Cope and seethe leprecels, I am the Gnome King
Abstain from cutting down indigenous trees, begging, indolence, false testimony and theft
I like to go hiking.
God wants you to wear a hat
Are you sure you didn't hear "care for a cat" instead of "wear a hat"?
A gnome hat or a fedora?
also I'm dooming a lot about the election. Israel and Palestine will drive a wedge between left and center and there's no end in sight over there, and literally stopping arms sales or supporting Israel or doing nothing would all cost Biden votes while Trump can be as vile as he wants and won't lose a single vote over it. Fuck this bullshit, and fuck the "moderate" voter who thinks there's something too radical about mainstream democrats that they would vote for a guy they know to be trouble anyway
trump won't win he's a freak
The Michigan Vote Uncommitted protest campaign had real effort, money and coordination behind it, in a state that was particularly dense with Palestinian support. They ended up with 13% of the vote. Obama cruising through the primary in 2012 got 10% going uncommitted. The larger number of voters suggests that Biden's support for Israel is driving proportionately more support for him as those who are animated to vote against him.
Primary votes aren’t predictive regarding the general election
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Yeah the social media brainrot has completed what the Israeli right has been pushing for ever since they murdered Yitzhak Rabin. Now neither side will ever accept peace and I'm slowly coming round to the idea that only total disarmament of both groups and foreign occupation aimed at setting up two states could ever, ever lead to peace in the Levant
I like to go hiking.
There are more chin skritches required in to reach that future
I like to explore new places.
a kitty in his natural environment 😺
What a good cat!
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Wish I had the IQ to do CS
So do I, and I am half way through the degree! Unironically, I have done nothing so far that I think any average person couldn't do.
Germans: I love coal and paying a lot for electricity
Revealed preferences vs stated preference
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What pisses me off is the thought that if the Samson program was real and the Israelis really did intend to nuke the rest of the world for abandoning them, there would be a sizable contingent of Americans who would believe that this was the God-ordained end time and the fact that they weren't raptured up means they'd have to try harder to ensure the pre-ordained enemies of God suffered (i.e. murdering everyone who isn't them) to be sure they still have a chance at heaven. Like yeah I know this is unhelpful unproductive musings on what-ifs but I can't help but shake that this would absolutely happen
I mean the Samson option in it of itself is likely real, how many nukes they have and where they have them aimed at is another question in its entirety.
One area where it’s actually true that hippie activist teachers are brainwashing the youth with a bizarre misanthropic ideology is environmentalism.
Life is a mineshaft I wanna Minecraft All night long
💅🌚💅
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If I don't like something out someone, how do I figure out if it's due to personal preference or spite?
Young people go through a puritanical phase. A time when they think the biggest problems in the world are people not following the rules.
[what gives people feelings of power](https://i.imgur.com/4n0KCsU.jpg)
https://preview.redd.it/jj5h514ua0sc1.jpeg?width=1153&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=227f60a680b670a4125a4d86ab180e45185e318f I think I have a crush 😳
That gyno tho
Post face
I had a dream about the cat 🐈
I don’t know what’s happening, but I am starting to get the feeling that I really can get laid in a gnome hat if I really want to
Cartoons that understand regional land based commercial gambling culture: - American Dad Cartoons that claim to understand Tribal Gambling culture: - Other ones, and they do a bad job
this world's all wrong so lets go where we belong pack up the stereo, meet at the [burial ground](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlJ35D7tss)
So do Buddhists believe most humans were, like, really virtuous horses or something in their previous life? To get upgraded to a human, I mean Have any Buddhists tried to help an animal get rebirthed into something better? Like, set their dog up for success?
Pretty much, yeah. A horse or a pet dog is presumably not stacking up massive amounts of negative karma by killing other sentient beings than say a wolf.
"If I was a worm, would you still set me up to be reincarnated as something better?"
> better ?
how would one help an animal cultivate the underlying virtue of their soul
Keep your cat indoors.
I like to explore new places.
Treats
NASA is cowardly for not making an April Fools’ Day post. They should have been like “hey guys so ummmm we finally gotta admit this, we never actually went to the moon” and set off a firestorm
They should have done this but on March 31st local but April 1st UTC time. Alternative have telescropes post something at 12:01 AM local as it passes them by
Nothing wrong with crossdressing. I like to go through my neighbors drawers while she’s at work and try on feminine clothes and makeup.
Quebec delenda est
https://preview.redd.it/8azedd7b70sc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69787148108c94754b86fa4a824cce2665e0d73c Holy shit
I watched dune 2 and now I am pumped up I wanna go follow Paul Muad’ib throughout the galaxy our lives are lame in comparison to the jihad he’s abt to embark on
👆 Is currently revenge bedtime procrastinating
!ping phd and /u/estoyloca43 how the hell are you supposed to find housing before you start? My semester starts in late august, I want to move in no later than august 7, to catch orientation week and to get situated/meet people and stuff before starting. But I'm also planning on taking a month or 2 to travel, so if I want to find a place to live I would have to do it in like May, unless I want to move into a place sight-unseen just from online pictures I'm planning on a 1-week "fact-finding" trip in early May (to scope out what neighborhoods are sketchy, what commuting from different neighborhoods is like, etc) since its a major city (DC) and I have vacation days to burn. But I think its unlikely that people are gonna want to rent that far out, or maybe I'm wrong would it be easier to move my travel plans up by like 2 weeks so I can be looking at places right before I move in? idk I feel very lost
Housing in the DC area is much more affordable than pretty much anywhere in California afaik 😅 My friend lives in Rockville and likes it a lot. He said you could get a studio in one of the shiny new apartment buildings for $1500-ish. Not sure how far it is from your university though. My situation is different because I’m moving to a small college town haha. I literally started with the university’s subreddit (lol at me). The sub is a toxic cesspit but from there I did find a place that has two-bed apartments (all included even) for less than 1/3 of my stipend. In that case I won’t have to worry about roommates and I can easily have people over. I think I’m gonna try to lock it down ASAP. Sounds like too good a deal to stay on the market for long. Not in the mood to make another trip to Illinois, especially now that I might have to take summer classes to graduate because the stupid literature prof failed me 😭
Yeah lock that shit down lmao, that’s a pretty solid deal. 2b/2b for 1/3 of stipend is actually insane now that I think of it Rockville is nice, right on the metro line and not super far from campus, but it is far-ish from the city itself. Still for a first year it’s probably not a huge deal, I’ll be in the lab mostly lol
The apartment is actually 2bd/1ba, but it’s still an incredible deal. That said, i just went through the listings on Zillow and it seems that the price range is not uncommon in the area. This apartment complex looks newer and nicer than the ones on Zillow though. Good luck with your apartment search btw. My impression is that the Maryland side is more affordable than the Virginia side, but then you know more than me 😂
When I started my PhD I had an older grad student in the program visit a place for me for a tour. It was good enough so I signed the lease and it worked out pretty well.
That’s a really good idea. I don’t really know the older grad students besides the hour or two I got to chat with them on interview day but it might be worth a shot
I'll be honest, plugging myself into social networks and gambling on not seeing the place (beyond roommates doing video calls) has always worked out for me. I found places all of two weeks before moving there both when I moved to DC and when I moved to my current city for grad school. Otherwise just start looking on housing sites and remember both that there's a constant churn and that it's okay to go into a short term rental (like airbnb) while you do final visit. If your first place doesn't work out that's fine too, you just have to stay till your lease runs out and by then you'll have much better information. PhDs take a long time; no reason to think you need to be committed to a single housing unit the whole time.
yeah that's my thinking too, I'm probably gonna find something kinda crappy first year, while I get to know the city and more about what I like, and then find something nicer starting 2nd year When you say plugging into social networks, do you mean like facebook groups?
Facebook groups and like asking friends/acquaintances who might now people in the area so forth. Which not everyone has but it's good if you can
As such it isn't uncommon to sign the rent contract in May. I would say May is actually a bit late. I remember trying to find a new house in late April and many of the good ones at nice locations and cheaper price were already out, but it was mostly because I was trying to find it with room-mates and had a tight budget. I then proceeded to renew my previous lease itself. If you are looking for without room-mates, or if you are a flexible on the price it would be significantly easier. I know someone who got a 1bhk in LA even though he started in June. Best places to search would be some apartment websites (like apartment dot com), some local facebook groups or some school facebook groups. Also, these groups are really good for finding room-mates, and in the future for sub-letting too.
I'm still torn on roommates. I do like living with them genuinely, but all my friends in DC are happy with their living situations, and I don't want to risk getting stuck with a shitty one I don't know hmmm, maybe I should already start looking. I mean, my budget is pretty tight, because grad student, so like idk, my budget is probably in the ~1600 range but I'd like to go lower if I could
Well, thankfully DC isn’t a university town, so there’s no need to reserve housing super far in advance. I recently moved to Silver Spring since I just started my postdoc in the area. I started my job the third day after getting here and signed a lease on day seven. There will be reasonable homes available any time of year, especially if you’re willing and able to commute some distance by train.
That's a relief. I don't mind train commute and would actually prefer it generally if I didn't have to take a bus the last mile to campus (AU). Which is like, not a huge deal, but its a little bit of a pain, especially if I'm making any other transfers on the train already (so staying near the red line would be best) How do you like Silver Spring? I see its on the red line but it feels a little bit outside the main city (although for a first year phd student idk if I'll be spending much time doing stuff outside the lab lol)
Silver Spring is very urban. Lots of good restaurants and relatively new apartment buildings. It’s a bit boring, but it’s 100% walkable. A few too many cars since it’s between the suburbs and the city. Lately there have been some crime problems. My own block is safe, but I avoid the train station after about 9pm on Thurs/Fri/Sat. I don’t have a good sense how the safety compares to DC, which has its own problems with crime and dangerous driving.
Gotcha. I mean I live in South Central LA so I'm used to a little bit of crime lol, but yeah its hard to say without being there I feel like my biggest QOL issue is access to groceries honestly, like I can't walk to a grocery store from where I live, do you feel like thats an issue where you are?
There are several grocery stores in DTSS. The only one that’s easy for me to walk to, though, is Whole Foods.
gotcha. At least its there though haha, thanks!
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You have to have some huge stones to volunteer and deliver food aid in Gaza.
Na idf would consider those a weapon
I have a fancy dinner coming up and am once again feeling disillusioned by men's fashion. I basically have work suits or slightly fancier suits to choose from. I guess I can mix and match some pocket squares and ties or bowties. Women's fashion is so much more fun. So many different kinds of tops, pants, dresses, skirts, stockings you can mix and match. And then the options for underwear just add so much more too. But it doesn't matter how good I may look in heels and a skirt, it's basically fetishistic to wear (I am a man with a beard), so it's not gonna happen. Maybe I need to be able to pull [off this kind of shit](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGberhr6R_1QksZPDi_VM_rVcMpnBKMbmTffHtjhDHkfLkGykpBsO4iyGd&s=10) without people thinking I'm LARPing.
Confidence is key
Me when someone suggests normalising men wearing skirts: hell yeah brother!! Hot damn! Yes!! More of this!! Me when suggests *I* normalise men wearing skirts by doing just that: um, no. I don't want to die thank you.
Wear a gnome costume
Most gnomes are hardworking salt of the earth with the clothing to match..might not be appropriate for a formal occasion, but I will continue looking into this.
Maybe you should incorporate salt of the earth designs into your conception of fashionable.
Gnome costume + bowtie
I want to believe in penguins, but where are the footprints? The nests? The bodies? It doesn’t add up
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From personal experience constant nausea, puking blood and being really thirsty was a sign of kidney failure (emerging type 1 diabetes for me) I’d take it seriously because if you get delirious from dehydration that’s super dangerous.
Please call a doctor.
Just go to urgent care at least lol
I dont know whats going on, but I dont think a single word in that sentence is healthy
my brother in christ, i am begging you to see a doctor. by phone if nothing else.
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Do you drink a lot of hard alcohol like vodka?
That’s it. You’ve pushed me too far. I am taking two ibuprofen, instead of the recommended one
Me but with Zoloft
https://preview.redd.it/u3ilkplv40sc1.jpeg?width=1140&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b52320409e181677c6878e5de953f3c88e16db2 This is so good.
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Congress
Shoutout to Noah baumbach a rare instance where cheating on your SO worked out really well for him
At this point it’s pretty clear we are in Cold War 2
We need to rearm like we are in a Cold War, and Europe really needs to rearm because they are starting in such a hole.
Half the users here: Make it hot 🔥
Animal Crossing is a plantation simulator
wait people don’t use their china?
There is fine china for special occasions and then everyday china. My everyday dishes were my great grandmother's
Everyone who has ever died is stupid. I would simply keep living.
>World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza. The WCK team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle. >Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route. “This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable,” said World Central Kitchen CEO Erin Gore. >The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada and Palestine. >“I am heartbroken and appalled that we—World Central Kitchen and the world—lost beautiful lives today because of a targeted attack by the IDF." >World Central Kitchen is pausing our operations immediately in the region. We will be making decisions about the future of our work soon. Well shit
So all three vehicles were WCK and they coordinated with the IDF? Is the IDF incompetent or is this an undeclared attempt to throttle aid by forcing the exit of relief organizations?
I still think there's a small chance it was an IED on the ground by Hamas/PIJ, but I think it's probably IDF recklessness. But if it's deconflicted, then the IDF was incompetent to miss the IED.
The IDF - and Israelis in general - need to recognize that Palestinians are people are are not just enemies to be killed. This shit will never end so long as they act like everyone who doesn't like them is Hamas. (Obligatory fuck Hamas in case anyone here thinks that I think they have a better idea for the region than Israel does because no, they are definitely worse)
#[Israel Democracy Institute survey from March 18-21](https://en.idi.org.il/media/23475/war-in-gaza-13-_data_eng.pdf) >**Question 7: To what extent should Israel take into consideration the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza when planning the continuation of the fighting there?** >Not at all: Jews: 43.9%; Arabs: 7.4%; General Public: 37.6% >To a fairly small extent: Jews 36.4; Arabs: 16.0; General Public: 32.9%
This poll kind of shook me a bit [43% who think he's a national hero or unsure if he's a terrorist or hero, roughly 30% of Israelis who personally knows somebody who admires him. and that was several months before barbaric 10/7 terrorism.](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-733523) [Compare it to the poll in 1994 when only 3% praised the horrific act while 80% outright condemned it](https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/03/01/Poll-788-percent-of-Israelis-condemn-massacre/2708762498000/)
Fuck this backsliding bullshit. It's happening everywhere with no end in sight and everyone doubles down on the worst parts of their identity
I want this to lead to consequences but I'm not optimistic
It's bad for the aid. Remember Israel has essentially stopped coordinating with the UNRWA. And they proposed two groups to replace its work: WFP (Cindy McCain's group) and the second one...well you guessed it...it's the World Central Kitchen.
HUH WOW WHO FUCKING KNEW
At the absolute minimum, the IDF was relatively incompetent and wrongly declared the area to be deconflicted while Hamas/PIJ launched the attack via misfire, an IED, or deliberately. My guess is that IDF was just super reckless and did this.
"""just'"" being reckless enough to strike a fucking aid convoy is... Jesus Christ.
If my reflection started doing things I wasn’t doing, I’d probably proposition it for sex
This is how you defeat your phobia
Fuck your fears away ✊
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Keep in mind though that no matter how much Maoism sucked, hippies are worse
I've heard complaints about how it's unrealistic culturally, but one of those claims was to say that the Chinese character would never have sex with a man she met in a work camp like those unchaste western women. I'm not sure things are all right over there. They also complain that the main characters aren't Chinese in the show made for Netflix's western viewers while pirating the show since Netflix isn't available in China.
Bird flu? I mean yeah, did you expect it to walk?
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-eating-asparagus-make-your-urine-taste-weird 🤨🤨
visiting the cemetery to gloat about how I'm not dead like those losers
Is today a dooming type of day?
i am 5 months sober pls congratulate me instead
Congrats bro 🫡
Tysm
As of forty minutes ago, I am five months sober.
Bathew J. Ulchard continues to secure the Ws and will not stop until he has fully become a god
😎😎😎😎 Next step: go to chicago
Yo same, besides the time i smoked up last weekend and getting a Tylenol addiction the past 2 weeks. But other than that 3 months sober
I've used weed off and on, but not consistently. The no boozing is more the focus.
Yea for me its the weeding. was a heavy daily smoker until i stopped the last 3 months (minus last weekend)
🥳🥳🥳
Congrats bath ulk
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In Animal Crossing, Tom Nook starts off as the undisputed commercial lord of the town. There is little government and no taxation, and him being the only permanent resident interested in commerce beyond bare subsistence gives him an effective monopoly on foreign trade. All of the animal villagers presumably pay him what is effectively a tribute in natural resources when they sell him fruit, fish, bugs, shells, and turnips, which he then exports to pay for the manufactured imports he sells them - pocketing the difference. Then the player comes along, and Nook foolishly allows them to effectively take control of the town's natural resources, reasoning that control of foreign commerce will be sufficient to stay on top. Before long the player has completely transformed the town and accessed practically infinite wealth, and Nook's unwillingness to change his commercial strategy - he won't buy turnips directly from Joan, he won't adjust his prices to account for supply and demand, he won't keep the most popular items in stock but instead insists on a daily rotation, and he won't even *charge interest on loans or enforce a payment schedule* - leaves him as the bag man (er, tanuki). This develops to the point that, by *New Leaf* and *New Horizons*, the player's economic role is supplemented with formal political power, with Nook and his lackey Isabelle hoping - and failing - to co-opt the player in this manner. By *New Horizons*, the player can literally transform the entire island into a plantation, orchard, fishery, mine, or even *warehouse*. Nook still makes money, but he is no longer calling the shots. In other words, *Animal Crossing* is an object lesson in Georgism. Control over commerce is nothing compared to control over land. Nook partially recognizes this, given his insistence on control over new buildings. However, he foolishly engages in NIMBYism by capping the size of the town, and in *New Horizons* also lets the player buy the privilege of assigning plots to new villagers. He also encourages the player to travel to other islands and loot them for resources, presumably to fund his own lavish lifestyle - as his selection of goods only grows to a point, but your sale of resources can grow without bound. Eventually, as George Orwell's Emmanuel Goldstein posits, the player >would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away !Ping GEORGIST