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[Kagus]

I'm connected with a fellow on Facebook after a random house party I ended up at, some local politician... And he just put out a post talking about our country's national service draft year, and how for many (including himself) it's "The best year of their lives" and a profound experience of growth and education, making us better people for the rest of our lives, and how it brings tears to his eyes to finally see that side of it properly represented (via some reality TV show that's been running recently).

And I just...

...I dunno. It just always weirds me out a bit when I hear how someone had such a totally different experience they had during their year, compared to my own. And it especially weirds me out when someone presents that happy shiny version as universal truth.


I'm not sure where I'm going with this. I didn't have a good time in the military, someone else feels it was one of the best things they've ever done and that everyone should experience it in order to be a better person, and I just needed to tell someone about how I was feeling. And I don't wanna start shit with him on Facebook, because that's probably not gonna do anyone any good.

[dragdeler]

I get so annoyed by these statements, f these people. Like in one school, one year they allways went to ride the bicycle  a week in france, I was told it was this super nice borderline life changing experience... I hated every second of it. Like, if singing scout songs all day, being told what to do and where to go all the time is this transcendental experience for you, I consider your head AND your heart hollow. Too easily impressed. If the point is that constraints can weld a group together, that experience can be had at any street corner and does not require stinkingly overbearing amounts of authority.


Also it has some of the qualities of new parents trying to push their misery onto others, when they empty-headedly and sleep-deprivedly keep repeating: you should have kids too.

[MaxTheFox]

LessWrong.

More like.

MoreWrong.

[EuchreJack]

Only if he at least once accidentally pulls beings from porn sites. The internet is full of sluttery, afterall.

Some of those ladies and gentlemen are kinda awesome.

More seriously, I have a fiction war story about the flame wars of the internet. Or at least the intro. Full on Vaporwave there
Probably call it Vapor Wars

[Magmacube_tr]

Only if he at least once accidentally pulls beings from porn sites. The internet is full of sluttery, afterall.

Some of those ladies and gentlemen are kinda awesome.

More seriously, I have a fiction war story about the flame wars of the internet. Or at least the intro. Full on Vaporwave there
Probably call it Vapor Wars

Now that I think of it, a chapter about the scientist peering nto place in the middle of a flame war sounds so awsome.

[KittyTac]

Happy V-E day, everyone. It's a shame that the Russian government is corrupting its legacy.

[Scoops Novel]

Bored minds are Feisty furnaces

[MCreeper]

Thanks to some japanese bugger who google translated the lyrics (oh, he had no idea just how stupid they would end up being) and just slapped them all over the music video, i now know how to succintly describe expirience of playing FE: Awakening - "Drowning in the clowning". Or, putting it in non-google translated way, merely "Knee-deep in the clowns".

Unfortunately, song is nothing special at all, and all the meat is in pictures. But it is very hard to enjoy them while making conscious effort to not look at the damned subtitles.

[Magmacube_tr]

"Knee-deep in the clowns".

me when tw*tter

[bloop_bleep]

I think "drowning in the clowning" is definitely a keeper for me, yes.

[dragdeler]

If the economy functionned just a little as advertised, inflation would decrease the wealth gap. If it wasn't a giant scam, people who live paycheck to paycheck would stand to benefit from inflation.

[Uthimienure]

If the economy functionned just a little as advertised, inflation would decrease the wealth gap. If it wasn't a giant scam, people who live paycheck to paycheck would stand to benefit from inflation.

Would you mind giving an example with numbers so I can understand how this could be?
From my perspective:
Person making 100 urists/day now pays 50 urists for what once was only 25 urists.  This is 50% of their daily income, once was 25%.
Person making 900 urists/day now pays 50 urists for what once was only 25 urists.  This is 5.6% of their daily income, once was 2.8%.

[Rolan7]

Wages are constantly changing, so (until very recently) it's normal to have "cost of living" raises and accompanying increases in minimal wage.

Whereas large amounts of cash savings would depreciate.  Of course, the idle rich keep extremely little cash, as they constantly borrow massive amounts of money to take more assets away from everyone else.  Then they own those assets which have real value, and pay back the loans with the increasingly worthless money.

So turns out the rich have it figured out, as usual, unless they're using the mattress as a bank.

[dragdeler]

Think about mmorpg economies, worlds designed to ressemble ours, yet lacking a lot of it's complexities.

In there everybody has the same opportunity and competes under the same rules. Now actual economic theory says that inflation devalues savings, admittedly in an mmorpg it's not 100% the case (since there exists no real scarcity in virtual worlds)... But in such a virtual world where money is created through "labor" and not by creating it out of thin air in exchange for debt, if savings are devalued by an overabundance of money, the newbs are necessarily those who benefit: they are the ones creating all the new money.




It's a clunky example. So here is how I actually got the thought: from time to time I see some lotto advertisement telling the current jackpot and I start playing around with numbers in my head... Can there ever be some form of absolute financial security? Let's assume I spend X on this many stocks, I overspend a little buying high, they pay out less dividends than was historically the case, and then hyperinflation hits and the money is suddenly worth a thousand times less... Could you still live from the dividends?

Anyway playing around with numbers in my head at some point I went: oof that's the equivalent of 30 bucks a year, you could probably earn that in one day by begging, I bet if somebody like me invested that's how it would go... And how confident I am that in such a scenario the actual rich class would probably find a way to still come out on top.

[Frumple]

romcom shenanigans are better when there's giant robots involved