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My insomnia got so bad at one point that from my POV I started blacking out for several hours at a time. I'd look at the clock, blink, and the time would go from like 3pm to 11pm instantly. In reality my brain was just too tired to register anything that happened to me to memory, even the memory of existence in the moment; just..not there. I was my same old self, according to my wife, which I believe, I mean, who the hell else could I be? I don't live duplicitous, I'm not worried I might have said or done something contrary to me.

It happened one night where I had gone out to dinner with my wife's grandparents = no memory of the events at all. I drove, apparently...and that's when I made the earliest appointment I could to get sleeping pills.

Lack of sleep is no joke. It was like someone else was living my life. the highlight reel parts at that. I'd snap back while playing Civ or having to go to work.

I don't even understand why this is a issue of contention. The states already have complete, constitutionally granted controlnof how they run their elections, including who is allowed to be on the ballot, that generally being the pervue of the individual Secretarys of State, but each state has its own rules on it.

It was laid out this way to dissuade federal interference and potential corruption.

I'm with you, this is theatrics, stalling.

And Idk about you but the inability of our elected to enforce our law really makes me lose my last two shits about the law. Justice delayed is justice denied. when peaceful means of justice are out of reach, then violent ones are not only inevitable, but logical.

If you can't be famous, you can ALWAYS be infamous.

I wasn't talking about Trump having rizz, thats about the trope. I assumed the Cruise/Kidman exemplifies the dynamic. Melania isnt taller than Trump anyway.

I brought it up solely to shine a brighter light on Trumps insecurities, sorry if that wasn't clear.

Yea I came in to say the same thing. There's no reality in the entire multiverse thats got Trump, without his heels, over 6ft.

I know superficially and perhaps subconsciously height garners respect, but theres only one type of guy, and I've seen several examples, that just fucking dominate the room. Maybe they got the maxed out rizz stat, idk, but that's the short king with the tall hottie on his arm, ala Cruise/Kidman. This is all lizard brain stuff, of course, it can be consciously overridden, it's just usually not. Power dynamics grind as the male to male summation is essentially short circuited, all because shortKing shows up openly prevalidated. And that guy, aware enough to take advantage, is capable of persuading pockets to his goals.

[Hang with me a sec and it'll become clear, I promise]

Casino dealers get a break every 90-120min that they have to take (barring short staffing event outliers). Being a croupier is not what most would call physically demanding, when contrasted to, idk, framing. But it's mentally exhausting.

Just so everyone's at the same understanding, in yr average 2000cal day, the brain burns 1200 of those calories. All your physical exertion burns the last 800cal. So some muscles are more energy intensive than others.

Casinos did the science and found that people are cost effective, more or less good to go, with 90min of engaging mental exertion. Think arithmetic, not calculus. After 90 mistakes become more expensive then giving the person a 20 min break to let their brain clear out cortisol or lactic acid.

That means there's about a 2hr buffer of ATP in the body before we start slipping.

Don't deny workers their calories. It's bad all around, for all parties.

(Fantastic last lines, btw)

I've done the job, I know exactly how much work I'm asking for for 90secs under a clamshell. The reality is there's too much salt on the food anyway, take it up with the boss dictating not the consumer looking to minimize damage to their health.

I'm glad he not in this situation now and for sure, sometimes you just need protein and want something hot, I get it.

When I was in that situation there were def days when I'd hit up Jack in box, with my very specific order, knowing 100% full well that I could do this once a week and not go into the red. I tried to avoid it, but sometimes the body wants what it wants.

And absolutely, I wasn't adding to offer an end all solution, nor do I think one exists, just to elucidate other options for either yourself, but mainly for posterity and those who potentially stumble upon this down the way

I think we all might do well to assume our internetting will outlive us, which no one could really know and I doubt it will, but it might and I think pascals wager here might be prudent, but that's just one of many takes im sure.

Theres truth to this but I think the general sentiment is archaic and overblown to the point it's almost anachronistic.

It used to be that cohorts would grow more conservative as they aged - trying to keep everything like they know, essentially. This was true when we built societies that allowed generations to prosper.

We don't see that seismic shift in millennials or the older zoomers. We see the opposite. Millennials onward are actively moving further left, not just appearing further left because the Overton window has shifted. If anything, the window shifting, casting those in the center as "left", hasn't pulled the left to center, but the other way around. It's pushed the center to be more open to the lefts ideas. The left still convulses at the centers ideas, trust me (like student loans).

This is one of those opinions that everyone likes to assume is part of the silent majority but there's just not that as much evidence to back up the confidence in which it's announced - which, remember this, is 100% the main tactic of those in the center. This is the "end of history", everything's figured out, inability to see beyond themselves that makes leftists say neoliberalism (the prevailing media world view, center-right) is a cult or that liberalism is a mental illness -the former I agree with, the latter I do not.

Once this tone is dropped, its a mine field of red flags representing the death of nuance, that we've reached the limits of their rationality and critical thinking.

Just like breaking thru the rights MAGA cult, breaking the centers techno authoritarianism is like explaining 3D to Flatlanders. And if that sounds like gobbledygook to you, you've either been completely sheltered (and in that case, buckle up, things are waaaay worse than you were told growing up) or you're fully indoctrinated into either ideologue. Blinders on. Kamakazi away.

I went to Burger King a couple months back and got me, a friend helping me and my wife each a #1. Nothing special, just basic whopper meal

$51.

When did a number one start costing $17 each? Fuuuuuuck that. I paid it knowing full well that that was the last time I'm ever eating fast food, unless its a pair of freshly made deluxes from Dick's in Seattle.

Fools trying to charge sit down pricing for their cut rate food, poverty wages and phenolic benches. Fucking, never. I'm all for millennials killing the fast food industry, c'mon guys, let's get on that.

Order the meat without salt too. They all season on the flattop so it'll force them to make fresh.

When I had that commute I would buy boxes of clifbars and power bars that permanently populated my glovebox. Trail mix in Adams peanut butter jars. Flavored oatmeal with raisins in old jam jars, just grab a cup of boiling water on your way out and pour it in. See also, instant mash potatoes, stuffing, ramen (adding boiling water to ramen and just waiting for it to be ready is the only way I like it now). That was the best idea I ever had before a multi day road trip, please use it.

If anyone has ideas to add to that, I'm all ears. Or any other food-from-home non-shopping ideas (like eating potato salad with Tims salt and vinegar chips, bombdotcom)

A food handlers license, sure that's not that hard. A food VENDERS license? I've done that. I've opened restaurants from nothing, to where I was climbing thru the walls cutting out the path for the new hood.

There's an exponential fuckton of differences between the two.

And about $500,000-$2M eaaaaasy

Which would make art school a rich person's sanctuary and universities no longer institutions of learning but job training. Which would be entirely in line with neoliberalism, why would corporations want to shoulder the cost of training their own employees?

If the study of culture and the humanities is paywalled then cultures and the humanities will all suffer for it.

Rich people can't make good art. It's not possible. They aren't coming from a relatable position. When I say I'm broke as a working man, that is an entirely different things than some shareholder saying it. I mean I don't know how I'm going to eat, they mean they don't have physical cash. The conditions the majority of us live under come with inherent risk and danger, risk and dangers that are removed from the opulent, that's why they're seen as out of touch.

A world of rich people cosplaying as artists is a world that only produces motivational posters and corporate desktop backgrounds. Just nuke us already, ffs.

Regardless of how you arrive at your conclusion I think most people would be willing to compromise to that. Repayment as a % of income for no more than 2 decades, then dismissal regardless of any remaining balance.

I disagree on merit however. Your argument is more collective investment into a person's training deserves a more proportional repayment but no outcome of specialization guaranties financial success, which is the fundamental defense of universities right now. And as we see today, tuition costs, and enormity of potential debt dissuades many, many of potential students. In actualization; the western worlds perpetual failure to produce enough doctors - which is immediately contrasted by Cuba's training and exporting highly skilled doctors, so much so that it's commonly phrases as Cuba's #1 export. We can only conclude that removing the private financial burden (that student loans create) better facilitates conditions for a collective surplus of professionals.

This is of course presupposing that we both share the opinion that having enough doctors is a good thing worth collective efforts to incentivize, rather than letting our collective fortunes play out to the, scientifically unsupported, invisible hand of the market.

In other words, if your position is that society should have enough doctors; then working backwards from the solution reveals that your strategy is detrimental to your stated goals. What's more important to you?

Beyond this specific example, no person, business or institution should have any protected right to gate keep, financially or otherwise, the culmination of our collective human experience, the summation of our ancestors, our birthright, that we recognize as knowledge. No one owns Nikola Tesla's contributions, we all do. We all make up the leading edge of humanities growth into the universe (you can visualize it like bacterial growth in a petri dish.)

Newly uncovered information (not discovered; electricity - and everything else - already existed before we could describe it) be it used to make products, such as medicines and/or intellectual property, or not used at all, should only be protected for ~ 20 years and then released into public domain, thus protecting the incentive and reward of innovation, but not allowing avarice because some people combined two or three existing technologies together in one package. Well done, sure, make yr money but keep innovating apple, wtf.

Thank you, that's quite kind of you and I'm not used to that from people.

Cozied on up with Nimbys.

Nimbys are truly Karen's in their final form.

No man. In no way. I chop my firewood everyday. I have to rebuild everything I own. Everything. If it breaks, my life is learning whatever it is until it's fixed. Case in point, my automatic transmission went out. I had to learn that and rebuild that. I am not a novice with a wrench, but that's entirely because this is the life I've always had to live. I don't not recommend it, I wouldn't put my work load onto someone else and call that a rational thought.

July 5th we lost everything we own to fire. From our neighbors fireworks, we didn't have any. Insurance told us to kick rocks. Starting over. Completely. Again.

No man. I'm not privileged. I got more help from my neighbors than my family, not to begrudge them, they're all spread too thin too. I paid off my student loans in the mid aughties thankfully. I got the worst of the bunch, 3/4 of a degree, 4 years of debt and no degree. Thanks life. I took a vacation, once. I've been working full time since I was 15, almost 30 years now. I can't afford dental care that I need and I don't know what to do about that really, but I can tell, if it involves filling out 59 pages of bullshit that all says the same thing and spreading that nonsense around 5 agency, I'll die from an abscess tooth first. The hoops required for help are indignant, and frankly, everyday the world makes a worse case for sticking around.

The only privilege I would say I have is I measure my success by what I don't buy, which is the biggest middle finger I can give our society, as I teach others how to do the same. I'd go 128days on my dominant arm if that would put me at the negotiating table of an American General Strike. You couldn't talk me out of it, in fact.

The only silver lining is that if I could not be me, then I would only want to be Diogenes.

The rest of the civilized world decided 76 years ago that housing is an innate, natural human right.

The homelessness problem endemic to America (it's not an epidemic if it never goes away) is flagrant violation of human rights.

Never ending human rights violations...that pushes us up against crimes against humanity. A logical evolution towards making that case (tho I'm already of the opinion that the allowed existence of poverty anywhere constitutes crimes against humanity)

I'd love to see a suit taking a corporation to the mat in that in its mere modern existence it's usurped the founders intent...

Which was a frothing contempt for them. They recognized they were helpful for big projects that society needed, so a charter would be granted to say...build a bridge...and upon completion immediately disbanded.

Id call this the greatest court in history if they restored that. I think the earth rotations reversing is more likely.

Yea, that's right, I was just stream of conscious spitballin