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thanks for the video!

on an unrelated note, if i had 1K dollars to prepare for the incoming situation, i would invest it to stock up on food durables, such as noodles. I would spend $900 on food and $100 on water.

Humans are basically machines that run on food instead of oil. As long as the engine keeps turning, things can get done.

let the people decide that, please. it's worth a try.

They're not unlike law enforcement, in that regard.

Unrelated (probably), but i just researched this and want to tell people:

• The US Army & National Guard has a combined troop strength of around 1 Million soldiers. source They are typically under federal control or can be "activated" (in the case of the National Guard) to be put under federal control.
• The US has a total number of police officers & law enforcement of, also, around 1 Million. source Most of them are under state & local control.

I'm saying this because i have been wondering, in case states try to secede and trump sends all troops he commands to the states to stop them from doing so, what would be the likely outcome.

Sorry, it's a bit off-topic here, but the US situation is on my mind a lot these days.

i stitched these two articles together with gimp because there was another 2 articles between them

a good life is mostly done by living in a place with good social safety-nets, and not being a complete idiot and still messing it up somehow.

without a legal basis

What keeps them from just inventing new bullshit laws, then?

other systemic problems like no access to child care facilities, a culture that doesn’t value women and people exhausted by long work days? I might have read that this is part of the root cause in korea.

I dare say that that's probably not the cause why women today want to have no or fewer children.

I suspect it's more about economic factors, such as the prospect of having a stable job for the next 40 years, and the prospect of stability that this brings. Society changes so rapidly that it would be absurd to think that people are still gonna have well-paying jobs in 40 years. We're already seeing a Cost-of-Living crisis today, or rather, a crisis of jobs not paying a living wage. That's only gonna get more severe over time.

Compare that to other cultures around the world (consider developing countries such as rural africa was 30+ years ago, and medieval europe). They had rough lifes and often didn't value women. But they had Stability: They could be reasonably certain that their living conditions should be roughly the same in 40+ years from now, so they can have some children. If they can feed them today, the children will be able to feed themselves in 40 years. Because society was static like that.

It's the same among "Conservatives" in the US, Russia, and now apparently China.

They all say that we'd need "high birth rates", which is just not true.

Think about it: Automation and AI have the potential to put lots of people into unemployment in the next 20 years. For the sake of preventing that unemployment, it'd be good if people had fewer kids. Yet for some reason, governments struggle really hard to comprehend that simple connection.

There's more things that i like about the Lion Turtle. For example, it says to Aang:

"Since beginningless time, darkness thrives in the void, but always yields to purifying light."

What does that mean? What is the purifying light that the Lion Turtle talks about? Is there, maybe, a psychological state which conquers the harmful behavior without exercising violence?

Maybe that message only makes sense to Aang, because he's an air nomad and believes in these ways. Maybe the Lion Turtle would have said something different to a water bender, or to another person in general.

What would the Lion Turtle have said in that case?

I like the way that Aang took Ozai's bending powers.

There are at least two good aspects about it:

• Aang teaches the viewers that there are sometimes non-violent solutions to hard problems that appear at first glance as if violence was the only solution. And i think it's worth it trying to find these non-violent solutions. Aang was telling himself that he needed to kill Ozai after he spoke to the previous avatars on the Lion Turtle's back; he then just luckily encountered the Lion Turtle and found another way.
• The other interesting aspect that i find about the Lion Turtle is that it teaches us that besides the bending of the four elements, Lion Turtles bent the energy inside humans, which i understand in the way that Lion Turtles drove human development forward through some process maybe similar to evolution(?), and that just opens up a very interesting potential for side-stories. What else did the Lion Turtles bend? What other tricks do they have?

Actually, stop telling people to "learn" linux. Linux is either supposed to be easily navigable without the Command Line, or it's not the right thing for most people.

Either dumb it down, or don't expect people to learn it.

ok sorry i'm not that familiar with US history, i was just pointing it out.

sorry i tried to find this meme, but after 15 minutes i gave up trying to find a higher-quality one, and settled for this one.

That matches my experience. I was in school when i learned that doing homework faster (we had a week to do it and i had it done in a day) doesn't get you an advantage, it just means that the teacher decides that we can handle more homework.

If this was preparing for a cave exploration, and in Minecraft, i'd always go with my recommendation to bring food and wood, because everything else can be acquired on the go.

Might shed some wisdom into the real world.

and even the food and water need regular refreshing.

I've had my noodles stocked for over 3 years before i ate them, and they still tasted good. Just my experience.

Keeping them in ideal conditions (no heat, no direct sunlight exposure, no moisture) is essential, however. Do mind these things.

and my SO actually wears only the bottom of the bikini and goes bra less to the beach

There actually is a drawing challenge (called MensSwimsuitChallenge) that tries to depict this.

cognitive dissonance

fair point that you're making here.