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I kept a really razor sharp edge in my mind about how much it’s coping if you insinuate genetics are responsible for your weight, but I observe via anecdote and read studies regarding physiology that suggest it’s a major factor. The thought of forgetting to eat is unfathomable to me. I can discipline myself down to [REDACTED]% BF and see my beautiful wonderful six pack but the idea that I was ever acutely unaware of skipping a meal or didn’t find a way to get as close as possible or a little bit over my calorie limit is simply untrue. It would be conspiracy thinking if I believed that people who get a small signal later on are playing with the same deck of cards and just denying it. I hear about people who get a cold and are all “I lost X amount of weight!” and I’m like “there’s no way, I would balloon up”

Eggo makes these protein waffles (I think it’s with whey so not ) I put some peanut butter in those. They’re giga for cutting weight because it’s good protein.

I never did it as a health and habit thing - I fucking love eating. I feel sluggish and like I can’t do my good thinking (and I need my good thinking for work) if I don’t eat.

My problem is eternally having food that isn’t garbagio around and easily accessed. So I need to meal prep and never really stay on top of it. I don’t have trouble with taste, texture, or anything in the morning.

Do you exercise? Eat regular, protein rich meals? Exercise would give you a boost to your metabolism and make sure you’re desiring the fuel. If you’re eating a bunch of grease, snacks, and junk then you could not be properly hungry for your big 3 meals.

they would sound like a shy guy wehh wahhh

What’s the VORP compared to me/someone they’ve never heard of?

There are two things I think are important: credit and resource allocation. So a socialist solution would be more restrictive and allow someone to take the benefit of their work. If a group makes a project then that’s cool and good and they should get their flowers and people should generally be willing to give labor in exchange for it. You need a couple years to be like “yes, this is good, this is doing numbers for society. I’ve taken what I need to afford luxury, I’ve gotten my ELO gain. I will continue to monitor the open source space and move on to my next project.”

The limitations inherent to a more socialist resource allocation is when someone else could take that work, make it 10% better, and revolutionize industry or take us to the moon in respect to scientific advancement, scalability of industry, or automation. Like if someone made 90% Haber-Bosch process. If you’re in the later stages of communism and you could go “well, you’re going to be compensated with luxuries for this,” they don’t have to go back to scrubbing the proverbial toilet, and they are assuredly part of the narrative even after someone makes that 10% improvement (e.g. I can’t add the final 10% and call it the WDYMP Process) then I could see them being in the presence of justice as they are compelled to pass the torch without copyright protection.

But as I type this I realize I’m thinking a lot more about patents and inventions. If you published some kind of novel/entertainment product and someone started making a bunch of AI smut of your characters and you had no tool to tell them to piss off then it would be cringe. Beyond my wheel house because I would feel sad to see my characters be compelled into the public domain. But then again, my material conditions are like some Hasbro-Disney amalgam played by Chris Pratt completely missing the point and never having to ask my what my vision was - if I were in a less barbarous society people might do justice to my vision even if I don’t control it with an iron fist

I was just considering that already having all the hanzi in your wheelhouse would help a lot. If it’s just N2 for reading writing and not speaking you’d get an outsized advantage to how our baka gaijin minds operate. That’s at least, the thesis of Remembering the Kanji.

I can almost see it if you start with Chinese since you know all the Hanzi/Kanji. I can accept that you eventually get a grip on the sentence structure. But the conjugation? The vocabulary? You could probably say things are warm, big, and intense. You’d know all the family members, a lot of anatomy, and a couple different types of buildings.

You would never be able to hear the word kimochii. Every time someone asks you how you are - really every 5th word you hear would sound like an innuendo.

Imagine putting it all on the line, risking your corporeal safety, but you do it for fucking Britain. Grim.

I would be down to have big dawg/blud as preferred pronouns

Can you deliver the letter to big dawg?

Blud wants the letter delivered

I thought this image originated from an angry little sister.

"On November 20th, 2020, iFunny[1] user Big_Ed posted a comic with the caption “I have decided to become a millennial comic artist. My original characters are:” followed by a depiction of two millennial stereotypes. "

No, it was just some guy with a 404’d iFunny account

Yeah, I think it was about political violence. I think they basically scraped the site looking for keywords. I suggested, on badposting, that we just say a lot of sentences with probable keywords in it to skew the data. So that if they hung around us and tried to punch in data for every hit, their data would be nuked.

Anti-communist sentiment in the USSR could have easily been treated by giving dissidents visions of the excesses of America in the wake of a bad ending to the cold war.

For me it’s that it seemed very knowable from the beginning. US being a bad ally isn’t a new phenomenon. Why the fuck are you a leader if you’re lagging in geopolitical insight compared to a fucking id*ot who just yesterday managed to beat tier 3 desert in Megabonk? What do you even do all day?

Dropping popcorn all over my exposed belly in my recliner while rolling my eyes Fucking idiots… what is this? Amateur hour?

The problem, even if I’m simply critiquing your approach to your failed ideology, is how much you have to explain. Let’s say that someone doesn’t really like conservatives. After all, they’re abrasive, pigheaded, greedy bastards. But you see some shit you don’t like - POC on the TV, POC in government, prices of something going up. My MAGA evangelist ass comes up to you and goes “hi, how ya doing, my name is Holden. Do you like America? Do you like the direction we’re going? What would you change?” and then you go “Yeah, I actually HATE that thing that’s happening, that’s why we want to Make America Great Again!” And before you know it, you have a who votes for you. Why? Well, I understand the word Make: you do stuff. America, yeah, I got enough propaganda to know what America is. Great? Well, I’m glad you asked, it’s exactly that thing you said was making America annoying. We’re doing the opposite of that. Again, yeah, we’re unchanging the bullshit. It’s simple, it’s easy. It puts butts in seats.

Strong Floor No Ceiling? First off it doesn’t roll of the tongue. There’s like a stutter step in there. And before I get to anything, one has to ask how many times you can simply ignore making a strong floor before you get a reputation for it. So that same corn golem in the midwest you think of as the holy grail median voter is going to eventually call you a corporate golem in return. But let’s say you get that same blank slate asshole. “Hi, how ya doing, my name is Deez. Do you like the direction America is going? What’s got you down?” Let’s even ignore the challenge that you have absolutely 0 interest in fixing the problem they tell you, after all, we did that for the Republicans. “Yes! I feel your pain. That’s why we’re coming to you with a new idea, Strong Floor No Ceiling.” You’re going to have to explain what the floor is. Unlike great which can mean whatever you want it to mean, you’re implying a whole situation. Great? It’s simply the absence of the annoyance. I have a solid floor? So I’m going to have heal- I’m going to get my family ba- I’m going to have access to abor- My representative is going to- In the same split second your victim is contemplating, the Republican has convinced them that it’s going to be great. They’ll go watch the TV and a charismatic leader is going to talk about how you’re going to have the cleanest water and the most competitive hospitals. You’d need a strong leader who’s popping off about a future worth sticking around for (and he already served for 8 years doing nothing). You have to make a case that your victim is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire for no ceiling to even come into play. In essence they have to already believe what you believe to be influenced by it. They have to already believe in the civic religion and believe that Dems are delivering effectual change. Otherwise you have to go on a diatribe about how complicated shit is and how incrementalism is… le good! and how the future could be so good despite having no figurehead.

You’re not beating the cynical Republican at their own game and your toolkit is not fit to inspire people into mobilizing. Like @deforestgump@hexbear.net : “medicare for all!” how about “no hungry children!” ? how about “legal drugs”? how about “democracy in government, democracy in work.”? If your strategy is convincing people to imagine the future, you need something positive to imagine (and preferably not having a reputation of fucking it up).

One of the reasons I need to commit to a more disciplined reading of theory is to better express this idea I have about surplus value. It makes me think of how people are all “if you took all of Bezos’ wealth you wouldn’t even be able to pay for healthcare for a year!” I’m not concerned about the dollars that he has, I’m concerned about the societal-social contract we all tacitly endorse where he has infinite buying power. That idea has its basis in the Communist Manifesto.

So in that same vein, you could theoretically go AFK on the clock and eventually get back the same buying power you would have if you worked in the presence of justice, sure. Marx has the simple equation regarding the labor-time spend to create a product. The surplus is the value of the labor minus the wages paid for it. So yes, if you could put a price tag on the goods you produce, you could find that number of hours.

But that doesn’t feel like a path towards liberation. Notably, you’re still likely spending that money on rent and health insurance. Your taxes are going to harassing farmers half the world away. Even all of that aside - it’s not really getting at the idea of surplus value, just providing a backdrop to talk about it with. I think it’s harder to put that price tag on the goods and services today than it was in the 1850s. If you’re making algorithms for day trading or making billboard ads then you’re not making society any better - I’d argue you’re making it worse. So it’s like making a valuation in Bezos bucks for causing harm.

Therefore it seems two dimensional and small to use S = LT - W to get a number for what you’re owed. In its best application such a number might clue you into the idea that you’re being conned out of a good world. But that means that it’s a signpost that might allow you to consider the colossal inputs into the system only to get absolute bullshit in return. It’d scratch the same itch as seeing the beautiful metros and cityscapes in China compared to how America looks. It’s the same way that Bezos’ dollars matter a lot less than the possible social good+utility of a giga datacenter that could stream media seamlessly in a single app alongside the resource organization and distribution of the warehouse system. You wouldn’t need to go AFK for X amount of hours to afford spotify, a bunch of show subscriptions, and plastic toys from China if they were just part of the one app with society’s music+movies+games and a well staffed warehouse that can get to items to you when convenient.

We need to have a conversation like “what the fuck are we doing here?” Healthcare doesn’t need to cost that much. Food doesn’t need to be that insecure and wasted. Housing doesn’t need to be a commodity. Education is easier to come by than the price tag would suggest. Don’t even get me started on transport! Nobody needs your AFK soul to sit in an office staring at an excel sheet or frankly digging in a coal mine for everyone to eat, drink, and sleep. You’d be better served in a better society if you didn’t have to think about how many hours you must spend idly and instead got to think about what needs to get done. Given the opportunity and bandwidth, some people would create shit sometimes instead of regurgitating Toy Story plot lines and IPOs for enshittified SaaS products. If the goals weren’t to make the numbers look good for Q3 and instead designing automation, high speed rail, power plants, and green+human friendly architecture then not only would you likely be getting a bigger share of the pie, you’d be getting a much more delicious pie. So much so that even if you got the same percentage of your surplus labor as today you probably wouldn’t care because life would be good and you’d get a say in how the public decides to spend the surplus together.

It might seem like a lot of fuss over a $400 item, but for some companies – and co-workers – there’s no lower limit to pettiness. The fact the winner was an intern likely played a big part in him choosing to leave the firm, and the incident should have convinced him there are better places to work. Plus, he got to keep his RTX 5060.

Don’t think I could think of a better take myself.

Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders

“We will protect New Yorkers’ First Amendment rights while making clear that nothing can justify language calling for ‘death to’ anyone,” Mr. Mamdani said in a statement to The New York Times. “It is unacceptable, full stop.”

“A synagogue is where Jews learn, pray, and strengthen Jewish life,” William Daroff, the chief executive of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said on social media. “Teaching about aliyah and Zionism belongs in that space. It reflects who we are as a people.” (Jews make “Aliyah” when they move to Israel.)

I’m tired, grandpa

Women need to shower to smell like a flower. Men take a bath, once a week on the sabbath. Theys jump in the lake to think of a good take.