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i feel like way more people should learn to meditate because this level of brainrot addiction is disturbing.

i think one thing people miss is that counter culture movements sometimes win people over in the worst ways and they get really extreme ideas, or really extreme people get spun up in them and become little evil vorticies of power and influence. The sixties spawned the civil rights movement, peace movement. It also created the Manson family. There's a sort of yin and yang to these things IMO, creation and destruction. It's like a period of high energy and change and that can get used in many creative and destructive ways.

Some people see today as terrible and think socialism will fix it. Others, fascism. Two people agree that current leaders are failing, but for different reasons. And when everyone is demanding change, you can get some dangerous people to pop out of the wood work.

People like Musk and Thiel grow up in free thinking environments and in counter culture meccas and are a direct result of that energy. They dont run counter to it. They are a product of it.

please tell me they used mf doom somewhere in Doomsday

Yeah, i think we were raised in similar narcissistic households and maybe others didn't share that experience as much. My parents got a scent of the gifted child effect and tried to do everything to nurture it.

For so long they made me feel like I was super special but as an adult I can see how unhealthy it all was, and how much they fed off that attention.

Maybe for some children it was a normal gauge of how well the child is doing, but for myself every little achievement felt like, "oh so you felt okay with x? let's see how well you can do x+1. You know there's a kid who took college classes at 16? I think we should sign you up. What about astronomy? Have you heard of space camp?"

I felt like failure was terrible because of how disappointed they'd look if i didn't take well to some new assignment. Completely fucked way to grow up.

I never thought of it that way, but now that I look back at it, it's true. It was all way more for the parents. The kid was an essential asset for their ego. They were competing for who had the most successful child.

What can kids do? Read, and books=smart, so they were competing with each other at how good their kid was at... reading. So they came up with bullshit metrics like, "my child is in 4th grade but just finished a book at a 9th grade level... isn't your child in 8th grade? Wow, my child is reading books he can't even understand yet."

It was always about the fucking parents.

there is one financial bubble and it is purely about unsustainable investment, as that is what defines a bubble. Like when they started throwing cash at the pet food company pets.com because it had pets.com even though they were shipping pet food and selling it below cost... These companies are just doing bad business and surviving because people throw money at them hoping to get in on the action.

It's like if you had some uncle who drove a fancy car and said he had some big business k idea and he was going to make the family rich, and your dad and grandma started giving him their life savings as an investment, but you knew there was no business, he leased that car, and he lost most of it gambling and continued to gamble.

At some point no matter how much hype he generates, your grandma and dad run out of money, and the entrepreneur ends up in debt.

There are companies right now with sound business plans, and then there are OpenAI's which sell their service below cost and wouldn't be able to keep the doors open if investors stopped investing. WebVan closed their doors the day the dot com bubble popped because they literally couldnt pay payroll anymore. One day similar will happen and some companies will collapse.

One will be the next Amazon, the survivor that proved it had a sound business, and everyone is hoping they invested in the next Amazon. But tons of people right now are investing in the next WebVan or Pets.com, which might have been good ideas but too much too soon.

Guns are extremely simple devices. It's not something you can solve with 3d printing legislation... It's just people giving lip service to gun control IMO.

If you know how to 3d print a gun, you can easily find out how to make a zip gun with a bit of pipe, the kind you'd probably need to 3d print a "ghost gun" regardless.

Like ffs I saw a YouTube video or a dude getting two pieces of pipe, closing one end and putting a nail in it, then making a one shot shotgun out of cheap fucking material. You just need closed space and to hit the end of the fucking bullet. Guns are not magic. They're simple as fuck, and hard to regulate partially because of how simple they are.

These laws are probably more for surveillance than preventing ghost guns.

https://armamentresearch.com/luty-sub-machine-guns-past-present-future/

Famous examples that don't use 3d printing, the Luty guns he made as a crypto anarchist psycho trying to disseminate open source plans lol. The knowledge is very easily accessible.

Yep. Musk might be rich but he's not as influential as he tries to be. He's actually kind of pathetic in that respect, gets eaten up by the media and looks like a complete tool.

He tried so hard to be in the neo Nazi inner circle but he's just a rich wannabe in every fucking regard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOrville/comments/b65nct/porn_addiction_cigarettes_can_drive_a_moclan_to/

Sigh sorry for the reddit link but the only place I can find the video

This honestly shouldn't be surprising. Tech is often untrusted at first.

This caused the dot com bust and likely will fuel the AI bubble. New cool tech comes out and actually does cool stuff, people hate it, distrust it, don't want to use it, meanwhile others think it's the wave of the future and throw all their money at it.

And there's one big problem with that, the last thing specifically.. they throw their money at something new before a market is ready to trust and adopt it, and they do so in an unsustainable way. Unsustainable investments cause bubbles. This is money that can't keep getting pumped into the tech, money that a lot of startups depend on.

People didn't think you'd ever spend money on weird websites, trust credit cards to be entered online. So many groundbreaking ideas busted in the dot com bubble because they came too soon, not because they were bad ideas. WebVan was online groceries! Groundbreaking idea that was literally 30 years ahead of its time, and now they failed, but who does what they tried to do? Amazon, yes the little online marketplace for books Amazon, the quaint little site where you can buy books over http.

The market needed credit card safety measures, needed PayPal, stripe, fraud detection and management, needed new technologies to build consumer trust. Eventually, we started using the internet to buy shit and it worked out.

Wikipedia used to be untrusted. Anyone can put anything there! Now teachers rather see wikipedia than AI bullshit. Same phenomenon really. It'll take a while before the market adopts the tech and consumers trust it. Eventually they will, but not yet.

As someone who has never farmed, I don't understand why people think they'll retire through farming, arguably one of the most back breaking jobs with least pay to produce stuff that costs the least out of anything... And is due to become more and more difficult as climate change gets complex.

This is not the type of manual labor you want to learn how to do and invest in as you're older?

But yeah maybe managing some chickens and an herb farm, whatever that's not a big deal. I just would expect to only be supplementing what groceries you buy as a hobby, not homesteading. Don't get fucking acres of farmland that you won't know how to use... Grow some rosemary and thyme, maybe potatoes. Fuck even one fruit tree is a lot of work. Try that out first. Potatoes! Try stuff you can do with a balcony first. Maybe a goat if you're really wild.

But these are hobbies, not retirement income.