person420

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person420 ,

Mets aren't good enough? ::cries in Yankees:::

person420 ,

Worse than that, that one website dance something that would test pills found that a huge percentage of the "ecstasy" people took didn't contain MDMA. A surprising amount didn't even contain illegal drugs. Just over the counter speed.

person420 ,

Dancesafe.org was it! I'm going back over 20 years to the late 90's early 2000's. I can't comment on the state of ecstasy today, I haven't rolled in over 20 years.

Spectrum Call Center in Charlotte, NC Reportedly Provided Fried Chicken and Watermelon to Employees for Juneteenth ( thencbeat.com )

“We want to acknowledge some feedback received regarding our Juneteenth celebration,” Pezzuto said in his letter obtained by The North Carolina Beat. “Although our intent was to celebrate this nationally recognized day, some of you voiced your concerns regarding the associated food choices.”...

person420 ,

Pretty much the same thing for watermelon. It was an easy to grow fruit that freed slaves used as a source of income and they caricatured it in racist media.

person420 ,

Love it or hate it, they aren't intentionally designed not to be walkable, they're intentionally designed to discourage traffic from driving through them.

The reason communities like yours and the one behind your house aren't connected is to reduce the amount of cars driving down your block. To make it safer for your kids to play outside.

person420 ,

It's a very Italian American thing. It's not really something you'd see in Italy.

person420 ,

There's two interesting things the article points out.

  1. These were recontact polls. So these were people who were already polled, presumably a small percentage changing their minds.
  2. These were multiple pills across different organizations running them. So while they can be within the margin of error, they all saw the same trend.

Obviously you can't go by polls, and there's a ton of time between now and Nov, but it's interesting nonetheless.

person420 ,

To be fair, lots of them. Kennedy, Eisenhower, Nixon to name a few off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's more I'm missing.

person420 ,

I suspect a lot of those people are arguing in bad faith and are actually spreading misinformation. That they never intended on voting for Biden, or always intended on voting for Trump and trying to make it seem like Biden is losing his base.

IRL, most people I know, while not happy with Biden's response acknowledge that Trump's view is much much worse.

person420 ,

As long as you understand that not voting for Biden is 100% a vote for Trump (whether you cast a ballot or not) and you're OK with that, then more power to you.

But I would ask, what do you think you're achieving by not voting for him? If you voted for him in 2020 then you must hold personal ideals that at least semi-align with his, and you have to know that Trump's are a complete 180 from them.

I'd also like to ask (since you imply you haven't made up your mind) what Biden could do to change your mind?

person420 ,

Ahh I get it. So you're 100% the person I was talking about in my first post.

person420 ,

Or you know, at no point did you actually engage in discussion. You used a false equivalent and rhetoric. Which is pretty much the textbook definition of a bad faith argument.

person420 ,

Because if you had the capital to buy a house, you would. A landlord has the capital to purchase the house and rent it to you under more favorable terms. I.e., not putting ~20% down and committing to a 15-30 year loan.

What is the alternative (besides a utopian society where everyone is provided housing for free or near-free)?

person420 ,

The question is "what capital does a landlord provide?"

The capital needed to buy the house which the renter either doesn't have, or doesn't want to spend.

and the answer is, none, because when we talk about capital in this context, we're talking ownership of money or assets

I'm not even sure what you mean by this? The capital the landlord provides IS the money to buy the house and the asset (the house).

Just because the landlord makes money off the transaction? It's a transaction. The landlord is providing the risk of using their capital to purchase the home and the renter gains the ability to live there without having to extend their own capital to purchase the house (for whatever reason, maybe they don't have it, maybe they don't plan to live their long, maybe they are adverse to owning property, there's lots of reasons).

Why is it OK for any other business to make a profit from their risk and service they provide, but it's not OK for a landlord? The landlord is providing a service just like any other business.

I get the argument against large corporations buying mass amounts of land and driving up housing prices locking homeowners out of the ability to purchase land, but what is wrong with, if for example I have extra cash, am able to buy a home and rent it to someone who can't purchase a house for whatever reason?

person420 ,

Worth mentioning but health screening is a great use of AI.

person420 ,

Are you just randomly reading comments and replying? This literal thread is about a doctor who asked a patient for consent to record their session so they could use it to train an AI.

person420 ,

It is, it was a bit terse, you're right.

A potential fantastic use of AI is to scan a person's medical records against the vast medical knowledge humans have gathered over the past century or so to help doctors identify problems quicker and with more accuracy.

While the general purpose AI's we use today can't be trusted to diagnose anything (but I'd argue they can assist a competent doctor) a future specific purpose AI that's tailored to that task could revolutionize diagnosis. And with the rate AI is going (even if people like Sam Altman are stretching truths) it's not a too distant future.

person420 ,

It's not, that's what it's going to look like after the restoration is completed.

person420 ,

It depends on which flag the terrorist is waving

person420 ,

I promise you, if you put that $30/month into your own IRA, you'll make her a lot happier when she doesn't have to support you when she's grown up.

The problem isn't spending a little to make you or your family happy, it's spending for consumable things today, that's going to put you at a huge disadvantage later.

I get it, I have two kids, it's fucking expensive. But you know what's even more expensive? Taking care of old people.

person420 ,

Do you really think she's just going to let you starve and live on the street?

And yes, that's exactly what you say. Funny how it's not things that make kids happy, it's spending time with them. Reading to my daughter her favorite book for the 1000th time is much more enjoyable than just buying her a new doll.

It's also a great lesson in short term happiness vs long term happiness.

person420 , (edited )

There was an interesting study recently done that monitored the brain scans of participants before and after usage of psychedelics.

It showed that while something like 80% of the participants claimed huge changes in themselves (thought processes, outlook on life, etc) there was no measurable difference in their brain patterns.

Edit: because I keep getting replies. I just found it to be interesting, I'm not saying there aren't any benefits and that it hasn't helped people. It just wasn't the outcome I would have thought and thought it was worth sharing.

person420 ,

I have, and I'm not saying it doesn't have a life changing effect. I just thought it was an interesting tidbit.

person420 ,

I actually just read that one for the first time. Such an interesting take on traditional alien and religious stories.

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