Title is true even without the last two words.

Google being a little removed and saying it “detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP” (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.

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A few years ago I was friends with a cohort of soon-to-be Psychologists, and it was a well known fact that your options for easy employment* were either to get a job as a therapist for a major health corp and make little money and have to deal with the terrible admin, or make 2-3x working for a tech company but having to incur the karmic debt of trying to give Jolly West and James Mitchell a run for their money in the Lawful Evil competition.

*Private practice, teaching, and/or research have their own hurdles that are typically too high a barrier for entry for new grads

Memes aside, my friends and I genuinely would have murdered these things with rocks had they come out before we’d turned 18.

What does the rest of the house look like? I’d try to match the time period. I.e. if victorian, then cast iron can be okay, if 50’s or newer, bare/painted wood banister.

That’s awesome! What kind of terrace are you putting in? I’m imagining a pergola?

Jealous of those bushes. Are they yes or juniper or something else? I’ve been wanting to put some in since I live in Suburbia but don’t want to throw up a fence.

We speak more or less the same language, as I’m sure you’re aware. I’m Danish, by the way.

I don’t understand what your point is, though. I get that you don’t like guns, but I’m having a hard time understanding where all of the other stuff is coming from.

What are you trying to accomplish with this comment

I’m having a hard time understanding the point you’re trying to make.

I think you’d be shocked at how diverse the gun laws are from state to state.

This is one of my (many) issues with reddit. The underlaying structure causes some users to modulate their behavior in order to stay in social good graces. At least a few years ago, some subs would ban you for being a member of a sub they didn’t like, or if you didn’t have enough karma, or whatever. Considering that karma is determined by the community, agreeing with the average opinion is incentivized and the converse is the same. This actively discourages discourse, while encouraging circlejerking. I’m not implying that people are just going around and posting “this, 100 times this” on everything so they can max out their karma score, but I do think it’s leading to an unhealthy smoothing of opinions that’s gone too far into the realm of banality.

While I do think it’s good to run everything we say through Socrates’ triple filter because that’s aligned with the higher ideal of caring for the state of the community, I don’t think we should concern ourselves with the question, “will other people like me for saying this”.

Actual lol

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend

I’d be all for it if it meant the other shit would go away. I’d rather see Mountain Dew (instead of Altitude Precipitation or whatever) in the Sims if it meant no microtransactions and other annoying ads. But it’s EA, that’s not gonna happen, we’ll just get Mountain Dew in the Sims AND ads AND microtransactions.

U.S. Patent 8246454B2 is a real thing.

does that fuckin weenie still train bjj or was that just for show

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It could be; but, the ones advocating for the punitive punishments rarely consider that their own heads could be next on the chopping block (sometimes literally).

There’s also a bunch of research that seems to say that rehabilitation is typically better at preventing crime.

It has to do with recognition. For instance, Sealand meets all of the requirements: a permanent population, a defined territory, an effective government, and the capacity to engage in relations with other states (I believe this is codified somewhere in the UN’s laws and policies).

But, most places don’t consider Sealand a real country because other countries don’t officially recognize it. Which is kind of weird to think, that being a country is like being a popular girl: if the other popular girls say you’re a popular girl, then you are. If they decide you’re not, then you’re not.

So, while there is a quantified threshold, the de facto rule is whether other countries recognize you. It’s also similar for honorific titles.