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Java.

What type of jobs are you applying to? I've heard of people in my industry (Software Engineering) getting completely ridiculous offers ranging from 130k to 180k.

My fiance just got a job that was a 40k upgrade.

But you bought them in a sleazy way.

pure_temper posted...

economy (anyone average can become a millionaire here)

military (uncontestable, dominance is guaranteed from orbit for decades now lmao)

beautiful vistas (absolutely massive country full of diverse scenery)

diversity of people (you can find amazing Chinatowns and Ukranian villages and etc all over the place. You can embed yourself in another culture without need a passport)

best education hubs in the world

best tech in the world

freedom

etc

This. The issues the US has usually relate to the fact that personal freedom is part of our national ethos which leads to some dangerous consequences but I would rather live in a country like that with some chaos stirred in the mix as a result of our freedoms than in a country with creeping authoritarianism.

Doe posted...

people in the military don't walk around with a toothpaste mohawk, they buzz the top too

You d0nt have to buzz the top after basic though you do have to keep it fairly short.

To give it some perspective..... the Gerald R Ford is the first ship in the first new class of carriers. It was launched in 2017 to replace the Nimitz class that was first launched in 1975. There is something to be said for testing our stuff after we build it and the test they did is something that the ship itself clearly should be able to survive.

I'm white. One grandmother was 100% Irish (her parents were both first generation immigrants). I know I've got some Welsh and some English but the rest is just a mix of north west Europe. Most of my family has been in the US for 200+ years.

sktgamer_13dude posted...

Which is why cutting funding to PP doesnt help. They provide so many other services, most importantly safe sex practices.

I've never understood this argument. Is Planned Parenthood converting aborted fetuses into the resources needed to perform their other services? No?

Then they could stop performing abortions and keep doing the rest of those services or another organization could do it.

There isn't some magic rule that says for every 1000 condoms you give out or 1000 STD tests you perform you have to kill a fetus.

AlisLandale posted...

He cant be space racist, his wife is Asian! ;0

It's the Cardies he's after not the Asians.

CanadianMafK posted...

you have some serious anger issues

What rational American in 2021 doesn't have anger issues when someone whines about the vaccine when we are seeing the light the end of the tunnel at the end of a pandemic?

At this point we just need to make it so that if someone died of covid after having been offered a vaccine they are considered uninsured and their assets are liquidated down to zero net worth for any care they received.

Society will try to keep them alive to the best of it's ability but insurance shouldn't have to cover that level of stupidity and you don't get to rack up 500,000 in hospital bills recovering from a preventable virus and still keep the equity in your home. If you get the virus and end up in the hospital we are humane, we keep you alive, and then we zero out all of your accounts to cover the cost.

"But Daddy why are we in an apartment instead of a house and you can't pay for our college".

Well son I got the covid and was too fucking stupid to get the vaccine so all of my medical care was covered by liquidating every cent of my net worth instead of being covered by my insurance".

CanadianMafK posted...

what are you worried about then?

It is a truth right now that if we are going to try to appeal to people to get the vaccine at this point we should aim low. I realize that IQ is a murky concept. But if we are trying to convince people at this point we should not be using Math. If someone was intelligent enough to understand statistics or understand an appeal to reason they would have already gotten the vaccine.

That is my point.

To maximize people getting the vaccine at this point when they have refused the offer of a way to avoid a virus that has killed millions of people we need to appeal to people as if they are the stupidest fucking people on the planet. Because they are.

They are either hopelessly paranoid and think that all of the data presented so far is some massive conspiracy or they are effectively adults in the bodies of children that don't want to get the vaccine because needles are owie.

FLOUR posted...

I have an IQ around 115 and a degree in mathematics. And I'm vaccine hesitant. Anytime I ask for scientific proof regarding vaccine safety, all I get are generalizations. So nice try.

High-ish but I honestly shouldn't have even mentioned IQ as a concept.

My own basis for my judgement of my IQ is.... I was between 97-99% on the 'Iowa tests' as a kid. I got a 1480 on the SATs (740 math 740 verbal on the 1600 point one) at the end of high school which I bombed out of and the I joined the Army and got a 134 GT score on the ASVAB.

I then got a 3.9 GPA in Computer Science at a major university (Cu Boulder) using the GI bill.

I'm well aware of the fact that IQ doesn't equal smart decisions (which is obvious from me posting on a 20+ year old gamefaqs account) and I shouldn't have used it to trash people not getting the vaccine but honestly if you look at the people not getting vaccinated it is the poor and uneducated and they are going to suffer more than those of us that are not poor or uneducated.

Shadowplay posted...

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

I am living this right now and so are you. We take a view across society and see the people that aren't getting vaccinated and its the stupidest fucking people in our society. What is the counter argument?

"They are socially disadvantaged and undereducated and victims of society which is why they are so fucking dumb so you shouldn't call them stupid just became they are acting stupid"

I'm done prettying it up. If you are refusing vaccines at this point chances are its because you are a stupid person surrounded by other idiots.

Dakimakura posted...

poverty

And stupidity. Do you truly believe that if you did an IQ test for people refusing covid vaccines it wouldn't be laughably low? Look at the groups refusing vaccines at this point. These are the stupidest people in our country. That is the only thing they all have in common.

pure_temper posted...

TC what data do you have to support that claim

What do people living trailer parks in Kansas and people living in Detroit have in common.

....... low vaccination rates. And that other thing.

https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/evidence-base/education-is-now-a-bigger-factor-than-race-in-desire-for-covid-19-vaccine/

Flauros posted...

Maybe they just dont care if they get it and die?

They don't want to die. They just are more scared of doing something to prevent death than doing nothing.

We need to find out how to sell the virus to these idiots at this point. The only commonality across races, genders, societies, religions, is that the vaccine hesitant people are generally dumber than dog shit. Their average IQ is below 90 and we need to accept that and stop pretending we can make an appeal to reason or talk about the statistical likelyhood of suffering from the virus vs the vaccine.

These people are, as a group, too fucking stupid to understand math or logic. If you start talking statistics their eyes will glaze over. If you talk about ow the vaccine works they will panic.

The vaccine lottery is a start but we need to think of more ways that these drooling morons can be convinced to take the shot.

Zikten posted...

I loved the hell out of those kinds of games. I wish it would have a revival of that genre

I will never hate on Battlefront 2 because it let me have a glorious few months where it was hugely popular and I was blasting people out of the air as an ace pilot or just getting like 50+ kills a match doing the same thing in massive battlefields flying a starfighter around.

It was epic and awesome for fans of the genre. Like you met people in the air that were like "wats hapennin" and you swooped in and massacred them them because they had no idea how to fly and then you came in blasting dozens of guys on the ground and then whiped out the next wave of noobs that tried to spawn in a fighter rinse and repeat.

I felt like a monster in the air.

This type of game was my jam back in the day with Freespace and Freespace 2 being some of my favorite games ever.

In recent times I was a huge fan of the starfighter assault mode in Battlefront 2 which was legit sci fi Ace Combat when people were actually playing it. And if you became a king of that mode you could take your skills and be a demon of the skies ruining people in the big Battlefield style maps raking people beneath you with lasers as you blasted noobs out of the sky that dared challenge your dominance.

It was fucking awesome. But its dead now. Sorry.

The Star Wars Squadrons game recently actually had a damn good campaign but it didn't have third person camera which made me sad.

I do not support going into lockdown to protect a bunch of cowards that are scared of a vaccine even if they start dropping like flies. This is a preventable disease at this point.

My choice was dictated by the amount of space I have in my condo.

I've been meaning to give it another go.

I played up tot he level cap at the launch of 'Realm Reborn' on a Warrior/Marauder but I came to the conclusion back then that I just liked WoW more.

I felt like I didn't have a lot to do or think about compared to wow because the global cooldown was a lot longer. I settled into just using a game pad for the combat and taxing a relaxed view towards playing the game rather than being a try hard like I usually am in WoW.

It was pretty, the story was pretty dumb, and the gameplay was fun but not fun enough to stick around.

I've been meaning to try out the new expansions because I've heard the story is actually fairly interesting, at least compared to what was there before.

The original was the only truly good one.

That being said I didn't hate the world movies they just weren't the sort of movies I've ever felt the need to watch again.

Not unless you are in the military. Still wouldn't support death but loss of pay and time in the brig...... sure.

If this happened in Texas this guy would have a good chance of ending up dead.

The basic explanation is that Ramsey is a psycho and he usually puts on an act of being a real human being when he is talking to his father which leads to his Dad not suspecting when it happens.

I'm actually replaying ME 2 on PC with legendary right now...... I feel like with all these games I remembered there just being more from the characters in general in each of the missions.

I'm riding on nostalgia here but beyond the recruitment + loyalty missions and the conversations in the ship there isn't a lot there.

My favorite out of the bunch is Mordin. I remember Garrus being a lot more talkative, a lot more of a pesonality and I've been taking him along for most missions and he is practically a mute.

Xethuminra posted...

So how does this work?

If youre under a certain cap, the rich people have to pay you money? A grand or so should do. So you dont abuse it. And your bank account would need to be transparent to inspections, no withdrawing large amounts of cash, and if you get a good job, or have too much savings or any major discrepancies with your finances, then you lose access to the program for a period of time or whatever. Its a complicated thing to work out.

Give them just enough to pay the rent, but not enough to eat steak & smoke cigarettes every night.

The idea of UBI is that everyone would get it. No strings attached. No minimum income level, no graduating scale of it being reduced as you make more money. Every single person would get that money. If UBI pays out 2k a month and you are making 2k a month already then you still get the 2k a month from UBI.

I see this as happening eventually but I'm not sure we are ready yet. Its the Star Trek future basically. If you want to just be a bumb you can do that but if you want to do something to be productive you basically start from a point where everything you get in terms of cash is gravy.

Bleuets posted...

Speak for yourself. I would love to just have universal basic income and not have to work.

People that do this should be the poorest people in society even if we have UBI I don't think even you would disagree with that. If someone is doing literally any amount of productive work even just an hour or two a day they should have more resources coming their way than someone that just exists as a potato.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

As long as UBI is in addition to existing programs and also truly universal, it would be an unambiguous social good that would help people out.

I think it should take the place of existing programs. If it truly is 'basic income'. Then it should cover food, housing, whatever at a basic enough level that someone is able to live. There would be no need for disability payments, unemployment, food stamps, etc.

But everyone that works would be doing better than everyone that doesn't because they would get their basic needs covered AND get paid a salary. Being on government welfare benefits would never be seen as a prize that people go after.

https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

That's a kind of ugly secret of the American labor market," David Autor, an economist at MIT, told me. "Part of the reason our unemployment rates have been low, until recently, is that a lot of people who would have trouble finding jobs are on a different program."
Part of the rise in the number of people on disability is simply driven by the fact that the workforce is getting older, and older people tend to have more health problems.
But disability has also become a de facto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills. But it wasn't supposed to serve this purpose; it's not a retraining program designed to get people back onto their feet. Once people go onto disability, they almost never go back to work. Fewer than 1 percent of those who were on the federal program for disabled workers at the beginning of 2011 have returned to the workforce since then, one economist told me.

We've put a time limit on unemployment and other benefits in order to push people off welfare but a significant number of the people that have been pushed towards work instead end up on disability and they never return to work.

Its an open secret that this is happening. We have the data showing that the % of people on disability increases with the rate of unemployment when there is a recession and we can look at locations with depressed economies in the US and, surprise, the % of people on disability is many times higher than the overall US average and the causes of disability have shifted away from clearly diagnosable illnesses and injuries.

We've created a system where people are given an incentive for exiting the workplace forever and created a perverse disincentive for self improvement and resilience. Even if someone feels like they could return to work doing something, anything, they are basically told that if they do that they will lose everything in terms of their benefits.

UBI would fix this. I'm not saying it wouldn't create other problems but it would fix this. If someone is able to work in any capacity they would be able to do it and still get their benefits. People that are working at McDonalds wouldn't be making less than that's only income is the safety net.

I thought Biden was anti death penalty?

My place on zillow has gone from 385 to 460 since the pandemic started.

My parents place has gone from 575 to 740. It's completely crazy. This is in Aurora colorado which used to be the cheapest part of the Denver metro area.

There should be regulations setting a temperature threshold that is reasonable both in terms of minimum and maximum.

It doesn't have to be comfortable necessarily but it shouldn't be dangerous.

If you actually watch that video it talks about it reaching 150 degree heat index in some prisons. That is unacceptable. I mean shit set the climate control keep it below 90. I wouldn't call that comfortable or extravagant.

In Colorado we have temperature drops or rises of 50+ degrees (F) in 24 hours.

I'm low key jealous of Loki.

Not really. I feel like the only one I've seen in real life was a waiter/waitress at a restaurant my family frequents.

They were clearly gay the first time I went there but they transitioned over the course of the time that we went there. I will say that ........ they were naturally muscular with wide shoulders before they started transitioning which made it look a bit weird. I don't think the person was a body builder or something before but they were a fairly short person working as a waiter which gave them a quite stout build.

US, Mexico, UK, France, Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, in that order.

SwayM posted...

Jeeze. Why would someone push themselves to the literal point of death?

Oh because if you quit youre treated like this. Listen to yourself.

This guy was 19 years old. Honestly there need to be actual adults in the process to take these kids and tell them they need to take a step back. They will run themselves to death if you let them in some cases when they are sick and just trying to keep up with the boys.

KingKudaKane posted...

I guess they're trying to kill off or at least fuck up anyone who wouldn't survive this in the field.

I mean it's not something you can really train for or get better at.

I'm not saying make the training easier but they should investigate whether or not the trainers (Drill Instructors in this case) followed good procedures. If someone just happened to have the flu or hell even covid while they were at this particularly harsh stage in the training that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't cut out for the job they may just need to be taken out of training for a bit then dropped back in when they get past it.

Duncanwii posted...

This is ridiculous, you should have asked for time off. No amount of training is worth your life.

I agree 100% but you have to realize this was Boot Camp for this guy and it was Basic for me. I was basically a fully grown man child at that point and I felt like this was the most important thing I had ever done in my life and the whole program is designed to make you feel greatly motivated to keep up and to push past physical pain or discomfort.

I was exhausted and in pain a lot in basic and knowing the difference between that being good because you are getting stronger and that being bad because you are literally going to die isn't something a 19 year old is necessarily equipped for.

I collapsed during basic training in the summer at Ft Leonard Wood from heat stroke. I ended up in the hospital with a temperature of about 105.5 by the time they got me there. They put ice packs on me and set up an IV to hydrate me.

What happened was that I was sick and trying to push through it rather than going to sick call and getting a profile because I was afraid I would physically fall behind and I didn't want to look week. It was stupid and honestly I could have killed myself by just trying to push past the fact that I had a fever for days and was coughing up blood every night.

Ultimately they gave me anti-biotics, had me in a hospital for a couple of days and put me on a profile for about a week and I still graduated basic on time but this is often how people die in military training. They are physically not capable of doing the training either because of their basic fitness or because they are sick and they try to push themselves through it anyways even though their body is screaming at them to stop and rest.

In what fucking universe is psychology a stem major?

fuming posted...

oh, come on. enough of the population was literally alive in the 1960s there is no way half of people would buy that.

I shit you not. Try it in real life with people in bars. Just tell them about the civil war in the 1960s and mix in good old Abe Lincoln with the hippie movement most people will just nod and go along with it. I've done it. "Like totally they were protesting to end slavery man thats what woodstock was about".

Doom_Art posted...

all the mandela effect taught me was that people would rather invent the idea of intersecting timelines and parallel universes than entertain the possibility that they misremembered something

Its a version of history for people that don't actually know the history and melt headlines that they've seen in the past 30 years+ with Hollywood movies they've watched.

When they watch the youtube videos they aren't remembering false memories they are just skimming over the fact that they honestly don't know what has happened in the world in their own life time because they didn't care enough to read about it ...... ever.

I'm not going to call them stupid because I've known a lot of smart people in terms of my job (software development). Like master coders that are geniuses compared to me...... that couldn't name a single president from the 1980's let alone tell you about Nelson Mandela.

People can be astoundingly ignorant when it comes to history.

The Mandela effect has always seemed like nonsense to me because I have always had a pretty high amount of knowledge of history factoids and I've always been aware that people around me .... don't.

I could tell half of the population that the civil war happened in the 1960's rather than the 1860s and they would believe it.

https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2020/02/views-from-the-turnbuckle-why-cant-wwe-attract-younger-666397/

The average age of viewers of WWE is actually older tan basically every major sport except baseball.

This may sound weird but in my mind its the actual Final Fantasy game of the PS4 era.

I delivered on every level and I still remember the big story elements of it. It was just an awesome RPG adventure.