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2015-09-29 at 8:29 AM UTC in Doe anyone else have totse community fantasies?They've generally either involved rape, murder, or entrapping them in devilish scenarios to make them fear for their lives and suffer psychological anguish for my own amusement.
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2015-09-29 at 5:53 AM UTC in ITT: how to take responsibility for babbys"ITT: how to take responsibility for babbys"
Just don't ask §m£ÂgØL for advice.You and sploo should do like Adolf and Eva. Buy a bunker, get married, and kill yourselves.
Eric and Dylan. -
2015-09-28 at 10:16 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionI thought of an interesting gig for a homeless person some time ago:
Insane homeless death run experience! $5
With the modern world lacking in the excitement of times past where people regularly feared for their lives, this would be an experience you would rarely get elsewhere. It starts with you throwing something at them followed by a 5 minute period you have to escape by any means necessary while they run after you full speed screaming, shrieking, and snarling in a murderous rage. -
2015-09-28 at 9:34 PM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
It is a slippery slope fallacy though. Limited trust busting causes exactly one thing: limited busting of trusts. If you're not a dogmatic anti-statist then you should have no problem admitting we should empower the state where evidence suggests doing so will lead to better outcomes, and you yourself have admitted state intervention would lead to a better outcome in OP's hypothetical.
Oh how the cool rational facade cracks under the pressure of a case you can't wave the holy sacrament of the free market at and declare solved.
Sure, given that states exist I'd prefer that they'd be the least harmful/most optimal as possible, but it doesn't follow that that means I prefer the existence of government. Just as if you support free market policies in one scenario it's a non-sequitur to argue that that means you support them in all.
What many fail to realize is that the institutions that are supposed to be solutions to problems with public goods, externalities, market failures, and other justifications for government, are rife with public good problems themselves. -
2015-09-28 at 8:39 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionMaybe I should start posting on one of the chans, document my suffering and journey (mein kampf), raise attention and sympathy through emotional manipulation and other tactics to increase the chance of receiving helpful advice.
Help me, I've become a literal hikikomori and have lost control of my life. How do I become normal and join the human world? Will report back with results of suggestions.
Followed by a saga of autistic blunders. -
2015-09-28 at 12:10 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionPage 38.
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2015-09-27 at 11:08 PM UTC in Full Lunar Eclipse tonight 8pm ESTNow just any lunar eclipse, but a super blood moon: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/science/super-blood-moon-to-make-last-appearance-until-2033.html
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2015-09-27 at 9:52 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionSomeone linked to this in r/nootropics:
Uncorking the muse: Alcohol intoxication facilitates creative problem solving
http://www.iee.unibe.ch/unibe/philnat/biology/zoologie/cb/content/e7117/e7118/e8764/e145926/Jarosz_CscCog2012.pdf
The hypothesis as to why in the introduction is well explained, it made me think of psychedelics, your experience with them and that of others, along with some of the discussions on alcohol and creativity we'v had in the past.
Also brought to mind East Asians. You're in SF so you probably observed them a lot and had a lot of time to ponder certain qualities they tend to display compared to Whites. Regardless of the cause, cultural or genetic, ability to sustain attention/cognitive endurance ad susceptibility to boredom have been studied, and are in line with general perceptions. Stereotypes aren't necessarily inaccurate, they actually tend to be very accurate and arise due to genuine differences that are perceived. Although, other factors that may impact creativity/innovation are conformity, risk aversion/general anxiety levels and fear of consequences/losses.
Ideally you would have very high executive function and learn to modulate it, to enter a state conductive to creative problem solving, developing this ability using meditative techniques/training, or with drugs. -
2015-09-27 at 8:25 AM UTC in Can anyone here please talk to me im about to kill myselfNeither do I, but that doesn't change that you should kill yourself
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2015-09-27 at 8:23 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCapsIt's not the slippery slope. Incrementalism is a legitimate and commonly used strategy, and I'm referring to realistic/probable outcomes. In an ideal system political authority/government power would never be abused and mistaken/destructive policies would never be enacted, but that clearly isn't the case.
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2015-09-27 at 7:45 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Picked up a little overtime in the last week, made sense for political reasons but a nice bonus is that I have this thing where I can never buy stuff that I haven't budgeted for unless I pick up non-regular income to compensate, even if I have plenty in savings or whatever. So I'm going to spend my unexpected windfall on an oculus rift dev kit and some drugs. Take a little time, however much I need, to shake off any potential disorientation from the VR experience, get comfortable with simulated vision. Then I'll take a respectable dose of a psychadelic, not like ego-shattering or anything, but enough to get fully and totally lost in the experience, strap on my VR set, and see how real another world can seem. Obviously I'll be developing something for VR during the adjustment phase as well, I may even make myself an experience beforehand time permitting. Maybe a nice simulation of Muir woods, always somewhere I've wanted to trip but transit logistics make it difficult. Or maybe something more surreal. Just thinking about the generative worlds I could make with good VR, it's amazing. Maybe even a framework for building infinite spaces built out of whimsy for people to create and explore as whimsy strikes them under the influence of drugs. Think about it, someone could say they want to explore a vast empty favella, set some simple parameters like density, joint conditions, terrain parameters, perhaps most of this set by people with some limited technical modeling/technical expertise, and it becomes a reality. Every quaint italian villa, every dreary atlantic shore, every quaint shack in the woods and luxury penthouse apartment could be yours or anyone else's and the only blocker would be a cheap VR set and the ability to articulate your desires,
Please document the experience, it would be a dream. One of the first things about was using psychedelics in conjunction with virtual reality. There are some potentially mind blowing things you could try.
This could be you: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/21jthh/oculus_rift_while_on_psychedelics/https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/21jthh/oculus_rift_while_on_psychedelics/
I think the Vive's going to be available for purchase online soon, it would be a much better choice than the DK2. The developer kit would probably leave a lot to be desired. -
2015-09-27 at 7:34 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionI was thinking of posting this: http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/09/im-obsessed-with-san-franciscos-bunk-bed-craigslist-ads/407281/
And mentioning how pathetic it is that adults are sharing rooms with bunk beds due to SF's economic retardation. You can even find couples sharing rooms with other people. This will seem particularly shocking to people that have never lived in extremely high cost metropolitan areas, people that live n very low cost regions (actually most of the US in terms of land mass).
Then asking what your long-term plans are for housing, whether you plan to stay in the area, particularly if you get married and especially if you have children. If you understand the dynamics that are driving, realistically there isn't a chance in hell in hell this situation is going to reverse. None, in terms of feasibility it is impossible. If it's a bubble and it pops? Last time the tech bubble popped it didn't change the long term course, land price bubble, at best it's only responsible for a fraction and won't change the long-term outcome.
Two main things relevant to the state:
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/06/californias_pho.html
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2012/06/18/widening-gap-update-california
US downturn is longer term, could be decades before crisis point. Too long to explain, but there were some key things to learn from the 08 crisis about resilience, states ability to delay for long periods, and the problems with attempting to make predictions. Demographics are also problematic particularly for diverse areas. Cost of living will continue to have a very negative economic effect and could potentially push migration of companies and residents to a critical mass, Texas is already drawing away a large amount of companies and residents and is performing well given its circumstances, which will continue if they don't restrict housing supply.
Which leads to my main point: Let's assume that housing price increases continue long-term and that purchasing your own home will be an absolutely nightmarish financial scenario. Actually, before that, what are your peak earnings projected to be? Difficult question, you probably don't know what your potential is or whether you'll be able to or want to deal with the pressure and workload, especially if you decide to start your own company. I recall reading something very interesting about an experiment done with low doses of LSD for creativity, where they had professionals use it in a group setting to develop ideas and solve problems from their line of work. Did you ever read this? Reason I bring it up is because I think you're the kind of person that may legitimately receive a very positive impact on the trajectory of your life from psychedelic use, it could change everything. Oh, and you could commute, but traffic could become worse and it could already eat up hours, although self-driving cars would allow you to do other things, even use virtual reality, but it's still kind of gay. Then again by that time maybe telecommuting really could become the standard and people may be spending a surprising amount of time inside virtual reality.
Okay, detour aside, given how enormously expensive that would realistically be, keep in mind that the effort of what I'm proposing may still have a far far lower lower new cost than this, making it very lucrative, and that this isn't as absurd as it may initially appear and has relevant real world cases that can be used for information. Illegal underground housing. We could become the first literal mole people and squeal with delight at what we've accomplished, like children who have built a secret base. Do a google search for bank robberies committed using tunnels. We could get plans from the city to avoid pipes and other infrastructure, water/moisture, gas/ventilation, structural integrity could all be dealt with. I'm thinking parks may be an ideal place for this because there would likely be less underground infrastructure to get in the way and with SF's political climate they're probably pretty unlikely to be developed, particularly deep enough to effect us. We could probably find a way to tap into the water and power supply as well. Then we'd have a neat secret entrance where we could enter and exit without suspicion, along with a nifty conveyor and tunnel to rapidly take us to the dwelling and carry items.We could start tunneling from within the sewers or underground tunnels: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4056-a-rare-look-at-the-tunnels-under-san-francisco
Or, another idea. What if we found/picked an optimal tunnel or room and sealed it off. Sure, urban explorers, homeless people, whoever may have known about them and visited/wanted to visit may be like, WTF?, but they'd probably just assume the city did it. Realistically, what would they do about it? It doesn't seem likely that the city would be informed or discover this had occurred and that they hadn't done it, then break in. This would be much easier, but likely wouldn't be in a prime location.
"If it's such a good idea why hasn't anyone else done it?" For all I know they have. But, really, you should have a general idea of the psychological profile of the common man, the lack of imagination/creativity, drive, daringness. Is it really anywhere near as difficult as the decades you'd have to work and save, the effort of going through school and working your way up a career, or building a company? He who dares, wins. -
2015-09-27 at 5:24 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionLiving life takes too much effort, I'd rather keep trying to use drugs to solve my problems. I think this is the problem of at least half the people here.
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2015-09-27 at 4:06 AM UTC in HillaryInteresting speculation. This is pretty amusing, watching everything fall apart, particularly considering how long she's been building toward this, the time and effort, enormous resources, involved. Seeing her never achieve her ultimate goal will be delicious. It greatly increasing the chance of Sanders vs.Trump is the other nice aspect, because that's going to be an absolute lark. The Democratic National Committee scrambling to deal with the fallout will also be nice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3mf6ye/government_finds_new_emails_clinton_did_not_hand/
>Biden will announce the minute democratic strategists realize hillary will lose. Right now they're seeing if hillary can weather the email controversy and remain a viable candidate. But as her poll numbers continue to slide they'll realize hillary is done and Biden will enter.
>A Biden PAC is hiring staffers in 11 primary states, he's running. The only person that doesn't know Hillary is done, is Hillary. -
2015-09-27 at 2:55 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCaps
It's funny, this sounds familiar for some reason… almost like something I've said before… repeatedly…
I thought you might find that funny, I did too.The issue is that consequentialism requires that you cede the necessity of government intervention in situations like OP has brought up, since monopoly is obviously not optimal.
If political authority is required to produce an optimal outcome in this scenario, but the aggregate effects of what political authority will realistically lead to in other realms outweigh the benefits, it doesn't follow that you should support the existence of government.
Loosely related, I cam across this and thought it was amusing:
It’s finally out–The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology
by Jonathan Haidt (not a libertarian)
http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/Part of the complexity is that…] Social conservatism correlates with lower cognitive ability test scores, but economic conservatism correlates with higher scores (Iyer, Koleva, Graham, Ditto, & Haidt, 2012; Kemmelmeier 2008). [Libertarians are the political group with the highest IQ, yet they are underrepresented in the social sciences other than economics]
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2015-09-27 at 12:13 AM UTC in HillaryThis is hilarious. Pay attention to her body language.
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2015-09-27 at 12:09 AM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCapsNever have, never will. I've never even registered. Happy?
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2015-09-26 at 8:04 PM UTC in Got my etizolamWhy pills instead of powder? Powder is only $60 a gram shipped from the US, waaaay more affordable.
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2015-09-26 at 7:57 PM UTC in Question for Libertarians/AnCapsNatural rights is so passé. It's a decent introduction for beginners, but among the serious anarcho-capitalist theorists it hasn't been the standard position for a while. Of course, as with any ideology, the majority aren't particularly well informed, knowledgeable, intelligent, have a very good grasp of their preferred ideology in general. Your standard run of the mill minarchist/minimal state libertarian, internet libertarian, is like this; they're a very poor representation of us, just as you would likely feel an enormous cringe if you heard your typical early 20 redditors discussing (parroting feel-good quotes back and forth) Bernie Sanders and we're unfairly grouped in with them, if others assumed that they represented your views.
Consequentialism is a much better position from which to argue: www.google.com/search?q=david+friedman+consequentialism
Although this book does provide a very good criticism for the moral justification of government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Authority -
2015-09-26 at 7 AM UTC in Suggest me some beer.
People shit on heineken but in absence of something better (like if all you've got is Bud and co.) it's my beer of choice, it actually has flavor even if it isn't the best and it's not some soupy dark ale bullshit.
*slowly shakes head disapprovingly*