IninewCrow

most honest answer in the thread

Where they call plutocracy democracy and democracy is basically plutocracy

Because Star Wars destroyed their own Empire

Throw the clay as hard as you can up against a wall and if it sticks … place a little artist signature just below it and paint a frame around it

Aspiring to becoming and staying a billionaire requires a certain amount of psychopathy because it takes a certain mentality to want to own so much wealth that you’ll never be able to enjoy all of it in a lifetime while at the same time denying or taking away the wealth of others who might need it.

If I had a billion, I’d take a few million and live off the interest and give away the rest and not be bothered by anyone or anything ever again.

I thought it was the Scratchy Ass Show

No … that’s just disappointment

The internet … I’ve mentioned this before and whenever I suggest the internet started in the 90s, I get corrected that technically it was started in the 80s or even the 70s. I’m talking about the general internet that the public interacted with, the internet in the 90s that we all know and understand, the internet with cat memes and porn.

Watching the birth of the general public internet that everyone has access to.

I remember the early 90s hearing people talk about it, then seeing signs of it in the mid 90s. We all thought it was going to make the world so much better for everything and everyone.

Then starting in the late 90s everyone was getting online and it just went crazy.

It was exciting to be around for the start of it all.

We got to live life without an internet and then all of sudden it was here and we couldn’t live without it.

It was like being the generation that saw the first airplanes and commercial aviation becoming part of the world.

No one is in a line feeding one to the other … everyone is just in one giant hog pen where we keep picking up shit and flinging it at each other

I think it’s more like a cess pool and everyone is wallowing around it all thinking their part of the pool is better than anyone else.

I got into it for a while about ten years ago and at the time a lot of their content was spilling over to other sites and they were equal parts brilliant, stupid, witty, retarded, open and bigoted. They were a source of a lot of internet chatter that got people talking.

Now I go on once in a while to check in on them … and it feels like they’re stuck in the same rut and it’s the same group of weirdos trying to restart things that had already been done years ago. They’re not new anymore and they just sound like a broken recording playing the same thing over and over again. It was funny the first few times … now it’s just sad and stupid.

Devil is in the details

Then Larry asks for $2 and that indebted $2 becomes $4 for Larry who now lends it to Steve who can now say he has $4 but now there is $8 worth of debt … all from $1 along a long chain of people promising to pay things back, even though they have can’t.

Multiply that by trillions and now we have a long line of debt that is impossible to ever repay and the only way to maintain the system is to keep making promises to more people and institutions that it will be repaid back. An article I read about this scenario years ago estimated that if all global debt was halted today, no more loans were made and everyone and every institution was told to start paying back everything at a minimum amount … it would take millions of years to completely pay off everything.

Nobody likes it being said and everyone claims it isn’t so but in other circles … it’s called a Ponzi scheme … where a scam artist takes your money and promises to make it grow by promising it to other people in an every longer chain of people with ever increasing amounts of money … the only way to stop it is to uncover the scheme and force everyone to accept the corrupt absurdity of it all

If we all took a step back and lost faith in the financial and banking world … all of it would come crashing down. It isn’t a system built on wealth and money … it’s a system of faith … and as long as keep believing in it … it keeps working.

The other white substance that you should watch for that our ancient ancestors never had to deal with is …

SALT

Like too much sugar … consuming a substance that was rare to our ancient ancestors is bad for your health … you might have excellent teeth, but you might keel over with a heart attack or a stroke.

The best absurdity is global finance … the idea and belief that there is trillions of dollars worth of promised wealth everywhere yet the majority of it doesn’t exist, except as promissory funds or glorified paper IOUs, yet we have so much faith in it that that belief is what runs our modern world.

She’s only got two … should I still go with the Pho? or maybe some dishwater instead?

God: I’ll give them teeth … without any instructions on how to maintain them.

Every movie recommendation website sucks in their own way … which is why one way of dealing with it is to average them all out.

When my wife and I do a search we’ll first find a film that was recommended by a friend, site, forum, wherever … then do a quick search in rotten tomatoes, IMDb, Google and Letterboxd … we do a quick round up of all the sites reviews based on how many reviews and by who (audience and critics) … then we do some quick mental math and come up with an average rating ourselves. It works most of the time but at a better rate than anyone one recommendation site.

Then if we get frustrated, we watch a classic old film. If you rewatch an old film from 30 years ago, it’s like watching it again for the first time. Well not exactly but do you remember all the details of a movie you watched 20, or 30 years ago.

Read, read, read … then read some more. Don’t just read entertainment and easy fiction. Read history books and works by famous writers. Look up a list of top 100 books that are highly recommended and read them. Read about famous people, famous places, famous battles, famous periods and moments in history.

Read so that you’ll have a better understanding of why we live in the world we live in.

If you don’t figure out for yourself what this world is and why it is the way it is … someone else will do it for you … and that someone else will not have your best interests in mind.

Having a broad knowledge of many things also protects you because it will allow you to speak for yourself with confidence. You may not get everything right, no one ever fully does but at least you’ll be able to speak for yourself. You’ll also more easily be capable of seeing bullshit in the world and form your own opinions. Just remember to be kind, to learn empathy and understanding … if the ideas or writers or personalities you follow teach you anger, fear and hate, then you are definitely headed into a dark place.

I read on my own more often now but I just wish I had done more so when I was younger.

… and like others have said, take care of your teeth, eat less sugar, the better your habits the more likely you’ll stick to those habits for life.