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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 11:26:47 JST 
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Aren't you utilizing implicit assumptions to conclude that strange names, strange looks, or strange ways of talking are related to ethnicity?
You and I don't speak English the same, even if we made an argument we came from wasp stock.
Moreover, again assuming wasp stock, there are lots of strange names. One of the characters in Future Sepsis is named Niamh (pronounced neev), which seems like a strange name, but it's Welsh, and even an English person might choose to name their child that despite not being directly Welsh.
Even the way someone looks, a lot of things can affect that I. The genetic side, the environmental side, or the cultural side without ethnicity entering the picture.
Then there are categories that the contemporary left believes are ethnic that actually aren't. Mexico, for example, is not an ethnicity. It is a state with a number of different ethnicities do the historical happenstance.
The left in fact often claims the same ethnicity is good and evil in their heuristic: an evil conquistador Spaniard European is now (without any real changes to genetics) a poor subjugated Mexican. The contradiction makes sense if it's not about ethnicity at all, but moral and power based.
Intersectionality at first glance looks like it makes certain groups more or less oppressed, but if you take it seriously, taken to its conclusions it actually means every human is unique and to make decisions solely on one or a couple attributes is to flatten them into something they are not. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 22:29:22 JST
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If I'm being totally honest, Ben Shapiro is totally correct about "if you can't afford to live in New York City, live somewhere else".
One of the reasons these cities are so unaffordable is a century of attempts to make them affordable. They've driven down interest rates, they've given mortgages to anyone with a pulse, they made 30 year fixed mortgages the best option in the US (such mortgages don't exist in other countries and are subsidized), and they're on track to make 50 year mortgages an option. They've taken money from everyone else through taxes and inflation and injected it into the housing market. They've added grants and bursaries and tax rebates. In the US, the interest on your mortgage is tax deductible -- so mortgages are directly subsidized by the taxpayer. The result? House markets that aren't possible to live in.
Moreover, the culture that says "Everyone should be able to live on Manhattan Island" is broken. Sorry, not everyone can live in Hollywood, not everyone can live in Manhattan. That's life.
And here's the thing: People make arguments as to why it's important to keep communities intact. "Oh, I don't want to move away from my family" -- and they're not wrong, but it doesn't matter. You can't live here anymore, because you promised that spot to a dozen other people from around the world and a hundred people from around the country. The argument that everyone ought to move to these places, and that it's a moral good that they do, and that there's no opportunity anywhere but these few international cities, it's all contributing to the problem. Instead, people who want to keep living in their homes should be trying to make the argument that there are plenty of opportunties outside of their cities and people should go to those places instead.
In my own country of Canada, we have the same stupid ideology with respect to Toronto and Vancouver. And those two markets are retardedly expensive. "Oh, there's jobs there!" it doesn't matter! The houses in Toronto are a million, and in Vancouver they're two million!
With all this, the actual answer is multi-faceted, but simple.
1. Cut mortgage amortization to 15 years.
2. Stop insuring mortgages and force banks to take on the risks of lending
3. Don't allow mortgages to be packaged up in securities at all
4. Allow interest rates to rise if that's where they want to go
5. Don't allow people to claim mortgage interest on their taxes
6. Eliminate illegal immigration, reduce legal migration
7. Start amping up all the cities that aren't the top real estate markets in the world -- Maybe living in North Dakota isn't so bad?
8. Eliminate programs intended to help the working class pay for places they can't afford in areas like NYC or LA, let the rich sleep in the bed they made (with no local services unless they pay huge wages). Watch these areas become less attractive all of a sudden.
Do these things, and suddenly people can afford to live in the city of their grandparents. Otherwise sorry you have to leave because there's more people coming who want it more than you. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 23:50:25 JST
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Stop eating you fat fuck(r)
Ingredient: none
Frequency: all the time
Dosage: less food
Mechanism: not eating so much
Ask your doctor if stop eating you fat fuck (r) is for you. Not covered by most HMO or drug plans.
I lost 80kg on stop eating you fat fuck. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Nov-2025 22:38:44 JST
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Felt like that tbh.
Seemed about a jungian integrating of the shadow which could be about a bunch of things.
I got it back when it came out and didn't hate it, but I finished it on game journalist mode because I don't have 7000 hours to git gud at Celeste. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Nov-2025 06:35:23 JST
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Seems really simple to me: eliminate both. No corporate bailouts, no snap. Eliminate the federal income tax. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2025 23:01:26 JST
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With some of the huge outages lately I have to laugh.
Think about it! The thing that's supposed to keep your site from going down went down! So our sites didn't go down because we're not using the service that keeps your site from going down! -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Nov-2025 00:16:19 JST
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And heavily subsidized education -- but only if it's education that's heavily accredited. Most education's cost has begun to approach 0. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Nov-2025 15:44:27 JST
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Neoliberalism is a red herring.
It may be a good policy, it may be a bad policy. The only thing that's truly certain is that it's not been the actual policy of virtually any government on Earth.
Between half and three quarters of the spending in any given Western economy is government. In other words, if the dominant ideological paradigm is reduced government intervention in the markets, and then that paradigm has completely failed. Depending on the economy, there is significantly more government than there is market.
What we end up seeing in practice is a government that is continuing to grow, is continuing to get stronger, but has no use for spending money on public services that don't ensure that they got a cut. Therefore, the word neoliberalism is used to justify reducing quality of services to individuals but in reality that money is not then eliminated from the government coffers, but redirected to new ends that will better serve the rich and the powerful. Your taxes never go down, and even if they do it's only because of the government is borrowing money from future generations to hide the fact that they are stealing so much money from you. Meanwhile there are entire industries that only exist because of government subsidies or regulations.
There are a couple examples from the US politics which really help us see what's going on here. The United States healthcare system spends enough public money to pay for comprehensive single-parent healthcare like the NHS or the Canadian healthcare system. Virtually no conversation about healthcare makes this point. Instead it focuses on Private health insurance that for the most part shouldn't exist for the amount of money being spent by the government. Secondly, the current federal shutdown has much sound in fury behind it, but a surprisingly a large chunk of the federal government is still operating. In fact, the federal government just reached a record high debt in spite of allegedly being shut down. Of course, the part that won't get paid for predominantly include services that might actually relate to the common person, but no one's talking about the fact that most of the federal government is still chugging along. Especially the money being sent to Banks to pay for all of the debt accumulated in the last 20 years. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 13:07:32 JST
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It just occurred to me that we just had a presidential election where the president and vice president had numerous long form discussions on podcasts including significant policy discussion.
For someone like me, we're actually in a golden age. I want long form discussion and debate where ideas actually get a chance to stretch their legs, and that just won the presidency in a sweep!
It's crazy, like an anti-intellectual high intellectual golden age. One thing as bright as the sun in an otherwise dark era. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2025 00:39:25 JST
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Like, what's the logic here?
That we should let anyone do anything that they want at all times if they are about to commit suicide?
Women get denied from the women's diving team every year. It's super normal.. that's the nature of team sports.
But how do you expand this to the rest of the world? Can I identify as rich and if the bank doesn't let me withdraw a million dollars from my bank account I just threaten to off myself and then they have to?
Cuz I'm being totally honest, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Not killing myself, but I'll threaten to all day long.
I've had situations where people make threats like that, and I consider it to be people taking themselves hostage. As far as I'm concerned they can kill the hostage if they want. I just don't think that that's a healthy thing to be promoting by giving them what they want. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 17:02:10 JST
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daggerfall remaster when, todd? WHEN, TODD? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 17:02:07 JST
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The effects of not making game devs build their own engine and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 23:12:58 JST
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BUY! BUY! BUY! -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 05:09:28 JST
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Just me and the boys, eating 2.5 million dollars worth of fish (wasn't that good tbh) -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 31-Oct-2025 07:04:01 JST
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You can also think of it as casting off a marketing expense. When people were getting rich working for these big tech companies, it's also a giant sign going "Wow they must be a really cool up and coming company, look at how great the wages and working conditions are!"
Thing is, most big tech companies are getting out of that phase. Now they're as big as they're gonna get, if they want to keep drawing investor dollars they need to start optimizing their capital, and to do that they need to ditch operating costs to drive up margins. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 05:07:59 JST
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Consider the irony: "I have to buy a brand new computer because the people who make my operating system arbitrarily require a new microchip? Well forget that I'm buying a Mac"
4th architecture now? -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 21:53:02 JST
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I kind of feel like even if you win this one on the yes side, you might have lost big...
"Wait, you gambled on this?" "Yes, and I bet on you!" "But you gambled on it?" -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 02:04:46 JST
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I saw someone saying "Half the Internet went down when AWS failed. This is proof you need to have money in crypto"
At some point, people are going to have to realize that crypto only makes sense in the context of a world with an open Internet. If STTF, the open Internet is about the first thing to go away, meaning your crypto isn't going to be available along with your global DNS and your connection to root miners. Shiny rocks might seem like a sillier form of value storage, but shiny rocks don't depend on a global communications internetwork to operate. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 07:39:44 JST
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Right at the beginning of the pandemic, I was like "Oh shit we won't be able to get haircuts, they're gonna mess us up" so I quietly grabbed a hair clipper on Amazon.
And it turned out to be like the last flight out of Saigon for the next 2 years. -
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 05:56:44 JST
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"Can we agree that having to pay for a human necessity is a major a-hole design?"
You've got two options: Go have a chat with God and his pesky laws of thermodynamics, or slavery.
We could bring it back, then we wouldn't need to worry about paying for human necessities!
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