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nodsocket ,

Suppose you walked out of the donut shop and were accused of theft. Then the receipt would come in handy.

nodsocket , (edited )

A lot of department big box stores ask to see receipts when you leave.

nodsocket , (edited )

Costco and Walmart both sell donuts and ask for receipts. I don’t know if they would actually check for a small purchase but you never know.

This is the most productive argument I’ve ever had.

nodsocket ,

OK, and I’m agreeing with you on that, but I think that those two reasons are important enough to be worth getting a receipt.

nodsocket ,

All science is based on observations whose veracity can’t be completely proven. You may be a brain in a vat and all your life experiences are illusions. All you can do is make sense of the world with respect to your observations and have faith that it is an accurate representation of reality.

Science is still better than religion or plain guessing because in science you are looking for logical consistency. Even if your worldview is false, at least it will be in accordance with itself.

nodsocket ,

Advertising? Imagine if the source code for every open source project included an ad for unions.

Management probably doesn’t look at the source code, so it’s a good place to hide messages for fellow workers

nodsocket OP ,

When many people say socialism, what they mean is capitalist democracy with a strong social safety net, strong government regulation, and highly progressive taxation.

Let’s go with that definition since that’s what most people think of as socialist.

nodsocket OP ,

Based on existing socialist countries? So cold that the air explodes upon contact with human skin

nodsocket OP ,

To be fair, a lot of people have left their families behind to leave Europe and enter the US.

nodsocket OP ,

Yes

Do you have a rating? What is your rating?

Today I found out I have a rating on FREE NOW as a passenger (I’m not a driver at all, I use it on the rare occassions I need to move something or I’m too sick to make it via public transport, i.e. after a surgery - I have an upcoming one so I redownloaded it). Checking my settings to make sure I had payment in, I saw I had...

nodsocket ,

Yes. A peer reviewed study found that 99.1% of participants rated me 10/10 in attractiveness.

There were some outliers. For example, your mother rated me 11/10 when I asked her last night.

nodsocket ,

Landlords actually do a lot of work. Maintenance and dealing with tenants can easily become a full time job if you have multiple properties. A lot of people buy rentals thinking it’s “passive income” and then end up working twice as hard as before.

nodsocket ,

Eh, I wouldn’t say the housing market on the whole is fickle in the same way as as the stock market. But for things like property damage, the risk is definitely on you

nodsocket ,

Even dealing with a property manager can be a full time job for owners.

nodsocket ,

ITT angry communist noises

nodsocket ,

Save money

nodsocket ,

It’s OP

nodsocket ,

You do not need money to save money. You need money to invest.

Find inefficiencies in how you spend money and fix them to reduce expenses. Then save this difference.

The most common areas people spend too much are housing and cars.

nodsocket ,

If you’re talking about the owner of a property company, that’s a company owner not a landlord. Still a tough job to run a company.

nodsocket ,

I agree that the rich in America are siphoning from the poor. But I think that the biggest way they steal from the poor is through debt, not living expenses.

Think about it. Americans are taught that they must go to university right after high school. Kids are forced to make a huge financial decision without any understanding of the consequences, and there’s a lot of social pressure on them to conform by taking out a student loan.

Next Americans are taught that they should always use credit cards, and that they need to build a good credit score (so they can get approved for more debt later.) They are again pressured by advertising and social norms to take on debt, in addition to the gimmicky rewards like airline miles and cash back, which intices you to spend more than you normally would.

Finally people have even started using debt products like margin trading, which allows you to lose more money on the stock market than you even have, and apps like Afterpay allow you to buy expensive items you can’t afford. It’s just a never ending cycle of debt.

If people were taught about the debt trap from an early age they could protect themselves and actually save their money, not become a wage slave like so many Americans have.

nodsocket ,

Properties owned by a corporation do not have a landlord. They are owned jointly by a group of investors who assume the financial risk. You can be a property company investor too if you want, there are a number of such companies called REITs that sell shares on the stock market and return a quarterly dividend.

nodsocket , (edited )

Sorry professor, I didn’t realize I interrupted your communism 101 lecture. Unfortunately I live in the real world where not everyone is out to get you and not everything is hopeless.

nodsocket ,

It is probably possible for me to write this in terms of philosophical theory but I would not consider that a good use of my time. I’m more concerned with addressing the practical ways someone can improve their life regardless of the current state of the economy or how the current state came to be.

Some people are doomed from the start. But there are so many more people that could be thriving right now if they would just stop and think before taking out a loan and at least gain some basic financial education.

On the subject of Marxism, if people stopped getting into debt a lot less money would be flowing to the top. Banks would have fewer profits and their power would shrink. Therefore abstaining from debt could even be considered a kind of activism. The best kind of activism really, because it actually makes you wealthier.

nodsocket ,

If I put this in Marxist analytical terms then no one would understand it and no one would learn anything.

Sam Bankman-Fried would readily choose a Brooklyn jail cell with internet access over a $39 million Bahamas penthouse that doesn't have Wi-Fi, author of FTX book says (www.businessinsider.com)

Sam Bankman-Fried would readily choose a Brooklyn jail cell with internet access over a $39 million Bahamas penthouse that doesn’t have Wi-Fi, author of FTX book says::“Now that sounds crazy, but I do think that if he had the internet, he could survive jail forever,” author Michael Lewis said of Sam Bankman-Fried.

nodsocket ,

Duh, how is he going to rebuild his crypto exchange without WiFi?

nodsocket ,

Greenland is in North America

nodsocket ,

Well adjusted ex reddit user

nodsocket ,

Imagine if every American had a shortwave radio transmitter in their pocket. Endless September for hams

nodsocket ,

Turn notifications off

Problem solved.

nodsocket ,

You didn’t??

nodsocket ,

This is part of their plan to reduce carbon emissions.

nodsocket ,

Upvoted for theft

nodsocket ,

I don’t need family. Everyone I need in my life is a streamer on Twitch.

nodsocket ,

It’s called the Attention Economy. Getting peoples attention is so important today that it’s seen as a commodity to be bought and sold. You’re question is equivalent to asking why it’s so hard to find gold.

nodsocket ,

Google and Samsung are winning and smaller vendors are being squeezed out.

nodsocket ,

Better USB speeds, faster CPU, modular architecture, audio jack is gone, uses more power, has more ribbon ports for camera and display

nodsocket ,

You can adjust the power usage now to either over clock the CPU or to supply USB devices.

nodsocket ,

Why would you spend thousands on a lawnmower, pesticides, fertilizer and water when you could have a wildflower garden for free? Or a productive vegetable garden?

nodsocket ,

Consumers have very little choice when it comes to things like cars, electricity company, cable company, etc. In that case it is appropriate to put blame on the companies who have a captive customer base. But with other products like phones, there is nothing compelling consumers to buy the latest except FOMO and greed.

nodsocket ,

Remember: Tinder doesn’t make money if you find love, because then you’d stop using the app. Tinder’s goal is to keep you using the app as long as possible by dangling the possibility of love without ever delivering.

nodsocket ,

Finally… Excersisium

nodsocket ,

Nah it’ll take at least 5 years for that to happen. They have to wait until most people have Android 14 to use the feature.

nodsocket ,

This is a publicity stunt to get more funding. They are going to get some volunteers, but they won’t ever get the implants. Neuralink will just keep delaying the procedure by a year and then cancel it once the public stops paying attention.

nodsocket ,

I don’t see Neuralink taking the legal risk, regardless of what the FDA says. The approval is part of the publicity stunt IMO.

nodsocket ,

This is correct, Tesla is known for underpaying

nodsocket , (edited )

Smartpipe!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ

nodsocket ,

Holmes never killed anyone

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