Recent Posts

Pages:  [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... 10 »
1
Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by noisyturtle on Sat, 05 July 2025, 13:12:20 »
People overlook how many ultra-wealthy come from very wealthy families. No regular person is going to be able to take out a million $$ loan in their 20s/30s, you need to have a cosigner. Their definition of bootstraps is having had a Summer job once at 16, paying your way into an Ivy League school, then having daddy pay for their first business loan.
2
Off Topic / Re: Physical Ailments Forever
« Last post by Rob27shred on Sat, 05 July 2025, 12:06:22 »
Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:36:59
Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 04 July 2025, 18:03:02
Is it just a fact of life that once a human reaches a certain age they begin developing aches and pains in their bodies that never go away?
Does every older adult simply have constant 24/7 pains in their bodies they just learn to live with and work around?
Not necessarily 24/7 and most of the time it's based on what you did when you were younger. Almost every bad injury comes back so if you ride BMX or bulls you're probably gonna have a hard time compared to someone who did something low impact like modeling.

Yes you learn to work around it but it's also why so many turn to alcohol and drugs.
Compound that with the other things in your life (PTSD)  or lack of family or hobbies and you can see why so many older people are self medicating.

Hit the nail on head here, I can confirm this is true. I did all kinda of crazy stuff when I was younger then ended up becoming a carpenter right out of HS. I got all kinds of aches & pains that my friends around my age who were not as bold when younger & didn't do physical work to make a living do not have.
3
Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:46:40 »
Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:22:03
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 04 July 2025, 22:24:42
The problem is the "Wealthy" aren't much smart than the average.  They're only slightly smarter, + the luck in their corner.

Not any smarter at all just better educated. It's just easier to seem smart when you have money, especially in the U.S..

General intelligence is highly hereditary, which is why it's one of the traits women are extremely sensitive to in selection.

We are NOT born all the same. The distribution is also very different between different races/ geographical regions.

That is not to say, a less intelligent person is less important.

Suppose you need a soldier,  A highly intelligent/empathetic person would make a crap soldier because he would hesitate to kill someone.

Whereas, a low intelligence/psychotic person would have no trouble at the task.

Throughout the evolutionary epoch, a BALANCE of traits and distributions is what ensures survival.

There are no singular trait or combination of traits which excel at every niche. Adaptation is required.


LLann is talking about academic performance, while it is correlated with Intelligence, test beating can be trained, so it's not universally indicative of high intelligence.

 
4
Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by Leslieann on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:43:09 »
Quote from: phinix on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:29:58
Guys, what do you think - what nvidia going to make with next 60xx series?
Is it going to be bull**** again, or are we gonna get a proper performance increase from 50xx series? Proper I mean like 40-50% increase, not bull 10-15%.
Am I correct saying that they cannot do die shrink anymore?
Moore's law is dead, stop expecting those same increases.

Also. Nvidia has learned they can eek out minimalistic updates and people will still buy it so as long as AMD is behind they will only offer minimalist updates from now on unless they have some major breakthrough. Worse still we're the backup, they only give us leftovers from whatever industry is the new thing such as crypto or A.I.
5
Off Topic / Re: Physical Ailments Forever
« Last post by Leslieann on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:36:59 »
Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 04 July 2025, 18:03:02
Is it just a fact of life that once a human reaches a certain age they begin developing aches and pains in their bodies that never go away?
Does every older adult simply have constant 24/7 pains in their bodies they just learn to live with and work around?
Not necessarily 24/7 and most of the time it's based on what you did when you were younger. Almost every bad injury comes back so if you ride BMX or bulls you're probably gonna have a hard time compared to someone who did something low impact like modeling.

Yes you learn to work around it but it's also why so many turn to alcohol and drugs.
Compound that with the other things in your life (PTSD)  or lack of family or hobbies and you can see why so many older people are self medicating.
6
Off Topic / Re: Gaming PC Parts discussion thread.
« Last post by phinix on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:29:58 »
Guys, what do you think - what nvidia going to make with next 60xx series?
Is it going to be bull**** again, or are we gonna get a proper performance increase from 50xx series? Proper I mean like 40-50% increase, not bull 10-15%.
Am I correct saying that they cannot do die shrink anymore?
7
Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Leslieann on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:22:03 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 04 July 2025, 22:24:42
The problem is the "Wealthy" aren't much smart than the average.  They're only slightly smarter, + the luck in their corner.

Not any smarter at all just better educated. It's just easier to seem smart when you have money, especially in the U.S..
8
Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by Rob27shred on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:21:45 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 05 July 2025, 09:57:36
Crossing ecological boundaries isn't Instant-Death.

It's a growing agony when the system we're used to falls apart.

Energy prices will be between 6-10x what it is now.  The entirety of the current accounting system which counts land assets will fail.

Most of us will live like peasants. The middle class will be desolved.

Air conditioners will exist, but the vaste majority will not be able to afford running them.

This is not dramatic, this is within a 30 year projection.  The EROI of oil which underpins modern society has reduced rapidly. 2.5x the wells, but our production rate is still falling.



We are very near the end.

That's my point exactly WE are at risk, not the planet or life itself.
9
Off Topic / Re: The 2025 Republican Wealth Bill is Much Worse Than 2017
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:14:59 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 05 July 2025, 09:57:36

the system we're used to falls apart.


This is the crux of the matter.

A meter of sea level rise will severely disrupt modern civilization as we know it. A few degrees of warming will turn vast swaths of farm land into desert.

Our planet will have a very difficult task supporting 8 billion people.

10
Off Topic / Re: This year may be biblical
« Last post by fohat.digs on Sat, 05 July 2025, 10:07:59 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 05 July 2025, 06:42:59

Texas flood.


The river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes. Whoa! Hard to even imagine.

Having experienced a couple of flood events firsthand in my lifetime, and evaluating the aftermath of a flood in my stint with FEMA, I have made it a policy to always live on a hill.
Pages:  [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... 10 »