Comment Re:It's just the accounting (Score 1) 145
It's like buying a car and complaining after a week that it cost you $1000 per mile to drive so far.
That whole text-wall of a post has a very "I peaked in High School, and I'm mad about it" vibe to it.
Ah, vibes. Perhaps your vibe narrative is more involved in your manshaming than you might care to admit.
And since we are analyzing responses, yours has a distinct "I have no cogent response" to it.
I'm angry about nothing. I'm just a person with an interest in male/female relationships, and the deterioration of them in recent years. That interest came about during my many years of work trying to get young women interested in STEM careers.
The same "reasons" were always given for why the young ladies weren't attracted to those fields, and despite that narrative, and always working from that narrative, it didn't budge the interest level - and before you pull another manshaming move, I was a token male - all of the decisions were made by women. But I had a strong interest in helping.
You know what they say about trying the same thing over and over again and it never succeeds.
Some people call that insanity. I just call it letting your narrative control you. But one thing I learned is that after all of my research, people such as yourself have no interest in changing their narrative. So you go do you.
Nobody wants to wear glasses.
It is a long ask to compete with a phone.
This, like all the other attempts, will fail for those reasons.
Here in the west, we have disincentivized male/female relationships to the point where many males have largely given up. Some whack statistics out there.
Marriage If you marry, she can divorce you for any reason, and take your children, most of your stuff, and you get to pay child support, and often alimony, as well as half of your retirement. around 80 percent of divorces are initiated by women.
What person would go skydiving if there was a 50 percent chance their parachute would fail, or make an investment where there was a 50 percent chance of the investment failing, and not only failing, but continuing to fail for as long as they live?
The relationship gap
And for single men, it doesn't get better. There are some really odd stats there 63 percent of men under 30 classify themselves as single, and only 34 percent of women in the same age bracket do.
Wut? Weird as that sounds, there is the so called situationship thing. A study of dating apps show that 80 percent of women find only 20 percent of men to be attractive in any way.
So if only a small group of men are getting chosen for "dating", presumably the pretty boys, by multiple women, while the bog standard guys are ignored, we can see how we arrive at that strikingly different relationship gap between men and women.
The bad boy thing
What most women learned in High school has been extended until their mid 30's. Bad boys. The tingles. Choosing to engage in sex with them and thinking they can establish a relationship.
Background - I was in a band, drag raced cars and motorcycles, motocrossed, and played ice hockey. From personal experience, I can tell you that the bad boy thing was real. Cuz I wuz one. I was the guy the local busybody moms network told their daughters to stay away from. And I never thanked them for the references!
But the young ladies are supposed to grow out of that. Today, those tingles have become an addiction. Since most guys are not bad boys, they miss out.
The risks
One of the biggest forces that have created the so called manosphere is social media, where males have been able to share their stories of personal destruction. We are told to #believewomen, and #metoo, and in the frenzied days after "white" women took it over, many men lost their careers and families.
And yes, an example of what might happen is best exemplified by this little story from Australia 60 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The story is how a woman decided to accuse her fiancé of rape, destroyed his life, got him sent to Oz's version of SuperMax, destroyed his parent's lives financially and his mother divorced his father.
She then started accusing his father of things that made little sense, a new case was opened, and the new investigator figure out in a short time that the accusations were false, and if not for the idea that women cannot make false accusations, the man would not have been incarcerated, his parents would have still been married and financially solvent. So much for #believewomen
Back to today
Males have perhaps a built in tendency to do a risk/reward assessment. So in today's world, one where if married, she will divorce him, where approaching a woman can get him in trouble, and in any event, unless he's in the rarified class that she finds attractive, he stands no chance, it turns out that a decision to go his own way is not illogical.
Even totally ignoring the environment, Californians bought 13.6 billion gallons of gasoline in 2022. At a cost of $4.50 that's $61.2B per year on gasoline, every year, forever, until we invest in other options. $20B towards kicking that habit - permanently - isn't necessarily unreasonable.
Of course there are some recurring costs to maintain the grid (though a non-upgraded grid might be higher or lower, I don't know), and other costs to electric switchover such as, obviously, generating clean power.
But simply saying - "Ooooh, $20B, big number!" is more misleading than informative.
>Until it spits at you, of course.
What if you fill it with perfume instead?
Depends on if it is a male or female dog...
Oh shit, I am going to hell, I just know it!
That about cover it?
You forgot to add that you are a kvetch.
And I take it that you still believe what you wrote to which I very specifically gave my reply? I'll repeat it for you in case you forgot.
"P.S. For those of you who think you beat the system, just keep this in mind: your kids will never own a home, have a family or have a real job. They'll also never elect anyone to office. Have a nice day."
Care to comment on that? You didn't say you were speaking in generalities, you very specifically wrote never have a home, family, or real job. Or the strange bit about electing people.
That my friend is a no wiggle room statement. Never means never and is never anything other than never. What you choose to call my "anecdotes", is me disproving your unequivocal statement using "never". And seriously, after strutting around like a cock-a-whoop and with your rapier wit, in your mind, nullifying my so called anecdote,and I provide my three examples that would show your statement is wrong, you provide an anecdote of your own.
The difference? I don't act like anecdotes are never admissible, and must always be replied to as if they were wrong. And replies that prove an absolute statement as a wrong statement are not anecdotes, but replies proving that an absolute statement is without possibility of an argument - that "never" statement is just plain wrong.
Write more clearly - if you want to speak in generalities, say that.
Now (yes that is also Mr T!)
I started in IT in the late 90s, am still in IT today, and it paid for my home, my vehicles, raising my kids, etc. I can retire any time now, but so far I have chosen not to.
If you worked in IT until 2000 and have since been unable to work in IT... You failed to adapt in an industry where you should be retraining annually.
Losers almost alway have an excuse for their failure, and it never ever involves them. It's always the system or at this time, those damn boomers.
And yet, there are successful millennials and GenZ. Those successful ones tend to take accountability.
Here's what happened in tech. I can speak with authority because I was there.
Trigger alert!
From a Boomer to a Doomer - if you are right down at the bottom of the barrel, the ultimate victim of the horrible system, the person whom the system actively grinds down...
Perhaps a little introspection is in order. Yeah, I'm a boomer. Big deal, there are boomers among the losingist losers ever. You doomers didn't invent losers.
My millennial son is doing just fine, rising in his company, and is going to buy a house soon.
Wife's best friend has 2 millennial sons, gainfully employed, and own houses.
The same with other friends children, I just give three examples.
Things to ponder:
Maybe it has something to do with attitude
No one owes you anything.
No one owes you a 6 or 7 figure job.
No one owes you a one skill-set for life - if your skill-set becomes useless, develop a new skill-set.
Bring value added to your work.-If you bring no value added to your work, you are mediocre at best Tha man is not your enemy, unless you choose to make tha man your enemy.
For my own case, I've been called to work after retirement because it was difficult to find young people to fill the position. They stressed over minutae. They wanted really high pay without experience, and they had absorbed the teaching that they were the most important person in the universe, before, or now, or forever after.
They all crashed and burned, usually sinking into depression when they found out they were just 1 out of 8 billion people, and about as special as a grain of sand.
So while I probably gave you super high blood pressure, just consider that my advice might have some use, or you can revel in being a loser - it is after all, easier than the work to be successful.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/2...
What comes across overwhelmingly to me here is a sense of panic. There doesn't seem to be any confidence that they can build something unique. He's totally focused execution - on catching up with whatever somebody else released last month.
--That's assuming it's a weapon. It isn't.
Actually, I wasn't thinking that narrowly.
Any device that you use to accomplish a task more than once needs to have the capacity to support your workload or it becomes very limited use. Think a laptop with only a 30-minute battery capacity. If a tool is constrained in capacity, then you really can only use it within a limited scope. (Not that it's always a bad thing - it depends on how frequently it's used)
Nothing to disagree with you there. I suspect that a limited scope is part of the design. I'm thinking that in the use cases this is designed for, that the doggo will head out maybe 50 feet from the human operator, spray a firebreak, then had back and be turned off, or maybe reloaded. It might be more busy when used for a controlled burn.
But that limited scope thing. Controlled burns are not particularly safe, and firebreak setting is really dangerous. pretty near the fire, and there is the possibility that the fire could crown, and you probably won't survive if that happens, it's a game of inches at that point. So you really don't want the thing to carry a whole lot of gasoline. If you had a I>big fire spitting doggo, and it was caught and disabled during a controlled burn, the control might be lost.
But not too lazy to post wildly offtopic.
Imagine the possibilities this tool implies. This a tech site after all. Learn from history.
Before going too far, people who use flamethrowers against others, especially in t-word usage deserve being terminated with extreme prejudice. At least in my estimation.
But this pretend doggo with a flamethrower on top is aimed at a practical market. firefighting and controlled burning. As a tactical weapon, it is pretty lame. Simple to take out.
For all of that, it has pretty much the same possibilities that all of the flamethrowers of the past had. The question is why would one with the form factor of a canine suddenly cause people to use them as a tool against people in a never before thought of way? And it is not designed for an environment in which others are trying to destroy it. Sneak up on it from behind, grab it and whack it with a hammer. Or carry a shield and encroach it, then whack it.
But these other possibilities...Organic farming, a worthwhile endeavor uses flamethrowers as devices to "weed" fields. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I can imagine anti -personnel uses for that.
And if you want to really get scared, WD-40 makes a pretty decent short-range flamethrower.
In the end, it isn't that this might be used for nefarious purposes. It's that darn near everything can be used for evil.
Perhaps the emotional reaction to this is the so called "robot dog".
I thought about that. It would be hard to call it anything else. You don't really want wheels on something this short on rough terrain because if it overturns, you lose the thing in a wildfire. And generic quadruped just doesn't have quite the same sound to it.
All true. It "walks" like a dog, and has that doggish look. The awkward thing is that yes, the doggone thing is kind of cute. Until it spits at you, of course.
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