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John Smith posted:No evidence, but I figure it is probably unhealthy and therefore inefficient? I assume that some of my haters like Weatherman are probably terrified of having their worldview changed. That level of fear just seems really unhealthy.
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John Smith posted:Hmm. Sort of awkward though. If you don't know the differences between Vegas and AC rules, let alone Monte Carlo or Macao, don't you even try to come in here and lecture us about earning in a casino. Recycled pap from a movie isn't going to take you anywhere these days.
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Krotera posted:oh yeah, content! here is one of my favorite videos ever: I got to 14 minutes and he starts going on about odds, instead of actually working it out "well it's like what? 1 in 10?", yep that's what a mathematician would do.
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Whenever I hear someone talking about hot gambling strats, my brain hears it as "This one isn't some dumpy pyramid scheme, this is 100% LEGIT Multi Level Marketing!"
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Phanatic posted:Oh, poo poo, have we discussed penny auctions yet? I never knew how those worked (never really cared) but holy poo poo that's brilliant.
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CornHolio posted:I never knew how those worked (never really cared) but holy poo poo that's brilliant. I've been seeing a lot of commercials lately on Hulu (or some other streaming service) for DealDash, which seems to be the same thing.
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Card counting is extremely GWM, because you will definitely get caught and banned from casinos, and probably pre-emptively banned from other ones, so you'll just have that one dumb loss and not an entire life of pouring your money down the drain chasing your gambling strategy.
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My uncle used to be regular BWM, but now I think he might be legitimately mentally unstable from pain pills and injuries. He financed some huge air filtration system for his house a year or two ago that was "strong enough to filter out chemtrails" and within 5 months was begging family for money to keep his payments up. He spends close to $2k a month on a mail subscription service for MREs and long-lasting disaster prep food. I think I have posted about him before, but now he seems to be crazy in an actionable way instead of just BWM/paranoid and someone is probably going to have to do something about it. He is apparently trying to organize his entire neighborhood and family members to all cancel their power bills at once. He is sending these massive email screeds to everyone, and printing out pages and pages of the same stuff to leave on everyone's doorstep in his neighborhood, about how paying for energy is all a big conspiracy. That there are ley-lines aligned under the Egyptian pyramids that have been harnessed for unlimited free energy for centuries and the only reason we pay for energy is because we have "made our bed" with fossil fuels and it would be too disruptive to our economy to make the leylines available to the general public. He says that he has cancelled his electricity service and is using a generator for his giant chest freezers until the company gives in and activates the ley-lines. He seems to think that since hardly anyone has told him no, (I imagine they are all ignoring him) that they must all be joining him. The worst part is that my aunt doesn't seem to believe in this, but is "open to seeing how it goes" and letting him do it. She is also crazy, but in a slightly different way. She is suing her former employer (a local school district) because her health insurance doesn't cover her naturopath who uses crystal healing for her migraines. My cousin is also completely into this stuff and "helping" my Uncle get set up, which is the one thing that makes me think it might not just be my uncle going senile. Here is part (yes, this is just a part) of the email he just sent to everyone in the family: He also included a billion links to websites and youtube videos, instructions for all of us on how to cancel our bills, how to let the companies know that we are cancelling service because of the ley-lines, and how to harness the energy when the power companies give in. quote:Visible light, ie. everything we can visually apprehend in this dimension, comprises a mere 20% of the electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore 80% of our reality consists of unseen forces. Freaky! So then, drawing from the foregoing analogies, it is safe to say that the exact same principles thereof apply to the existence and the nature of Leylines. It’s all a case of subtle energy. We as humans have been designed with Energy Meridians coursing through our collective organisms. The existence of Energy Meridians is verifiable: it is the foundation of Chinese Medicine, an ancient art-science far more advanced and sophisticated than modern Western medicine. Since we have Energy Meridians, so, too, does Mother Earth. The Leylines are Mother Earth’s Energy Meridians. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jun 7, 2018 |
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That’s flat-out schizophrenic bizarre ideation. He needs help.
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Phanatic posted:That’s flat-out schizophrenic bizarre ideation. He needs help. We've tried. His son and wife are pretty much 100% on board. His daughter is skeptical, but lives across the country and just thinks that they are "being hippies" like they always have. I don't know if all three (maybe 4) of them have schizophrenia, but I doubt it. So far, nothing has happened and he has a ton of gas for his generator.
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Yeah that's incredibly hosed up Besides showing a complete misunderstanding of the principles of operation of scaled electricity generation
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:wiggly, frisky things
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Too long did read. I worked in an electric company call center 10 years taking calls and answering emails and never ran into leylines, but I fully believe some company is getting this nonsense. I’ve also been to the equator in Ecuador and it don’t feel like poo poo. Electric company customers are bad with money when they are bad with mental health. We had a person write in a couple times about how they should get a discount on their bill because most of the electric use was from torture devices the CIA and KGB used on them at night after slipping in as literal shadows under the door frame. Meanwhile not paying ever and racking up a thousand dollar bill in a tiny house over several years by alternating between fake energy assistance pledges, defaulted payment plans, and probable light identity theft.
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"The Orientals" You should make sure to share this with the crazy emails thread.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My uncle used to be regular BWM, but now I think he might be legitimately mentally unstable from pain pills and injuries. That is weapons-grade whoo-whoop-bing-pchong-icky-icky-icky-tcky-pchang. Get that dude some help. It seems he's sucking his feeble minded family into his vortex of mental illness.
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Ashcans posted:the crazy emails thread.
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Just imagine being the sort of person who can hear about that, and not believe it, exactly, but be curious to see where it goes. "I don't think the Egyptians really built the pyramids using magickal energies, but if you say it'll lower our power bill...  "
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Hoodwinker posted:Holy poo poo this is so amazingly bad. I love it. If you stand in your scenario you have an 8/13 chance of losing, 1/13 chance of tying, and 4/13 chance of winning. Which still means hit and the guy's a clown, but when calculating EVs it's important to distinguish between ties and losses in blackjack 
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I love the idea that an energy conspiracy that has been perpetuated for hundreds of years and is the basis for billions of dollars and thousands of jobs is going to roll over when a single neighborhood calls them out on their hoax. It's like the sovereign citizen people that believe that the entire justice system is an elaborate trick based on legal wizardry, but the conclusion that they draw is that if you can call them out on it properly they'll just fold up and go away instead of, you know, imprisoning or murdering you to preserve their conspiracy. Splicer posted:Tell me more...
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I think I have posted about him before, but now he seems to be crazy in an actionable way instead of just BWM/paranoid and someone is probably going to have to do something about it. It isnt actionable. Unless he is an immediate danger to himself or someone else there really isnt anything you or anyone else can do. All you can do at this point is to try and convince him that he needs mental help. edit:The only other thing I can think of, and even Im not sure it is worthwhile or a good idea, would be to find out if his local police department has officers specially trained to deal with mental illness and if so to give the police a call so they know to wear the kid gloves if they have to deal with him.
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The lefties over in the Trump thread sure have their grunders all a-twixt over this post. https://twitter.com/dick_nixon/status/1004447441477951493
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"don't own a car" wow great advice very GWM
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Fitzy Fitz posted:"don't own a car" wow great advice
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Hoodwinker posted:I'm not sure if you're sarcastic but if you live in a city this is extremely possible and also very sensible. I live in a city and walk to work. It's great, and I love it. People are ragging on it because it sounds like he's unaware that most people can't do that. I have no idea if that's the case though tbh
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I live in a city and walk to work. It's great, and I love it. Can't or won't?
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Ashcans posted:I love the idea that an energy conspiracy that has been perpetuated for hundreds of years and is the basis for billions of dollars and thousands of jobs is going to roll over when a single neighborhood calls them out on their hoax. thread made by vilerat, who literally actually died in benghazi and they brought out his mom, who was the subject of a solid amount of his posts in that thread, up on the stage of the republican national convention a thing that actually happened
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Can't or won't? It's a mix of both, but it's just not possible for tons of people. I've been renting the same place for a few years, and walkability is a huge factor in my current place. But if I needed to prioritize anything else I'd have to move out of walking distance. Like if I had a kid I'd have to get a bigger place and start car commuting. I just can't afford a big enough place for a kid within walking distance of my job.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:It's a mix of both, but it's just not possible for tons of people. There aren’t enough places to live adjacent to workplaces, especially when you take wages and property values into account, and we would be playing that sliding square picture game to get everyone in the right place every time someone switched jobs.
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Hoodwinker posted:I'm not sure if you're sarcastic but if you live in a city this is extremely possible and also very sensible. You know what I don't get? How does this work in 2-income households, where employers are >10 miles apart? And for that matter, do you move every time you get a new job so that you can walk to the new one? Maybe I'm just bad with money.
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Good paying jobs are often near massive industrial complexes that don’t have residential areas anywhere near them. Even if there were, they’re often not the healthiest places to raise young children. Even now, with better environmental protections, there’s still sometimes residual contamination that falls below mandatory cleanup but still can have adverse effects. In other cases, housing near some jobs isn’t affordable to the jobs available in that area. Minimum wage work in the city isn’t going to provide enough income for a home in walking distance, so you’re looking at bus rides. A lot of this is the consequence of city planning from the 1950s onwards that contributed to sprawl and digging up mass transit, but it’s still a choice that only certain privileged people can afford to make.
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Twerk from Home posted:You know what I don't get? How does this work in 2-income households, where employers are >10 miles apart? And for that matter, do you move every time you get a new job so that you can walk to the new one? Maybe I'm just bad with money. Public transit is one way that it can work.
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1 2 5 and 6 are pretty solid advice, but assuming 3 and 4 are feasible for most people shows a laughable ignorance of how the current economy actually functions.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Can't or won't? I feel like it's heavily city-dependent - I grew up in Kansas City and I have no idea how you'd live there without a car (everything's stretched out, the bus systems were sparse and those few were absolute garbage, until a few years ago it was like the single most bicycle-unfriendly city in the US) but I'm in Chicago at the moment and absolutely love not having to gently caress around with a vehicle.
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That whole thing isn't general life advice, it's just "how to not gently caress up having a good-paying white collar job, in a major city, in your childless 20s." They hosed up the savings target, though. The last one is especially fun. "Become a minimalist." There's a reason most poor people, or even people who've been through poverty, cling to stuff that "might come in handy one day." Minimalism is a good alternative to being a dumb kid with a big paycheck and an appetite for stupid toys. It's not a great survival strategy when you don't have much to begin with, but might be able to occasionally cobble something together out of the things a minimalist would throw away.
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Twerk from Home posted:You know what I don't get? How does this work in 2-income households, where employers are >10 miles apart? And for that matter, do you move every time you get a new job so that you can walk to the new one? Maybe I'm just bad with money. That's the part that I don't get as well. Like I could get a job within walking distance, so could my wife. We'd have to get divorced though. Also my work is like 5 miles from the nearest grocery store. I'm not sure how that works without a car. Church? Hope you're ok with the one closest to work. Unless you live in a dense urban area with good public transportation a car is pretty much a necessity and most of those places have housing costs worse than my house and transportation cost combined.
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.... it's legal to have two residences and still be married and love each other? (it's also allowed to live in a place dense enough for human habitation and with the courage to actually use land, lol america needs more soulless 50 story apartment buildings)
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Space Gopher posted:That whole thing isn't general life advice, it's just "how to not gently caress up having a good-paying white collar job, in a major city, in your childless 20s." They hosed up the savings target, though. That part definitely amuses me. An effect of my current financial stability has been an increase in my ability to give away things I’m not actively using, on the premise that they can be replaced without huge strife if I truly need them again. Poor people don’t keep old couches and fridges and barely functional wreck cars because they are sloppy and lavish, it’s because the value invested in those things hurts to part with and may not be possible to replace
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bob dobbs is dead posted:.... it's legal to have two residences and still be married and love each other? With Tindr now it's feasible to just find new geo-convenient spouses anytime one of you gets a new job. Or it would be if millenials weren't too lazy and entitled to arrange their marital life around employers' convenience.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:america needs more soulless 50 story apartment buildings  Plus the apartments would 'ruin the neighborhood character'(let poor people have a place to live).Everything about American homeownership ideals is BWM and BWL: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-the-american-dream-of-owning-a-big-home-is-way-overrated-in-one-chart-2018-05-21 posted:A research team affiliated with UCLA studied American families and where they spend most of their time while inside their homes. The results were fascinating, but really not all that surprising. Here’s one representative example: And more stuff from the original study: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/trouble-in-paradise-new-ucla-book posted:Findings include: e: Suburbia in general is BWM, since most developments can't bring in enough tax dollars to fund their running costs. The only thing keeping them from collapsing is constant new development. But heaven forbid you suggest that fields of McMansions 20 miles from shopping and employment shouldn't be the primary form of new developments. That would be unamerican. 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He also included a billion links to websites and youtube videos, instructions for all of us on how to cancel our bills, how to let the companies know that we are cancelling service because of the ley-lines, and how to harness the energy when the power companies give in. This is bullshit you didn't even include the form for me to sign up for ley line power.
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