absGeekNZ

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[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Violence is the last recourse of the failure to properly manage a situation.

Violence has never been the only answer. Human civilization works only because of this fact, if violence was the only answer we would never have risen beyond a baboon troop size.

Literally billions of low level conflicts are solved daily without violence.

In saying the above, "violence is never the answer" is categorically wrong. It has in fact been used throughout history to great effect, but also to terrible effect. We have to be very careful where we apply violence, it tends to make things much worse before they get better (if they do at all).

[–] absGeekNZ 21 points 3 weeks ago

Ministry of truth

[–] absGeekNZ 5 points 3 weeks ago

This would be really great.

Commercial applications and a donations framework.

[–] absGeekNZ 26 points 3 weeks ago

Life goals, don't fuck up so bad that even Nestle wont work with you!

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I wouldn't go so far as to say FTA's are not worth the paper they are written on, more like some countries are trustworthy and others are not.

Under Trump, the US is on the slippery slope to being an afterthought. If they cannot be relied upon to keep to their agreements, countries will simply reduce the business that they do with them.

I know it seems crazy at the moment, as they are still the largest economy in the world. But if they keep eroding the trust that others have in them, their power will fade. The world will work around them.

My hope is that, the American people will finally understand the shitshow they have imposed upon themselves. With the rising costs from the truly stupid trade war, either Trump will get ousted and sanity will prevail or they will double down and sinkhole their economy.

No matter what happens, we in NZ have to regard the US as, at best, an unreliable ally. Yes trade with them when we can, but expect them to throw a shit fit and break promises with no notice. Better for us to trade with the reliable partners.

[–] absGeekNZ 2 points 3 weeks ago

In NZ we get them in 6's, 8's, 10's, the classic 12, a 15 box and a 30 crate.

[–] absGeekNZ 2 points 3 weeks ago

Mmmm mm, that is one tasty gender identity.

Say cishet one more time motherfucker

[–] absGeekNZ 0 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't really characterise rick as narcissistic, he is a nihilistic arsehole.

[–] absGeekNZ 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I felt the confirmation bias extremely when I read "Ultraprocessed people: the science of food that isn't food"

I had been calling if a "food like product" for decades before reading the book. As in "that's not food, it is a food like product".

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe we shouldn't have been investing so heavily into peaker plants. Rather we should have invested into renewables.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If it is like a trust, then it will have the equivalent of a trust deed.

A trust deed, states the purpose of the trust, what it's goals are etc... The trustees make decisions in the best interest of the trust to fulfil trust deed.

So if is like a trust, decisions should be made in the BEST INTEREST of the mountain to fulfil its stated goals.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 4 weeks ago

Sorry I already got the snip.

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