Porkchop Express
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“Observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand” - Marcus Aurelius
Unexpected use for ChatGPT - interpreting dreams. I first gave it no personal context and it made almost full sense, once provided with context it clicked 100%. For comparison, Grok was less accurate and less empathetic.
So many of these fella/flags diarrhea in handle automatically think in clusters, the brainless and reality-denying blind zombies. The Western European “center” (=left) and “left” (=commies) have demonized right wing parties into extreme fringes where they had to resort to…
The rise of pro-Putin parties occurs because of post-truth. People don't believe in anything cause they are lied to, especially about immigration, with far-right grifters like you
Verily, places I’ve lived in: - Poorest Eastern European Soviet apartment blocks - British suburb (Cambridge) - American midwestern suburb - Several Dutch cities - Bucolic Dutch countryside - Parisian banlieue suburb (!!) - Paris - Frankfurt - High-end Frankfurt suburb I know…
I’ve lived in the poorest and richest of Europe, in everything from ugly soviet apartment buildings to elite western suburbs - nothing is objectively as comfortable and pleasant as even a simple middle-class American suburb. This has nothing to do with wealth, it’s just space…
The core problem is that something that was not a choice in the past - having children - became an active choice vs. the seemingly much more attractive alternatives. The secondary problem is that the difficulties of raising children are visible externally and parents love to…
The problem is that society expects you to be in control - I was frantically cancelling work meetings after my water broke first time around. Then right after birth I had to file all this paperwork and show up to my Dr. after not having slept for 60+ hrs (long labor and…
It doesn’t feel fundamentally similar to US car culture. Can’t explain why. Something to think about.
Doesn't Germany have an even bigger car culture than France?
In spite of all the anti-American trashtalk, the French are quite Americanized, relative to rest of Europe, and particularly compared to the Germans, who you would logically expect to be more Americanized considering the post-war economic dependency. The French love American…
Overmedication and overtreatment is an expected outcome in a profit-driven, customer-centered medical system. The socialized European ones avoid iatrogenics at their own unpleasant cost. There is no perfect medical system.
Attention deficit / hyperactivity medication consumption per country. USA vs the Rest of the World💀
There were no diapers or sanitary pads in Soviet Union at all, women had to handcraft their own. Toilet paper was a rarity too, because in socialism the Party decides how much of anything should be produced. Human dignity is the first to die in socialism.
Never forgot this article about an American mom in Cuba (spoiler: they pull the stuffing out of 1 pampers, wash it & hang it on the line): cupofjo.com/2015/08/31/par…
Every western tankie should spend a few months there on a local salary before being allowed to espouse socialism.
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