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The High Corvid of Progressivity

Chance favors the prepared mind.

~ Louis Pasteur

  • Finish the PhD, then get a new job.

    $65k will be worth half of what it is or less in 10 years. You will, at best, get a raise of about 5% per year. You will see a 20% - 30% raise if you jump ship with the PhD provided you go for corporate positions (you'll barely be treading water if you decide to teach).

    The stability of the current job is an illusion - they will let you go the moment it becomes profitable for them to do so. The only person who can ensure you stability is you, and the only way you can do that is by maximizing your earning potential so you have enough wealth to survive a jobless period. Do not rely on unemployment benefits - they're a joke and often arrive as much as a year late.

    Source: I took the stable route at that same salary number. Was laid off after 10 years during COVID, while I was sick. My next position I jumped from 65k to 90k, and with the next to 110k within three years. It took over 18 months for me to receive my unemployment benefits.

    Companies have no loyalty to you. You are a resource to be exploited. Treat them the same way, and you'll be much wealthier and likely happier for it.

  • Once Twitter was bought out by Elon, the writing as on the wall for Truth.social. It only got initial traction because Trump was banned from Twitter. Once Twitter was yanked violently to the right into X, there was no need for Truth.social, as both systems are effectively providing the same propaganda to the same audience.

  • So, ICE is trying to dox folks:

    The effort has swept up U.S. citizens and activist groups that track ICE activity, with contractors assembling dossiers that can include a poster's name, birth date, employer, Social Security number and vehicle records. To identify anonymous accounts, the Department of Homeland Security has sent hundreds of subpoenas to social media companies, and recently escalated to grand jury subpoenas that are harder to fight.

    Meanwhile...

    The administration now treats organized doxxing of officers as domestic terrorism, a label it has stretched to cover filming agents at work. ICE spending on surveillance tools and consultants hit $258 million in Trump's first full year back, a 57% jump.

    I'd point out the hypocrisy if it weren't so depressingly obvious.

  • I didn't mean to imply that the dementia is new, it's just too evident to hide to even the most dedicated of his followers at this point, and this particular case made it very apparent. The Project 2025 bigwigs just want to get the case out of the news cycle because there's no positive way to spin it, and the more attention Trump gives it, the more damage it does to their plans.

    Once its out of the news cycle, he'll forget about it, unless they need another distraction from the Epstein files and decide to remind him.

  • They know he's disintegrating, and likely only has a few months before he's rendered incapable of functioning. The contractor was a political crony of Trump's who has little to no influence within the Project 2025 framework, and the blatant injustice of the trial was eroding confidence in the DOJ - which Project 2025 needs to push it's agenda.

    Pirro will take Trump's heat for a bit until he forgets about it, and then proceed to implement the rest of Project 2025's goals like a good little soldier. The contractor was an easy sacrifice, and Trump cares more about the public embarrassment than bailing out a crony who made him look a fool on the national stage.

    Trump's loyalists aren't turning on him. They're waiting out his dementia while they implement the Project 2025 agenda, and making sure he doesn't completely torch the place before the new boss has a chance to take over.

  • Sometimes... Cyberpunk 2077 at launch is one example where the supposed optimization was less than optimal.

    The other element is that it's easy to get locked out of updates if the developer chooses not to support them on console. For instance, L4D2 on the Xbox 360 is absolutely gimped in comparison to PC, where it has new official campaigns and a thriving modding ecosystem 15+ years after launch... an ecosystem an Xbox 360 user can't touch.

  • The PC is more money up front, but drastically cheaper over the lifetime of the product. It's also more versatile, and capable of upgrading along with almost infinite backwards compatibility for older titles.

    Consoles will be a couple of hundred (or thousand, depending on the PC you chose) cheaper, but you are forced to buy games within its ecosystem, usually at full retail price - a library of 10 AAA games will cost $600 on console, where you can get the same library on Steam for half or less of than that by simply keeping an eye on sales. The console won't be upgradeable. You cannot easily pirate games, and there's no such thing as DRM free gaming. And backwards compatibility is janky or simply removed for most consoles.

    The only place consoles really win out is in live social gaming - it's a lot easier to get a group of friends to play PS5 on the couch than it is to get them to play PC on the couch. Aside from that, though, it's sort of like comparing a tricycle to a Harley... yeah, they're both bikes, but the differences become real clear once you get out on the road.

  • Translation:

    They're gutting any sort of science that provides benefits to people (life sciences, environmental, social) and putting the money into technology that is designed to control and hurt people (computer science = AI, while physical science and engineering = military application).

    At least that's my take. Feels like they intentionally left the memorandum as vague as possible.

  • He'll have one if he runs out of heroin.

  • Well this thread has proven conclusively that atheists are just as closed minded as religious folk. I've never seen so many angry idiots argue for suicide.

    I'll spell it out one more time for you dumbfucks and then I'm blocking all your asses.

    There is no scientific consensus on what happens to the consciousness after death. Period.

    It could just end. It could also mean that you lay there helplessly experiencing the absolute pain of every cell dying, rotting and being consumed as it decays.

    It could be that you find yourself trying to justify your sins to Anubis. It could be that you end up in Valhalla.

    We simply don't know. And that makes the risk assessment of the action of suicide (as a relief from the pain of living) volatile to the point where the possible gain in pain relief isn't worth the loss of your life.

    That's it. That's my entire argument. It's not Christian, it's not scientific. It's fucking assessing a gambling risk. Grow up and get your collective heads out of your asses - the moral grandstanding because you "suspect'' I might have a religious view is fucking idiotic and obnoxious - you're no better than the Christians you think you're preaching against.

  • It's not a religious view - you folks need to take a step back and look at the argument, not your own inferences.

  • So then do you know? Seeing as you think you're psychic and all....

  • Literally the entire point of my comment is "we don't know". Don't put words in other people's mouths, and understand that it's bad form to attempt to make straw man arguments when you have nothing to contribute to the conversation.

  • Which, incidentally, is what the ancient Egyptian's conception of hell was:

    In order to receive judgement the dead journeyed through the various parts of the Duat to be judged. If the deceased was successfully able to pass various challenges, then they would reach the Judgment of the dead. In this ritual, the deceased's first task was to correctly address each of the forty-two Assessors of Maat by name, while reciting the sins they did not commit during their lifetime.[15] After confirming that they were sinless, the heart of the deceased was weighed by Anubis against the feather of Maat, which represents truth and justice. Any heart that is heavier than the feather failed the test, and was rejected and eaten by Ammit, the devourer of souls, as these people were denied existence after death in the Duat. The souls that were lighter than the feather would pass this most important test, and would be allowed to travel to Aaru.

    The Duat is not equivalent to the conceptions of Hell in the Abrahamic religions, in which souls are condemned with fiery torment. The absolute punishment for the wicked, in ancient Egyptian thought, was the denial of an afterlife to the deceased, ceasing to exist in the intellectual form seen through the devouring of the heart by Ammit

    One of the reasons I've decided to stick around. Plus, I just like walking like an Egyptian...

  • Why? It's a simple risk assessment based one question:

    If I kill myself, will it stop the pain?

    And the answer is that I don't know. Neither do you. For all we know, it could be worse.

    To me, that's an unacceptable risk.

    Anything you infer or think I'm implying is based on your own assumptions (which are shallow and self-centered - you have no idea about the amount of pain I've suffered in my life, so fuck you very much too - pretty arrogant to assume you have a monopoly on suffering).

    My original statement isn't a moral or religious statement, it's just one of fact. You have a limited amount of time to live. You have (apparently) an unlimited amount of time to be dead, you will be dead eventually no matter what, and being dead could be much worse than being alive depending on what you experience.

    The odds that things will get better with suicide aren't in your favor. That's just a fact, kid. Don't be in a rush to make things worse for yourself and everyone around you.

  • The major flaw in your reasoning is that you're assuming that there's less pain on the other side. It could be better, but it could be much much worse, especially if you're carrying the regret of unfinished business left behind.

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  • You have a couple of decades worth of life left to deal with. You've got an eternity to be dead, and it could suck worse. Plus, if you're a Buddhist or Hindu you're probably gonna have to go through it all again. Might as well see this ride through to the end of the line.

  • O my sweet summer child... dictatorships don't have expiration dates. This will not end with an election. It will end with a revolution.

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