Posts made by LetTheRedeemed

Ray mentioned to me when discussing a soda idea, that caffeine from Yerba Mate would be good to use.

I wish I asked him what he thought about yerba mate itself, and why that caffeine specifically!

@oliveoil they are heckin adorbs

FWIW, I've taken boatloads of aspirin off and on thru the years, and acute aspirin-caused tinnitus, seems to have improved. I believe the cofactors mentioned, like glycine, are more important (which aspirin can deplete). So, I wouldn't necessarily drop aspirin if you got your hands on some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgh_VICPVXc

https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/podcast-georgi-on-tinnitus.43264/

@Cicero Yo thanks for bumping your post. this is the coolest ever.

Composting is another unexpected way to generate serious heat for greenhouses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjHIwabtqGo

In light of a surprising number of people heavily sympathizing with petty crimes, I thought I’d share a good article on the moral fabric declining in the west — famous, though many people may have missed. It is not about shoplifting, but similarities can not be ignored (nor the high overlap between what the author of the article addresses, with petty crime).

The truth is, petty crimes will always be a demoralizer for the tax paying majority of low to middle class decent humans who never wanted to disrespect anyone, rich or poor. This is not normal behavior. The average poor person wants to live in a world where honesty and modesty are the currencies of success.

Consider one thought: petty crime was undoubtedly infinitely more rare 100 years ago, yet people were indisputably more poor. Ask your impoverished, seasonally barefoot, cotton picking grandparents (at least mine were) what they would’ve done if they saw someone stealing from a JC Penny’s, corporate store or not. And no I don’t condone stabbing shoplifters.

The peons find themselves fighting the death by a thousand cuts of cultural demise, by standing up, however futilely, and regardless of the punishment that gets turned around on them:

The petty criminals

https://youtu.be/1Wv5XRP2IhQ?si=vGs59md4eYNXmXo9

https://youtube.com/shorts/EoPMkk6MakA?si=DEzCnWvgVPFjAYO1

https://youtu.be/ibiam53A3eg?si=TY0tvGQJzUIrHhF4

The article
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-frivolity-of-evil

@ThinPicking I call Gatz!

@CO3 a movie trope as old as time -- double check your humors

@Tahodama Have you discovered the perfect crossover of Nietzsche's final man and ubermensch???

@doomerzoomer I thought your answer was non partisan and well thought out, friend.

@CO3, A bit of power outage, firewood chopping, and a coming of age across-the-nation road trip with an old school widower who’s crusty around the edges and has a begrudging soft spot for rambunctious inner city youth, would do you good

@AinmBeo could I just buy some from you? lol

@noodlecat59 said in Peating in poverty:

@LetTheRedeemed the amish and mennonites and farmers would probably feed someone who asked. try asking the store manager of the corporate grocery store to front you a sandwich until you get paid the next day and let me know how it goes.

I actually suggested in my first comment that he reach out to small businesses/farms for help/food. I don’t disagree that a corporate store probably won’t help (even at that, the dominos I used to work for wasn’t beyond giving extra pizza when we had it, if the hard luck story was convincing).

im an ardent hyper-capitalist

Ah maybe there’s your error

and even i know know stealing food is morally ok in corporate society. i presume we are talking about getting food from aldi's here and not the local amish. if the local council bans backyard chickens or would prosecute you for having a milking cow, then stealing from the grocery store is even more acceptable.

I didn’t address it when ThinPicking corrected me on the capitalism/corporatism distinction, but I will here.

After years of my defending the Austrian economic arguments for capitalism, and likewise distinguishing corporatism from a capitalist society with rules for fair play in business, I found a few errors.

The etymological definition of capitalism, is merely the supremacy of capital accumulation; it is not "may the most efficient and wisest outcome of resource allocation win". In fact, it was used as an insult by reactionary conservatives in the 1800s for that very reason.

“Corporatism” is intended to demarcate “fair” capitalism from “rule breaking” capitalism.

Fundamentally, they both undermine social orders for the virtues of arbitrage, so both end up ordaining wealth accumulation above other values - corporatism is just the capitalist formalizing the power he stole from traditional or indigenous hierarchical structures.

Theft is more efficient than honesty. One hundred years of Capitalism convincing us that our selfish ambition is a more valuable social structure than other virtues (sanctity, family, duty, etc) tells Nietzsche's “last man” that he should probably steal that cheap item because the punishment is low and the purported victim indifferent and unaffected.

Again, the actual victims of petty theft is as much the social fabric of society, as the business owner with insurance and who perpetually increases prices (ultimately making a third victim - the noble poor).

Sorry OP for participating in turning your post into a twatter fever dream lol

@Norwegian-Mugabe you’re Norwegian, right? Hasn’t Norway had a universal basic income for several generations now? Do you think that could skew your perception of how hard it can be to overcome the psychological obstacles adjacent to poverty?

I have family from the “great generation” who worked harder than anyone I know, would never take a handout, and some climbed ladders out of the hard labor industries into prestigious office and institution, some worked hard their whole life participating in construction of iconic parts of America, but died in relative poverty only because they only understood hard work, and not the principles of management and multiplication. All good church going family people.

I understand choice and consequence, but I think charitably to the psychological state of people in a cycle of poverty, to be good and beneficial to the bearer and recipient.

@DonkeyDude haha word.

Maybe just bunnies…

@NotShanalotte

For what it’s worth, Ray said he drank coffee first thing in the morning — of course he added sugar.

This of course requires plenty of carb calories virtually right away as many have explained here.

@NotShanalotte haha noted!

Doing a great job btw.

@NotShanalotte I guess I could see how it could be interpreted that way, but to the contrary, I just have a belief that sincere conversations should be in person, and that usually dispels the fear of another to the point you’d wish to attack with ad hominems or impatient arguing.
whether the other guy is trolling or sincere, personal conversations have resolved the situation for me…

But, Thanks for the heads up, sometimes I forget that not everyone is a Texan yet

@CO3
I’ll recommence this conversation in person. I’m in DFW, Texas. Let me know when you’re here.

@ThinPicking hah deal. Thanks