I'm looking for 100% grass fed and grass finished, hormone and antibiotic free, and free deliveries preferably.
I already have a place I'm ordering from but the taste of the meat is kind of strong (the cows are probably old) so I'm trying to find someplace else. Thanks!
I work 70 hours a week and my life is extremely dull. It's an endless cycle of work, eat, sleep, repeat. My new job has generous vacation time though so in 2 months I'll get to go back to my home country and see my family and have a great time. And then I get to do it again in another 3 months. I'm very happy I finally got this opportunity :)
Okay so let's say you have a net worth of 10 million dollars, but you're not a celebrity or an entrepreneur who's always setting up new businesses. Let's just assume you made a bunch of money in the stock market or you got successful from one business that someone else now manages for you. Where do you keep all the money?
I know for example that ultra wealthy people have lots of real estate. But what if you only want to have two small houses plus your business and nothing more? No other investment properties or anything. And let's say you don't care about art collection or other specialized things either. Are you going to keep all your money in the stock market? What options do you have to avoid inflation rotting away your dollars in a savings account that don't involve having an ambitious investor mindset?
For people who have gotten really, really good at a language and have been speaking it for years and using it more than their native language, do you feel like your L1 has gone a little rusty?
Do you ever say things that sound unnatural? Do you ever make grammatical mistakes? How about pronunciation. Has your accent changed?
I want to learn about the history and economics of so-called "middleman minorities"—people who come to a country from elsewhere with nothing and, within a short period of time, dominate the market and outperform the locals in their own land. They're usually savvy in banking, moneylending, real estate ownership and trade. The Jews are the most notable example, but there's also Armenians, Igbos, Southern Chinese, etc.
Is there any good book that goes into the history of these cultures and explains how they became middleman minorities? Thanks!
In some languages they have a specific verb for telling someone to call you the informal you. Does Georgian do it with a verb? Or do you just tell someone „ჩემთან შენ-ით შეგიძლია ილაპარაკო” (I hope I said that right lol).
Thanks!
I'll see posts all the time where people will ask how they can find remote jobs, what skills to pursue, which fields have the most remote opportunities, etc. People are asking genuine, honest questions in hopes of getting helpful advice on where to take their next steps. And what do they get met with? "Remote is a location, not a job! Stick to the office! You want a remote job in 2 years? Lol you're stupid as fuck!"
Like... really? What's wrong with people wanting a certain kind of job and asking how they can improve their chances of getting it? Why do people get so much hate for wanting a certain kind of job? If you ask the average person about any kind of career, they'll tell you the details, pros and cons, and how you can get there. But with remote jobs, I feel like there's a lot of bullying and gatekeeping. It's not honest advice telling people that remote jobs are really hard to come by, it's more like "We don't want you to ever have such a luxury."
There's a lot of things I like about this country, but the paper walls drive me insane because you can hear EVERYTHING. Someone could be watching a movie on the opposite end of the house and you'll still hear it from your room. You'll be trying to sleep but the person in the adjacent room is talking on the phone and you just have to deal with it. There's no privacy. Like, zero. At this point why even bother having walls? You might as well just put up a bunch of curtains and call it a day.
Where I'm from in Europe the walls are made of stone and they're thick, so you can close the door to a room and actually have some peace and quiet. Would it kill America to build houses out of stone? This is the land of endless possibility after all, isn't it?
It seems like every time I open up social media I get a news post about how some business in Armenia is getting passed onto state control. The old Zvartnots terminal which they want to destroy, and today I just read about the Ararat brandy factory being transferred to the state for "protection." And there's countless other examples I can't remember right now.
Paron varchapet is literally becoming a dictator and turning Armenia into a state-operated nightmare. Armenia doesn't need government intervention; it needs a free market to allow people to grow wealthy. Try saying this in r/Armenia though...
Established minarchists often have a respectable amount of economic knowledge that allows them to understand why the state fails at providing quality services and why the free market provides superior quality at lower costs. But the mainstream libertarian authors—Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Ayn Rand, and others—who minarchists are familiar with and credit their knowledge to, often don't believe in complete statelessness or talk about the idea much. Thus, mainstream libertarians consume these small government ideas and establish them as their bedrock understanding of libertarianism. If you mention the idea of privatizing currently state-run services—policing, courts, safety compliance regulations, etc—they'll often reject it and make arguments similar to those that statists will often make for why the free market would fail: "How are you going to hold people accountable? How are poor people going to afford protection? You can't privatize roads! That would be chaos if every road owner gets to set their own rules!" Such arguments are fallacious when examined more closely, but their ubiquity among self-identified libertarians suggests that the reason minarchism as an ideology even exists is because of strong indoctrination to believe in government. People who learn about libertarianism and economics come to see why markets succeed and bureaucrats fail, but their strong indoctrination in statism, paired with the fact that their esteemed economics experts also don't entertain anarchism—or outright reject it—leads to the development of a kind of hubris surrounding economic and political opinion that can be hard to shake, which can make talking to minarchists about anarchism a bit of an arduous task.
Regular everyday statists—people who often have a limited understanding of economics and politics—present other challenges when trying to discuss anarchism. They're often not aware of the reasons why state-run operations are economically disastrous and why privately-run businesses succeed, so pointing them out can lead to difficulties imaging how a capitalist society without a state would function, especially when statist indoctrination in society is strong and people have fears associated with private enterprise and an absence of state-funded "free" services. It's not uncommon to hear sentiments such as, "The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer!" or "Without government, who will help sick people?" Trying to address these concerns can be cumbersome. At best, you have to essentially give a mini economics lesson to explain why such beliefs are false, and at worst you have to deal with the formidable psychological challenge of getting people to not respond with anxiety when you suggest cutting funding for state-sponsored services, most notably welfare. It quickly becomes apparent how the lack of economic literacy in the average person can make converting people to anarchism so difficult.
In either case, anarchism is hard to sell to people. Minarchists have the benefit of being decently economically literate, which can make some ideas easy to get across. But they can also be difficult for the reason that their favorite authors don't generally give merit to anarchism, which causes them to doubt the validity of the anarchist position. Regular statists have the benefit of often not being anchored into a solidified political viewpoint, which in some ways can make communicating ideas easier since any information you mention is largely new input. But of course, there's the obvious problem of economic illiteracy, which serves for a whole host of obstacles.
I'm 24, not Russian, don't speak the language that well, but my parents are from one of the Soviet republics and at age 14 I randomly got curious one day and learned the whole lyrics to the Soviet anthem.
How many Russians born after 1991 know the lyrics?
One piece of advice I've heard is that you have to "flip the script." So if someone asks, "Have you ever tried getting pregnant?" You might say, "Why would you want to know about that?" The idea is that it puts the other person's motives in the spotlight and makes them question why they're asking something private. Sadly though, this hasn't worked for me. I've had people who just keep going and find another way to ask the same intrusive question. Sigh...
I've also said "None of your business" before, only for the person to say "Why don't you want to talk about that? Does that make you feel uncomfortable?" Like, how can a person be this insensitive?
Advice anyone?
We're born. We're biological machines governed by the laws of physics and chemistry. We have no free will. Our consciousness and emotions are nothing but a product of biochemistry. Some of us live great lives, others live horrible lives full of suffering and misery, and in the end we all die. And that's it.
Reality is not nice or fair. At all. And maybe what's worse is that we have brains that evolved to care about things like fairness, which makes reality even more bitter when you become a conscious atheist and realize there is zero justice in the universe and everything is ultimately meaningless.
Every grocery store carries a variety of grass fed butters nowadays. At the very least every store has Kerrygold. But when did this start happening? I'm 24 and I remember my mother bringing home Kerrygold for the first time when I was 13 because Costco had started carrying it, and then we made grass-fed butter the norm in our house. Since then stores started carrying other brands, many of which I think are better than Kerrygold.
But how many average grocery stores sold grass-fed better before the 2010s? Did you have to go to a health food store to buy it back then? I'm really curious to know because my young eyes definitely were not paying attention to the butter section when I was 8...
Like... you just see a Home Depot somewhere and decide to clock in and start doing packdown or something...
I kind of want to do it... Maybe on my last day...
Ask yourself the question, "Why do people impose their will onto others?" There's many reasons and all are valid, but one that maybe doesn't get talked about much, at least not in the libertarian space, is the fact that trying to control someone is often a coping mechanism for fear and trauma. You can no doubt find examples of this in the state and larger society, but I think one of the most noticeable and relevant examples is the one seen in parenting, specifically strict parenting.
In many cases when a parent is strict, it's because they're fearful of something. Keeping a tight grip on their child is how they calm their nerves and feel a sense of safety in life. Or for some parents, controlling their kids and not letting the grow independent is a way of living the dreams they never got to have vicariously through their child. These kids then grow up with psychological problems, venture out into the real world, and pass their trauma on to other people, and the cycle continues. Yes we libertarians and ancaps can go on about the deontological arguments against statism or the economic superiority a free market would have, but I think we should pay a bit more attention to where it all starts and what people can do to address it. I think raising kids in a way that respects their individuality and personal boundaries and allows them to grow into mentally stable, independent adults will help create a world where people don't feel the need to control others in order to tame their anxieties. Obviously this is much easier said than done, and it'll take a long time to have any noticeable effects, but it's one we should prioritize nonetheless.
I have never studied Turkish. I watched one episode of a Turkish soap opera and immediately understood a bunch of words. And by "understood," I mean I guessed what they meant, then looked them up and saw that I was right 80% of the time. Everything felt so natural and intuitive.
And before everyone says that there's nothing magical about the Turkish language or learning a language from videos, I must say... I'm not the only one who's experienced the Turkish soap opera effect. I've heard other people say they watched a Turkish soap opera and started understanding quickly, in a way that's not as easy with other languages. It's honestly kind of funny. So I'm not saying that Turkish is special... but it's special.
I think about the Russian revolution for example and how the Bolsheviks, who had taken over the government in 1917, almost immediately started seizing all private properly with Lenin's "Decree of Land" being enacted. But practically speaking, how does one accomplish this? Was there no resistance from private property owners, particularly the wealthy? Did everyone just immediately accept the rules of the new government?
One major criticism the field of psychology gets is that it's too individual-centric or western. I'm looking for books that defend it being western and posit that optimal psychological well-being requires an individualistic worldview.
Thank you!
I recently got an iPhone 17 and the alarm is just horrible. It's so loud and pierces my eardrums every morning. My iPhone 12's alarm was so much gentler and woke me up without sending horrible vibrations through my body. I tried lowering the volume but it's still loud. And then sometimes it does this weird thing where the first time it rings it's loud, and then it's really soft.
Is there any way to just configure my old iPhone alarm settings on this new thing? I honestly regret upgrading ngl...