I don’t. I have to prioritize them.

Which I avoid doing.

So basically, I do none of them.

This is such a good meme format

What color pineapple were you eating before?

Fuji apples when I make apple cobbler.

For just sitting there eating peanut butter on an apple, a honeycrisp. I used to go for Galas because they were cheap, but lately I decided $1 more per pound of apples is better than occasionally eating a dozen donuts when I want something sweet. Overall, just better to spend more money on healthier food than to absolutely optimize my grocery budget then binge on junk food when the optimization freaks me out.

Think mint juleps on a breezy afternoon, but with dicks in them. Clinking around with the ice. See where I’m going with this?

Dude I fucking love Overwatch with no talking.

What I really want is to be part of a team of gamers who plays stuff as a team, silently.

I want to play with the same team so we can get really good at working together, but it want it to be all unspoken.

Would you like to do that with me?

As a libertarian I try to make it clear that free markets can’t exist in the modern world without government activity.

In the prehistoric world, a person with something to sell or trade could mostly do so without interference, because everyone had similar physical power, making robbery more dangerous than it was worth.

But once power structures started accumulating: armies, governments, powerful families, etc, the only way to maintain free trade is via government actively maintaining that secure market space.

So the natural deterrent of coercive economic interaction (get injured when target defends their stuff), got replaced with the artificial deterrent of law enforcement (go to jail when target reports your theft).

Free markets need to be level and fair, and it takes government firepower to counter all the other firepower and level the negotiations out. When people can negotiate without fear of violence reprisal, they can freely enter or not enter whatever set of economic arrangements are best for them.

Free markets mean people can enter the market and do whatever kind of business they please so long as someone else is willing to take that deal. You can’t do that without a large effort to keep the space clear of criminal coercion.

We need to find an argument, which is convincing to billionaires, that the world will be better for them if they and all other billionaires pay their full share of taxes.

Government can be a win for the individual, if all the other individuals are also making the same sacrifice.

So like if Joe gets taxed some of his money and he’s the only one, then Joe loses because Joe’s money can’t serve him any better being spent by someone else.

But if Joe gets taxed some of his money and so does everyone else who Joe lives with, then Joe can win by this because the effect of the commonwealth generated can benefit him more than the money would have in his own account.

Like, I’m happy to pay taxes in order to live in a society of laws and security and free open markets where I can trade with people to get things I can’t provide myself.

By giving up that 10% of my money, I’m gaining all this other wealth in the form of a stable society.

So we need to articulate how the global benefits of those billionaires’ tax money being pooled and spent on commonwealth, is better even for the billionaires than if they’d each individually kept that money.

Am I being clear here? I feel like I’m not.

Like if we went after Elon Musk and only Elon Musk for back taxes, then Elon Musk loses.

But if we go after all the billionaires for their back taxes, then the billionaires can win too, by benefitting from the overall societal improvements.

And so long as the other billionaires are also taking financial hits, any given billionaire isn’t slipping in their billionaire-vs-billionaire game of status. They’re all losing money equally across the board.

The reason to go looking for an argument that takes the billionaires’ benefits into account, is that billionaires are the only ones who can make this tax thing happen. Their influence is too great to do it against their will.

They named it after gazelle, which is a herd prey animal. That causes it to slip away from attention when it’s mentioned.

If they’d called in Bonko or something it would stand out in people’s memories more. Bonko, bright orange icon, it would spread by wildfire. Nobody would forget that name.

There are no hard consonants in the word. Synaesthetically, it’s a blue-purple word. Cool, muted. It’s a word that, even before the “gazelle” reference, is hiding there. Your mind slips over it without friction. It enters and leaves your mouth and your mind like a fish passing under the sparkling water, nearly unnoticed.

Terrible brand name. I mean, it does convey a little more safety than “Bonko” but the whole point with the unsafe sounding name is it causes the person to consciously ask “How safe is it?” and if you can answer that immediately with “Safer than Ft Knox” then it becomes part of the brand consciously.

Zelle is non-threatening, but that’s not the same thing as safe when it comes to business or finances.

What’s a good safe, energetic, competent, orange word for this service? Hmm. Bonus points if it’s intuitively self-descriptive.

How about “Paytag”. It’s yellow but whatever. Still might not be better than Bonko.

I got locked out of paypal for no reason I could discern from like 2007 to 2015. Can’t remember the exact dates but for years it was “I can’t use paypal any more because my account broke” and then finally after years if that one day it was “oh shit it work look at that”.

As far as I know, some alcoholic drinks have certain alcohol levels because those levels are the lethal levels for the fermenting bacteria used.

But there are different alcohol levels in brewed drinks, so either it’s not true or bacteria have a range of lethal temperatures.

Then what are the two evils you’re referring to, and which action are you referring to with picking the lesser evil?

To quote a theorem from one of my engineering courses:

An optimized system can consist only of optimized subsystems.

This means any time you’re preparing to make something small worse, for the global good, it’s a mathematical fact you’re about to do the wrong thing.

A small percentage of the men’s room washes their hands

Not my experience. Where have you seen this?

I’ve never heard a chiropractor say that. How do I know what you just claimed about that field isn’t misinformation?

Or, the creation of economic value is actually possible and we aren’t just fighting over the same scraps of wealth that have always existed.

Also humans have the same ancestors as all known life

So … what proportion of secret conspiracies have leaked?

Actually homeopathic refers to medicine which fights disease by inducing similar symptoms or etiology as the disease.

And example is capsaicin for pain management.

The word got attached to ultra dilute solutions later in the game, mostly because ultra dilute solutions are easy to debunk, which facilitates making fun of homeopathy.

How is an ad saying “we’re sorry” a bribe to the news agencies? Do you means the purchase of the ad space is for that?